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 have worked on road network improvements in the following countries:-
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- 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:
- Adding missing roads
- Validate existing tags like- classification - Residential, Trunk, Motorway etc and attributes - Bridge, Tunnel, links etc.
- 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:
- Bolt smoothened GPS traces (internal and non-downloadable file)
- Find the best imagery properly aligned per GPS traces and ground truth
- Use JOSM with GPS traces and best imagery as reference
- Visually identify missing roads and add them
- Correct classification and attribute errors in existing data
- Run validation and fix all errors and warnings
- Upload changeset with appropriate comments
Bolt’s Data Team
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[1] |
| Ukraine | YES | Slack | YES | YES |
| Lithuania | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Latvia | YES | Talk list | ||
| South Africa | YES | Talk list / Owner of talk list | ||
| Ghana | YES | Talk list / Telegram | YES | YES |
| Nigeria | YES | Talk list / Facebook | YES | YES |
| Kenya | YES | Talk list | ||
| London | YES | Talk list | ||
| United Kingdom | YES | Talk list | ||
| Portugal | YES | Talk list / Telegram | YES | YES |
| Romania | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Azerbaijan | YES | |||
| Estonia | YES | Talk list | ||
| Tanzania | YES | Talk list | ||
| Poland | YES | Talk list / OSM Forum | YES | YES |
| Croatia | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Czech Republic | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Saudi Arabia | YES | Local mapper (Khaled AlOtaibi) | ||
| Austria | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Georgia | YES | Talk list | ||
| France | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Hungary | YES | Facebook group / Google group | YES | YES |
| Tunisia | YES | Talk list | YES | YES |
| Russia | YES | OSM Forum | YES | YES |
- ↑ We mark Approved=YES, if we got response from the community and there are no objections from the latter.