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
My little Lego box is telling me it really is quite warm outside.
Created a bicycle_parking and a crossing
What the United States and Israel are doing to Iran is undistinguishable from Russia is doing to Ukraine.
Created 8 waste_baskets, 7 benches, and 5 other objects
Updated a pub
Created 3 recyclings, 3 waste_baskets, and 2 other objects
I walked 3.4km in 56m37s
Updates from walk
🐰🥚 Two bunnies lazing about, tired from hiding all the chocolate eggs.
Created a bench; Updated a bus_stop
I walked 1.7km in 28m08s
Updated 2 bus_stops
Created a telephone; Updated a cafe and a toilet; Deleted a kiosk shop and a toilet; Confirmed an atm
Updated a bench
Updated a restaurant
I hiked 17.3km in 3h37m57s
Updated a restaurant
I walked 9.6km in 2h5m58s
I walked 7.2km in 1h10m18s
Updated a pet_grooming shop; Deleted a dry_cleaning shop; Confirmed 2 variety_store shops, a fitness_centre, and a convenience shop
I walked 4.1km in 47m50s
I walked 1.2km in 9m08s
Map new layout of Meanwhile Gardens
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