Hello Adrian. It can take anything between a few minutes and a few days for edits to appear on the live map, so don't let the delay put you off editing.
The initial mapping of a region is often quite crude, done from a mix of aerial photos and various database dumps, which can often be inaccurate, and need a lot of tidying-up. It's the incremental improvements done by people working locally, walking and recording the tracks, noting landmarks, fixing mistakes, that make the biggest impact on quality. The work never stops. We are all authorised to improve the map; just register an account and start editing. The OSM wiki sets out editing guidelines. JOSM is a good editing program, and the built-in web editor is fine for small stuff. There's great satisfaction in seeing a mapped region that we improved to a standard possibly better than the OSI being available for use by everybody, not least ourselves and our own GPSs and websites. Best of luck to you. Tony. == 20:46, Dé Céadaoin 11 Eanáir 2017, scríobh "Adrian Thomas <adrianrtho...@gmail.com>": > I've recently retired and moved to live in West Cork. As an > experienced hill walker I have been using GAIA GPS to explore new > routes across the hills and mountains in the west of Ireland. GAIA > GPS uses OSM and I noticed that some local features such as buildings > were missing from OSM so I enroled as a contributor a few months > back. I spent a happy evening adding local features which I know > exist using the aerial photo backdrop for accuracy. I was quite > disheartened next day when less than half of my new additions > appeared on the map so I haven't been back. However, I have recently > noticed quite a number of significant errors on OSM in my locality > and I'd really like to EITHER go in and correct someone else's > carelessness OR simply report the error(s) and let someone else put > them right. I think I could contribute quite a lot to OSM in West > Cork and Kerry simply by checking out stuff which I suspect to be > wrong. For instance north of Bantry is a well known col shown as > "Priest's Leap 572m" despite the fact that a) it isn't that high, b) > it's shown below the 450m contour and c) even the nearby hill top is > only 520m. This isn't even a typo because it isn't 472m either! > Some of my other "errors" relate to features shown as roads which are > actually overgrown tracks which you couldn't even walk along much > less drive and certainly NOT a public road. In one case there is a > "track" across a field on OSM which was shown on the aerial photos as > no more than the marks left by a tractor on one pass. Definitely > neither a road nor a track. > > Am I authorised to start cleaning up these blunders or should I just > go back to using OS maps? > > cheers, Adrian. > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
