well done. thanks !

good ideas. hopefully someone with the time and resources to develop it will pick it up.

The initiative was actually taken by Ben Abelshausen. I liked the idea, just like you, and volunteered to do some administrative work. Good to see other people like the idea as well. Unfortunately I don’t understand Russian, so I can’t follow the podcast. I do follow the Russian blog though, with the help of a translation tool

Pour moi, creé un cercle c’est placer 3 points sur la circonférence, sélectionner ces trois points et appuyer sur o. Je pense que c’est plus facile de tracer un polygone.

(excuses pour mon mauvais français)

Thanks for the correct explanation, zarl. At this moment I’m not going to investigate the death of each artist, just to add an image URL to some of the sculptures. People should go to the museum and check out the art for themselves :-)

Indeed, discovering those “unknown” spots in your neighbourhood is something I enjoy a lot

I really hope people would take their time to import the data, really look at strange situations and not just hurry to get all data in.

On weekdays my survey area is rather limited, during the weekends, I don’t have problems to drive an hour or so to make a walk. Of course a walk is not a survey, the prime goal is then different, but I still have collected a reasonable amount of house numbers in (for Belgium) remote areas.

Dietmar, thanks for your reaction

According to Pascal Neis’ tools, I also mapped 35.000 addresses in the past 3.5 years. Your numbers are along the same magnitude. I love collecting new numbers, I don’t see myself verifying the house numbers of an import.

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