Leaving my country, Nigeria, to attend the 2024 SOTM conference at the University of Nairobi, Kenya was a thrilling and enlightening experience for me. The whole event immersed me in the dynamic world of open mapping.

This is part of a series of blogs about my journey working on a collaborative Field Mapping tool, now called FieldTM:

Jo White MP Worksop Office

Kirtlington is not very well mapped Nor is weston on green business park - depends how much detail, e.g. compare to iSlip

Vetogel, istilah yang semakin familiar di telinga pecinta judi online. Bertepatan dengan derasnya arus digital, bermain Vetogel menjadi lebih mudah dan praktis.

Você já parou pra pensar no que essa imagem representa na vida de quem tenta encontrar um endereço e não consegue?

Am the community leader. I participate different meetings organized by unique mapper network. E.g organized orientation for new babies. And I also joined with the meeting today.

Am the community leader. I participate different meetings organized by unique mapper network. E.g organized orientation for new babies.
And I also joined with the meeting today.

Not long ago, I realized how many local areas, both where I grew up and even some parts of Melbourne still lack proper detail on digital maps. That moment pushed me to dive into OpenStreetMap.

On the 28 of March, I just discovered that our Village is not well represented in the wikipedia map, as well as the article about our community on wikipedia is not comprehensive, as i was researching further about my local community online.

That was the beginning of my journey on openstreetmap, as I’ve decided to become a contributor to help improve the visibility of our community on the world map.

Though I’m starting as a novice as at today been the 4th of April, 2025, I’m determined to walk myself through the process of learning how to edit on open street map. As I’ve started on a self learning steps, I look forward to maybe joining a community of mappers, finding someone as a guide and becoming a full member of openstreetmap community.

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts about the new OSM file format OMA. This is the fifth post. At the end of the article youll find links to the other blog entries.

In 1973, Gunther W. Holtorf was assigned as the manager of Lufthansa in Indonesia.

Hello, my name is Gray Forsyth and I am currently a geography student with a strong focus in GIS at the University of Colorado Denver. I was recently introduced to Open Street Map by my remote sensing professor and OSM board member, Diane Fritz. I am excited to begin contributing high quality work to OSM. I am beginning my OSM journey with a passion project to overhaul OSM’s data in my hometown, Wilson Wyoming. I decided to start this project because when looking at Wilson on OSM it was immediately clear that there was a significant amount of missing data, many inaccuracies, and lots of low resolution/quality vector work. I am excited to work on this project because I am not only passionate about making detailed, visually appealing and accurate maps, I also think Wilson is the most beautiful place on Earth (may be biased) and I want to do its landscape justice in the best way I can. As I have already started the project, let me summarize the work I have done so far: I began familiarizing myself with the editor by going around Wilson and beginning to address glaring errors. This first sweep began by focusing on Owen Bircher Park, where the boundaries, structures, pathways, and misc features were either inaccurate or missing. I then moved south to the downtown area of Wilson where many of the businesses and surrounding features were missing, inaccurate, unidentified, etc… There is also some work I have done to improve the roads in central Wilson. Once familiar with the editor, I decided that the next order of business was addressing the two most obvious shortcomings (to me) of the data in Wilson; missing and low quality water features, and an abundance of missing structures in downtown Wilson. Water is a very prominent feature throughout Wilson and is something that could use proportional attention. The riparian environment, as well as a significant amount of irrigation ponds and ditches, is not only a defining feature of the natural landscape, but a strong influence on Wilson’s residential topology. Water work began by changing Fish Creek’s classification from stream to river, mostly because the symbology for rivers on OSM better suited the true size of the creek. I then began improving the accuracy and quality of Fish Creek’s vector line from around 2 miles north of and then around a mile south of central Wilson. This was mostly an aesthetic choice to make the line smoother and better representative of this defining water Feature. Ongoing water work consists of filling in the significant amount of missing ponds, ditches, and streams in central Wilson. The amount of missing structures, specifically houses in central Wilson is fairly large, and existing structure data is mostly all inaccurate in position and shape. (also unclassified) So far I have made considerable progress in the east side of downtown Wilson. I have been striving to most accurately represent structure footprints, and cross referencing other imagery and street view when needed. I have also been adding driveways. I will give another update once I feel the water and missing structure problems have been thoroughly addressed. Thanks for reading and feel free to reach out to me at grayforsyth21@gmail.com for any reason :)

with this file coloured+name_offset.mapcss https://projeto.softwarelivre.tec.br/s/4z2jzQSjkL5oPTW you can move the street name to the side of the street, making the street name visible for better mapping of street names.

I have been mapping street names in Brazilian cities that need street name mapping.

learn how to map roads in rural areas with this video tutorial.

UmbraOSM (Brazilian OpenStreetMap Mappers Union) brings you another video tutorial, teaching you how to use the Rapid editor to map buildings and roads in OpenStreetMap. Check it out and improve your mapping skills!

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts about the new OSM file format OMA. This is the fourth post. At the end of the article youll find links to the other blog entries.

Coordinates should be formatted 1.236345 4.23643
Written by ChatGPT
Due to kramdown I have to use https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4YrHsAhZKu9BRt1HRnsBbQJl8MdDMoJ76Ht9w1aqG0/edit?tab=t.0

Maybe youve seen one of my changeset comments reading anti-SEO aktion. Maybe I even reverted your changes in a changeset with that comment. You might be wondering, what does it mean?

Objects in private gardens which do not require a build permission, such as small shelters and especially movable objects like (round) swimming pools, should NOT be entered into ANY public maps! They add nothing to the quality and usefulness of a map, I consider it a map data spam.

I may sometimes remove such objects from the Frýdlant region, especially if not mapped correctly (private swimming pools must be marked as private to not interfere with searching for nearby swimming pools).

Mapping trees in OpenStreetMap and visualizing them in three ways

After spending a bit of time mapping and getting a feel for the scope, type of work this project will require, it’s clear that this project will unsurprisingly take quite a bit of time.

To make this process as engaging as possible, I think it would be wise to alter my workflow slightly. Initially, I planned to start with only mapping buildings for the entire island. However this would mean hours and hours of monotony, so I think a good workaround here is to keep my current workflow structure, but just apply it to a smaller scale. For example, I’ll pick smaller sections of the island to do both the building and the terrain mapping. This will give the work more variety and also make it more clear which areas I’ve already worked on.

Project Outline

This entry is a statement of my intention to map out Bell Island, Newfoundland. I will start south and move my way north as the south is less densely detailed and work will likely be quicker. My intended workflow is stated below, where I will not move on to the next item on the list until the first item has been mapped as thoroughly as possible on the entire island. While I am experienced at working with geospatial data, this is my first project on OSM so any suggestions/comments on my work are appreciated.

I will provide updates through future diary entries as my work progresses. This is a casual project so I am not setting any timelines.

Workflow

• Buildings & associated roads
• Terrain
• (Might drop due to lack of local knowledge) Secondary urban & rural characteristics (cemeteries, parking lots, etc.)

You may have noticed that I have marked a lot of buildings in Nanaimo with notes indicating that each of those buildings has multiple businesses in it. This is because on the next sunny weekend, I will be going down to Nanaimo to survey all of those businesses, and I need to be able to see at a glance which specific buildings I need to survey. I will need to know the exact position of each business within each building, so what I end up putting into OSM as a result of this survey is an as-accurate-as-possible depiction of each building’s “floor plan”, if you will.

One of the reasons as to why I loved this image set was because it was almost centered completely from the top-down, which made tracing buildings far easier. This new set that was introduced makes it extremely hard now, and all of the already-traced assets like buildings and roads are now quite skewed when based off the new set. It’s frustrating.

i wish that we could pin locations, visible only on our account. it would make it a lot easier to keep track of multiple locations. i’m sorry if my formatting is wrong, or if i’m using this entry wrong. i’m very excited about this website, thank you!

Despite the apparent lack of public transit, Redmond Watershed Preserve is accessible with a bit of walking.

Lots of people use editors such as iD, Potlatch, Vespucci, GoMap!! etc. for editing. There are entirely sensible reasons for this - Ill always try and edit relations in Potlatch or iD since for me editing relations there is a much saner experience t…

Teach GIS after school at High Point Library Work other PH content into mix with ongoing GIS training

benefits #external #internal

risks #internal #external

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts about the new OSM file format OMA. This is the third post. At the end of the article youll find links to the other blog entries.

Accessing information in moments of crisis - Interview with Dr. Raquel Dezidério Souto about the Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)’s disaster occurred in April and May, 2024

Headed to Dutchess County in NY to update a smaller commercial Area. Added the parking lots, turn lanes, and buildings for the commercial areas that were missing. Still a lot of details to go.

I maintain a web map style that shows walking and cycling route names. For the cycle routes, it shows the . For some time Ive massaged some of the names so that e.g. National Byway loops show as NB (loop) just like on the signage.

Theres a saying in a certain article on the OpenStreetMap wiki that tagging for the renderer is equivalent to lying to the renderer.

Committed to providing the most accurate information regarding Cleveland, Ohio, USA’s West Side Market opening hours.

Please note: This blog post is part of a series of blog posts about the new OSM file format OMA. This is the second post. At the end of the article youll find links to the other blog entries.

My edits are not git commits.

If anyone that is interested in knowing my change set history I would be more than happy to send them a link to one.

The ability to edit my bio and profile picture are all the personalization that I require.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Went back to Henderson to finalize the updates. I think i updated all i could with out starting to assume details. Also some mappers suggested straightening out the roads, so i did that across the entire town.

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