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8 months ago The 'Sources for editing' section updated with the below information-
- Removed Maxar Premium Imagery from the list as it's not available anymore in OSM
- Added a description of proprietary sources to support editing
Project description
Goal
To improve the map quality in Kosovo, we propose to make data improvements by sharing challenges that can help fix data errors, and add or edit certain kinds of features or tags.
When appropriate, our team will also work on these challenges. If a challenge is more suitable to be solved without organised help, we will leave it for local users interested in completing the tasks. Challenges like this will be indicated as such in the overview below.
How to participate
Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project by participating in our MapRoulette challenges. Here is the extended documentation for using MR. Note that sometimes additional instructions are provided within the challenges. We also strongly encourage you to make use of the resources listed in the OSM wiki section WikiProject_Kosovo while you are editing.
Here is the current set of challenges.
Challenges
ACTIVE CHALLENGES
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- [Kosovo - Mapping Missing Roads, Buildings and Other Objects in Peja](https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/projects/486) Accurate maps are vital for various applications concerning urban planning, emergency response, and navigation services. This collaborative mapping project, supported by TomTom, aims to improve the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data by adding roads and buildings that are missing in the urban area of Peja, Kosovo. - [Kosovo - Mapping Missing Buildings in Suharekë](https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/projects/499) We have identified areas with missing structures and would like invite you to locate and add these buildings to the map where possible. These structures could be residential, commercial, or other, contributing to an enriched visualization of the country. Your participation in adding features and attributes will significantly enhance the map’s value and content, and give reality guidance and real-feel to map users in general. - [Kosovo - Mapping Missing Buildings in Gjilan](https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/projects/525) We have identified areas with missing structures and would like invite you to locate and add these buildings to the map where possible. These structures could be residential, commercial, or other, contributing to an enriched visualization of the country. Your participation in adding features and attributes will significantly enhance the map’s value and content, and give reality guidance and real-feel to map users in general.INACTIVE CHALLENGES
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- [Kosovo - Fix Building & Highway intersections](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/39824) Leads are generated based on a spatial comparison of highways and buildings available in the OSM data. the objective is to identify and fix, if needed, cases where a way with tag highway=* intersects with a building. - [Kosovo - Add Surface to Highway](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/40261) We queried OSM for ways with certain highway=* values where the surface tag was missing. The goal of this challenge is to identify and add missing surface tags on a road network. - [Kosovo - Fix Intersecting Buildings](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/41762) Identify and fix, if needed, situations where a building intersects with another building at the same layer. - [Kosovo - Fix Incorrect Highway Junctions](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/42089) Identify and fix if needed, cases where highway junctions are incorrectly or imprecisely mapped. We improve overall OpenStreetMap (OSM) route network quality by solving real errors in the data. Ensuring that highway junctions are connected within OSM is crucial for optimized routing. When road elements are disconnected or imprecisely mapped, it can degrade the navigation experience for routing applications that rely on OSM data, leading to inefficient directions, delays, and potential navigation errors. - [Kosovo - Fix Incorrect Junctions on Roundabouts](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/42286) We’ve developed new checks aimed at identifying and correcting cases where two or more highways are connected to the same node on a roundabout. According to the [[OSM wiki documentation](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout#:~:text=of%20that%20routes.-,Connecting%20ways,-Connect%20the%20approaching)](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout#:~:text=of%20that%20routes.-,Connecting%20ways,-Connect%20the%20approaching), highways entering and exiting a roundabout should never connect to the same node on that roundabout. Why is this important? Fixing such situations will enable routing applications that rely on OSM data to correctly recognize the situation, providing improved guidance when entering or exiting a roundabout.Edits based on map feedback
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We make improvements to OSM based on user feedback submitted for the TomTom map after comparing and ensuring that it is also valid for OSM. Here is a list of the types of edits to be made, provided they do not conflict with others’ edits and a local source is available: - Highways - Adding highways - Realigning highways - Adding or adjusting bridges, tunnels, layers, or relations - Updating lanes - Updating traffic signs - Addresses - Adding or correcting addresses - Updating the position of address nodes, usually when an object has multiple addresses - Adding or correcting names of ways - POIs (Points of Interest) - Adding POIs - Correcting POI locations - Adding or correcting POI information - Resolving POI-land use discrepancies - Handling POI closures - Land use - Adding land use - Modifying existing land use extent - Buildings - Adding buildings - Updating building type - Adjusting building shape - Water - Adding or realigning rivers, streams, and lakes. These are incidental edits spread over time starting August 1st, 2023. We follow local guidelines and, if needed, consult with the community before making an update.Geographical scope
Data improvements will be made across the whole country.
Announcements
TomTom organised editing
We will follow the Organised Editing Guidelines for this project. TomTom will not make any edits until two weeks after the project announcement. Here is our Organised Editing page, including a list of our editors.
How to find TomTom's edits
All edits made by our team have the hashtag #tt or #tomtom.
Sources for editing
For some OSM map edits TomTom editors will use proprietary sources for support. These will typically be in situations where there is not sufficient evidence using the available sources in OSM editors themselves. The proprietary sources will be ground-level imagery and GPS traces, both collected by TomTom's mobile mapping vans. On occasion, we will also use sources collected from a field survey by one of TomTom's sourcing specialists who have visited the location and collected data to support the required map updates.
How to reach out
If you have remarks about a specific edit of ours, please drop a comment in the changeset, and we will do our best to respond thoughtfully. Or, you can also: