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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/26271182

Name Ideas

Please comment with your name ideas.

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This is a pretty common staircase type where I live but how do I map it? Should I make lines over each other multiple times, each with different level? Or just one line and don't care about the other floors? I don't know if I'm searching for wrong terms but I have a surprisingly hard time on getting info about stairs mapping.

Can you point me to the right direction or post some example?

Recently I made changes to a road trying to prevent OsmAnd from saying "keep left" where I believed it was confusing.

Was hoping turn:lanes and some more accurate turn restrictions on parts of the road would clear this up. But as of now OsmAnd says to turn left to stay on the current road when east bound and the original reason I made the changes is still there.

All the info I've looked up doesn't indicate to me anything I've done wrong and is leaving me confused. Does anyone have any insight into how I can correct this?

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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.

There are several roads near me where it's legal to walk - but where I know that walking would be extremely dangerous because of no footways, narrow carriageways and fast traffic. Is there a way to flag these that would help OSM-based routing services like Strava and Komoot stop recommending them? I know the local area well enough to ignore Strava when it suggests I run along these roads, but I fear for people who don't, and assume the route will be okay

Do i select yes, because it, even if unintentionally, is lit or do i choose yes only when the bus stop has its own lights?

- I know that a particular ford openstreetmap.org/way/47302278… is impassable by cars and have tried to mark it as such however even after this change and allowing routing engines to update many still seem to use the route. (e.g. Osmand+) - Is there anything else I should have done or have I have done incorrectly that should be fixed?

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I use osmand, however is there a plugin or separate app that uses traffic data or weather data (road closure/accidents).

I am annoyed by komoot. Is there any suitable alternative for sharing hiking or biking trips online. Something like OSM but for tours. Ideally federated, but I would be happy with anything.

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The main feature I am looking for is finding a tour. I want to enter a location and an activity and find nice tours with gps tracks, pictures and a description.

Komoot and Outdooractive can be used as navigation and map viewing apps aswell, but I think there are enough posts about alternatives to those like Mapy.cz, Organic Maps or OSMand.

That looks really cool