tomtom-international
Cyprus | Data Improvements
Project description
Goal
To improve the map quality in Cyprus, 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.
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 of Cyprus while you are editing.
Here is the current set of challenges.
Challenges
Missing feature and tag challenges
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Data analysis done by TomTom suggests that there should be a road or track here in OSM, but it is missing.
Quality check challenges
- Fix inconsistent highway intersections: OSM Notes
Identify and fix cases where highways intersect without a common node.
Identify and fix, if needed, cases where a way with tag highway=* intersects with a building.
Identify and fix, if needed, situations where a building intersects with another building at the same layer.
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 railway 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 August 1st, 2023. We follow local guidelines and, if needed, consult with the community before making an update.
Geographical scope
Data improvements will be made across the whole country.
Announcements
This project was announced :
- by email to a group of local mappers, May 10th 2023.
- by email to a group of local mappers, June 09th 2023.
- by email to a group of local mappers, July 20th 2023.
- TomTom Map Feedback was announced in Talk Asia Mailing list, July 20th 2023.
- by email to a group of local mappers, October 23th 2023.
- by email to a group of local mappers, November 14th 2023.
- OSM-TR Telegram Group October 30 2025.
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 Hajar
- email [email protected] for general questions about TomTom's activities.
The 'Sources for editing' section updated with the below information-
- Removed Maxar Premium Imagery from the list as it's not available anymore in OSM
- Added a description of proprietary sources to support editing
