Wanna play a game about the State of the Map Europe conference?

https://zverikk.itch.io/dundee

For the last 10 days I’ve been travelling in Europe to go to OSM events. I have some spare time before my flights to get home to Vancouver, so I’m posting a brief overview of the events and what got done.

My first event was the Karlsruhe hack weekend. This event is held twice a year and attracts lots of German and Swiss OSM developers. I started out by discovering that the jet lag is worse as I get older and I missed the pre-event social.

At the event itself I focused on the Shortbread Vector Tiles specification and osm2pgsql. In total three people from the Shortbread steering committee were at the event. The main Shortbread coding that’s been completed was a cleanup of the tables in the 1.0 spec. I think this is the last change we’ll see to 1.0 and all my Shortbread focus is now on 1.1.

I haven’t yet published the changes but support for multiple languages in the OSMF shortbread vector tiles is basically done. I just need to clean up some changes and add them to the WIP commit. Initially the language list is only en and de, but it’s ready to be added to.

I met with the two other maintainers of osm2pgsql and we discussed what’s necessary to tag releases of osm2pgsql-themepark. I think we’ve got a route forward there.

I spent the Monday after the hack weekend around town. The next morning I started for Nottingham via the Eurostar train. While I was in Nottingham I visited relatives and didn’t do anything OSM-related.

On the trip north to Dundee I got a cheap seat upgrade on the train to Edinburgh. This gave me three hours of focused time to work on my SOTM EU presentations.

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🌐 MAPEO DE RUTAS Y PARADAS COLABORATIVO METROPOLITANO

¡Te invitamos a formar parte de un proyecto ciudadano que busca mejorar la movilidad en toda la zona metropolitana! Tu experiencia diaria como usuario de transporte es valiosa: cada ruta que recorres y cada parada que utilizas ayuda a construir un diagnóstico real, actualizado y colaborativo del territorio.

Este mapeo abierto permite identificar:

🚏 Paradas de ascenso y descenso (formales e informales)

🗺️ Rutas completas (conjuntos de puntos/coordenadas)

🚲 Estacionamientos y biciestacionamientos

🚇 Líneas de metro, tren, teleférico

🚌 Rutas de camiones, combis, autobuses y servicios especiales

🚐 Transporte escolar, foráneo o alternativo

🛠️ Lugares donde debería instalarse o mejorarse una parada

Tu participación alimenta una base de datos pública que será útil para estudiantes, investigadores, colectivos, autoridades y cualquier persona interesada en la dignidad de la movilidad.

🔗 Más información y participación: https://encuestaorigendestino.my.canva.site/

Si quieres recibir novedades del proyecto o conocer los resultados, deja tu correo al final del formulario. Juntos podemos construir mejores rutas, mejores decisiones y un territorio más accesible para todas y todos.

Disaster Respond Desa Cibeunying Kecamatan Majenang Kabupaten Cilacap

Topographic Map Cilacap - BIG

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I’ve been tagging my local area for the last 2 years, and where I live, there are areas which are small yet notable, often past plantations or well known locations usually with origins in colonialist’s estates. For example, Clement Hill was a plantation centered on the house called Mound Court, where Benjamin Clement and his descendants once did their business. As such, the location got called Clement Hill. Similar things happened with Viewmont, New Glasgow, Green Hill, etc. What has confused me though is how to tag these locations. Despite all being the same sort of thing, they all get treated differently, even between maps. Yet they are all single notable locations, either inhabited or not, centered around tracts of land where farms or plantation houses were or are present. There are multiple tags in OSM that cover similar ideas, such as: 1. a locality 2. an isolated settlement 3. a plot 4. a farm 5. a named house 6. a residential area 7. a historic location And as I said, maps treat them differently. Some maps treat them as residences while others highlight them like they do hamlets and towns. Sometimes the location is specified as the name of the plot while other times it’s referring to the general area instead. So how do you tag all these similar yet different locations? I’d like an unambiguous “plantation” or “estate” location tag which signifies that the location: 1. is or was a place where an estate was located. 2. is used like a general settlement name . 3. is between a farm, a plot, and a locality or isolated settlement as not all of these locations are exactly any of them. 4. but conveys the one idea of a significant plantation or similar settlement, either existent or no longer existent, that can be surrounded by smaller residences or be a lone estate, as these 2 scenarios are common in rural Virginia and are both considered the same sort of thing.

It’s been a while since I posted, and we’ve been working hard in the background to add more (and safe) OSM contributing. Since last we spoke, we’ve actually been in court, defending ourselves against a “competitor” (I wouldn’t consider us competitors, we’re in the same space but they’re for-pay and we’re Libre, Open Source, Open, and Free) who claimed we “stole” their data.

Funnily enough, “their” data seems to come straight from OSM. When I contributed an albergue a while back, I made a typo (è instead of é) and it’s in their dataset. So, yeah, we won, they paid, and they cried. Cheaters always accuse others of cheating.

We renamed ourselves from Camino Now to Ultreia.me, because another competitor didn’t like the fact that we had “Camino” in the name and sued as well.

There is a LOT of money to be made with those apps, which is why they all hate being threatened by a free/libre alternative.

Anyhow, we now sync hostel data back. Mainly telephone numbers, opening hours, wheelchair access, kitchen access, washer/dryer, those things.

Residential Area

RETEX : Fin de mon trekking urbain recyclage

à suivre peut-être :

• entrée de journal (à venir) : Rencontres au fil des randonnées cartograpuiques
• entrée de journal (à venir) : Questions existentielles sur ma rencontre avec panoramax
• entrée de journal (à venir) : Questions existentielles sur OSM et le monde Wikimédia

Mon trekking urbain recyclage est maintenant fini (en ce qui concerne la tentative de cartographie de tous les points d’apport volontaire de l’intercommunalité GPS&O.

