Do you know how to map access points to the beach?

   

Check out the tagging scheme that we have developed for mapping access to beaches and other coastal recreational areas

   

Manguinhos Bay, Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, viewed in the overpass turbo, filtering tag barrier=gate (red). Mapa data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Nov. 15, 2025.

   

Collaborative mapping of beach access with OpenStreetMap

 

I participated as a Keynote Speaker in the II Beach Access Network (BAN) Research Workshop, held between August 18 and 20, 2025, at Casa da Ciência, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and showed how to map beach access points with OpenStreetMap. Now you can read the text about the tagging scheme and some details of this mapping.

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New development completed and occupied.

Consists of:
1 - 7 Norman Close, ST. ALBANS, AL1 2DW
1 - 5 King Offa Terrace, Wallingford Walk, ST. ALBANS, AL1 2EL
18A - 18B Abbots Avenue West, ST. ALBANS, AL1 2EJ

While I mapped driveways years ago in my neighborhood, I didn’t include access tags. I saw that later someone added access=private tags, and I thought nothing of it assuming it was the correct tag. So now when I just mapped scores of them in the neighborhood additions, I just now had the thought to look on the wiki for the tag definition.

As said by the wiki, the definition of access=private:

Public access is not allowed. Access is granted with individual permission only. Examples: A driveway with a no trespassing or keep out sign; A company parking lot for employees only. “Individual permission” has been interpreted to also include delivery people making a delivery to a resident or drivers picking up a resident by request.

Most of that makes sense - but in the examples, why would it specify a driveway would need a “No Trespassing” or a “Keep Out” sign? Just wondering if I need to retag some driveways in line with common (or changing) practice, or at least having more confidence in tagging them correctly.

地震があったね　震度６強 １２月９日

Bala’ dan Musibah Turun karena Dosa dan Terangkat karena Taubat dr. Raehanul Bahraen, M.Sc, Sp.PK oleh dr. Raehanul Bahraen, M.Sc, Sp.PK 8 April 2018di Tazkiyatun Nufus musibah karena dosa Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Sebuah ungkapan bijak dalam bahasa Arab berbunyi,

ما نزل البلاء إلا بذنب وما رفع إلا بتوبة

“Setiap musibah yang turun disebabkan oleh dosa, dan tidak akan terangkat kecuali dengan taubat”

Hal ini perlu diperhatikan oleh setiap muslim, agar ia tidak terlalu mencari “kambing hitam” atas apa yang terjadi di dunia ini, akan tetapi hendaknya langsung introspeksi terhadap dirinya sendiri kemudian memperbaik dosa kesalahan tersebut serta mengiringi keburukan tersebut dengan segera melakukan kebaikan.

Nabi shallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam bersabda,

ﻭَﺃَﺗْﺒِﻊِ ﺍﻟﺴَّﻴِّﺌَﺔَ ﺍﻟْﺤَﺴَﻨَﺔَ ﺗَﻤْﺤُﻬَﺎ

“Iringilah kejelakan dengan kebaikan, niscaya kebaikan kebaikan akan menghapuskannya.”[1]

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DOSA ADALAH PENYEBAB HUKUMAN ATAU SIKSA

Oleh Syaikh Abdulmalik bin Ahmad bin al-Mubarak Ramadhani

Segala sesuatu itu berada dalam kekuasaan Allâh dan segala sesuatu yang ada dalam kekuasaan Allâh berjalan sesuai dengan perintah-Nya. Dan semua kesusahan yang menimpa munusia merupakan akibat dari perbuatan mereka sendiri. Allâh Azza wa Jalla itu maha adil lagi bijaksana. Semua manusia hidup dibawah naungan rahmat karena sebab kebaikan yang telah mereka lakukan, atau dibawah adzab akibat dari perbuatan buruk yang telah mereka kerjakan. Ketika seorang hamba itu istiqâmah di atas syariat Allâh, maka kehidupan dunianya akan lurus dan mendatangkan banyak manfaat, bukan madharat, juga dia akan mendapatkan pahala yang berlipat ganda kelak di akhirat. Allâh akan memudahkan baginya segala bentuk kesulitan, dia akan dilayani oleh yang jauh maupun yang dekat, dan akan terdapat banyak kebaikan pada masyarkatnya, sebagaimana firman Allâh Azza wa Jalla :

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Tauhid Jalan Menuju Surga – Tabligh Akbar (Ustadz Yazid Abdul Qadir Jawas)By Radio Rodja | Senin, 23 April 2018 | http://rodja.id/1sy Tauhid Jalan Menuju Surga adalah Tabligh Akbar yang disampaikan oleh Ustadz Yazid Abdul Qadir Jawas. Tabligh akbar bersama Ustadz Yazid Abdul Qadir Jawas ini diselenggarakan di Masjid An-Nur, Jl. Diponegoro Sanglah, Denpasar pada Sabtu, 22 Jumadal Akhiroh 1439 H / 11 Maret 2018 M.

