I did try using a - in front of the user name, but their notes still showed up. :/
I did try using a - in front of the user name, but their notes still showed up. :/
I wish Notes Review let you filter out a user. One person makes a lot of notes in my area, and many of them are ones that are low-priority to add. It would be nice to be able to see everything else. I know I can do this on StreetComplete, but it would be helpful to be able to do it on desktop as well.
Yeah, GIMP was my backup plan. It would just be hard to read the street names.
Unfortunately, I don’t know what any of those are. Sound complicated.
The closest thing I’ve found so far is https://geojson.io
That’s the intent of OpenSidewalks, but last I checked it was only available for three cities.
When you open openstreetmap.org, on the right-hand side there are some buttons. Click the one that looks like a stack of papers (it’ll say “layers” when you hover it) and there will be an option to enable a notes overlay.
In the editor on the site (called iD) you click the icon on the right that looks like a line and a square (Map Data on hover, or press the U key) and it will have an option to show notes as well.
Generally I leave notes alone for a week or two to see if the user intends to resolve it themself (I talk to myself a lottttt in notes while I’m surveying) but if it’s still there after that, I do my best to resolve it.
I hate seeing unresolved notes in my area. They can often sit for over a year, and then we don’t know if the information is still relevant. So when someone creates a note in my neighborhood, I try to make the necessary changes right away. I leave the notes layer on in the website and check them out whenever I’m verifying changes in my neighborhood.
I think about the surface qualities like this, descending from best to worst:
“would I ride rollerblades on this?”
“would I ride a road bike on this?”
“would I drive a compact car on this at normal road speed?”
It’s very simple in comparison, but for some that’s a feature. If it could show bike lanes on roads then it would be all I need in 95% of cases, but since it can’t I find myself using OSMAnd with the CyclOSM tile layer a lot.
I’m dealing with some weird ones, like laundromat cafés and stationery shop cafés. But at least it looks like I can add an amenity
tag to most of these. It’s just the bar/café that I’m really struggling with.
OSM is not popular in Canada, partially due to a vicious cycle where there isn’t enough information filled in so people don’t use it so nobody contributes. I used it because in my old city the map was basically perfect (I think it was imported from City data,) and I had no data plan so I needed offline maps.
After I moved I noticed that the map was incomplete so I started contributing again. There are around 5 names in my area that I see contributing on a nearly daily basis. That might not seem like much, but I’ve singlehandedly nearly finished my neighborhood’s buildings and sidewalks in the last two months.
Still, get your friends into it. I showed a friend of mine who bikes OrganicMaps after Google Maps routed him on a 4" wide dirt footpath in the dark one night. He was sold right away when I showed him that he can search for water fountains. Another friend of mine loved how detailed OSM was compared to Google Maps and switched as well, and now they help me with Street Complete sometimes. Every bit helps.
Does that seem high, or low?
Believe it or not, I started last week. :)
My area has been doing sidewalks as separate ways, though very little is complete. I’ve already filled in more than a square kilometer of sidewalks with all their crossings and curbs, but just encountered my first intersection with this sort of weird grey area crossing where there is a traffic light but no pedestrian signal.
I’m doing sidewalks in my area and unfortunately there isn’t much convention to go off of. At a crossing where there are traffic lights but no specific pedestrian signals, should I be putting a Traffic Signals node on the pedestrian crossing? If so, at the corner, or where it intersects with the road?
In general, is there documentation somewhere for best practices for discrete sidewalks, and their associated curbs and crossings? I would like to get this right from the start, in a way that makes the data actually useful for people with visual or mobility impairments.
Thanks!
Looks like it might have been case sensitive.