SimonPoole
- Mapper since:
- January 18, 2009
- Last map edit:
- March 10, 2026
Latest Diaries
Diary Entry Persisting your ids …
This is not about the Linux Foundations Overture Maps attempt to hoodwink the Open Geospatial Consortium into standardising Overtures GERS (Global ...
Diary Entry Our (the Swiss OSM communities) TIGER moment
OpenStreetMap old timers know about the infamous 2009 TIGER import of road data in the US that continues giving to this day. Our story has none of ...
Diary Entry Handling failed uploads properly
Some of the readers may have experienced the sinking feeling when they just attempted to upload dozens if not 100s of changes and a network glitch ...
Diary Entry Opening Musings
Way back in 2015 I wrote this diary post Is OSM business unfriendly? on how core OSM limiting itself to data collection had fostered a bustling eco...