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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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https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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Ben_on_Lemmy@lemmy.ml

Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads (gizmodo.com) (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Wikipedia is not a place to host everyone’s wiki.

Wikipedia is a place to collect factual information. If those articles about streets and roads are factually correct and backed up with citations, they belong in Wikipedia.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

No. There is a notability requirement among others: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

This is the main reason wikidata linking in osm is getting more common than wikipedia. Wikidata and osm don't have this requirement. Name Suggestion Index stopped using wikipedia tags and it only uses wikidata tags nowadays.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Is Wikipedia limiting itself though by having a notability requirement? It isn't like a new page takes up a lot of data storage. Why not have Wikipedia be the entire compendium of human knowledge, regardless of how notable it is?

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I presume it's because creating a Wikipedia article named "Gork", summarizing your Lemmy activity, would be stupid

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

Damn, what a burn.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 points 8 months ago

I'd read it

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