I had the idea it would be easy to do a few quick fixes to some regional shortcomings of OpenStreetMap. It turned out that I was totally wrong. Quick is a term anyone new to OSM should erase from his vocabulary, if my experiences are something like typical. It was frustrating from the very start and it did not change the few times I tried to contribute to the project.

I do not think that OSM can reach really many users if it stays like this. It is just not possible to do a few quick additions to the maps without spending a lot of time to find out how to do even the simplest changes. It should be possible, for example, to intuitively mark a road as closed when road works pop up. There would have to be buttons for frequent changes like closing a road due to road works. Would operating the maps, putting in changes, would be an intuitive task, I am sure many more would contribute and there would be much less missing in the maps and the map would be more up to date.

Sorry for the negative comment to a project I think is basically a good project. But I really think there should be changes to make it a lot easier for newbies to contribute. I am not ready to put in that much time just to figure out how to do things.

Habe mich gerade angemeldet bei OpenStreetMaps um schnell eine Baustelle einzutragen, die eine Straße komplett sperrt. Schnell mal eben war da aber nichts zu machen. Ich versuche schon seit mindestens eine halbe Stunde das eingetragen zu bekommen und finde keine Lösung dafür.

Die Baustelle wird noch ein paar Wochen bestehen bleiben, sollte sich also lohnen, das kenntlich zu machen.

Und wie einer Doppelhaushälfte die an einer Kreuzung liegt, die Hausnummer verpasst werden kann, die zu der kreuzenden Straße gehört, war für mich auch nicht ersichtlich. Das hatte ich mir alles wesentlich einfacher vorgestellt.