- Introduction
- How to Map
- Mapping Challenge
- Other Resources
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Towns with no Roads?
Let's improve the location of place=town nodes in OpenStreetMap
Plano de Manila y sus Arrables, Francisco J. de Gamoneda; imp. lit. de Ramon Montes,
original scale 1:10,000, 1898.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Location of settlements such as cities, towns and villages are very important features that should be in any map like
OpenStreetMap (OSM). Most towns and cities tagged as
place=town or city
in the Philippines are already added in the OSM. Unfortunately, some of them are not located in the town's center or plaza.
You can help improve the location of Philippine towns in OSM.
How to Map
Editing data in OpenStreetMap
Mapping in OpenStreetMap is as easy as these 3 steps.
- Set up an account and get a log in from OpenStreetMap.
- Learn to map. Watch this video and follow the instructions.
- Start mapping!
Introduction to editing in OpenStreetMap by http://mapgive.state.gov.
Mapping Challenge
Drag the Town node near the town center
The map above shows a 2 km^2 grid where a town node is located. Within this grid, we computed the length of roads. The grids shown are towns where there are no roads. That doesn't look right. Town nodes are normally placed within the town center where there is "a range of shops and facilities used by people from nearby villages" and of course, roads. If you think the town node is misplaced, help us improve the location in OSM.
- Browse the map above to check for towns with no roads. Zoom-in close enough.
- Click the
"i"button on the lower right corner of the map and clickImprove this maplink. This will open your preferred OSM editor (either iD, JOSM or potlatch). - Simply drag the
place=townnode to the correct location. - Also add as much detail within the town center such as amenities, buildings, roads and other structures.
- When saving your edits, include the comment
#noroadtownto your changeset.
Contributions
Last 7 days of edits
Latest edits with the changeset tag"#noroadtown" from
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets.
Chart
Other Resources
- OpenStreetMap is a project to create and distribute free geographic data for the world. It is being built by volunteer contributors.
- Learn to contribute to OpenStreetMap at http://learnosm.org and http://mapgive.state.gov
- Talk to the OpenStreetMap Philippines community (OSM-PH) by visiting http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines, joining the mailing-list and visiting https://www.facebook.com/OSMPH.
- For comments and correction on this page, go to: https://github.com/maning/noroadtown.