It’s an interesting approach to runway mapping. I’ve mapped areas on occasion using area:aeroway=runway (so not exactly area:runway). Runways can also be rendered as areas if they have a width=* tag, which could make runway areas more or less redundant for rendering purposes.

The main benefit of linear map features is that they inherently have a direction and a length. It’s possible to tag these things explicitly on areas, but this doesn’t seem to be common practice as of now.

Very few features in real life are lines. Fences may be, but roads and hedges always have a certain width. We still map them as lines as that is useful for many cartographic purposes.

I think it’s destructive to remove runways mapped as lines and I think this idea should go through a formal proposal first.

That’s the spirit! Good luck and happy mapping!

You can see the statistics of your progress on https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?ImmaBeReborn

Thank you very much for the new tool!

Thank you, Guillaume, for your continued good efforts and for this interesting read.

I’m curious as to what counts as mapping an AED perfectly means to you, and how that relates to other mappers’ ideas of mapping an AED perfectly.

There should be a way to standardise this, so not everyone has to have a different opinion on what it means to “map an AED perfectly”.

That sounds like a productive project! Are the addresses perhaps good enough to import, or is manual review a necessity?

I do this sort of cleanup all the time. Thank you for taking up this one. I’m sure that your expertise with historic sites is valuable here.

No one is going to change the border while the war is still going on. You can try of course, but I’m sure the Data Working Group will have something to say about that.

The request from the Ukrainian OSM community to not map in Ukraine during the war is still valid: osm.wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_war

A warm welcome to OpenStreetMap!

To start your journey here, I recommend our beginner’s guide.

In the contact channels you can find your local community or you can join an international group of mappers.

Also browse the map features to see the kinds of things we map, and read the good practice to learn the dos and don’ts of mapping.