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Today I’m celebrating one full year of mapping every single day! 🎉🥳

Grateful for the OSM community and the joy of contributing, one edit at a time.

Cheers!

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আজ আমি আমার স্থানীয় এলাকা নাগা বাজার OpenStreetMap–এ যুক্ত করেছি। এটি একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ স্থান, কারণ নাগা বাজারের আশেপাশের জনগণ দৈনন্দিন জীবনযাপনের জন্য এই স্থানটি ব্যবহার করে।

নাগা বাজারের বিশেষত্ব হলো এটি তিনটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ সড়কের সংযোগস্থল। এই সড়কগুলো হলো:

নাগা বাজার – মুলিভিটা সড়ক

নাগা বাজার – বীরকুৎসা সড়ক

নাগা বাজার – ভবানিগঞ্জ সড়ক

এই তিনটি সড়ক এলাকার মানুষকে একে অপরের সাথে সহজেই সংযুক্ত করছে এবং স্থানীয় বাণিজ্য ও যোগাযোগে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ভূমিকা পালন করে। আমি OpenStreetMap–এ নাগা বাজার যুক্ত করার সময় এ সমস্ত সড়ক ও এলাকাসহ বিস্তারিত তথ্য দিয়ে কাজ করেছি।

এটি আমার ব্যক্তিগত ডায়রিতে সংরক্ষণের জন্য একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ অর্জন। OpenStreetMap–এ স্থান যুক্ত করার মাধ্যমে স্থানীয়দের জন্য তথ্য সহজলভ্য হবে এবং ভবিষ্যতে মানচিত্র ব্যবহার ও রাস্তাপথ পরিকল্পনায় সহায়ক হবে।

নাগা বাজারের সঠিক স্থান, ল্যাটিটিউড ও লংগিটিউড, এবং সংযুক্ত সড়কগুলো OpenStreetMap–এ উল্লেখ করার মাধ্যমে স্থানটি আরও বেশি কার্যকরভাবে চিহ্নিত হয়েছে। এই কাজ আমার জন্য শিক্ষণীয় এবং এলাকার ডিজিটাল নথিপত্র তৈরিতে সহায়ক হয়েছে।

Location: Naga Vila, Bagmara Upazila, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi Division, 6403, Bangladesh

So, as it turns out, Mapmas is best-effort. ;)

I came down with something Thursday night, and I’m just now starting to feel sufficiently decent. I housed 3/8 of a pizza last night, which means my appetite is back. I mostly took it easy, but I did have a little energy to start tracing out a lot of Mechanicsburg, Virginia, United States, which was posted a few days ago on the Unmapped Small Town USA Mastodon account.

Appalachia is beautiful: rolling mountains, verdant woods, small houses and farms dotting the countryside. I’ve had the privilege of traveling through Virginia and West Virginia in the past, and it’s even more gorgeous in person. Lush tree coverage, though, does make it a little challenging to trace buildings when imagery is from spring/summer, so that was tough at times. I’ve noticed the houses in the region are also more likely to have tight corners, or a roof line that turns and then juts out a half meter or so, which can look like slight distortion on imagery, but is actually part of the geometry. I took some liberties, but I did my best!

I also struggled with finding independent sources for things like street names. It looks like Virginia state highways use the same numbers across the state, but are disjoint, and correspond to different local roads in different areas. So State Route 653 in Bland County, for example, is Osborne Drive in Mechanicsburg. This particular fact shows up in a VDOT report from 2017, I think (I’d need to source it again), which I believe is okay to use? I’m not entirely sure, though, so I left it for now. Copyright law is obnoxious.

Anyway, it’s nice to be able to sit and map from home when you can’t go outside. It was fun to spend some time in Mechanicsburg and get to know the area a bit.

Onward and mapward!

One OSM-related activity I spend lots of time on is micromapping recreational areas, such as parks. Manually detailing out areas is satisfying, but I’ve also been on the lookout for ways to put my programming skills to use.

A common pattern I noticed in these areas is representing a block of pitches or courts (such as tennis courts) as a single, abnormally large “tennis court”.

