@shoki

Points of interest and amenities are probably the next most useful. Things like street lighting and sidewalks quite helpful for pedestrians. It’s more important that you are still enjoying mapping. If there is something that you know is useful but you find tedious it’s ok to skip it and either leave it for someone else or come back to it later

As it sounds like you’re on Android, I’d recommend @streetcomplete for easily adding detail while on the go.

@openstreetmap

@Sir_Kevin if it’s your own data you probably qualify for the contributors program if you don’t want to help fund development.

@openstreetmap

@Sir_Kevin
The F-droid version is unofficial so they’re unlikely to have an answer to that.

@testman

@bonjour
I think it was something like £2 when I bought it. Now it’s £39.99⁉️

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8483587772816822023

They also have a €3/month subscription for ‘hourly’ map updates (and some cloud sync to compensate for Android getting worse).

https://osmand.net/docs/user/purchases/android

But is it getting very slow these days. Especially with hourly updates turned on.

@enemenemu

@pr06lefs
Their privacy policy is here:
https://streetcomplete.app/privacy

It also looks to the tile providers privacy policy.

Only F-Droid would take the stated purpose of an app and warn you about it as an anti-feature, but here we are.

@lemmydividebyzero @openstreetmap

@paequ2 It has been so long since I started using JOSM that I don’t really know what’s tutorials are the best. HOT did a two minute introduction to building tracing that’s linked from the wiki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcKewl94jR4 (skip the HOT specific bit)

LearnOSM has a longer written introduction to JOSM here: https://learnosm.org/en/josm/

@Koreller did a very good collection of GIFs suggesting efficient ways to trace buildings with the building tools plugin here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Koreller/diary/404988

@paequ2
I think it’s quicker to draw them from scratch with the #JOSM terracer or mapathoner plugins than it is to fix the AI guesswork.

Sadly there’s a very misguided campaign running on the start page at the moment, but it’s still a much better app for serious mapping.
@ray

@ray @openstreetmap

Makes you wonder what people are thinking.

So many rounded corners and buildings with notched taken out of them when they clearly just have a tree over a bit of the building.

@mvirts I’m not sure that ould have helped that much. They’re apparently paying for redundant connections, but a single point of failure in the ISP’s network is causing an outage on both of them.

@mvirts @VieuxQueb

Um, yeah … about that :

https://en.osm.town/@osm/_tech/113655022524225743

@JubilantJaguar @sic_semper_tyrannis

The developers pronounce it “Osmand” like the fairly common name.

https://youtu.be/SPab09kaWPc?t=47

@przmk
Nope.
@Pleat1752

@redd @JubilantJaguar not really.

OsmAndMapCreator is a free download and can process raw OSM data into what you need.
I used it all the time for quick updates before their “live” updates

@pr06lefs @schnurrito @openstreetmap

Because not everyone lives somewhere where open data exists. Even that map of a single country shows that
~40%(?) of the country is missing the relevant data.

@badelf @ray @openstreetmap

Satellites are expensive. There is no noncommercial option at a useful resolution.

@balsoft @infeeeee @openstreetmap

That’s the exception rather than the rule.

I would generally prefer to know what routes to look up though.

@sven @openstreetmap I think the tagging you’re showing *should* be fine, but as I think the :forward and backward tags aren’t as widely supported I’d put the lower speed as a generic maxspeed for that bit of road as well. That way simple software will default to the lower limit and more sophisticated software will use the correct one.

@pineapplelover @openstreetmap
That thread has a top answer with a grand total of one vote on it, I wouldn’t take it as consensus on anything.

Concrete that is poured in one piece usually has visible lines. They’re placed there after the fact or when the concrete is wet to control how it cracks as it settles. That doesn’t mean it’s separate plates. The cuts normally aren’t full depth.

@pineapplelover @openstreetmap
They would usually be poured in one or two slabs with the joints added to the wet concrete or cut later.

If it looks like an impossible mould would be needed it’s more likely to be pre-fab and lifted into place later.

@pineapplelover @Tyoda @openstreetmap

The ones on the wiki have visible lifting points.

They might also have visible alignment issues or evidence of moulding at the seam or corners.