(It’s an editable map built on the same software as OSM but completely separate, and you can add whatever fanciful things you like, within reason.)

You can make your own edits and save them locally if you use JOSM. But if it’s fictional map making you want, you might be interested in https://opengeofiction.net/

I think Detail_on_field_gate.jpg is a strainer post with integrated wire-tightening ratchets. Similar to -2022-03-29_Rusty_railway_fence_strainer_post,_Cromer,_Norfolk.JPG.

(Not to get quite sidetracked from your actual topic, which is very interesting!)

I think man_made=sewer_vent is perfectly good too, and it does seem about as used as the other. Especially for these more significant ones (it looks like there’s a cluster of them in Canada, but maybe those are more like small pipes in a larger installation, because there’s a bunch close together).

Maybe the plumbers of the world make a distinction between the vent (the bit where the gas comes out at the top) and the shaft? I used to work with electricians who were scathing of anyone calling the whole light-and-pole structure a “streetlight” when obviously it was a streetlight on top of a pole. I’m glad OSM isn’t going that pedantic… yet. :-)

Another possible tagging would be pipeline=vent, such as on this heritage-listed vent.

@Cascafico: yes, I’ve looked at the Microsoft footprints dataset, it’s certainly useful. I have found, however, that it’s pretty much as much time-consuming to clean them up as it is to trace from scratch, especially if one has walked the street beforehand and can better interpret things like different building parts. Probably more suburban areas like you link to are easier.

I think OSM2World can be used to get quicker local rendering of 3D features (at least, so I learnt recently from this video by @b-unicycling ).

Unfortunately, their links need the number AND name of the building, it seems, so we cannot link directly from OSM to buildingsofireland.ie using that number.

I guess it’s not the best link, but Wikidata’s Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID (P4088) property uses URLs like https://maps.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/?REG_NO=22207707

Also, I guess every place in that database should also be in Wikidata, so can have a wikidata=* key as well.

Thanks everyone!

And yep, @Fizzie41, some of us did use Field Papers. It’s a great tool! For business names and details, I find OSM Go (aka Mapping less frustrating) pretty good (although I wish it were better at address-gathering).

Oh well, next year maybe! :-)

Oh that sounds pretty great! Do you have an example of the result?

Do you mean for laying end-on-end to measure rods accurately?