:))) When I’m too busy to be bothered, I get a #1 buzz cut myself.

Good luck! We all look forward to getting updates about the map of your city.

Are maps.me users notified of any private messages from their OSM accounts within the app? How about notifications about changeset comments?

I tried the app a few times, but not extensively. The good looking renderer is nice to have, but I prefer a different mobile app, so I don’t know the answer to the questions above.

Awesome tip! Gracias.

I think that boils down to whatever is the theme for any particular tile server you’re using.

If the POI has been recorded, even if they’re not visible, they are often still searchable (Nominatim, OsmAnd).

Parking entrances/exit nodes, I agree, are important, but unless they’ve been marked as such (entrance=* or barrier=*), they will not be rendered correctly and remain hidden.

I always like hearing about how names of places and things came about. That, of course, is not something we’d see often in OSM - but a great reason to go out and do surveys.

Cheers!

I hate it when my computer does that. It isn’t often, but I often think of it as my computer’s way of complaining and telling me: “Hey! Don’t you think it’s time to get a replacement?” :)))

Keep up the good work. All those edits are valuable, and make up for making better and richer maps of our communities.

Nice write-up!

I like how the mapa are rendered with maps.me but find find the features limited. For example, I couldn’t map or look for fire hydrants. OsmAnd, of course, does all that. Well, except for nodes. But then again, I’d rather be using my computer when I have to do more than simple edits. For editing polygons when mobile (if I really, really, have to), then I use Vespucci.

Check them out.

I’m very happy that many continue to register for an account on OSM. However, I’m not really fascinated by the number: 2.4+ million accounts, and would rather acknowledge the 25~k active contributors monthly.

Cool information about history. I never noticed the coordinate option for visualizing change. Thanks.

Good job! Thank you.

When doing indoor mapping, some mappers prefer to use the addr:floor to indicate where POIs are located in relation to the building.

While layers are used to describe relationships between crossing or overlapping (large) features (e.g. a building built over a creek, etc.).

Have you seen OpenLevelUp? http://openlevelup.net/?lat=14.377283&lon=121.044829&z=19&t=0&lvl=0&tcd=1&urd=0&bdg=0&pic=1&nte=0&ilv=1

Kudos for the great mapping work. Thanks!

Thank you, Robert.

Good luck!

That’s a huge crowd! Congratulations!

What do you mean by “data”, exactly?

The full planet database dump is at: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/

And the data for VN is downloadable from here: http://download.geofabrik.de/asia/vietnam.html

JOOST, Check out the link to the OSM contributor stats repo for getting uids out of the API

Joost, I think that went over my head and you were probably asking for the query I used: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/eTp

Caveat: only works in the API dev instance (see {{data:overpass,server=http://dev.overpass-api.de/api_mmd/}}), but that one is being upgraded at the moment, and unavailable for another 6-7 weeks, according to the administrators.

For reference: https://github.com/drolbr/Overpass-API/pull/225

Hello Joost.

It’s one of the available fields when I query the database for event metrics using OSM Contributor Stats.

For very, short lists, I use http://whosthat.osmz.ru

Oh, I didn’t know you’re the active developer of Vespucci until now. :)

Currently, I don’t use OsmAnd for any serious surveying. That POI data collection exercise is done by several other individuals. OsmAnd for me is just a good enough all-around tool.

Very interested in learning more about the customized presets, and I’m willing to give Vespucii another spin, to test this for a project I have in mind.

Thanks for the feedback!

I believe that OsmAnd offers the best balance between the features I use, or prefer to have: * navigation * browsing and POI search (online and offline) * data logging * adding rudimentary POIs and uploading direct to OSM * editing basic POI information

And, of course, it’s also open source, which goes for Vespucci, as well.

As an editor, I think Vespucci is better than OsmAnd. On very rare occasions where I really need to edit polygons from the field, I’d use Vespucci. Given a choice, I’d rather work on JOSM, on a computer when working with anything beyond simple POI edits. Even on a phablet, I find Vespucci fiddly to use. The experience is probably different on larger tablets, but I’m not fond of those devices.

As for the OsmAnd UI, there’s plenty of room for improvement. I like the Maps.Me interface (but it’s not comparable to OsmAnd, feature-wise) and Go Map! (but it’s only for iOS).

I’m curious, and I’m surprised why I haven’t tried it. Can Vespucci edits *.osc files? Wrong POI locations in OsmAnd is a common enough error,and I’m wondering whether Vespucci can handle the *.osc files generated by OsmAnd.