It seems mkgmap was updated and no longer uses sea-latest.zip or bounds-latest.zip. I had to tweak the splitter and mkgmap scripts to deal with that, and decided to create a separate script for each country in Central Asia.
On 13 and 14 March 2026, in celebration of Womens Month and International Womens Day, I had the honour of leading the Map Your Campus Mapillary Campaign at Far Western University (FWU) in Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur, on behalf of WOM-AsiaNavigators (Wo…
I have successfully completed the Autumn Mapping Sprint 2025, a one-month remote mapping initiative organized by the Youth Innovation Lab (YI-Lab) under the RAIN (Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal) Programme, funded by UK International De…
“Hello World”
I have begun the OpenStreetMap October map challenge. I have started this for mainly two reasons, 1) preparation for grad school and 2) satiate my endless appetite for learning new things. I love climate science, data visualization, and anime.
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Blanjardy is a purpose-driven brand dedicated to providing important information, professional services, and meaningful opportunities that help individuals, businesses, and communities grow. The mission is to make knowledge accessible, deliver practical solutions with integrity, and support positive initiatives through responsible giving and collaboration. Commitment to innovation, transparency, excellence, and long-term value, is empowering people to make informed decisions and achieve their goals with confidence. Each service provided is guided by professionalism, respect, and a commitment to creating a lasting, positive impact for those being served.
Earlier this year we introduced a sandbox feature within Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Tasking Manager, providing a safe space to practice and experiment with the OpenStreetMap data model.
OSM Smart Menu, the browser extension created by jgpacker, had stopped working on current Chrome. Ive taken over its maintenance, with his support (he transferred the Firefox listing and the translation project), and its available again for Chrome an…
Because this question comes up again and again, I would like to document the answer here in a little more detail.
007 Group Chakwal is a private, non-profit youth organization and friendship brotherhood group based in the Chakwal district of Punjab, Pakistan
Bhubhar is a rural village located in the Chakwal District of Punjab, Pakistan
This post reminds me: I really need to get on tagging which sidewalk sections are too narrow for wheelchairs, or would be wide enough except for the telephone poles stuck in them. Curb ramps at either end only tell part of the story.
I learned about https://streetcomplete.app/ recently and decided to give it a try. I resolved a bunch of quests in the area around my favorite library and in Old Town Pasadena.
Getting started with StreetComplete
I learned about https://streetcomplete.app/ recently and decided to give it a try. I resolved a bunch of quests in the area around my favorite library and in Old Town Pasadena.OpenStreetMap
I while ago, while I was looking at something else, I noticed that there was some fairly recent (June 2025) 360° street-level imagery in Mapillary along part of Chesham High Street, but most of the mapping there was from 10 or more years ago.
Most buildings in OSM never get past a flat grey extrusion, and the reason is
tedium rather than difficulty. Simple 3D Buildings is an easy scheme to read,
but a decent tower needs dozens of polygons, each with its own
and .
tedium rather than difficulty. Simple 3D Buildings is an easy scheme to read,
but a decent tower needs dozens of polygons, each with its own
and .
A few days before SotM 2026 I was speaking to a friend and fellow attendee about the OSM community. I confidently told them the community is never very toxic, as at that time I’d never encountered wide-spread toxicity in OSM, nor had I ever felt that…
Four months ago I started working on Atwood, Kansas. There are other people working on it to, so I was mostly just putting in addresses from the county assessor’s office. Today I put in the last two streets’ worth.
Edtora IVIDES released two ebooks on collaborative and participatory mapping
Butler has to be the smallest place Ive mapped. From the buildings and traces of sidewalks that are visible but now overgrown with trees and grass its clear this was once a more populated area.
How many planet trails are there in Switzerland? A planet trail (chemin des planètes, sentiero dei pianeti, Planetenweg, via da planets) is a walking route that represents the Solar System to scale, with stations marking each planets position.
Mapping fine detail Geluksburg project
Today I was able to participate in a Zoom meeting for the OSM Africa Mapathon where I was able to get more in depth training on mapping and I was able to finish tasks #699, #769, #784 but I still left them to be looked at by mappers more skilled than myself. Along with that we did a Kahoot with questions on OSM. I learned a lot and I hope I’m able to do something similar soon. I also hope from now on I’ll find the time to work on even more projects with my new found skills.
