Playing around with my Android crDroid 7.1.2 settings, it seems I can specify more than one language and can sort their preference order. If Maps.me will honor that I think it would solve the display issue.

Unfortunately, it seems name:es=* are missing for this area so l see no effect on map display when trying various system settings.

I don’t recall the ability to specify multiple languages in the system settings before. Maybe it is new for Nougat. I will have to check my spouse’s Marshmallow phone to see if it can do that too.

Good to know that if I change my phone language in the system settings Maps.me will honor it. But that would make everything else on my phone miserable to use as I don’t know very much Spanish. So I’ll have to set and reset that every time I go into Maps.me which is not very her friendly.

I am hampered by only having a mobile phone, not JOSM. I haven’t looked at all streets and am extrapolating. . .

The street that I looked at most closely is/was Calle El Perro (Spanish). It was changed by 36092421 to Txakur kalea.

Another example, unfortunately I am having difficulty with my phone’s browser, might be Alameda Recalde (as shown on a cash receipt) but shows as Rekalde zumarkalea on OSM. That might have a name:es=* tag but my phone is refusing to show me the data.

“I would be a little more cautious of leading abbreviations like Saint.” Definitely! My impression from this exercise is that you should be cautious expanding any abbreviation. In this case I decided to check each expansion against the full names of nearby streets to see if any matched. If I had a match then I assumed the expansion was okay. Those that did not match near by streets were logged for separate examination.

Just noticed this from an email on the talk-us list. A couple of items:

Comment from rayKiddy on 25 August 2015 at 20:13 “I find Sunnyvale to be fairly completely mapped. But I may be missing problems with the data.”

Thank you! Most of the area from Central Expressway to the southern border of Sunnyvale and from Bernardo to a bit east of Sunnyvale-Saratoga I did by walking about. Many missing businesses as my focus was on getting house numbers, verifying speed limits, etc. matthieun has been covering much of the northern part of Sunnyvale and on over into some of Mountain View. I haven’t met him in person but we have exchanged messages and he seems to be doing a great job. Between the two of us, I think Sunnyvale is in much better shape than many other areas in Silicon Valley.

Back to the topic at hand: I think this area is/was a “Tiger Desert” but the fact was hidden by the imports like that of land use (I think mostly by SteveA). It seems like every street I looked at has needed at least a little tweaking. And when I visit some area I typically check OSM to see what the data looks like and find that updates are needed. Just yesterday I was in the west side of Santa Clara and all the roads in that area were listed as unreviewed, had some alignment issues and were devoid of such niceties as maxspeed tags.

Regarding highway tagging, my rule of thumb is to look for painted center lines. If it has one then it is at least a tertiary but if it is lacking then it is most likely a residential. I have no clue if that matches the federal highway feeder classifications or not, just what it looks like on the ground to me compared to what I read in the OSM Wiki.

Within a few months I will be moving out of the area and the city I will be moving to is also basically a Tiger desert. More fun and starting from scratch with plenty of more streets to walk gathering information!

Don’t follow diaries very much but saw a link to this on the talk-us mailing list.

I agree with your road classifications with one exception: If there are “a reasonable number of what look like houses” along the road (judgement call) and there is a name on the way then I leave the tag as “residential”.

My way of finding them in places like the desert of Southern Arizona is to simply look at the map displayed at osm.org/ and see if it shows roads. If it does, chances is that it is in error. They are probably ranch or mining tracks or the disturbed earth over a pipeline (which also might be a track). Zoom in and with satellite imagery go to town. A fair chunk of southern Pinal County has been cleaned up that way.

The other way to find things more locally to where I currently live is to make a topo map (my own scripts) of an rural area to hike at: Most of the “residential” roads show up like a sore thumb and I can survey the area on the drive to or from or while hiking.

Do look at http://184.73.220.107/battlegrid/ for another way to find suspect areas, though seems that is more focused on finding new roads and developments.