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The Maps Team at Facebook is excited to announce RapiD Editor Partner Testing

Also the version of ID was released last year, you can find it here - https://github.com/osmlab/id-validation

Oops! Mea culpa. Sorry for not keeping track.

The Maps Team at Facebook is excited to announce RapiD Editor Partner Testing

limiting the user uploads purely on the quantitative basis is a tricky problem – and from what I know, no other tools use it

Yes, no other edit has a speed limit, but other editors don’t have computer vision help! 😁 OSM requires imports and mechanical edits to go through a review/feedback process, so the idea of “uploading too much too quickly can be bad” isn’t a new idea. The goal of your editor is literally in the name, to be rapid. 😉

It’s more than 2 years since Facebook said they’d release the source for their iD version (while mapping Thailand).

The Maps Team at Facebook is excited to announce RapiD Editor Partner Testing

Impressive tech! Well done on releasing this. We need more people making interesting software for OSM. The video of “iD vs RapiD” is impressive. a ✕2.6 speed up is nothing to sneeze at!

I have a concern that people will not spend as much time reviewing the data as in this video, and aim to do things ✕10 or ✕20 times faster by just accepting everything. A demo video where everything is manually reviewed, but a reality where it’s a data import is not fair. Have you considered this problem and any ways to fix it? Would a software enforced maximum upload/mapping rate help prevent that problem?

✕2,6 is certainly an improvement, but comparing it to iD might not be great. JOSM is built to have a steeper learning curve, but to allow experienced users to work faster. Have you timed how long an experienced JOSM user could map that area?

Departing Turkmenistan in June

Thanks for your contribution to OSM in a place where such detail is surely needed.

Observe - cross-platform, offline, field mapping tool for OSM

Interesting! It’s always good to see more developments in mobile mapping, it’s an area we need to improve and especially limited editing apps.

FYI your image at the top doesn’t work. I’d try the app, but there’s some pretty bleh privacy terms, why do want to know what apps I have installed and what calls I make?

You say “Observe creates one changeset per feature”, does that mean you make one changeset per edit? Did you know that StreetComplete initially made one changeset per edit too, but received (justified) criticism.

03 MAY, 2019

Welcome!

A Local Mappers API

Nice! Related to this, I’ve sometimes hand processed planet OSM files to see who maps certain features. If you want to make tagging improvements it’s helpful to talk to people already mapping that type of thing.

My First Edit!

Welcome!

Fixing hotel internet access

Why do you think it shouldn’t be tagged? The wiki refers to things like private residences, not a hotel. It’s common for hotels to advertise that they do or don’t have internet access, so hence that data should be in OSM

What I'm Doing

Welcome!

#HelpTshedyMap

This is great! 👍 I’ll definitly try to help out. P Norman has also live streamed some editing https://twitter.com/penorman/status/1071205652410785792

OpenStreetMap “mappedness” based on POI density

Nice. “Just use things with a name” is a good rule of thumb. I’d wonder about PoIs mapped as ways, which can often be a sign of more detailed mapped (replacing a shop mapped as a point with an area), but then you have to filter out roads.

For km² calculations I like PostGIS’s geography type. ST_Area(t.geom::geography) gets you m² areas on a sphere.

At what point is a driveway long enough to be added to OSM?

It’s up to you. I wouldn’t add a driveway that’s only one car long, but if it was more, I probably would. Often in rural areas, people have big driveways, and I’d like them mapped to show that the main road has so many little junctions coming into it.

First Day

Welcome!

Attended JPMC mapathon

(Maybe I misread this, I thought you were going to host it. If you were merely an attendee, then ignore my message)

Attended JPMC mapathon

Hi. Great to see more people mapping and helping out. Does JPMC mean “JP Morgan Chase”, the big bank? Can you please link to the wikipages about this mapathon, as the Organised Editing Guidelines require? I’m sure none of us want to make beginner mistakes. osm.wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

18 March 2019 - A Careful and Caring Cartography

Did you know there’s a (low traffic) mailing list for discussion of diversity issues in OSM ( https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/diversity-talk )? You might find it interesting. I co-mod it.

Destorying imperialism & white supremacy is definitely a good thing! Let’s do that. I have often wondered about making a map style without showing country borders, with OSM that is possible.

(BTW Emoijis are decided by the unicode consortium.)

500K Mapillary Images

Well done! Have you heard of pic4review ( osm.wiki/Pic4Review ), it allows you to quickly map things from mapillary/OSC/etc images.

HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

Comments on your script.

  • Have you considered setting a useragent when you make a request, be a better web citizen!
  • You compare the URL including with www, what if a http://www.example.com redirect to https://example.com (because they think www prefixes aren’t cool), am I right in thinking your script doesn’t handle that? Should it?
  • You’re only looking for websites which start with http://, what about website=www.example.com (i.e. no protocol defined). You could check if it answers on https, and add that protocol, so more people will default to the secure version.
HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

Upon closer reading, you are technically correct, the best kind of correct! I was influenced by the Organised Editing Guidelines which have more explicit rules. But that’s a different document. Perhaps the community should think on this.

Regardless, posting to mailing lists would be helpful.