Diary Entry Coverage of Sidewalks in Germany

As I’m interested in pedestrian infrastructure, I asked myself what percentage of all sidewalks in Germany has already been mapped. It is difficul...

Diary Entry Analysing Swarm Intelligence: What's a Highway?

OSM exists now since more than 20 years. During this time, a tagging scheme evolved. It has undergone several changes since, is partly approved by ...

Diary Entry Why Geometry Matters

At work1, I started creating a real pedestrian routing that uses sidewalks rather than the middle of the road (unlike most pedestrian routing softw...

Diary Entry Postboxes with New Collection Times

Deutsche Post, which operates almost all of Germany’s postboxes, recently changed the collection times for most of them. This was discussed on th...