Maproulette

This page contains a demo on how to fix OpenStreetMap data with Maproulette

What is Maproulette?

Maproulette is a tool designed by the OpenStreetMap community and lets you create and manage micro-tasks in OpenStreetMap. A challenge contains a limited set of tasks. You need an OpenStreetMap account to participate. Register here.

How do we use it?

We use Maproulette to create challenges which contains tasks resulting from a match between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap. Each challenge contains a limited set of conflicts (≈ tasks) between both and limited to a certain mode (bicycle, horse riding, walking, ...).

Overview of challenges

Status	Dataset	Mode	Description	Match Distance	url
OPEN	Paths Brussels	Horse	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode horse. Ways in OpenStreetMap have explicit tag limiting access for mode horse.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paths Brussels	Bicycle	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode bike. Ways in OpenStreetMap have explicit tags limiting access for mode bike.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paths Brussels	Walking	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode bike. Ways in OpenStreetMap have explicit tags limiting access for walking.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paths Brussels	Bicycle	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode bike. Ways in OpenStreetMap have no explicit tags limiting access for bicycle.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paths Brussels	Walking	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for walking. Ways in OpenStreetMap have no explicit tags limiting access for walking.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paths Brussels	Horse	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for horse riding. Ways in OpenStreetMap have no explicit tags limiting access for horse riding.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paden Vlaanderen	Bicycle	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode bike. Ways in OpenStreetMap have explicit tags limiting access for mode bike.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paden Vlaanderen	Horse	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode horse riding. Ways in OpenStreetMap have explicit tags limiting access for horse.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paden Vlaanderen	Bicycle	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode bike. Ways in OpenStreetMap have no explicit tags limiting access for bicycle.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paden Vlaanderen	Horse	Conflict between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap for mode horse. Ways in OpenStreetMap have no explicit tags limiting access for horse riding.	10 m	link
OPEN	Paden Vlaanderen / Paden Brussel / Paden Wallonië	All	Paths with a very low or no match between OpenStreetMap and proprietary data	10 m	link
OPEN	Paden Vlaanderen / Paden Brussel / Paden Wallonië	All	Paths with a high match which have a name in the proprietary dataset but not in OpenStreetMap	10 m	link

Tutorial

1. After signing in with your OSM account, go to one of the challenges with the links in the above table
2. You can start going through a challenge with the 'Start' button. You will see the first task and ways to complete the task:
   
   • Edit: the task if valid and changes in OSM are necessary. When you click 'Edit' you will be guided to the OpenStreetMap editor (default ID). Complete the task when returning to maproulette. 
   • Not an issue: the task is not valid. You can add a comment when chosing this status.
   • Skip: skip this task
   • Other: Choose another status
3. When you completed the task, you will get a confirimation dialogue screen where you can add a comment and go to the next task

More generic toturials are also available on YouTube

FAQ

A task is created but I see no problem

All tasks are created based on a match between proprietary data and OpenStreetMap. Where several paths run parallel within the match distance it is possible that a task is created by a mismatch. If it is a clear mismatch, flag the task as 'not an issue'. If you want more information on this tasks, flag it as 'Too hard / Can't see' and add a comment.

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