My Introduction to OSM at Unique Mappers Network Author: Victory114 | Date: 21st April 2026 | Location: Unique Mappers Network, UNIPORT Mall, Port-Hacourt, Nigeria Language: English

Setting The Scene.

I was introduced to Unique Mappers Network (UMT) by my mentor; an Environmental Consultant, CEO, lecturer, and Engineer, Engr. Andrew John. He informed me about a call for applications that had been advertised on LinkedIn on the 26 February 2026. With only three days to apply, I seized the opportunity with much excitement. It was a chance to utilise and build on my knowledge and skills in GIS. I submitted my application and was delighted when UMT accepted me. I was then invited to visit the headquarters in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for an interview and induction.

Arriving At UMT.

I arrived at UMT headquarters for the first time filled with excitement and curiosity. The National Coordinator, Dr Victor, interviewed me and gave me a thorough induction on what to expect during my time with the organisation. I was later added to the organisation’s group chat and had the opportunity to ask questions and learn about UMT’s excellent achievements, including their international engagements in Paris and Romania, OSM conference and State of the Map. I was impressed by Dr Victor’s depth of knowledge and experience in GIS, training, and event coordination. From that first conversation, I felt assured of the quality of guidance that would be available to me throughout my internship.

How I Found Unique Mappers Network.

… See full entry

Mir ist aufgefallen, dass Motorradparkplätze in OpenStreetMap zwar oft vorhanden, aber häufig unvollständig erfasst sind. Angaben wie “fee” oder “capacity” fehlen oft, ebenso ein Eigenname der die Auffindbarkeit verbessern würde.

Aus diesem Grund trage ich seit einiger Zeit nicht nur fehlende Motorradparkplätze nach, sondern ergänze auch vermehrt fehlende Angaben bei bestehenden Eintragungen. Dabei fokussiere ich mich auf die Region Nürnberg - einfach weil ich meist hier unterwegs bin und die Gegebenheiten vor Ort kenne.

Allerdings betrifft das auch viele andere Städte. Für einen besseren Überblick habe ich die Daten visualisiert. Gleichzeitig nutze ich die Karte selbst zur Parkplatzsuche.

Falls es jemanden interessiert, hier ist die Karte: parkmymoto.org

Vielleicht ist das ja auch für andere Mapper ein kleiner Anstoß, beim nächsten Edit gezielt auf Motorradparkplätze zu achten 🙂

All that’s left is things like power poles, fire hydrants. But every building has a shape now. Every thing that has an address is now on the map.

I know in a month or so I will have to go back and adjust 2nd at Windfeldt as a new sidewalk is being put in. It’s about 2/3 complete.

I started the mapping process on November 18. So five months to map my home.

Yesterday marks the start of my Open Street Map contributions. Pikmin enthusiast. But more importantly, a food, culture and cuisine person.

Descrição

Nos últimos 6 meses, mapeei todos os parcómetros e áreas de estacionamento pago com duração limitada na cidade do Funchal, na Ilha da Madeira, como parte do projeto Parking in Portugal. Em algumas edições, utilizei o hashtag #portugal-estacionamento.

Para este projeto, foram úteis o aplicativo de uso gratuito iParque Driver, que oferece um mapa que indica as ruas que têm lugares de estacionamento pago (coloridas dependendo da zona), e as imagens aéreas da Ilha da Madeira de 2023, de 10 cm de resolução. Com estas indicações, fui a pé a cada um dos parcómetros, tirei uma foto da informação do parcómetro, e, logo em casa, com ajuda das imágens aéreas, adicionei os nós dos parcómetros com a sua informação (com uma precisão de, como máximo, 3 metros) e desenhei as áreas de estacionamento, também com a sua informação. A imagem seguinte é um exemplo da informação disponibilizada em um parcómetro:

(exemplo do nó osm.org/node/13568145429/.)

Zonas

… See full entry

Saya sedang memulai proyek untuk menambahkan tag name:id pada objek place=* di wilayah Jepang, Korea Selatan, dan Korea Utara. Tujuannya adalah mempermudah pengguna Indonesia dalam mencari dan mengenali nama tempat di Asia Timur sesuai dengan ejaan dan istilah administratif yang lazim (seperti Prefektur dan Provinsi).

Untuk saat ini, penyuntingan hanya dilakukan pada level Node. Objek berupa Relation (seperti batas administrasi) belum termasuk dalam cakupan kerja saya saat ini karena batasan workflow teknis.

