To find where OSM ends and propriety data begins, or if everything is just mixed.

Nice work, Thanjavur looks quite nice. I wonder if its ready to make a printed tourist map in Tamil?

Groups would have been so good. For a community thats so much about interacting and exploring, there is woefully inadequate interactions on the website itself.

This is looking so good! I had added some basic details a year ago when attending a wedding at the Bhuvana Hall. Such beautiful countryside!

Glassman, updated the link, should work now. I’ll need to check if these tokens keep changing by itself. Thanks for reporting.

Excellent writeup highlighting the cultural data issues on temples and language tags on the map. A possible solution to the Chinese labels is to use more granular tag variations like Wikidata does, and maybe try to ultimately have the various translations in Wikidata itself.

The FB incident is interesting, did they allow users to edit/improve OSM from FB?

I’d ask the question “what problem are you trying to solve?”. If it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it.

The problem is the inconsistency caused by having multiple keys from OSM to another database, when it could easily be eliminated. Two wikipedia tags for a feature go against the best practice of what is documented in the wiki.

Kosovo is an interesting edge case, and thank you for bringing it up. There is no clear answer to that one, but solving the 99.9% trivial cases now is just good data gardening.

ff5722, tbicr good catch. Just added an update.

Such an excellent effort. Students in Government schools in India hardly get any resources and it makes a huge difference to the interest they have in class with opportunities like these. Beautiful!

Since the matching is based on the name, location and description on two databases being coherent, the chances of having invented data being added is really low, unless of course the same invented data made it to both the databases, and we found this did happen with the GNIS place data in the US. Check out this discussion changeset/43187605

Still figuring out what the scale of the issue is, since it looks like nobody really reviewed if all these towns were tagged correctly on the map in the last 9 years.

This is a great overview Ahasan, thank you. If you do have slides from your talk somewhere, it would be nice to learn about OSM in Bangladesh.

These are beautiful! It looks like such a clean a quiet village.

Thank you escada and robbieonsea, updated! Not included tree’s though.

This is beautifully done maning, what tools did you use?

What’s up with Bangalore? There’s striking increase of creation/modifaction middle of 2015.

This seems to coincide with the massive addition of buildings traced by an addressing startup called Zippr. They claim over 3 million building footprint were added in the country.

The diaries contain so many useful resources, it such a pity its a pain to browse and search :/

For UI ideas, one is https://www.mapbox.com/osm-diary/ which lists all the posts from the Mapbox data team from the RSS feed. Getting updated on comments is a great idea.

Wow, theres a great diary post on just this @Ivan%20Garcia/diary/39547

So wonderful meeting you escada! Thanks for all the help and resources you shared :)

This is amazing. Would be great to see the process that was followed that could help communities in India who are doing the same. Could never figure out how to easily convert polygons into boundary relations.

This is probably connected to my interest in maps, for as long as I can remember flying and planes fascinated me. There was something liberating about being in the air, looking at the world from above, and the engineering marvel of an airliner.

In high school, I became a major flight simulator buff and would create custom 3D models of aircraft and airport layouts for MS Flight Simulator for India and used to publish them online. These were the first online communities I was part of, and a forumer called me ‘plane mad’ for all the detailed work that I made.

This became my username when I started my contributions to Wikipedia around 11 years ago, since it abstracted my nationality and gender. It became so connected with my contributions online that it was hard to get away from it however hard I tried.

Learnt that there is quite a bit in a name, especially if its not your real one :)