One day one of those houses needed to access emergency services. They couldn’t make it there in time. But its ok because it stopped someones feeling of privacy being hurt.

There’s no pleasing everyone, and understanding some people may feel insecure about their privacy is part of the process. It’s important in cases like this to benefit the greater, wider range of people rather than certain individuals. Steps can be and are taken such as having no personal identifying information about people, limiting mapping of private features such as backyards etc to limit privacy invasion.

But that’s where the mapping stops, at publicly available verifiable information. There’s nothing being mapped in OpenStreetMap that should pose any real privacy risk to any individual. It is not up to a single person or group of people if their road should show on a map or not. This group could never encompass all possible users anyway.

This is very detailed! You seem to know the island well, have you been there before?

Thanks for your reply! I’m happy to help out with testing if needed. I didn’t supply a link to the intersection as i fixed the lane tags afterwards, but here’s another nearby example osm.org/#map=19/-41.336413/173.181508

Perhaps defaults for amount of lanes if untagged based off countries could be a good idea but that might be a lot to manage. Have you considered if you aren’t already, defaulting to a different amount of lanes based off what type of highway it is?

Looks like an awesome tool and I’m excited to watch its development.

It seems to break quite badly in left hand drive countries, not accounting for the difference in driving sides of the road. If lane count isn’t set its assumed to be one which doesn’t make sense when a road isn’t tagged as one way. this leads to some very confusing situations such as the sample intersection below.

looks like an awesome project!