Hi lectrician1,

Glad you join my task! I like micromapping too, as you can see around the town of Khe Sanh https://osm.org/go/4Z~sMezd–?node=369494918

The farms and lakes are great things to draw I guess, and their colours appear very outstanding on Mapnik. The streams are very challenging though, some are too tiny to trace along. Sometimes I only draw the streams and rivers whose names are available on the Internet. such as : La La Creek at http://maps.vietbando.com/maps/?t=0&st=0&l=15&kv=16.6041780,106.707544. The unnamed ones are aplenty.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap. I hope you will find the map useful and contribute free mapping data to OSM. It can be complicated in the beginning, but the more you work on it, the more fascinating it will become as your data appears on the general Mapnik display and freely accessible to everyone.

![OpenStreetMap Wiki[(osm.wiki/) is a good source to refer in most of the times. However, sometimes it is easier to refer to similar examples in a nearby city, town or locality adjacent to the map area you are working on.

Anyway, welcome aboard!

Hi Skorasarus,

Thank you for your advice. That is really helpful.

I’ve mapped on HOT for a while, but I didn’t really spend much time for it.

Probably I will need to focus on contributing to HOT from now on.

Hi Andrew Buck and everyone,

It’s been 7 years now since my first post, and you know what, I am still very much passionate with mapping. I’ve been through ups and downs, injured and break ups and lost my jobs.. but it is mapping that keeps me alive and positive, for I always have sthing to do, and to “Draw” every day.

Even though I haven’t (yet) found a career with GIS, but mapping is now my life and I am living with it all day long.

At times when life got to the lowest point, was when I lost my jobs, I was thinking if I could just throw up everything and pack up to Africa and apply for a GIS businesses, where I would be able to do OSM map survey collecting points everyday… Whatever it was, but I couldn’t do that, for I don’t know anyone in GIS.

I am still a lone mapper and a surveyor and an armchair mapper.

Thank you for your support and your kind words, that helped keep my passion alive. Pretty sure I will remain here for many years to come.

Tuan

Thank you, PlaneMad and Warin61. You’re right I closed JOSM so there was no way to undo it. Anyway it was a lesson.

Thanks Warin. I’ll tag the footways accordingly. Places with limited areas for footpaths like parks or zoos are easy for micro-mapping. Other places such as city squares are really hard, unless I keep them for display only.

There are some more that I’m confused. They are: - baguette shops selling bánh mì : are the Bakery or Fast food? Most of these are also bakeries (baguettes are baked in the kitchen, and in the front house banh mi & some meat delicatessen are sold). I have tagged some of them as “fast food”, while some are bakeries. - Dessert places. Are they cafe or not? Tagging “cafes” cannot tell the main product of these shops.

I see. Thanks for your advice :).

Hi @Kocio,

I agree, most Asian grocery stores are smaller compared to regular supermarkets like Coles and Woolworths. However there is not any criteria on this, so I used Foodworks and KFL (an Asian supermarket chain) as a measure. Any store which is smaller than foodworks is tagged as convenience store, larger ones are supermarkets. So i guess the current “grocery stores” that I tagged before will be revised soon. Currently i tagged bubble tea shops as shop=beverages. I know it is not right but so far it is the most appropriate one for these shops. What do u reckon?

That’s true @Bryco. It took me a few years to choose the correct tags for some particular Asian businesses (grocery stores, baguette shops, bubble tea shops…), so now I believe i am 85% qualified to map those suburbs. Another challenge I usually face is that some services seem to be hidden behind small alleys and laneways, or old arcades, and if somehow I forget to walk further, I would miss out on them. What is rewarding?

Lovely city. My father studied there many years ago. And i visited Moscow in 2002 as well. It was beautiful and charming.

Please tell me some towns or cities where mapping is necessary. Later we can divide work or tasks to finish ^^

It’s good to hear you join our giant project of mapping the world on OSM. There is still a lot to do and to make it perfect and complete for everyone.

Welcome to OSM and enjoy your mapping.!

That looks pretty good Sergey..! Must be good present for map and mapping addicts like us.

Just wondering is this the map of Moskva?

Hello Juanjo! Welcome to OSM.! I hope you will enjoy mapping with us. Share with us more about your mapping experiences :)

I’d recommend Go Map!! as I have been using it for 5 years already. The app works smoothly with iPhones and is very easy to use.

To tag single trees, use natural=tree. But if there are too many trees in the group, use natural=wood for the area instead. If, somehow the trees are planted in a plantation and managed by an established enterprise, make sure you tag it with landuse=forest. For fruit orchards (i.e. mango, coconuts, oranges), use landuse=orchard, followed by trees=[name of fruits]

Hi Bryceco, I traced it on Mapbox Aerial, with some reference to cough Google Maps cough. Bing imagery is too old and it fails to render the new breakwaters and the harbour.

That’s really informative @naoliv. Thank u so much. I’ll remember the “landuse” for future mapping.

Cheers mate.

Hi @TheSwavu @redsteakraw:

That’s a great idea. But for ‘rural localities’, ABS seems to label them ‘towns’ irregardless of their population. Some ‘towns’ are no larger than a village, and they even have no shopping precint, i.e. the most simple urban core, hence cannot be called a ‘village’ in common sense.

A good idea is to do it impulsively : tag a few larger towns as place=towns, and smaller ones as place=village. Those smaller than villages, i.e. Fairymead, QLD may be tagged as ‘hamlets’, if necessary.

Hi @TheSwavu : That’s a great idea. But for ‘rural localities’, ABS seems to label them ‘towns’ irregardless of their population. Some ‘towns’ are no larger than a village, and they even have no shopping precint, i.e. the most simple urban core, hence cannot be called a ‘village’ in common sense.

A good idea is to do it impulsively : tag a few larger towns as place=towns, and smaller ones as place=village. Those smaller than villages, i.e. Fairymead, QLD may be tagged as ‘hamlets’, if necessary.