Great to see the student turnout, thank you all for your contributions!

@nyampire and here’s the OSMCha list of changesets needing review in Japan !

You can choose filters>bbox to refine the area or filters>reason for extra filters like only new user. Thank you so much for this suggestion, hope this is useful for the Japanese mappers.

You can find changesets with a review requested flag here: osmcha review requested. This can be a great way to provide feedback to new mappers and send them a nice welcome message to the project.

You can also use filter>bbox to limit results to any map area of interest. Please add any other useful filter links to the wiki

This is beautiful!

So amazing, congratulations to everyone for undertaking such a huge mapping lift!

Great blog by Anita Graser on using WGIS to do QA of this data: https://anitagraser.com/2016/07/23/osm-turn-restriction-qa-with-qgis/

Hah, you’ve seen more of the city in one day than many of the locals ;)

A little tidbit of info, the Bellandur lake was actually used as a water landing airstrip for seaplanes in the 1940s. And also there’s an ancient temple that was excavated around the edge which is now inside the Wind Tunnel Centre. I should join you one of these days!

We are sometimes completely unaware of the legacy of our own backyard, and its so fascinating to hear these stories. Thank you Ashley, and nice work improving the map. Have you by any chance heard about the Munnar monorail?

It would be great to have a tool that allows one to review and fix notes on the move, this can be a very fun outdoor activity and wish one could view notes in maps.me. Are there any mobile apps that lets one work on notes?

KGF looks like a lovely place with quaint planned neighbourhoods withs lots of trees! Wonder if this area here is a golf course, any idea?

Very cool output! How long does it take to model a building of this complexity?

This is super detailed and useful. Thanks for writing this!

If there are too many Mapillary images in your area, the JOSM plugin could take quite a bit of memory and could get difficult to work with. At the Mapbox data team, we built a simple web ap to browse detected turn restrictions from Mapillary to make the process more efficient. We usedthis workflow to add many missing turn restrictions in Germany.

Legal questions on OSM activities in places like Pakistan

This is a real blocker in many countries that have outdated laws that only allow licensed institutions to survey and map. Google got into trouble in India a few years ago for having a mapmaker competition and the government shutdown the street view program as a risk to security. This opens up the fear for anyone of contributing to OSM or Mapillary which can potentially get one into trouble.

While its going to be hard for OSMF to offer protection to local chapters or change laws, what might help is if OSM as a project got the endorsement at a really high level like the UN as an essential project to help hit the Millennium Development Goals. This would help pave the way for a policy change of encouraging participatory mapping and recognize the project as a tool of citizen empowerment and development for a better world.

The efforts of OSM Bangladesh are an inspiration for the region to show how citizens can organize themselves to build critical products like map data faster, more detailed and at a lower cost than the government and make more efficient use of the available resources.

Wishing you much success and looking forward to learning from your experiences to grow the community in India.

What about just using URIs as identifiers?

The OSM URIs are a great reference to start with. @ makes sense for usernames that can change and # for permanent ids. Also using the JOSM id shorthands for nodes, ways, relations can give a more crisp identifier:

• changeset/47401880 -> #c47401880 or just #47401880
• node/4774381279 -> #n4774381279
• way/484686953 -> #w484686953
• changeset/47401880/way/484457693 -> #47401880/w484457693
• user/PlaneMad -> @PlaneMad

Note what you suggest, namely to automatically add a back-referencing changeset comment is much more obtrusive than the github feature which just silently adds a back-reference without a notification.

Excellent, so lets have a back reference without a notification.

or you could just be considerate and comment on the changeset that was reverted.

Its already being done. My suggestion is to use mentions to make it easier to navigate from one changeset thread to another.

How did you spot this changeset ? Was it by chance or do you at Mapbox check every changeset for suspicious edits ?

The team at Mapbox checks a random sample of possible suspicous changesets everyday using osmcha. We’re seeing what tools the community needs to better look after the local map.

Good catch, have marked the changeset as bad https://osmcha.mapbox.com/47129627/

You can track recent edits in Pretroria using these filters

This could be super handy to validate names and coordinates in Wikidata against OSM translations!

Or if there was a tool which kept an eye on any changes to important nodes?

Yes, it would be great if it was easier to know which landmarks in my country was recently modified. There are many important features in sparsely populated places that I would be interested to keep a watch on.

is that possible to be notified or find somewhere the modifications done to a specific area?

osm-qa-feeds gives RSS feeds for notes, changesets, new contributors and other qa errors in any area. Just discovered it myself on the wiki!