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drspa44

Mapper since:
December 13, 2014
Last map edit:
September 25, 2024

Stuff I care about:

  • Service roads and long driveways. If these are not mapped, navigation suffers.
  • Building entrances on residential buildings are rare to see. I wish mappers would add them if they are not obvious from the road layout.
  • Fences and walls that make it clear to navigators how NOT to approach an address.
  • New build homes. I wish normies would trust OSM to know about these before Google et al.

Petty stuff I don’t like, but will probably tolerate:

  • Parking aisles should only appear as internal strands in large car parks, as per the wiki. Most of the time, a plain service road should be used within parking areas.
  • Pavements and sidewalks immediately adjacent to roads. Fine if they are set back from the road, or are shared cycle paths, or are used sparingly to solve another problem.
  • Residential gardens are ugly, especially when applied non-uniformly. Maybe Mapnik needs to change.

https://doorways.ai

https://github.com/JakeCracknell/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-cracknell-b32006b9