06/08/2026-12/08/2026

Mapping

• SherbetS has proposed craft=meat_processing for small-scale facilities where hunters or animal owners bring a carcass to be cut into meat, as distinct from shop=butcher or industrial=slaughterhouse. RFC voting started on 30 July. The proposal grew out of an earlier discussion on how to tag deer processors, where commenters debated craft=butcher, man_made=works, and various animal-specific alternatives before settling on the more general wording. In the RFC thread, several contributors argued that craft=butcher would fit just as well and that ‘meat processing’ sounds too industrial in British English, while others worried the new tag could end up being used for large commercial plants too.
• Joost Schouppe started a discussion on differentiating police forces by government level (municipal, regional, national, gendarmerie, street warden), which grew into a formal RFC. The proposal defines police:branch=* with four values: gendarmerie, national_police, regional_police, and local_police, to classify which government level operates a police feature, alongside a separate police:specialisation key for topics like traffic or canine units. In the RFC thread, commenters questioned the ‘branch’ naming and whether four generic values can fit countries with far more complex police structures, such as Germany or Italy. The OSM Wiki Proposals account tooted that voting had opened, but Schouppe cancelled it a day later after reviewers asked for country examples and clearer definitions, sending both keys back to RFC.The OSM Wiki Proposals account tooted that voting had opened on fanfouer’s service supplies proposal. The proposal introduces line_management=service_supply to mark nodes where an individual household’s service drop or lateral taps a main utility line, plus an occupancy=* key to count connected supplies without mapping each one. The voting runs until 30 August. The idea was first floated a year ago as a way to ease mapping of overhead wires in dense residential streets, and the proposal has since been fleshed out with examples for power and telecommunications. Early votes are split with one voter having opposed extending line_management to non-power utilities before a separate pipeline proposal exists, while another approved it as filling a real gap.

Mapping campaigns

• The OpenStreetMap Colombia Community is organising and coordinating on-the-ground mapping to identify damaged or destroyed buildings in the area affected by the earthquake in San Jose del Palmar (Colombia), with the support of UN Mappers and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Emílio Mariscal has created a web map using uMap to support the mapping campaign, which is using the Chat Map. There are projects for collaborative mapping on the HOT Tasking Manager: #61980, #61914, and # 61320.
• Semir Kahrimanovic has announced a new CompleteTheMap 2026 across Europe. New images from selected cities will be accepted from 10 August to 30 September with the sign-up deadline for entering the competition being 31 August.
• Italy’s OSM mapping community monthly project for August, ‘Restrizioni, Direzioni e cartelli’, is focusing on improving information on how to get to various places by including details for road navigation and better routing.

Community

• OpenStreetMap celebrated its 22nd birthday on 9 August and some well-known contributors to the OSM ecosystem responded with kind messages on social media: Yasmila Herrera (via Héctor Ortiz), the OSM LatAm community, Raquel Dezidério with the YouthMappers UFRJ, Dorothea Kazazi, Anne-Karoline Distel, and luiseme.
• Melany Ventura, a UI/UX designer, is the Trufi Association’s new Featured Volunteer, improving Trufi’s OSM-based journey planner apps, and more.
• In the latest episode of the Geomob Podcast, Dennis Luxen joined the show to discuss the history, and the technical and community-driven development of the Open Source Routing Machine, an open-source routing engine used in OpenStreetMap.
• Christoph Hormann commented on the recent discussion in the OpenStreetMap community regarding corporate influence on the project.
• Rphyrin is conducting a personal mapping campaign to add geolocated images to their corresponding OSM objects using the image=* tag. The results so far are being showcased through an Overpass Ultra query in a Mastodon post thread.
• Valère Déjo published an article on La Remuante, ‘A new cycle path on the map’, focusing on the city of Saint-Étienne (France), which is introducing new cycle paths and offering the opportunity to map them in OSM using Panoramax.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Grant Slater reported that he is physically installing a new OpenStreetMap tile render server in Dublin, kindly sponsored by QGIS, which is expected to make tile rendering faster on the GIS.

