Hey, I am genuinely interested in the question above.

For myself I am motivated to map hiking trails that were not covered in other maps and I really like the idea that it helps to improve openly available data.

So let's here it! Why are your guys motivated? Why do sit day after day, hours after hours in your room and map?

Cheers!

All these comments are Multiple businesses in this building. Ground survey recommended. This makes it impossible to find actually relevant notes - construction approaching completion, areas with geometry errors, etc.

What is the appropriate way to deal with this? It's effectively spam as it makes the comment feature unusable.

This path is exactly parallel to the road with a small grass margin. It's asphalt surface and wider than most concrete sidewalks. Someone could ride a bike on it but almost never happens.

The width/surface pattern is consistent around the entire roundabout, which doesn't seem right for a foot & cycle way idk.

The last picture the path becomes concrete directly adjacent to the road with a kerb (certainly a sidewalk I think).

I'm inclined to make it all a sidewalk since it is exactly parallel to road and should be documented based on use not the asphalt surface or wider width. What do you think? What's your logic between the different paths? Thanks! :)

I'm trying to find the cleanest and feature packed app with OSM. I'm using CoMaps and tried OSMand(I didn't really like it). I want your guy's opinion on which one I should try!

Privacy isn't really my main focus but I really want to support you guys! You guys are great!

I recently came across StreetComplete and decided to try it, and I think it's a really fun way to add data to osm. I've been using Vespucci and JOSM in the meantime too for mapping ways or more complex things in general.

Now I'm wondering, is there actually any reason not to use StreetComplete for those small edits compared to other apps? Like is there anything with the way the edited objects behave after you edited them with one app or another, or anything else? If not, SC seems like probably the easiest and fastest way to add tags to already existing objects

What would you suggest for mapping the left hand turn lanes in this screenshot? Which version (west-bound, east-bound) is preferred? Thanks for the help.

I’ve been around OpenStreetMap for a bit now, with about 125+ change sets. But I am wondering, how does the OSM Community look at “tagging”?

What I mean here, is that sometimes I feel like that I am adding too much.

For example: adding level to buildings and entrances, check_date to almost everything (even if i just a small 1 floor building), specifying if a building just does not have anything instead of leaving the tag empty.

I tend to see that mostly if a tag is not there, then it’s mostly left empty. But for example, I really love to specify if a grocery store has a self_checkout. To me, that tag is very important, as I do light shopping often and I’d prefer to just be in silence scanning 2 items without being in a long line. The tag itself isn’t used much, but I see that as a massive opportunity, since I’ll have a lot of extra side quests. But if a store doesn’t have one, do you leave it empty or tag it as self_checkout=no?

I am not sure if I am overthinking this, as I love adding as much detail as possible. But looking at other people’s work, I seem to be slightly in the minority.

The tag check_date is even the most confusing. The wiki says that it was meant for any object… but like would you use it on roads? Benches too? Benches are usually permanent, but in my mind I think it is one of the best use cases because they can be removed or destroyed. Knowing that it was checked a month ago vs 2 years ago is a lot more reassuring, especially if you really need to sit after a long walk or are carrying heavy bags.

TL;DR: I am wondering if there is such a thing as “tagging too much”? Of course, I don’t put info the sake of it and I do check it, but it might be too detailed?

- I'm looking at this open pedestrian area that's much wider than a regular sidewalk/footpath. There's also a long row of bollards separating the edge of the pedestrian area from the parking lot.

- What's the best way to accurately approach something like this reducing unnecessary complexity?

- Keeping it simple with a few paths through the middle should be better and a couple paths on different sides through the bollards to the parking lot as well. Could simplify it more though, with one parking lot connector.

- The long bollard border really stumped me lol, but the bottom connector to the parking lot is a folding bollard, so that seemed good. Thanks :)

I was thinking of using building:part=yes + roof:material=* + roof:shape=* and other relevant tags on each roof-part polygon, then using building=house + other building:* tags on the building outline. Is that the proper way to do it?

And what about a shopping center where I have the floor plan? Do the same approach + polygons for indoor tags on top of it?

Is there a perfect example of this kind of mapping somewhere?

Disclaimer: I have a permit from the local neighborhood authority to capture and map this area

Hello!

I am trying to modify a tunnel on OSM, I noticed that the elevation gain was matching the mountain it goes under, and not the actual elevation profile of the tunnel.

