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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

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Me, whenever I try to map level=0 (youservewell.isnichwahr.de)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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from: https://www.isnichwahr.de/r426689-verruecktes-china-vvs.html

Update: This place in Chongqing in OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/831047037#map=18/29.563/106.57

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, its legal to map China? I though they were pretty secretive.

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guess it's only illegal IN the country. They cannot enforce that outside of their legislation. That means nobody can stop people using imagery to contribute to OSM. But if somebody has done this, try avoiding traveling to it.