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smootheFiets

Mapper since:
June 16, 2016
Last map edit:
May 07, 2025

Bicyclist with GPS on board. My main interest here is to improve bike routing with an emphasis on highway tags (surface, smoothness, cycle lanes, maxspeed, give_way, access). Surface and smoothness, especially, mark the difference between ways suitable for road bike, city bike, or MTB. I try and set those tags on all ways I ride on.

While I’m surveying, I focus on road tags as outlined above. By-catch are benches, picnic tables, and playgrounds. I try tagging bus stops with wheelchair=yes/no if that’s obvious to me (wheelchair=no is typically very obvious, and very useful information to add; being sure of wheelchair=yes is harder).

Since fall 2020, I’m part of the BAG update team, maintaining the outlines and addresses of buildings in the Netherlands through import from a public government database (BAG).

Besides mapping, I dabble with developing JOSM preset files to simplify my life, see https://github.com/smootheFiets. Maybe they’re helpful for other users, too.

Languages spoken (by preference): DE, EN, NL, FR

Latest Diaries

Log: buildings for follow-up

This is probably not useful to anyone but myself. Construction List of buildings that are listed in the BAG as “bouwvergunning verleend” and that ...

0 comments September 08, 2020

[DISCONTINUED] Project: clarify bike access on highway=secondary and highway=tertiary in Groningen

I’ve stopped this project in Sep 2020, mostly because I learned that I had misunderstood the concept of a “shared lane” on Dutch roads. There aren...

0 comments February 11, 2020

Photomapping with cheapo action cam

I got myself a cheap “action cam” straight from China, for little more than 20 EUR. GoPros run easily ten times more than that. So, what can you ...

2 comments January 13, 2020

Overpass: note to self

I finally figured out how to filter for thingies within, say, the province of Groningen, and to load everything into JOSM: (this example extracts ...

4 comments January 05, 2020