Aren't the data already coming from OSM?

If 20% of your calories came from red meat, how many ChatGPT queries does it take to get to the same volume of water consumed as from you answering this question?

There's been a significant rebound over the past six months or so...

Not OP but thanks. I always thought it was rep for reputation

The fact that you are able to tell the story (very wrong in details but true in spirit) proves we are in fact not in the dumbest of timelines. At least we weren't back then.

It's a mismash of a few true stories

Signed, Everyone

You know Lake Ontario was not the only thing that happened just now,, right? And you know public pressure in Canada has been high ever since Trump got elected, right?

Wel yes, sketching is exactly the manual labor I was talking about. The TIGER import was indeed massive and very automated, but the US community is to this day working on reviewing it. The Dutch situation is very similar - because it had early, high quality open data. In countries were data was released later or of poorer quality, the OSM map had already been filled up to a degree that doing these massive imports became very hard. Majority opinion is that that's actually a good thing - it seems like countries where the map was filled organically (both by hand alone or also with smaller, slower imports) have a more thriving mapper community. I don't think the Ordnance Survey data was used for a massive imports, but rather as one source during the mapping process (the others being notes from going there yourself, open street view images, aerial or satellite imagery, ...). As an example, here in Belgium we started importing buildings around 2019, which you can clearly see here. But it only sped up an existing process of adding those buildings to the map.

OSM doesn't really "pull" data. The vast majority is sourced by hand, and adding data from existing sources is a complicated process that requires a lot of preparation and cleaning up afterwards. So basically all of it is a community effort - and a single contributor can make a significant contribution to the project

But but we at OSM have interminable discussion about how to map several flavors of lgbtq stuff. Surely that must count for something?! Also here is an OSM project to show these places https://pkoby.github.io/LGBTQmap/#13/51.4979/-0.0887 And here's a map with just the rainbow pedestrian crossing https://mapcomplete.org/rainbow_crossings

Magic Earth is OSM based, with some extra data added - including limited traffic information. It doesn't have a great score on privacy though IIRC