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Posted by Negreheb on 27 January 2025 in English. Last updated on 2 February 2025.

Hello OSM Community,

I’m still working on capturing 360° images of the city of Salzburg for Mapillary and Panoramax. My goal is to enhance OSM data in Salzburg, especially in areas with notes that could be resolved with better visual context - something 360° images can provide.

Progress as of now

Salzburg

Route Planning Challenges

So, i tried some tools to plan a route efficiently to cover as many streets as possible without overlapping - essentially the Chinese Postman Problem.

  • Bikerouter: manual tedious labour involved to cover every street
  • everystreet challenge: no GPX download, so useless. No developtment.
  • RunEveryStreet: More automated approach, but key features missing and some bugs, and I didn’t get a response to my suggestions unfortunately.

Unfortunately, none of these tools fully met my needs, so i did it more practical.

The Solution I’m Using

OSMAnd’s built-in recording feature. I can record my route in real-time and have the GPX displayed at the same time directly on the map. This way, I can decide on the fly which streets to cover next. It also allows me to choose if i want to cycle a path or highway or not and no router is trying to get me back there. This flexibility worked much better for capturing pictures around Salzburg.

Managing the Photos for Upload (Moving Beyond the Mapillary GUI Uploader)

One of the biggest improvements has been switching from the Mapillary GUI uploader to their CLI tool. The command-line interface is significantly more efficient for handling large image sets. I used a powershell script to split images into smaller folders to avoid the problems i encountered with the GUI uploader, like freezing or crashing when processing too many images. With the CLI, the upload is much more robust.

I still have manually go through the pictures to remove duplicates, such as images taken at a red light or while I was checking my smartphone.

I’ve tried the Panoramax CLI tool, and I’m impressed how good it is. Integrates seamlessy into my workflow. Panoramax is already a strong alternative for hosting and 360° imagery. Every day the develelopment is ongoing, improving the integration in OSM-services like JOSM or Vespucci.

Interesting: Detroit’s Success with Street Coverage

In weeklyOSM 748, it was announced that Detroit has mapped 99.8% of its public roads using 360° imagery. The city’s Street View page showcases their success, and a great blog post by Mapillary highlights how Detroit has benefited from SLI (Street Level Imagery). Their approach demonstrates the incredible potential of using comprehensive street coverage to improve city planning and data accuracy.

Next Steps and Reflections

So, i learned a lot about tools and planning and improvisation. While efficient planning is helpful, the ability to adapt on the fly is just as, if not more, important. Switching from the GUI-Uploader to the CLI-Uploader has been a game-changer, saving me both time and frustration.

Next, I plan to continue expanding my coverage of Salzburg. My goal is to capture the entire city, street by street, and make this imagery accessible to everyone through both Mapillary and Panoramax. Maybe even the city is able to benefit from the SLI.

If you have suggestions for tools, workflows, or anything else that could support this project, please share! Let’s work together to make our maps even better.

Let’s keep mapping - one street at a time!

Posted by Bayazid Ahmed on 25 January 2025 in English. Last updated on 27 January 2025.

“Mapping USA 2025” welcomed participants to join virtually via Zoom for the two-day event between January 24th-25th with times from 11 AM to 3 PM ET. 🌍✨

At Mapping USA 2025 ,I presented my mapping progress while attending expert instructors who provided me access to useful resources which helped enhance my mapping quality. The event has strengthened my dedication toward open mapping alongside the collective spirit which our community powers. Let’s keep building important impacts together moving forward 🌟.

