Hi,
I'm currently trying to connect the fragmented road network in this area and was wondering if you remember where you got this unclassified highway from? It looks kinda suspicious, being very long and straight, crossing a river without a bridge and what looks like a military area on the southern end -- and after two years there's still no trace of it on DigitalGlobe or anywhere. I know they've been doing a lot of construction in that area but still, looks like a cat-on-keyboard mapping :)
Any idea?

cheers,
Matthias

This one won't be rendered on the map because it has no tag saying *what* it is. I just tweaked the whole place a little, marking this as a ferry route with opening_hours set so you can find how long the ferry goes. According to the website the park is only open from 11AM?
If you know the place well, feel free to update, like if landuse=park would be better than tourism=zoo? Also, I just guessed at the outline.
Map rendering has been slow these days so it might take a while until the changes show up.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
has Lao Kitchen bought up the competition here or did you confuse the two neighboring restaurants? Beause there are two nodes for Lao Kitchen now.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi Alison,
thanks for adding this! However, "tourism=information" is only for a tourist information, like a board with maps and stuff, an information office or something, not for "this is something tourists might be interested in". For that, there's tourism=attraction.

cheers,
Matthias

Thanks for fixing :) Do you happen to know the Lao name, too?

Yeah it does, and I used to do it like that for a while, too. But when you look at the streets themselves, it looks much more a part of Route 13 - being paved for example, unlike the two residential streets. If it's a primary_link, a router *might* be able to recognize a u-turn as such, but if the link was residential you'd get an instruction like "turn left on Hom 3, then after five meters turn left" when you're not actually supposed to enter Hom 3 but stay on the same road.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
"primary_link" is fine for the little u-turn connections between primary roads. I think routing software would prefer one to stay on the same kind of road so changing to residential could lead to detours when you have to turn.

cheers,
Matthias

So Ban Nam Poun is incorrect? Maybe you could add the Lao name as well!

That doesn't make sense. Is it a hotel or a bookmaker?

Hi,
the language code for Lao is "lo" -- name:lo was tagged already. Never mind, I used to do this for quite a while in the beginning :)

Hi, thanks for your additions! Please remember though to name things only with their *name* -- "tea house maiyou" sounds about right, "35-45 bath" certainly isn't the name of a restaurant. You can still put comments like that in the description.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
you don't have to keep adding your place. It won't show up in Maps.ME before they update their offline map (and you have downloaded it) which usually takes a couple of weeks. On the web you can see it after a few minutes already:
changeset/64974634#map=19/19.88855/102.13143

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
using area=yes for buildings doesn't work, they need some physical tags. building=yes or more specifically building=house would do here. I just fixed it.

cheers,
Matthias

Please don't mix languages in name tags if it can be avoided. This node has name:en and name:lo already.

removed, mapped by the owner already

Hi,

is that Ban Hanoy or Ban Nahoy? I can't find any Lao spelling of the place. Just added amenity=place_of_worship to the temple and amenity=school to the primary school.

Hi,

thanks for your additions in an area where satellite mapping is difficult! But please don't just name a generic building "shopping center", it should be tagged with its actual name and shop=mall, maybe building=commercial. That way you can search for it as a mall and it will get the right icon in the rendered map.

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
tagging something just "area=yes" doesn't do anything. area=yes is meant for things that are usually 1-dimensional ways but sometimes you might want to make them areas. It doesn't render without any other tag -- you probably want "landuse=*" or something?

cheers,
Matthias

Hi,
I know it can be hard to come up with a descriptive comment, but it would really be helpful. Please don't just hit the keyboard to enter gibberish there.

Good catch :)
Ich hab gerade noch ein paar Namen hinzugefügt bzw. "Khaysone Phomviane" zum official_name gemacht, weil die Laoten auch mehrheitlich Savannakhet zu bevorzugen scheinen.