Merry Christmas!

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Part 1

Hi! I’m @likeToTravel, and I suck at writing, so I’m gonna go straight to the point:

THE LIST

Pascal Neis Stuff:

• OSMviz. I use this to visualize my changes because I am so dumb, I don’t understand OSMCha (hence, you won’t find OSMCha on my list). To see a changeset, go to the link and add the changeset number after ?c= in the link. Or, just go to…
• Find Suspicious OpenStreetMap Changesets. This is very useful to find changesets that asked for help. You can also have a link directly to that changeset’s OSMviz or Achavi page.
• How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap? (aka hdyc). Cool because you can visualize any user’s stats.
• OSMstats. It’s cool because it has a lot of stats, for lack of a better word.
• OSMfight. Funny :)

Overpass & other:

• Overpass Turbo. I use this to create challenges on MapRoulette, which is cool, but it also has some other interesting uses.
• Achavi. Better version of OSMviz! Basically the same, even the link thing I was talking about with the changeset number.
• OSM Buildings. It’s just cool.
• OSM Lane Visualizer. This helps me a lot with understanding any tag that starts with turn, especially turn:lanes=*& turn:lanes:*=*.
• Go Map!!. OSM Editor for iOS and iPadOS! I don’t use Android, so this is my best option. The UI is weird, and you really need to know your tags if you want to map here, but apart from that, it can also do GPS Traces, which works insanely well with Shortcuts (it is an app).

Honorable Mention

To my hikers, OSM Destination Signs.

Sono entrato da poco nel magico mondo di open street map, e sto cercando di mappare il mio quartiere in maniera più precisa possibile di capirne sempre di più, ma non posso fare altro che chiedermi sono solo a mappare nella mia città? esistono mappatori di Palermo con i quali è possibile scambiare opinioni e consigli ?

I´m trying to start a project to learn SPARQL to be able to get on how many of the 63 00 lakes which are in swedish wikipedia/wikidata has their wikidata tag on the OSM element. If the OSM element contains the wikidata tag we can show the proper zoomed polygon in the template sidebar on the articles in all their glory, instead of just a coordinate from wikidata. Mall:Insjöfakta Sverige is the template which makes this possible, please share it for other purposes to use the maplinked feature on other WMF Wikipedias than sv.wikipedia.org!

Why is it so good with mapframes/maplink maps in wikipedia infoboxes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_mapframe_maps%3F

Part 2

Honestly, I have been reading everybody’s diary entries and diving in and looking at all the different areas and detail and I forgot how I even got here! NO idea but I am very intrigued I do not know how much I will have to contribute but I’m determined to figure this all out! I’m fresh meat here amd have never heard of openstreetmap until I landed in the middle of Nigeria very far from home…safe travels and Merry Christmas from Michigan 🇺🇸💋

Love and Light Aphrodite888

I was doing some Unmapped Small Town USA work this evening, and realized that I had tagged a bunch of probable grain silos in other areas as buildings, specifically in Arbela, MO, and Granger, MO, so I’ve gone back in and corrected those to more accurately reflect their purpose. Apologies to Arbela and Granger!

Otherwise, Dover, KY showed up on Unmapped Small Town USA. There’s some great progress already, but still more to do, so I’m taking advantage of some holiday downtime to fill in more buildings.

Otherwise, I hope you have a lovely Christmas Eve, if that is your custom, and a lovely Christmas Day, if that is your custom. If not, I hope you have a very Merry Thursday. :)

Suite à la découverte du projet “Surveillance under Surveillance” grâce à @apitux, je cartographie les systèmes de videoprotection et de videosurveillance dans le Haut-Mâconnais.

Pour voir le résultat (impressionnant) : suivre de lien.

Số nhà

It is both weird and cool to see the map of my community change in apps I use regularly. Before I started actively updating things in OSM I didn’t recognize all the places OSM is used.

Last November, I [Re]Introduced Ultra v3 which introduced a bunch of new features. Today, I’m happy to share what’s changed in Ultra over the past year.

Since my last update, I’ve implemented the following features in Ultra:

• Many new styling features enabled by continued MapLibre updates
• Sprite support updates
• A new Overpass/OSM XML&JSON-to-GeoJSON conversion library
• More basemap styles & style previews
• More export options
• Transforms
• More providers
• An “Open with Ultra” bookmarklet

🌍 MapLibre updates

In January of 2025, Ultra updated to the freshly released MapLibre v5, introducing globe support! View Example

Since then, further MapLibre changes have enabled a host of new styling features including:

• color-relief styling from raster DEM sources
• Data-driven line-dasharray support
• Improved font support
• New hillshade methods

📍 Sprites

I’ve added two sprite-related features to facilitate map styling:

SVG Support

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As a principle, I’ve always tried to use open-source software over proprietary software for any of my digital needs. I’ve personally found open source to be both more accurate and more sensible to use than proprietary alternatives.

