blogs.openstreetmap.org is useful. It includes all diary postings and several other OpenStreetMap-related blogs. It’s where I found this post.

Particularly interesting or noteworthy diary posts often end up on (WeeklyOSM)[https://weeklyosm.eu/].

I never tire of seeing progress like this. Nice visualisation too! Keep up the good work. ☻

I’m in favour of mapping permanent/fixed pools (with access=private). It’s a useful way of gauging the affluence of an area. Also, in some places I think public health authorities have used OpenStreetMap data to identify private swimming pools to inspect for mosquito breeding.

You seem to be referring to aligning an OpenStreetMap way to the corresponding real-world feature. I’m talking about making the nodes that form the road appear in straight line (avoiding slightly “wiggly roads”, if you will).

In JOSM you can select a way and press “L” to arrange its nodes in a line. This works well in places laid out on a grid. Note though that if a road joins another at a non-90 degree angle, you will either need to select the nodes you want to align with the lasso tool, or select the way and then, from the Selection menu, choose Select Way Nodes. Then deselect nodes of the way that you don’t want to align.

It’s great seeing progress like this ☺

One tiny critique, if I may … several streets such as Birch Street, Elm Street, and 17th Street could benefit from being straightened.

Thanks.

Great, I love seeing improvements like this. Please keep it up :)

What an incredible streak!

I managed about a year and half, and then one day I actually made a change in JOSM and even drafted a comment, but clean forgot to upload it!

I hope you feel better soon ☺.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap and well done on your achievements so far ☺

As for mapping buildings and POIs in one go or in stages, it depends on what you’re comfortable with. Personally I’d rather have the buildings in place first, as it makes it easier to position the POIs more correctly, but experiment and see what works for you.

Mapping all of Odisha is ambitious. Go for it! Even if you can’t complete it all, or if it takes a long time, you’re still improving the map in the meantime.

Perhaps also contact an experienced mapper in India like contrapunctus (more focused on the New Delhi area, but still) for advice and support too.

It’s great to see the map improving in India! (Haven’t been to Bhubaneswar or Bengaluru, but I’ve used OSM to navigate in Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai.)

Thank you for all the comments, they’ve been helpful and interesting. I’ve added smoothness=intermediate and wheelchair=limited.

I broadly agree, but would like to point out that for those willing to use JOSM, UtilsPlugin2 provides the very useful Circle Arc tool. I use it a lot.

I like iD. Without it I most likely would have never started editing OpenStreetMap. But I advise people to learn JOSM. The investment will soon pay back.

Thanks for the NSI tip, I have just set that up ☺

I’m a huge of circle arc too, I wish more people would use it.

Thank you for taking the time to improve the map in Chennai :) I was lucky enough to visit the city for a few days in 2019 and enjoyed using OpenStreetMap there.

For OverpassQL documentation, are you aware of Leigh Dodds’ excellent Overpass tutorial? He is also building a collection of useful Overpass queries, see the “for local mappers” section as an example.

Congratulations on your excellent progress in 2021. Thank you for working so hard to improve the map in Ireland.

200,000 map changes in 60 days is incredible–it has taken me years to reach 212,000!

Great work. I never get tired of seeing improvements to the map like this. Please keep up the good work!