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Non-English keywords in English iD interface.

@Dzertanoj @nzan

Before we go on making assumptions about a country with 1.3 billion people, lets celebrate the fact that the system is open enough for the actual users in the country to make improvements as needed. Thank you @bhousel!

Non-English keywords in English iD interface.

As Wikipedia says, “Garbhagriha” is a Sanskrit word for a part of a Hindu temple (not even for a temple itself)

Good catch, have never heard the term in common use in India for a temple. Have submitted improvements to the list which should fix this.

Descriptions of OSM tags in any language using Wikidata

There are plenty of cases where the Wikipedia definition deviates from the OpenStreetMap concept.

Wikidata is flexible enough to allow anyone to create a new concept if it does not overlap with an existing one, so its fairly easy to correct the definition in such situations to align almost perfectly with the OSM concept.

OSMCha News - January/2018

This is amazing, thank you Wille!

Viewing OpenStreetMap tiles in GL

loads vector tiles from tiles.mapbox.com in addition to the raster tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org

Thats right, haven’t figured out how to have just a blank style and add a TMS layer. One would not need a API key then.

Viewing OpenStreetMap tiles in GL

OpenLayers is definitely an alternative and have added that. Not sure if leaflet can do this, do share an example if you find it.

Creating a GL stylesheet of osm-carto will be quite a challenge, the label placement/collision in GL does not seem as mature as mapnik. Still might be a interesting project to try out.

Hi Friends

Nice work, and welcome to OSM!

Mapping forest outlines

Nice work! Admittedly, many of those ugly large forests were traced by me using landsat over 6 years ago, nice to see many of them getting updated!

Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico- Mapathon at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Great to see the student turnout, thank you all for your contributions!

Idea for Peer review workflow using OSMcha

@nyampire and here’s the OSMCha list of changesets needing review in Japan !

You can choose filters>bbox to refine the area or filters>reason for extra filters like only new user. Thank you so much for this suggestion, hope this is useful for the Japanese mappers.

OSMCha

You can find changesets with a review requested flag here: osmcha review requested. This can be a great way to provide feedback to new mappers and send them a nice welcome message to the project.

You can also use filter>bbox to limit results to any map area of interest. Please add any other useful filter links to the wiki

Cycle map now has high-resolution tiles 🎉

This is beautiful!

Maproulette Rail Crossings completion

So amazing, congratulations to everyone for undertaking such a huge mapping lift!

Mapping every turn restriction in Toronto

Great blog by Anita Graser on using WGIS to do QA of this data: https://anitagraser.com/2016/07/23/osm-turn-restriction-qa-with-qgis/

Bangalore Trails : Exploring my new neighbourhood

Hah, you’ve seen more of the city in one day than many of the locals ;)

A little tidbit of info, the Bellandur lake was actually used as a water landing airstrip for seaplanes in the 1940s. And also there’s an ancient temple that was excavated around the edge which is now inside the Wind Tunnel Centre. I should join you one of these days!

Mapping my hometown Munnar

We are sometimes completely unaware of the legacy of our own backyard, and its so fascinating to hear these stories. Thank you Ashley, and nice work improving the map. Have you by any chance heard about the Munnar monorail?

Work on some notes!

It would be great to have a tool that allows one to review and fix notes on the move, this can be a very fun outdoor activity and wish one could view notes in maps.me. Are there any mobile apps that lets one work on notes?

Hometown Mapping : Kolar Gold Fields

KGF looks like a lovely place with quaint planned neighbourhoods withs lots of trees! Wonder if this area here is a golf course, any idea?

Representing San Francisco City Hall in simple 3D building

Very cool output! How long does it take to model a building of this complexity?

How to improve OSM road data with Mapillary

This is super detailed and useful. Thanks for writing this!

If there are too many Mapillary images in your area, the JOSM plugin could take quite a bit of memory and could get difficult to work with. At the Mapbox data team, we built a simple web ap to browse detected turn restrictions from Mapillary to make the process more efficient. We usedthis workflow to add many missing turn restrictions in Germany.