OpenStreetMap Adds Easier Reporting of Map Problems

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:19PM from the my-house-is-not-in-a-lake dept.

An anonymous reader writes "OpenStreetMap recently topped one million registered users. Now they are trying to make the barrier to entry for contributing to the project even lower. A new 'notes' feature, announced on the project's blog, allows anonymous users to submit bug reports which will alert mappers in the area to incorrect or incomplete map information. The feature also allows for commenting on notes, potentially enabling two-way communication between a mapper and a bug reporter if more information is needed."

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Re:Trap Streets by Chuq · 2013-04-30 15:29 · Score: 3, Informative

There is some information on these as they relate to OpenStreetMap on the OSM Wiki - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs

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Re:Waze is a great client to update OSM by darkHanzz · 2013-04-30 18:09 · Score: 3, Informative

Waze seems nice, the big difference with OSM is that the OSM maps are fully and freely available. With waze, the actual map-data is company owned. I'd rather put effort in improving an open dataset than a company owned one.