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Creator13

Mapper since:
May 27, 2017
Last map edit:
May 02, 2025

About me

Hi, I’m Casper! I started mapping hiking trails and tracks in my second home area of Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, France. Then I noticed what else needed to be done. I’ve been fixing the problems with land registry imports, adding anything that’s missing, etc. In my spare time / when I can’t go out to survey, I try to help other projects.

When I go out hiking or mountain biking, I try to record as much GPS traces as possible to add to the OSM database.

Website: cvanbattum.com

Mapping in New Brunswick Canada

Currently working on imroving the map based on high-quality imagery in New Brunswick, Canada. Lots of buildings to be added, fixing the CanVec imports and generally adding missing features. Lots of work, lots of fun. In case you want to know more about what I’m doing here and why, or if you want to help out and follow the same conventions as I do (or discuss them), you should read this diary entry: osm.org/user/Creator13/diary/394298

I created a little tool to help me track my progress: https://github.com/Creator13/BuildingAnalyzer

Mapsnap

I created a command line tool for mappers to help create progress timelapses! Check it out on github or my website.

Mapsnap is a tool that will download an area of tiles from the OSM tileserver, and stitch them together in one image. The area data is saved to a file so you can download a snapshot of the same image again after you make changes.

In the future I plan adding a feature to create timelapses with the same tool, but for now you can make the timelapses yourself using any kind of gif editor.

The tool has compiled binaries for x64 windows and linux, and the source code can be compiled against .NET 6.0 for any other platform.

Latest Diaries

Chronicles of mapping a Canadian village

A few years ago, Esri got their hands on amazing, high-res imagery of a few urban areas in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. I found this out ...

7 comments September 26, 2020

Trouble with the French land registry

While I was looking through the area I’m busy mapping, I noticed all kinds of weird errors in the French land registry. Now, we all know French bur...

4 comments June 10, 2017

Mapping the area of Le Thillot, Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle and Bussang

Hi everyone! This is my first user diary here! Recently I’ve began to map the area around the towns Le Thillot, Fresse-sur-Moselle, Saint-Maurice-...

4 comments June 06, 2017