Zoom Meeting for OSM Africa Mapathon and Beginner Training
Today I was able to participate in a Zoom meeting for the OSM Africa Mapathon where I was able to get more in depth training on mapping and I was able to finish tasks #699, #769, #784 but I still left them to be looked at by mappers more skilled than…OpenStreetMap
Yesterday I had a call with the coordinator of Unique Mappers Network after trying to reach out for 2 weeks. This is a very exciting moment for me as I’ve been wanting to volunteer for Unique Mappers Network for a while due to my interest in urban planning and development. Along with my want to volunteer to build a portfolio for my further education as I am still in senior secondary two. I hope that I can develop my mapping skills even further and help both my community and those internationally.
We maintain NoEscape 2.0 (https://nemap.fyi/), a public map built from
Ukraines open court registry: decisions describing border-crossing attempts
(mostly article 204-1) are geocoded and published as derived points - never
exact coordinates, never pe…
Ukraines open court registry: decisions describing border-crossing attempts
(mostly article 204-1) are geocoded and published as derived points - never
exact coordinates, never pe…
Mapping detention cases from court texts: border signs, oblast boundaries, offline maps
We maintain NoEscape 2.0 (https://nemap.fyi/), a public map built from Ukraines open court registry: decisions describing border-crossing attempts (mostly article 204-1) are geocoded and published as derived points - never exact coordinates, never pe…OpenStreetMap
We maintain NoEscape 2.0 (https://nemap.fyi/), a public map built from
Ukraines open court registry: decisions describing border-crossing attempts
(mostly article 204-1) are geocoded and published as derived points - never
exact coordinates, never pe…
Ukraines open court registry: decisions describing border-crossing attempts
(mostly article 204-1) are geocoded and published as derived points - never
exact coordinates, never pe…
Mapping detention cases from court texts: border signs, oblast boundaries, offline maps
We maintain NoEscape 2.0 (https://nemap.fyi/), a public map built from Ukraines open court registry: decisions describing border-crossing attempts (mostly article 204-1) are geocoded and published as derived points - never exact coordinates, never pe…OpenStreetMap
For more than 2 weeks now, Somtochukwu has been passionately following up for an orientation and integration as a volunteer at Unique Mappers Network. He is currently a Senior Secondary School 2 student in Lagos and has reached out to Unique Mappers to volunteer and map unmapped areas in OpenStreetMap. I am so excited to have him at this orientation so he can proceed to contribute to the OpenStreetMap project. Please . join me to welcome Somtochukwu to the world of OpenStreetMap as he signs up for a username and starts mapping !!!
hello! this is a basic draft to work on a possible import of static elevator/escalator data from the MTA largely to support potential work to show live availability data in Transitous.
Tonights London pub meet-up is at the Blue Posts. An old favourite!
This is just a reminder for myself on what to focus on to improve OSM-based navigation
I build Tisseur de Voies, a site that computes loops where you ride one way and take the train back.
Heritage railways fit that model well, because many of them carry bikes for free in a dedicated van,
where regular regional trains count them.
Heritage railways fit that model well, because many of them carry bikes for free in a dedicated van,
where regular regional trains count them.
This is mostly a test post to see how the blog feature works. If you are reading this, hello.
I’ve recently resumed contributing, and have transitioned from focusing on Paola, KS to Lawrence, KS. This is a move I hope to also make in real life in early 2027; until then it will mostly be working off of Esri aerial imagery and mapillary street level photos.
Once moved I’ll be able to survey things properly, and in the medium term after that the hope is also to start to capture 360 camera imagery by bicycle. I don’t have one due to price and the fact that I couldn’t justify one when mapping Paola.
