Wow! That is sure an ambitious project - but doable, definitely. I wish you best of luck :) Is this the city? osm.org/node/290485693#map=12/45.7886/24.1668

Thanks a lot - the situation is apparently much better than it appeared. Great work!

WeeklyOSM ignores you? What a pity, Vespucci is the only editor I’m using on Android…

You could also use the Reverter plugin in JOSM to undo the second changeset.

Single point of failure? More like a cluster of SPOFs. Let’s see what you need for converting “vendor.lock.in” into a location:

• some computing device
• implies functional and charged device
• that can and may connect to the Internet
• implies data coverage and access (data roaming, anyone)
• the w3w servers to be up and operational
• the w3w company to be up and operational (and willing to respond (for free?))

The last point is especially relevant on a longer timescale than startups usually even imagine:

I came over at once to London, called in my own person at `teach.charm.table`,
threw Mrs Hudson into violent hysterics, and found that Mycroft
had preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been.

How is that readable, twenty years from now? The same issue goes for all other encoding systems: okay for automated processing, worse for humans; but for proprietary algorithms, it’s especially problematic. We’ve had enough black-box formats so far - this, essentially, would make w3w the gatekeeper of all things of location; it’s unlikely they’d ever opensource (that which is probably) their main source of revenue.

Is that Settlers of Catan? ;) But what I wanted to mention is something else: since maps.me have introduced editing from inside their app (two months back?), I’ve seen - in my area of interest - multiple edits adding Chinese equivalents to local names, or people adding personal notes there.

I’m thinking this might be a localisation/user education problem: multiple people seem to have come to the conclusion that maps.me (and by extension, OSM) is the correct place to put their subjective notes (e.g. “my house”); it’s always the “name” tag, the change text is always Chinese. and created_by is always a recent version of maps.me. I don’t have enough data yet to infer more, but it’s disconcerting that others see a similar pattern elsewhere.

Looking at http://map.project-osrm.org/debug/#15.08/14.3805/121.0447 and http://map.project-osrm.org/debug/#15.08/14.3283/121.0669 , the router seems to be very optimistic about General Malvar Street and the National Highway , but not entirely happy about Susana Heights Rd. Perhaps lane+maxspeed tagging?

Well, congratulations!

Now that is a lot of effort, with an impressive result. Great work!

Reality map: osm.org/ Fantasy map: http://opengeofiction.net/

@mvexel: In places where roads are the primary development (like US cities, as you note), sidewalk=* allows for simpler (and thus hopefully more plentiful) tagging, even though this would put more work on data consumers; where footways are not necessarily next to roadways e.g. ( osm.org/#map=18/50.09163/14.38893 ), keeping separate geometries is better.

Interesting. Maybe try asking that at https://help.openstreetmap.org/ - more people read that site than OSM blogs :)

For such cases, the JOSM editor is very helpful: it has a relation editor GUI which shows you gaps in relations.

Cool!

Btw, I know nothing of mapping in India - is it common to have traffic signals as landmarks? (the Chenthitta Signal in SE corner of the map)

Note that some sidewalks are mapped separately from the vehicular road - not sure if that’s a significant issue in U.S. data, but might generate false negatives where mapped this way.

Great insights - and a great story to boot! :)

Vielleicht schauen Sie hier (links): osm.org/note/474329#map=18/48.13135/11.55031

Added some more; now it’s at least a bit continuous, albeit not quite smooth. BTW: do you know if this is a pond on a stream that flows into Pine Creek, or is it an oxbow of the creek? osm.org/way/397068005

IMNSHO, the mapping density varies greatly from one country to another, even within Europe (e.g. Germany seems mapped well, Spain to a lesser extent). Since you have mentioned Google - I think it’s the integration between various services that’s the main attraction: have an appointment? Here’s your map, and here’s the traffic (one thing that’s hard to do with OSM).

Nice! Did you consider getting the tracks rendered e.g. using GraphHopper? osm.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_bicycle&route=48.5264%2C17.1365%3B48.5011%2C17.2110#map=14/48.5138/17.1738

Well, this is an ambitious project for sure. Perhaps another in the area would be “river tracing” - looking south of Pinedale, the Green River seems to disappear in places. I have traced the main water course for a bit, will continue later.