Hm interesting. I couldn’t find anything about it in the Utah traffic code. In any case I’m not that worried about it, but thanks. Note that in some U.S. states it is also illegal to attach anything to the windshield when it could obstruct the view.

It looks like there are no unfixed missing roads tiles in the Philippines currently! (Good work :))

GOWin, sorry I was not able to do this for you yet, are you still interested?

Hendrikklaas – your OSM profile page shows location for other mappers around you as well, you are right. But these are not based on actual mapping activity, but rather on where users define their location on their OSM profile. This is not necessarily where they map, and it’s optional so many mappers don’t set it at all.

pitscheplatsch, the tool you linked to is fantastic as well, but has a different outcome and objective. By default, it uses an ‘activity center’ (I am not quite sure how it is defined, I don’t think the tool is open source) to identify mappers active in the area. If someone is an active mapper but is active in many different places, they may not show up in this map. Also, the tool does not make it easy to get a list of local mappers. MYM was really designed to get a list of local mappers that you can sort based on the criteria that are important to you, and give enough detail to give you a more complete idea of who’s active in your area. I hope the tools can work together to give mappers the information they need!

Came here through Andy’s recent blog post https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2018/11/09/moderation-authorisation-and-background-task-improvements-for-openstreetmap/ . Thanks for the update with these numbers. Curious but I guess not unexpected that there is abuse of this system as well. We’ll never completely rid ourselves of bad actors. At least moderation makes it possible to deal with the more visible results of their actions. Thanks for all the work on this!

I am glad you are finding it useful!

A couple of minor corrections are in order:

1. Because MapRoulette is not yet served over SSL, it cannot ask for browser geolocation yet. Right now it relies on the home location from your OSM user profile.
2. The ‘Intersecting Map Bounds’ check does not actually check for tasks within the map bounds (that would be expensive). It checks whether the Challenge’s computed bounding box intersects with the current map bounds. So it is not guaranteed that there are any tasks for the Challenge that fall inside the map bounds.

If we get into definitions. I can play that game too. Listening you can do passively (which is where we are at in OSM, at best) and actively. Actively listening would include, among other things, giving people a place where they can talk about difficult topics privately and confidentially. This, and having an anti-harassment policy are common (and in some jurisdictions required) in larger organizations.

If we keep saying there isn’t an issue, we keep making it harder for people who experience harassment / discrimination to speak up. Just look at how long it took for workplace harassment to be taken seriously. And there’s probably still people out there who deny that this is a problem as well. Like Mikel says - the least we can do is listen.

Carnildo, yes, I have seen many of those as well. Not everywhere though.

Also :/ it only seems to count trunk_link… Someone with more Overpass QL skills please say something useful :D

Additionally, this query counts on- as well as off-ramps. Looking at network connectivity would fix that. Perhaps this query is more easily / satisfactorily solved in PostGIS or some other geospatial database.

Rob, from http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/zmo it looks like you have 11803 motorway and trunk link ways, of which only 282 have destination. This is not a completely accurate picture of the situation (since typically only the first way connecting to the motorway / trunk has destination) but it should give you an idea :)

I don’t know if there is an overpass query that only considers the _link ways directly connected to their motorway / trunk counterparts.. Perhaps mmd can say something about this!

RobJN, thanks for the StreetComplete reminder. I do know that app. I don’t have an android phone currently, but it’s a great option for those who do.

Or rather, this (forgot one node)

Thanks mmd! I was hoping for a quality Overpass tip to improve the query :)

Like this ?

Also, interestingly, someone on hacker news pointed out that the example image highlights a sign for an exit speed limit, not the main road speed limit :) This to prove the point that this kind of technology a) needs improvement, so it can only benefit from being open source and b) the results will need the crucial human mapper eye to be useful for OSM.

Yes, thanks for adding that, edited the post with the link.

The Android app is open source pizzaiolo, have you looked into submitting a pull request? It’s on the team radar I know, but just haven’t been able to make it a priority.

GOwin, I’ll work on that!