I wish I had a before and after picture of my city. I mapped 95% of it over a few years.
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no before/after pics, but my contribs have mostly amounted to:
- an arby's location closed suddenly
- a kfc/taco bell on the same street is now a little caesar's
- this one applied much quicker than the arby's one for some reason
I have made probably thousands of small edits with the app StreetComplete.
This one is just some added details to a community pool.

In this one, a municipal airport wasn't showing up on maps because it's boundary relation was no longer closed. I traced the fence surrounding the airport and used that as the boundary.

I added a few hundred buildings in my city, but there is still a lot more unmapped buildings.
No screenshot, because that would dox me. I am slowly moving through the village, adding house numbers, websites and opening hours for businesses and so on.
Not going to doxx myself, but I've been updating local businesses and their opening hours. I've also been adding things like wilderness huts and campgrounds that weren't yet documented.
NGL the only thing that could make these maps useful for me would be Current Bus Routes, and good luck because in some municipalities not even the city's official websites are up to date and for some reason only Google Maps and Apple Maps are capable of telling when buses and trams actually arrive.
If somebody knows how to fix that please let me know.
EDIT:
Step 1: Find the GTFS data
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit
yeah this! i've bookmarked the page from my local transit agency that contains all their GTFS data, i just don't know how i'm supposed to pipe it into OSM.
You could check out if project https://transitous.org/ is already using this feeds instead. If they don't use them, you could point out developers to this feeds!
Living in suburbia, so mostly adding residential addresses with my dog. (She's my mapping buddy) Also adding/updating businesses whenever I go somewhere and see that it doesn't exist on OSM. Also some paint by numbers if I'm feeling like it.
I added the sushi place near me with all the info, because every time I need to check their website or frigging Facebook to see if they're open or not. I think I'll add more places, its pretty easy with vespucci
I mapped out my entire neighborhood and a few of the surrounding one along with running routes. I also added all the maker labs which was fun. I had no idea there were so many in my town.
It is quite gratifying to know that quite a few services can find my house specifically because I added to the map.
How did you tag the maker labs?
Mostly helping out map bouldering sectors in forests near my home with a friend of mine.
Mainly doing SCEE edits anywhere I go. Updating opening times adding metadata to existing nodes like accessibility for blind ppl. Charging capacity for chargers and a lot of what is this road surfaced with. At one point I even got a laser distance meter to measure bridge height and road width. But that's fairly rare nowadays because I already mapped all of them in a 20km radius.

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