Events

• In the newest episode of the Projets Libres podcast, Benoît Peyon, a member of the organising committee for State of the Map 2026, was interviewed about the event.
• The 1st Global Convening on Informal and Shared Mobility (GloCon 2026) will take place in Bangkok from 26 to 28 October. OSM advocates can meet thought leaders improving transport systems worldwide.
• On 12 August the HOT Asia Pacific Hub held its quarterly Regional Mapathon Asia-Pacific. During the event they announced several upcoming Open Mapping Guru Pro+ events in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Nepal, and India, and the upcoming October–November 2026 Open Mapping Guru Network recruitment cycle. You can read more details.
• Wikimedia Italia reported ► that the University of Trento, together with GFOSS.it, hosted FOSS4G-IT and OSMit 2026 from 9 to 11 July.

Maps

• Björn showcased Hoscy, a web map where users can compare prices at ad-hoc EV charging stations. Here, ‘ad-hoc charging’ means EV charging where you pay as you go without having a contract, subscription, or membership with the charging network.
• Jvaclavik announced the release of OpenClimbing 2.0, an open-source climbing guide built on OpenStreetMap and other open data. Since 2023, the OpenClimbing project has been developed alongside OsmAPP in a shared codebase, but the developers recently decided to fork it into a separate repository.
• Nicofr77 has combined OpenStreetMap cycle route data, with the official French cycle route reference, to identify bike-and-train loops between two stations, allowing people to cycle one way and return ► by train.
• Dieter Petereit reported ► that a Norwegian developer, operating under the pseudonym ‘Flightmussy_CEO’, is currently developing World Train Map, a curated atlas of notable passenger rail routes around the world, which currently showcases 1,269 railway routes.
• Renaud Zi has developed a free tool that simulates the recent solar eclipse for any location in Europe. It combines building and forest data from OSM with NASA data. It has been pointed out on the forum that a licence is missing, and that strictly speaking, the code that is available for viewing may not be freely reused.

OSM in action

• Pit Stop App is a mobile app that shows petrol stations, restaurants, accommodation, and must-see attractions at every exit ahead on America’s interstate highways. Powered by OpenStreetMap data, the app determines which interstate you’re on and the direction you’re travelling, then lists everything available at upcoming exits, sorted by the order in which you’ll reach them.

Software

• [1] Matt Whilden has developed ‘OSM Vexillophile’, a web app that helps OSM users complete all the flags on their ‘How Did You Contribute?’ page by finding MapRoulette, Osmose, or HOT Tasking Manager tasks in countries where they are still missing a flag.
• Devinius has built Knudli, a Flutter app that helps users discover playgrounds using OpenStreetMap data.

Programming

• Sarah Hoffmann announced, on the OSM Community forum, that she has lowered limits for clients to be automatically banned on overpass-api.de. She is going to ban apps completely if they receive a high number of HTTP 429 (Too many requests) or are hosted on a fast-deployment platform.
• Benjamin Altpeter has developed scripts to convert the iD editor’s presets for OpenStreetMap into JOSM presets. This lets users take advantage of JOSM’s powerful advanced features, while still benefiting from the familiar terms and aliases provided by iD presets, making it much easier to find the right preset, even if they don’t already know the correct OpenStreetMap tag.

Releases

• The team behind the OSM website are back with a recap of the latest changes. The month of July and a bit of August include an all-new notifications page, offering an alternative to the usual emails about new comments, followers, GPX uploads, notes, and diaries. Work has also be done to improve database backups, which in turn benefits the generation of weekly planet files. Moderators can now define zones with disabled anonymous notes themselves.
• Martin Raifer released OpenStreetMap iD version 2.42.0.
• Pavel Zbytovský announced the release of OsmAPP versions 1.8.0 and 1.9.0.
• Anders has announced there is a new beta version of the Mapillary app, which includes two new layers: ‘Best captures’ and ‘Captures needed’, new filters, and the option to display traffic signs and POI features on the map.