OpenStreetMap #CommunityImpact #StateoftheMapUS

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1340, Bangladesh

به مدت ۲۵ سال در مدارس مختلف استان البرز، خاصه در منطقه ساوجبلاغ با سمت مدیر فعالیت داشتم، باتوجه به حفظ ارتباطات عاطفی خودم در طول سالهای عمر، مخصوصا بعد از بازنشستگی، از ظرفیت بکار گیری و همراهی عده ی زیادی از شاگردانم در امور اطلاع رسانی، نقشه خوانی و نقشه برداری، جمع اوری اطلاعات دقیق اماری مخصوصا ازنقاط محروم و کمتر رشد یافته را دارم

Location: shahin vila, District 6, Karaj, Karaj Central District, Karaj County, Alborz Province, 31939-58690, Iran

Jau dažus labus mēnešus strādāju pie Zemītes un tās apkātnes uzlabošanas.

Mērķi

Padarīt karti detalizētāku un precīzāku- pievienot kokus, izlabot māju kontūras, izveidot jaunas, iepriekš nekartētas ēkas, pievienot grāvjus, jaunus ceļus, izveidot katram nostūrim apzīmētu apgabalu kā lauks, krūms, zāle, mežs utt.

Kas izdarīts?

Līdz šim esmu pabeidzis kartēt divus apgabalus- izdarīts ir viss, ko iepriekš minēju.

![Zaļās zonas- pabeigtie apgabali, dzeltenā zona- šobrīd strādāju](Screenshot-2025-01-24-at-19-39-06)

Bet kāpēc?

Kāpēc ne? Varbūt kādam nākotnē noderēs.

Location: Kalpu mājas, Zemīte, Zemītes pagasts, Tukuma novads, LV-3135, Latvija

1) Sentiero 801: Sa Pala de Cunventu - Is Seddas de Trebini, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato. 2) Sentiero 802: Cunventu - Bruncu Poni Fogu, (Agro Sinnai) = mappato. 3) Sentiero 803: Bau Arrexini - Bruncu Monti Eccas, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato. 4) Sentiero 804: S’Incantu - Campu Omu Arcu Arriu Longu, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato. 5) Sentiero 805: Arcu Is Pedras Biancas - Arriu Sa Scova Mara Solinas, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato. 6) Sentiero 806: Arcu Sa Spina - Arcu Su Crabiolu, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato. 7) Sentiero 807: Bau S’Acua Callenti - Baccu sa Figu, (Agro Castiadas)= mappato. 8) Sentiero 403: Sa Pala de Su Scoffu - San Gregorio, (Agro Burcei - Sinnai)= mappato. 9) Sentiero 800A: Sa Sedda de Tullinu - Sa Guardia de Tullinu, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato. 10) Sentiero 800B: Arcu Fra Contini - Sa Ruxi de S’Arridelaxiu, (Agro Sinnai)= mappato.

Location: Sabadi, Castiadas, Sud Sardegna, Sardegna, 09040, Italia
Posted by Tex2002ans on 22 January 2025 in English. Last updated on 23 January 2025.

In the upper-right corner of the main screen, you’ll see 3 buttons:

  • Upload
    • Looks like an “up arrow”.
  • Layers
    • This is the one we want!
  • Settings
    • Looks like “3 horizontal lines”.

(Note: This tutorial was created using StreetComplete v60.1 on Android.)

Tutorial: Adding Fire Hydrants

SEE IMAGE

1. Click on the “Layers” button.

2. Choose “Things”.

  • The icon will now turn into a green-and-white bullseye-looking symbol.
    • (You can now see objects like benches / fire hydrants on the map.)

SEE IMAGE

3. Pinch+Zoom in really far:

  • You’ll see a crosshair appear on your screen.
    • (That’s the exact spot the object will be placed.)

Now:

  • Scroll on the map to move it to the exact location.

4. At the bottom-right of the screen:

  • Click the big red + button.

5. At the bottom of your screen:

  • Click on the “? Select” dropdown.
    • (You’ll now get a list of objects to choose from.)

This is where you can quickly choose from the 10 most popular objects:

  • Bench
  • Fire Hydrant
    • Choose this one!
  • Trash Can
  • Bicycle Parking
  • Recycling Bin
  • […]

SEE IMAGE

6. Then:

  • Verify you moved the cursor to the right location.
  • Double-check you chose the correct object.
  • Click on the checkmark.

