Great write up!

ANOTHER UPDATE.

It’s now much much easier to deploy an entire dedicated site for things like this. I have built TIGERMap which has an OSM layer as well as a National Address Database heatmap which makes is super easy to see these things with a superior user experience.

Details here: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/announcing-tigermap-tiger-reviewed-no/110004

Oh that’s very cool! Thanks for sharing.

We love it when a long con comes together.

I know it’s very common for new mappers to look at their local area (usually very urban) and wonder “so what’s left”? I originally wanted to help folks find places off the beaten path and I’m so happy to see you’ve found lots of good mapping opportunities!

I am very excited to hear how other ways of presenting this information help drive engagement and help us get to a more complete map.

I am glad you found it useful. I wonder if there’s a place (the wiki?) to keep links to things like this. Discoverability is a huge issue for sure.

I would be happy to help lend a hand! I’ve written some about my experience adding addresses in various diary entries (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/watmildon/diary). Always happy to help out.

Wonderful! It reminds me a of the very engaging water basins map that Amanda has: https://amandasaurus.github.io/osm-river-basins/#map=2%2F0%2F0. Except, in this case, the urge is to break these big blobs up!

The original points were almost certainly from an import from GNIS long ago. The precision on many features back then was… not optimal. Cleanup continues.

It turns out that Rowe Lake is also not correctly named in the NHD dataset (!!) so I’m sure the GNIS folks will be very happy to get this corrected for everyone.

Great sleuthing!!

Sounds like a wonderful project. I look forward to seeing the results!

Oh absolutely! Definitely meant as a demonstration of “there’s work out there that’s easy to go get at” than a recommendation to “go mass retag things”. As always, the tools are powerful but must be used cautiously.

We have an infinite sea of work, just need to find the right little inspirations for folks to go to it. (in a collaborative and cooperative manner of course!)

If I wanted to do some review in my area, is it enough to do alignment and then removed the “tiger:reviewed” tag? I’ve done quite a bit of TIGER fixup for highway=track and in various cities but never any rail. Any tips/pointers would be great.

I love lists like this! There’s always a few things I learn about. Here’s a few more I’ve found useful.

https://ohsome.org/apps/dashboard/ - View tag counts by region over time. Really nice to track imports or just look at historical tag additions.

https://overpass-ultra.trailsta.sh/ - A frontend for Overpass that works much better when you have lots and lots of data to render

https://maproulette.org/ - A micro tasking manager

Thank you.

Couple of things that may help you out. JOSM has keyboard shortcuts for moving between layers which you can change the keybindings to suit your needs. If you’re just grappling with the MapWithAI behavior to move to the map layer whenever you merge nodes, there’s a setting to modify that behavior. Settings > Preferences > MapWithAI preferences > Settings tab > “Automatically switch layers” checkbox.

Or maybe there’s some other way to help out! Definitely let me know. Happy to help.

Maybe the HIFLD wiki? Could make a status box for each state similar to what we did for the Milwaukee Import

Lots and lots and lots of good ways to process files into a more OSM shape! If you do thought the import catalog you can find all manner of strategies. Here’s one for an address import up here in the Pacific Northwest.

I am glad it was of use to you. The tooling (JOSM generally, conflation plugin specifically) is extremely powerful but can often be a huge hassle to jigsaw together into a workflow that is efficient.

How much of the HIFLD hospital data did you make it through?

Excellent addition! I have run from OpenWebStart from time to time so this definitely would have surprised me. Thanks for pointing it out.

Wonderful. I knew I would need this the next time I flatten this machine so it helping others is a huge and perfect side benefit.

That is wonderful! What a great use case. I’ll have to set it up for my area and see if anything pops up.

I’m still somewhat new to navigating the legal portion of these things and don’t have a great sense yet of whether the mail above is a strong enough statement. The folks on the import mailing group (US or otherwise) would have a better idea. The issues is that there’s lots of different flavors of “open” in data and they can conflict in various non-obvious ways. For example, a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license is an “open” license that conflicts with our OLDb license because we say you CAN use it for commercial use (with attribution).