[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 21 points 5 months ago

@pootriarch
I generally consider it poor form to remove good data even if it isn't strictly necessary.

The necessity of the addr:city tag depends on the area. In some places it's strictly according to a boundary that exists in OSM. In others the boundary data is either missing or doesn't always align with the "postal town" according to the mail carrier so it's good to include it.

@openstreetmap

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 11 points 10 months ago

@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.

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[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 8 points 1 year ago

@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.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 14 points 1 year ago

@MigratingtoLemmy @101 @openstreetmap

No, this is against Google TOS and OpenStreetMap policy on data sources and the Data Working Group will step in and block any accounts doing this to protect the project as a whole.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@BitSound @openstreetmap
There is no real reason to break things up block by block unless the blocks have unique names or something. It's also a pain to edit when the areas have been glued to the roads.

So yeah, leave them big.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 7 points 2 years ago

@BitSound @openstreetmap

Breaking up roads for turn restrictions, changes in the number of lanes etc is perfectly fine.

I've always found it a bit silly to break up roundabouts for route relations, but not everything supports leaving them intact.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@jaxxed @vatlark @openstreetmap
Very slim. But their privacy policies are online if you're concerned.

You free labour all goes to the OpenStreetMap database licensed under the Open DataBase License.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 15 points 2 years ago

@RealFknNito @vatlark @openstreetmap

It caused a lot of fake stuff to be added to OSM even though its update frequency was slow enough that very little of the fake stuff actually made it into Pokemon Go.

I think it did bring in a few good mappers too though so it wasn't all bad.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 23 points 2 years ago

@stiephelando @vatlark @openstreetmap

If a question type gets tedious you can disable that "quest" in the settings.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 11 points 2 years ago

@soloojos
This seems like it'd be the opposite of an @openstreetmap thing.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 13 points 2 years ago

@huojtkeg I still find this worrying as an OSM contributor.

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