In regard to missing addresses, as mentioned by Tastrax ^.

Here in Australia, & I’m sure in other places, we have access to some Government data, but other departments refuse to allow us permission to use their data, often as they’re apparently scared / confused by the requirement to agree to allowing use under ODbL.

I would think that Microsoft would have a LOT bigger pull than OSM! :-), so it would be great if you could access even just street number data worldwide, & feed that into OSM, possibly by RapiD?

That would help solve one of the major problems with use of OSM for navigating - not being able to find the address you want to go to.

I’m sorry to see you leave, NC, hope you’ll be back one day, & would like to thank you for your many contributions to OSM.

I also hope that your reverter https://revert.monicz.dev/ will stay operational?

Yeah, it’s terrible when life keeps getting in the way of fun, isn’t it? :-)

No problems with anything you said - I also wasn’t concentrating on Africa to the exclusion of all others, it was just a handy example.

Maybe it also needs a Forum post to get the question out to the wider community?

Good luck with it! :-)

Nice idea, but what do you call “quality”?

Is it simply the number of things mapped in a country, or how well the limited amount of mapping has been done? (which is not something a remote mapper can tell).

I have seen comments “recently” on the Forum, from African mappers, concerned about overseas mappers, often working via HOT programs, overriding what local mappers have done, because “we’re from a big country so we obviously know better” :-(

Other comments with regard to Maxar disappearing have said that the alternative imagery is ~6 years out of date, so villages & towns frequently don’t even appear, again leading to remote mappers deleting things that locals have mapped from their local knowledge! :-(

Your list of questions should possibly be re-arranged to make Q1: “How do we talk to local communities to find out what help they need, if any”?

Thanks!

& when the wiki says: 19th January 2023 – 10,000,000 registered users, then it shows that “hardly anybody” uses any of the comms channels :-(

Especially when you consider that “most” people will post on both, so 3039 & 1697 really probably only = 2000 individuals :-(

Question for you, please, Courtney.

When you said: “Posters 3,039 in community forums 1,698 in mailing lists Channel activity is driven by a few frequent posters.” are people who have posted either in multiple channels, or frequently in one channel, counted once only here or multiple times?

e.g. I post in the Forum, various mailing lists & on Discord, so if I’ve posted 150 times across all of them, 50 in each, does that leave 3038 / 1697 other posters, or 2989 (2939?) “forums” & 1648 lists?

Good on all of you! That park is amazing :-)

I raised a similar question a few years ago as well: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-February/051175.html

Suggestion made then was: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Danimal_keeping

What’s the difference that you see between estate agents?

Just tried it, including with multiple Changesets - amazing! :-)

Is there a limit on how many it can do at once?

Just for interest’s sake, would “Queen Street” count?

But then they include imagery from G Maps! :-(

“A lot of people are consumers and don’t participate, then they come and tell me like “map sucks”.. And I would want to tell them “so contribute, so it doesn’t suck” but I never tell them”

You should!

Suggest to them that they set up their own account & fix whatever the problem is that’s bugging them. You can even offer to walk them through that first edit!

& if that person then helps another person … :-)

Please keep doing what you’re doing, because it’s always appreciated, even if nobody actually says so directly to you!

Congratulations!

“I map it as a highway=footway”

Do you also include bicycle:yes, as it would appear that you could also ride through those paths?

& thanks for the explanation of how to view Strava :-) I’ve been wondering how to do that?

Just an idle thought - if the Russians are actually using OSM for targeting & planning purposes, wouldn’t it be a good idea to go in & offset all the locations by “100m” in random directions?

Andres - Yep, a number of “interesting” things were found! Only too happy to talk any time you wish.

Stevea - Thanks :-)

Only too happy to oblige, so added above,

Oh, incidentally, 1532! :-)

G’day YC & welcome!

Yep, I’m also on the GC & have been mapping round the place for several years now.

One of last year’s (ongoing!) projects was adding street numbers the full length of GC Hwy, & I also did Jefferson Lane & The Esplanade through Palmy, which will cut things down a bit for you! :-)

I did speak to Council a couple of years ago & we have express permission to use both the City Plan http://cityplanmaps.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/CityPlan/, which lists all street numbers, & also their Open Data https://data-goldcoast.opendata.arcgis.com/ which has all sort’s of goodies included such as Parks.

If you have any questions, please give us a yell.

Keep mapping & have fun!

Good work, Sam & group!

Another option is to pre-split the area into a number of equal blocks, print out Field Papers http://fieldpapers.org/ for each of them & each person / group notes down “everything” they can spot in their area, then inputs it all later.