One of the very few aspects of my life that had still not adopted open source was maps. I always used both Waze and Google Maps for everything. But whenever I looked at the maps, it felt like something was missing. I looked around, checked the environment, and realized how much of my surroundings simply wasn’t reflected on the screen.

I wanted to fix it, but… Google Maps doesn’t allow you to just add things. And while Waze does have an editor, it’s extremely locked down for the average user. So, I looked up online alternatives.

I discovered OpenStreetMap two months ago, and I found myself in awe of the sheer amount of detail… Far more than Google Maps or Waze could offer. It just so happened that I was on a trip to Barcelona, and I was using CoMaps to navigate. Using CoMaps proved extremely reliable, especially for public transportation. I never missed a metro, I found all my destinations quickly, and it was very easy to get around.

Still riding the Barcelona high, I opened CoMaps back at home and was fairly shocked to see that my neighborhood didn’t exist at all… Where the heck is it?!

So, I got on my computer, logged into OpenStreetMap for the first time, and started using the iD editor. In just a few hours, the rough outline of my neighborhood was there.

Soon enough, I found myself mapping for hours. Even during lectures, I’d have an OSM tab open for casual mapping. Then it escalated. I started bringing my laptop everywhere I traveled to map things on the go. I began using StreetComplete to add missing metadata. I took pictures and videos. Then I started recording GPS traces. And now I’m even considering setting up a full LiDAR mapping mount for my car…

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• Приказ Министерства образования и культуры Калужской области от 27.08.2008 N 1506 “О выявленных объектах культурного наследия, расположенных на территории городского округа “Город Калуга” (вместе со “Сводным перечнем выявленных объектов культурного наследия, расположенных на территории городского округа “Город Калуга”)

OSMWrapped is a fun tool that visualizes your personal OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapping statistics — including edits made, countries mapped, and active mapping days.

Today I’m celebrating one full year of mapping every single day! 🎉🥳

Grateful for the OSM community and the joy of contributing, one edit at a time.

Cheers!

93/93

So, as it turns out, Mapmas is best-effort. ;)

I came down with something Thursday night, and I’m just now starting to feel sufficiently decent. I housed 3/8 of a pizza last night, which means my appetite is back. I mostly took it easy, but I did have a little energy to start tracing out a lot of Mechanicsburg, Virginia, United States, which was posted a few days ago on the Unmapped Small Town USA Mastodon account.

Appalachia is beautiful: rolling mountains, verdant woods, small houses and farms dotting the countryside. I’ve had the privilege of traveling through Virginia and West Virginia in the past, and it’s even more gorgeous in person. Lush tree coverage, though, does make it a little challenging to trace buildings when imagery is from spring/summer, so that was tough at times. I’ve noticed the houses in the region are also more likely to have tight corners, or a roof line that turns and then juts out a half meter or so, which can look like slight distortion on imagery, but is actually part of the geometry. I took some liberties, but I did my best!

I also struggled with finding independent sources for things like street names. It looks like Virginia state highways use the same numbers across the state, but are disjoint, and correspond to different local roads in different areas. So State Route 653 in Bland County, for example, is Osborne Drive in Mechanicsburg. This particular fact shows up in a VDOT report from 2017, I think (I’d need to source it again), which I believe is okay to use? I’m not entirely sure, though, so I left it for now. Copyright law is obnoxious.

Anyway, it’s nice to be able to sit and map from home when you can’t go outside. It was fun to spend some time in Mechanicsburg and get to know the area a bit.

Onward and mapward!

One OSM-related activity I spend lots of time on is micromapping recreational areas, such as parks. Manually detailing out areas is satisfying, but I’ve also been on the lookout for ways to put my programming skills to use.

A common pattern I noticed in these areas is representing a block of pitches or courts (such as tennis courts) as a single, abnormally large “tennis court”.

It’s a start, but obviously could use some refining. Each individual court could be represented by a separate area. While this probably needs no justifications, I’ll provide a few since I’d like to convince myself I’m working on improvements that might mean something to someone, rather than just creating data because it gives me dopamine:

• Independent courts allow for better querying: we can ask questions like “how many tennis courts are in my city?” and get an accurate answer.
• Some renderers (like openstreetmap.fr) render various courts with appropriate marking lines, allowing quick identification.

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(Writing a short stub in case i forget it again)

Estonian mappers may have already noticed how this year Land Board’s imagery is still missing. Previously new orthophotos were captured in March-April, preliminary release was in May-June and TMS layers were available in OSM editors by around September, then this year there are no images.

