just some notes..

I’m kinda proud editor of open street map. My reason is simple. I find a place, say cafeteria, that I really like and want to remember… AND I wan to use Open Street Map as my primary map source. Well the best thing to do is to put all my favourite places with all the details on there right? And so I do. Webpages, openning hours, phones and mail adresses, smoking/nonsmoking… Simply everything.

Here is link with all my changes so far: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kub1x/history It’s not much but I’m working on it. I also write each of the organizations to make them aware of the map and show the support. I’ll also leave some notes here as I have to browse the OSM wiki all the bloody time ;)

Notes about editing OSM

Openning hours (key)

opening_hours=Su-Tu 11:00-01:00, We-Th 11:00-03:00, Fr 11:00-06:00, Sa 11:00-07:00

 Facebook site (key)

I disagree with the following syntax as there is already a reasonable sytnax for wikipedia and almost every organization I know have facebook page and facebook does have nice URL system already. Therefor I’ll use contact style AND the same style used for wikipedia as follows. I’ll also probly discuss this in OSM mailing lists.

contact:facebook=http://facebook.com/Nasekavarna
facebook=Nasekavarna

Czech house numbering system

For address Thomayerova 800/5 we add following three tags:

addr:housenumber=800/5
addr:conscriptionnumber=800
addr:streetnumber=5

Hints

• To start editing: go to http://osm.org > press edit > login/register/watch tutorial > edit the map > save (a.k.a. commit) your changes
• Use reasonable reasonable comment about your commit (about one sentence long) about what you just did.
  e.x.: “added cafeteria Naše Kavárna in the areal of Thomayerova hospital in Prague“
• Do one thing at a time. e.x. don’t mix road edits with addition of cafeteria. Make it two commits instead. It will keep your work organized ;) for you and for others.

My edits

• Naše Kavárna Praha
• Kavárna Muzeum Praha
• Cafedu Praha
• Zelená Zahrada Smetanka Praha
• Café Palanda Praha
• Opravy Kytar Durrhammer Praha
• bezobalu Praha

just some notes

• baby box
• brothel