<story><title>What OpenStreetMap can be</title><url>http://blog.systemed.net/post/15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akavel</author><text>As to humanitarian use for OSM and how anyone can contribute by small tasks (I&amp;#x27;ve tried it myself, was surprisingly exciting), enabling faster and more accurate response and travel to people in need, see:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Humanitarian_OSM_Team&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Humanitarian_OSM_Team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;OSM_Tasking_Manager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;OSM_Tasking_Manager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As to work in progress on detection of features and automatic conversion to maps, I&amp;#x27;ve recently found the below website:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.mapillary.com&amp;#x2F;update&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;mapillary-osm.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.mapillary.com&amp;#x2F;update&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;15&amp;#x2F;mapillary-osm.h...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>What OpenStreetMap can be</title><url>http://blog.systemed.net/post/15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lakechfoma</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m excited about this direction! I do minor contributions and poking around my area I&amp;#x27;m surprised by how much of it is done by very few people. How useful it is yet how lacking it is. There&amp;#x27;s a neighboring town that is absurdly well documented, it seems a group of people got together over a month and mapped the place out meticulously, including drawing all buildings etc. This town would work very well for these vector maps, my town probably not so much.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how to get more people involved, and excited, about OSM? How do we make it the Wikipedia of digital maps?&lt;p&gt;And does Strava&amp;#x2F;Mapbox give back? When Strava identifies common bike routes, or perhaps trails, and when Mapbox determines that roads have changed is that given back to OSM in some capacity?</text></comment>