I thought this was quite a nice piece about OSM and the humanitarian mapping team.

You may say this is basic or this is really nitpicking or micro mapping. But this is something that bothers me for a long time. So I'm currently mapping sidewalks in my village and according to this

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_pedestrian_navigation#Sidewalks_and_crossings

What I should do, is to separate sidewalks from pedestrian crossings - so top and left of the blue dot is a pedestrian crossing and bottom and right is a sidewalk. Got it.

Now things start to be complicated (at least in my head) when StreetComplete starts asking me for the surface of that crossing. An example:

Now my mind starts to go to crazy and I'm not sure which option is correct:

1. Set the surface of that pedestrian crossing to paving_stones since that's the actual surface of that path. The fact that it crosses the asphalt road doesn't matter as that's the surface of the road

2. Split the pedestrian crossing into 3 parts, set their surface accordingly so paving_stones, asphalt, paving_sones. But all are still pedestrian crossings.

3. Split the pedestrian crossing to 3 parts, set only middle of that to be the pedestrian crossing as that's the actual crossing, set the other parts to be a sidewalk. Set surfaces accordingly

4. Similar to 3., split the pedestrian crossing into 3 parts, set only middle of that to be the pedestrian crossing as that's the actual crossing, set the other parts to be footways (so no sidewalks), since those are just separate footways connecting the sidewalk and the crossing. Set surfaces accordingly

All of those have some logic in my mind but I won't go to details as it'd be very long post. But I guess the number 2. is correct? Although I then start wondering what to do in case the sidewalk is right next to the road? Just setting it to asphalt?

Anyway, please help me bring peace to my mind - which one is correct?

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A powerful video showing how Oaxaca communities document informal transport networks. We’ve added English closed captions so more people can appreciate this grassroots effort in action.

I have the OSMand app on the Phone for offline and survival use. Plan is to search for campfires in an easier manner.

Right now, I have to zoom in (quite a lot), in order to even see a campfire icon.

I want to simply click a tag that displays all campfires and yet be able to zoom out a lot to see all campfires in the area. Is this even an option or am I just a moron and don't understand how the app works? (Don't answer that last part ;D)

The Duitama Mapping Stars—a group of Colombian high school students—have digitized informal transport networks from East Africa to Southeast Asia to Latin America. Their work powers apps and planning tools that make cities more inclusive and mobility more equitable. Their edits and mapping efforts have powered our open source apps and improved the mobility experience for countless people.

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I'm looking for a map that has english names all over the world. Moreover a more beautiful world map would be awesome.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/26271182

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This is a pretty common staircase type where I live but how do I map it? Should I make lines over each other multiple times, each with different level? Or just one line and don't care about the other floors? I don't know if I'm searching for wrong terms but I have a surprisingly hard time on getting info about stairs mapping.

Can you point me to the right direction or post some example?

Recently I made changes to a road trying to prevent OsmAnd from saying "keep left" where I believed it was confusing.

Was hoping turn:lanes and some more accurate turn restrictions on parts of the road would clear this up. But as of now OsmAnd says to turn left to stay on the current road when east bound and the original reason I made the changes is still there.

All the info I've looked up doesn't indicate to me anything I've done wrong and is leaving me confused. Does anyone have any insight into how I can correct this?

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I'm currently mapping the village i live in (northern Germany). The building outlines and streets where already done by somebody else, so i mainly added the addresses to most buildings in my village and corrected some of the outlines. I did this with Organic Maps and later Vespucci.

Now my question: what other information is important enough to map?

I could go around and map every tree and specify the roof types for the buildings, but that would take ages and I think there are other details that are way more important to map for everyday openstreetmap users.

Is there some wiki page that lists the most important attributes that should be mapped? I searched on the OSM wiki but couldn't find such a list.

Thanks in advance.

There are several roads near me where it's legal to walk - but where I know that walking would be extremely dangerous because of no footways, narrow carriageways and fast traffic. Is there a way to flag these that would help OSM-based routing services like Strava and Komoot stop recommending them? I know the local area well enough to ignore Strava when it suggests I run along these roads, but I fear for people who don't, and assume the route will be okay