Perhaps it would be better for OSM to actively support the development of alternative general purpose map styles (an alternative being the iD option of changing the maintainer to someone more cooperative).

As a British mapper I’ve got into StreetComplete recently and I’ve found it something that I can use when I’m taking walks and also to fill in after tracing buildings from aerial imagery. I’ve come to share your enthusiasm.

Our virtual conference later this week has a talk about searching addresses. You can either watch live or a recording later if the time doesn’t suit you.

What happened in Massachusetts and Maryland?

I wonder if the imagery change could be a bad move. JOSM’s whole imagery subsystem has a whiff of not-invented-here by some core developers; this reveals itself both in some quite unpleasant comments about other programs’ layer indexing but also in a clunky interface that makes it hard to get to non-internationally mainstream imagery when iD just pops up a menu of locally available choices and also renders zoomed-in imagery much more crudely when it does at all.

Two Canadian spams in a row

That is what I routinely do when I add websites displayed on shops, I also try to find the page for the branch.

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If I have read this correctly vote 8 members are associate members and still have to become normal members in advance under vote 3.

Keep up the good work. Keeping existing mapping up to date and in good shape is a valuable part of OSM.

Every so often a community takes massive exception to what an online service does, in the last few months this has happened at Wikipedia (English), Stack Exchange, Blizzard and Gitlab. Often there has been a history of complants that wells up until the community hits breaking point.

You missed this one.

What time of day do they contribute? We may be able to guess their timezone that way.

The Slack page linked from the wiki isn’t publicly readable. Do you distinguish between permanent and temporary moves or whether HSTS is set?

Why collective narcissists are so politically volatile

One way we can crosscheck who is doing this would be to compare the days of edits with local holidays.

You need to think very long and very carefully whether undiscussed mass edits help your cause. Perhaps you need to think whether you really want to be editing OSM at all right now.

@Rovastar I have very occasionally heard of that happening but even then the best that can be expected of the G-word apart from Haiti is that the contributor is confused about recording provenance and has to be asked to confirm that the mapping comes from a clean source, possibly using a changdset comment.

Of course it is often a good idea to contact the mapper anyway to set them on the right route.

Kivu is an ongoing project with Missing Maps. The disappearance of castles in London is a followup to https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15845.html

Is the Q&A an example of the sort of event we could organise round the OSM UK meeting in Manchester this May?