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may I point you to our online mapathon tomorrow night?

Missing Maps London Online: Zoom

6th January 19:00 – 21:15 (Europe/London)

The early month meeting is focused on new mappers with breakout rooms for iD, JOSM and mappers who want to learn about validation usually with JOSM. Next one is 6 January Get your free ticket .

This Mapathon will take place online! If you wish to attend, then please get a ticket and details for joining will be shared with you.

This event is London based in name only! Since we have moved to virtual events we have been getting attendees from all over the world - we heartily welcome this!

Schedule 19:00: Introduction to Missing Maps and practical information

19:15: iD Training / JOSM Training / Validator Training

21:00: Closing discussion and potential talks

Mapy a zobrazovací nástroje

Mapovací nástroje

Mapovací zdroje a manuály

Jiné zajímavé odkazy

Location: Nižbor, okres Beroun, Středočeský kraj, Střední Čechy, 267 05, Česko

Mismatched descriptions: a Categoria

Aqui e graças a uma extensão que instalei no Edge (que já não sei onde fui desencantar), que me permite ver as categorias ocultas das páginas da wiki e descobri mais coisas pra fazer. No caso mais ou menos simples, mas dentro de uma estrutura hiper mega complicada (claro); fui aos confins da por assim dizer wikidata da wiki do OSM (coisa que desconhecia… e que por ter feito esta empreitada manualmente através dos artigos da wiki nem posso dar link aqui)… E pôr as descrições dos artigos a coincidir com a descrição na wikidata porque pelos vistos isso é uma coisa. Divertido q.b., e assim também traduzi e completei algumas páginas.

Depois de cerca de 20 páginas aniquilidas…

Fontes de dados em Portugal: a tabela

Também não sei como descobri esta página incrível. Pus-me a ver se os links funcionam numa tabela infinita de links para todas as câmaras municipais do país que providenciam dados geográficos. Muito pouco claro se é possível usar esses dados no OSM, mesmo que esses mesmos sites usem os dados OSM. Assim rasurei um monte de links mortos (não, não apaguei)…

Pelo meio aprendi como fazer um template e criei um aviso na página… Porque demorou mesmo muito tempo e eu nem sequer cheguei a meio.

Depois vi páginas de perfil de utilizadores da wiki para perceber como é que hei-de criar uma para mim. Mais templates.

E assim porque há tanto código diferente em todas estas plataformas OSM related e por facilidade mental também me pus meio que a remar contra a corrente e a usar HTML aqui e ali?… Obrigada myspace!

Vou deixar aqui estes links, posso precisar deles:

কাতিলা শষ্ঠীতলা মন্দিরটি সঠিক অবস্থান ও মানসম্মত OSM ট্যাগ ব্যবহার করে ম্যাপে যুক্ত করা হয়েছে। মন্দিরটি রাজশাহী জেলার বাগমারা উপজেলার যোগীপাড়া ইউনিয়নের কাতিলা গ্রামে অবস্থিত। নিকটবর্তী পরিচিত বাজার হিসেবে নাগা বাজার উল্লেখযোগ্য, যা মন্দির থেকে আনুমানিক ১.৪ কিলোমিটার দূরে।

Location: Bagmara Upazila, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
Posted by metapod on 3 January 2026 in Portuguese (Português).

Hoje passei uma dúzia (!) de horas a tentar resolver a página “Pt:Map features”… E… não consegui fazer nada de jeito (acho até que piorei a situação). Fiquei cansada de ver “aerialways” (o primeiro item da lista) o dia todo… Terrível!! Foi esta página que me entreteve a necessidade de perceber alguma coisa que fosse.

Esta wikipédia tem um problema grave com os templates. Entre traduzir, fazer o cross referencing, aprender nem sei que código… E subpáginas??? E erros de JSON?! e tabelas a dar erros com letras a vermelho….!! E… Secções de artigos separadas aleatoriamente por partes de templates sem nexo nenhum…

Uf. Seria muito mais fácil se realmente se usassem as tabelas que vêm com as páginas de template, assim a tradução seria praticamente automática (já quase que é, na verdade) e seria mais fácil editar alguma coisa assim à primeira. Hei-de voltar a ocupar-me com esta tarefa hiper mega complicada.

Fora isso estive a ver o que mais podia sintetizar ou traduzir nas várias Pt:isto ou aquilo, e assim fiz num nível muito básico. Acabei a ver propostas, e vieram-me algumas à ideia.

Muito trabalho a fazer. O que é.. bom! E pronto, amanhã será outra coisa qualquer.

