Ah, the famed OSM hospitality toward new contributors.

Great job, it’s looking fantastic.

Thanks for putting these up!

Awesome work! So is there a plan in place to get the addresses imported at some point soon, as that’s hugely critical to the usability?

Welcome! Thanks for all the work on the LA import, it’s coming together well.

The biggest thing that needs to be implemented is, as PlaneMad said, a check for duplicate POIs before upload. Honestly, that’s the biggest danger in mapping in the Maps.me editor. It’s not like iD where anyone can break roads or major administrative boundaries with a few clicks. The most damage that can be done is a duplicate node or a few incorrect tags on a POI. Not a big concern.

I’ve got to disagree with this assessment on several fronts. First of all, I’d say the number of bad changesets coming out of Maps.me is probably on par with the number coming out of iD, mainly because new editors make mistakes. This is not inherently a problem related to Maps.me.

Second, I think it’s important to get more engagement from the community. That’s what OpenStreetMap is about. It’s not about a walled garden, controlled only by a select few power editors. Sure, people make mistakes when they start, but if they care enough to continue, the quality of the edits increases with time.

Finally, as a power editor, I’ve found the Maps.me editor to be a fantastic addition to my toolset. I’ve edited well over 3500 items in it, as it makes minor POI edits far more simple and immediate.

There may be room to improve (a duplicate checker would be a good start) but the tool is a great way to bring more participation into OSM.

Nice job, I’m sure that wasn’t easy.

That’s odd, you should be able to hit stop and then save just fine. Strange that it failed for you.

Nice job!

Welcome, and thanks for your work. Always good to see another VA mapper.

Hey, thanks for the work. A few thoughts:

-Capitalize building names -Use “q” in JOSM to make buildings square, definitely something they want to see at MapBox -Don’t do a changeset for each individual building.

Otherwise, good work using walking papers as a tool.

We really desperately need moderators for the diaries. 25% are spam.

Honestly, you are bringing an overly academic perspective to a project that is supposed to be for everyone, not just gis professionals. It’s a good perspective, but it shouldn’t be the one pervasive perspective here. You could plaster geodatabase all over the place, but this is called OpenStreetMap.

Yeah, you could deter anyone from contributing unless they have a proper academic understanding of the nature of OSM, but the fact of the matter is that we need every single contributor. 99% want to help, even if it takes time for them to learn. Yeah, it’s a problem if someone retags all of the, say, casinos to shop=yes so they show up on the default map. But if someone adds a new casino and tags it as a shop but with the name, then they are making a positive net contribution (the POI name).

If Wikipedia had deterred contributions from anyone other than PhD academics, it would be utterly obscure. Same principle applies here.

Not everything that has a process is a mechanical edit, escada. This kind of overreaction is very off-putting for people like OP who are doing needed manual tagging corrections.

As the premise of OpenStreetMap is about making location information free to access for all, your club’s goals with their trail data runs directly counter to the purpose of OSM. Therefore, that information doesn’t make sense to include in OSM unless your club decides to be more open with its data.

I’ve been pushing the destination recently (since the previous report) in West Virginia, Virginia, and Washington state. Glad to see it’s still trending upward.

I recommend tagging sidewalks as separate ways only if there is space between the sidewalk and the road. If the sidewalk is directly next to the road, then it should be tagged using the sidewalk tags on the road. This keeps visual noise down, but also ensures that the ways are more or less spatially accurate.

Excellent work. Always glad to see more US editors doing great work.

Great analysis; we need someone who understands the plight of OSM in the US. Half of these candidates have nowhere near the necessary experience contributing to OSM to be running. The idea that you don’t need to contribute to be considered a big part of the community is misguided at best. If you aren’t actively making tools or contributing with edits, you should not be in a leadership position. Period.

The fact that the current US OSM head has so little experience is quite disturbing.