OpenStreetMap

As it says in the Subject line : have looked at a number of points raised near where I live, found one blocked street (Berkenlaan Antwerpen / Wilrijk) was not blocked , and no signs of roadworks or similar. Have added comment.

Question 1 : can I, as a novice contributor, declare the item as resolved, or are there trained and trusted resolvers, please?

Proceeded to the re-routed bicycle path / access road at the eastern end of the Antwerp/ Deurne airport runway, uploaded three tracks showing the connection road between a/ the decommissionned Fort 3 and the Beirenslaan, b/ the U-turn road with separate adjacent bicycle path, and c/ the bit connectin these two to allow traffic from the east to reach Fort 3 etc.

Question 2 : those tags : are these relevant as entered, which ones would experienced OSmappers have added, which ones would they have left out?

Next, visited recent parkland ‘Groot Schijn’ at the end of the Veldweg : found some concrete walking/ bicycling paths were not on the map, made tracks and will upload once initial comments received on first uploads.

Along Ruggeveldlaan one ‘doorsteek’ / U-turn passage doesn’t exist anymore ; track of new traffic light regulated pedestrian / cyclist crossing to be uploaded.

Further along Ruggeveldlaan : one building demolished (will add note on map), one access road moved.

Question 3 : how can upload the waypoint saved at the new entrance road, please? As a single point track?

Have taken photos w. Lumia smartphone, they’re on OneDrive, need to find out how to publish map with only photos pertaining to OpenStreetMap, excluding private ones.

Finallt visited end of Parkweg, where there is a query about section of road removed, which is correct : there’s a new parking area. Will add comment and/ or resolve once I know whether that’s up to me to do.

Looking forward to comments,

Discussion

Comment from philippec on 23 February 2017 at 09:08

Nice work. It is very polite of you to present yourself. You just missed a mapper’s meeting in Antwerp. https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/events/237045116/

Starting with notes is good. Photographing for notes with Mapillary is better. That way I don’t have to come and take photos and an experienced mapper can map from home. And you can learn how they do it. It took long before I realised that I could look at similar objects and copy their tagging.

Comment from koninklijke on 23 February 2017 at 09:31

Philippec, sorry to have missed … .

Have taken photos, with Lumia smartphone with is Windows 8.1. Mapillary only offers apps for Android and Apple, not Windows/phone, unfortunately. May at some point get a low-priced Android 7” or 10” tablet with GPS just to run Mapillary for photos, as I already own a Garmin Oregon 600 for the tracks. Additional advantage would be larger screen to scrutinize existing map. On the other hand, once OneDrive can be made to show only OSM related photos on a map, that would be as good when it comes to illustrating / ‘proving’ points, I’d assume?

Comment from philippec on 23 February 2017 at 09:38

I suppose the Lumia has GPS and so you can make geotagged photos. Then you can manually upload them to Mapillary. That is more cumbersome but has the advantage that you can improve the GPS position of the photos easily before uploading.

Comment from philippec on 23 February 2017 at 09:41

I suppose the Lumia has GPS and so you can make geotagged photos. Then you can manually upload them to Mapillary. That is more cumbersome but has the advantage that you can improve the GPS position of the photos easily before uploading.

Comment from Warin61 on 23 February 2017 at 22:23

The difference between the novice and the expert?

Knowledge.

Within OSM the novice mapper can know far more about their local area than the most experienced mapper, so both are valued to the same degree. The novice mapper has access to the same level of mapping tools as the experienced mapper, the novice mapper usually does not know of there existence due to the vast number of tools available and the number of features of these tools. Some of these tools are turned off by default and ‘hidden’ behind options to ‘help’ the novice avoid common mistakes.

Both are human and make mistakes, the novice mappers errors are usually small, having little impact on the total map, and easy to fix. The experienced mappers errors can be subtle, harder to find, and much harder to ‘fix’.

Comment from Warin61 on 23 February 2017 at 22:54

If you want comments on a particular change you made .. then you will have to identify the change you made .. usually this will be made by a particular ‘changeset’ number 37965957 e.g. full link https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37965957#map=14/51.1446/4.4387

Where a changeset has multiple charges then you could identify the node/way/relation, say way 181345107

e.g. full link https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/181345107

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