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.

  • ticho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I second this - things that someone might look for - for a simple reason: OSM will always need more people mapping, and if the maps are useful to more people, more people will use it and recommend it to their friends. And a small portion of those users will eventually become mappers. Some of those will even form or join a local mapping community.

    So the more useful info there is, more mappers will come, and the feedback loop will take care of the rest. :)