@n76 but the sad fact is that irl it only works on phones with non-google non-amazon versions of Android or rooted devices (originally there was a plan to provide a direct interface to the microg backends, but given that there are a fixed number of hours per day and nobody volunteered to take it on as a project, I’ve dropped it). Naturally if you can actually get it to work on your device there are no issues with using it now.

@joost I have to give this some thought what the best approach is for making more detail available.

@Glassman historically the signup confirmation message used to be localized and contain pointers to regional resouces, at least at a rough language level, During the website redesign this was dropped with the argument that unified messaging via the website is better. Not that I completely disagree with that statement, but it did drop a useful feature without providing a replacement (you could naturally still simply ignore the english original text and put something completely different in the message, but likely that would be frowned upon).

I do typically give the changesets of new mappers with a larger number of changes in the first day or two a quick glance (maps.me has thrown a bit of a spanner in to that), but nearly always they are perfectly fine, typically if something if something is problematic or even if it is simply a mapper in an area with some special issues, I’ll follow up with a custom message.

@Zverik he was likely referring to https://twitter.com/sp8962/status/748453477689475072 which nicely illustrates how silly he is being.

Die Förderung der Knight Foundation war dazu auch noch für ein spezielles Projekt (was schlussendlich iD wurde). Natürlich ist es so, dass die Förderung Mapbox in der jetzigen Form überhaupt erst ermöglichte, aber das nicht wirklich relevant für diese Diskussion,

Grundsätzlich ist es aber halt so, dass es relativ einfach ist Mittel für Projekte zu bekommen, viel schwieriger für den laufenden Betrieb.

Any bulk import has to be compatible with our distribution licence AND digestible and maintainable by the local community. The history of OpenStreetMap is littered with failed imports many of which have not been cleaned up for years.

And it is OpenStreetMap … thanks.