We all gave OpenStreetMap a try once, no? Same for me. No idea how old my (old) account is. I haven’t used it for years, and I wasn’t able to re-enable it again… but… in Autumn 2024, a friend told me about StreetComplete. I liked the idea of StreetComplete. Everyone likes it. But as mentioned, I had to create a new account for all of this 🤦 But it was worth it!
In this Autumn, my OpenStreetMap journey started. In Büsum, Northern Germany. In my vacation… After my vacation and multiple passing weeks, I mapped more and more. Dived into many details, tried to gather more and more knowledge in many areas, and there was and still is so unbelievably much. I took every opportunity combining required doings in the “real world” with mapping them in the virtual world. My friend and I discussed mapping, tools, great plans, even better ideas and so on and so forth. Well, we all had such dreams, no?
At some point we thought that OpenStreetMap should become a more prominent topic in our town. There was already a wiki page for our town. If I remember correctly, the last changes were from 2009. It contained great ideas and plans, but you can imagine that a lot has changed in the last ~15 years. In OSM and also in our town. Understandably, basically all content was out of date.
Since we collected already a lot of ideas what could be done, we started to re-write the wiki page step by step. The idea was to create a new entry point for people that are interested in OpenStreetMap in our town. Give them ideas on what can be done in our town. Also, since no one really likes to maintain MediaWiki pages regularly 🙈 the page should be pretty static. The content should give beginners, intermediates and nerds a helping hand on how to start on anything.
So everyone should find their obsession… mapping hydrants, trees, playgrounds ❤️ And be honest: You all have one!