---

Localizing place names (name:id) in Japan and the Koreas

I am starting a project to add the name:id tag to place=* objects in the Japan, South Korea, and North Korea regions. The purpose is to assist Indonesian users in searching for and recognizing place names in East Asia according to common spellings and administrative terms (such as Prefecture and Province).

For now, editing is only being performed at the Node level. Relation objects (such as administrative boundaries) are not yet included in my current scope of work due to technical workflow limitations.

Hello, I’m Aidan Kaita Saka from Tanzania 🇹🇿. An active youth mapper dedicated to improving maps for my community. I enjoy contributing roads, buildings, places, and useful local information to help people navigate better. Proud to support OpenStreetMap and community development.

Regarding Lougheed Highway in Coquitlam, BC, Canada: Nothing along Lougheed between Sage Place and Schoolhouse is accessible to foot traffic, but much of it claims to be, despite the significant danger. Lougheed appears to be editable in many sections, and I don’t know how to change the entire strip easily. Can someone help? Thank you!

Translations into the following languages have been added:

• English
• German
• Italian
• Slovak
• Russian

There are a lot of German speaking people in OSM, so this should help :)

Not much strings though :) There are also several validation messages, but there are just 32 lines total.

Just in case you would like to translate the plugin in any other language, here is the pot file.

We do not have any web UI for translations, but you can use PoEdit instead.

Because sometimes you want to see less rather than more, I created this. It’s the railway information from the existing transportation layer of the SVE01 schema, together with railway stations, places and water as needed for context.

One thing that it does is to distinguish between regular transportation railway stations and tourist ones.

Freight lines are de-emphasised (see here and disused and abandoned railways are shown in a barely-discernable grey.

The source of the style is here but that is just a subset of the “show everything” style for this schema here.

RETEX: My Journey into RTK

(text translated from my original entry in french using Chatgpt)

to be continued, perhaps:

• journal entry (coming soon): Existential questions about my encounter with Panoramax
• journal entry (coming soon): Mapping my village

I would like to point out that these journal entries are neither WIKI pages nor expert advice… They are simply accounts of lived experiences shared here for anyone who may be interested.

Why did I become interested in this topic?

During my urban recycling trekking (see previous journal entries), I photographed all the voluntary drop-off containers I came across, uploaded these photos to Panoramax, and added the Panoramax photo reference in OSM. This caused me no issues, as my goal was that, from the standard OpenStreetMap rendering layer, it would be easy (in this case, a simple click) to find the images.

I positioned the containers in OSM not based on the photo, but using aerial imagery and relevant environmental features (street intersections, buildings, etc.). This worked perfectly well until I noticed three things:

… See full entry

RETEX : RTK et moi

à suivre peut-être :

• entrée de journal (à venir) : Questions existentielles sur ma rencontre avec panoramax
• entrée de journal (à venir) : Cartographier mon village

Je rappelle que ces entrées de journal ne sont ni des pages de WIKI, ni des conseils d’expert … . Ce sont juste des comptes-rendus d’expérience vécue mises ici pour servir à toute personne intéressée.

Pourquoi me suis-je intéressé au sujet ?

Au cours de mon trekking urbain recyclage (voir entrées de journal précédentes), j’ai photographié tous les conteneurs de point d’apport volontaire que j’ai rencontrés, versé ces photos sur Panoramax et mis dans OSM la référence de la photo Panoramax. Cela ne m’a posé aucun problème, mon but étant qu’à partir du calque standard de rendu d’Openstreetmap, il soit aisé (en l’occurence un simple clic) de trouver les images.

Je positionnais dans OSM les conteneurs non pas à partir de la photo mais à partir de l’imagerie aérienne et des éléments pertinents de l’environnement (croisements de rues, bâtiments, …). Cela m’a parfaitement convenu jusqu’à trois constats :

… See full entry

My hood

Hello

You might have noticed that I have been maping this neighbourhood. Richmond. Why? Well Way: Richmond (1489761671) is small, historic and central with a mixed architectural heritage. You’ll find points of interest in the suburb of Q61359147. There are a number of offices and public (and private) education facilities. There’s no shortage of nearby recreation facilities either.

Mapping the hood with SPARQL.

In this post (which is in draft) I’m going to show how I go about creating a map of the hood

Take a specific place (Q61359147) as the center point Finds all nearby places within 10 km radius Filters them according to specific category (tourist attractions, bookshops ) Calculates how far each one is from the centre point and returns results from nearest to farthest.

