How do I correct out of date or misplaced icons on the OSM Standard background image?
The ones in red no longer exist the green has moved (a couple of years ago).
I assume you already use web editor based on screenshot.
You can move green point to the new location: simply drag and drop to the new location.
If you know whatâs located in red points now simply update the information. Click on each point and edit in side menu. Remove old information and add new one.
Those 3 shops were edited 9+ years ago. If no business is located now at some location I would remove the point completely.
These are not editable, they are pixels on the background image!
Where is this screenshot from? It looks very much like the standard OSM editor (iD) although there are some differences when I open this location in iD.
If you have an OSM account you can use the iD editor to actualize these locations by yourself. If not, you should post this information in the swedish forum so that another mapper with local knowledge can check and do the changes.
I am going to shift your topic to the help and support section.
Cheers Mikke
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It looks like it might be iD, with the background set to OpenStreetMap (Standard), and Map Data deactivated. This is what I see with those settings:
If thatâs the case, to get editable objects Map Data would need to be reactivated. With those settings there are editable icons on top of of the background pixels:
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How do I go about re-activating âMap Dataâ?
Click on the highlighted tool at the right of my screenshot:
That should bring up the Map Data menu shown in the screenshot - ensure that the first âOpenStreetMap Dataâ checkbox is switched on as shown.
The purple icons do not move or are not erased when I move/delete the misplaced/no-longer-existent featuresâŚ
Do I just wait for some database update or is there some other box I must check to see/edit those?
Thanks for helping!
To me the OPâs original image already looked like it has OpenStreetMap Data active, red shading with the buildings. But the points are wrong. So I looked if i could reproduce this and i could. My screen looks like that wit the âpointâ layer deactivated. To reactivate look at the same menu as for Map Data but further down.
None of the checkboxes make the purple stuff editable or make them go away.
At least I have moved a few âpointsâ and removed a few âpointsâ. But my computer is so slow that moving a point 4 kilometers was fairly painful and required several âstopoversâ!
Did you had all Map Features ticked? When points is active a point shows up as an upside down teardrop. It is that that needs to be edited/moved. The icons on the background will follow, but not necessarily immediate. They are part of the background tiles and will change when the tile is rendered again.
I thought it might take a re-rendering⌠How often does that happen? More than an Hour but is it less than a day or a week?
It looks like at least some of your changes have been rendered:
Note that you might also need to refresh your local cache. Iâm also not sure if the background layer within iD rerenders at exactly the same time as the one you see when simply viewing the map.
Out of interest, why use OpenStreetMap as the background (rather than say aerial imagery which is the usual default)? To me it seems a little confusing in most circumstances to have duplication between the non-editable background layer and the editable data layer. Especially as they will often be out of sync for objects you are editing.
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Re-rendering happens immediately someone requests a particular tile, but in your case (using the OSM background in iD**) weâve no idea if iD would even make that request. Even if it does, there are lots of places where it might be cached between your browser and the OSM server.
In any OSM editor, the best indication of âthe state after you have editedâ is the actual data within the editor - not the background.
Edit: ** iD is the default in-browser editor; what you see on your screen if you click âeditâ by default.
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I use OSM as background to clearly see what data is there!
By the way, what is âiDâ?
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The standard OSM tiles donât show everything though - some data is not displayed for various reasons (mainly for the sake of a readable map). The data layer itself is far more complete.
Itâs the default in-browser editor. Admittedly the name is not obvious if you just hit the edit button - but it appears if you look at the drop down list:
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I could be mistaken but those appear to be associated to the polygon area tags, not the points. You might try to edit the building polygon tags using your map editor to improve those, this is how I do it most often in my local area. Iâm not sure if iâm doing it right, but i try not to have both the point and the polygon labeled where possible as only 1 source is needed to document it imho.
Welcome @gregors
Itâs great to see that you wanna help with, our local knowledge to update things in OpenStreetMap.
People have already been helping you fix this specific issue but from your question I assume you are fairly new to OpenStreetMap
One thing one needs to understand is that OpenStreetMap actually isnât really the map. Rather OpenStreetMap itself is a big database storing points and lines with different properties. The main home page provides a few examples of how this data can be interpreted and displayed as a map.
I can recommend taking a quick look at
LearnOSM to get an overview of the project and how to edit things.
You are of course always welcome to ask questions.
Cheers and happy mapping
How do I get to the polygon editing? The attached image shows a polygon selected but I see no place where the (for over two years now incorrect) âFeldts Socker och Cykelâ is mentioned nor where to find the tile to which the brown text has been appended.
Thanks for the help. I see that some previous changes have been implemented which is always a nice discovery.
Just a guess but it could be two objects overlapping? See if moving the top one out of the way enables you to select a similar object underneath. Otherwise I can try to have a closer look tomorrow morning if another more experience editor hasnât helped by then.