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Albania | Data Improvements
Project description
Goal
To improve the map quality in Albania, we propose to make data improvements by sharing challenges that can help fix data errors, and add or edit certain kinds of features or tags.
We will be sharing challenges to capture missing features and fix potential data errors. All challenges available for Albania are listed on this page
When appropriate, our team will also work on these challenges. If a challenge is more suitable to be solved without organised help, we will leave it for local users interested in completing the tasks. Challenges like this will be indicated as such in the overview below.
How to participate
Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project by participating in our MapRoulette challenges. Here is the extended documentation for using MR. Note that sometimes additional instructions are provided within the challenges. We also strongly encourage you to make use of the resources listed in the OSM wiki section Editing Standards and Conventions while you are editing.
Here is the current set of challenges.
Challenges
Missing feature challenges
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Identify and add if needed, a missing building or building information. In addition to that, you can add smaller buildings in the vicinity if you find them missing on the map.
Road network challenges
Quality check challenges
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Identify and fix, if needed, cases where a way with tag highway=* intersects with a building.
Identify and fix cases where the bridge or tunnel has an incorrect tag.
Identify and fix, if needed, situations where a building intersects with another building at the same layer.
Identify and fix if needed, cases where highway junctions are incorrectly or imprecisely mapped.
Identify and fix cases where two or more highways are connected to the same node on a roundabout.
Edits based on map feedback
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We make improvements to OSM based on user feedback submitted for the TomTom map after comparing and ensuring that it is also valid for OSM.
Here is a list of the types of edits to be made, provided they do not conflict with others’ edits and a local source is available:
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Highways
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Adding or correcting highways
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Adding or correcting link roads
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Adding or adjusting bridges, tunnels, layers, or relations
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Adding or updating lanes and related properties
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Adding or updating traffic signs
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Adding or updating access barriers
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Adding or updating turn restrictions
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Addresses
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Adding or correcting addresses
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Updating the position of address nodes, usually when an object has multiple addresses
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Adding or correcting names of ways
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POIs (Points of Interest)
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Adding POIs
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Correcting POI locations
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Adding or correcting POI information
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Resolving POI-land use discrepancies
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Handling POI closures
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Land use
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Adding land use
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Modifying existing land use extent
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Buildings
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Adding buildings
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Updating building type
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Adjusting building shape
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Water
- Adding or realigning rivers, streams, and lakes.
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Railways
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Adding railway tracks
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Realigning railways tracks
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Adding or adjusting railway infrastructure tags such as bridges, tunnels, level crossings
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Ferry Lines
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Adding ferry Lines
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Realigning ferry lines
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Adding ferry terminals
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These are incidental edits spread over time starting May 10, 2023. We follow local guidelines and, if needed, consult with the community before making an update.
Tasking Manager Projects
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We detected gaps in map Gjepalaj (Durrës) by visual check of data and comparing them to reference source materials representing reality. Project Objectives: Identify and map roads, buildings and other objects that are currently absent from the OpenStreetMap dataset.
Geographical scope
Data improvements will be made across the whole country.
Announcements
These projects were announced in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania. Announcement of June 2023 in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania Announcement of July 2023 in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania and OpenLabs Announcement of July 2023 in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania Announcement of October 2023 in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania and OpenLabs Announcements Incorrect Junction of November 2023 in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania and OpenLabs Announcements Incorrect Junction on Roundabouts of November 2023 in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania and OpenLabs Announcement Tasking Manager Project done in December 2023 on OpenLabs and Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania Announcement Add Buildings refill done in december 2023 on OpenLabs and Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania
TomTom organised editing
We will follow the Organised Editing Guidelines for this project. TomTom will not make any edits until two weeks after the project announcement. Here is our Organised Editing page, including a list of our editors.
How to find TomTom's edits
All edits made by our team have the hashtag #tt or #tomtom.
Sources for editing
- Esri World Imagery
- Bing Maps Aerial
For some OSM map edits TomTom editors will use proprietary sources for support. These will typically be in situations where there is not sufficient evidence using the available sources in OSM editors themselves. The proprietary sources will be ground-level imagery and GPS traces, both collected by TomTom's mobile mapping vans. On occasion, we will also use sources collected from a field survey by one of TomTom's sourcing specialists who have visited the location and collected data to support the required map updates.
How to reach out
If you have remarks about a specific edit of ours, please drop a comment in the changeset, and we will do our best to respond thoughtfully. Or, you can also:
- send a message to the project lead Chiara,
- join the conversation in Telegram OpenStreetMap Albania,
- email [email protected] for general questions about TomTom's activities.