Did you know that …

• … Sybren A Stüvel recently learned about Touch Mapper? This is a web app that uses OpenStreetMap data to create printable 3D models of an area, allowing people with little or no vision to literally get a feel for the place.
• … Alex Hoferek presented the results of his research, on the profile of OSM corporate editors, at State of the Map 2024? The presentation details the characteristics of their activities, such as length of employment time and the most commonly mapped feature types, as well as the challenges these contributors faced in participating in the OSM ecosystem.
• … the ‘Sustainable Digitalisation’ community of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, in collaboration with Wikimedia Germany and the Action Alliance for New Social Media, has published a practical guide titled ‘Free Knowledge’? Among other things, the guide introduces OpenStreetMap, and highlights various resources and ways to contribute to OSM.

OSM in the media

• In an interview with Heise, OSM contributor Bastian Greshake Tzovaras talked about how OpenStreetMap differs from commercial map providers and which niche OSM fills.
• Keith Storm explained his ‘Run Greenville Project‘, a personal project to run every road and trail in Greenville County, South Carolina, USA, using the Wandrer app, which relies on OpenStreetMap data. He shared various remarkable experiences from the project, including getting featured by a local news station, becoming involved in a dispute with locals who were not particularly fond of strangers, discovering various historical sites, being swarmed by unidentified animals that eventually led him to undergo a full series of rabies vaccinations, and even encountering traces of crime scenes.

Other “geo” things

• Nigeria’s crude oil brings prosperity, but also environmental destruction and poverty. The book Black Gold: a blessing or a curse?, by Igbanibo Kubulaemugh Divine, used satellite data and real-life examples to reveal this downside.
• Through the UN Maps Learning Hub, UN Mappers is offering a self-training platform accessible to anyone and have released a new free QGIS training course.

Upcoming Events

Country	Where	Venue	What	When
		Hochschule Rhein-Sieg	OSM auf der FrOSCon 2026 in Sankt Augustin	2026-08-15 – 2026-08-16
	Hannover	Hannover Congress Centrum	OSM auf der Maker Faire Hannover 2026	2026-08-15 – 2026-08-16
		Stadt- und Waagenmuseum Oschatz	Kartenwerkstatt Oschatz	2026-08-16
			OSM Chennai Mapping Party – Tambaram Market	2026-08-16
	Braunschweig	Stratum 0	Braunschweiger Mappertreffen im Stratum 0 Hackerspace	2026-08-18
			Missing Maps London Mid-Month for Advanced Mappers (no training provided) (Online) [eng]	2026-08-18
	Magdeburg	Netz39 e.V. , Leibnizstraße 32, 39104 Magdeburg	3. OSM Stammtisch Magdeburg	2026-08-18
	Bonn	Dotty’s	203. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn	2026-08-18
	Chemnitz	Kaffeesatz, Chemnitz	OSM-Stammtisch Chemnitz	2026-08-18
	Derby	The Brunswick, Railway Terrace, Derby	East Midlands pub meet-up	2026-08-18
		Online	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)	2026-08-18
	Karlsruhe	Vogelbräu Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe	2026-08-19
	Amsterdam	TomTom HQ	Maptime Amsterdam: 2026 Summertime Maptime	2026-08-20
	Potsdam	MachBar	Potsdamer Mappertreffen × 218. OSM-Stammtisch Berlin-Brandenburg	2026-08-21
	Stadtgebiet Bremen	Online und im Hackerspace Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2026-08-24
	Berlin	Online	OSM-Verkehrswende #78	2026-08-25
	Düsseldorf	Online bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2026	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online)	2026-08-26
	Würzburg	FabLab Würzburg	Würzburger OSM-Treffen	2026-08-26
	Wien	Schlupfwinkel (Kleine Neugasse 10, 1040 Wien)	79. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch	2026-08-26
			OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party + AnkushTheHero Day	2026-08-27
		Cité Descartes	State of the Map 2026	2026-08-28 – 2026-08-30
	Essen	Verkehrs- und Umweltzentrum	Essen OSM-Treffen	2026-08-28
	Hannover	Kuriosum	OSM-Stammtisch Hannover	2026-08-31
	Hannover	Kuriosum	OSM-Stammtisch Hannover	2026-08-31
	Heidelberg	DEZERNAT#16	Rhein-Neckar OSM Treffen	2026-08-31

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New flock alprs are appearing in neighborhoods near where I go to college. This is scary, do your part.

