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Pierpoint is a small town in South Dakota. It’s now mapped: buildings, sidewalks, footpaths, alleys, power poles. There is probably more micro mapping to do but it’s on the map now.
I’m part of a small volunteer team that runs birding.live, a free site that helps people find birds and green spaces near them. Thought it made sense to introduce how the site leans on OSM data, and to say thanks.
What we do with OSM: geocoding and place search come through Nominatim with an identifying user agent, throttled through our own proxy. Nearby parks, woods and reserves are place queries framed from OSM data, mostly via Geoapify’s OSM-derived layer, and walking trails come from Overpass as named route relations for hiking, foot and walking. Plain paths only ever show up if their OSM tags carry a real signal like difficulty grading or waymarking, so road connectors and farm tracks don’t pretend to be trails.
Who it’s for: the site is a five minute route into birding for beginners. You type a place, see which birds have been reported around it recently from the eBird community, and get a map of parks, reserves and named trails to walk, all credited as OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Two things we want to improve, honestly: watching how the trail queries behave in areas with patchy tagging, and starting to give corrections back once we’re confident enough to do it properly. If you’ve got pointers on Overpass named-route queries, or you spot one of our pins naming something wrongly, that kind of eye is very welcome.
If you’re curious the site is birding.live and the code is at github.com/chocobar/birding. Thanks for the years of contributor effort behind every pin on our maps.
What we do with OSM: geocoding and place search come through Nominatim with an identifying user agent, throttled through our own proxy. Nearby parks, woods and reserves are place queries framed from OSM data, mostly via Geoapify’s OSM-derived layer, and walking trails come from Overpass as named route relations for hiking, foot and walking. Plain paths only ever show up if their OSM tags carry a real signal like difficulty grading or waymarking, so road connectors and farm tracks don’t pretend to be trails.
Who it’s for: the site is a five minute route into birding for beginners. You type a place, see which birds have been reported around it recently from the eBird community, and get a map of parks, reserves and named trails to walk, all credited as OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Two things we want to improve, honestly: watching how the trail queries behave in areas with patchy tagging, and starting to give corrections back once we’re confident enough to do it properly. If you’ve got pointers on Overpass named-route queries, or you spot one of our pins naming something wrongly, that kind of eye is very welcome.
If you’re curious the site is birding.live and the code is at github.com/chocobar/birding. Thanks for the years of contributor effort behind every pin on our maps.
How a free bird-finder uses OSM data (and what we want to fix eventually)
Im part of a small volunteer team that runs birding.live, a free site that helps people find birds and green spaces near them. Thought it made sense to introduce how the site leans on OSM data, and to say thanks.OpenStreetMap
It occurred to me that some users of OpenStreetMap data cannot read Cyrillic script, so maps lacking name:en variables (or others using Latin letters) may have difficulty reading place names, highway names, and so on.
It occurred to me that some users of OpenStreetMap data cannot read Cyrillic script, so maps lacking name:en variables (or others using Latin letters) may have difficulty reading place names, highway names, and so on.
Usually users add 1500–2000 map notes per day. Yesterday (2026-10-13) one user added 6175 map notes. Yesterday all users added 7717 map notes. So one user added 80% map notes (one user added four times as many notes as all the other users combined).
Over the past months Ive been building v2 of an idea Ive had for a while: a way to explore every OpenStreetMap changeset since 2005, see trends over time, and drill down to who did what. (v1 was a prototype built on Datadog; its code is here.
October 11–17
October 13
- Added Brice Road Park, which opened in early 2026. (Park has a Reynoldsburg address, although it is located within Columbus boundaries. 10-year partnership between Reynoldsburg Parks and Recreation Department and Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.)
I have uploaded updates to Github of my personal scripts and style sheets for making Garmin-compatible IMG files out of OSM-origin PBF files (thank you, Geofabrik!), both for Central Asia (all five countries) and for the Russian Federation.
I have been building an interactive 3D map of Yas Island, Abu Dhabi: uaemaps.com. It is a free, non-commercial side project.
I just updated, as at the beginning of every quarter the statistics on the wiki here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_statistics_reports
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I just updated, as at the beginning of every quarter the statistics on the wiki here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_statistics_reportsOpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a beautiful map, but its biggest problem is its user base. If we compare OpenStreetMap with Google Maps, we’ll notice a significant difference in the places, shops, and restaurants that appear on Google Maps but are missing from OpenStreetMap. This isn’t a flaw in OpenStreetMap, but rather a lack of users to add these places. Nevertheless, I try to contribute to the map as much as I can because it’s owned by a free community, not a monopolistic company—and that’s what these communities deserve.
“Contribution” is the motto we should live by on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a beautiful map, but its biggest problem is its user base. If we compare OpenStreetMap with Google Maps, we’ll notice a significant difference in the places, shops, and restaurants that appear on Google Maps but are missing from Open…OpenStreetMap
I was looking at my Google Maps and the amount of view I have to date, 47 million! But there is no contact with people , so looked to the Ferdiverse and found this. No not if they have photo uploads, but I can put my Section Eight and Bisset Collection on a map now. Me and Google have issues.
All the buildings in Epworth are mapped and addressed. There are still farms within the bounds of Epworth that can use some attention.
It seems that in fact mkgmap still requires boundary files, even though they are no longer available on the mkgmap website.
1: map marinas ☐
2: finish splitting terraced houses ☐
3: finish mobile home park ☐
☐ not done
✗ done
2: finish splitting terraced houses ☐
3: finish mobile home park ☐
☐ not done
✗ done
I am wanting to buy a good handheld GPS that will provide more accurate GPS tracks than my phone. When I look at GPS tracks people have left on trails for example there will be 3-4 completely offset tracks where the trail is totally obscured by canopy so it’s impossible to plot an accurate trail.
I really prefer good open source technology without licensing and all that junk but it seems like GPS inherently requires subscription if you’re looking for accuracy. :’(
So I’m looking into Garmin’s GPSMAPS as a considerable improvement over my phones GPS accuracy. It would also be super interesting to do mapping by hand but I don’t know anything about that!
Also in the future I may be using LIDAR mounted on a drone to get high resolution scans to upload to OSM but I have done no research yet to learn how to. My LIDAR plan is to scan and more accurately map shore lines of lakes and ponds and rivers. We’ll see if that actually happens, yea right right?
OH! And I think it would be helpful to provide up to date street level imagery, I wonder if OSM or one of their partners loan something like that.. Again, yea right.
I really prefer good open source technology without licensing and all that junk but it seems like GPS inherently requires subscription if you’re looking for accuracy. :’(
So I’m looking into Garmin’s GPSMAPS as a considerable improvement over my phones GPS accuracy. It would also be super interesting to do mapping by hand but I don’t know anything about that!
Also in the future I may be using LIDAR mounted on a drone to get high resolution scans to upload to OSM but I have done no research yet to learn how to. My LIDAR plan is to scan and more accurately map shore lines of lakes and ponds and rivers. We’ll see if that actually happens, yea right right?
OH! And I think it would be helpful to provide up to date street level imagery, I wonder if OSM or one of their partners loan something like that.. Again, yea right.
I enjoy surveying places normal people don't go.
I am wanting to buy a good handheld GPS that will provide more accurate GPS tracks than my phone. When I look at GPS tracks people have left on trails for example there will be 3-4 completely offset tracks where the trail is totally obscured by canop…OpenStreetMap
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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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.
