My kid got a new project: find fire stations. Google Maps is not really helpful here, obviously. And searching in the OpenStreetMap web interface is also a lot of work. But Overpass Turbo is able to find all the places.
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As reference for me: find benches with missing access tag in JOSM when editing OpenStreetMap:
amenity=bench -access=* inview
As reference for me: find buildings with missing tags in JOSM when editing OpenStreetMap:
building=* -"roof:colour"
building=* -"roof:shape"
OpenStreetMap is an awesome project. Contributors constantly improve a online map and add new data, fix items in the map which did change in the real world, or improve the data for a number of projects (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, List) building on top of the map. Being outside a lot, I figured that I can contribute as well. It's just a question of how to transport the data from "out there" back to the laptop in my office. After probing around and trying a few tools, I came up with 3 different ways, depending on the situation and amount of changes.
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