Congrats. You added it to the map! :)


Tips

Tip #1: See A Bench? Take A Break!

If I’m mapping benches, I:

  • Sit right down.
  • Wait for the GPS to stabilize.
  • Do Steps 3->6.
    • Moving “the crosshair” directly over my “location dot”.

And while I’m taking a quick rest, I complete a few more quests around me too! :)

Tip #2: Other Small Things?

In Step 5, you can also add many other things by just:

  • Typing into the search box.

SEE IMAGE

So if you’re in a park, you may want to add:

  • Drinking Water
    • This will trigger the “water fountain” quests.
  • Picnic Table

or some of the playground equipment:

  • Play Structure
    • This is the big thing with steps/slides/walls/bridges for kids to play on.
  • Swing
  • Seesaw

Or here are a few other objects you might come across while exploring:

Extra Info

Side Note #1: If you like fire hydrants, then check out the map at:

StreetComplete is great for filling in all those blank gaps in your neighborhood! :)

Side Note #2: If you love adding in all these little things, you may also be interested in this great talk:

@mycota did a fantastic job making parks look so much better! :)


Technical Note: These are the 2 main OSM tags discussed:

StreetComplete Name Tag Link
Fire Hydrant emergency=fire_hydrant OSM Wiki
Bench amenity=bench OSM Wiki

and then these bonus ones:

StreetComplete Name Tag Link
Drinking Water amenity=drinking_water OSM Wiki
Picnic Table leisure=picnic_table OSM Wiki
  playground=* OSM Wiki
Trash Can amenity=waste_basket OSM Wiki
Public Bookcase amenity=public_bookcase OSM Wiki
Flagpole man_made=flagpole OSM Wiki
Posted by b-unicycling on 20 January 2025 in English. Last updated on 31 January 2025.

Street-level imagery

Since last Thursday, I’m touring the Netherlands with the band I’m in. I brought the GoPro Max sponsored by Meta, because I thought it would be a great opportunity to get lots of footage for Panoramax which has little coverage in the Netherlands so far. We’re staying in the same place all the time, near Epe in Gelderland and fan out for the gigs almost all over the Netherlands. We’ll be playing until the 31st of January.

Screenshot from Panoramax showing the progress on 2025-01-31

Unfortunately, it’s been very foggy since we arrived, so the imagery is not the best. It is also very cold, and the third trip (to Zutphen, if I remember correctly), the metal on the holder hinge shrunk and the camera tilted back, so that footage was fairly useless.

I upload the images to mapillary first, after all, they sponsored the camera, so it takes a while to get them onto Panoramax, and the internet at the accommodation doesn’t seem as quick as what I’m used to.

Here’s a link to the footage gathered footage on Panoramax, but it’s still a work in progress, of course.

Mapping by survey

Of course, I can’t stop myself from mapping from the van window or walking around that little bit between sound check and gig. I’m mostly adding bicycle parking (I know it’s a clichee that the Netherlands are great for cycling, but good Lord, are they!), post boxes, defibribrillators, missing shops and whatever else. I’ve also added a bit of roof:material=thatch, because I find it fascinating how much is still around, compared to Ireland. Even though I was told by our sound engineer that some of it is made of plastic. Disgusting. But since I can’t see that from afar, I’ll still map it as roof:material=thatch.

Mapping theatre details

Every night, apart from when we’re off like today, we’re in a different theatre, and usually we don’t know what to expect in amenities. Some of them are fairly large theatres with a corresponding large backstage area with many amenities like showers, microwaves, washing machine and tumble dryer, games etc. We don’t have a self-service washing machine at the accommodation which I had expected, so I would personally like to know beforehand what to expect at a theatre. For future reference, I have started adding the facilities with a backstage prefix such as at Het Kruispunt in Barendrecht: OSM Screenshot with backstage tags I know this is very niche micro-mapping, but why not?

