Helpful OSM tools, news and links

This is not a tool but interesting example for cooperation of government and osm community:
http://www.bdl.lasy.gov.pl/portal/mapy

It is Polish OSM map and government forest cadastrial maps on one homepage.
Government can controll gaps in their own database, the osm user as well.

Interesting study about usability of iD editor:
http://www.ub.tuwien.ac.at/dipl/2014/AC11999640.pdf

Conclusions see page 82 and 83…

This is NO OSM tool, anyway, it´s helpful:

http://satpredictor.navcomtech.com/

Check of available satellites, Dilution-of-position values, etc. depending on town or known position

Very nice: How old is the POI information:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Dotevo/diary/23869

Cycle mapping guide:
http://issuu.com/cyclestreets/docs/cyclemappingguide

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Semi-colon_value_separator

This inform how to make tagging of e.g. small shops with two or more very different goods.

E.g.: shop=toys; shoes.

Government from Denmark provides to the OSM community aerial images with 10cm resolution and explain why:
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/denmark-mapbox-satellite-update/

Probably the most people know that. Anyway.
keepright.at is very helpful when one wish to see bugs in the map.

Here is the link to Kathmandu map:
http://keepright.at/report_map.php?zoom=15&lat=27.701&lon=85.30957&layers=B0T&ch=0%2C30%2C40%2C50%2C70%2C90%2C100%2C110%2C120%2C130%2C150%2C160%2C170%2C180%2C191%2C192%2C193%2C194%2C195%2C196%2C197%2C198%2C201%2C202%2C203%2C204%2C205%2C206%2C207%2C208%2C210%2C220%2C231%2C232%2C270%2C281%2C282%2C283%2C284%2C285%2C291%2C292%2C293%2C294%2C295%2C296%2C297%2C298%2C311%2C312%2C313%2C320%2C350%2C370%2C380%2C401%2C402%2C411%2C412%2C413&show_ign=1&show_tmpign=1

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/01/05/web-maps-primer

Tutorial: From Paper Maps to the Web: A DIY Digital Maps Primer

Do you know this quality tool?
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=addresses&lon=15.10379&lat=51.93480&zoom=10&overlays=no_addr_street

Nice:
http://osm.mueschelsoft.de/cgi-bin/render.pl

Lane visualizer for OSM Data.

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc
Alll registered mappers are shown in the map.

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosm
The map shows all new mappers (last 2, 7 days)

http://schema-root.org/region/asia/south_asia/nepal/maps/nepal.6mb.jpg

@marek kleciak What is the licence associated with that map? As per http://www.openstreetmap.org/welcome “Unless you have special permission, don’t copy from online or paper maps”.

That´s true. Using this map one can only identify areas where settements should exist and map it using Bing or other backgrounds.

We shouldkeep in mind: There are huge differences in the quality of OSM Map in Nepal. Especially north-western areas are poorly mapped.

Mapillary in Nepal:
https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=tYkF6LlLuDFWvN9mCfBcqw&lat=27.703419999999923&lng=85.316396&z=17

Comparing of Google with OSM map:
http://www.sammyshp.de/fsmap/#19/27.70678/85.30733

Marek,
As made abundantly clear in the FAQ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#What_images_and_maps_may_I_use_to_make_maps_from.3F , please don’t suggest to people that they use Google Maps in order to contribute to OSM.

Do you see such suggestion in my post? If you believe, comparing of maps is something prohibited, please inform authors. We have a lot of such tools including e.g. geofabrik tools, made by Frederik, which is member the OSM Foundation Board.

Yes, I do.

When suggesting “map comparison” sites, especially to new users, please always make clear what sources can be used for contributions.

It is obvious that we never use Google for mapping. We have in Nepal very involved mappers and they know that very well. I use personally from time to time map comparing tools and I´m not alone who is doing that.
To compare is different with “use for mapping”. I´m a little bit disappointed about your words.

Edit: Maybe I should explan what can be done with map comparing:

Some mapper from the polish community used that to see the new elements in Google Maps after they made edits in Poland.

We made there a long term mapping action in and around the city Wielun.
The organisator, captain of firewor department got permission to draw a new bus station (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.22296/18.57740) using the maps of local architects.

He draw the elements before the new bus station was finally built. Three days later the same station was to see in Google Maps. Everything was exactly identical, we used the map comparing for that. The area of the bus station was a brownfield, there was nothing. It was obvious: somebody has copied the OSM content.

We wrote about that in the polish forum: some hours later this content in Google was deleted…

We had similar situations in other city (Lublin). The same reaction from Google…

With other words: we compare not for learning nor for mapping from other maps.