Accept “contribution” someone said about adding more details to existing OSM but one thing it could not be more simplify as like Google map or Waze on direction from one to another. Certainly, some direction is wrong or shown with unknown name is questionable yet no idea of how to make correction? Anyone can suggest a way to change it? Keep it up with exploring. We discuss further…
About OSM Open Street Map
Accept contribution someone said about adding more details to existing OSM but one thing it could not be more simplify as like Google map or Waze on direction from one to another.OpenStreetMap
StravaTracer is a new JOSM plugin: click on a trail of the Strava heatmap and it draws the missing way for you.
There is an ongoing DRC Ebola campaign where mappers are asked to update residential areas. All newly published projects follow the same pattern. There are a lot of small tasks to be mapped.
A new printed tourist map of Prague has just been published, built directly on up-to-date OpenStreetMap data.
After integrating OpenStreetMap data into my own application, I noticed inaccurate or missing business information, so I started correcting it directly on OSM.
We had an awesome, hop-py time with the UPRI YouthMappers! The other day, I had an opportunity to facilitate a mobile-first workshop where we got hands-on with Vespucci, swapped mapping tips, and learned to read topographic maps for clues about where…
Ludell is a small township in Rawlins County, Kansas. I’ve mapped every building, road, the stream that goes through it.
Every night across southern Iraq, hundreds of gas flares burn over some of the largest oil fields on earth.
Writing the script or speech then heading out station. I need hotel for two night. At the one you bring your guests. New York, Manhattan’s wherever my senses go. I boarding pass please? I will be at Atlanta Airport tomorrow before noon
Ive recently found myself with a lot of free time without internet access, and what better to do than improve OpenStreetMap!
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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.
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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.
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