Things that have caught my interest: - Adding parking downtown - Seeing if I like micro mapping things like land use. (will probably do this as a palette cleanser between working on other groupings of tasks) - Adding crossing ways to the bike paths instead of just nodes - Finding bicycle parking and repair stands - Trolling around finding new cycleways on the roads (the city seems to have added a lot of sharrows since the last time someone did this)
The bike route signage situation on the ground is a bit unclear. In some areas the mapillary coverage is good enough to start to tackle that now. In lower traffic areas it will probably be necessary to be in the area to handle properly. Bicycle route relations exist for the area, but seem to have been done by several people and don’t have a coherent style. Making them consistent will likely be a long term project that will require actually having the local network already in my head.
I’ve recently resumed contributing, and have transitioned from focusing on Paola, KS to Lawrence, KS. This is a move I hope to also make in real life in early 2027; until then it will mostly be working off of Esri aerial imagery and mapillary street level photos.
Once moved I’ll be able to survey things properly, and in the medium term after that the hope is also to start to capture 360 camera imagery by bicycle. I don’t have one due to price and the fact that I couldn’t justify one when mapping Paola.
Things that have caught my interest: - Adding parking downtown - Seeing if I like micro mapping things like land use. (will probably do this as a palette cleanser between working on other groupings of tasks) - Adding crossing ways to the bike paths instead of just nodes - Finding bicycle parking and repair stands - Trolling around finding new cycleways on the roads (the city seems to have added a lot of sharrows since the last time someone did this)
The bike route signage situation on the ground is a bit unclear. In some areas the mapillary coverage is good enough to start to tackle that now. In lower traffic areas it will probably be necessary to be in the area to handle properly. Bicycle route relations exist for the area, but seem to have been done by several people and don’t have a coherent style. Making them consistent will likely be a long term project that will require actually having the local network already in my head.
Fall 2026
This is mostly a test post to see how the blog feature works. If you are reading this, hello.OpenStreetMap
Log 1
7:00 PM 19/08/2026
Beginning of Aubin Grove Development. Preview of my home-suburb on the OSM map provides little to no information of locations and landmarks. Using memory of my previous home when I was a child, I was able to remember parts of the house people wouldn’t be able to see on a map very easily with the low-resolution satellite imagery. House address 12 Cape Le Grand Avenue is added for the first marked residential building in Aubin Grove.
Locating my original Primary School, Aubin Grove Primary School, was easy from memory. I noticed multiple discrepancies and immediately improved to location. All discrepancies were fixed and possibly more zones will be added in the future logs.
7:00 PM 19/08/2026
Beginning of Aubin Grove Development. Preview of my home-suburb on the OSM map provides little to no information of locations and landmarks. Using memory of my previous home when I was a child, I was able to remember parts of the house people wouldn’t be able to see on a map very easily with the low-resolution satellite imagery. House address 12 Cape Le Grand Avenue is added for the first marked residential building in Aubin Grove.
Locating my original Primary School, Aubin Grove Primary School, was easy from memory. I noticed multiple discrepancies and immediately improved to location. All discrepancies were fixed and possibly more zones will be added in the future logs.
Every single driveway and sidewalk connection on every road beginning with A has been done. 17 of… 602. AGH.
Fucking diaries? Hell yeah. Anyways, I wanna clean my town up. Driveways and sidewalks are woefully unmapped… I have little idea what I’m doing on a styleguide level. Stared at the wiki, learned a little bit of Overpass to pull up a list of every road in town, and now I’m just alphabetically working through it all…
Day 1
Fucking diaries? Hell yeah. Anyways, I wanna clean my town up. Driveways and sidewalks are woefully unmapped I have little idea what Im doing on a styleguide level.OpenStreetMap
New here, but excited to help. I’ve been using StreetComplete on my commute to help get some things updated and cleaned up here in Vermont
Many routers, such as OSRM, set penalties for barriers like traffic lights or at-grade crossings, to estimate time lost at these points. For intersections with traffic lights, the standard procedure is to put a tag of at the intersecting node.
I run cyclists.com, a library of cycling routes. Every route page tries to answer what a rider wants to know before setting off: how much of it is on busy roads, whether it is paved, where the water and cafés are.
I run cyclists.com, a library of cycling routes. Every route page tries to answer what a rider wants to know before setting off: how much of it is on busy roads, whether it is paved, where the water and cafés are.
