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What limits the quality of your contributions to OpenStreetMap data? The answer is surprisingly simple.

I propose a simple Three-Star system to categorize your edits according to how much value you personally add to the data you contribute to OpenStreetMap.  read more »

The OpenStreetMap database gets bigger every day. The dataset is freely licensed and available in what we call a planet file. This means that if you want the OpenStreetMap dataset, you can have it. This also means that you are dealing with the entire dataset, for the whole planet, even if your interest is limited to a smaller area. If your interest is geographically limited, pushing around 6G¹ more data than you need to push around seems wasteful.  read more »