Hello again,

I did not remember the tasking manager I used for tracking some of my mapping efforts but now I found it again. Thanks to the “My OAuth Details” page on the profile!

Simple Task Manager » https://stm.hauke-stieler.de/

Kudos to this initiative.

Have you considered writing something in your personal wiki page? e.g. tags you want to use. tagging considerations in general.

Do you have a system how you track where you have mapped already and which area not yet?

Hi there fellow mapper. Great to see you here.

I suggest to join the au-talk mailing list as this is an easy way to get in touch with other mappers in OZ. There is also a good pool of knowledge e.g. approved sources for address data.

Happy mapping.

Hello SK53, what a nice find, beautiful images too.

I like that you add solar panels of all sorts to the map. I have started similar activity which sadly has been dormant for some time. I did however manage to write down my approach in the wiki. Feel free to have a look: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:ConsEbt/NorthernBeachesSolar

thank you for sharing this. A new tool that I did not know before!

I have not read much in the forum or around this topic. I also assume you are a mapper on the ground in Panama.

Reading some of your comments on change sets as linked by Andy I would like to make the following comment for you to consider.

Approaching a new mapper is a great thing to do and has a big potential to make or break their engagement. Example: If I write a simple computer question into a forum and I get a very brief very technical answer that is way over my head then this will put me off.

e.g. ‘hi. what is your opinion on the conflict among this relation Cristóbal (11842011, v9) (which only has you among the authors) and the one produced with https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/79875834?’

This could be seen as hard to understand for a new mapper.

A comment to a new mapper should be more ‘taking them by the hand’. Maybe include a greeting, an observation and a explanation why the observation requires a fix/change (plus link to wiki?).

Great effort!. Can you check the image on the top. For me it is not loading but I’m really curious to see the before/after effect.

Hi there, I’m saddened to read this. Is this another case of reaching out too late when the frustration is already too high?

Unfortunately you give no further details as to why you are frustrated or how you tried to deals with ‘issues’. I also could not find any comments on your changesets of the last month.

In any case I encourage you to keep mapping and engage with others to find common ground.

Hi congratulations. Keep mapping and supporting OSM :-)

This is great on many levels. Found already one thing I will ‘correct’ or enhance.

Hello, I suggest to also reach out on the Japan talk mailing list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja or the general tagging mailing list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging It is more likely you receive feedback on there.

Are there plans to combine other use cases that struggle with the stream of bytes. Is there a potential to find a common, stronger voice among the android users to impress on google?

Hi, this is a great project and thanks for sharing it. Do the cars use GPS only or do they have a OBD II dongle as well? I heard from people who where using OSC with a car dongle had greatly improved tracking.

Hi Robert, I can only encourage you to firstly share the changeset numbers of the changes in question and reach out to the person who did the change as well as a mailing list.

While it is easy to write something into your diary it is not the most common place for interaction.

I would also like to pint out that while the option to contact people regarding their changes not all read the notifications or react to them.

In some cases changes made with local knowledge might not be obvious to others mapping from a far. If you are local and can verify the items in question are correct you should be in a position to argue for a revert. However if you dislike how certain features have been tagged I would encourage you to reach out and engage in the wiki/mailing list to foster a better common approach to map the feature in question.

Best of luck

This sounds great but I have a question. What are ‘hyper local maps’?

Hi Ed, I think the majority of people do tag them with lines or areas and not just a dot. Have a look at the wiki to find out more.

Thank you for that indeed an enjoyable read. @Takuto where can I find these WW II photos?

Thank you This looks like a good how to for adding GPS information to photos taken with action camera (e.g. GoPro). Unfortunately not the language I speak. I will use the google translation for now.

A bit late but here are my 2ct worth. Keeping something broken just for backwards compatibility makes no sense to me. If - by now - it makes more sense to count all lanes (motorised and non motorised) the community should do it. It is also important to understand that while in some countries the bicycle lane might never been heard of while in others they are very popular and important aspect of the commute of many. Same applies to special bus or T2/T3 lanes…. all very country specific but the tagging should be able to handle it.

Thanks all, this was helping - relation saved!