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I’m undergoing the learning path “Open Mapping Essentials” on HOT´s learning centre. In the process I have contributed by mapping local businesses and housing buildings in Managua. I also added a few rural roads in the Esteli area. All my changes are based on local knowledge of the areas. I am looking forward to contributing to the OSM and HOT communities.

Hi guys.

I would like to emphasize the benefit that the micromapping of certain features can contribute to unhoused communities. Of course, there still needs to be more awareness of OSM within these communities, but the data being there is great for the future and making the map more useful.

Tagging if the seats on benches are separated or not allows people to know where they are able to lay down and thus sleep if they don’t have access to other places to sleep. The tag seats:separated=yes/no is used for this purpose. Ive been adding this to every bench I map. Tagging benches that are not separated is just as important as tagging benches that are.

Drinking water is needed for all humans to live. Knowing where the nearest water fountain is, or the nearest convenience store that will let you fill up a water bottle from their fountain drink dispensers, can be super useful and help when times are tough. Consider looking out for drinking fountains at parks and other public places.

Hope you got something from this, happy mapping and I hope you have a nice day.

This diary entry explores how modern web technologies can create accessible and responsive digital sports experiences. It looks at user-friendly navigation, mobile-responsive layouts, organized sports information, interactive interface elements, and the role of technology in connecting online communities. The project focuses on design and digital experience while considering how clear and reliable information can improve the way users explore online platforms.

On August 12th, 2025, I made my first edit to OpenStreetMap. It has now been exactly one year since I began editing. Here are some of the coolest things I’ve done in my relatively small amount of time spent on this hobby:

• 3,095 changesets

• 226486 contributions

• Added a “surface=” tag to every primary road, trunk road, and motorway in Virginia

• Made changes in 64 countries

• Procrastinated mountains of homework

It felt like this year went by so fast. I still remember the moment I discovered OpenStreetMap and how I got instantly addicted.

I hope to be an active contributor for years to come and meet tons of mappy people like me!

I’ve now uploaded to the Internet a little web-based program called GPX Reference Point Generator (GPXRPG).

GPXRPG may be of interest to the subset of OSM Contributors who use the OSM iD Editor for “armchair mapping”.

These Contributors add to the OSM database new Area features - particularly urban building footprints - by tracing the outline of each building on an aerial imagery background layer. Before commencing to trace new building outlines, they need to check that the aerial imagery background they have chosen is aligned to OSM’s coordinate system with sub-metre accuracy (and if not, adjust the alignment using the iD Editor’s Imagery Offset dialog).

Two items are required to provide a basis for the alignment check:

1. a “target spot” in the iD Editor’s Aerial Imagery Background Layer that has accurately known latitude-longitude coordinates. A visible Survey Control Mark with published coordinates would meet this requirement perfectly.

2. a “reference point feature” in the iD Editor’s OSM Data Layer located at the same coordinates.

GPXRPG is a simple tool to create the required “reference point feature”.
It generates and downloads a GPX track file modelling an Arrow with its tip placed exactly at the published position of the target spot. This track file can then easily be dragged-and-dropped to the iD Editor’s map window to provide that vital OSM reference point feature.

GPXRPG includes a User Guide button which opens a document including an illustrated walk-through of an “armchair mapping” session using a Survey Control Mark and a GPX track file.

You can checkout this program and user guide at www.davidhaycraft.id.au/GPXRPG. Careful - this URL is case-sensitive!

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For tomorrow’s eclipse I built a small free tool that reconstructs the ground-level view anywhere in the visibility zone, with buildings and forests from OSM extruded over real terrain, and the eclipse computed minute by minute. I posted the technical details on the community forum this week. The tool is at 2026eclipse.eu. Feedback on how your area renders is very welcome, especially where height tagging is sparse.

If you’re that afraid of AI, stop trying to beat AI at its own game.

Get out there and develop the originality that only humans can bring!!!