Bilan quantitatif.

J’avais estimé au départ 240 noeuds à créer et la pratique m’a clairement détrompé. j’en suis à :

• 1659 noeuds PAV et 8 déchèteries créés (ou complétés s’ils existaient déjà)
• 320 km parcourus à pied pour passer devant chacun de ces points, les géolocaliser et les photographier (sans compter bien sûr les plus de 500 km en voiture électrique pour aller et revenir aux départs des 32 boucles pédestres)
• 6000 photos prises (une par une, pas de séquence GoPro), dont 2000 versées à Panoramax

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The goal of this project is to improve address coverage in the City of Brampton on OpenStreetMap by verifying and adding missing address information using open data provided through the Brampton GeoHub. The DATASET includes authoritative municipal address points, which serve as a reliable source for accurate street names, house numbers, and related attributes.

Data Source: - Dataset: Municipal Address Points - License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - Attribution: “Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Brampton.”

Scope: - City of Brampton only - Single-family dwellings and clearly matched building polygons

26 Nov 2025, Edit: Project paused until a suitable dataset with a compatible usage license can be obtained. Thank you to users pointing out the Brampton license may not cover OSM usage.

Okay, warum nicht mal filmen, was man so bei OpenStreetMap für Änderungen vornimmt?

https://www.youtube.com/@AlexSpritze_OSM

Geht zum Glück schneller als gedacht, auch wenn das erste Video nur ein One-Shot ist, ohne weitere Bearbeitungen und ohne Ton. Naja, die bewegten Bilder sprechen für sich.

About eight months ago I started mapping my hometown, and earlier today I reached a major milestone of having gone over everywhere boxed in by the Sabine River Diversion Canal and the CPKC railroad. I’ve gotten a lot more detailed and generally more accurate with mapping, so rather than moving on I’m going to do a (hopefully much quicker) second pass, particularly for where I did not yet start using street-level imagery to verify road names, building/business names, and other micromapping targets I like to do (an embarrassing number of power poles and street lamps). I expect to have every road de-tigered and every visibly signed POI named sometime next year. From that point on I think I’ll focus on de-tigering the rest of the road network in the parish, then maybe start mapping other nearby towns.

As part of the Ireland chapter of OpenStreetMap a few years ago I set up a tileserver and a map frontend that defaulted to showing placenames in the Irish language (Gaeilge). Recently I spent some time improving both these services.

Vector Tileserver

Previously the default style was named ‘ga’ and available at: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/ga However, last weekend I added a new ‘style’ named ‘sraid-v1’. You can take a look at it here: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/sraid-v1/ The screenshots below show a comparison. The new style is much brighter and has icons generated from Maki icons into a sprite sheet (see generate_sprites.py in the github repo). I also fixed a few things I didn’t like about the old ‘ga’ style.

If you are currently using tiles from tileserver.openstreetmap.ie and want to use the new ones, you will need to change the code where it currently points to: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/ga/ You can now use: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/sraid-v1/ So to use this vector tileset you might use something like the code below with MapLibreGL var map = new maplibregl.Map({ container: 'map', style: 'https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/sraid-v1/style.json' + keyParam, hash: true, maxPitch: 85 }); The previous style ‘ga’ is still present so there should be no breaks in functionality if you choose to continue using the old style. The code is available here: https://github.com/jonnymccullagh/irish-language-osm-tiles

Léarscáil

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Dear OSM users,

I need to inform you that, unfortunately, the Toledo Province area is quite neglected and lacks detail. This isn’t anyone’s fault, obviously; it’s something that needs improvement, and together we can fix it. Furthermore, one of the most populated areas of Toledo, the La Sagra region and its surroundings, lacks updates and good features. We also cover the southern Madrid area, which also lacks updates.

WE NEED PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THIS AREA.

LET’S DO SOMETHING BIG.

Thanks for reading.

Queridos usuarios de OSM

Necesito comunicaros que por desgracia la zona de la Provincia de toledo esta bastante abandonada y con pocos detalles esto no es culpa de nadie obviamente es una cosa a mejorar y que todos unidos podemos arreglar ademas una de las zonas mas pobladas de toledo la provincia de la sagra y alrededores carecen de modificaciones y buenos detalles tambien abarcamos la zona del sur de madrid que tambien carece de actualizaciones

NECESITAMOS GENTE QUE LE PREOCUPE LA ZONA MENCIONADA

HAGAMOS ALGO GRANDE

Gracias por Leer

Nuestro estimado Sanchi, Borra cosas que ni sabe si estan bien sin control. Porfavor si os judga,elimina u os hace algo parecido porfavor contactar conmigo. Muchas grracias por su colaboracion

He tenido que añadir muchas cosas a este lugar durante mi jornada laboral. Necesito a alguien que, conmigo, añada a Getafe lugares que aún no están en el mapa. Por favor, escríbanme en privado para decirme quién quiere colaborar en este proyecto llamado: ¡Ayudemos a Getafe! Avísenme si les interesa. Leeré sus mensajes. Adiós, Kitsunderoku

Por favor escribidme si estáis convencidos de que Getafe necesita editores y uniros a mi para mejorar OpenStreetMap en Madrid.

I was checking the map in all of the world and i see things that broke my eyes. I never been there but the things i found are don’t common.

I had to add so many things to this place during my courent day in the job. I need someone that with me add to Getafe some things that there aren’t on the map. Please, write me in private to let me now who want to colaborate in this proyect that is name: Lets help Getafe!!!! Let me now who is interesed writting me. I will read your menseges. Bye Kitsunderoku