Contributing Advent 5: OpenStreetBugs
Adding and updating data on OpenStreetMap is fairly easy and available for everybody. But once in a while you don't really have the time to add things to the map, and for those situations OpenStreetMap has the Notes functionality.
The Notes functionality allows anybody to add a note to the map with some details of things that are mapped incorrectly, or not mapped at all.
Take for example the following note:
This note can be found on the website too.
Many of the notes require validation or checking, so I decided to check out a few notes before the most recent OpenStreetMap London pub meet-up. I like walking anyway, so walked from Baker Street towards Oxford Street in a zigzaggy line towards the pub. You can see the GPS trace here taken from a screenshot on OsmAnd, which has a nice little Notes plugin/interface.
What this also shows, is the 5 notes that I closed (the green dots)!
However, there are still plenty of notes left in central London:
If you have an OpenStreetMap account, and are logged in, you can add comments and/or resolve issues if you know how to edit OpenStreetMap. Maybe you can have a look in your own local area and resolve some notes!
Life Line
Juvenile Ruff stretching out.
Taken at Titchwell March.
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Specify road surfaces
Specify whether there are cycleways
Survey housenumbers
Specify path surfaces
Specify whether crosswalks have tactile paving
Specify whether pedestrian crossings have islands
Specify whether kerbs have tactile paving
Determine the heights of kerbs
Specify whether bicycles can be charged at charging stations
Specify whether roads have sidewalks
Created 2 entrances; Updated an apartments building
I walked 7.5km in 1h38m33s
A very well camouflaged Little Owl.
It's in a hole in a church tower, in a tiny village in North Norfolk.
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Survey postbox collection times
Survey housenumbers
Specify whether places take fees to visit
Survey shop types
Specify whether there are cycleways
Specify whether pedestrian crossings have islands
Determine the heights of kerbs
Specify whether traffic signals have tactile indications that it's safe to cross
Specify whether crosswalks have tactile paving
Specify whether kerbs have tactile paving
Specify drinking water types
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