This seems to have problems: The latest review on the mangroove site at the moment is for the campground “Jugendzeltplatz Nr. 7” in Sigmaringen. However, the button from OpenCampingMap returns a “No results found.” This might however be a problem at mangroove; the link from the mangroove start page finds the site with one review, reloading the page then still finds the site but with zero reviews.

Glad we could clear that up. Sending friendly greetings to KLL, who have been quite active in the OSM world for almost a decade now and still going strong.

Dear bo_hot, it is hard to convey “tone” in written comments, but I get the impression that you interpret the comments from Andy as some form of attack (which I don’t think they are, but I could be wrong of course). I assure you that this my message is not intended as an attack but as (hopefully helpful) comment. Words like “product owner” (a specific role in an “agile project management process”) will be meaningless to people that have never worked with these project management methods. Also many people will know “triage” only in the context of medical treatment in a battlefield or pandemic situation, if at all. So please don’t feel attacked but consider that your message might be understood better if you avoid phrases that are not commonly used or are used differently outside the specific context of your message, or if you use them add an explanation. Greetings from Germany, Wolfgang

Hallo und willkommen in der Runde. Der Grund dass Du deine Änderungen nicht siehst ist, dass Du die alte Version der Kartenkacheln in deinem Browsercache hast. Mit einem “force reload” der den Cache übergeht (bei meinem Browser mit Ctrl-F5, mag bei Dir anders sein) solltest Du sie sehen. Ich sehe deine Änderungen jedenfalls. Gruß, Wolfgang

I don’t think that the levels 0 through 3 are all that unclear; the border between the levels is just not conveniently located at the same spot where students commonly change schools in the US. In theory it would be possible to tag the three digit P code for every grade, but that would be a LOT of effort.

To handle changing standards, it might be helpful to indicate the version of ISCED that has been used when tagging an educational institution. There have been proposals to encode the version in the name of the key (e.g. isced:1997:level or isced:level:2011) but those have not found a lot of support. Maybe adding an additional tag specifying the version like e.g. isced:version=2011 might work. In the absence of that information we could check if there are levels that only exist in one version of the standard (01, 02, 7 and 8 in 2011, 0 in 1997) what version had been used. Only institutions that use level 5 and 6 and none of 7 and 8 would have to be checked manually). To create a table mapping national education system levels to ISCED levels the documents at http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/international-standard-classification-education-isced give a lot of information; most helpful is probably the “ISCED 2011 Operational Manual: Guidelines for Classifying National Education Programmes and Related Qualifications”.

@mmd: I did actually look at the maproulette instructions before posting. Unfortunately I was not aware that KartaView is a rename of the former OpenStreetCam, I wrongly assumed it was a commercial map viewing service. @jinalfoflia: sorry for my mistake, I apologize for making a misleading comment.

I don’t see any sources mentioned in this challenge where participants could find the street names to add. So I’m afraid it looks like a call to copy names of other maps, which would be against the law AND against the rules of OpenStreetMap. Any data created this way would have to be erased from the OSM database, creating extra workload for the volunteers of the DWG. So PLEASE clarify where participants can find the names that they are supposed to add, or withdraw the challenge.

Hi, even the best possible client can not find data that is not available. To make searching for addresses functional there is no other way than to acquire these addresses. If the government does not want to make their address databases available, you could try other sources. Home owner associations, chambers of commerce and the like probably are interested that customers find their member businesses or delivery drivers there houses. If road geometries and building outlines are already mapped, they could just place notes on buildings and leave the information for mappers to add. If road geometries are missing, how about asking the people driving garbage collection trucks to take a gps logger along on their tour for a few days. I’m sure you can think of other ways to get information from people who have some and might have an interest in finding it on the map.

Kannst Du bitte kurz beschreiben, was “Besitzstörungsfall” bedeutet? Es scheint sich um einen juristischen Fachbegriff aus dem österreichischen Recht zu handeln; das Wort ist mir in Deutschland noch nie untergekommen. Danke.

For some pylons the mapper has added amenity=bank or amenity=bar instead, so its not only shop=bookmaker. Maybe point the mapper to openinframap.org, where ref # and other parameters on pylons could be shown if they were mapped. But first it is necessary to establish communication with that person. I’m not sure if maps.me users get to see OSM messages, so getting the DWG involved would really help by making sure that the mapper notices something is wrong.

I hope you plan to use Bing imagery and not Bing Maps, as these are copyrighted and we have no permission to use them as source for mapping (as opposed to imagery, where Bing has allowed the use for OSM editing).

I think there are a lot of things missing in this process, e.g. conflation of data with what is in the OSM database already. As OSM has no concept of layers, just importing stuff “over” the existing data is bound to create a mess. For a successful import it is really necessary to follow the import guidelines as set out in osm.wiki/Import/Guidelines

My first edit was in Italy, my most-edited country is the US. I live in Germany. Another method to guess a mappers home country might be to only count changesets that give “survey” as one of the sources. However, in my case that might be Jordan…

It is of course possible to add driving schools to the map. An example would be osm.org/node/5795442355 which has at the moment rather minimal data: It’s location, name, and the fact that it’s a driving school. For some reason unknown to me the person adding the data also included the postcode. To add data to the map you need to register an account (the mapping accounts are independent of the wiki accounts), log in at www.openstreetmap.org and find the location where a driving school is on the map, then select “Edit” from the green menu at the top. Add a node at the location of the driving school and tell the editor that the node you added should be a driving school. You will get a suggestion what other information you can add to make the data more useful. Maybe just try it for one place in your list and see how it works out.

I see that the wiki already specifies a “maxtents” attribute. We could add a “maxcaravans” attribute, deprecate “capacity” and introduce a “maxvisitors” attribute instead which would give the max number of people.

Wolfgang

I suggest changing the wiki, because “number of people” does not make any sense. The number of pitches is (often) clearly defined while the number of people would depend on how many people you are willing to cram into your tent or motor home. In case of a camp site consisting basically of an open meadow the number of pitches might be flexible, but the number of people even more so.

A lot of mapping is done based on aerial imagery these days. In an area with very good imagery it is just about possible to see if a road is paved or unpaved, but anything more detailed can only be guessed. If you would remove the choices of paved / unpaved, mappers will either guess (and frequently guess wrong) or leave the surface tag empty (thus missing out on very valuable information). Either way it would not result in better data for the common case of “armchair mapping”.

That sounds like interesting data to have. However, you might want to double check the license before adding that data to OSM. The logainm website says “Data © Government of Ireland”. I could not find any hint that a creative commons license was used, but even if it were it could be a problem, because most CC licenses are problematic for import in OSM. The two main problems with CC licenses here are “-nc” licenses, because OSM makes its database available also for commercial use, and “-by” because data sources can only be mentioned on the contributors page in the wiki, and downstream users of the OSM database are only required to list OSM as a source. Best is to get a written confirmation by the copyright holder that they are ok with the import of their data to OSM.

Sorry, English is not my primary language, and Marketeese is even less so. Could you translate “Mapillary has joined Facebook” into plain English, please?