A tennis area with a single rectangle around the whole thing.

It’s a start, but obviously could use some refining. Each individual court could be represented by a separate area. While this probably needs no justifications, I’ll provide a few since I’d like to convince myself I’m working on improvements that might mean something to someone, rather than just creating data because it gives me dopamine:

  • Independent courts allow for better querying: we can ask questions like “how many tennis courts are in my city?” and get an accurate answer.
  • Some renderers (like openstreetmap.fr) render various courts with appropriate marking lines, allowing quick identification.

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(Writing a short stub in case i forget it again)

Estonian mappers may have already noticed how this year Land Board’s imagery is still missing. Previously new orthophotos were captured in March-April, preliminary release was in May-June and TMS layers were available in OSM editors by around September, then this year there are no images.

Turns out on 31st of March 2025 someone filed a complaint to Chancellor of Justice, that their garden hose can be identified on the imagery. On 27th of November chancellor’s response was published and public broadcaster published few small news:

Why this matters to OSM?

At least 90% of OSM’s data originates from Land Board’s imagery, either through imports or via usual imagery tracing. Esri and Bing are also using using Land Board’s data for Estonia.

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Posted by rphyrin on 21 December 2025 in English.

Today, i wear a T-shirt printed with Medan’s road network, based on OpenStreetMap data.

Every time i glanced down at those tangled lines, a quiet curiosity crept in. I kept wondering who mapped this exact line segment I’m looking at right now, which contributor traced it, corrected it, or patiently aligned it to reality. It’s a strange and comforting thought, carrying a small piece of someone else’s mapping work on fabric, a reminder that this map is made of countless individual moments of care.

তারিখ: 21.12.2025 স্থান: Naga Bazar, Bagmara, Rajshahi

আজ আমি OpenStreetMap (OSM)-এ “Naga Bazar–Bhobanigonj Road” যুক্ত করেছি। এই সড়কটি নাগা বাজার থেকে ভোবানীগঞ্জ পর্যন্ত বিস্তৃত এবং এলাকার মানুষজন দৈনন্দিন চলাচল, বাজারে যাতায়াত এবং কৃষি পণ্য পরিবহনের জন্য ব্যবহার করে।

আমি সড়কটি OSM-এ যোগ করার সময় ঠিক নাম, অবস্থান এবং রাস্তার ধরন উল্লেখ করেছি। এছাড়া, Description বক্সে সংক্ষিপ্তভাবে লিখেছি সড়কের গুরুত্ব এবং স্থানীয় ব্যবহার। Changeset comment-এ উল্লেখ করেছি যে এটি স্থানীয় সংযোগ রাস্তা।

এই কাজটি করতে গিয়ে বুঝতে পারলাম যে OSM-এ স্থান সংযোজন শুধু মানচিত্রে দেখানোর জন্য নয়, বরং তথ্যকে ডিজিটালভাবে সংরক্ষণ ও বিশ্বের সাথে সংযুক্ত করার একটি মাধ্যম।

আমি আশা করি ভবিষ্যতে আরও রাস্তা, বাজার এবং স্থানীয় এলাকা OSM-এ যোগ করে আমার এলাকার তথ্যসমৃদ্ধ মানচিত্র তৈরি করতে পারব।

Location: Naga Vila, Bagmara Upazila, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi Division, 6403, Bangladesh
Posted by 99_tabazan on 20 December 2025 in French (Français). Last updated on 21 December 2025.

Ces derniers jours, j’ai tenté de compléter et de mettre à jour les hôtels à Genève.

Point de départ

Il y a environ 150 hôtels dans le canton de Genève, voire plus ou moins selon les critères. En plus des hôtels traditionnels, divers services proposent un ou plusieurs studios/appartements meublés dans le même immeuble. D’autres servent à fournir des logements temporaires sociaux ou destinés à des institutions (CERN, université, etc.). HVS mentionne 97 hôtels avec 8100 chambres pour Q1 2025.