Ceramah Agama Tentang Tauhid Jalan Menuju Surga – Tabligh Akbar Kita wajib bersyukur kepada Allah dan syukur harus diwujudkan dengan melaksanakan perintah-perintah Allah dan menjauhkan larangan-laranganNya. Pangkal dari syukur adalah tauhid kepada Allah. Dijelaskan oleh Imam Ibnu Qayyim didalam kitab Ad-Daa wa Ad-Da Waa, beliau berkata, “Pangkal Syukur itu adalah tauhid”.

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قمت بتعديل جديد وقمت بإزالة بعض الأماكن التي بالفعل تم نقلها إلى مكان آخر ولا يوجد تغيير في الخريطه هل تأخذ وقت طويل في تنزيل بيانات الجديده؟ كل ما اتطلع اليه هو تقديم بيانات دقيقه فقط للمستخدمين

Not much to report today. I stopped by Play Coffee with a friend and added some POI tags while we were in line. There’s always something to map if you have a little downtime!

I also discovered that the building Cali Tacos is in has no POIs to speak of, so I’ll focus on adding those next, along with ever more fire hydrants. (I found some possibly interesting information about Van Deventer fire hydrants, but I’m not sure it’s enough to answer the question firehydrant.org posed about whether or not it was a company or just a licensed design.) In fact, the geometry on the map just shows one singular building, which is true, but there are individual units for each business. I think it makes sense to break them up, I just need to make sure I’m doing it correctly.

Using a phone running Android OS as a data collector for an RTK-enabled GNSS receiver, I ran into a fairly small but annoying inconvenience with getting data files from it on a Windows machine.

On Windows, you can’t mount a phone’s file system as an actual removable drive (don’t confuse that with seeing its file system in the File Explorer), so automating it with built-in command-line file tools isn’t an option. File paths to the data folders of Android apps are ridiculously long, so traversing them manually is another hassle.

However, it’s still possible to do that using the Android Debug Bridge tool, a part of the SDK Platform Tools.

After installing SDK Platform Tools, you should be able to use the adb command in PowerShell or classic Command Prompt batch files.

Knowing the full path to a folder where your data collector app (LocusGIS, SW Maps, etc.) stores files you need to download regularly, you can get a list of that folder’s contents by calling adb shell ls command with the full path to that folder as a parameter.

Downloading a file is as easy as calling adb pull with the full path to the file you want to download. This process can be made more or less interactive if you create a script that lists all the folder contents, then prompts you for a name, and then downloads the file by the name you entered. The target file name or path can also be specified as another parameter. It’s even easier if the data collector app uses the same filename every time, or if you save it under the same name.

For all that to work, you’d have to enable USB debugging on your mobile device and grant permission for the Windows machine to use it when you first attempt to utilize the adb. However, it would save you the hassle of switching on the File Transfer mode every time you want to access the phone’s file system.

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Nevím, jak se tím dopravním podnikům ulehčí život, když označí stejným jménem několik různých zastávek.

Kam se hrabou pražské zastávky typu Národní divadlo na Ostravu:

V centru Ostravy je 7 zastávek Sad Boženy Němcové. Nestačí, že jsou od sebe vzdáleny až 300 metrů. Ještě je mezi nimi místní magistrála, při jejímž překonávání spolehlivě zůstanete stát na ostrůvku uprostřed řeky aut uvězněni několika semafory, takže dostat se ze Sadu Boženy Němcové, nástupiště 4 do Sadu Boženy Němcové, nástupiště 6 zabere nějakých 10 minut.

Úplně slyším Petra Čtvrtníčka, jak říká “Mohli jsme nazvat Sad Boženy Němcové, nástupiště 4 raději Sokolská třída; Sad Boženy Němcové, nástupiště 5 raději Trocnovská nebo Sad Boženy Němcové, nástupiště 6 raději Fügnerova. Jenomže my jsme řekli Ne!”

Svinov Mosty sice není rozetnut semafory, ale je pro změnu 3D monstrum. S tím neumí počítat ani programy pro vyhledávání spojení, takže cestu mezi nástupišti, která jsou ve 2D pár kroků od sebe, je nutné překonat soustavou schodišť a eskalátorů. Aby to byla ještě větší zábava, na označnících zastávek je napsáno například Svinov Mosty H3, ale v Pubtranu¹ se o téže zastávce dočtete, že máte přestoupit na Svinov Mosty, nástupiště 5. Když máte čas, volné ruce a počasí se vydaří, může to být příjemná procházka. Ale když pobíháte s kufry v rukou (Svinov je mj. i významné nádraží), už to taková paráda není.

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German version

Initial Situation

In the forum, a user reports that a road on Crete is not being displayed completely. It quickly becomes clear that the German style is being used for rendering.

