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Monthly MapRoulette Community Meetings
MapRoulette hosts monthly Community Meetings that are open to anyone interested!
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MapRoulette Leaderboard: The Community has Spoken!
MapRoulette has had Leaderboards for a long time. You can access the Global leaderboard for different periods of time right from the MapRoulette homepage.
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MapRoulette Documentation Can Now Be Translated
Did you know that MapRoulette has extensive documentation? Up until now, the documentation was only available in English. With a recent update, you can now help translate the documentation in your own language!
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Introducing our Flag/Report a Challenge Feature
This post was written by MapRoulette contributors Jackson Tran and Yan Sun.
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Liking and Flagging Challenges
MapRoulette was designed to be an open, self-governing platform for OSM improvement tasks. This has worked well, but from time to time, changes are made in OSM based on MapRoulette tasks that were not clearly formulated, or the assumptions behind the task are wrong. On the other hand, we have Challenges in MapRoulette that are of exceptionally high quality and make for an enjoyable, meaningful OSM editing experience.
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Tutorial: tagging parking=surface efficiently with a MapRoulette Tag-Fix Challenge
Americans love cars. More than 90% of households own one, more than 20% of households own 3 or more. Cars stand still most of the time and for that, we need huge amounts of parking.
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MapRoulette at State of the Map
If you’re reading this, chances are that you are excited about the upcoming State of the Map conference in Firenze, Italy! Whether you are attending in person or virtually, lots to look forward to. I will be presenting on “10 years of MapRoulette” on the first day of the conference. The presentation is coming together nicely and will feature a retrospective, but I will also be examining the current state of MapRoulette, and suggesting some paths for future development. These will be just that: suggestions. I am really interested in hearing from you, MapRoulette users and developers. What do you want to happen with MapRoulette? What place should it aim to take in the ever growing family of OSM editing and quality analysis tools out there?
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Introducing Challenge Health Measures
I want everyone to enjoy fixing and improving OpenStreetMap with MapRoulette. Whenever I talk to MapRoulette users, I ask them what the one single thing is that I could do to improve their time spent using MapRoulette. The answer I get by far the most frequently is: “Please do something about old and irrelevant tasks!”
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State of the Map 2021 Report: A Global Community, and Task-Based Editing is hot!
State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap conference, just wrapped up yesterday in its second online year. It was, as always, an exciting opportunity for the community and data users to connect and exchange ideas and new developments from the OpenStreetMap world.
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New MapRoulette Challenge to verify level_crossing tagging correctness
This is a guest post by Alex Iannicelli and Yunzhi Li from Facebook.
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MapRoulette v3.7.7 Changelog
One of the notable updates to MapRoulette is the ability to see and add comments in the Task Bundle widget. Here’s a mini ‘how to’!
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Guest Post: Tracing Reservoirs in the USA
This post was written by OSM and MapRoulette user Brian M. Sperlongano, who also created the Project this post talks about.
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Add Schools in the Philippines
Public schools in the Philippines are more than just a place for learning; they also play a secondary role as the de facto community centers, designated precincts during elections, and are essential temporary shelters during emergencies.
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Water Geometry in Fairfield County (Connecticut) challenge by roptat
“Water Geometry in Fairfield County (Connecticut)” is a challenge created by roptat, who resides in Connecticut, USA.
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Tips For Solving MapRoulette Tasks In A Small Area
MapRoulette is designed to let you map wherever the tasks are. This means that, depending on the Challenge, you can be mapping in Indonesia one minute, and in South Africa the next. We think this is part of what makes MapRoulette fun!
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Using Overpass to create Challenges
This post also appears on the MapRoulette Learn web site. You will find many more resources there to get the most out of MapRoulette, including how-tos, screencasts and reference documentation.
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MapRoulette Throwback Monday: The Remap-A-Thon
Did you know that MapRoulette started out as The OpenStreetMap US Remap-A-Thon?
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Adding directionality to stop signs in MapRoulette
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What If I Can’t Fix A MapRoulette Task?
Most MapRoulette tasks are designed to be easy to fix, but a lot depends on the person who designed the Challenge you are working on, and the data that is available to fix the task. For example, there may not be good enough quality aerial imagery available at the task location, making it impossible to see the situation on the ground. It happens! No big deal. MapRoulette has a few different ways to move forward. This post explains each of them.
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OSMCha ❤️ MapRoulette
OSMCha is a well known OSM changeset inspection and validation tool. It lets you look at changesets through different lenses. You can filter by individual mappers, geographic locations, mapping teams, and a variety of flags that are automatically applied to changesets, like ‘possible import’, ‘profanity’ and ‘outdated tags’. Using a combination of filters, you can craft your very own feed of changesets that you would like to review. In short, OSMCha is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in what’s being added to OSM in fine detail.
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