Great walkthrough! Thanks for writing it up.

By “sane actions” you mean “delete everything and remap”?

There’s plenty of TIGER data that is fine as-is, and this measure won’t take that into account. Maybe a bit of spatial analysis could be done to mark TIGER nodes and ways as “touched” if other activity was made in the immediate vicinity (within a few dozen meters)?

The binary translates to ARPANET.

StreetComplete is great, but it was not developed by Mapzen. It simply uses Mapzen vector tiles for display.

I reverted it with the JOSM Reverter plugin and uploaded it in osm.org/changeset/51083052.

I suggest you use their contact or forum pages to politely ask them to add proper attribution.

Hi Andrew! Thanks for joining us!

Thanks for the pull requests! I’m looking forward to the changes you’re making.

This is great, thanks for all the work making these changes!

http://www.scoutingny.com/the-last-dirt-road-in-manhattan/

This is awesome, Martijn! Super easy way to get started and will be really helpful for mapping parties.

My guess is that OSM does a horrible job leading by example. There’s no easily-accessible or discoverable (via a Google search) tutorial describing how to use the popular map javascript APIs.

We could also do a better job seeking out the authors of tutorials that get used currently to make sure their tutorials follow the rules.

… or we could do a better job at recruiting and keeping mappers. Personally, I don’t think attribution on a map is a great way to do that.

I will volunteer for the OSM bug posse but I refuse to volunteer to fix stylesheet bugs.

Removing data simply because you think it takes up too much space is “mapping for the renderer” and we don’t want to do that. Make the data accurate and post-process it if you feel it’s taking up too much space.

Good to see you Mikel! This is an excellent reminder of all the stuff we talked about. Thanks for the great summary!

We don’t need a grant to do it, we need people to propose concrete changes, make them, and submit pull requests. The code is right here.

If, like me, you think that’s a big step, you should bring the topic up on the dev@ or rails-dev@ mailing lists. It’s been talked about several times before, but perhaps it would be healthy to mention again.

Looks like it’s fixed now.

Welcome to OSM! I’m sure you’ll have fun and learn lots of new things. Feel free to send me a message via this interface or chat with us on IRC.

Welcome to OSM! I’m glad your first reaction was to hop in and give it a try. The great thing about OSM is that there’s always someone available to help you if you feel like you’ve done something wrong, so keep experimenting and adding detail to the map. The list of your edits so far look perfect: exactly the thing OSM needs.

As it turns out, I live over in Evanston and am planning on having a get-together in downtown Chicago sometime in the next couple weeks with a few other local mappers. Would you be interested in such a thing? I’ll probably have it at 1871 in the Merchandise Mart just north of the loop. You could get there pretty easily on the Metra.