I bought a trekking GPS for my honey moon, but the official maps for my destination (India) were expensive and only available via snail-mail. Back to my home country (Ireland) after 6 weeks with a map-less GPS, I found that topografic maps for Ireland were downloadable, but still twice the price of the device itself. Searching some more I found OSM and put it on my device. Started contributing after a few months, including trekking paths that I knew weren’t available anywhere else, and was hooked.

Siehe osm.wiki/DE:Beginners’_guide

Du brauchst keine Anmeldung um OSM zu benutzen, nur um OSM zu editieren. Siehe osm.wiki/DE:Software#Mobile_Devices

Sorry zmmalik, but there’s no point in copy-pasting that kind of text in a diary comment.

Please read through both links I provided, and look at the various OSM boundaries that strive to show the current situation with all its complications.

If after that you still think that the current set of borders in OSM are not accurate and neutral, you can contact the DWG to examine the situation. You’ll need to provide links to recent documents (not something from 1957…) that show, from various angles (at least Indian and Pakistanese) that the current on-the-ground and/or official status is different from what OSM conveys.

See also osm.wiki/Disputes and http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf

In the particular case of “building=entrance” I agree that it should be deleted nowadays, but don’t treat “tag redundancy is bad” as an absolute rule.

Using redundant tagging schemes can be advisable when neither scheme has fully “won” yet. Even when one has, keeping the old tag during a “transition period” makes life easyer for consumers.

Concerning colors, the RGB/CMYK conversion is the least of our accuracy worries. There are lots of physical factors that bring much bigger errors than that. The geometry isn’t centimeter-accurate either, so the color accuracy isn’t a problem. 3-bytes RGB is the color scheme that most people know about, so go ahead and always use that in OSM.

It’s higher than I expected :) Not sure if we can use that to improve OSM’s conversion rate, but at least it quantifies how bad the idea of purging inactive accounts is. Thanks for these stats.

For the number of tiles, see osm.wiki/Tile_usage_policy

But for android offline use, apps that support vector downloads are vastly superior. Two of the most popular ones are osm.wiki/MapsWithMe and osm.wiki/Osmand but have a look at osm.wiki/Category:Android too and search the play store directly, you might find something you like better.

Finally, for those kind of questions, you should use https://help.openstreetmap.org/ rather than the diary.

Good luck on the walk :)

See https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-March/022375.html

Whenever you find one, please add it to osm.wiki/Spam

Please only use the OSM diary for topics relating to OSM.

Same here, makes for interesting moments when I show pictures of my kids and then have to skip through 50 pictures of street signs :p

Geograph is an Interesting project, but at 1 photo per km2 there must be a huge amount of editoring happening (and therefore more interesting photos) compared to mapillary’s default “0.5 photo per second, upload first check later”.

Ahhh… Creating the initial road network may be just a small part of the job, but it remains the most satisfying :)

Apparement tout vient d’un import par Becker_MN_Import_Acc. Ça vaudrais le coup de jetter un oeuil aux autres changesets, et de contacter le compte en question.

No war going on, those posts are simply transparency statements by HOT board candiates. So that voters can take this into account in case the candidate’s other affiliations conflict with board membership.

So… You want the overpass output and specification, but without the overhead of a full complicated db query each time ?

edit -> preferences -> advanced -> simplify -> 0.3 or nearby is much more reasonable than the default 3.0.

Commented on the changeset.

While the prize is well below the typical going rate for that kind of service (unless you consider the mere publication of your photo as a worthy prize in itself), the contest is just a classic “extract value from enthusiastic customers” marketing ploy. Nothing that OS should be proud of, but no reason for onlookers to be up in arms either ?

Une autre solution plus simple avec JOSM (pas de configuration nécessaire) : zoomer jusqu’à voir la version qui vous interesse, puis click droit sur le fond de carte et décocher “zoom automatique”.

Makes you wonder how those fixmes aere added in the first place. Did the tiger data mention “dual carriageway” but only provide a single line ?

Once you’ve exhausted the mundane, maybe you can use the magic of aggregated gps traces to find which side streets are only turned into from one driving direction.