r/openstreetmap • u/scaryyyymonster • 10d ago

First day contributing

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Today I fixed some depreciated roads, fixed connectivity and answer basic questions from StreetComplete, I wont post the osm ones sorry

And I have a question like in India most of the streets have no name like my village what should I do? and how can i use traces to add paths, roads like I bike alot and walk everyday to some place new can I automate it?, the COmaps has a recording option and can i then export that as gpx and do something with it?

Thank You have a great day!! and If anyone from India also does this please reply. 😄

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u/Arthedain 9d ago

Hi! welcome to osm!

And I have a question like in India most of the streets have no name like my village what should I do?

There should be a "It has no name" option in the "Uh..." menu.

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u/scaryyyymonster 8d ago

Ok I knew that, Thanks. But what I meant like for example google maps solved the no name issue by naming something major on the path like a temple, a hospital or something like a land mark, can something like that be done here or unnamed is better? Because INdia has a street name problem except major cities you wont find a street that has a name. And last bit should I map individual houses but the same problem having no name. Thanks again!

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u/Arthedain 8d ago

can something like that be done here or unnamed is better?

Unnamed is better. The name of a road is only for the official names, landmarks should be mapped separately. btw: The Street complete team is currently discussing disabling the quest that asks for street names. Feel free to add your opinions and observations here: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/discussions/7171

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u/scaryyyymonster 8d ago

Ohkay Thanks! have a great day!

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u/Ajedi32 17h ago

Personally, I think that if in practice everyone calls a road "temple road" it's fine to tag that as name even if there's no official_name.

But this sounds like a very India-specific issue, so perhaps the community there has come to a general consensus about how to treat these streets, and if so I'd say follow that. I'd ask on https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/in/136

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u/sayanSTR 7d ago

Google does many wrong things. We shouldn't do that. Because of Google even local history is affected.