• URL: osmapp.org
• Full changelogs:
  • github.com/zbycz/osmapp/releases/tag/v1.8.0 (Nov 9, 2025)
  • github.com/zbycz/osmapp/releases/tag/v1.9.0 (Aug 7, 2026)

OsmAPP is the one integrated app for OpenStreetMap ecosystem for both web and mobile. It should be as easy to use as Google Maps, but fully open-source using all the great services around. It was first aimed at broad public, but now it becomes apparent, that it works best for the OpenStreetMap contributors, who want better UX or share OSM around.

The November release didn’t recieve its release notes until now, so we announce both version together. Also, mind that OsmAPP is updated continuously with every commit, versioning is used only for summarizing the changes.

Special thanks to all 6 contributors in both releases (BilbozZ, Dlurak, Fan Yaowen, Gabriele Monaco, Roman Deev, homtec). ❤️

v1.9.0 (Aug 7, 2026)

This release is mainly an announcement of the OpenClimbing fork 🎉

Since 2023 the OpenClimbing project has been developed alongside OsmAPP in one codebase. But recently the needs of both projects have started to differ, so we decided to fork it into a separate repository. The maintainership of the new repo was kindly taken by @jvaclavik.

Feel free to visit and add a star! Also, check out a ton of new features:
🌐 ➡️ https://github.com/jvaclavik/openclimbing  
           https://openclimbing.org/
           LATEST RELEASE: blogpost – OpenClimbing v2.0

To ensure higher reliability, OsmAPP was moved out of Vercel, and is now powered by a hacky-static-export, currently residing at Github Pages.

general

• next.js hacky-static-export by @zbycz in #1450, #1493
• auto deploy VPS on push by @zbycz in #1469

FeaturePanel

• ⏰ Add coloring for opening times to indicate state by @homtec in #1141
• Instant fetching for ways by @zbycz in #1488

SearchBox

• show z/x/y tile boundaries by @zbycz in #1472
• add more overpass hosts + retry if busy by @jvaclavik in #1460

Locales

• locales: update Chinese translations (Q1, 2026) by @fywmjj in #1456
• locales: Add Russian localization and add missing strings by @deevroman in #1482

v1.8.0 (Nov 9, 2025)

Most notably the app got the new “Hamburger menu” as a side-drawer, which really makes it feel more mature. Also, OsmAPP now features the new official OpenStreetMap vector tiles called Shortbread, which switches dark and light theme according to your app theme setting. Currently it is not clickable - see thread here.

In Feature Panel, we now load the “social image” (og:image) for the first website, which usually shows very relevant image. Overall OsmAPP now displays wide variety of images: Wikimedia/Wikipedia/Wikidata images, the image=* tag, og:image and three streetviews – Mapillary, KartaView and Panoramax.

general

• 🍔 HamburgerMenu: new design by @jvaclavik in #1283
• 📲 ShareDialog: add QR codes + ux by @jvaclavik in #1226
• SearchBox: fix losing focus on pressing Enter by @BilbozZ in #1438

Map and layers

• ⭐️ add shortbread vector tiles+styles by @zbycz in #1133
• add rock landcover to outdoorStyle by @zbycz in #1185
• add arrow for previewMarker outside of map by @zbycz in #1315

FeaturePanel

• 🏞️ Images: Load og-image for features by @Dlurak in #1149
• Images: Show the panoramax license by @Dlurak in #1148
• FeaturePanel: Show intervals always as HH:MM or when needed as HH:MM:SS by @Dlurak in #1151
• FeaturePanel: Optimized featured tags by @Dlurak in #1153
• FeaturePanel: Allow all css colors by @Dlurak in #1155
• FeaturePanel: prefer level:ref if available by @zbycz in #1280
• PublicTransport: Improve reliability of requestLine by @glemco in #1160

EditDialog - small enhancements to the new Relations editor

• show grade system input as autocomplete by @jvaclavik in #1143
• climbing multivalue editor by @jvaclavik in #1229
• add osmChange file download by @zbycz in #1320
• fix convertToRelation deletes peaks by @zbycz in #1338
• add modified badge by @zbycz in #1342
• Add Save & Draw by @jvaclavik in #1340
• node location can be undefined by @zbycz in #1362
• batch add members by @zbycz in #1365
• store expanded sections by @zbycz in #1422

Locales

• locales: add Chinese translations by @fywmjj in #1191, #1313

Thank you for your support!

