Organised Editing/Activites/Bolt

Bolt contributes to OSM by improving the map in various countries. Bolt is added to the list of organised editing activities as well.

Road Network Improvement Projects

From 2020 we continually worked on road network improvements (missing roads, turn restrictions, oneway) in the following countries:-

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belgium
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czechia
• Ecuador
• Estonia
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Hungary
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Kazakhstan
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Paraguay
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Saudi Arabia
• Russia
• Slovakia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Tunisia
• UK
• Uganda
• Ukraine

Process Flow

Road network Improvements that are addressed include the following:

1. Adding missing roads
2. Improve routing by adding turn restrictions, vehicle access and oneway tags
3. Adding information about POI
4. Validate existing tags like- classification - Residential, Trunk, Motorway etc and attributes - Bridge, Tunnel, links etc.
5. Cities might be revisited on the basis of new improvements and/or internal requirements.

Below is the detailed process description on how Bolt does mapping:

1. Bolt smoothened GPS traces (internal and non-downloadable file)
2. Find the best open source imagery properly aligned per GPS traces and ground truth
3. Use JOSM with GPS traces and best imagery as reference
4. Visually identify missing roads and add them
5. Correct classification and attribute errors in existing data
6. Run validation and fix all errors and warnings (keep right tool)
7. Upload changeset with appropriate comments (also with #bolt so the community knows the edits we did)

Bolt will use various QA and data quality tools such as JOSM validation warnings and errors, as well as best practices on data quality from the OpenStreetMap Wiki page and LearnOSM

For more information see our github: https://github.com/bolteu/osm_mapping

Feedback

We are constantly in contact with the local community through the local talk list, the OSM forum for that country, a local forum (such as a Telegram group or Facebook page) or by reaching out to local active mappers.

When it comes to feedback, we are open to it and will always take it into consideration, as local community knowledge and expertise always precedes.

Please send any general feedback on Bolt’s work on OpenStreetMap to Bolt024.

Community awareness

We follow the workflow shown on the right, in order to reach out to communities.

Here's the list of OSM communities that we have contacted and the phase the communication is in.

Community	Contacted	Contacted via	Responded	Approved
Azerbaijan	YES	Facebook
Austria	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Belgium	YES	Talk list
Croatia	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Czechia	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Estonia	YES	Talk list
France	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Georgia	YES	Talk list
Germany	YES	Talk list
Ghana	YES	Talk list / Telegram	YES	YES
Hungary	YES	Talk list / Facebook group / Google group	YES	YES
Ireland	YES	Talk list
Kenya	YES	Talk list
Latvia	YES	Talk list
Lithuania	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Nigeria	YES	Talk list / Facebook	YES	YES
Norway	YES	Email kart@nuug.no
Poland	YES	Talk list / OSM Forum	YES	YES
Portugal	YES	Talk list / Telegram	YES	YES
Romania	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Russia	YES	OSM Forum	YES	YES
Saudi Arabia	YES	Local mapper (Khaled AlOtaibi)
South Africa	YES	Talk list / Owner of talk list
Spain	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Sweden	YES	Talk list
Tanzania	YES	Talk list
The Netherlands	YES	Talk list
Tunisia	YES	Talk list	YES	YES
Ukraine	YES	Slack	YES	YES
United Kingdom	YES	Talk list

See also

• https://github.com/bolteu/osm_mapping