Openstreetmap.de operates two tile servers. On both of them, the tiles are faulty. It would be quite a coincidence if this were a hardware issue or a specific data import problem. Therefore, it is very likely that the cause lies within the German style itself.

The only difference between the two road segments is that the visible part contains one additional tag, namely maxspeed:

• https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1340290929
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1340291113

First Attempt

In the first attempt, I added a tag, namely the surface surface, to the missing segment and forced the German server to re-render the tiles. As a result, the previously missing part of the road appeared. This brought me one step closer, but it is not a solution yet.

Second Attempt

The German style is based on the standard openstreetmap-carto style, which is used on openstreetmap.org for OpenStreetMap maps. It adopts the basic rendering but selectively modifies certain elements to make them more readable for Germans.

I was curious whether the missing road segments were also absent in the original style. Therefore, I rendered them using that style. For this, I used render_single_tile.py and retrieved the necessary information by right-clicking on the corresponding tile at https://tile.openstreetmap.de.

First, I rendered with the German style, where – as expected – the road section was missing:

render_single_tile.py --zxy 17 74577 51762 --stylefile openstreetmap-carto-de/osm-de.xml --outputfile site/rendersinglefile/1.png

Then with the original style, where the rendered tile was also incomplete:

render_single_tile.py --zxy 17 74577 51762 --stylefile openstreetmap-carto/mapnik.xml --outputfile site/rendersinglefile/3.png

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Hello, guys. I am trying to map a neighborhood of León, in Spain. I need a lot of help, as there are plenty of buildings not mapped or not mapped correctly, so any help would be much appreciated. This is the note where you can see the area that I am working on right now. note/5052568#map=15/42.59710/-5.56225&layers=N

Name:

2025 12 06 37,50 #SchwarzerBulle DE NW Etwas krank Rad gefahren

Auf Openstreetmap:

@WARUMICHRADFAHRE/traces/12126906

Auf WARUMICHRADFAHRE.BLOG

https://warumichradfahre.blog/2025/12/06/bulls-daily-grinder-2-comeback-so-lief-die-emotionale-erste-fahrt/

Fahrt:

2025 12 05 42,30 #SchwarzerBulle DE NW Schwarzer Bulle Testfahrt Nordrandweg und Terranova Speedway

@WARUMICHRADFAHRE/traces/12127241

Strecke

Sziasztok!

Az élet sodor, gyakran mint egy hurrikán. Ugyan kevés olyan időm akad, amikor OSM-el tudok picit foglalkozni, gyakran fut át a fejemen, hogy ezt-azt megnézek a térképen a környezetemből és majd javítom, szerkesztem, ha eltér. Nyilván ettől sokkal kevesebbszer érek oda, de azért párszor már összejött.

Továbbra is érdekel és fogok is szerkeszteni.

Néha még a JOSM-ot is frissítgetem az aktuális verzióra, akkor is, ha közben mégis az ID-n egyszerűbb és gyorsabb valamit igazgatni. A kis dolgoknál ez így is marad, de ha nagyobb varázslat szükséges, a JOSM is jó, látom, ha nem is sűrűn, de még mostanában is frissítették.

Az OSM továbbra is kedvenc koncepció a szememben és örülök, hogy jó ideje stabil és fejlődik.

Üdv, V.

It was another beautiful, sunny day in Orange. I’m toying with the idea of conjuring up some sort of regular Saturday mapping activity, solely so I can use the word “Mapurday”, even though I’ve mapped at least one thing every day for the last five days. I’m sure that will slow down a bit once I re-balance the other parts of my life (although I did add a bench in Riverside last night while waiting for a friend to arrive; it doesn’t take much to contribute!). I’m not sure if it will be just for myself, or I want to try to get other local mappers involved.

It was a productive day! My goal was to add more fire hydrants along Palmyra, and to catch one I had somehow missed along Almond. I can’t say it’s representative, but so far, the manufacturers have all been one of:

• Rich Valve Co. (or Rich Manufacturing Company; I’ve seen both and other variations in newspaper clippings)
• M. Greenberg’s Sons
• Long Beach Iron Works
• Clow (Valve Company)

There’s also one Van Deventer, which firehydrants.org says could be a company, but it could also just be a fire hydrant produced under license. I plan to do a little newspaper digging to see if I can learn more.

Orange Street Barbershop

I added the Orange Street Barbershop to the map. I’ve been correcting several missing or otherwise out-of-date business POIs in addition to my quixotic hydrant mapping quest. The previous salon for 120 S Orange St was long since closed, so I updated it for the new business. I also noticed that the entire building was marked as the salon (now barbershop). I switched this to an individual node because the Orange Street Barbershop is technically suite B; there’s a suite A with doors set a bit back into a covered part of the building, but they don’t seem to be for anything useful.

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YIPPIEEEEEEEEEE! I’m already at 65 edits! This is the start of something very great and beautiful. Speaking of great and beautiful, I love my girlfriend so much!

Es absolutamente maravilloso.

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