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Liking and Flagging Challenges

Published: in Feature by Martijn.

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 […]

Tutorial: tagging parking=surface efficiently with a MapRoulette Tag-Fix Challenge

Published: in Tutorial by Martijn.

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. Image source: Flickr Commons The simplest way to map a parking area in OSM is to draw an area and […]