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)

Marked a point in the middle of the road. Probably an issue while placing the point due to gps variations.

I expect the main reason is that on some devices (including my android moto g) the cross-hairs don’t show so you have to guess at where the centre of the screen is when adding new features.

Would have to adapt the Terracer plugin to make it quicker (to remove need to remove building tag and add amenity tag). Good animation as always :-)

@SimonPoole: Becoming a OSMer! Surely that was obvious. It’s a shame that you don’t value what you call “hit and run” contributors. Here in the UK we talk about having a mapper in every town and village. In some cases this will mean that the mapper will be relatively inactive, but if they keep their village up to date they are very welcome in the UK community.

Looks good. Is getting close to something that I can recommend to non-OSMers now :-)

escada: Yes there can be a few vocal people in the British community however we have no formal group so it’s not clear what this means - he who shouts loudest…?

Personally I take a pragmatic view on each. In this case there are 5 ‘incorrectly’ tagged picnic sites in the UK spanning many years (5 years old, 3 years old, 3 years old, 4 months, 3 months). Trying to claim that these are anything more than a mistake would be difficult. As such I would be happy with the edit.

@robert: Yes, but you can’t stop people mapping them. Good to see mapbox improving the situation and tagging 30,000 ways :-) The online map is good too - I may try to fix a few near me over the holiday period.

Sounds interesting but to a non developer most of what I read is pure gobbledygook. Which is a shame because I think there is something genuinely useful behind all the speak.

Can you try and explain what you are trying to achieve in simpler language please?

Some sort of portable hardware (a phone??) that has offline version of field papers for note taking??

I get results when I search for a place name plus OpenStreetMap on Google. It didn’t always get the right result but it did return something.

Amazing work :-) Great to see the improvements to the website and unifying the JOSM plugins is a great step (was starting to get confusing).

Making MapRoulette into a field tool that can be used on mobile devices is high on my wish list. I would be very excited to get some help in that area :)

Happy to help with user testing and any mock up drawings you need but I’m afraid I can’t help with the coding. Can share this on twitter to see if it leads to support from elsewhere.

I won’t pretend that I understood you (I’m not a developer) but it sounds like you are getting on well. There is one question that does puzzle me though. As far as I am aware MapRoulette gives you random problems that could be no where near where you live. That is it encourages remote mapping. This works well in some instances but not others. The example you give of missing road names would usually require an on the ground survey.

Is (or could) map roulette be forked to create an “on the ground” assistant tool? For example we load in a series of challenges such as the missing road names one. I then load up my local area before going out surveying (or better still I view it on a smartphone whilst out surveying) and it shows me all challenges with issues within so many meters.

Now that would be amazing and I would definitely use it and learn how to create challenges - especially if you make it super easy :-)

Would HOT be interested in creating their own fork of JOSM? Would allow for plug-ins along the lines of the telenav ImproveOSM plugins.