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OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users

Posted by Unknown on from the better-living-through-collaboration dept.

An anonymous reader writes "OSM passed the one million registered users mark! Sure, similar to Wikipedia, the number of active contributors is a factor of 5 lower (something like ~200k) but the growth of data is impressive. So why not have a look at your neighborhood and assist on mapping? Nothing big, just visit OSM bugs and add for example your favorite place and a house number."

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  1. I have a bug to report... by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... the link to "OSMBugs" in the summary doesn't work.

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    Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
    1. Re:I have a bug to report... by MyFirstNameIsPaul · · Score: 3, Informative

      I have been able to correct the issue locally by going to osmbugs.org.

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      I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.

  2. Must resist temptation to add houses... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    As places like "Great place to get nice weed" or "Has sluts inside" .

    It's a sore one.

  3. My area is already filled out by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would add stuff to my neighborhood but at this point I would almost have to start mapping out individual trees. Well it isn't quite that bad but I do go on OSM binges every now and then and have a lot of the buildings (some with full attributes include), roads, power lines, walking paths, other structures, ponds, parks (including equipment, sports field, toilets, and drinking they contain), parking lots, parking isles, etc mapped out already for my town. Areas that I hunt I have public land outlined as well as correcting the roads and adding in the official or unofficial trails that exist. I find it is a better use of my OCDness than acquiring cats or other things.

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  4. Re:Devil in the Details by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err what? For road name you click on the existing street in the editor and change the "name" field. Hit the "Save" button, wait 2 minutes and refresh the map. You are correct that dentist/doctor isn't in the presets (although veterinarian is...) but that doesn't mean you can't map it. See the OSM wiki for more "tags" that you can use to label things.

  5. Re:Devil in the Details by yellowbkpk · · Score: 3, Informative

    What gives you the impression you can't mark dentist/doctors offices or fix street names? For example, click on the street whose name you want to fix. On the left column you should see a list of attributes for that street. You can change it there and click Save. Done!

  6. Re:Wikimapia by yellowbkpk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wikimapia does not distribute their data with an open license. Even if they did, every single drop of their data was derived from Google Maps satellite and map data, breaking the Google terms of use. I imagine if you tried to do anything serious with Wikimapia data you would get slapped by Google.

  7. Re:good for some purposes, needs driving direction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As mentioned, http://map.project-osrm.org/ is one of the best routers that uses OSM data. There is also http://open.mapquest.com which might even integrate with the MQ mobile app so you can find a route in a browser, then send it to the MQ app to take in the car. There is also routing on http://maps.cloudmade.com/ although sometimes it seems like they are a little out of date.

    But there is code being worked on to integrate OSRM into the osm.org website itself.