I’ll understand that for remote areas where you have to drive for kilometers (or miles :-) ) before finding another house and house number, imports are a nice solution.

But for those who did an import: did you ever try to survey to check the correctness of, lets say, 500 house numbers in an area that was imported ? Was it fun, easy, rewarding (to find 1 or 2 mistakes) ? Did you ever try to survey an area without house numbers ? Was it fun, easy, rewarding to add 500 new numbers ?

Please share your thoughts.

Another possibility is to make your own map on http://umap.openstreetmap.org using an Overpass query to retrieve all kilns. You can then embed this map in your own website and add all kinds of popups or legends

The complete process is explained in e.g. http://www.mappa-mercia.org/2014/09/creating-an-always-up-to-date-map.html

good luck

I think you will get more discussion/answers/suggestions when you post this to e.g. the tagging-mailing list, or help.openstreetmap.org or a local mailing list or IRC.

Thanks again for helping me to correctly tag the water tanks.

Welcome to OSM. When you get stuck go to http://help.openstreetmap.org and you will probably get some good advice.

happy mapping

Furthermore, there is no way to change them once the changeset is closed.

You can try the german map style: http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=10&lat=51.39949&lon=9.62297&layers=B000TT

osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

In iD, press the icon representing the layers (three stacked squares). Check “OpenStreetMap GPS traces”, et voila: all traces that were uploaded by other people can be seen. A bit more on this feature: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-gps-layer/

If you really are serious about editing, I suggest you start using JOSM. It can easily show multiple GPS traces and be customized to your needs.

I know, but one of the OSM-rules is “do not map for the renderer”. We’re here to add correct data, not to make nice pictures :-)

I disagree with RM87. Landuse/landcover etc. should never be connected to a road. The line you draw in OSM represents the middle of the road. The forest never ends in the middle of the road. Unfortunately landuse=highway, which could be used to actually draw the complete width of the road, is still under discussion.

It might be ok to connect the forest to the way if it’s a small path, but even then it makes it much harder to edit the path afterwards. As far as I know common practice is to separate forest and streets

Do you know the help forum for OpenStreetMap (http://help.openstreetmap.org), the place to be to search for questions+answers.

Furthermore there are the fora for general questions, editor questions, and country specific topics at http://forum.openstreetmap.org

And of course the wiki is also great to look for how things have to be tagged.

Back to your path question: some communities (country dependent), state that a path is something small, where no 4-wheeled vehicle can pass. A footpad is a path with a traffic sign that gives explicit access to pedestrians. Similar a cyclepath requires a traffic sign (blue circle, white bike).

But please contact your Swedish community (irc, forum, mailing list, …) to see whether there are specific rules/guidelines for Sweden.

Happy mapping

Thank you for your answer. Somehow it is comforting that other struggle with the same problem. Since the Flemish government has released the data under some public license, I’ll assume I can just keep on adding the data.

Did you create a note on osm.org ? Or what do you mean by “sent a message”. Of course, it’s pretty easy to make such corrections yourself

While I’ve been adding Monuments to OSM myself, I wonder whether I can use the data found on Wikipedia. In Belgium, there are two types of “Erfgoed”, the ones that are heritage and the others that are just listed, but not protected. While in many cases, the buildings that are heritage will have a blue/white sign [1] not all of them do so. The ones that are just listed cannot be verified on the site. So I cannot map the “ground truth”. Does this mean than I am importing then? Do I violate the license in that case (even when I visited the building) ?

Just wondering and wishing this license stuff was not so complicated and confusing.

[1] http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_(erfgoed)#mediaviewer/File:Blauwschildje_-Unknown-20413283-_RCE.jpg

You propose a “popup” to show the additional information, but you don’t like the way openlinkmap does it ? I’ll agree it’s not integrated into osm.org, but the UI is OK I think.

For Unflattening the map. Did you ever try the “Map Data’ under the layers options ? Or http://www.openlinkmap.org ?

Do you know the geschichtskarte, firehydrant map, grapphopper, osrm, and many other thematic maps ? Do you want them all to be available from 1 UI ?

As far as I know a routing solution is now in beta (according to a post on the talk mailing list).

3D ? Indoor mapping ?

I only started in April 2011. I discovered OSM when I was looking for a cheap map for my new Garmin. After noticing that some paths were missing in my neigborhood, I started mapping. And became addicted :-)

You could use commons.wikimedia.org, although that is also an “external hoster”