I had an issue with the original causal link. There are other, more benign reasons why wealthier neighborhoods would have better OSM coverage than poorer neighborhoods. The most obvious comes from post [Maxims for Maximally Effective Mappers(osm.org/user/AntiCompositeNumber/diary/394620) which was posted immediately after this post. And I quote:

“2. Map only what you know.”

Mapping on OSM requires a certain amount of leisure time. In general, the poorer the individual, the more time they spend just making enough money to live on and the less time they have for leisure activities. Additionally, the poorer the individual, the less money they have for traveling to other places.

So I’d imagine that the individuals living in poorer neighborhoods don’t have as much time to map their own neighborhoods as wealthier individuals. And that once a neighborhood is completely mapped, the wealthier individuals will be traveling to other places to gather data more than the poorer individuals.

This could also explain why wealthier areas would have better coverage than poorer areas. Bias and opportunity are not the same thing.

The changes don’t propagate at all levels.

I’m using Chrome. I’ve cleared the cache. When I’m zoomed out I can see all my edits, but as I zoom in, they disappear and the pre-edit single building still appears.

The issue with two Net Works, Inc. POIs is that the building and the point are both labeled Net Works, Inc. I’m not sure which one should remain and which one should be gone.

That is not the Land of Death. That is the land of Zero Node Streets.

I suppose I’ll have to explain that.

There’s a web site called CityStrides.com which tracks all the runs you’ve done with a GPS. The goal of the site is to run all the streets in a city. (So far, so good.)

The site’s underlying geographical data comes from OSM. The creator of the site has worked on an update process so that as roads are added, deleted, and corrected here, the change will be reflected there. Unfortunately, there are a few bugs with the update process. One of those bugs results in a street in a city with zero nodes. But the mapping routine doesn’t produce an error message if there are no nodes. Instead, it displays the map at 0.00 0.00. That’s the land of Zero Node Streets.

I’m attempting to organize a cruise out there so we can all run those non-existent streets.

I still need to get out of my chair a couple times a day. The 7-Eleven is convenient, not essential.

(When I get around to it, I order a case of V-8 from Amazon.)

Welcome to the club.

I’m trying to make at least one change per day. So far (since I made the resolution) I’ve been doing so. But some days are pretty small changes and/or additions.

What brought you to OSM?

You probably should start off the post with WHY you would want to do this. What benefit does this give the user?

What are you trying to do?

A lot of work went into this post. Thanks for sharing.