I maintain OSM Edit MCP, an MIT-licensed Python tool that connects an MCP-compatible AI assistant to an OpenStreetMap survey-review workflow. It is alpha software, and I would welcome feedback from mappers on its review steps and failure cases.
Track location number and house number
When OpenStreetMap put a slippy map on its front page on its front page in 2005 it used a Mercator map.
I am happy to announce that we, the OpenStreetMap Carto maintainers, have prepared a new release of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website). Once changes are deployed on openstreetmap.
recent hdyc.neis-one.org feature update is really something else. it forces you to read “that thing”. sometimes i accidentally read something that makes my blood boil.
alright, instead of replying there, i’m gonna reply to it here instead.
place=city: The largest settlement within a territory, including national, state and provincial capitals, and other major conurbations (an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities).
place=town: An important urban centre that is larger than a village, smaller than a city, and not a suburb. Towns normally have a good range of shops and facilities which are used by people from nearby villages.
place=village: A smaller distinct settlement, smaller than a town, with few facilities available, with people travelling to nearby towns to access these.
place=hamlet: An isolated settlement.
i can confirm by myself that “that place” is not isolated.
meanwhile, administrative borders should be mapped as ways/relations properly. for a node, just stick with this global consensus definition as stated on the wiki page.
but where can we get that administrative border data?
someone in “that Telegram” group claimed to own all the copyright to this country’s administrative data, even though it is clearly already licensed as open data on “that site”.
i’m not a lawyer, so i don’t know the legality of manually tracing that border from an official source. this is why i hate mapping from official sources. i’d rather stick to local knowledge and direct surveys.
and… that’s it, pretty much.
alright, instead of replying there, i’m gonna reply to it here instead.
place=city: The largest settlement within a territory, including national, state and provincial capitals, and other major conurbations (an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities).
place=town: An important urban centre that is larger than a village, smaller than a city, and not a suburb. Towns normally have a good range of shops and facilities which are used by people from nearby villages.
place=village: A smaller distinct settlement, smaller than a town, with few facilities available, with people travelling to nearby towns to access these.
place=hamlet: An isolated settlement.
i can confirm by myself that “that place” is not isolated.
meanwhile, administrative borders should be mapped as ways/relations properly. for a node, just stick with this global consensus definition as stated on the wiki page.
but where can we get that administrative border data?
someone in “that Telegram” group claimed to own all the copyright to this country’s administrative data, even though it is clearly already licensed as open data on “that site”.
i’m not a lawyer, so i don’t know the legality of manually tracing that border from an official source. this is why i hate mapping from official sources. i’d rather stick to local knowledge and direct surveys.
and… that’s it, pretty much.
For ages, Ive been wanting to tell my stories around a specific place in OSM. Not specifically a “review” of a business, but simply a personal anecdote about me and that particular place.
Alright. Day two. As I finally have some free time to write this one.
September 6–12
September 8
- Fixed David Lane and Country Brook Lane.
- Modified Rickly Street; added note that signage by the Street Department is incorrect. Correct spelling is Rickly Street, not Rickley Street. (Contacted city and should be fixed soon with new work order)
- Added a driveway and multiple road names (Buckeye Alley, Cherry Alley, Hickory Alley, Elm Alley, Maple Alley, Ash Alley, Walnut Street, Cypress Alley, and the rest of Beech Alley).
- Added info to (now closed) Hannah J Ashton Middle School.
- Added Unzinger Ditch and name of Dysar Run.
This summer I had the chance to spend my second Google Summer of Code working with the OpenStreetMap Foundation, this time on closures.osm.
Nothing in OpenStreetMap goes stale faster than . A business moves its closing day from Monday to Tuesday, edits one line on its website, and the map still shows last years answer. You find out when you are standing in front of a locked door.
I sincerely apologize for my lack of reading the guide for this website when I shouldn’t use sites related to Google. I’m lazy at first when I tried to use the site for the first time. Especially for mapping broadcast stations, and missing barangays for like 9 months now.
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State of the Map Paris 2026: OpenStreetMap is scaling up
State of the Map Paris 2026: OpenStreetMap is scaling up
In 2026, the question is no longer really:OpenStreetMap
So, during my career, I discovered OpenStreetMap. While editing, I used Google Maps and Street View, and I shouldn’t have read the guide, which is not allowed on this site, especially when adding missing barangays.
Whoops. :/
Whoops. :/
good things compared to yesterday: no rain!!
bad things: nearly 30°C outside and So. Many. Bees. okay it wasn’t as many as i make it sound like but i am admittedly afraid of bees. not a great time
ANYWAY. i went and finished the side of thames street that i started yesterday, then did the other half on the way home. so im pretty sure ive accounted for almost everything on that street now! so i guess next on the list is the side streets. hopefully we get some days that are nice and cool so i dont suffer doing this haha
bad things: nearly 30°C outside and So. Many. Bees. okay it wasn’t as many as i make it sound like but i am admittedly afraid of bees. not a great time
ANYWAY. i went and finished the side of thames street that i started yesterday, then did the other half on the way home. so im pretty sure ive accounted for almost everything on that street now! so i guess next on the list is the side streets. hopefully we get some days that are nice and cool so i dont suffer doing this haha
Hi everyone! I have been trying to edit some locations but the changeset size is exceeded (cause i forgot to upload after moving to the other country). I have no idea which nodes are from Portugal and which from Italy. Can someone help?
Thank you so much in advance
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Thank you so much in advance
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got out of the house for a bit today and got started adding/removing some businesses on thames street south, and adding info like hours and contacts to ones that were already there. headed home when it started raining but i feel like i got a pretty good amount done for one walk.
i only really focused on one side of the street to start, i was gonna do the other side on the way home but due to the rain ive just left it for another time. here’s to better weather this week 💜💜
i only really focused on one side of the street to start, i was gonna do the other side on the way home but due to the rain ive just left it for another time. here’s to better weather this week 💜💜
When assigning Dakota and Lakota names to map elements, I am mainly drawing on the (often lifelong) work of others; very few of my changes are based on personal local knowledge.
“الأكاديمية الإسكندنافية للتدريب والتطوير Scandinavian Academy for Training Courses تقدم دورات تدريبية معتمدة وتطوير الكفاءات البشرية للأفراد والشركات في مصر والسعودية والرياض والقاهرة وحول العالم وتوفر برامج الموارد البشرية HR وتخفيض الهدر وتخطيط الاحتياجات التدريبية مع قياس العائد على الاستثمار ROI وكذلك دورات التكنولوجيا المالية FinTech والتحول الرقمي المالي ومواكبة رؤية 2030 وتطبيقات الذكاء الاصطناعي AI وتحليل البيانات Power BI و Big Data بالإضافة إلى إدارة المشاريع الاحترافية PMP وهندسة القيمة ونظم المعلومات الجغرافية GIS و GPS والمهارات القيادية والذكاء العاطفي والتواصل الإداري مع تقديم برامج المهارات الشخصية وتطوير الذات ونقل أثر التدريب للواقع العملي للمنظمات والشركات”
Scandinavian Academy for Training Courses| الاكاديمية الاسكندنافية للتدريب
الأكاديمية الإسكندنافية للتدريب والتطوير Scandinavian Academy for Training Courses تقدم دورات تدريبية معتمدة وتطوير الكفاءات البشرية للأفراد والشركات في مصر والسعودية والرياض والقاهرة وحول العالم وتوفر برامج الموارد البشرية HR وتخفيض الهدر وتخطيط الا…OpenStreetMap
FAWKES FUCKS WITH FLOCK. Student in Chicago, Il, USA have developed a program that makes micro changes to your image that perverts the data FLOCK is collecting. Can’t trace what they can’t see again… worth the visit if you’re serious about privacy.
hey! wouldn’t be shocked if im only one of a handful of new canadian users trying to take a step away from google maps. i downloaded comaps earlier today (which uses openstreetmap) and noticed a handful of stuff in my little town is missing or out of date. so why not be the one to contribute?
im short on time this week (and there’s some awful rain right now) but i think sooner or later im going to take a stroll through town and update everything i can. it’ll be a lot more fun than just cross-referencing another map.
im short on time this week (and there’s some awful rain right now) but i think sooner or later im going to take a stroll through town and update everything i can. it’ll be a lot more fun than just cross-referencing another map.
just got here
hey! wouldnt be shocked if im only one of a handful of new canadian users trying to take a step away from google maps.OpenStreetMap
so we have gotten a few questions about the project, mostly present in the first diary post we have made, but here we wanted to state a few basic things as a foundational- idk, statement so to say.
Im supposed to write a full report about my attendance at State of the Map 2026. But there are so many materials to discuss, especially the technical ones, and Im already still stuck on day one already.
A researcher from Puerto Rico reached out to me with a question about sub-national population figures in Iraq.
What an event.
The local community prepared a really nice venue with a surprising Guest as entertainment as well as really tasty snacks. Well done.
I should have asked on the first day so now it’s just some thinking: Was there no way of getting better ventilation into the rooms at the university? But as I said, it’s now too late and I won’t linger on that any more.
More thoughts are still to come.
The local community prepared a really nice venue with a surprising Guest as entertainment as well as really tasty snacks. Well done.
I should have asked on the first day so now it’s just some thinking: Was there no way of getting better ventilation into the rooms at the university? But as I said, it’s now too late and I won’t linger on that any more.
More thoughts are still to come.
After a few shakedown cruises with the Max2 I began collecting imagery in earnest in August, and learned a few lessons.
According to my personal schedule, I was supposed to attend the Guadeloupe room at around 14:50, for a talk titled State of Panoramax.
Whenever I run, I carry a GPX device to track my route. Over time, Ive collected a large set of personal GPX traces.
My participation in the State of the Map 2026 / Minha participação no State of the Map 2026
The first time I became aware of the very existence of the “State of the Map” event was, I think, around 2022.
My first diary entry. Testing 123
My first diary entry.
Testing 123
My first diary entry.
Testing 123
on 25/8/26, we were a combination of bored enough and annoyed enough to start cleaning up the metadata of german railway stations, so as the track numbers actually appear in clients such as OpenRailwayMap (ORM) ((which we use regularly))
today we are going to formalize the process, also so that our commit history is less tedious to write
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anything we do which is to further the purpose of creating a basic standard of german railway OSM cartography will be simply marked as “DMC - [bahnhofname]”
and further, in almost every case unless otherwise specified, our information comes from the database within Bahnhof.de supplied by the Deutsche Bahn, and our own knowledge from living within and travelling across germany
today we are going to formalize the process, also so that our commit history is less tedious to write
–
anything we do which is to further the purpose of creating a basic standard of german railway OSM cartography will be simply marked as “DMC - [bahnhofname]”
and further, in almost every case unless otherwise specified, our information comes from the database within Bahnhof.de supplied by the Deutsche Bahn, and our own knowledge from living within and travelling across germany
metadata cleanup across railways in Deutschland
on 25/8/26, we were a combination of bored enough and annoyed enough to start cleaning up the metadata of german railway stations, so as the track numbers actually appear in clients such as OpenRailwayMap (ORM) ((which we use regularly))OpenStreetMap
Well The North Side Is Done For Now. But Due For School, The Edet’s Will Be Slower.
In June 2026, UN Mappers Kenya launched its first ever Youth Climate Mapping Externship ,a seven-week virtual programme designed to put real geospatial tools in the hands of young Kenyans and point them at real climate problems in Nairobi.
I have contributed several days but my contribution calendar has not been updated. I wonder what can I do about it?
