I think something went wrong with your diary entry, but https://mapcomplete.org/waste?z=16.2&lat=0.4065226106638278&lon=9.443137417462253 might be interesting to you

You can validate your OSM-profile on Mastodon BTW:

1. Add a link to your mastodon as <a href='https://yourmastodon/@account' rel='me'>My Mastodon account</a>

2. in your profile settings, under ‘Extra fields’, add link to your OSM-profile in the right column (thus: osm.org/user/Xvtn), you’ll get a green dot

For example: https://en.osm.town/@pietervdvn

Hilarious! I love it. The bottom one really caught me of guard. Also, I can check like 80% of the things you mention. :)

Do you have a mastodon-account? It would be great to post it there as well. If you don’t have one, can I repost it there (and on lemmy?)

Ah, it seems like the link in my last paragraph was incorrect. I’ve fixed it there.

I ran it again (but am to lazy to do the formatting)

Total number of reviews 1059

‘mangrove.reviews’: 505, All mapcomplete related tools: 311 ‘toggenburg.swiss’: 66, ‘thurgau-bodensee.ch’: 56, ‘heidiland.com’: 21, ‘ostschweiz.ch’: 16, ‘open-reviews.net’: 14, ‘open-reviews.orderingstack.com’: 13, ‘winterthur.com’: 12, ‘127.0.0.1:1234’: 8, ‘localhost:5000’: 7, ‘actuallyfoods.com’: 5, ‘staging.mangrove.reviews’: 5, ‘localhost:1234’: 5, ‘jungfrauregion.swiss.cms.tso.ch’: 3, ‘examples.twblue.cms.tso.ch’: 3, ‘ivydog.art’: 2, ‘haslital.dev.cms.tso.ch’: 1, ‘toggenburg-aktiv.ch’: 1, ‘modernmount.blogspot.com’: 1, ‘’: 1 } Theme { ‘https://mapcomplete.org/food’: 73, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/shops’: 44, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/cafes_and_pubs’: 32, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/toerisme_vlaanderen’: 30, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/pets’: 23, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/playgrounds’: 21, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/personal’: 20, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/dog’: 14, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/campersite’: 12, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/fritures’: 9, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/sport_pitches’: 9, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/climbing’: 8, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/onwheels’: 5, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/hackerspaces’: 4, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/hotels’: 3, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/sports’: 2, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/healthcare’: 1, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/lgbtmap’: 1 } language { en: 102, null: 95, nl: 42, de: 37, ru: 14, fr: 12, da: 6, es: 3 }

@publicerination

Yeah, we should be careful, but also welcome the actually good contributions when they are made.

I’m also working on ‘MapComplete Studio’, which makes it easy to create new layers and thematic maps for MapComplete (which also allows one to add new objects and edit object)

This’ll allow you to create a layer quickly for playground equipment. And I might adopt user created layers as ‘official’ layers after a review.

It is not ready for prime time yet but will be in a few weeks. I did some user tests though, and someone (which knows MapComplete well as user) was able to setup a new layer within ~45 minutes.

I’ll PM you the link to play around with

Impressive result: https://mapcomplete.org/bookcases.html?z=14.1&lat=44.942656592486316&lon=-93.21231856115986

Hey, some of those categories are available on mapcomplete.osm.be/pets

To add insult to injury: the mapcomplete-account recently reached over 1000 followers on Mastodon! In Twitter/X, it is only about 300 (but I’m not actively posting there anymore)

(for other readers: TSNFKAT means: The Social Network Formerly Know As Twitter)

Part of the puzzle is that Twitter ‘steals’ some of the attention away. A Tweet has to reach an audience between the “for you” feed (with very bland, easy-to-consume messages), advertisements and anything that twitter pushes for profit (advertisements or Tweets by Elmo).

However, Mastodon has an even playing field. If person A follows 100 followers which all toot with the same frequency, the chance that person A sees a toot by B is 1%.

But, it’s also true that OSM is a techy topic and that mostly technical people are on Mastodon.

You’ve forgotten https://mapcomplete.osm.be

Renaming is an option, but often the individual thematic maps come with their own branding, especially if they are commissioned (such as the Pin je Punt-one).

I’m open to rename, but it has to be a catchy name ;) Map Your Theme isn’t to bad, but I’m not very fond of it either…

Also see https://mapcomplete.osm.be/charging_stations - if stuff can be improved there, let us know in the issue tracker

You can easily add them with https://mapcomplete.osm.be/charging_stations

Can we try it somewhere already?

This also sounds a little bit like umap.openstreetmap.fr (which is somewhat unmaintained)

@Ygramul: In my experience, the fushia overlay dissappeared after a few moments - but quite often it would propose to trace a building that had already been traced (thus showing both the fushia and the orange building outline, with the fushia one dissappearing after a bit).

@pierzen: Great to have those numbers.

I suspect that a majority of the contributors are long-standing OSM-contributors testing out Map Builder.

Furthermore, to be counted as contributor in the table above, you’ll have to make at least one contribution and thus get counted into nb_days once. This means that only 200 contributors made contributions on two different days, indicating a very low retention rate.

I have gotten the following question via Mastodon:

does Bing Maps have its own (editable) vector layers besides those imported from OSM?

As far as I could see, the only editable vector layer was OSM. In the ‘tutorial’, the fuschia outlines to trace over (see e.g. the waterbody screenshot) come from some other source. I don’t know where they come from and I didn’t dig into it. (For building traces, I suspect that these are either Microsofts Australia Building Footprint or the building footprint dataset - but I did not verify this)

Valid criticism @woowoowoo! My realistic view on a possible future aligns pretty much with your view - but it is still important to point out a possible threat, to make sure that those scenario’s don’t happen and as it does some harm already today (by confusing and alienating possible contributors).

On the other hand, a bit of exaggeration makes sure that they don’t try to pull of bigger shenanigans (and it helps to get some attention :) )