Thanks for sharing.

Perhaps you can ask some mappers who no longer map why their interest and participation has decreased. After being involved in openstreetmap for 10 years, I’ve learned more that the motivations for people to map are very different, even when the people live the same area: some wanted to map to just gain some gis skills (and then found out generally very few companies pay people to edit on osm), or decide to specialize in gis/mapping fields that don’t involve osm; others wanted to just update specific features on the map (like only adding local ponds and rivers, streams), and once that initial mapping that was done, they only map/edit when those features change; others only edited because they were using a phone app (like Pokemon Go) that used osm data and when they quit using the app, they didn’t see any desire to continue updating OSM. Other people: their personal interests change.

Thanks for your work on this Minh.

Hi Larry,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

Regarding the changing to ‘take’: your edits are instantly available to the public as soon as you upload them but it can take up to a day or two for the common map layer on osm.org to display your changes. (and it appears to be Veterans Memorial Highway Southeast to me :))

Sometimes, a particular section or length of road may not cover the entire road (especially if it’s a long road!), so you may have to select each of the lines.

Regards, Will from Ohio

Heather,

Thank you for sharing your time, energy, and talents over the years.

I agree that OSMF needs to coordinate the working groups and ensure communication with each other and plan cohesive, intentional communities and actions.

People should realize that the status of OSM over the past 5 years is the result of a lack of broad coordination or dedicated investment to anything like (paying) people to maintain infrastructure and foster communication internally and externally, for starters.

Regards, will.

There are many different ways that you could do this and depends on how comfortable you are with particular tools (qgis, postgis, or python libraries).

I did this for my city several years ago - https://skorasaurus.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/how-i-measured-clevelands-length-of-roads-with-postgis-and-osm/

I admit that installing postgis and postgresql can be a bit challenging if you do not have experience with it.