Humm yes …what shall I have for dinner tonight? (getting hungry)

Firstly the values entered can be anything as you have found .. that is the nature of OSM. The values on the OSMwiki are simply suggestions that try to keep some order and provide some guidance on the thinking of how things ‘should’ be done. I am afraid we are stuck with that .. and once things get big they have too much momentum that changing them for something that actually makes sense is very difficult. (thinking here of landuse=grass to landcover=grass)

The semicolon delimited values … I’d like to see them is alphanumeric order as a preference. The alternatives are vast, but alphanumeric can be automated… if not within OSM then certainly by data consumers.

If you want to get in first before things get large you need to look at the start of things … I have had a go at produce … please see what you think and have a go at if yourself. By no mean perfect here! produce=*

Problems?

St at the end of the string is usually Street St can also be Saint … usually first in the string.

I think the first need to expand those things that are abbreviations at the end of the string. To me these are by far more common.

A full stop at the end of the string should simply be removed … that would then make all the abbreviation that ended with a full stop be found without including the full stop variation. Of course the remove of the full stop should only take place if an abbreviation is found.

Capitalization of the first letter also occurs in the abbreviations .. so these too need to be found and expand.

Sorry … too fast reading this … if your simply cross referencing .. then it should be ok.

I would still contact them to see if they have any objection. They may approve, support and even advertise that the link to them exists in OSM.

There is the present ‘operator’ tag … .the text Coop in there would be a good indication of a cooperative.

Copyright!

The Happy Cow website has clear claims on copyright. Their information CANNOT be used in OSM. Read their https://www.happycow.net/terms-of-use

What steps have you taken to ensure that they agree to having their information copied across to OSM??????? Such an agreement should be in writing and placed into the appropriate place in OSM.

I think any kid would have fun with it … the end product may not be ‘perfect’ … but the object of fun and learning may well have been achieved.

Plain sticky tape might be the best way to go for; cheap less mess ease

Are not copies of titles to land held by some government department? I know the one here keeps records dating way back … and they are open for public viewing.

At least one more of the location errors is on the Wikidata database.

As for “Large red circles mean the distance is greater than 10 kilometers, which indicates a higher error rate” .. errr no not an error rate but a large discrepancy between the two.

So .. interesting .. but needs work as detailed by the other comments above.

There could be a lot of OSM objects that have Wikidata that are not referenced. That too might be a useful tool for some.

@BushmanK .. yes the whole thing is an example. It may have been better to give a link for the stuff that is left out.

In that example other kinds of divider areas have area:highway=traffic_island … from wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area .. dated 2011.

Nothing in the above proposal encompasses the whole area that is used by the highway e.g. the verge … I would think something similar to landuse=railway would be appropriate.

Divider Areas

These can be grass… or concrete, rock, shrubs, trees. They are not always grass. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Sydney_-Newcastle_freeway_north_bound_at_Berowra.jpg/270px-Sydney-_Newcastle_freeway_north_bound_at_Berowra.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Jolls_Bridge_on_the_F3Freeway-north_of_Hawkesbury_River%2C_N.S.W..jpg/220px-Jolls_Bridge_on_the_F3_Freeway-_north_of_Hawkesbury_River%2C_N.S.W..jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Hume_Highway.JPG/220px-Hume_Highway.JPG

https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/public/NSW_Imagery/MapServer/tile/19/313977/482329

In addition there are ‘runoff areas’ at the side of roads. Sometimes used to provide services such as lighting, water drainage, emergency parking/phone.

I thing the best way of tagging these is to use landuse=highway for the areas. The landcover tag can also be used in addition to specify the cover used.

Err opps .. 4 years ago.

At 30 km/h that would take some time. I’d take it there are not fuel stops along the way either… But as an alternative to flying and shipping your vehicle .. excellent.

I think the editors now object to long segments like this on upload.

To be very blunt: You are best placed to do this yourself.

OSM is made up of people just like yourself … working away at ‘their’ section of the map to make it better. I hope you will help in your area.

i like that… Pity the ‘map’ does not have more detail … I’m certain OSM could have been used!

Local to me :- One has clearly state in their changeset comment that they are a Pokemon Go person and that is why they are adding stuff.. fortunately most of them are adding real stuff… some can do with some guidance, true of most new mappers. On the whole, so far, they are ‘good’. A few I have deleted entries .. and they have taken that Ok, and are now adding good stuff rather than making ‘bad’ errors. One looks to have been removed as a user… which is not the way I would go, I’d prefer more communication. Some of them may not realize that OSM is actually used by things otehr than Pokemon Go.

So … I think some communication and most of them should come ‘good’. Certainly OSM can use more active mappers here.

The advantages of OSM are many. There are some disadvantages too!

The Data

Uncoordinated .. yes … unpaid individuals all doing their own thing gets you this. However most of them are well intended. First the tagged/encoding itself has grown like topsy, off in all sorts of directions. Secondly the entered data … each mapper has their own mapping desires and so they map that leading to some things well represented while others are sparse if not missing altogether.

The Rendering

The response here is usually ‘do your own’. Certainly there are a large array of choices available of already rendered maps. Most people initially want something the same as the maps they are used to using … based on habit and present knowledge.

Most of my changeset comments have some missspeelin in ‘em. I spend my editorial energy on the tagging, rather than the changeset comments.

Good Luck to both the mapping and the malaria actions.

Be carefull with the mapping. I have had reports of OSM data in northern Africa being misleading (roads shown don’t exist, roads going through walled compounds). Fortunately at least one of those has said they will be making changes in OSM to make it better .. using their notes of their trip.

source=survey can mean lost of different things.. to different people. being more verbose is beneficial …

source=photographic survey + a GPS point

source=photographic survey + bing imagery (old)

source=visual survey + bing imagery

There are already ‘speed camera warning’ apps … they work from a POI file … so simply a matter of extending the app and extracting the data from OSM. ?? The motivation for the ‘speed camera warning’ app is money and points off your license (where applicable). Motivation for railway crossing .. life, injury and damage. Frequency of ‘being caught’ is higher on the speed cameras, less so on the railway crossings, so the demand of railway crossings is very low … basically most don’t care about getting a warning from their GPS about a railway crossing so any app and/or POI for railway crossing warnings won’t get used. Sorry for my poor respect for my fellow humans.

Have a good Xmas.

You really need to start writing … Monty Python like.. Humm title? “Assaults on the urban pedestrian photographer” …“The suburban battle ground” …

Latest episode “You naughty man, taking photos of my private rubbish! Not for you… Take this” (… beats over head with Tescos shopping).