So far I only tried to find some light towers and city halls in Belgium, to see whether they where already mapped.

You are probably right about the language. I still have the same problem with Overpass, but at least things like “node“man_made”=”lighttower”;” is partially readable unlike “?item wdt:P31 wd:Q39715 .”

When I search for Tarrant, Jefferson Country on Nominatim (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=157944963) I do not see Birmingham at all in the response.

Maybe we should sue you for passing false information ? :-) :-) :-)

Every tried JOSM ? You can select multiple road segments and assign any tag to the selected segments. So you only have to type name=”This is a road with a long name that I only want to type once” once.

You can add name, old_name, official_name, local_name, etc. to a road. But get in touch with the Irish community (mailing list, Facebook group) to get a “local” answer.

Great job ! Good to see people educating children about OSM.

The idea of the teacher reminded me of John Snow’s map to illustrate the cholera outbreak in Londen in 1854. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak) She wants to find “hotspots” or neighbourhoods where those students are coming from. umap or something similar would be perfect for that.

And then you forgot to look at the tourism tag (hotel, museum, etc.) :-)

And it was good to see you in person Zverik. At least I talked to you :-)

I know there was beer, but I thought there was only 1 brand, not ? I haven’t seen anyone with anything else than pils, no real beers like Duvel :-) Not that it would have made a difference, I drunk water all evening as I had to drive back home.

Thanks for the invitation, Andy.

I often use the name of our youngest dog when I create an account, at the time I created an OSM account, it was Escada, a bitch. She’s the second one on the left on the picture at the top of my Smugmug photo website. This site was named after another dog of us.

As for the first picture, it’s a complex case. It depends on a number of things

1) whether the “from” street is split in 2 just before the crossing. The only_right turn sign is only for the right lane. 2) is the left-right street drawn as 1 OSM way or 2 with oneway = yes on it ? 3) is the street on the other side of the crossing oneway or not ?

So perhaps you need a “no_straight_ahead” or a “only_left” for the left way…

The link is now updated.

It’s weird that you are in the same team as the one working in Canada. From osm.org/user/poornibadrinath/diary/39246 I had the impression that they do not really know which tags to use, while you seem pretty confident that you know which tags one has to add.

Extra tips: in case you continue this work all over Europe, please localize your posts, i.e. replace all those US-signs with local signs (and yes they are different in the different countries), and try to post in the local mailing list/forum in the local language(s). Make sure that you really know the important towns in a country. This will probably give you more support.

Are the diary entries of Martijn Van Exel, on destinations signs in the US of any help ?

• osm.org/user/mvexel/diary/22419
• osm.org/user/mvexel/diary/23369

With all those track accumulating websites, be it Strava or OSM, I wonder what their value is when you cannot filter tracks on date. Over time you will see a mix of tracks over no-longer existing paths and over the current paths.

I hope for you that Yandex does offer the capability to hide all tracks older than a certain date.

Please note that you should use alt_name only when there is a name as well. You might you local_name instead.

thanks for teaching me about Khazis ! Thanks to people like you, OSM is not only mapping your local neighborhood, but also learning about “other cultures”, even when they are just across the channel.

Even when I wouldn’t been have lazy as I was now, and checked the opening_hours somehow, I would still had to let you know that you made a small mistake :-)

Greetings from a rainy Belgium

Alex, I followed your link to Richard Herrod Sports Centre. I noticed that in the opening_hours tag there is “Mo,Fr …” Is this correct ? Or did you mean “Mo-Fr” (the range) ?

I think the cyclemap shows zebra crossings as yellow dots. OsmAnd also shows them and (optionally) warns when you are approaching one. Not sure about traffic calming. But as always: the data is more important than the rendering.

BTW, I love reading your diary entries.

for me, both slight_left;none and none;slight_right are wrong. none can only be used on a lane by itself, when there is no arrow on the ground (or traffic sign). For your purpose I would consider something like transit:lanes