Perhaps we should be looking at throwing this open and seeing if there’s someone out there who’s willing to put time and inclination website maintainers may not have into redesigning the OSM ‘family’ of websites (that currently have the look-and-feel either that Mikel put together or the default for their content manager) as a more coherent whole with present-day standards of usability (10 years of experience in a reasonable mainstream, no need to compromise for Netscape 4, …). Also remember that hosting community pages within OSM is more important than maps, which others can pick up on.

Does it make any sense to carry the announcements on blogs.openstreetmap.org ?

I’ve hit a snag: a previous mapper outlined the tower bit of the Telecom Tower leaving out the low buildings around it. If I fill everything in Helsinki-style the arguably-interesting outline is lost.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap. Although aerial photographs are very useful, there are many other ways to make maps.

Have you had a look at the OSM India page at osm.wiki/India yet?

The new Bad data proposal is a scheme to mark traced aerial photography or maps as out of date or otherwise unreliable so that they can be obscured in editors and users don’t copy details into the OSM database reducing its accuracy.

osm.wiki/Bad_data

Have you thought about how we could get a local community going to fill in the gaps and keep things up to date? Does anyone know someone who’s gone abroad to work or study, or is there a magazine that circulates in Africa we could promote OSM in?

Congratulations! Does Crawley (or anywhere else that isn’t there already) qualify for the Hall of fame?

Are they really mini-roundabouts? If so, whoever’s done this is not only breaking routes, they’re making the map less accurate representing roundabouts.

Don’t forget you can put a way tagged as addr:interpolation along the side of the road and put address nodes on it.

I suppose it’s something everyone has to go through at some time. I once lost 45 minutes of work in Potlatch because it didn’t warn me I was leaving the page (it now does).

Maybe someone’s ladling in a lot of data without any regard for whether there’s anything better. Let’s hope their source is legitimate for copyright. If there’s a language barrier try contacting one of the Korean mappers to see if they can help.

Don’t forget you can

There are a few Iranian mappers. Are we thinking of localising OpenStreetmap into Farsi?

Another way to propagate relations wrongly is the ‘repeat tags’ button in Potlatch.

The roads infilling demolished houses and the ends of big houses are a bugger to get in, aren’t they?

Is this a problem with the Census Burau maps and TIGER?

If it’s the best online map of Georgetown, you could try to promote it locally. You’ll probably get more volunteers and might even find someone willing to put their dataset in.

How does OSM compare to other maps of Guyana?

There is source:name, though it is not always used.

Did you get Hyper Hyper?