Tourist Attractions (Q570116)

Let’s begin with a list. Are there tourist attractions (Q570116) near Richmond (Q61359147)? ~~~ SELECT DISTINCT ?place ?placeLabel ?location ?distance WHERE { hint:Query hint:optimizer “None” . wd:Q61359147 wdt:P625 ?arcLoc . #Change the location SERVICE wikibase:around { ?place wdt:P625 ?location . bd:serviceParam wikibase:center ?arcLoc . bd:serviceParam wikibase:radius “50” . } ?place wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q570116 . SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language “en” . } BIND(geof:distance(?arcLoc, ?location) AS ?distance) } ORDER BY ASC(?distance) ~~~

Mapping the hood with Overpass Queries

You might want to explore [Overpass] (https://osm-queries.ldodds.com/) and see if you can finds a range of potentially interesting, historic or noteworthy locations. A lack of a wikidata link doesn’t mean that there is a wikidata entry to link to, or that the location should have one. This might be another useful starting point to find locally significant places. Credit to Leigh Dodds for all this information

… See full entry

Un petit tuto pour montrer comment importer du stationnement vélo issus d’une base de donnée en Opendata.

Ici la Communauté d’agglomération du Saint Quentinois vient de publier un jeux de données sur les aménagements cyclables.

https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/amenagements-cyclables-10

Avant de vérifier le linéaire avec OSM, on peut déjà importer les données ponctuels de stationnements vélo.

Avec QGIS, on importe les données, on vérifie leur homogénéités.

On peut suite traduire les champs et valeur en fonction de ce qui est attendu dans OSM.

exemple : champs “type” valeur ‘Appuis-vélos’ créer un champs “bicycle_parking” valeur ‘stands’ et on supprime ensuite le champs “type”

On supprime ensuite l’ensemble des champs inutiles dans OSM.

Dans QGIS, on importe également les stationnements existants déjà dans OSM, et on note bien les points en doublon, qu’il va falloir corriger après l’import.

Dans JOSM, on importe le fichier créer dans QGIS en .gpkg fichier - ouvrir

Puis on exporte après vérification.

Une fois importer dans OSM, on va retrouver les points en doublons et on effectue des fusions en prenant en compte les valeurs les plus à jours.

今日，到广州图书馆一游，记录一下

Accurate and precise updates

I’ve made excellent, accurate, and completely correct updates for o.s.m users in my area where I live, work, and spend most of my time. I’ve lived here for six years, I love my area completely, and I feel a true sense of belonging to it.

I’ve made the updates, but I don’t know when the new changes will appear in the map updates. There might be a delay in the update for some applications that use o.s.m.

Hello, i have an irrational fear of technology. Because i hate OSMwiki. i hate how things related to public transit is inconsistent. i hate how iD editor is inconsistent in giving necessary tags for PTv2. i don’t like stop positions. i don’t like iD editor not having an auto sort for relation members. i don’t like weird tagging schemes. i don’t like the OSM wiki having multiple different tags for very similar things without the wiki explaining them in terms of how the things that are being talked in OSMwiki is implemented in your country. i don’t like how convoluted it is for adding bus routes. harumph.

in another news, pt_assistant plugin for josm is a godsend. thank you kind stranger for this gift to humanity.

also, even if i added PTv2 compliant perfect bus routes, OSMand is still not able to properly show bus information on itself.

harumph.

please, someone save OSM and me.

The Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development - IVIDES.org® participated in “Mapping Together”, the virtual meeting of the MapYourGrid project

---

 

MapYourGrid logo © 2026 Open Energy Transition (OET).

 

The Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development - IVIDES.org® attended the virtual meeting of the MapYourGrid project, represented by its Chairwoman, Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto, who participated in the meeting to learn about the project and understand its infrastructure and logical model.

The overall objective of the meeting was to demonstrate the structure of Wikidata and discuss improvements to the integration between the MapYourGrid web map, available at https://mapyourgrid.org/, and the Wikidata and Wikipedia structures, which are used to document objects related to the power distribution network mapped using OpenStreetMap.

You can see here the mental model of a workflow to this connection which was elaborated by Norman, Lacombe and other meeting attendees.

… See full entry

Ajout du parcours de “La Chartreuse” à Dijon

Par ici : osm.org/node/13731747305

Des infos par ici : https://www.discjonctes.fr

… See full entry

Membantu orang hendaknya ikhlas, dan tidak mengharap pujian atau apresiasi dari orang lain. Bantulah dengan bantuan yang terbaik. Dan tidak perlu kita mengungkit-ungkit bantuan yang kita berikan, berharap balasan dari ALLAH subhanahu wata’ala semata. Caranya mudah, bantuan yang engkau berikan itu ibarat yang engkau keluarkan dipagi hari. Dengan begitu engkau akan lupa, tidak ingat bantuan apa yang telah engkau berikan kepada orang lain