RubenKelevra, twice now you misspelled my name. This looks intentional to me and extremely rude.

I did not “dig out” a proposal. It was submitted but never accepted by the community. And it’s nowhere near what one would call “established” tag. If according to your mapping style every sidewalk has to have 2 “link” segments, their count would be ~twice as many. Yet according to taginfo there’s only 0.3% of every sidewalks have any “link” segments. That’s not established. That’s extreme fringe.

RubenKelevra, if you want to talk about “standards” then =link value is not it either. It was only a proposal which was never finished, and on which OSM community never voted or agreed to. osm.wiki/Proposal:Tag:footway%3Dlink

You are also commenting from another city, decrying a standard we are already following here.

This is exactly the attitude I talked about in the last message🙄 if everybody will be mapping however they want in their own backyard no serious business will want to spend significant amount of money relying on OSM’s data. This is why they went off and created Overture maps! Not to deal with attitudes like this!

I’m sorry but you made a public post discussing suboptimal tagging practices on public changesets and encouraging people to follow you. I will judge it and call it out.

Oh god people use footway=link on sidewalks 🤦 this is why OSM is still so inferior to Google maps when it comes to navigation. We will have no consistency and nobody will want to put effort into dealing with a million different edge cases of people mapping in their back yard.

For example this definition is absolutely ridiculous https://github.com/OpenSidewalks/OpenSidewalks-Schema#crossings-do-not-connect-to-sidewalk-centerlines

The OpenSidewalks Schema defines Crossings as existing only on the street surface and Sidewalks as describing only the sidewalk centerline. There must therefore always be space between a Sidewalk and a Crossing. A Sidewalk and Crossing should be connected by a plain Footway.

What? 🤨🤦 These are absolutely ridiculous instructions and they create unnecessary chaos and mishmash of tags for sidewalks. Sidewalks extend all the way to the curb. There’s absolutely no need to create incomplete footpaths purely because Opensidewalks’ schema is incomplete or their routing software is incompetent. That is “tagging for renderer” and that’s wrong! Use it as inspiration to understand the need of mapping sidewalks, but not as direct guidelines on how to tag things.

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

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

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

Learn keyboard shortcuts to make mapping a lot faster

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ; ?

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