Posted by harisont on 3 January 2026 in English.

I’m finally back to mapping after an unplanned 4-month break.

I usually have a casual but relatively consistent approach to mapping: every time I have to go somewhere new and my exact destination isn’t in OSM, I add it once I arrive; if the opening times of a place I visit regularly change, I update them, and so on. As of late, though, this just hasn’t happened. Either map data has become good enough for my everyday needs in Gothenburg, Sweden or I’ve been paying less attention than usual. Probably a little bit of both.

Right now, on the other hand, I’m visiting my family in Agrigento, Italy, and mapping is the perfect holiday activity for me: it can (to some extent) be done without a computer, which is a nice change of pace, and it gives me an excuse to be outisde, enjoy the warm weather and take all the side streets I haven’t explored before or have forgotten about. Plus, there’s so much to do here compared to Gothenburg!

Today I simply went for a walk and answered a bunchn of quick questions on StreetComplete. In the next few days, I want to try something more systematic, like updating information about what’s happening inside each of the buildings of the main street: a lot has changed since I last came. I’m also pondering trying to get one or two family members involved; we’ll see.

Location: Bibirria, Agrigento, Sicily, 92100, Italy
Posted by Thebro7her on 2 January 2026 in Italian (Italiano).

Buonasera a tutti!

Sto modificando da un pò di tempo la mappa nella zona dove risiedo e che, per l’appunto, conosco meglio. Avevo infatti notato che nelle zone del mio quartiere mancavano gli edifici e i relativi negozi erano alquanto assenti, e mancavano intere vie, anche importanti oppure avevano errati sensi di marcia. E oltre a questo sto cercando di aggiornare i nodi della rete ferroviaria nazionale con le relative caratteristiche mancanti(sito web ufficiale, presenza di wifi, collegamento a wikimedia commons, codice UIC……). Proseguirò a modificare la mappa nei prossimi giorni, dato che c’è tantissimo da fare sono graditi consigli, suggerimenti e correzioni da altri mapper.

Posted by fghj753 on 2 January 2026 in English.

Started this year with a weekend mapping project: locate and map public traffic camera feeds from city’s website. Day 2 and I’m halfway done, about 130 out of ca 260 have live feed links now. Roughly 5 of them weren’t previously mapped at all.

Purpose of this diary entry is to save the checker scipt in publicly accessible place for unlikely reuse. Script scrapes all possible camera IDs and cross references them against already mapped feeds via overpass.

sample img

Overpass query to get already mapped ones:

[out:json][timeout:25];
area(id:3600079510)->.searchArea;
node["contact:webcam"~ristm](area.searchArea);
out geom;

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Location: Pelguranna, Põhja-Tallinna linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia

Thumbnail of the video at commons

Link to the Time Lapse Video of Amaravati (2015-2025)

Time lapse video of OSM has been of interest to me for more than 10 years. I learned to use QGIS in 2015 and made a physical map of Andhra Pradesh in my first attempt. Learning QGIS with its myriad menus and concepts of GIS was daunting to venture further during my infrequent attempts. Finally I made my first time lapse video after 10 years. I found OSM contributor radiotrefoil's diary entry on the subject posted about an year back very helpful. Still I had to struggle to make a good video for OSM edits for Amaravati, the green field capital of bifurcated Andhra Pradesh, a province of India. This is an attempt to document my learnings and make it easier for others.

Choosing an area of interest and fetching data

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Location: Jayanagar 4th Block, Tilak Nagara, Bengaluru South City Corporation, Bengaluru, Bangalore South, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, 560011, India
Posted by MoX on 1 January 2026 in German (Deutsch). Last updated on 2 January 2026.

Schleswig Holstein

ALKIS Flur-, Gemarkungsgrenzen

ALKIS Flurstücke

Posted by Peppe Namir on 1 January 2026 in Italian (Italiano).

Mi sono preso l’impegno di mappare per bene il mio quartiere, e mi sono accorto che ci sono diverse cose da aggiornare, senza contare che alcuni numeri civici sono messi quasi a casaccio, ma poco male, mi sto divertendo un sacco e piano piano sono sicuro di poter fare un bel lavoro. Per quanto riguarda le informazioni dei negozi, sto cercando di metterne il più possibile, numero di telefono, sito web, e addirittura a pagina Facebook.

Mi piacerebbe anche dare una rinfrescata grafica proprio a open street map, perché ne avrebbe un gran bisogno, ci sono cose che sono pugni negli occhi, tipo le icone viola, ma sinceramente non so chi “controlla” la grafica di OSM, e non saprei neanche dove iniziare a cercare per proporre la cosa.