Modèle et tags

En suivant les indications de wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism=hotel, le tag tourism=hotel figure en principe sur l’immeuble. S’il y avait été construit comme hôtel, on trouve également building=hotel même si l’immeuble n’est plus utilisé à cette fin. Si l’hôtel comprend plusieurs immeubles, il y a une relation pour l’hôtel. Le minimum est que l’information se trouve sur un “node”. C’est aussi le cas quand le même immeuble abrit plusieurs hôtels.

Pour un hôtel, j’ai essayé d’ajouter au moins les tags suivants: name, addr:street, addr:housenumber, addr:city, addr:postcode.

stars= est renseigné pour les 4/5 étoiles. rooms= pourrait être intéressant à spécifier d’avantage. “internet_access” me semble désuet et “payment” pas intéressant. Idéalement, on trouverait la marque dans brand=, l’opérateur local ou global dans operator= et le propriétaire dans owner=. Parfois ça se confond ou ça dépend du même. Pour des immeubles avec un architecte connu, il peut y avoir également architect=, construction_date=, etc.

Vérification, références possibles

Au-delà d’une vérification sur place, https://reg.app.ge.ch donne une base plutôt complète, mais son interface est difficile à utiliser. J’y ai remarqué qu’une erreur. Dans OSM, on pourrait reprendre leur référence avec ref:CH-GE:REG=. L’entreprise y mentionnée est l’ operator= , voire le owner= .

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Location: Cité, Genève, 1204, Suisse

Добрий день! Я новий редагувач мапи Openstreetmap frimtears🪪 Редагувати я почав 13 грудня 2025 року!📅 Описання моїх змін✏️: -Додавання будівель🏠 -Додавання дерев та лавочок🌳 -Додавання магазинів🛒 -Додавання вулиць🏘️ -Додавання тротуарів та пішодних доріжок🚶

А тепер до виправленнь✏️: -Виправлення тегів🪧 -Виправлення проблем з будівлями, доріжками, зонами та парковками!

Якщо вам не подобаються мої зміни пишіть мені на ту зміну яка не сподобалась.

Irpavi 2 South Route

The city of La Paz, Bolivia, has the Puma Katari public transportation service, which covers the 9 macro districts and is currently deployed through 10 routes. Since its launch, this service has been a great promise, offering benefits such as preferential treatment for people with disabilities, children and the elderly, in addition to allowing the transport of bicycles in the front compartments of the buses, thus encouraging the use of this means of transportation. ecological. We are often traveling to different places in the city to carry out our field work. We know that some visitors or even people who know about this transportation service face difficulties because they do not know which route to take or where the stops are, especially when trying to reach peripheral areas.

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Location: Irpavi Bajo, Sur, La Paz, Pedro Domingo Murillo, La Paz, Bolivia

Over the past year, I made a lot of contributions to Regina’s OSM. Since snow has made surveying difficult, I felt a retrospective on those contributions were a good idea. Many edits came through the StreetComplete app, though more intensive projects have called for desktop editing. Creating a separate network for sidewalks and starting to make indoor maps for a couple buildings are the items I’m most excited about. The changes made to the Regina Wiki page on OSM were pretty large but hopefully will give a good overview of where active mapping projects are at. Creating a wiki page for Regina Transit will hopefully help to make updates to it easier to coordinate.

You can read more on my blog post here: https://www.malleyeno.com/Blog/Winter-Retrospective-2025—OpenStreetMap-for-Regina

Location: Centre Square, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4P 2L3, Canada
Posted by Pieter Vander Vennet on 19 December 2025 in English. Last updated on 21 December 2025.

In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads. A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=crossing where the crosswalk is located. The routeplanner would apply a time penalty, the rendering engine shows a little icon, and done.

With an extra attribute (namely crossing_ref) a more precise type and the type of markings was indicated.

Then, someone figured out they could also shove in information about the traffic signals. This kind of works for simple crossings, but breaks down for bigger intersections. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing=unmarked, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing=uncontrolled and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing=controlled were added. And https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing=zebra, cause zebra crossings are so common. And https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing=marked, which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ~~tea~~ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:crossing=uncontrolled.