Mapping from satellite imagery

If you follow my journey, you’ll know that I have a big interest in history. How interesting to find that the start_date of the houses is mapped everywhere! From what I could see, there was a huge import of buildings (only the larger ones, no sheds or garages) with their addresses and start date in 2014. Needless to say, that has become quite outdated. I’ve added a couple of the cabins, static caravans or whatever they are around where we are staying. But it must have made such a difference for OSM Netherlands to have that open data. Something we can still only dream about in Ireland, but it goes to show that there is always work in catching up to do.

Location: Zuuk, Epe, Gelderland, Netherlands, 8161 RE, Netherlands

Bei meiner gestrigen Wanderung am Thayatalweg navigierte ich wie immer mit Handy und Komoot. Diese Methode benötigt bekanntlich sehr viel Strom. Dahner hatte ich eine 5000 mAh Powerbank und ein USB-C Ladekabel lose in eine Außentasche (!) des Rucksacks gepackt.

Powerbank und Ladekabel bei Kälte körpernah transportieren

Nach rund 12 Kilometern war der Handyakku erwartungsgemäß am Ende. Ich steckte die Powerbank ans Handy und beides in die äußere (!) Jackentasche. 2 Fehler mit 2 Ergebnissen: * Warnmeldung am Handy: Sehr schwache Ladeleistung! * An beiden Enden des Kabels, direkt hinter dem Knickschutz brach die Isolierung und mehrere Kupferlitzen brachen. Kurz darauf schaltete sich mein Handy wegen Energiemangel ab.

Dann stehst du bei dichtem Nebel, einem leichten Lüftchen und minus -2° (gefühlt -6°) ohne Navigation, ohne Verbindung zur Außenwelt und ohne Rückfahrtickets irgendwo auf einer kleinen Landstraße im Waldviertel!

Plötzlich ist man, ganz alleine, in einer echt gefährlichen Situation!

Erschwerend waren noch Hunger und Durst.

Mein Glück war die Landstraße als einzige Orientierungshilfe. Als ich an den Bus 875, der mich nach Hardegg brachte, wurde mir bewusst, ich hatte ja nun auch keine Tickets nach Hause mehr! Doch, diesmal nicht „Gott“ sondern Dank einer guten Planung /Vorbereitung hatte ich einen „Notgroschen“ + einen 500 kcal YFood Riegel + genügend Polster an Tageslicht.

Das A und O lautet:

Planung – Vorbereitung – Ausrüstung

Location: Merkersdorf, Hardegg, Bezirk Hollabrunn, Niederösterreich, 2082, Österreich
Posted by InfosReseaux on 19 January 2025 in English. Last updated on 27 January 2025.

OpenStreetMap is now 20 years old. Its community is contributing to complete a geographical database which fuel many activities, for instance useful for energy transition and power grids asset management. The increasing impacts of extreme weather phenomenons like storms or wild fires disrupt power grids and expose them to wider outages. Operators have to reinforce and adapt their assets for those upcoming challenges.

Overhead power grids asset management had suffered from disinterest since early 1990s for instance in France. It remains at least a significant challenge in developed countries. Important decisions that had been made to bury them and more generally because they are “highly visible infrastructure” don’t bring value to accurate knowledge about existing infrastructures. Nevertheless, several decades are required to completely hide a very capillary distribution grid. So we need to better describe them for sake of maintaining remaining overhead power grids, particularly ones that couldn’t be buried. In particular, very high voltage transmission lines will remain mainly overhead.

Producing and maintaining knowledge about utility networks assets is tedious and expensive without appropriate tools. I already had opportunity to explain how the “OpenStreetMap way” is helping for power transmission grid knowledge, back in 2020. Operators now face other challenges and are busy with bigger investments for transitions. Yet lesser time left for knowledge management as projects pace accelerate. Power grids inventory started early after OpenStreetMap birth in 2004. It began with most visible transmission grids. Tagging improvements are continuously made since 2010 and 15 years later we reach another step with a deeper experience in such activities.

