Good work, Open Data Community and NLSC! And congratulations for Taiwan OSM Community getting such a valuable map source.

I am wondering how the open data community negotiate with the government to acquire the rights to trace the official data. Don’t the officials worry about security affairs of military areas or somthing by providing z15 data? You know here in the PRC, the officials refuse to do so on the excuse of national security.

Thank you, @Sanderd17 and @aseerel4c26. Then I’d be at ease using the service. I’ve heard about the help forum before but seldom use it. I write this in diary because I think this diary is mainly for a record of my own osm experience, which is not merely a technical inquery. I would try the help forum when I have pure technical problems next time.

首先，GPS轨迹页面的顶端有个链接查看您的轨迹，就在上传轨迹旁边，你可能没有看到吧。 然后，你问的如何分给指定的人我不太明白，是指将您的轨迹设置为指定的用户才能查看吗？据我所知似乎没有这样的功能，因为OSM的数据是完全开放的。如果您想让其他个别OSM贡献者共享您的轨迹，可以尝试直接将这些文件发给他们，让他们通过编辑器（诸如iD, Potlach, JOSM）的加载本地GPX文件的方式来用您的轨迹辅助绘图。

Some time earlier this year, Beijing was tagged as a hospital and reverted later, too. It’s really strange.

Thank you all!

欢迎~也请你抽空参阅这个中国维基页面 了解相关的绘制习惯和法律问题

Hi Jedrzej, I’m so sad to read what you said in your comment. Although it’s illegal to map here in China, that doesn’t mean we’re jealous of this enthusiastic community and we hate any forms of vandalism of course, no matter it’s in diary posts or in the live osm geodatabase. SPAM is a common phenomena on the Internet, that is, it not only exists in China towards OSM community but also takes place in any other places towards any website or email addresses, so I think it’s better to prevent it technically and rationally rather than slandering others. Chang, from China

I agree with you. There are so many spam posts in Chinese. I hope there’s a button to report these posts to the administrator so that they can be removed. Although this cannot solve your problem by using RSS feed, if there’s something like that report function, I, as a native Chinese, would greatly like to help identify and deal with these spams.

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Hi @Stalfur, I’ve consulted my friends who is living in those dorms about how their dorm will be used during summer/winter vacations. They said nothing will change and never heard about dorms used as hostels. Anyway, thank you for your kindly and precise consideration about handling the tags contributed by others. ;-)

Hi 4rch, thanks for your kind reminder of legal risk I was taking. As the wiki says, the gov presumably will not hassle us. I was a little worried before and have read the related law. I think editing maps based on satellite imagery is not so dangerous as those reported to have been fined a lot of money. Perhaps I will never upload a GPS trace, for using WGS 84 coordinate in survey is illegal in China. Also, as you can see I draw nothing in the military zone. These are what I do to avoid jeopardizing the state security. It’s likely that I will continue to edit streets and POIs for navigation purposes rather than such a detailed map of town, for I’m not familiar with other places as detailed as my hometown. Maybe I will also call for other students in railway fans club to join the complement of China Railways Project, which has been stopped for years.:)

Thank you all for all your helpful advice and kind tips, as well as the warmth of the OSM community!