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Guidelines for how I'm mapping sidewalks

Overall Opensidewalks tagging schema is pretty outdated, needs overhaul and I wouldn’t use it without it getting updated.

Guidelines for how I'm mapping sidewalks

Sidewalks or crossings shouldn’t be named unless they explicitly have separate names from the adjacent street.

Sidewalks

You don’t finish a marathon in one step.😉

Learn keyboard shortcuts to make mapping a lot faster

Using Gamification to Increase the Use of Footpaths/ Rights of Way, and to Enhance and Validate OSM Data

Make it like a pacman game to eat dots on ways less traveled.

Long time ago Waze was doing this to encourage people to travel on the unmapped/unverified roads.

Host an OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Server on AWS for $19.75/month

Many of these steps could be automated with Ansible. Faster execution time, less chance for typos or forgetting/skipping steps.

new tag man_made=urine_deflector

I don’t understand what is “urine deflector” in that photo? Charred street pole?

A visit to Baarle-Hertog/Nassau

This kind of stuff should be forwarded to https://youtube.com/@TheTimTraveller He has a few videos of weird borders. 🙂

New road and bike lane

It should be mapped after June 29th when it’s actually open and usable.

Can i get some help with adding these damn buildings in Montreal?

Having some data everywhere is more useful than no data almost everywhere 🤷 You could add those buildings and they would be good enough and useful for most users and then you can sit around and improve them at your own pace.

Can i get some help with adding these damn buildings in Montreal?

There are various conflation processes. You could review every imported object or overwrite existing objects or probably the easiest, if there’s something already there, skip that.

Can i get some help with adding these damn buildings in Montreal?

Check if your government has open data portal from which buildings could be imported as a whole. Reach out to your local mapping community for help. They might know where to go for such data. Also check with RapiD, it might already have building shapes for you to import.

Complex opening_times in OSM - an exercise

You can also try https://projets.pavie.info/yohours/ to generate some complex opening hours strings.

BRASIL - PARINTINS - AMAZONAS - ÁREAS NÃO MAPEADA NO TERRITORIO DA CIDADE DE PARINTINS. BRAZIL - PARINTINS - AMAZONAS - UNMAPPED AREAS IN THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF PARINTINS.

I think you used up your yearly quota of capital letters… 🤔

ChatGpt and tagging in OpenStreetMap

The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that it sounds equally confident when it’s right and when it’s wrong. In other words it’s really good liar.🙂

Am I wrong or you can have 2 shop= keys or 1 key with 2 values separated by ; ?

b-unicycling has a youtube channel

A ghost made a comment! 😱👻

Dead Soul

What does this have to do with osm? 🤨

Mall Mapping with Every Door

Another way to approach group POI mapping is to add those poi with only basic info, like name and nothing else and then use StreetComplete’s “team mode” to evenly split “data enrichment” tasks of those POIs.

EveryDoor is a great tool to have, but yes, some of its design decisions are a bit strange 🙂like poi are sorted vertically and scroll to the right 😵‍💫or opening hours editor like you already mentioned 🙂

Russian Annex Ukraine

People like you are so anti-Russian that you can’t fathom this whole thing might be more nuanced then everyone in the contested areas being forced at gun to have a pro-Russian opinion or whatever. Your essentially doing the same paternalistic nonsense that Russia is, but from the opposite side.

I highly recommend you stop putting words in my mouth since you have NO IDEA who I am, my background, my history or my viewpoints.

Russian Annex Ukraine

At the end of the day the important thing should be what the people in the disputed territories prefer. If they want their territories to be mapped as part of Ukraine, then map it that way.

Because people in those occupied territories have nothing better to do than to voice their opinion on how OSM should map borders DURING A FREAKING WAR!🤦‍♂️

If certain territories want to leave a country, then there’s a proper peaceful process for that to happen. Not for an occupier to send out its army, murder and displace existing population, bus in their own stooges and have a sham “referendum” under a threat of a gun with shells flying overhead with 99.8% of votes towards one option!

Nobody recognizes those territories as Russia’s other than Russia itself and a few spineless leaders who want to suck up to Putin!

I don’t think Ukraine mappers should be able to dictate how things are mapped in the disputed areas

They absolutely can! It is Ukrainian territory and if the community decided that’s how it’s mapped, then that’s how it is mapped! Russian mappers have 0 say about Ukraine’s territorial integrity!

Neither side (Russia or Ukraine) are neutral here though and both have propagandistic reasons to have their version of the borders implemented in OSM.

What are you talking about?! What neutrality?! Russia INVADED Ukraine, a sovereign and independent country! Russia tried(and pathetically failed) to take over a capital of another country! What neutrality do you want here?! Russia is an unjust and murderous aggressor! There’s no neutrality about that!

Dude, I highly recommend you step away from this topic.

Russian Annex Ukraine

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