Hey folks,
while checking issues in my area I came across two accounts PedestrianMapping_GeoMasker and PedestrianMapping_PathRelay which claim on their user page to work for Meta and linking to a quite blank wiki page. No accounts mentioned, no current activities listed for US. Anyone knows anything?
At least the bare minimum would be a properly filled wiki page and announcing their planned activities to the community (which I maybe missed?).
The page looks filled out to me. Maybe the page had issues loading for you the first time?
They also link to a github project:
And an editor that they developed:
Edit:
As far as “no accounts listed” I see 26 accounts listed under the US based team,
57 linguists (and some team leads) listed under the international team,
41 mappers (some QA, 1 team lead) listed separately under the international team section.
They do have a list of current activities:
AI Assisted Road tracing
Multipolygon Relations cleanup
vandalism cleanup
Profanity cleanup
Map Roulette
Etc.
As far as activities in the US specifically, looking for something that’s probably related to those 2 accounts, from their wiki page they had a link to “Meta/Pedestrian Mapping”. That page lists out a number of US cities, when it started, and whether it’s still in progress or complete. There’s also a point of contact for each project/location.
If you look through that list of cities, there is nothing mentioned for March 2026 nor there is anything mentioned for Michigan.
Don’t get me wrong, it might be great to improve pedestrian mapping. But it’s also crucial to engage with the local community to discuss the plans and not just to steam-roll the area and leave it with added crossings on driveways, removed crossing:signals duplication of tags… highways now intersecting traffic islands… which were just cleaned up. Yeah, I’m quite frustrated at the moment.
The quality is definitely quite variable by user. I’ve seen some users map quite accurately (kerb ramps at the actual kerb ramp), and then others that are slapdash. Very annoying.
Looking into this a little deeper, they have an open Map Roulette challenge here:
The leaderboard is showing a number of those “PedestrianMapping_” users:
Zooming in on the map shows a few thousand tasks that are open for the Michigan area.
They have instructions for their mappers at the bottom of the page here:
And they link to some some OSM wiki guides here:
Useful resources
It seems they’re open to correcting any issues with their guidelines considering their history with similar issues (as listed at the bottom of their organised editing/activity page). So it would be worth getting the details of how they can improve their guidelines to their mappers, or anyone else participating in this challenge.
From the contribution visualizers on their profiles, it’s clear that they only map during the workweek, and your comments on their changesets are a day or less old - maybe give them time to respond?
This thread is not so much about those two guys who did the edits in my case. Apparently they just did what they got told to do. Maybe not in the best way, but I don’t blame them.
It’s mainly about the lack of discussion with the local community ahead of that organized edit, which should happen 2 weeks ahead based on our guidelines.
Unfortunately there is no feedback so far, but they seems to add the removed crossing:signals in my area.