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Being now 67 years of age I have started to think that I should get out and explore my local area. Partly to get fitter but also I have now got my free bus pass and I intend to exploit it. I have lived in Doncaster since 2016 (7 yrs). I have some knowledge of the local area obtained by driving around, but I feel its time I got out on my bicycle and explore.


Revised Script for usage in macOS 12+ with zsh:
#!/bin/zsh
echo "Download"
wget -t0 -c "http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/andorra-latest.osm.pbf"
wget -t0 -c "http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/austria-latest.osm.pbf"
wget -t0 -c "http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/belgium-latest.osm.pbf"
wget -t0 -c "http://download.geofabrik.de/africa/canary-islands-latest.osm.pbf"
wget -t0 -c "http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/czech-republic-latest.osm.pbf"
wget -t0 -c "http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/denmark-latest.osm.pbf"

echo "Convert"
./osmconvert --drop-version andorra-latest.osm.pbf -o=andorra-latest.o5m
rm -rvf andorra-latest.osm.pbf
./osmconvert andorra-latest.o5m -o=merged.o5m
rm -rvf andorra-latest.o5m

for FILE in ./*.osm.pbf; do ./osmconvert --drop-version $FILE -o=$(basename $FILE .osm.pbf).o5m; ./osmconvert $(basename $FILE .osm.pbf).o5m merged.o5m -o=merged_cache.o5m; rm -rvf $(basename $FILE .osm.pbf).o5m; mv -v merged_cache.o5m merged.o5m; done

echo "splitter" 
## latest splitter Version r653 used
java -Xmx5G -jar splitter-r653/splitter.jar --output-dir=tiles --max-nodes=1200000 merged.o5m

echo "mkgmap"
## latest mkgmap Version r4910 used
## template 2022pn.typ used, use what you like :)
java -Xmx5G -jar mkgmap-r4910/mkgmap.jar --country-name=OSMMap --family-name="OSM map" --product-version=1 --bounds=bounds-latest --dem-interpolation=auto --make-poi-index --poi-address --unicode --index --split-name-index --gmapsupp --report-routing-islands -c mkgmap-r4910/examples/sample.cfg -c tiles/template.args 2022pn.typ --style-file=../ --check-styles --route --net --gmapi --add-boundary-nodes-at-admin-boundaries

echo "final clean up"
rm -rvf *latest.o5m
rm merged.o5m
cd tiles
rm -rvf *.osm.pbf
cd ..
rm -rvf 6*.img 
rm -rvf ovm_6*.img

echo "The End"




… unless you want a greatbighuge label inexplicably hovering over the map at z=16.

Looking over this fine city of Toronto, I saw a couple of brown labels for places that are sort-of not real. Exporting and grepping local exports showed me they were landuse ways with a name value set.

I’m sure there are plenty of good examples where a landuse area would have a name. In these cases, though:

  • one was the name of a city/developer study from roughly five years ago that has disappeared from the record since then. Will it become a neighbourhood name? Who knows, but that’s for the future and not for us to force. (fun fact: it’s apparently the densest concentration of office workers in the city. Less fun but very Toronto fact: there is no dedicated transit there. I had a job there ~2006–2008 and new transit was planned, but then the trainwreck formerly known as Mayor Rob Ford happened so it didn’t.)

  • one was a drive-by tagging error by an out-of-band specialist. I really think they meant it for a bus stop.
Aligned with my personal policy of “Only kvetch after fixing”, they’re gone and our z=16 will be so much less jarring. Thank me later.










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I am contributing to OpenStreetMap because I want to make the world a better place by adding verified information.



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You will smiling, but yes. Again vandalism. Thousands of obscene names have been added to the map. Entire cities were flooded with offensive expressions. I have never seen so huge vandalism.

I thank everyone who worked on solving this problem. You do the good job. Thank you very much.





Village and union council

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.





Hello everyone, I am here again with the last Blog of my journey as an Outreachy intern. For those who don’t know me , I am Neelima Mohanty , selected as an Outreachy intern at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOTOSM) for the May to August Cohort. If you are new to my blog then make sure you read my previous Outreachy Blogs before going through this blog post.

Just 3 months ago I received an email at my inbox from the Outreachy organizers according to which I got selected as an intern at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team for the May to August 2023 cohort . And look today my internship is going to end in just two days . So I planned to take you all into a rollercoaster ride of my internship journey .

In the first month I was welcomed by my mentors Rob Savoye and Petya Kangalova where Petya introduced me about the HOT Community . Next I was assigned with many github issues from the projects FMTM and osm-fieldwork by my mentor Rob . I still remember Rob saying me “ Don’t get overwhelmed by seeing the number of issues assigned . Just pick one and start working now and you don’t have to complete all . Take your time and complete only as much as you can comfortably” . These words were so relaxing for me .

Throughout the months of June and July , I and my mentors worked together . I created PRs and they reviewed it , left comments . I worked on them and finally they merged them . One great thing that I always liked and appreciate is that Petya and Rob always respond quickly to my messages and Rob reviews my PRs in seconds in the most perfect way . I also worked with other members of HOT like Kshitij and Omran for another HOT project called fAIr.

In the last month of my internship Petya and Rob offered me an opportunity to be a co-speaker at the Lightning Talk for the FMTM project at Code for All Summit which I accepted and completed . It will be released on 20th September 2023 on Code for All You tube channel and social media handles. Do watch it .

Yesterday Outreachy organizers had organized a Wrap up chat with all the May to August 2023 cohort interns and mentors where we gave appreciations to our mentors and the organizers gave us a happy farewell.

As now the internship has come to an end , I am invited to attend the Wrap-up Social Event Virtual Meet by Outreachy on 24th August 2023. And my internship ends on 25th August 2023.

My mentors have also scheduled a Wrap-up meet for me on 29th August 2023 in which personally I and mentors will talk about my Outreachy journey and also future opportunities. I am very excited for both the upcoming events.

I thank Outreachy and HOT tech team for giving me such a wonderful opportunity. Finally a huge shoutout to my mentors Rob Savoye and Petya Kangalova for being with me and assisting me at every step of my journey as an intern . That’s it friends , my Outreachy internship journey ends here. Bye 😊


Guten Tag


Ich würde gerne den Bereich des Inselspitals in Bern bearbeiten, weiss aber nicht recht wie. Vielleicht kann mir jemand Tipps geben, wie ich beispielsweise die Spere bei den Gebäudebezeichnungen aufheben kann. Ich bin Mitarbeiter des Spitals und möchte die Karte aktualisieren, so dass die Info auch identisch mit den offiziellen Infos des Amt für Geoinformation Bern. Ich habe in einem Projekt gemeinsam Strassenbezeichnungen, Hausnummern und Gebäude neu benannt. Jetzt muss die Arbeit in den Karten nachgeführt werden.

Freundliche Grüsse


Hi everyone! I am doing my undergraduate studies at Eastern University of Sri Lanka. My course is BA hon’s special in geography. I stared using openstreetmap from 2021 with the guidance of Mr. Sudhaharan sir. In this situation, I grant my heartfelt thank to him. Thank you sir. Now , I am an advanced mapper. I am very happy to share my achievement with you all. In this period, I am working with “El-Nino 2023 Early Warning and Anticipatory Action” project.