Directed Edits/Microsoft
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This page describes common properties of the directed editing activities by the Open Maps team at Microsoft.
This page is still in the drafting stage. Thank you for your patience.
About our team
The Open Maps team on Microsoft is a small team working to improve the data quality for Openstreetmap. Our team is located in Bellevue, Washington and Serbia. We are not making bulk edits, automated imports or algorithmic 'robot' edits in to OSM anywhere. A full list of our team members OSM usernames can be found on our team Github page here.
Goals
Our goal is to improve OpenStreetMap for our customers. Here are some examples of features we commonly focus on:
- Turn Restrictions
- Signposts
- Lanes and Turn Lanes
- Boundaries
- New roads
- Road names
- Oneways
- Traffic Signals
- Natural features
This is not an exhaustive list.
Mapping Projects
Our list of active mapping projects is [1]. You can leave comments and feedback directly with the relevant Github issue. If you do not have a Github account, please feel free to post your questions and feedback in the Discussion section of this page.
Tools
Our team primarily uses JOSM for editing. We use our own internal instance of Tasking Manager to organize some aspects of our work, but primarily use Map roulette for organized activities. We use public instances of OSM QA tools such as Osmose, KeepRight, OSMCha.
Data
We use many of the data sources that are publicly available to all OSM mappers as JOSM layers.
Whenever we use third party datasets, we list those datasets as part of our project description. We only use datasets that have a license that is known to be compatible with ODbL. When in doubt, we reach out to LWG to vet the license before using the dataset.
Sponsorship
Bing is a Gold corporate member of the OSM Foundation, and supporter of State of the Map events.
| Year | Event | Sponsorship |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | State of the Map | Gold |
| 2019 | State of the Map US | Gold |
| 2019 | FOSS4G SOTM Oceania | Platinum |
| 2018 | State of the Map | Gold |
| 2018 | State of the Map US | Gold |
| 2017 | State of the Map | Gold |
| 2017 | State of the Map US | Gold |
| 2015 | State of the Map US | Bronze |
| 2011 | State of the Map | Platinum |
| 2010 | State of the Map | Platinum |
Contact
You can contact the team through openmaps@microsoft.com.
A current list of the mapping team members can be found here (link).
Our policy is to respond to any mapping related inquiry within 24 business hours.
See also
Open Street Map's Directed_Editing_Policy