Well The North Side Is Done For Now. But Due For School, The Edet’s Will Be Slower.

قرية محقب من احدى قراى عزلة لهاب وتكون مركز للعزله وكما يوجد فيها محامي لدى محكمة حراز اسم المحامي بكرقاسم حميد

Viernes 28 de Agosto del 2026.

Se realizo:

1. Se agrega Condominio Vista Alameda, Villa Parque Alameda I, II y III

2. Se agrega a “Loteo Fundo Viejo” (Ex Los Tilos) y se modifica Villa Los Tilos a “Villa Las Casas de Los Tilos”.

3. Se agrega Condominios Parque Trapiche I, II y III, Nueva Alameda II, Villa Alameda I, II, III, IV, V y VI, Condominio Arboleda de Koke, Condominio Neo Koke, Condominio Keep Koke y Condominio Parque Nogales.

4. Se modifica algunos nombres de loteos y condominios.

Rádio TV NOVA

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. Nineteen university students answered the call.

A Programme Built by UN Mappers Kenya

The Youth Climate Mapping Externship 2026 is a UN Mappers Kenya initiative , born from the UN Maps chapter initiative and the belief that open geospatial data should be created by the communities it represents, not just for them. From the first session to the graduation ceremony, every element of this programme was designed and delivered under the UN Mappers Kenya banner.

The Journey

The externship ran from 29 June to 17 August 2026 across four progressive phases.

Phase 1 — Learn (Weeks 1 and 2)

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Miercoles 26 de agosto de 2026. Se realizo: 1. Se agrega etiqueta de Condominio Tonsupa playa azul cerca de la calle Cervantes 2. Se agrega nombres de calles en Barrios vista al mar entre calles 3. Se corrige tramo de vía que corresponde a Av. Esmeraldas y no a Av. Atacames Desde el norte corresponde a Esmeralda y desde el sur corresponde a Atacames 4. Se agrega nombres de calles en las urbanizaciónes del Pacífico

En la página principal de OpenStreetMap osm.org en algunas ocasiones sale un cuadro en el borde superior derecho, con una imagen relacionada con OSM. En muchos casos es promocionando el evento State of the Map global. Aquí algunos ejemplos:

Lo bueno, es que no solo se puede usar para eso, sino que puede solicitar la promoción de otros eventos de OSM. Como los SotM regionales o locales por país, o eventos de los capítulos oficiales de cada zona.

Para tu evento tendrás artes preparadas, entonces alista una imagen de 350x350 píxeles, en formato PNG, que no tenga nada importante arriba a la derecha 60x60 porque ahí se sobrepone la X de cerrar el banner y que tenga buen contraste con los colores Gray80 (Chinese Silver) y gris espacial (Spanish Gray) que son los colores de la X.

Tan solo se necesita hacer un fork del repositorio http://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website en tu propia cuenta de GitHub.

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I have contributed several days but my contribution calendar has not been updated. I wonder what can I do about it?

Ein Zeitungsbeitrag zu einem neuen Defibrillator machte vor ein paar Monaten auf eine für mich erschreckende Tatsache aufmerksam: Weder für Gesamtdeutschland noch für viele Regionen gibt es eine auch nur einigermaßen vollständige Datenbank bzw. Karte zu Defibrillatoren. Keine ist wirklich umfassend erschlossen, keine bringt auch nur annähernd alle wünschenswerten Funktionen mit.

Allein für den hiesigen Landkreis, Roth (bei Nürnberg), gab bzw. gibt es mindestens fünf verschiedene Dienste: Neben großen Karten wie Defi-Kataster, Defi-Map und Björn-Steiger-Stiftung sowie OSM betreiben auch der Landkreis und verschiedene Kommunen eigene Karten.

Gleichzeitig ist es eine bittere Tatsache, dass nur etwa jeder zehnte Betroffene eines plötzlichen Herzstillstandes diesen außerhalb einer Klinik auch überlebt, wie zuletzt auch eine Pressemitteilung des Deutschen Reanimationsregisters einmal mehr unterstrich. Ein großer Teil der Menschen stirbt unerkannt (etwa im Schlaf oder allein zu Hause). Und in vielen weiteren Fällen stehen nicht ausreichend motivierte und fähige Ersthelfer zur Verfügung, um eine wirkungsvolle Herzdruckmassage zu leisten, wie auch Rettungssanitäter in Gesprächen unisono berichten. In all diesen Fällen hilft auch kein Defibrillator.

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This work in mainly to complete N-road route relations in BE.

Approach:

1. group ways by ref using Overpass API, compare with existing route relations, find the diff
2. add the diff route relations. if gaps in the route relations detected, add fixme tag.
3. manual review and fixup in https://routes-be-nroads.pages.dev/

There is a discussion about this batch edit in https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/automated-creation-of-route-relations/146659

כאן צירוף מקרים מעניין. המערה נמצאת בשכונת רמת אשכול. אז היינו מצפים שיש קשר בין השמות. אבל לא! השכונה נקראת על שם לוי אשכול ראש הממשלה השלישי של מדינת ישראל. ואילו המערה נקראת על שם עיטורים שעליה, בצורת אשכולות ענבים.

הנקודה לא מצויינת במפות אחרות (גם לא במפה של טרגט, אני לא יודע מה עם כרטא). אבל יש שילוט ברחוב ים סוף וגם מוצג שלט עם הודעה בסגנון “חפשו את המטמון”.

רציתי רק להוסיף שביל, אבל העורך מתלונן שהשביל חוצה בניין. הנתונים על רקע העורך היו מתצלומים של בינג. אז אמרתי, במקום להזיז את השביל, אנסה להזיז את הבניינים. כי באמת גם אם זה טעות, מה זה כבר בשביל ניווט בסיסי עוד כמה מטרים. (אני לא מניח שהמפה משמשת מהנדסים ואדריכלים שאמורים לסמוך על הקואורדינטות המדוייקות כאן…). אחר כך ראיתי שהתצלומים אינם שווים בכל המקורות, אבל גם לפי מקורות אחרים, מה שעשיתי הוא תיקון! מעניין מה גרם למי ששרטט את הקווים לסטות בכל הרחוב. אולי יש מקורות מוסמכים יותר שאני לא מכיר? (לי אין מכשיר GPS) אבל בשאר האיזור לא היה כך.

Over the past few days, I’ve mapped several major and minor roads; some recently opened to traffic, others set to open in the coming weeks.

There is a quiet satisfaction in laying down those initial traces, knowing that countless people will rely on that geometry for decades to come. OpenStreetMap has always been my favorite way to spend spare time: shaping a digital layer that creates tangible, real-world value. While mapping can sometimes feel like a solitary or thankless effort, seeing raw satellite imagery turn into living infrastructure that guides everyday movement makes it genuinely rewarding.

Mapping on OSM is always time well spent.

Casale Cima

Santa Cristina fraz. di Borgomanero (NO) 28021, Piemonte

24/08/2026, San Bartolomeo

E’ il santo patrono di Borgomanero e Santa Cristina, essendo che si festeggia il 24 luglio, non dovrebbe c’entrare niente, invece le pochissime attività e servizi pubblici sono chiusi anche oggi.

C’è da dire che ho apportato un po’ di modifiche alla mappa del territorio locale, oggi. Munita di mappali del Catasto di Novara, comune di Borgomanero, Foglio: 21 e Particelle: varie (es.: 191 - 193-194, etc.) ed in territorio di Gattico-Veruno, Foglio: 1, sono riuscita a ricollocare esattamente i confini dei nostri terreni, discendenti dei fratelli Valsesia Angelo Maria e Carlo, i quali avevano acquistato l’intera cascina, con tutto il territorio annesso, nel secolo scorso, dai conti Busti, a loro volta eredi dei nobili possidenti Morbio-Zapelono. Il conte Paolo Busti, a fine 1800, fece costruire le “case masserezze” per i fittavoli che lavoravano le terre, area denominata poi “La Moretta”. Casa mia era detta la Ca’ Nova, poiché era l’unica non annessa al casale vero e proprio, essendo infatti una casa indipendente con giardino, costruita intorno al 1960 e non risalente al 1700 come gli edifici adibiti ad abitazione e quelli usati come stalle e fienili del Casale Cima, originariamente chiamato Sopramonte, per il rilievo su cui si colloca.

Thanks to the work of several contributors, the usage of name:fur tag in OpenStreetMap is constantly increasing and there is now a pretty good coverage of Friuli region at place level (and even down to street-level in some parts of it). This tag represents a name in Friulian language, mainly spoken in north-east Italy.

This tag is visible today in a dedicated rendering (which I created) on mapefurlane.eu and in the various multi-lingual maps like the great Americana.

Apart from the maps, another interesting use of this data is to have lists of toponyms. For Friulian language, there is already a list provided by an official organization, but besides not being very detailed, it’s also quite static (PDF). So I wanted to have something better than that by leveraging all OSM data.

My main goal then was to create a searchable web page that could show the toponyms of Friuli historical region, not only in Friulian, but also in all recognized languages, i.e. Friulian, Italian, German and Slovenian. The list should be updated automatically from OSM data.

What is DuckDB

DuckDB is an open source in-process SQL OLAP database management system. It has a builtin spatial extension that can import PBF files which can be then queried using SQL syntax.

Using DuckDB with OpenStreetmap

Since I already had a daily pipeline (GitHub Action) to update Mape Furlane that used a PBF extract as input, integrating DuckDB there was immediate: just adding the single binary, loading the PBF and then all the data was available for querying.

From that I added a few SQL queries visible on https://github.com/andreadecorte/mapefurlane/tree/main/scripts/duckdb that generate 2 output files: 1. all places with name:fur tag and all the other name: tags (name:it, name:de, name:sl) 2. all places in the area without a name:fur tag with a Markdown output (to help increase the coverage)

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Doom Scrolling through aerial images of Canada revealed this to me:

And for a millisecond I wondered how this could be mapped. Maybe tourism=attraction? 🤪

Letztens beim Doom-Scrolling über die OSM-Karte in Oschersleben einen langen grünen Strich gesehen und gedacht, “okay, lange Hecke oder was?”

Oder wieder Vandalismus a.k.a. FCK.PTN?

Beim Editieren habe ich dann gesehen, dass jemand den Anfang der Hecke wohl versehentlich weit weg verschoben hat. Ich konnte die Hecke dann reparieren: osm.org/way/301454013

Being a YouthMapper?

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Willkommen im Outback-Lindlar!

Ab sofort ist das Outback-Lindlar (Klauserstraße 77 in 51789 Lindlar) auch auf OpenStreetMap präsent. Als gemütliches Themenrestaurant im Bergischen Land freuen wir uns über alle Gäste, Tourenfahrer und Biker, die bei uns einen Zwischenstopp einlegen.

Kommt vorbei auf gute Küche, erfrischende Drinks und eine tolle Atmosphäre. Schaut gerne rein!

My Google Summer of Code 2026 project was Category Support in Nominatim.

The goal was to replace Nominatim’s single class/type representation with a proper categories field so that one OSM object can carry multiple categories. For eg, an object tagged as both a hotel and a restaurant can now be represented in one row with categories such as:

osm.tourism.hotel
osm.amenity.restaurant

What was completed

• Added the PostgreSQL ltree[] categories column to the main Nominatim tables.
• Generated multiple categories from OSM tags during import while keeping the existing class and type fields for compatibility.
• Updated ranking, triggers, migrations, and related database logic to use categories.
• Replaced the old place_classtype_* search tables with category-based search using indexed queries.
• Removed the old place_classtype_* table creation and maintenance code.
• Added category filters to the search API.
• Updated the SQLite adaptor and tests for category data.
• Updated the documentation for the category system and its API behaviour.

Pull requests

• #4106: Add ltree categories column for multi-tag OSM object support - merged
• #4146: Use ltree categories column instead of place_classtype tables - merged
• #4163: Remove the place_classtype tables - merged
• #4164: Add category filters to the search API - merged
• #4166: Update the documentation for the category series - documentation PR

Querying by category

The search API can now accept category filters. For example:

/search?q=restaurant+Berlin&include=osm.amenity.restaurant
/search?q=Berlin&include=osm.amenity
/search?q=hotel+Berlin&include=osm.tourism.hotel&include=osm.amenity.restaurant
/search?q=restaurant+Berlin&exclude=osm.amenity.fast_food

A parent category such as osm.amenity can match categories below it, so a query can include restaurants, cafes, bars, and other amenities without listing every child category separately.

Acknowledgements

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