All the sudden i feel the urge to buy some zinc sulfate…. Ads really do work.

Vielleicht kannst du schonmal hiermit starten

http://www.openstreetmap.de/faq.html#wie_mitmachen

LG

wow, this is so cool.

Try this one next time if you want to record notes for yourself/others osmbugs.org

ok, they changed it. I swear it was an OSM map before!

@chilly: Fair point. When I compared OSM with OS Locator data, I find most roads (except small courts) already in OSM, but the names are missing. For navigation missing road names can be a problem thou.

@smudge: click on one of the less mapped regions http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/main

e.g. http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/osm_analysis/area?name=Easington

@Vclaw
I don't know. I have the feeling that some of the areas are rather just traced, seeing the sudden progress of some districts. It's true that OS data has errors, but as long as people do not start to rename streets according to the OS data it is fine. Better to have a misspelled street names than none. Second and third node edits by locals will clear eventual mistakes.

@LivingWithDragons
I agree that it would be better to gather the local community to make it more sustainable for the future. On the other hand, it won't keep people from tracing satellite imagery and fill in names from the OS Data. This has lead to lot's of improvements and can lead to great coverage (e.g. Haiti). Looking at the Gb district data, some are shockingly sparsely mapped.Places like Hastings, City of Plymouth and so on are just at the 50% mark, which is very bad for a populated place.

Cheers for your comments. Yes, always take it with a grain of salt. I am sure there are mistakes in OS Locator, but I am also sure there are not many (maybe <0.1%?).

I don't think that we will end up with a permanent 42 days to completion, since a lot of people take the district data from ITO world as an encouragement to improve their area and push it up the rankings. We will end up a bit short of zero, because of the aforementioned errors in OS locator. In the end there is a finite number of streets in GB.
On the other hand, I agree that the entire map will never be completed (POIs, tracks, landuse...), since people are making up new features that can be referenced.

I think the reference date it probably the 1/1/1970, commonly seen as zero in UNIX time, but it doesn't really matter for the calculation.

Sorry about the axis, I'll fix it.

Gravesham is not the only place that made progress. Have a look at these stats

osm.wiki/File:GB_complete.png
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