Nice. I like the use of cycle.travel for the images. Didn’t know about that before.

Btw if you are mapping in Warwickshire there is some open data from the council for height restrictions that can be used.

Awesome! Would be great if the osm.org site did this sort of thing (one for the wishlist).

Thanks. I’d neglected to keep the map updated. All sorted now - panic over!

Hi. I’m referring to adding extra tags to existing POI.

This, Maps.Me and the new Kort app are positive steps forward for making OSM editing more mobile.

this PR may not be exactly what you’re looking for.

You’re preaching to the converted!

As for this PR, I’ll let someone else solve the mess. By which I know this translates to “it will fester for ages, go stale and nothing will be done”.

Rob rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com

I don’t get what the fuss is here. The OSM authorisation page is so clean it shows you exactly what will get shared and has simple tick boxes to exclude parts you don’t want to share.

As I understand it, this enables an option that allows users to easily share their email address with third parties who ask for it (easily=via the OSM auth page).

Or am I missing something?

Returning to the original issue (“Tickbox on sign-up page to accept push-notifications”), I’m not sure the PR solves this. I would prefer an option at new-user sign-up stage to select to subscribe to newsletters from the OSMF and from your local community. If you opt to get newsletters from your local community then you are agreeing to your email address being passed on to the Local Chapter that represents you region.

I find it disappointing that OSMF haven’t implemented this as it could really help to grow the sense of local community in OSM. Instead we have some local chapters tracking the changelogs for signs of new users and then sending them messages through the OSM messaging system. Feels like a waste of everyone’s time - a simple tickbox allows those who want to hear from their local community to enable this.

Great write-up. Let’s get this on the OSM blog. :-)

You seem to have inspired a post about the use of these tags: osm.org/user/BushmanK/diary/40093

An alternate proposal is made here: osm.wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Date_namespace#It_is_awful_from_the_point_of_view_of_querying_and_data_processing

I’m not sure that I’d tag these as “oneway” at all. They are narrow roads that you can travel in both directions on, but due to the narrowness they have a control mechanism (give way/yield, or lights).

The one near me, I can think of has traffic lights and (via sensors) they change to green as you approach assuming no cars are approaching from the other side. As a two-way road I won’t be tagging it as oneway=alternating - it’s just a traffic light controlled junction.

So for the proposed tag how long should “frequently” be? More than 2 minutes, less than 5?? Other?

Thanks. Lots to do though and we (the OSM UK community) are looking at Fixme/Notes as our next quarterly project: osm.wiki/UK_Quarterly_Projects

Thanks for the reminder. Great tool - shame it wasn’t quite ready in time for the UK quarterly project. Are there any other datasets that this process can be applied too?

Either way I value having all the editors as available options. Although I was surprised to find that my stats show just 1.3% of my changesets come from the mobile editors. Maybe that will increase over the coming years…

As a further point: Focusing on Maps.Me misses the point that the number of edits has staled since 2014. Should we be worried?

Hi. Interesting post.

Can you clarify what an “edit” is? Is it adding/moving/deleting a node, way or relation? What about tags? If I was to add a square building=yes (with 4 new nodes). Does that count as 1 edit or multiple?

The reason I ask is because Maps.Me is a basic editor that only allows editing nodes and doesn’t allow “tracing”. As such you’d expect the numbers to be much lower.

May be need a method of measuring “value added” or “effort contributed” rather than just measuring edits or changesets. I appreciate this is not easy to measure (or maybe not possible at all)!

Note: All people were both nominated and part of the selection committee followed a simple rule of not participating in the selection process in the category in which they were nominated.

All good ideas but not going anywhere unless we form a group to properly implement this!

Wow, quick work on the first challenge. This sounds great too. A quick plea though - can you please consider also pulling in blog posts (e.g. over RSS) as the current http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ (which this may end up replacing) drives a lot of traffic to the site I write for. It also got me in to the the Mapbox blog before that switched to https and stopped working on blogs.openstreetmap.org :-(

The main thing this year was that it happened! That in itself was a huge success.

In regards to changes for next year, there could be many ideas. Do you think it is worth setting up a task force/working group to look into these? Time limited to keep the activity going.

It does for me. You need to click “Next” to change the “Edits in” year to something more recent for most mappers (those who weren’t editing in the early years of OSM).

Hi Harry. Great site and we should try to use it again.

The Q2 project is medical themed. There’s open data of hospital and GP locations but I think everyone’s taking it easy after the schools project. There seems to be a bit on defibrillators if you check out talk-gb.

p.s. It wasn’t a competition! (getting in there before I get more complaints)