Notes have started appearing on the map from onosm.org. (eg below)
These are fine and useful, and looks like the site is making it easier for people to add their businesses.
It looks like a trivial trick has been missed in that the attributes have to be translated from standard English to OSM form (ie, remove <: > and replace with <=> ) Itād be good to have input masks so the phone number goes in correctly, too.
Does anyone know if the developers can be contacted to suggest this?
Iāve tried learning how to use Github a few times to submit issues, but itās like learning OSM all over again! Iāve never succeeded in submitting a ticket.
If anyone knows of a really basic for-non-programmers guide, Iād be delighted.
You might be lucky, but thereās no guarantee that anyone will look at that, since the wiki page was (I think) added by people unconnected with the website.
So, how would one go about finding such notes that might exist in oneās area of interest? I might start with some sort of Overpass query to search for text common to all such notes, perhaps the string āonosm.org submittedā?
Crank up the limit from 100 to 9999, zoom in to your local area (remember to do this, hover your cursor above āSearchā button and make sure thereās NO āworldwide query enabledā tooltip), type onosm.org into āQueryā box, press āSearchā.
A āpull requestā is āThis needs fixing, and here, Iāve fixed it by improving the code.ā
An āissueā is āThis needs fixing. Please can someone else fix it for me?ā
Both are good but obviously code contributions in the form of pull requests get things done faster!
Friendly suggestion @eteb - please donāt say āProgramming/interface changes needed for this fix are presumably trivialā or things like that in issues. If youāre not a programmer, you donāt know how trivial it will be. Issues should be dispassionate and not judgemental.
Thanks for the info on pull requests, too. I tried working that out through a search, got results like this one, and gave up!
I still hope OSM can become more friendly to non-programmers, tho as I slowly pick bits and pieces like this up (thanks to always considerate support from people more expert), I wonder if people either stick around long enough to learn enough, or else drop away - and so we stay at equilibrium on a steep learning curve.
I am really in the same boat as you even though once upon a time I was an assembly language programmer. I too have been frustrated with Github and the unfamiliar jargon used by advanced programmers here in OSM and elsewhere. In just one example, why would anyone call the operation to fix some code a āpull requestā? Yet, itās a common term in the Github community.
I simply do my thing with the map data and try not to get in over my head on the programming side of things. Lifeās too short to learn all that fine detail. Iām glad somebody wants (and likes), to do it.
Just trying to stay abreast of the various forums where one can seek help is a big job. Another example from my experience: I find the OSM Wiki helpful but extremely frustrating to edit or improve. Itās so frustrating I donāt edit it very often even though I have useful information that could improve or clarify it. My hope is that better Wiki software will come along someday. But when will that be? Nobody knows.
Anyway, good luck in the future at OSM. OSM is a conglomeration of bits and pieces, an all-volunteer effort in which people give of their time when they can so itās far from perfectly coordinated. Still, itās a wonderful organization doing useful and interesting work. Iāve been heavily involved with OSM since 2012 and I derive a good deal of satisfaction from my work every single day. Itās worth any effort you make to understand it better.