Turns out on 31st of March 2025 someone filed a complaint to Chancellor of Justice, that their garden hose can be identified on the imagery. On 27th of November chancellor’s response was published and public broadcaster published few small news:

• EST: https://www.err.ee/1609869541/oiguskantsler-palub-kaaluda-kaardirakenduste-eraelulist-detailsust
• EST: https://www.err.ee/1609870686/maa-ja-ruumiamet-plaanib-geoportaali-andmeid-uldisemaks-muuta
• ENG: https://news.err.ee/1609869930/land-and-spatial-board-to-make-publicly-available-map-data-less-detailed
• Original source documents:
  • EST PDF: https://www.oiguskantsler.ee/sites/default/files/2025-11/Orto-%20ja%20kaldaerofotode%20avalikustamine.pdf
  • Sample images: https://adr.rik.ee/okk/dokument/18175002 (asice is basically zip file, you’d need digidoc4 to open it).
    • Mirror at Land Board’s registry: https://adr.envir.ee/et/document.html?id=8c7c0dd4-17c5-463b-a00c-57c6019ea8d8
  • Original complaint (restricted access): https://adr.rik.ee/okk/dokument/16914665
  • § 26 of constitution which according to chancellor prohibits aerial images: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/ee/521052015001/consolide/current#para26

Why this matters to OSM?

At least 90% of OSM’s data originates from Land Board’s imagery, either through imports or via usual imagery tracing. Esri and Bing are also using using Land Board’s data for Estonia.

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Today, i wear a T-shirt printed with Medan’s road network, based on OpenStreetMap data.

Every time i glanced down at those tangled lines, a quiet curiosity crept in. I kept wondering who mapped this exact line segment I’m looking at right now, which contributor traced it, corrected it, or patiently aligned it to reality. It’s a strange and comforting thought, carrying a small piece of someone else’s mapping work on fabric, a reminder that this map is made of countless individual moments of care.

Ces derniers jours, j’ai tenté de compléter et de mettre à jour les hôtels à Genève.

Point de départ

Il y a environ 150 hôtels dans le canton de Genève, voire plus ou moins selon les critères. En plus des hôtels traditionnels, divers services proposent un ou plusieurs studios/appartements meublés dans le même immeuble. D’autres servent à fournir des logements temporaires sociaux ou destinés à des institutions (CERN, université, etc.). HVS mentionne 97 hôtels avec 8100 chambres pour Q1 2025.

Modèle et tags

En suivant les indications de wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism=hotel, le tag tourism=hotel figure en principe sur l’immeuble. S’il y avait été construit comme hôtel, on trouve également building=hotel même si l’immeuble n’est plus utilisé à cette fin. Si l’hôtel comprend plusieurs immeubles, il y a une relation pour l’hôtel. Le minimum est que l’information se trouve sur un “node”. C’est aussi le cas quand le même immeuble abrit plusieurs hôtels.

Pour un hôtel, j’ai essayé d’ajouter au moins les tags suivants: name, addr:street, addr:housenumber, addr:city, addr:postcode.

stars= est renseigné pour les 4/5 étoiles. rooms= pourrait être intéressant à spécifier d’avantage. “internet_access” me semble désuet et “payment” pas intéressant. Idéalement, on trouverait la marque dans brand=, l’opérateur local ou global dans operator= et le propriétaire dans owner=. Parfois ça se confond ou ça dépend du même. Pour des immeubles avec un architecte connu, il peut y avoir également architect=, construction_date=, etc.

Vérification, références possibles

Au-delà d’une vérification sur place, https://reg.app.ge.ch donne une base plutôt complète, mais son interface est difficile à utiliser. J’y ai remarqué qu’une erreur. Dans OSM, on pourrait reprendre leur référence avec ref:CH-GE:REG=. L’entreprise y mentionnée est l’ operator= , voire le owner= .

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Добрий день! Я новий редагувач мапи Openstreetmap frimtears🪪 Редагувати я почав 13 грудня 2025 року!📅 Описання моїх змін✏️: -Додавання будівель🏠 -Додавання дерев та лавочок🌳 -Додавання магазинів🛒 -Додавання вулиць🏘️ -Додавання тротуарів та пішодних доріжок🚶

А тепер до виправленнь✏️: -Виправлення тегів🪧 -Виправлення проблем з будівлями, доріжками, зонами та парковками!

Якщо вам не подобаються мої зміни пишіть мені на ту зміну яка не сподобалась.

Wikidata
Openstreetmap Weg
OSM.wikidata.link
Artikel op ONH Wandelaars op de Spaarndammerdijk, 1826. Beeld: beeldbank Noord-Hollands Archief.

Irpavi 2 South Route

The city of La Paz, Bolivia, has the Puma Katari public transportation service, which covers the 9 macro districts and is currently deployed through 10 routes. Since its launch, this service has been a great promise, offering benefits such as preferential treatment for people with disabilities, children and the elderly, in addition to allowing the transport of bicycles in the front compartments of the buses, thus encouraging the use of this means of transportation. ecological. We are often traveling to different places in the city to carry out our field work. We know that some visitors or even people who know about this transportation service face difficulties because they do not know which route to take or where the stops are, especially when trying to reach peripheral areas.

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