The MapRoulette Blog

Introducing Challenge Health Measures

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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!” […]

Guest Post: Tracing Reservoirs in the USA

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This post was written by OSM and MapRoulette user Brian M. Sperlongano, who also created the Project this post talks about. Did you know that there are tens of thousands of potentially unmapped reservoirs in the USA? An early import from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) added a massive numbers of reservoirs, however, these […]

Add Schools in the Philippines

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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. The OSM Philippines community aims to validate school locations via the MapRoulette challenge called: “Add schools in the Philippines.” […]

OSMCha ❤️ MapRoulette

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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teams, and a variety of flags that are automatically applied to changesets, like ‘possible import’, ‘profanity’ and ‘outdated tags’.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 […]