Hi, amvresh, thank you for these diary entries!

The OSM community usually uses diary entries to document aspects of their mapping efforts. Your suggestions for improving the map are more likely to be noticed and acted upon if you were to put them up as OSM notes. There’s a button for this on the main osm.org page itself - https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Also, note that OSM is a volunteer effort - there have to be mappers (who are volunteers like you and me! 🙂) to make the required changes. For best results, I’d recommend you try to edit the map yourself. The wiki will help you out - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

Map what’s on the ground, don’t copy from other maps, and have fun. Good luck! 😀

• your friendly fellow Indian mapper from Delhi 😉

Adamant1 - thanks for chiming in! Agreed on the Mapnik style - I already use it 😉 I rather meant the lag in rendering when zooming or panning, which is super-smooth in MAPS.ME (and Google Maps). They say they’re working on it… 🤷

Thanks, Polyglot! Honored to hear such praise from a veteran mapper like you. ^_^

That routing helper function looks like great fun! I gave it a shot myself - takes out a lot of the “Ctrl-click -> add to relation” stage of the work, speeds it up quite a lot. Has a few rough edges, I suppose it’s in early days yet.

This gave me the idea - it’d be really cool to be able to just give it a GPS trace, and let it add ways and stops based on that. That’d really make the job a breeze! 😀 All that’d be needed after that would be a review. Or, when a GPS trace isn’t available, to just specify the first stop+way and last stop+way, and it can add ways and stops itself, maybe even offering to split ways where required.

Thanks, SK53!

Also, I realized since the time of writing that using ... user:contrapunctus in India (atleast in JOSM) downloads not only objects I created, but also those I merely modified. So the numbers are probably inflated a bit. Welp.

althio - thanks! Chetan_Gowda - glad to make a useful contribution! It certainly is a bit of a pain ;) Those are some interesting analyses, “reachability” in particular.

GOwin, thank you so much! I never knew about that, and always went about uploading POIs individually (yeouch). This is excellent! :D (and also rather unfortunately placed in the UI :>)

Thanks, I’ll do that! ^_^