Two months later I’ve made my way deeper into a lot of OSM development of the last decade, learning changeset comments, OSM notes, catching up with recent tagging style and trends and using street imagery tools.

I tried to fix issues documented in OSM data as well as from the OSM notes map layer. After some quick wins I got challenged by tasks like merging dozens of tags and bus relations when merging split directions of Schandauer Straße in Pirna back to ‘ground truth’ - a 4/5-lane marked primary town highway. Destination tagging had been try-n-error before stepping into OSM community forum. That opened a wide pool of expertise and discussion supplementing the more authoritative wiki documentation, especially tools for reconstruction/QA of destination tags into visual form of road signs.

Tempted to photo-document rather than note down observations I joined Mapillary street imagery. It feels like a great tool for cheap document including sharing recent changes and situation in the field to fellow mappers. Despite of my rather basic equipment - mapillary app on mobile - I enjoyed looking at 360-degree-photograph-series of some very active contributors. These images look amazing and seem like the way to go.

Recently I made my first steps to preserving history in OpenHistoricalMap, the spin-off for information, that cannot and shouldn’t be preserved by current OSM life-cycle tagging. There is not much information in my area yet and a lot of discussion regarding rather basic mapping techniques. It feels like the pioneer days in OSM back in 2008.

More to come …

not been lazy but busy with so many other things, but got suddenly a new JOSM install fit for use an got catched for a few hours by now: I read some old wiki docs from 2008/09 i. e. the pilot work for Karlsruhe house number tagging schema in our town, added a few obviously missing objects, peeked into current issues nearby on Osmose did some corrections - all that feels good, this might even start a new series of contributions. :-)

wandered arround just a little in the evening, mainly Karl-Liebknecht-Str. and Maxim-Gorki-Str. southern part