Such an excellent effort. Students in Government schools in India hardly get any resources and it makes a huge difference to the interest they have in class with opportunities like these. Beautiful!

Since the matching is based on the name, location and description on two databases being coherent, the chances of having invented data being added is really low, unless of course the same invented data made it to both the databases, and we found this did happen with the GNIS place data in the US. Check out this discussion osm.org/changeset/43187605

Still figuring out what the scale of the issue is, since it looks like nobody really reviewed if all these towns were tagged correctly on the map in the last 9 years.

This is a great overview Ahasan, thank you. If you do have slides from your talk somewhere, it would be nice to learn about OSM in Bangladesh.

These are beautiful! It looks like such a clean a quiet village.

Thank you escada and robbieonsea, updated! Not included tree’s though.

This is beautifully done maning, what tools did you use?

What’s up with Bangalore? There’s striking increase of creation/modifaction middle of 2015.

This seems to coincide with the massive addition of buildings traced by an addressing startup called Zippr. They claim over 3 million building footprint were added in the country.

The diaries contain so many useful resources, it such a pity its a pain to browse and search :/

For UI ideas, one is https://www.mapbox.com/osm-diary/ which lists all the posts from the Mapbox data team from the RSS feed. Getting updated on comments is a great idea.

Wow, theres a great diary post on just this osm.org/user/Ivan%20Garcia/diary/39547

So wonderful meeting you escada! Thanks for all the help and resources you shared :)

This is amazing. Would be great to see the process that was followed that could help communities in India who are doing the same. Could never figure out how to easily convert polygons into boundary relations.

This is probably connected to my interest in maps, for as long as I can remember flying and planes fascinated me. There was something liberating about being in the air, looking at the world from above, and the engineering marvel of an airliner.

In high school, I became a major flight simulator buff and would create custom 3D models of aircraft and airport layouts for MS Flight Simulator for India and used to publish them online. These were the first online communities I was part of, and a forumer called me ‘plane mad’ for all the detailed work that I made.

This became my username when I started my contributions to Wikipedia around 11 years ago, since it abstracted my nationality and gender. It became so connected with my contributions online that it was hard to get away from it however hard I tried.

Learnt that there is quite a bit in a name, especially if its not your real one :)

Simon, theres a detailed listing of issues the editor has caused that need to be addressed, clearly everything is not fine and dandy.

@Tomas Straupis, its quite clear this is just a random sample and not not a complete nor thorough analysis. If you have the motivation it would be helpful if you can share some objective observations with examples.

The effect of maps.me would be very different around the world, its probably doing damage in micromapped areas because that level of detail is not visible to the user in the editor, but in areas with close to zero contributors like here in India, its making a definite positive impact with the addition of new POIs even in smaller cities which were map dead.

To really understand the scale of the problem, its necessary that local communities gather accurate stats of whats working and not, generalized statements are really not very helpful for developers to make the system better.

Good catch BushmanK.

Oh yes! We mapped all the trees onto OSM and also fully documented the beautiful road on Mapillary. Read the full story on http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/06/29/thimmakka-banyan-trees.html

Amazing to see local governments in the region adopting OSM. Hopefully it does not require the World Bank to fund every such project and these initiatives can be driven by the local residents themselves.

It would be great if you could document the training plan for the benefit of future trainers in other parts of the world.

Saikat, this is amazing! Wonder if the official maps at the block office are this detailed, any idea?

complete breakdown of the addressing system

Completely normal in India :D

Your best bet is to hunt down the local BBMP ward office and get a paper map saying you are completely lost. They are usually quite friendly and happy to help.

Plugins! The future is looking bright, thanks for all the hard work Tom, Bryan, Kushan, David, Beau and Martin + a whole lot of others.