In case you aren’t aware of it, one of the many ITO Maps available shows sidewalk/footway coverage. Click the “key” top left to see what the different colours mean.

Locally, I (now try and only) add buildings as I add the surveyed addresses (there are a few buildings mapped from before I did this though). It helps keep track of where still needs surveying.

I agree with you about shops. I was in Pier Avenue, Clacton the other day which is somewhere where I had mapped the shops previously, and updated them once in mid-summer this year. I noticed an empty one which I didn’t remember so took a panoramic shot of one side of the road with my phone. I think there were 3 or 4 shops that needed updating. But again, it is much easier to update the tags on an already mapped shop than mapping it from scratch, so having them mapped hopefully makes it easier for new people to start contributing to OSM.

When I first started mapping addresses there was no aerial imagery so I did each address as a separate node (in the UK this is). Once OS OpenData StreetView and later Bing imagery was available I gradually replaced these by buildings with addresses on the way, based mainly on One feature, one OSM element as having the building and the address of the building separate just felt wrong.

I occasionally use addresses on nodes still. One example being where there are two or more shops in a building with a shared entrance.

I also tend to generally map what is at ground level, so haven’t yet worried too much about where there are shops on the ground level and residences above them. There is one particular row of shops where I know this to be the case and for now I’ve only mapped the shops. To survey the properties above I’d have to go through a private gate, up a flight of stairs, then along an alley on the top of the flat shop roofs. Just a bit too private for me.

The example on the amenity=school page mentioned above is pretty good, but it isn’t clear where to put the address tags. I suspect the area that is tagged amenity=school is the most logical, especially where a single school has multiple buildings.

Coastlines have updated and Skye is back (some tiles might still show as blue if they haven’t been rerendered since the update).

I suspect this fix was too late to make the latest set of coastlines and it will get fixed at the next update.

Perhaps it is a copyright message ;)

If you’re happy it has been mapped properly, I noticed someone added this note earlier so you could close it.

It seems I can’t edit previous comments. It sets the start date/time to 01/01/1900 00:00:00Z and counts up in seconds.

In case it is of interest, GPX_Editor has a menu option to anonymise the times (I’ve not tried the option so don’t know exactly what it does).

Ed

Their main menu is labelled “Harvester Salad and Grill” in the logo, as are the logos on their website, so if I were to use the cuisine tag I’d use cuisine=salad_and_grill (in the style of fish_and_chips). This would fall under the “user defined” category on the wiki page you link to.

Hey, Harry, why aren’t your photos horizontal rather than vertical. My scroll finger is getting RSI…

If it is the Somerset Levels National Nature Reserve boundary you wanted, then the boundary will be available in their data downloads section which are licensed as OGL and so compatible with Openstreetmap’s ODbL licence. I’ve probably got a copy here somewhere (as at May 2012 when I downloaded loads of zips).

You’ll probably carry on getting similar messages while you are tagging things wrongly. Read some of the other links made in other comments. What you are doing is fine, but it is the way you are tagging things that is causing the problems, so just find a way of tagging things which works for everyone.

It can’t have been too chaotic if you managed to avoid biting the camera while holding a slice of pizza in front of your face…

Hi Simon,

I mentioned the layer to a local mapper who checked stuff they’d mapped and gave me examples of this pub where the postal name is the pub name. Should the pub name be put in both name and addr:housename fields in such a case?

Another question they raised was regarding farm buildings (barns, etc) which are part of a site relation which I notice the wiki shows as Proposed and Abandoned, even though the tag page shows over 133,000 such relations. In this case the address would probably go either on the relation or the way/multipolygon relation with role perimeter.

Something similar applies to school buildings where the address is on the amenity=school area rather than the individual buildings within the area.

But it is still a useful tool to check buildings without addresses.

Thanks

Ed

See Tibetan (Uchen) here: http://www.visiblemantra.org/avalokitesvara.html - I think it is nearly identical, though your image has an extra character at the end.

Congratulations on reaching your next milestone. The next target is being questioned about what you are doing by an officer of the law…

(Joking, partially; I was collecting house numbers in a village in the UK once when I was questioned by a local officer after residents must have seen me collecting house numbers and thought I was looking for somewhere to break into).

OK, ta. Certainly once I’ve got the tiles cached here it is really quick. Perhaps my connection was just playing tricks on me at the time.

“(That’s the deal by the way, if there’s any pub landlords reading this… switch2osm, and we’ll come drink there!)”

Is this offer limited to the UK, or some smaller sub-area?