Una cosa fighissima da fare sarebbe integrare il protocollo Activity Pub in mondo fa poter interagire con il social federati, come ad esempio mastodon, ma anche li non saprei da dove cominciare per proporre la cosa.

Detto questo, non pensavo che OSM avesse una community molto attiva e la cosa mi fa piacerissimo e mi fa venire voglia di mappare sempre di più e meglio

今天是2026年1月1号,前段时间一直想要在我的世界中复刻自己的县城,一直不知道从何下手,从高德api到arnis的生成,由于数据缺失和技术受限没能完成,这几日开始填补osm的数据,以便后续使用。 今天完善了油竹的部分区域,包括青田之心青田中学伯温中学和部分居民区,继续加油!也希望有人能够加入我的这项工作。

Location: 雅岙村, 丽水市, 青田县, 浙江省, 323900, 中国

এই ম্যাপিং কার্যক্রমে কাতিলা মণ্ডলপাড়া জামে মসজিদের তথ্য হালনাগাদ করা হয়েছে। মসজিদটি নাগা বাজার থেকে প্রায় ৫০ মিটার দূরে অবস্থিত। নিকটবর্তী হওয়ার কারণে নাগা বাজারের মুসল্লিরা নিয়মিত পাঁচ ওয়াক্ত নামাজ আদায়ের জন্য এই মসজিদটি ব্যবহার করেন। এই আপডেটে মসজিদের অবস্থানগত প্রেক্ষাপট ও আশপাশের এলাকার সাথে সম্পর্ক যথাযথভাবে উপস্থাপন করা হয়েছে।

Location: Bagmara Upazila, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
Posted by GlavkomLVO on 1 January 2026 in Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt). Last updated on 2 January 2026.

Đường dây 500kV Quảng Trạch - Thanh Hoá (Tỉnh Thanh Hóa).kml https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CAs30AqC01IdpPGEmi6uBhpdTAMdBug3/view?usp=drivesdk

Hướng tuyến đường dây 500kV Thanh Hóa - Phố Nối (dữ liệu thô).kml https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u8Vvw48k3d9zRKTlVBSwFt0zJTrbhQhJ/view?usp=drivesdk

Dự án Đường dây 500kV Vũng Áng – rẽ Hà Tĩnh – Đà Nẵng (Mạch 3,4).kml https://drive.google.com/file/d/18gsBSZ8rCX1n7pbaQCFgwE9beyotjSml/view?usp=drivesdk

Dự án Trạm biến áp 500kV Sơn La 1.kml https://drive.google.com/file/d/146riOWv4KVbzMxUavxT38fb8Tyo6yDdE/view?usp=drivesdk

Dự án NHÀ MÁY NHIỆT ĐIỆN LNG HẢI PHÒNG.kml https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mJ55SkyZvvHeX2CZS_VKfhWQLDfESd1z/view?usp=drivesdk

Last weekend I traveled to the west coast of Java, specifically Anyer in Banten. The journey was done by train from Jakarta to Cilegon, followed by a local shared minivan taxi to Anyer.

Throughout the trip, I collected field observations using Sakumap. The result was a raw GeoJSON file containing coordinates and timestamps for each entry.

For observations I considered significant, I wrote a detailed report on the OSM Wiki. Less critical features such as restaurants, fuel stations, farms, and forest areas were added directly to OpenStreetMap by importing the Sakumap GeoJSON into iD Editor or JOSM, without additional documentation on the wiki, as the overhead did not seem justified.

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Posted by jyg1093 on 31 December 2025 in Korean (한국어).

작년 작성 결산을 마저 하지 못해 같이 올립니다.

2024년

◈ 집중작성한거(대략 10개안팎 정도) : 가평, 부산, 성남, 세종, 시흥, 안성, 영주, 천안, 파주, 평택, 포천

◈ 그럭저럭작성(서너개에서 5개안팎 정도) : 공주, 대전, 부산, 제천

◈ 한두개씩 : 사천, 인천, 진주, 창원, 통영

2025년

◈ 집중작성한거(대략 10개안팎 정도) : 익산, 김제, 횡성, 순천, 용인, 완주

◈ 그럭저럭작성(서너개에서 5개안팎 정도) : 군산, 정선, 영월, 강릉, 정읍, 진주, 광주, 서울

◈ 한두개씩 : 김해, 통영, 창원, 부산, 울산, 함양, 평창, 강진, 사천