Rita storm damages in Texas, 2005 - Bob McMillan / FEMA Photo Rita storm damages in Texas, 2005 - Bob McMillan / FEMA Photo

Power grids adaptation to climate change

Climate change raises new challenges and force us to adapt our lifestyle and infrastructures. Disasters occurs more often and requires more accurate risk exposition studies to preserve resilience at an acceptable level.

In western Europe, Lothar and Martin storms at the end of 1999 had reminded us the power grids vulnerability to windy or snowy weather. French transmission grid operator (TSO), RTE, published an interesting retrospective of outages following those two storms. More recently in France, Ciaran (2023, 1.2 milions of subscribers off grid) and Caetano storms (2024, 600 000 subscribers off grid) had significantly damaged overhead distribution grids on shores. Enedis, the main distribution grid operator (DSO) set up a strategy to restore and prepare infrastructures to similar events in the Future. It notably requires to manage a detailed knowledge to identify parts of networks that require to be improved the most.

Overhead power grids are vulnerable to storms or wildfires and they could cause them as well (see how Pacific Gas & Electricty lack of maintenance was involved in the Camp Fire disaster in 2018). Lastly, power distribution grid operation was also questioned at Pacific Palisade. OpenStreetMap allows highly detailed description of power lines with their supports. It should be possible to compare this knowledge with one maintained by operators to reach completeness more quickly (on both OpenStreetMap and Operators sides since both still misses some parts of it even today). Back in 2021, OpenStreetMap France concluded a strategic partnership with French DSO Enedis to collaborate on asset knowledge accessible to OSM contributors.

Power grids ontology and tooling

Producing a business-grade useful knowledge needs a readable and comprehensive ontology. It enables contributors to sustainably cope with transitions and challenges. Back in 2015, community was busy building a more detailed tagging for power grids and it still supports interoperability today, between many OpenStreetMap tools and with operators or business focused ones as well. OpenStreetMap was already able to map visible parts of power grids and particularly got focused on power supports (towers and poles mainly). OSM tagging that covers towers and poles today relies on three main attributes. They’ve been reviewed in three proposals:

  • line_attachment (2019, 23 pros) describes the way power lines are attached to their supports
  • line_management (2020, 20 pros) describes particular topology situations around power lines supports
  • line_arrangement (2023, 11 pros et 2 cons) describes the shape of conductors in a given power line

Learn more in this other diary published in 2020.

Open source software

Our tools are also a game changer to encourage people to contribute and value data they produce.

StreetComplete has got two additional quests. They regard the material of power poles and the attachment of power lines on them. Those quests ease the contribution from ground since those properties are poorly visible on aerial imagery.

StreetComplete quests for overhead power lines

Secondly, we make a great use of quality insurance tools to maintain an acceptable quality level and not get lost in years-lasting refinements. For instance, several Osmose analysis search and warn for inconsistent or missing features and are based upon publicly available datasets in as many countries as possible.

Osmose analysis dedicated to overhead power lines

Gespot.fr has been online since september 2020. It acts as a demonstrator of what OpenStreetMap data make possible about overhead power grids asset management. Available data about towers and pole in France in OSM are directly rendered on the website’s map.

Gespot.fr example with transmission and distribution power lines

Software and ontology represent an original way of collecting and processing asset management data for power grids. They are available under licenses that preserve interests of both contributors and consumers. The journey to improve and innovate is not over and it’s still possible to contribute in one of several projects we had in this field of knowledge.

Open data and asset management

OpenStreetMap community knows how to produce knowledge virtuously by reusing available open data. We aim to enable people involved to give feedback to operators with their own ground surveys. It’s first of all static topology data and it doesn’t intend to describe the status of a network at a given date. Contributors on 5 continents now use the tagging used for power supports. This show a fast adoption rate, replacing historical properties that had to be refined.

