Hello NagaBazar,

I have hidden your latest diary entry as (yet again) it was written in Bengali but posted with a language of “English”. Please post it again, but this time set the language to Bengali.

Best Regards,

Andy, from OSM’s Data Working Group.

হ্যালো নাগাবাজার,

আমি তোমার সর্বশেষ ডায়েরিটি লুকিয়ে রেখেছি কারণ (আবারও) এটি বাংলায় লেখা হয়েছিল কিন্তু “ইংরেজি” ভাষা ব্যবহার করে পোস্ট করা হয়েছিল। দয়া করে আবার পোস্ট করুন, কিন্তু এবার ভাষাটি বাংলায় সেট করুন।

শুভেচ্ছান্তে,

ওএসএমের ডেটা ওয়ার্কিং গ্রুপ থেকে অ্যান্ডি।

Hello - just in case you’re not aware, this diary entry got a mention at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/unite-inspire-innovate-my-transformative-journey-at-state-of-the-map-asia-2024/123580/6 . You might want to pop in there and say hello!

Hello - just in case you’re not aware, this diary entry got a mention at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/unite-inspire-innovate-my-transformative-journey-at-state-of-the-map-asia-2024/123580/6 . You might want to pop in there and say hello!

Hello - just in case you’re not aware, this diary entry got a mention at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/unite-inspire-innovate-my-transformative-journey-at-state-of-the-map-asia-2024/123580/6 . You might want to pop in there and say hello!

Hello - just in case you’re not aware, this diary entry got a mention at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/unite-inspire-innovate-my-transformative-journey-at-state-of-the-map-asia-2024/123580/6 . You might want to pop in there and say hello!

Below the diary entry you write there is a field “Language”. You MUST change that to match the language you have written your diary entry in so that people looking for that language will see it.

আপনার লেখা ডায়েরির নীচে “ভাষা” নামক একটি ক্ষেত্র আছে। আপনার ডায়েরির এন্ট্রিটি যে ভাষায় লেখা হয়েছে তার সাথে মিল রেখে আপনাকে অবশ্যই এটি পরিবর্তন করতে হবে যাতে সেই ভাষা খুঁজছেন এমন লোকেরা এটি দেখতে পান।

Yes, this should be discussed in the UK forum.

With any import like this, conflation is the key. Where there are discrepancies either side here could be correct, and given that this can be fairly hidden, a survey will often be needed to resolve.

I’d also suggest that your proposed tagging seems to miss one very important thing - whether a bunker is in active use by the military or not! An overpass search here finds a bunch that surely are active and a bunch that surely are not. Not all the inactive ones are tagged as such, and where they are OSMers have used a wide range of tagging. I’d instead suggest perhaps disused:military=bunker for ones no longer used by the military (although historic is also used), with building=bunker used to describe the extant building, which might be something else now.

@Zverik OK, fixed. https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index_osmf_shortbread.html#17.59/59.389977/24.717497 looks more sensible now. There are a couple of other bugfixes that could do with merging into this style too; I’ll do that as time permits in the coming days.

That’s a highway=living_street not in a residential area - I definitely need to look at that. I think all my examples were in residential areas, like https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index_svwd03.html#17.59/54.551428/-1.904913 . The “draw living streets without casing” thing was supposed to be a way of distinguishing them from other streets, but obviously that does not work here.

In the style that I used the cartography from I eventually changed that (see https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index_svwd01.html#17.59/54.551428/-1.904913 ) so it should just be a case of merging that change into this style too.

Obviously me using traditional counties in the example above is a bit of a joke, but some people do seem to take it seriously. I was in this pub earlier today, and the landlady was very insistent that it was in Yorkshire not anywhere else. She’d agree with my joke server about the county:

https://h20.atownsend.org.uk/nominatim/search?q=53.538625,-2.013794
"5, Chew Valley Road, Saddleworth, Greenfield, Oldham, Yorkshire, England, OL3 7JZ, United Kingdom"

although it’s chosen the street name from the back door rather than the front.

Further up the road the museum has this sign on the wall:

so it’s not just her!

@kumakyoo You can see the code I’m using at https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/shared_lua.lua#L7373 , but answering your questions:

Lowered kerbs? Tactil paving? Island? Is one of that enough to qualify a place for a crossing

Yes, I’ll show any of those as a highway=crossing.

And what, if a lot of people cross at that place, but there is nothing visible on the ground? Does this still qualify as a crossing?

No, without infrastructure that wouldn’t.

or working pedestrian routing you need crossings at every place

Yes - that’s exactly the point I’ve made at various places in https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/separate-sidewalks-or-not-near-ealing/132613 and similar threads.

If one maps a crossing, the main tag ‘highway=crossing’ should always be added.

I believe that it makes sense to do that too, although there are edge cases where some other highway tag makes sense.

I bet you could search for “common Irish words” to identify some of them, for example this overpass query searches for “Bóthar” in name when there is no name:ga. That won’t work for everything (for example this, which I spotted just by looking for mixed language use in a gaeltacht).

What about things that have Irish names only, like this road? That just shows as this. I presume it’s in a Gaeltacht that far west in Galway, hence name but no name:ga or name:en.

@cquest Interesting - is there a link to the tags used anywhere?

That’s surprisingly accurate :)

You need to be a little bit careful with that revert tool - it doesn’t work where there are multiple problem changesets (it actually makes things worse) and if the problem is still ongoing it can also make things worse (as it warns when you run it) due to the way that it queries the data. The Josm reverter is a good option that is interactive; it’ll help you untangle vandal and later good-faith changes. If you want to revert “everything not changed by a later mapper” then the perl revert scripts are a good option, but they require a bit of familiarity with the OSM API and scripts in general. If it looks too complicated just report it to the DWG :)

In case anyone (including OSMF DWG team) missed it,

Please email data@openstreetmap.org with full details of who did what, when, and what the political context was. Without that we won’t even know about it.

– Andy (from the DWG)

I recently read somewhere that an OSM contributor is waiting for an OSM fork

It’d be interesting to know more about that - what did they actually say?

This diary entry describes me making a series of changes to the mod_tile that was current in 2016 to support raster zoom levels up to 28.

I repeated that in 2022 - that “zoom2022” version supported Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12.

I’ve repeated it just now in 2025, and the resulting “zoom2025” version supports Debian 13.