Organised Editing/Activities/Wonder

About Us

Wonder is a meal delivery company based in the United States and founded in 2021. Our current service area includes certain municipalities in northern New Jersey and Downstate New York.

Use of OpenStreetMap

Wonder uses Mapbox's Directions API to provide routes and turn-by-turn navigation to delivery drivers, with OpenStreetMap as the underlying data source. This routing engine differs from a typical consumer routing engine in that it takes into account the height and weight of the delivery vehicle, and avoids any roads with incompatible height clearances and weight restrictions (among other factors that may inhibit vehicles larger than personal automobiles).

Wonder also uses OpenStreetMap as one of many sources of truth in address data. Many address databases have incomplete or inaccurate data on multi-family buildings, housing complexes and gated communities. We seek to add accurate address data to OpenStreetMap to mitigate delivery problems to such places, not only for Wonder, but for everyone performing deliveries.

Editing process

On OSM, we make small changes daily in response to driver and customer feedback, as well as proactively in anticipation of expanding to new service areas.

When working on roads, we primarily edit these tags:

• oneway=*
• access=*
• hgv=*
• maxheight=*
  • maxheight:signed=no
• maxweight=*
  • maxweight:signed=no
• type=restriction

When working on buildings and addresses, we primarily edit these tags:

• landuse=residential
• building=*
• addr:housenumber=*
• addr:street=*
• addr:city=*
• addr:state=*
• addr:postcode=*
• addr:unit=*
• addr:flats=*

Tooling

Wonder uses the Overpass API to identify problematic elements on OpenStreetMap. This includes, but is not limited to, residential driveways missing access=private and underpasses missing height restrictions.

The mappers on our team use iD to edit.

We use Atlassian Jira internally to track issues with deliveries, address data and routing. Most of our edits on OpenStreetMap are in response to Jira issues.

Mapping Team

These users will be carrying out the edits. We will update this list if additional users are added to the project.

Former Team Members

• Clay Smalley
  • clay_c@wonder (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
  • clay_c on OSM-US Slack
• Eric Dircksen
  • edircksen (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
  • Eric Dircksen on OSM-US Slack

Feedback

We are always open to community feedback on our work. Feel free to leave a changeset comment, message, or reach out to us directly via email.