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. Increasingly, governments are moving their official data to OpenStreetMap to serve as a central living database. Standards are being formed to further unify this data to help improve the overall quality and freshness of the data, making it easier to use and collaborate across borders. OpenStreetMap is regularly consumed as a part of daily operations, so contributing officially collected data both makes sense and serves the public good.
The long-term goal is to establish a symbiotic update cycle in which officially maintained data is regularly updated in OpenStreetMap, and public improvements are monitored to enrich the data and help keep officials informed about changes that may occur between surveys. This page serves as the central point to document the overall status and progress of the pilot project.
Phase I involves adding Netzknotenpunkte as these survey points are both a reference for road network features (e.g., Feature X is 118 meters from point Y) as well as the key identifiers for the roads themselves. These points serve as segment identifiers that can be directly mapped to relations maintained in OpenStreetMap.
Contact
You can contact steglitz for any questions related to importing, merging, and updating data into OSM.
Community consultation
This is a pilot project and the first organizational mass edit. Initial guidance was handled on the OSM Imports channel on the matrix server. Guidance was then used to document the project in the wiki. A detailed project overview, including progress, is available on the DE:Rheinland-Pfalz/LBM OSM Pilot Project page.
Request for public comment has been submitted through the mass edits mailing list and in the German community forum. Attention to these changes were also posted in the Matrix OSM Imports and OSM General channels alerting people to the proposed action.
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 updates.
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. 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
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.