In the beginning of 2025, the 3 main attributes of power towers or pole show 450 000 usages (line_attachment 309 000, line_management 124 000 and line_arrangement 17 000) although millions of power supports remain to be discovered.

It was necessary to inspect existing objects to move tagging to the new one and then to continue to collect efficiently data on ground about new features. Several campaigns occur in parallel, both on distribution and transmission grids, started on the initiative of contributors. This ongoing refinement provides consumers with data of ever-increasing consistency and completeness. It has been noticed by some researchers and software modelers for power grids. They make an increasing usage of OpenStreetMap data to feed their software with topological knowledge of power grids.

Focus on France

French community had recently been busy with transmission power grid. We aim to improve knowledge about power towers and implement tagging explained upside. At least one contributor review each of 255 000 towers supporting the overhead transmission power lines, since 2017. Some locations have been refined and some attributes have been added.

Particularly about the 30 000 of towers supporting the highest voltage power grid, towers designs shapes have been surveyed on ground or from aerial imagery since mid-2023 (absent from open data) and described with help of design:ref key. This initiative could be extended to lower voltage transmission grids with the help of AI and Lidar data that accurately show most of towers.

We are now able to render some summary and looking forward to get feedback from grid operator to know where our mistakes are:

French 400 kV power towers summary French 400 kV power towers summary - François Lacombe CC BY-SA 4.0

Distribution grids also got attention from the local community as we reached the symbolic step of 1.5 millions poles supporting lower voltage lines. More than 2 000 people has been involved since 4 years. The public platform running Projetdumois.fr is useful to understand how tremendous this effort is.

Perspectives

As we regularly get results from a long-term work started many years ago, we show that OpenStreetMap is relevant to produce very specific knowledge, particularly about overhead power grids. This knowledge is necessary to ongoing efforts to adapt our infrastructure to climate change and energy transition.

Good wills allowing to reach consistency and completeness goals anywhere in the world are always welcome. Produced data are available on standard OpenStreetMap access points under ODbL license. We see many industrial or scientific initiatives which require high quality data to operate but a very few take time to provide us with the knowledge they produced about the underlying infrastructure. This lack of sharing will possibly lessen our common efficiency to adapt and finally tackle this century challenge.

Here are some ideas if you want to get involved to help:

  • Developers, have a look to Osmose power issues, JOSM power issues or even iD power tagging to help us solve them
  • Contributors, have a look to local power projects. Some may match the country you are located in.
  • Consumers, give a try to OpenStreetMap data in your area and provide us with feedback on what improvements could be made.
  • Operators, also give a try to OpenStreetMap data as to compare with internal data and find useful feedback

This diary has been translated from French, original publication is available on OpenStreetMap France website.

Posted by AngocA on 15 January 2025 in Spanish (Español).

F4 es uno de los pocos visores de OpenStreetMap que ha estado en servicio ofreciendo renderizado en 3D por muchos años. Han habido otros servicios, pero cuando se muestra F4 cualquier persona se descresta. He empezado a mapear en 3D, y muchas de las grandes contribuciones, principalmente en Denver, en este ámbito han sido de chachafish. Lo quise contactar para obtener algunos tipos de un experto, pero dejó de mapear desde 2020 (en plena pandemia :( ), entonces me tocó buscar otras opciones.

En el wiki, en communities, hay información dispersa, pero no muestra todas las posibilidades que tiene esta herramienta. Entonces, decidí indagar en la misma página de F4 map, y encontré 2 páginas muy interesantes: render y changelog. En ellas se describe en cierto desorden todo lo que puede hacer esta herramienta.

Entonces, decidí darle un orden, extraer las etiquetas que usa y ahí tener una mejor idea de cómo debo hacer 3D mapping. Fue ahí cuando recordé Taginfo, y decidí listar este visor en este directorio, por lo que creé una entrada: https://github.com/angoca/f4demo-in-taginfo/blob/main/taginfo.json.

