OpenStreetMap
We have a pretty impressive house for the president compared to your average head of state - a 340 room palace in a 320 acre estate with some amazing gardens, which I had a chance to visit on a sweaty afternoon a few months ago.
The estate was not looking too impressive on the map.
At Mapbox, we’re continuously updating OpenStreetMap from user feedback - here’s how we go about the process.
Any user of a Mapbox map can flag wrong or missing information via an “Improve this map” link in the bottom right corner of the map. The link leads to a feedback page that allows a user to very quickly say what’s wrong on the map. Alternatively he/she can chose to edit the underlying data - OpenStreetMap - directly. Since we streamlined the feedback form in January we are receiving a much higher volume of end user feedback and we’ve formalized our process of handling this feedback.
Using “Improve this map” on a DuckDuckGo map.
The current break down of feedback we receive is roughly as follows:
After the first mumbai mapping party and 3 days of obsessive editing, i think i can finally say that openstreetmap for mumbai is no longer crappy :)
The offset AND import 4 years back had quite successfully made editing the map for the city tough and confusing with zillions of broken segments and wayward roads all over the place, enough to scare any new person trying to make an edit close the editor in fear.
It took quite a bit of effort to fix things up, moving and joining ways to make it easier to modify later. A lot of unnamed ways have been trashed, now its a lot faster to trace imagery without the disturbance of rogue objects coming in your way.
Its a huge map makeover for this giant city, i'm proud to have done the dirty work :D
Become sowewhat of an addiction of late. I just cant bear to see huge ares of the map empty without detail. Filling it up with nice green forests is so pleasing to the eyes :)
Doing northeast and central India was on my mind for a long time, i finally managed to do it in a marathon 1 hour tracing session.Tracing the forests themselves is not a big deal, by now my eye can quite easily distinguish the green of forests from agricultural areas in the landsat imagery. The pain is in cutting up the huge areas into smaller polygons so that it loads in pats and not one mega 400km long polygon.
Hopefully i wont have to wait long for my forests to show up in the rerendered low zoom tiles.
after four years of being on osm, ive finally touched the mumbai map, and also gotten around to write my first diary entry, something i should have done lot sooner. Ever since the messed up AND data was imported for Mumbai, i knew that fixing it was going to be a huge pain, and it is.
Although ive been editing whichever city ive been travelling to, ive not gone anywhere near the mumbai osm map for the fear of getting entangled into the huge cleanup process. unfortunately the existing data seemed to have put off anyone else from editing too, and has remained just as it was for the past three years.
Its about time somebody did the dirty work. Been editing the whole day, trying to fix the arterial corridors like the national highways and the wester/eastern express highways, and also add the railway lines. Also got trigger happy with the delete button on unnamed AND roads that crossed my path, ive figured its not of much use and only ends up confusing everyone. hopefully this should serve as a good reference point for others.