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MarcoR

Mapper since:
September 20, 2009
Last map edit:
July 29, 2025

Hi!

I usually edit features I know and have directly seen on the ground; from time to time, I enjoy fixing issues that are reported by one of the many Quality Assurance tools available.

Associate member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation since 2020. If you are an active mapper you can join too, it’s free!

Notes

As a general rule, I don’t map military areas except for their perimeters.

When saving my changes, I usually choose a combination of one or more of the following words as the changeset source:

  • survey: I’ve been there recently (if not I generally write when), I know what I’m mapping;
  • local knowledge: some resident told me or I know it but I haven’t surveyed the place recently or at all; I’ve also used this value when fixing phone numbers in Italy because I know what a correct Italian phone number looks like;
  • Bing Aerial Imagery / Esri World Imagery / Maxar Premium Imagery / PCN 20??: the features are visible in the aerial imagery but I don’t know if they are still there
  • Mapillary/KartaView/Microsoft Streetside/Panoramax: the features are visibile in the street level photos;
  • receipt/flyer: I used a receipt/flyer of the place (I might still have it, you can ask me!)
  • photo: I used a photo that I took (I might still have it, you can ask me!)
  • business website: the shop/office website contains those information (I usually add the website in the object, e.g. website=https://www.example.com)
  • OSM Inspection: I have seen a strange rendering or I have found a typo in the OSM data; I usually don’t know the place
  • OSM inspector / Osmose / KeepRight / OSM note: one QA tool reported a problem which I could fix without knowing the place
  • NSI or Name-Suggestion-Index
  • MapWithAI building or road was imported using MapWithAI

I’m also active in the below somehow OSM-related projects:

Italian language below this line

Mappo principalmente nelle zone di Livorno e comuni limitrofi o comunque posti che nella maggior parte dei casi ho visitato almeno una volta. Per qualsiasi problema o richiesta di chiarimento mandami un messaggio diretto oppure commenta un mio changeset; dovrei rispondere in breve tempo.

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