I’m currently mapping the village i live in (northern Germany). The building outlines and streets where already done by somebody else, so i mainly added the addresses to most buildings in my village and corrected some of the outlines. I did this with Organic Maps and later Vespucci.

Now my question: what other information is important enough to map?

I could go around and map every tree and specify the roof types for the buildings, but that would take ages and I think there are other details that are way more important to map for everyday openstreetmap users.

Is there some wiki page that lists the most important attributes that should be mapped? I searched on the OSM wiki but couldn’t find such a list.

Thanks in advance.

  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Whatever you think. I met with mappers who only map rail and related stuff, others only different kind of pipes and manhole covers, some focus on electrical infrastructure, and street cabinets. Some people map anything that has a number or id. My favorite is street parking, lanes and sidewalks.

    So map what you enjoy the most, this is not a job, it’s a hobby.

    • goldfndr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Have they/you seen an interesting rendering (other than editing tools and perhaps Overpass queries) for man_made=manhole? Taginfo lists just one project and that one (Straßenraumkarte Neukölln) seems pretty limited in geographic scope (only Berlin?).