Who am I?

• I’m a person in the South of England, living in/around Basingstoke.
• I try to use public transport or cycling when possible.
• Pronouns: she/her.

How/Why do I use OSM?

• I mainly use OSM for navigation,
• I also use OSM for finding out about my surroundings,
• I like to edit whilst out and about with StreetComplete, but use iD for more complicated/complex editing. I am currently learning JOSM and seeing if it’s right for me.

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My Mapping Interests

Ways (Roads, Paths, etc)

• Adding cycle & walking infrastructure,
• Road surface (I don’t particularly like bad surfaces, so I like to help others with this),
• Lighting (something that some people really like, including me, for safety),

Nodes (including buildings)

• Separating out buildings to avoid ambiguity,
• One large pet peeve of mine is multiple addresses to 1 building. In the field, I typically enter them as a range, but when I can sit down and use a more powerful editor, I try and separate them out into different buildings.
• Adding addresses (I feel that this is a major downside of using OSM in a lot of places, so I want to fix that),

Miscellaneous

• I really like to include anything accessibility related (tactile paving, surface, etc),
• Again, I like to try and include lighting in roads/paths,
• I want to add to this publicly avaliable resource, free for others, because of what it is.