In the mean time, people started mapping cycleways and sidewalks/footways separately, giving rise to a second way of tagging crossings: along the way; as https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=footway with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:footway=crossing.

Some ported over the traffic signal metadata over on the way, as they were used to doing on a node. Others starting mapping the traffic lights separately, often as barrier at the precise location where the pedestrian/cyclist/car driver has to wait.

This gives the potential of having the traffic light metadata on three separate locations:

1) Once on the point where the road and the footway meet 2) Once on the footway, marked with crossing 3) Once on the traffic light node on the footway

In other words, the current tagging is a clusterfuck.

Why do I care?

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Place: Nor Yungas, Yolosa, Bolivia – Senda Verde Animal Shelter

Senda Verde is a refuge dedicated to the rehabilitation and protection of wildlife in the Amazon rainforest of Bolivia. Unlike a conventional tourist destination, its main mission is to provide care and rehabilitation to rescued animals, many of which have been victims of illegal wildlife trafficking, mistreatment in captivity, or have been affected by the burning of their habitats. Although it welcomes visitors to support its operations, educate, and raise awareness about conservation, Senda Verde primarily focuses on animal welfare and promoting responsible wildlife practices.

Illegal wildlife trafficking consists of the illicit commercialization of wild species that are stolen from their natural habitats. In Bolivia, alarming cases of illegal wildlife trafficking have begun to occupy a prominent place on the media agenda.

Senda Verde Wildlife Sanctuary is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of rescued native Bolivian wildlife by providing medical care, food, and housing. Their mission is to save and protect rescued wild animals from cruelty and suffering, as well as to inspire people to care for wildlife.

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Location: Santo Domingo, Municipio Coroico, Provincia Nor Yungas, La Paz, Bolivia

রাজশাহী জেলার বাগমারা উপজেলার যোগীপাড়া ইউনিয়নের কাতিলা গ্রামে অবস্থিত নাগা বাজার–মুলিভিটা সংযোগ সড়কটি মাঠপর্যায়ের তথ্য ও স্থানীয় জ্ঞানের ভিত্তিতে মানচিত্রে সংযোজন করা হয়েছে।

Location: Naga Vila, Bagmara Upazila, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi Division, 6403, Bangladesh

En el marco de la estrategia nacional para la eliminación de la Malaria, la precisión en la localización y cuantificación de la población en riesgo es fundamental. Este ejercicio técnico demuestra cómo el uso de datos geográficos abiertos OpenStreetMap y tecnologías de análisis libre Python permite generar diagnósticos territoriales en tiempo récord, optimizando la toma de decisiones en salud pública.

La importancia de los Datos Abiertos en Salud

Para que una intervención de salud (como el rociamiento residual o la distribución de toldillos) sea efectiva, se debe saber dónde está la gente. Los datos libres permiten:

  • Reducir costos: El acceso a cartografía detallada sin pagar licencias costosas.

  • Transparencia: Procesos auditables donde la comunidad científica y técnica puede validar los cálculos.

  • Interoperabilidad: Herramientas que se integran fácilmente con otros sistemas de vigilancia epidemiológica.

El Proyecto: Un Enfoque Minimalista y Potente

Alojado en GitHub: el desarrollo alojado en Streamlitse ha construido bajo una arquitectura minimalista. El objetivo es claro: ofrecer una base sólida que cualquier técnico o investigador pueda consultar, replicar y mejorar para aplicarla a otras enfermedades o necesidades territoriales.

Paso a Paso de la Construcción:

Para lograr una herramienta funcional y ligera, se siguió este proceso:

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আজ আমি OpenStreetMap-এ নাগা বাজার এলাকায় “Naga Vila” নামে একটি আবাসিক বাড়ি যোগ করেছি। লোকাল জ্ঞানের ভিত্তিতে building=house ট্যাগ ব্যবহার করে পয়েন্ট হিসেবে ম্যাপ করা হয়েছে।এতে এলাকার আবাসিক ম্যাপিং আরও সঠিক হবে।

Location: Naga Vila, Bagmara Upazila, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi Division, 6403, Bangladesh

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