Most of the existing map of Bermuda has been added by outsiders tracing aerial photographs. Finishing it off takes locals like you. Don’t forget you can ask the rest of us for help.

Is there ever any point in putting the road number in the name= field? We always leave name= blank on motorways that haven’t got proper names in Britain.

You don’t have to know much Turkish to recognise spam when you see it.

don’t know about anywhere else but there are quite often meetings scattered round the UK as well as the regular events in London and Birmingham, and they don’t show up on the map.

Practice make perfect. You’ll find things easier as you put more stuff in.

Are there any other maps that are up to date?

Some corners of the world are always going to be a bit difficult.

Le cadastre français est-il utile?

It would be worthwhile asking Keep Right or one of the other validators to identify nodes common to roads and power lines and other aftereffects of excessive node merging.

The code of conduct was written in response to slap-happy imports in the USA, especially TIGER, much of wich deserves little respect. Repairing the broken topology form these imports justifies the odd bit of collateral damage, although you should still fix it when you find it.

A potential talking point: How many building outlines should we import from StreetView?

If you find building outlines iin Yahoo hard to follow you can try StreetView, which isn’t really any worse. Of course there’s much better aerial photography if you’re mapping Surrey…

What are you expecting to be there that is not?

The problem with using amenity=university and name=XYZ together is the implication to applications that use OSM that XYZ is the name of a university. See osm.org/?lat=51.52305&lon=-0.13277&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF for an example of the issue.

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Project pages in the OSM wiki aren’t really comparable to articles in Wikipedia. Do they have links to pages in the Wikipedia: namespace?

StreetView does show the back alleys in terraced houses in Manchester… but not which of them have been closed off with gates. (How can I edit my replies?)

StreetView does show the back alleys in terraced houses in Manchester… just which of them have been closed off with gates.

I’ve been trying adding some names from StreetView too. I’ve been trying to work on areas I can (eventually) survey myself to fill in the holes; this includes a bit of Manchester (I live in London) that I will be visiting.

If you feel out of your depth making a change you can make a note of what the problem is on Openstreetbugs.