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
Updated a restaurant
Updated a restaurant
Updated a pub
Updated 2 house buildings
Updated 2 estate_agent offices
I walked 8.2km in 1h37m13s
I'm excited about the PHP UK Conference on Friday!
I am speaking on @Xdebug, but the whole programme looks great:
https://www.phpconference.co.uk/scheduleTickets are still available, and you'll get 10% off with the code "PHPUK26".
Will I see you there?
RE: https://en.osm.town/@richardf/116086276801420468
For the UK #trains fans under us.
Missed a building outline
Added the Old Dairy House and Aston Mews buildings
More accurate Canterbury Road mapping
I walked 7.0km in 1h37m07s
I walked 8.4km in 1h21m36s
Put new open stretch of Canterbury Road on map
Created a bench and a crossing
Created 2 benches and a crossing; Updated 5 cushions, a post_box, and a crossing
Created a crossing; Updated a cushion
I walked 9.9km in 1h46m54s
If you were wondering whether the www.php.net & downloads.php.net services weren't responding very well in the last 6 hours — thousands of requests/sec to https://www.php.net/ 's root.
The server's load was 720, didn't die, but CDN connections to it timed out.
Now there is a caching strategy in place for a selected set of resources.
Updated a bench
Created 3 benches; Updated 10 benches
Updated a bench
Updated a bus_stop
Created a bench and a waste_basket; Updated 6 bus_stops and a crossing
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