How to help with missing/broken cities/regions

JamesChevalier · October 22, 2019, 10:34pm

Head on over to Missing/Broken Cities Tracker to report issues and/or help us in the effort to fix data in OpenStreetMap. Please provide as much information as you can.

Here’s what I need in that spreadsheet

The City, Region, and Country columns must be filled in
The OSM Issue column helps, but isn’t required
The OSM Fixed column is there to tell me whether or not the city is ready for import; if OSM is not fixed, then I cannot import the city
The CS Issue is almost always City Missing, but sometimes it can be that there are no streets or no border
The Notes column is a great place to tell me if this is a nested city or not - use the format “nest under [CityStrides link to the parent city]”
The OSM Link column is where you add the link to whatever data you can find - if the issue is that the city exists as a Node, then include the Node link … if the city is ready to go please set this to the Way or Relation link (read below on how to get that) because I cannot import the city without this link
The CityStrides Link column is there in case the problem being reports is for an existing city … it’s not common, but this column is useful for those cases

Here’s how to get the OSM Link

Visit https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org
Search for the city
Click the details button for the city
Copy the relation 123 or way 123 link in the top section of that page
Paste the link into the OSM link column in the spreadsheet