Mr. Satterly

You are reading my OpenStreetMap profile page. I map the City of Gillette in Campbell County, Wyoming, USA. To other editors, I welcome suggestions and changes to the map in the city. Would love for someone to review the work.

Besides OpenStreetMap, I have contributed to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, Find A Grave, iNaturalist, and other projects with information, research, and photos for Gillette. My website with Gillette resources, Unix-like computer resources, and other projects is available at https://MrSatterly.com/.

Gillette, Wyoming status

Here are just a few of the more irritating problems or a todo list of issues with the area.

• Few buildings have addresses (high priority)
• Many businesses inside strip malls and commercial buildings are missing (medium priority)
• Many of the residential areas are still missing houses (medium priority)
• Treating pedestrian ways as first-class the same as cars (medium priority)
• Creeks have wrong direction and are unfinished to the county line (low priority)
• Some businesses, roads, and buildings are incorrectly classified or unclassified (low priority)
• Minor power lines are unfinished (low priority)

Current reasoning used for Gillette

This is for when there might be confusion. There are still countless edits by multiple editors that have not been made uniform. But as the only current local editor of the city in many years I have been left to my own devices for better and worse. As always, feel free to let me know if any of this runs counter to general conventions.

• Imagery — Currently using the newest imagery which is Bing Maps.
• Imagery offset — Too hard to figure out without real surveying equipment. There are several GPS tracks, but without many more or more precise equipment, it seems an impossible task.
• Strip malls — Yes, the city is full of these. Generally the building gets labelled commercial or retail. Then each business inside gets it’s own point. I place the points close center of the part of the building they occupy and near their entrances.
• Multi-level commercial buildings — Points are placed where each office or shop is physically located. 1st level is placed closer to the front of the building with 2nd level further back. The only building this is a mess for is First Interstate Bank downtown.
• Religious area — There should only be one of these in Gillette - The Saint Mathew’s Catholic Community. The rest are simply churches or mosques with a shed and parking. Only the catholic community area is named and truly has more than one building and services. Multiple overlapping areas is just a mess.
• Building colors — These change too fast. Best to stick with building levels and roof shape for 3D mapping. Those would likely never change.
• (very short) Driveways — Almost never added in the city. Mostly only used in the county.
• Micro mapping in general — Reserved for mostly amenities and novelties that are of public interest and in a more permanent location such as drinking fountains or air sirens.