@tordans We have a new infrastructure based on kubernetes: https://github.com/developmentseed/osmcha-deploy, which makes it easier to deploy updates and gives us the freedom to easily switch to other cloud providers. We have also made some optimizations on the database, for example evaluating the indexes and changing some SQL queries to be more efficient.

We need to do more work on it, as the performance of the API is not good yet. We had to reduce the configuration of the database, so the costs can fit the OpenStreetMap US budget.

Hi Chris! I’ve done a quality analysis and found the confidence score is quite precise: https://observablehq.com/d/9847c08c46f56ed6

Thanks, Clifford and Adriano!

Congratulations and thank you for this awesome app! I mapped a lot while travelling in Portugal in the last weeks, and it’s really powerful.

The OSM changeset comments doesn’t support markdown or HTML, see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/844

What you could do is to add all the error messages to your template and then delete the unneeded before sending it. I hope it will make it easier than copy/paste

Congratulations for your work! Nice use of OSMCha!

Congratulations for your talk and for your work on OSM! You’re great!

Cascafico take a look on it: https://github.com/mapbox/osmcha-frontend/issues/347 There is a way to reduce the number of false positives changesets

Kevin Kofler, those are the recommendations of the OSMF Legal Working Group about the GDPR: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:GDPR_Position_Paper.pdf

Thanks for the comment, Nakaner! We have decided to put everything behing a login. I will post an update when the modifications are ready.

Nice, I like the cloudmade reference!

Hi Ilya! It was amazing to meet you in Milano!

So, the solution is to send outside people to outside websites, built with OpenStreetMap data, and starting to wreck our website into a fun place for mappers.

How will we do it? We don’t have a web service based on OSM that is well known by the world. Would we put a banner or a link on the homepage recommending those services? Even for a mapper, calculate routes and search and find a place is something important. A small percentage of the mappers know about those websites and I feel it’s frustrating if them can not see the potential of the data they insert on OSM.

For being simple and useful we have MapCat, and being that is not our thing. We can do better.

I really like the idea of a map builder tool, but if the argument of not being a MapCat is valid, we also can not be a map builder tool, because QGIS, uMap and Mapbox Studio has similar features.

cheers,

I mostly agree with you.

I don’t consider that OSM has a free tagging system. If I tag the main road of my town as highway=my-prefered-road, probably someone would complain that it should be a highway=primary. Although we can input any value we want, it doesn’t make it a free tagging system. We need to use the established values to make it useful for other people (it’s totally different from free tagging flickr photos or blog posts). Paradoxically, we can propose to deprecate a tag and replace it by another, but we can’t do a mechanical edit to update all the objects mapped with the deprecated tag. It makes most tag changes impossible. The tag proposals voting system is very strange as well… but in the end who decides which tags will be widely used are the software editors developers, and OSMF has not control over it too.

The Latin American community is very open to contributions, so if you have data from franchises and want to import it, you can do a proposal in our mailing lists or telegram groups.

Hi, Harry!!

We’ve added a filter in OSMCha to get features with very long names: http://bit.ly/2osjHCX

Excelente trabalho, Francysko!!! Me diz os nomes das cidades sem dados no IBGE Urbano. Posso gerar outra camada pra você mapeá-las.

Hi, Everyone!

We released a new version of OSMCha with some changes to the changeset comment feature. You can know about this new release on my new diary post: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/43287

Great use of OSMCha API and a very nice tool!! Congratulations, Rubens!

Thanks, Mateus!

About the changeset comments… This was supported by some members of the community: https://github.com/willemarcel/osmcha-django/issues/128

Soon, I’ll improve it to give more options to the users. Right now, if you don’t want that OSMCha post comments to the changesets that you are reviewing, when signing up to OSMCha, don’t give permissions to “modify the map”.

@Zverik No, the tag changes summary runs in the frontend when the page is rendered, but it’s a good idea to identify some patterns and convert it on alerts.

Hi Clifford,

Thanks for the idea! Another user has already set up a bot to send messages welcoming new contributors in Brazil.