This is great idea. Thanks. I just wanted to mention the Wikimedia Research Newsletter as exactly addressing this challenge in a really nice way.

https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/foundation/research/wikimedia-research-newsletter/

Hi Cliff, any chance that we could skype at some point? I’m fascinated by your work on the welcome messages, and as a researcher who studies OSM, I think there is an opportunity to systematize and learn from your efforts. Let me know! I can be reached by email: abhishek.nagaraj@gmail.com

I think another reason might be that the domain is not (yet) in the top million domains for Alexa and so they might not be indexing it.

You might want to check out my tool based on osmium which is a nice way to extract a type of POI from the raw data: https://github.com/dalek2point3/osmium-tools

Great job! This is fabulous …

welcome Patrick! You might also find maproulette.org if you’re in the mood for some armchair mapping. Hope you enjoy the community!

congratulations! thank you so much for your contributions …

this is the tool you need to do the job: https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer

Just updated the cartodb visualization to show different color codes for open / closed notes! The closed ones are in green and the red ones are still open. looks like the midwest needs some work!

I got the data from the OSM Notes API. You can check out the program here: https://github.com/dalek2point3/jmpscripts/tree/master/python/osm-notes (And you’ll also find both xml and csv versions of the data there).

super! I just updated the post with the new boundaries and also put up a featured image proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_image_proposals#OSM_Welcomes_the_new_Indian_State_of_Telangana

@stephan75 – brilliant idea! But I cant seem to find “Telangana” (though Andhra Pradesh shows up fine) on OSM Boundaries. Any ideas on what Im doing wrong?

That explains it, thanks!

that is a good point – I guess I must distinguish between bots and imports. There are bots that import and bots that dont, and there are people who import and people who dont.

I want to identify all bots AND import accounts AND individual imports not made from a dedicated account.

Does there exist a list of bots somewhere that you can point me to?

what do people think about using the Zillow neighborhood boundaries? http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/neighborhood-boundaries.htm

has there been a discussion around this? Its under CC-BY-SA (not sure if that’s compatible)

cool! great to see your article too. I’m going to keep plugging away at this and report progress here. I think we need a project that does “instant area history videos” in an interface like walking papers. Learning osmium seems to be the first step to creating such a tool.

Oops – forgot to include a link to the TIGER completion map:

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When TIGER was imported, something called the TIGER accuracy improvement project was only half done. These are the counties where you are less likely to find errors like this, and I’d be willing to bet that Arkansas had not been touched by the TIGER accuracy when it was imported into OSM. While its OK to criticize TIGER, it should also be noted that better TIGER exists, we just didnt use it properly.

Brilliant! Thank you!

happy mapping!

Hmm, thats an interesting thought. The only thing I can think of is (a) comparing TIGER 2013 with old TIGER for new roads only, not misaligned roads. I’m actually working on this. A simpler way might be to use time series population trends at the county level from the census. I imagine high quality vehicle GPS tracks would also be very useful.