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Hello and welcome to OSM! Your experience is very welcome, but be warned that OSM is … different from usual “maps”. Likely, you already noticed this. :-)

osm.wiki is your friend to look stuff up – it is our main documentation.

If you have any questions, you best ask them at https://help.openstreetmap.org/ (if you cannot find an identical older question there). Of course you also could write new entries in your “diary” (like this one) and talk about your edits and ask questions.

Happy mapping!

Hi Christopher, welcome to OSM! :-)

I noticed iD has a hiding (based on feature classes) as well - since some weeks / months (the fifth button). Still, you really need to be aware that you’ve hidden (for your display) existing stuff, as Simon said.

osm.wiki/JOSM , http://learnosm.org/en/

Please take your time to learn to know OSM, and start slowly. If you need feedback regarding your edits, just ask - e.g. in your diary (since you now already know it)

Hjart already mentioned a link to OSM-based maps for most Garmin devices. So, a Garmin GPS would be the brand to buy (sorry, I do not own one suitable for your journey). You can find many Garmin devices described in our wiki ( see osm.wiki/Garmin or via search in the wiki). Just note that many pages describe old models.

A half off-topic suggestion (which may be nothing new for you): Take care that the solar power recharging thingy is big enough for powering a gps-enabled smartphone with map display and possibly routing calculation / route display. Also think of bad weather conditions. Test it before the journey. :-) If possible take replacement batteries with you and/or a battery-powered recharger, possibly also usable as a source for a decent lamp. I think your smartphone approach is not bad.

What you could do during the journey for OSM? Collect data and gps traces, e.g. with Osmtracker or with OsmAnd itself. I think only collecting gps traces is reasonable with some minor exceptions – otherwise it would be way too much to add to OSM once you are back home. gps traces are a minor help for OSM. However, the gps accuracy should be not too bad, that makes the traces less worth. Usually dedicated Garmin gps receivers have a much better accuracy than smartphones.

• OSM? https://help.openstreetmap.org/tags/newbie/?sort=mostvoted and what pittaiolo already said
• leaflet? See osm.wiki/Leaflet
• Opencage? I did not know this but it is mentioned on osm.wiki/Nominatim

click the links there on each page ;-)

…. or may be a better place, because other users with the same question in the future could find the answer without the need to ask again

generally https://help.openstreetmap.org/ is a better place for such questions. you will find many already answered: https://help.openstreetmap.org/tags/?q=overpass (click on one of those and then maybe sort the list by “most voted”)

what is the actual use on the “road”? – tag this … and the surface and smoothness independently (you could tag the width too). “asphalt” is fine for a “track”.

Willkommen Odustour! :-)

Wenn du eine Frage zu maps.dastelefonbuch.de hast, dann fragst du am besten auch jenes Unternehmen. Laut Fußzeile in der Karte kommen noch nicht mal die Kartenbilder von OpenStreetMap, sondern von “Here Maps”.

Wenn dich Routing basierend auf OSM-Daten interessiert, dann probiere es einfach auf www.openstreetmap.org aus (evtl. erst oben rechts auf den Menüknopf und dann auf den Knopf mit den Richtungspfeilen) (Beispielroute). Alternativ schau auf osm.wiki/Routing . Software für dein Android-Smartphone mit OSM-Bezug findest du unter osm.wiki/Android aufgelistet.

Viel Spaß!

Looks like you did much work to map the road network, good! :-)

Everybody here will have different priorities of what to map/improve next. Do what you like, what you think it is important, what you know (do not use other maps/databases!), what is most fun. Following are some further comments from me:

Currently there are only “secondary” and “residential” roads in the city. Are there some bigger roads which could be treated/mapped as “tertiary” (the next smaller one below “secondary”) or “unclassified” (the next smaller one below “tertiary”)?

If possible, please use changeset comments when you save your edits. That helps others (and in two years also yourself) in understanding what and why you did a particular change. :-)

see https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/21192/error-export-load-average-on-the-server-is-too-high-at-the-moment

Willkommen bei OpenStreetMap, Tvali!

Welcome to OpenStreetMap! :-)

Willkommen! Deine erste Bearbeitung hat schonmal super geklappt! :-) Viel Spaß!

it works! Welcome to OSM!

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in the meantime there is osm.wiki/Mapillary . I guess you could use it somehow.

@Sanderd17: “more armchair mapping than an import” – With aerial imagery: do you see that there is a bank branch, do you see that there is a ATM, do you see that it has this address? ;-) Not really. I am not saying that it is an import (because of the manual work and the address lookup elsewhere - I do not know AGIV), but it has similarities/is close to an import.

Hi Brecht, thank you for your response!

It may be that it does not cause legal problems, but to save work (also your work) and to avoid damage to the project (copyright law infringement) I think it should be discussed with the community. This is similar to an import. What you import is the list of branches of a specific bank / ATM and their addresses.

The diary comments are not really suited for this discussion. I think forum or mailinglist would be best. Mention this diary discussion in the new place.

Databases may seem simple (as opposed to graphics, for example), but they could be protected - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right#European_Union . I do not know if the list of their branches and address is protected by the law. Just to give you an example: it would not be allowed to use the “yellow pages”.

Yes, the banks likely have an interest of getting their branches into OSM, however, then you could ask them for an official permission (if we think that their branch-address database is protected). Remeber that the bank branch data, as long as it is in OSM, also could be used by the competitors of a bank. Now, the bank may object to the inclusion of their branch database into OSM.

By the way: “Most correct” is if a mapper stays in front of the bank/ATM - not a bank’s list. :-)

If you discuss this issue elsewhere, please mention the new location here (in case someone finds this by a web search).

Regarding “blunt”: I/we do not accuse you or want to punish you or whatever - there is just an improvement which should be made. And this is what I wrote. Yes, I understand that it is not nice to enthusiastically start a project (of would you think is a great idea) and then somebody else tells you that this may not be a good idea.

Thank you!