About Me

Hey there! I’m DawsZed, I’m a OSMF member and volunteer editor from North America (USA-NJ) and I love editing OpenStreetMap! You can find me adding new developments, micromapping interesting places, and improving things in my local area.

Need to talk? My inbox is always open via Direct Message, or leave a comment on any of my changesets to get in touch with me.

Current Projects

1. Resolve the oldest, most-longstanding notes in Manhattan - all notes from the year 2014. These are notes with intractable issues that require deep research, public records analysis, and import history that go beyond ordinary mapping.
2. Detail buildings and landuse near ballot boxes in Monmouth County, essentially mapping most town halls in the county.
3. Work towards a Part 107 FAA UAS License. A long dream, but poking into drone photogrammetry in the absence of recent imagery has always been a dream I’ve wanted to try… if I had the money.

Useful Sites & Tools

• BetterOSM Userscript: Userscript that adds many quality of life improvements to the OSM website for advanced users, including changeset visualization and tag diffs. Requires Greasemonkey/Violentmonkey.
• iD Strava Heatmap: Browser extension that adds the ability to select/overlay thousands of Strava GPS traces in the iD interface, extremely useful to discover trails in wood-dense forests. Requires a Strava account and an active website session.
• Web to OSM Opening_hours: Copy hours from any website, paste it in, and have it immediately interpreted into OSM opening_hours format. Still need to validate outputs, doesn’t do complex hours, but exceptional for most usual operating hours.
• Opening_hours Validation Tool: The stalwart of all opening_hours validation tools. Takes in any opening_hours syntax, shows you how other services would interpret them, and guides you on how to fix it.
• OSM Note Viewer: My go-to notes visualizer, clunky but well-featured. Shows both a map and list together, can sort by user, content, bounding box, date.