@Strubble: correct, it lives on a dynamic IP but I forgot to config the dynDNS. Oopsie…

It should be back online

Very interesting!

A few remarks and questions:

• First of all, how do you fend of the criticism that “this data shouldn’t be publicly available, as Russia/terrorists/people with bad intentions might attack the power infrastructure”? In my opinion, those bad actors will do their own research anyway
• You’re also welcome to test https://MapComplete.org - one can make a custom layer showing OSM data and asking questions. It is partly inspired on StreetComplete, but focuses on one topic at a time. You can build such a layer yourself on https://mapcomplete.org/studio
• There is a typo (“OpenStretMap”)

1. Federation takes some time. Ask in the panoramax char how long. Same for updating the map tiles.
2. It depends on a few factors which geolocation is assigned, this is still something that is in development. See the issue tracker for more info.
3. There are about 40K images now. The hetzner instance has 160GB capacity IIRC. I think 150K images is doavle, but Thibault does the hosting.

Hey @Binnette,

That is a supercute and superfun theme. I’ve had some inquiries about this before and why this will never be an official theme: https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete/issues/1499

Jup, I see the checkmark on your profile too now!

Yeah, I read the Weekly too and saw that they mentioned this.

Your profile on OSM has a correct link. Your mastodon profile is linked correctly to. To force Mastodon to validate again, change something about your fields in Mastodon and you’ll get your green checkmark too.

It started as OpenSTREETMap, but IMHO it is time to rename it to OpenWORLDMap or something ;)

And the rules to add something are simple: it has to be verifiable and somewhat permanent. If wetlands and landuse are important to you, by all means, add it to the map!

Yup, it worked. I can see your green checkmark, you are verified on Mastodon.

If you make an edit with https://mapcomplete.org, then https://en.osm.town/@mapcomplete_edits will tag you ;)

@Doofus Magoo: I was a bit distracted while writing this; I’ve updated the second sentence and it should be clear now.

Hi!

MapComplete has a map specifically for memorials and graves: https://mapcomplete.org/memorials?z=20.5&lat=36.73385535560722&lon=-4.418261565135936

You can take it out in the field to add graves directly

They can be seen on https://mapcomplete.org/clock?z=13.5&lat=36.721846219139195&lon=-4.422204455433302#

I might make some changes to this map to better support sundials

You might be interested in:

https://mapcomplete.org/trees https://mapcomplete.org/drinking_water https://mapcomplete.org/cyclofix (‘cause bicycles > cars) https://mapcompolete.org/waste

Tbf, for some usecases (e.g. the *Complete-editors) it allows to avoid many changesets

A changeset is opened by sending some metadata to the server (e.g. contributor ID, editor, comment, …).

Then, one or more ‘changeset XML’-files can be uploaded.

Then, the changeset is closed if:

• the editing program sends a ‘close changeset’-signal
• one hour after the last upload of a changeset XML OR
• 24 hours after the changeset is opened (but I wouldn’t be surprised if one changeset pops up that seems to be longer then 24hours, either by a bug or by some timezone shenanigans)

https://mapcomplete.org (which I develop) exploits this behaviour by not closing a changeset and by trying to reuse a changeset as much as possible.

JOSM is not a beginners tool - far from it.

There are other tools out there, try e.g. https://mapcomplete.org

I think something went wrong with your diary entry, but https://mapcomplete.org/waste?z=16.2&lat=0.4065226106638278&lon=9.443137417462253 might be interesting to you

You can validate your OSM-profile on Mastodon BTW:

1. Add a link to your mastodon as <a href='https://yourmastodon/@account' rel='me'>My Mastodon account</a>

2. in your profile settings, under ‘Extra fields’, add link to your OSM-profile in the right column (thus: osm.org/user/Xvtn), you’ll get a green dot

For example: https://en.osm.town/@pietervdvn

Hilarious! I love it. The bottom one really caught me of guard. Also, I can check like 80% of the things you mention. :)

Do you have a mastodon-account? It would be great to post it there as well. If you don’t have one, can I repost it there (and on lemmy?)

Ah, it seems like the link in my last paragraph was incorrect. I’ve fixed it there.

I ran it again (but am to lazy to do the formatting)

Total number of reviews 1059

‘mangrove.reviews’: 505, All mapcomplete related tools: 311 ‘toggenburg.swiss’: 66, ‘thurgau-bodensee.ch’: 56, ‘heidiland.com’: 21, ‘ostschweiz.ch’: 16, ‘open-reviews.net’: 14, ‘open-reviews.orderingstack.com’: 13, ‘winterthur.com’: 12, ‘127.0.0.1:1234’: 8, ‘localhost:5000’: 7, ‘actuallyfoods.com’: 5, ‘staging.mangrove.reviews’: 5, ‘localhost:1234’: 5, ‘jungfrauregion.swiss.cms.tso.ch’: 3, ‘examples.twblue.cms.tso.ch’: 3, ‘ivydog.art’: 2, ‘haslital.dev.cms.tso.ch’: 1, ‘toggenburg-aktiv.ch’: 1, ‘modernmount.blogspot.com’: 1, ‘’: 1 } Theme { ‘https://mapcomplete.org/food’: 73, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/shops’: 44, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/cafes_and_pubs’: 32, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/toerisme_vlaanderen’: 30, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/pets’: 23, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/playgrounds’: 21, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/personal’: 20, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/dog’: 14, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/campersite’: 12, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/fritures’: 9, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/sport_pitches’: 9, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/climbing’: 8, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/onwheels’: 5, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/hackerspaces’: 4, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/hotels’: 3, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/sports’: 2, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/healthcare’: 1, ‘https://mapcomplete.org/lgbtmap’: 1 } language { en: 102, null: 95, nl: 42, de: 37, ru: 14, fr: 12, da: 6, es: 3 }

@publicerination

Yeah, we should be careful, but also welcome the actually good contributions when they are made.