Okay, but have you mapped all the manhole covers?

Thank you for helping with the removal of spam on OSM. Here’s an older discussion about the same topic, including methods to detect the SEO spam: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/seo-spam-edits-mystery/110302

I support this sentiment. If I map a private pool at all, I always check if it’s one of those fixed pools that are built in the ground. Movable private pools are out of scope for OSM.

IIRC there’s a dev server where you can play around like that, although idk the details of it.

HOT frequently provides a disservice to the OSM community. This mess is the responsibility of whoever organises these mapathons and fails to educate the newbies and ignores the need for validation and iterative improvement of the map.

About accessibilty:

The page Disabilities on the OSM Wiki has a wealth of information about what we have and do with accessibility.

About relations:

Relations in OSM can be very complex. I recommend leaving all route relations and boundary relations to experienced mappers until you know what you’re doing as it is easy to break them by accident.

Multipolygon relations are easier to understand: most of them are essentially donutshaped areas. These shapes don’t fit in the “way” data type we normally use for areas, so the inner and outer areas are linked to each other through a relation. The relation then receives all the tags that explain what the donut area represents. Islands in lakes are a good example of when we use multipolygons.

About StreetComplete:

In StreetComplete you’re often adding one tag at a time to an existing OSM object. Generally speaking, each tag represents one bit of information about an object. To illustrate this, a road starts with only one tag for the type of road. With StreetComplete you can add the name, the surface, whether the street is lit etc. Each of these data points becomes a tag that gets applied to the street. If a street has many tags applied to it, it means that information about the street is more “complete” in OSM. That is what you’re working towards in StreetComplete.

They are indeed hidden unless you look for them or stumble upon them, so most mappers won’t notice them, but a local mapper who’s thorough or performing QA will notice it, and so will any person who actually uses the object for something and notices a mistake, so a fixme tag works as communication with the right people.

Instead of making notes for category 2 I add fixme=* tags.

Could you quit making senseless drama already?

Calling the OSMF an “organization that tacitly supports criminalization of [[LGBTQ]] people” is a malicious misrepresentation of what is going on and needlessly paints the OSMF in a negative light.

I can’t imagine that this decision was easy for the people who chose the conference venue, but I can imagine that they wanted to support the work that the OSM communities in Kenya and neighbouring countries are doing as much as the work of mappers anywhere else. The mappers in Kenya have (on a personal level) nothing to do with anti-LGBTQ laws. They are most likely just happy to be able to host the conference and to be a part of the global OSM community, and that deserves recognition. Openly boycotting OSM in and calling on other people to do the same is rude in the way that it disregards these people’s work, and I strongly disapprove of it.

It’s happening. Have a look at https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/4908

That’s amazing! Welcome to the club :D

Don’t hesitate to ask any questions you might have on one of the contact channels.

Happy mapping!

Related: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/have-you-spotted-vandalism-on-openstreetmap-org/114684

It’s always awesome to see that the feeling of excitement for mapping is shared. Happy mapping to you!

You can just put it on the map directly instead of posting it here.

I welcome NorthCrab’s progressive take on UI development of osm.org. We don’t have to agree with every design decision right now, because that can all be tweaked later. And with new development one should expect some front end enhancements; it would be a shame if after all the work we still end up with a website that looks like a time machine to a distant past. So keep it up, NorthCrab!

Awesome data!

If you can update this list on a regular basis, I’m sure some mappers will gladly hunt down cases to “complete” countries. This approach worked very well in the river modernization project.

TL;DR. Try to split up the wall of text into paragraphs.

Welcome! We’ll look forward to all your edits. Happy mapping :D

Welcome, and thank you for contributing to the map. This information from your local knowledge is really hard to source from elsewhere, so your edits are much appreciated.