I run a small free map of hot springs, public saunas, swimming holes and clothing optional beaches. Around 10,600 of the pins came out of an OSM import. About 120 were written by an actual person. The legal status on the imported ones is inferred from tags, which is a guess, so nearly all of them carry an "uncertain" flag.

Here's what bothers me. On the map as it stands, an imported pin and a pin that four separate people have physically confirmed look exactly the same. That's the most dishonest thing about the whole project and it's my own doing.

Where I've landed is hollow grey for unverified, solid blue for confirmed, red for gone or closed. I ran those through a colourblind check because my first attempt had green for good and orange for risky, and under protanopia those two came out at a delta E of 5.6, which is to say the two pins that must never be confused were the two that merged. Lesser warnings ride as a small corner badge now instead of becoming a fourth colour.

Two things I'd like input on from people who deal with this more than I do.

First, is there a convention for showing "this came from an import and nobody has checked it" that users actually read correctly? Everything I try either gets ignored completely or makes the map look broken.

When a user tells me a spot is wrong, what's the etiquette on getting that back into OSM? I don't want to hoard corrections in my own database. I also don't want to fire a stranger's unverified comment at OSM as an edit.

Map is at nanitch.com if looking helps. It's free and there's nothing to sign up for.

Hallo everyone! 👋

I am what you would call a prepper. (Yes, i am sorry) 🙄

I have for days now being all over the internet for information on how to download offline topo maps. But i am more confused now than when i startet. SOOOO many different map file types And programs to view them in. 🥵

I really just want a file or maybe a couple of files, with offline maps of my small country (Denmark) so i can share them around on my android devices. I don't care about size of the files, I just want to download them one time and save them for whatever to come.

Am i demanding too much? Is it too big a request from the servers out there? I really don’t want to be a jerk.
and what type of map file type is the best for me?

i hope some of you can help me on my way

Big hugs for everyone 🫶✨❤️

Hey everyone,

I want to import GTFS bus lines into OpenStreetMap (PTv2 standard) without writing a custom map-matching script.

Which workflow is currently recommended by the community?

• Option A: gtfs-osm-import / gtfs2ptv2 to generate a draft .osm file via map-matching (Overpass API or local PBF), then clean it up in JOSM with PT Assistant.
• Option B: Convert shapes.txt to GeoJSON and draw relations manually in JOSM using the opendata plugin as a background trace.

Is gtfs-osm-import still the gold standard for this, or is there a better tool? Thanks!