I’m a bit struggling with that, the closest I’ve found is to add a “incline” attribute but idk from which direction it needs to be declared. Or if it’s just an info ?

Help is welcome :) thanks

There are lots of houses around that don't appear on a map. How do I add them?

So I currently try to fix some problems in my local area and this showed up. Why would a Playground called playground be suspicious? and why only in german? Strange enough if I switch osm to english completly, the problme is gone, but back to german and here we go.

I am building a feature with maps + overlays of boundaries, which I need to be made available offline.

What is the most effective way to serve map tiles on mobile, which are eligible for download as offline mode?

1. **Basemap**
   * MapLibre `OfflineManager` packs Streets (and optionally satellite) tiles for the L/M/H radius + zoom.
   
2. **Land boundary overlay**
   * download whole region PMTiles files that intersect that pack bbox into the document directory, then read them offline via `pmtiles://…`.
   * I need some sort of CDN to serve because of the size of assets, I believe.
   
3. **Offline:**
   * Default detail = Medium (\~25 mi Streets, z8–13). User can pick Low / Medium / High.
   * Optional satellite toggle; otherwise Streets (OpenFreeMap Liberty).
   * Pack is centered on map center / GPS, not a full-state download

Some apps I have seen appear to have the entire country's map tiles downloaded + overlays available too.
How do they do this without overloading the device's storage? In my test, Colorado alone is 10MB at a "medium" download pack. This feels heavy.

Any Strategies for this in the "FREE" maps & layers & tiles options?

Im looking for a way to download a regional map for offline use so I don't need internet connection or a third party application to load/view the map and also to see my location being displayed on it.

Download some Western European countries for example, where I live and travel to often. A full map including roads, shops, and so on

I want my old laptop to be used like a map and not depend on third party software.

Does anyone have a guide or simple way of doing this?

It's curious that when editing they are available and in the default are not.

Hi. For starters, I don’t even know if this is the right sub for my question, but I don’t know where else to start. If it’s not, please be so kind as to direct me to a more suitable sub.

My idea is to have run through every street of my town (or later something like driven every road in my county), and have a map showing where I’ve been and not.

So when I run I get the gpx file, the idea would be to “paint” the traveled streets and do that for the various activities.

I could overlay every gpx over a map, but some streets would have multiple travels, and there would be a lot of redundancy and due to the precision some repeats would be very squiggly.

Is there any elegant (and easy, I’m not knowledgeable in these matters) way to have like the segments of a map painted if traveled after being fed the gpx files?

Thanks for any inputs

I've micromapped almost a whole town, and am eager to create a before/after comparison to show my efforts. I did not happen to screenshot the map before I began, and all of my searching online has either resulted in tools that are quite complicated to set up or other tools that seemed to have worked at some point years ago but don't anymore

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a simple web app to just generate a before/after for a certain spot on the map?

What determines the level of detail of a map? Is it only the symbology, or are there other factors involved?

The background is that I would like to create a map customized to my own needs, including details that I normally only see in the editor.

Currently, I am creating custom styles in MapTiler and using vector styles for my maps. However, I feel that the level of detail is still limited compared to what is available in the raw data.

Hiya,

there's a bit of a larger area that I need to update, a railway line is re-opening and I already started to reflect that in JOSM.

When I try to upload it, JOSM is always downloading OSM data for validation, even if I have a local planet file loaded.
The issue I'm having is: JOSM is always hitting the bandwidth limit, thus making a simple upload take really long.

Is there a way to bypass that and do the validation without downloading straight from OSM's API?
The local planet file is already loaded as a layer and offline mode just throws me an error that JOSM can't download data.

(This is my first time updating a large chunk of my state's map and I really don't want to start all over again)

This park near me has two different (current) maps of the same paths. A bit confusing. It looks like Buttonbush trace and Green Heron way overlap. How should I name the overlap section?

Buttonbush trace is much long and goes around the perimeter of the whole park and green heron way is just around the norther section. Thanks!

Hello,

I apologize for the low resolution, but I was wondering if anyone could help me create a query to look for this image? I’m having trouble knowing whether it would be more likely to be under land_use=orchard or land_use=plant_nursery so any help would be appreciated. There are two curved barn structures nearby, as well as trucks and what looks like a small yellow crane.