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I was hoping OSM’s new vector tiles would let me design a biking-centric style without hosting tiles myself, but if I’m reading it correctly, shortbread has only limited tags and many of them exist only at certain zoom levels. Looks like I would need to roll my own tiles still anyway. #osm

Уикипедия и информация за Габровския регион

След като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия, за да се вижда за селото. Другата цел беше да видим дали има неща, които можеше да бъдат опреснени. Така се случи, че научихме за двама човека допринесли супер много за България, но са забравени.

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#wikipedia #gabrovo #osm

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Блога на Бого · Уикипедия и информация за Габровския регионСлед като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия…

Vom 19. – 21. September 2025 findet das nächste FOSSGIS-OSM-Communitytreffen @FOSSGISeV im @linuxhotel in Essen statt.

Wer teilnehmen möchte, trägt sich im Wiki ein
fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_OSM_Co oder liest die Einladungsmail auf der #FOSSGISTalk-Mailingliste dazu: lists.fossgis.de/pipermail/fos

Wer Fragen hat, fragt @hafi oder @rudzick

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Massachusetts Pirate Party supports a map that identifies the location of surveillance cameras and the area under surveillance.

Surveillance under Surveillance alternative, this site shutting down October 2025.

Anyone can update the map with camera locations around the world.

The map is based on OpenStreetMap but the data is not visualized on OpenStreetMap.org.

Website: cctv.masspirates.org
Mastodon: @masspirates

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@mappingsupport

Nice curation! And some nice tips (I went a bit fast on the document but bookmarked it! ).

Honestly I am just sad that we have that bloated mess ... At that point (ie 5000+ ) we are getting close to use a DB to store and document them, it could them link either to the ESRI server and/or to some object storage.

Would #OSM US be interested by this kind of project? pinging @watmildon Just focus on Public Domain license will be a good start ....

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The other feedback I got was that people should be incentivized to improve OSM…e.g. delivery companies which use OSM could give discounts to mappers, and OSM itself could have some badges and achievements…

In response, I mentioned StreetComplete, presented the heatmap recently added to OSM profiles, and presented the proprietary web services How Did You Contribute to OpenStreetMap? (HDYC) and OSMStats.

But there’s still a lot more that could be done. At the very least, I hope HDYC and OSMStats can be reimplemented as part of osm.org itself…

hdyc.neis-one.orgHow did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap? by Pascal Neis (neis-one.org)
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It was pretty funny how that person asked whether there is any way to “reach out to OSM and ask them to only focus on one app”…and I had to gently inform them that OSM (or the OSMF) doesn’t make any apps, that each app was made by independent developers, and that there is no top-down authority dictating who works on what… 😅

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One of the participants said that having multiple apps is too complicated for the average person.

At that point, I…

  • had covered #CoMaps (with exercises to practice bookmarking things, editing bookmarks, browsing bookmarks, using the navigation, enabling the Metro layer, and using the search),
  • had gotten started with #iD,
  • and had mentioned #MapComplete to the complainant in response to a query of theirs.

In the heat of the moment I said that having one app that can do it all would become a pretty complicated one (just look at OsmAnd)…but is that really true if the UI is well-designed…?

#OsmAPP (osmapp.org) aims to be one such “universal app for OpenStreetMap”. I hope it can achieve its goals while still remaining tech-illiterate-friendly…

OsmAPPOsmAPPAn open-source map of the world based on the OpenStreetMap database. Features a search, clickable points of interest, in-app map edits, and more!

@imp3tuz If your area is totally unmapped - no streets or buildings - go to osm.org and click Edit. That opens the browser-based editor called iD. Follow the walkthrough.

If you want to add all kinds of details and a gamified experience, see StreetComplete on Android. (The closest thing on iOS is Go Map, until the StreetComplete iOS port is finished.) StreetComplete also supports making photo notes which can be used with iD.

MapComplete is another easy way to add points and notes from your phone and desktop. Uniquely, it also allows you to add photos, ratings, and reviews for places. If it’s too slow on your phone, try the native version.

If you have questions, search wiki.openstreetmap.org. If you still have questions, ask on Fedi or on the OSM XMPP channel 🙂

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz/114929877915497836

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The workshop mostly had people from non-IT backgrounds, so I was amazed by how enthusiastic they were - much more so than the usual tech crowd I teach.

They were residents of Naraina Village, which is somehow missing on every map, #OSM included. I guess the prospect of rectifying that was at least partially responsible for the enthusiasm.

Yesterday was pretty hectic. Didn’t sleep well at night, had to do a 4 hour (!!!) #OpenStreetMap workshop from 10:00 to 14:00 in a pretty distant part of the city (Naraina), then rush to a whole other edge of town (Noida) to conduct a mapping party from 16:00 to 19:00…

By the end of it all, I got a fair headache, probably from sleep deprivation. I got home at 21:00, gave the cat some food, and hit the sack immediately. 😅