Hi Jeremy,
I saw you start on a task on the Tasking Manager, but not complete it. Then I noticed that you were new to OSM, so I decided to write you a welcome message.
I'm trying to pass on my experience to others, using twitch.tv:
http://www.twitch.tv/polyglot_openstreetmap

Never mind the obnoxious publicity, it's a platform for gamers. On the one hand it suits the purpose of making screencasts, otoh pubs for wargames are not really what we're about.
I'm using an offline editor called JOSM. To use it, you need to have Java installed. If you are serious about mapping, I'd suggest to learn how it works, it's a lot more efficient than iD.
With those screencasts, I'm trying to show some techniques and which hotkeys are most interesting.

Jo

Hi Jeremy, welcome to Openstreetmap and HOT mapping! If you need assistance with mapping, please let me know.
Jo

Hi Shtomp45, I notice you used building=yes to map landuse=residential. In the tasks in Swaziland the intention was to map all the individual buildings as accurately as possible.

It would be totally cool if you could make some pictures and upload them to Mapillary :-) Most likely they are merely poles. We don't have a dedicated tag for those poles, so I merely map them as nodes with public_transport=platform, bus=yes, highway=bus_stop and some details like ref, name, zone, route_ref, operator and network. Most of them are based on source data straight from the 'source' at De Lijn.

It's funny that we are discussing this in English :-) Anyway, when the stop is a terminus/initial stop, I consistently add a stop_position node and split the way, as that is then the end position for the route relation. I'm not sure anymore if this was the case at some point.

In this particular case it would be possible to merge them. There is not compelling reason to do so though.
A more interesting question: are you local there? Does De Lijn still serve these stops? Are there 'flagpoles' to indicate these stops still 'exist'?

Hi rowers2,

You seem to have uploaded your scratchpad into Africa.

Hi Rowers,

Something seems to have gone very wrong with this edit. It extends all the way from Poland into The Cameroon...

Hallo Thorum,

Prachtig dat je wilt werken aan het oplossen van de buslijnen. De reden dat ik naar deze changeset kwam kijken, is dat o.a. lijn 318 onderbroken geraakt was. Als je wilt, wil ik wel wegwijs maken met JOSM. Als je eenmaal aan relaties begint te werken, is dat een veel beter stuk gereedschap.

This is the result of adding wikidata tags for Queen Fabiola to OSM, then adding a link to it on Wikipedia:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiola_Mora_y_Arag%C3%B3n#Literatuur

you're right, it's not ideal. All name:etymology:wikidata says it is named after something. If it's not about the road network, was it after the Romans or after Rome that this particular one was called? It's probably not of great importance, so we better remove those name:etymology:wikidata tags.

In the case of writers, poets, mayors, kings, queens, princes and princesses it does seem interesting to me to be able to show where the streets and buildings named after them are located. Or where there are statues, graves, birth houses and musea. Those are usually easier to identify.

When working on that changeset, I was looking for objects named after our former Queen Fabiola. Previously I had done something comparable for Roman roads in Belgium and The Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads#External_links

It's unlikely that it's a coincidence that these roads have such names.

I couldn't be sure about this Fabiolastraße referring to our late queen a bit further south though:
osm.org/way/187303525/history#map=16/51.2453/7.6107

If you're sure that this has never been part of the Roman Road system, please remove the tags. OTOH, I notice now that I managed to 'forget' a few sideroads.

Von meiner Sicht sind die Haltestellen schon wieder verschwunden, wenn die Platforms nicht auf Nodes neben den Weg gemappt werden. Das ist natürlich blöt weil ihr die angeblich alle doppelt mappt. Alle Details einmail auf Platform (als way) und nochmal auf stop_position (als node, aber die sind in Belgien nicht so wichtig, dass die immer vorhanden sind, also nicht benutzbar als Objekt wo die Details gemappt werden können)

Wij beschouwen het moedwillig introduceren van foute informatie als vandalisme, ongeacht wat de beweegredenen mogen zijn. Wat er ook van zij, we zijn een relatief kleine groep, puur opgebouwd uit vrijwilligers en wat de conclusie van uw bedenkelijke onderzoek ook mag zijn, het doet niet af aan de prestatie die we al geleverd hebben.

Hallo Dirk, welkom!

Er is wat foutgelopen bij je edit van gisterenavond. Als je daar zin in hebt, wil ik je wel 's wegwijs maken met JOSM. Ofwel bij pot en pint (ik woon in Leuven), ofwel via een Google Hangout of Skype

Why did you delete these bus stops? It's taking me more than an hour to restore everything to how it was before you edited the map

Hallo Toeklk, ik vind deze weg niet terug: osm.org/way/121897724. Is het een probleem als ik die verwijder? Jo

Lol, maybe I shouldn't make my life difficult and simply use Potlatch2. OTOH, I need to try it out every once in a while, to get a feel for the user experience and the (lack of) possibilities.

There was a button saying source, but that automatically added it as a tag to the object. The way I understood in the mean time, fro. Following the imports list, is that source tags belong on the changeset and that is made difficult when using iD.

Hoi,
Zou je er iets aan hebben als ik een filmpje maak van hoe ik deze route zou omzetten naar 'versie 2'? (gewoon op basis van de informatie die in deze relatie aanwezig is, zonder terug te vallen op data van Connexxion)
Polyglot