Además de lo anterior, es necesario manejar los colores para que se visualice más cercano a la realidad. Para eso se puede usar esta guía de nombres de colores.

Esperemos que esto sea de ayuda para que más personas se aventuren en el mapeo 3D, sobretodo teniendo un poquito más de documentación.

Yo comencé con un pequeño ejercicio en el norte de Bogotá, y estoy muy contento con el resultado del Centro Comercial Plaza Norte:

Location: Centro Comercial Plaza Norte, 20-85, Localidad Usaquén, Bogotá, Bogotá Distrito Capital - Municipio, Bogotá, Distrito Capital, RAP (Especial) Central, 110141, Colombia
Posted by mapmeld on 15 January 2025 in English.

For years, an issue with Kurdish language, Arabic script, and OpenStreetMap tiles has been on my radar. In 2023 I got OSM to update Noto fonts on the tile server, but Google has moved their latest changes to individual repos.

I’m continuing to workshop a PR for that.. but in the meantime, I thought to check if OSM needs more of the language-specific Noto fonts. Back in spring 2019 I did a mini survey of where Unicode blocks were used around the OSM world.

Today I added Python scripts to check Planet PBF files (specifically name and alt_name tags on nodes) and find usage across Unicode blocks.

There are names with Latin alphabet and frequently associated characters (superscripts and subscripts, dingbats, diacritics, IPA, half-width, old italic, runic, spacing modifiers, punctuation, emoticons/emoji, and symbols from math, music, currency, and maps).

  • Africa has: TIFINAGH, ARABIC (supplements and presentation forms), CYRILLIC, ETHIOPIC, NKO, HEBREW, CJK, HANGUL, and GREEK.

  • Asia has: CYRILLIC, GREEK, HEBREW, ARABIC, SYRIAC, COPTIC, ETHIOPIC, BALINESE, JAVANESE, CJK + YI + BOPOMOFO + KANGXI, HANGUL, MONGOLIAN, TIBETAN, THAI, MYANMAR, LAO, KHMER, ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN, THAANA, SINHALA, TAMIL, ORIYA, BENGALI, GURMUKHI, GUJARATI, DEVANAGARI, KANNADA, MALAYALAM, OL_CHIKI, and TELUGU.

For the Americas, OSM already includes fonts for Cherokee and Canadian Aboriginal Symbols.
Those two scripts and OGHAM, TAGBANWA, and BAMUM were misused in Asia. The instance of TAGALOG script was a little uncertain. I removed an Apple logo because it’s from the Private Use Area.

The current font download script is pretty good, and includes additional fonts (Adlam and Tai Viet) which aren’t actively used.

The one alphabet which I will recommend adding is Glagolitic. Stone letters have appeared in several locations around Baška, Croatia (street view , street view 2), but also get misused on tourist site binoculars (assumedly using Ⰹ to represent its shape) and I’d previously seen it in the Canary Islands.

I am considering setting up a script checking weekly edit downloads for common errors and suspicious Unicode blocks.

Location: Zarok, Baška, Općina Baška, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, 51523, Croatia
Posted by GerardSharp on 15 January 2025 in English.

so the beach town is seeing growth again, after the primary developers went bust in 2007/8. A large amount of blank land between the shops and the harbour has been cleared, and given asphalt roads, concrete footpaths, and brackish ponds for the mosquitoes to grow in! I hope the new holiday home owners like mosquitoes!

My GPS accuracy is not great and my note taking while walking is worse; but I’ve drawn some new ways on the new footpaths; and verified some of the existing paths from Kenwood Drive to Waimarie Ave are still approximately where my GPS says they are. Good fun.

Need to go back with a laptop next summer to add/tweak more. Hopefully LINZ has updated by then to provide even better coverage

Location: Winton Beaches, Matarangi, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato, 3592, New Zealand