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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.

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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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[Info] I just learned that nearly all of the counties in the US offer a GIS map for property information look up. I've been using it to add correct addresses to unlabeled new/existing buildings. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Osm is a community project, so some communication and coordination is necessary. Most active mappers usually follow multiple channels, so if you find some more fitting way just try it there (e.g. I'm subscribed to the local mailing list and osm forum local topics and I read the local matrix room).

You can find your local communities with this map: https://openstreetmap.community/

Osm US doesn't have a mailing list, but you can use the osm forum with your regular osm account, so you don't have to register there again.

Imports usually consider existing, already mapped features, so your surveys wouldn't be lost. It's possible that it would take years to get the official data, so it can be a shortcut to add some addresses manually. Official sources can be wrong as well, here we got some speed limit data from a road maintenance company, but we have to report back a lot of discrepancies based on surveys and mapillary... They thank our efforts at least.

The easiest way would be to ask why it's not imported yet, without it we can only guess.