Die korrekte eingabe von Öffnungszeiten in OSM ist sehr hiflreich, damit Anwendungen wie Navigationssysteme, Karten-Apps oder lokale Verzeichnisse die Daten zuverlässig nutzen können.

Hallo, wir haben eine Übersichtskarte der Fahrradreparatur-Säulen sowie der E-Bike-Ladestationen für Deutschland erstellt. Leider auf GoogleMaps und möchten diese jetzt lieber auf OSM weiterführen, haben aber nicht die Kenntnisse, wie wir die bereits vorhandenen Einträge überführen können bzw. ob dies überhaupt erlaubt ist. Kann uns jemand unterstützen oder Tipps geben?

Slowly working to edit and add information about public infrastructure, along with surveillance information.

Heute vormittag kam in einem OSM-Channel die Frage auf, wie man den Bereich ermitteln kann, den die Feuerwehr beim Löschen rund um einen Hydranten abdecken kann.

I havent written anything in this diary yet, so I decided to just do that.

Al Nabi Colony, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan Sells groceries, snacks, and daily household items. This is a physical and actively operating business.

April 15–19, 2025, proved to be a special landmark in my mapping experience when I participated in the OSM Spring Mapathon 2025, sponsored by Youth Innovation Lab. I am excited to announce that I won the Beginner Category for 22,922 map changes!

This acknowledgement is meaningful to me—not only as a personal achievement, but also as a personal reminder of my growth since first hearing about OpenStreetMap (OSM) during 2021. At that time, OSM was merely another name, still learning its way into my periphery. Little did I realize the meaning that OSM would take on as an important part of my learning and contribution trajectory.

I committed a certain amount of time each day during the Mapathon to updating map data. Anything from adding roads, perfecting building footprints, or fixing map glitches and errors. Each change adding to a sense of satisfaction that somewhere someone would benefit from finally going through something that they could map out into a community, and their community becoming visible, sharing their data.

The event itself was inspiring. While Youth Innovation Lab was the primary host, the Mapathon brought together fellow mappers from across the land, and beyond. Each day’s schedule created an exciting and competitive environment that made staying sedimentary contagious.

Though I did not expect to win the Beginner Category, I am even more so grateful. The motivation of this experience is further proof that with the appropriate due diligence, sprinkling curiosity and learning, anything is possible!

HOT#OSM#Youth Innovation Lab# OSM Spring Mapathon2025

please comment if you know XD

Transliteration Midterm Update!

My urban trekking "recycling"

As you might know, were having OpenStreetMap Awards this year! Finally, after many skipped years, we will have the honour and the joy to recognize people and teams who have made an impact on OSM, whether its by mapping, writing, or coding!

Tagging and additions of USFS roads in the Siuslaw National Forest completed.

Północno-wschodnia Polska (Kurpie) Potrzebują pomocy!

Na terenie Kurpii (Łyse, Myszyniec, Kadzidło, Ostrołeka) brakuje wielu kluczowych elementów, aktualnych informacji, i zwyczajnego landuse’u.

Kurpie zasługują na dobrą jakość map, lecz ja sam, nie poradzę sobie z tym dosyć sporym regionem.

Apeluje o pomoc i wspólne działanie w tworzeniu dobrej mapy Kurpii!

Zapraszam wszystkich do wspólnego mapowania tego pięknego, ciekawego i historycznego regionu Polski.

Zachęcę po Kurpiowsku :

Dawajta, róbta to razem!

In 2020, I was presented with an opportunity to participate in the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s Data Quality Internship, https://www.hotosm.

Most of our mapping parties, if not all, start with a brief introduction. The newbies are informed about the various benefits of using and contributing to OpenStreetMap, such as massive improvements to the individual’s privacy and an easy mechanism t…

Revert/tag correction operations

Kex Gill (humorously named the Côte de Blubberhouses for a stage of the 2014 Tour de France) is a road in Yorkshire between Harrogate and Skipton.

The twenty-fourth development diary marks the most significant milestone in OpenStreetMap-NGs journey to date: the launch of our public test instance.

OpenStreetMap NextGen Development Diary #24 — Public Launch

OpenStreetMap went viral! Well, sort of.

Kombinierter Reit-/Rad-/Fußweg

Working independently to help plot missing areas but conscious of the current geopolitical situation. Can anyone recommend if there’s any areas to be mapped out of urgency? For instance Texas with the current floods, Gaza or Ukraine etc for the humanitarian issues and destruction of war. I want my work to have as much positive impact and possible and consequentially don’t want to be plotting somewhere remote in say Africa for instance when actually somewhere else is in a much more urgent and desperate need. Many thanks.

WORKSHOP MPCS 2025 OPEN FOR FREE REGISTRATION

Seit dem Frühjahr 2020 gibt es in Deutschland ein neues Verkehrszeichen: den Grünpfeil nur für Radfahrende. Es erlaubt Radfahrenden, auch bei roter Ampel nach rechts abzubiegen.

I notice all across China that bots have destroyed powerlines and now they are missing many segments that were previously complete.

Lange habe ich gedacht, dass dieses Tag durch PTV2 überflüssig werden wird, bis ist gemerkt habe dass es notwendig ist.

Das Tag “highway=bus_stop” (nur zulässig auf Knoten) ist nicht veraltet. Es ist notwendig damit die Bushaltestelle in vielen Karten dargestellt wird. Z.B.: auf der Standardkarte openstreetmap.org

Im Wiki steht auf der Seite Tag:highway=bus_stop in der Spalte “Verwendung” nur “Kompatibilität”. Die mehr als 10 Jahren von PTV2 haben aber gezeigt, dass das Tag weiterhin gebraucht wird.

