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A few key phrases to help you find your county of choice are: Assessor's lot map, Assessor's Parcel map, County Property Viewer.

Just add the name of the county you need info from, plus one of the key phrases, and bam. You're in business.

Hope that helped someone else.

EDIT: Thank you for all the method to do a research. I'll try them all when I'll have a bit of time.

When I move in a new place, I always look for a map of libraries and for the closest public bookcases.

According to wikipedia

A public bookcase (also known as a free library or book swap or street library or sidewalk library) is a cabinet which may be freely and anonymously used for the exchange and storage of books without the administrative rigor associated with formal libraries. When in public places these cabinets are of a robust and weatherproof design which are available at all times. However, cabinets installed in public or commercial buildings may be simple, unmodified book-shelves and may only be available during certain periods.

At my current place I couldn't find a map of bookcases and I didn't find one walking around my home. Fortunately there is OSM and the very helpful site www.boites-a-livres.fr. The site maps out every french public bookcase using OSM and gives very clear information about how to find them on OSM, even for beginner user like me.

In OSM, public bookcases are represented by a amenity key and a public_bookcase value. They can be either node or area element.

However, if I search for "public_bookcase" in openstreetmap.org search bar, I don't get the result I want. How can define in my research keys and values?

Thank you for your help.

Also from weeklyosm: https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/18181

I noticed yesterday when tracking the delivery truck for our new dishwasher install and was pleasantly surprised to see OSM as the map.

It was mentioned in the weeklyOSM as having been used for strengthening disaster risk reduction efforts: https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/18130

The steps:

1. Define an area of interest
2. Run a map quality check
3. Export a PDF of the sketch map and let locals fill it out with relevant markings
4. Scan / photograph the marked up sketch map
5. Upload to sketch maps to get the collected markings as geodata

Some FAQs:

So far the Sketch Map Tool has only been tested on neighborhood or city level. The tool works best for study areas which are smaller than 50km².

Please make sure not to accidentally mark the globes at the edge as they are needed for automatic map detection. Use thicker felt-tip pens with intense colors; red, blue, and black work best. Prepare the same set of pens for all interviewers.

I just ran across a changeset that removed addr:city from a bunch of POIs, on the grounds that it was "redundant with boundary data." Some of these POIs had a Canadian postcode that would indeed imply city, but others had no postcode. The city could of course be calculated by the POI's presence inside the city relation, but I hadn't seen this as a rationale to remove information before.

Would people consider this valid? By extension, should I stop documenting the city when I create a POI; is it considered noise?

One thing that makes streetcomplete a bit of a chore for me is entering opening times: depending on where you are, you might have to specify it differently for every single day, resulting in a lot of typing. That is more time I stare at my phone and use my hands in an unergonomic position, leading to soreness in neck, hands etc.

So I was thinking: Surely we are technically able to extract those data from an image?

If I would have time to implement it (which unfortunately I won't I think) I'd just try to find a prompt that works well, send it to an LLM like Mistral (bc. in EU), get the info back, let it get checked by the user and then enter it to openstreetmaps. That would require only me to provide my api token, which I would be willing to pay for (assuming my estimation of this being in the cents volume are right).

Now:

1. Does something like that exist and I just don't know about it?
2. If somebody is willing to try that out I can provide some example data, collect more and test it.

Digitizing informal public transport on OSM through collaboration. Volunteers ride routes to trace them. Universities and civic groups strengthen the base map. Trufi helps turn this into GTFS so it can live inside apps. The result is not just an app, but a system where open data empowers both riders and planners.

Note: A Spanish language podcast with a few curated quotes in English on the page.

The BusBoy app pointed him to usable routes in the city, and locals confirmed the details. But at the edge of town, Christoph met the reality of inter-city travelers: There's no app for that (yet).

I have historically mapped the keys "wikidata=" and "name=" of restaurants such as McDonalds. According to the OSM wiki name vs brand is the contributor's pick in this instance.

However, I have just learned about "brand:wikidata=". Is there a useful difference to use this key with the keys I normally use or would it be redundant?

• key:brand
• key:brand:wikidata
• key:wikidata

how do i mark a square that's open to cars and should also show up on maps as part of the road map?

this excluded cars ☞
place | square
highway | road

now i'm trying with ☞
area:highway | yes