Organised Editing/Activities/LBM Pilot Project

Parent Project Page

DE:Rheinland-Pfalz/LBM OSM Pilot Project

Rationale

In 2024, the Landesbetrieb Mobilität Rheinland-Pfalz decided to make select data open for use in OpenStreetMap. This helps solve a few key issues that officials face. Official data is often kept in a form that works for specific departments or functions, but this can make it difficult to mix and use for other, newer projects. Contributing to OpenStreetMap creates a central repository that improves the accuracy with officially surveyed data, and allows public participation in keeping attributes more current.

The long-term goal is to establish a symbiotic update cycle in which official data is regularly uploaded, and public improvements are used to keep network attributes more current. This page serves as the central point to document the overall status and progress of the pilot project.

Contact

You can contact steglitz for any questions related to importing, merging, and updating data into OSM.

steglitz (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)

Community consultation

As this is a pilot project and the first organizational mass edit, community consultation has been conducted primarily through the community matrix server and wiki documentation. A detailed project overview, including progress, is available on the DE:Rheinland-Pfalz/LBM OSM Pilot Project page.

When individual steps are ready, a request for public comment will be posted on the matrix server and on the relevant mailing lists.

Hashtag

Individual edits will use the hashtag: #LBM_RLP

Timeframe

The project, as a whole, began in January 2026 and is expected to conclude by December 2026, after which ongoing maintenance will continue to support the data.

Tools and data sources

Data Sources

Data sets provided come from official sources and are catalogued on the project page. For this mass edit, the goal is to include network node point data, which can be found here:

- Higher-level data about the Netzknotenpunkte can be found here:
  - Netzknotenpunkte RLP 
- The data can also be accessed as a WFS layer.

Tools

Datasets are maintained in an organizational database and made available, for this project, via WFS and a shared drive. Data is imported into QGIS, where the CRS is normalized, and categories are prepared to match the desired tagging scheme. The converted data will then be imported into JOSM and converted into the required format for the OSM import.

Participants

• steglitz (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)

Measuring our success

In this particular instance, no conflicts are expected, and we're adding point values so success is a full import. Later, when we work on integrating the current street network, we'll have stages and a way to measure completeness.

Training/instructions

Individual steps will be documented as the import is prepared, both for future mass edits and for those looking to do the same thing.

Post-event clean-up

Following a mass edit, results will be retrieved by attributes and hashtags and compared with source layers.

Results

The status of updates will be documented on each mass edit page, as well as the project page. In the case of this first update, these are point values that do not exist in the dataset, so it is not anticipated that there will be any conflicts. If any conflicts do exist, they will be resolved directly in JOSM before publishing the full change request. Additionally, progress will be discussed in the matrix group for mass imports, where relevant feedback can be obtained in the event that anything unexpected occurs.