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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.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

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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Newbie Friday - ask all your OpenStreetMap-beginner-questions here! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by pietervdvn@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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Hi!

OpenStreetMap is a map that anyone can edit and anyone can freely reuse. It has a huge ecosystem, and can thus be a bit confusing to edit or to work with.

I thought that having a weekly thread to ask all beginner questions would be nice for everyone interested, so - go for it!

If you know the answer to a question, please answer (so that I don't have to answer everything).

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[–] Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to map temporary changes? Mainly thinking about road under construction and such, but also even more temporary ones like streets being blocked of due to large events.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The rule is that we don't map temporary stuff (such as events).

However, nothing is truly permanent. So, it depends a bit. If you have road works lasting for one week, feel free to map them and to restore it as not-working a week later ;)

Road works lasting >6 months are typically mapped - at least in my experience. There are no hard rules about this though and there is no consensus in the community. At last, have a look to the lifecycle prefixes: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix