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El Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de La Laguna celebrará un aniversario más y estaré participando con una conferencia y un taller de OpenStreetMap.

Portada Flyer Congreso 2026

Se efectuará en la Universidad Tecnológica de Torreón el 25 de septiembre desde las 9:00 horas con conferencias y talleres.

La Conferencia

En la conferencia OpenStreetMap: Datos abiertos y más se enseñará al público asistente qué es OpenStreetMap (OSM), qué son los datos abiertos y cómo y por qué usar ambos ya sea en nuestros trabajos, en nuestra comunidad y, principalmente, en nuestra vida diaria.

El Taller de mapeo

En el taller Mapeando mi entorno se enseñará al público asistente a usar OpenStreetMap (OSM) para que puedan agregar a un mapa libre elementos que pueden enriquecer el mapa para todos quienes lo usamos.

Espero que todas las personas que conozcan y les interese el Software Libre nos puedan acompañar el 25 de septiembre desde las 9:00 horas.

Recuerden: 😃🐧 ¡La entrada es Libre, solo tienen que registarse aquí! 😃🐧

Location: El Águila, Torreón, Coahuila, 27275, México

最近大阪市鶴見区内をマッピングしていますが、大体の建物の造形が実際と違ったり更地になってたり。近々修正などを始めるかな〜とか思ってのんびりしていますが、先に登録できそうな表示版だったり店舗などが全く進んでいなかったりと時間とやる気不足気味のためある程度の網羅はまだまだ先になりそうかもしれません。

そして関係ないですが最近鼻水が止まりません。ティッシュが足りない…。 もう一つどうでもいいことですが どうやってもこれ開くとGPUプロセスが飛ぶのですが…開ける方いませんか?

قمت بإضافة مساهمات أحياء سكنيه جديده في منطقتي قمت بإضافة مساهمات أماكن عباده كنائس ومساجد في منطقتي قمت بتنظيف مساهمات بالفعل هي ليست موجوده والبعض منها غير موجود ومكرر وليس له أي أساس في وجوده ويضلل مستخدمين الخريطه،لذالك قمت بتنظيف الخريطه منها

انتظر بفارغ الصبر مزامنة مابس مي مع osm لان مابس مي من البرامج الأكثر استخدام في منطقتي بالعلم اني استخدم اورجانيك وكومباس ايضاً لأني أحب الخريطه اشكر الجميع اتمنى الخير لكل المجتمع في osm

Posted by rocketcake on 4 September 2026 in English.

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 💜💜

Location: Ingersoll, Oxford County, Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada

Возможности бурения скважин на воду малой техникой с учетом гидрогеологических особенностей Александровского района Обеспечение загородного участка автономным водоснабжением — первоочередная задача для любого землевладельца. Традиционно для решения этой проблемы применяется крупногабаритная буровая техника на базе грузовых автомобилей (ЗиЛ, УРАЛ, КамАЗ). Однако на практике буровые бригады часто сталкиваются с объективными препятствиями: плотная застройка, наличие ухоженных газонов, проложенные подземные коммуникации, узкие ворота или линии электропередач, исключающие возможность подъезда и разворота тяжелых машин.

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Location: Черёмушки, Александров, Александровский муниципальный округ, Владимирская область, Центральный федеральный округ, 601655, Россия
Posted by Tuwewanzi on 3 September 2026 in English.

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. I have focused on sources who are either directly part of, or at least worked closely with, authentic Oc̣eti Ṡakowiƞ communities. This is the language of nations that are alive today, and they have things to say! My major sources include:

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Location: Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States

Gazirchat Munshipara Darul Ulume Madrasha & Eatimkhana গাজীরচট মুন্সীপাড়া দারুল উলুমে মাদ্রাস & ইতিমখানা

Location: বাইপাইল, সাভার উপজেলা, ঢাকা জেলা, ঢাকা বিভাগ, 1349, বাংলাদেশ
Posted by rocketcake on 3 September 2026 in English.

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.

Posted by juminet on 2 September 2026 in French (Français).

This weekend, I was at State of the Map 2026, the international OpenStreetMap conference, which took place in Paris this year. Here’s a brief, personal feedback and a round-up of a few presentations that stood out for me. You can also find all the videos at https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr.

NB: there is a French version here. This one was translated with the help of DeepL translate.

The most inspiring: cartes.app

Inspiring: cartes.app is a slightly mad project aimed at creating a new Google Maps, but without its car-centric bias. It started with a single contributor, but he’s managed to build a strong team around him: he has the insight to use the best open-source software components for his project – MapLibre for map navigation, vector tiles for map rendering, Photon for geocoding, and Transitious for public transport. Today, the developer is no longer working alone: he is securing funding and attracting contributors from around the world to improve his app and translate it so it can reach a global audience. It’s a wonderful project worth supporting, and you can do so by subscribing to cartes.app premium for just €1 a month.

The clearest: Use of OSM data by emergency services in Germany

A clear, practical and positive presentation by a contributor who is himself a member of a volunteer fire brigade. There is no longer any need to demonstrate the value of OSM to the emergency services: according to him, the use of OSM is widespread and extensive amongst German emergency services – as a base map, for specialised route planning, and for cartographic products in situation rooms, etc. A motivating call to contribute local knowledge to OSM: an unofficial address number displayed on a house number plate, the former name of a café still used by the local population, local place names, and of course all the information useful for lorry navigation: maximum width, bollards, etc.

The most surprising: How OSM inspire European standards for cycling infrastructure

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Location: Cité Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne, Torcy, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France métropolitaine, 77420, France

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.


firstly, what are we actually doing and why?

so one night, at a random hackspace on the 25th of august, we were bored. and so with that boredom, we decided to fix something that had been annoying us for a long time; nearly every train station in germany that is not a transfer station, and honestly a lot that are!, are missing basic information about their track numbering, as well as generally just having a low quality of track and platform geometry (likely because most of that was put in automatically and no one bothered fixing it)

very quickly we realized, putting the exact sources (which, to be fair were more for reference than actual sourcing) into every single commit, of which there is at least one changeset per train station, was extremely tedious

so we made a post “hey we’re doing this thing”, to then go and have a way to simply refer to that project in the changeset commits, instead of the exact sources every single time.

this, has already gotten the attention of a few others on here, which honestly is both surprising, and humbling, as well as very motivating.

we are doing this, we will not stop doing this until we are done :3


secondly, how actually is information being sourced?

so this is fairly simple, but also very important to mention; while we have listed Bahnhof.de as a source, which at the time we did not realize could even theoretically be an issue, we technically did not even use it as a source- it simply is a good way to double check our work and to shove a url into the source field of our commits

in reality, here’s our source (in a sense); https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/arson-railing_57214#7/51.075920/11.107178

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Σήμερα έκανα λήψη 12 αρχεία gpx από τον εξειδικευμένο ιστότοπο του Δήμου Μεγίστης kastellorizotrails.com και προσπάθησα να τα προσθέσω στο openstreetmap.org. Η διαδικασία ολοκληρώθηκε κανονικά, προσθέτοντας τα αρχεία ένα ένα από το web interface, αλλά μόλις τελείωσα δεν εμφανιζόταν κανένα αρχείο στο μενού Τα ίχνη μου. Θα περιμένω 1-2 μέρες και θα το ξαναδώ. Έχω την εντύπωση ότι ίσως η ταχύτητα αποστολής των αρχείων να ενεργοποίησε κάποιο φίλτρο προστασίας.

Posted by rphyrin on 1 September 2026 in English.

I’m 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 I’m already still stuck on day one already.

If you check my latest OSM Diary entry in my State of the Map 2026 series, you’ll see that my writing stopped rather abruptly at Jake Low’s talk, titled “Sourdough and Layercake.”

It was a very interesting talk. In fact, while watching it live through the Venueless platform, I had already started thinking about some projects that I wanted to build on top of Sourdough.

So instead of continuing to write that report, I started tinkering with Sourdough immediately.

The cool thing about vector maps is that they are so easy to customize on the client side. We can selectively show some data layers and hide the rest. We can emphasize one aspect while pretending that everything else is “not important” and simply not showing it at all. And I think that’s quite a powerful concept.

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Posted by WIDINSONALVEIROS on 1 September 2026 in Spanish (Español).

Mapear en OpenStreetMap es dibujar el mundo real para que todos lo puedan usar.

  1. Observas: Sales, miras a tu alrededor o usas fotos satelitales libres.
  2. Dibujas: Pones un punto, una línea o un área en el editor (como iD).
  3. Etiquetas: Le dices qué es con etiquetas, por ejemplo amenity=cafe o highway=residential.
  4. Guardas: Tu aporte ya queda en el mapa global, libre y verificable por todos.

Empieza por lo que conoces: tu calle, tu tienda, tu parque.

Location: Horcajo de Santiago, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, 16410, España