Es müsste “verpflichtend” heißen. (Auf der englischen Seite heißt der Eintrag auch Required)

Activities Performed

• Participated in ‘‘transmission grid planning’’, applying surveying and cartographic principles to infrastructure development.
• Conducted line routing and selection exercises, evaluating terrain and land use for optimal transmission line alignment.
• '’Collected and recorded coordinates’’ using GNSS equipment to support planning and line diversion strategies.
• Assisted with **line diversion assessments by integrating spatial analysis and route optimization techniques.
• Engaged in GIS-based mapping and spatial data management for transmission corridors and project layouts.
• Supported **drawing office tasks including drafting, editing, and refining technical layouts for transmission lines using AutoCAD and GIS software.
• Contributed to the preparation of survey reports*, integrating observations, geospatial data, and recommendations for planning documentation.

Skills Applied

• Georeferencing and symbology in GIS
• AutoCAD drafting and technical alignment
• Thematic layering and map production
• Field coordination using QField and GNSS tools
• Formal report writing and spatial data interpretation

Today’s tasks deepened my understanding of how surveying and cartographic techniques drive transmission infrastructure planning. The integration of GIS with field activities reaffirmed the importance of spatial accuracy in energy distribution networks. I was particularly engaged with the line diversion analysis, which challenged both technical reasoning and spatial decision-making. I continue to learn from my mentors and refine my approach to precision mapping and collaborative survey documentation.

Straße/ Weg falsch eingezeichnet. Führt zu unschönen Problemen

Part 1: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Negreheb/diary/405306
Part 2: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Negreheb/diary/406030

Dear OSM Community and Team, Is there any possibility of accessing a newer imagery layer, such as Maxar? The current Bing Maps Aerial imagery appears to be significantly outdated, which makes it challenging to accurately update or edit map content.

I see many diaries on OSM, but unfortunately the good ones are hard to find, if they can be found at all.

Kann Karten nicht mehr drucken!

This is my my second day into the field of OSM, i went back and edited my home grown plce, yuh my home village and and waiting to welcome any reviews because i believe it is the right think to do and am welcoming any mistakes and am hoping to add many more places on the OSM today I went ahead and edited my villages by adding the various buildings and trees that haven’t been mapped yet

so i’m nearing my 10,000th edit on openstreetmap.
wild. i’ve been thinking a lot about what that actually means.
what started as a hobby - or maybe an obsession - has slowly become a record of care.
a way to see.
a way to let others see.
mapping Bangkok, piece by piece.
making it just a little more visible.
a little more precise.
a little more known - to others,
and to myself.
i’ve been thinking a lot about maps.
about what this whole thing has meant - not just as a mapper,
but as a local voice,
a small thread in a bigger web, by others.
by myself.
by the place itself.
piece by piece.
making it just a little more visible.
a little more precise.
a little more known - to others,
and to myself.
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i’ve always loved maps.
even when i didn’t know the word for what i was feeling.
as a kid, i was drawn to them like magnets.
atlases in bookshops. globes with soft pastel oceans.
the tiny maps printed on the backs of business cards.
spatial things made me feel calm.
made me feel like the world could be held in my hands.
Vast space compress into something compact, 2 dimensional.
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my first game was simcity 4 - my dad played it.
i didn’t really get it,
but i still did play it.
a lot,
to much, maybe.
then came minecraft.
and yeah, like every gen z kid,
i was obsessed. not the survival part.
i built cities.
creative model.
little parks and structures.
entire worlds.
i think i was looking for something i hadn’t seen yet in real life.
or maybe building the kind of place i wanted to see.
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i still don’t know where the fascination comes from.
maybe it’s an autistic special interest.
maybe it’s just how i’ve always tried to make sense of things - through shapes,
through patterns,
through place.
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it was the monsoon season of 2021.
midst of covid lockdown. my last year of high school. rain on the roof every day.
i opened openstreetmap one night and… that was it.
the editor was slow, clunky, frustrating - but something about it felt right.
i mapped a street.
then my school.
then a neighborhood.
then a whole district.
and then i edit.
and edit.
like nothing else matters.
i know it’s not healthy.
i know i’m not supposed to feel this alive hunched over a screen, tracing lines, renaming bus stops, aligning satellite tiles until my eyes blur.
but it satisfies something.
something deep.
something hidden in a place i don’t have a name for.
a warm ache in the center of me that only quiet edits can soothe.
so i keep going.
i expand.
translating tools like josm into thai, writing wiki articles, answering forum posts like i’ve been part of this community forever.
and maybe i have.
maybe this is my hometown, too.
not the real one, but the mapped one.
the shared one.
the infinite, editable one.
and now i’m here.
thousands of edits later.
still tracing, still tagging.
still trying to name things.
still looking for a way to understand the world a little better.
openstreetmap is familiar to me now.
like an old friend.
like a ritual.
and somewhere along the way i realized - 
i believe in open-source.
i believe in open-content.
i believe geographical data is a human right.
i believe it should be free.
for everyone.
forever.
and yes - 
i do love openstreetmap
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thanks for reading. if you’re here, you probably get it.
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🗺️✳️
krittin

This project began with my own steps — capturing street-level imagery from Daffodil International University to Eastern University, Dhaka, Savar. Using Mapillary, I documented the road to support open mapping.

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