@zbycz and @jvaclavik

Related projects:

• https://cartes.app/
• https://facilmap.org/

Imagine opening a map and finding almost everything you need for climbing in one place: areas, crags and routes, grades in your preferred system, topo photos, rock type, sun and shade – together with your own ascents and projects.

That is what we are building with OpenClimbing.

OpenClimbing is an open-source climbing guide built on top of OpenStreetMap and other open data. Instead of creating another closed climbing database, we want the data to stay open, reusable and editable by the whole community.

Today, OpenClimbing already contains almost 40,000 climbing routes, with more than 6,000 routes drawn directly on photos, across over 1,000 climbing areas in 31 countries – and the numbers keep growing as people add and improve data in OpenStreetMap.

Anyone can improve a crag, add a missing route or create a topo – and those improvements become part of an open dataset that can also be used by other applications.

Over the last months the project has grown a lot. What started mainly as a way to explore climbing data from OpenStreetMap is becoming a much more complete climbing companion: a map, guidebook, topo viewer, logbook, trip-planning tool and editor in one place.

OpenClimbing 2.0 is a big step in that direction.

Climbing log

The original tick system has grown into a proper climbing logbook.

You can mark routes as climbed, select ascent style, add co-climbers, edit previous ascents, see statistics and charts, and share climbing sessions.

Ticks are stored in our database and connected to your OpenStreetMap login.

Offline PDF climbing guides

Areas and crags can now be exported into printable PDF guidebooks for offline use.

The PDF can include the map, routes, grades and climbing lines drawn directly onto photos.

This means you can prepare a guide before a trip and keep all the important information available even when there is no mobile signal at the crag.

Upload climbing photos directly from OpenClimbing

Climbing photos can now be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons directly from OpenClimbing.

That makes creating and improving photo topos much easier, while keeping the photos openly licensed and reusable.

Routes drawn on photos are interactive, and OpenClimbing can also display images from Wikimedia Commons, OpenStreetMap, websites, Mapillary, KartaView and Panoramax.

We even added an experimental in-browser bolt detector to help when creating climbing topos.

Filter and sort climbing areas

Large climbing areas are now much easier to explore.

Crags inside an area can be filtered and sorted, so instead of browsing through everything you can quickly narrow the list to what you are actually looking for.

OpenClimbing can show information such as:

• climbing type
• difficulty
• rock material
• family-friendly suitability
• number of routes

Similar filtering is also available directly on the climbing map.

The goal is to make questions like “Where can we climb easy sport routes with kids today?” much easier to answer.

A much better climbing map

The climbing map received many improvements.

Routes can now be colored by difficulty, while grades are displayed in your preferred grading system.

Climbing areas can show their outlines directly on the map, including large areas containing smaller areas and crags.

We also added natural rock formations, a tourist map style, weather radar for Czechia and the new OpenStreetMap Shortbread vector tiles with automatic light and dark themes.

And many more improvements

• Custom lists for projects, favourites and trip planning
• Better bouldering support, including Fontainebleau grades and sit starts

• Sun and terrain shadows to estimate whether a crag will be sunny or shaded

• A redesigned editing experience with a map next to the form and better drawing tools
• A broader redesign of the whole application, including a new homepage and navigation
• OpenClimbing is now fully usable on mobile – including browsing, editing, uploading photos and drawing climbing routes directly on your phone at the crag
• We significantly improved performance and loading speed, especially when opening large climbing areas and working with map data

Still completely open

One thing has not changed.

Climbing data is stored in OpenStreetMap, topo photos can be stored in Wikimedia Commons, and OpenClimbing itself is open source.

The goal is still the same: build a useful climbing guide without locking the climbing data inside one application.

You can try everything at openclimbing.org.

We are looking forward to any feedback – and contributions to the climbing data or the project itself are very welcome.

Thank you for your support!

@zbycz and @jvaclavik

Hello guys, It’s me, plato59 and I realized that I am 76th place in Edits of the Philippines for August 10, 2026 according to OSMstats

Source: https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries&country=Philippines

I went to miles farm today. 8/10/2026

No new street developments. Mostly just new houses

纠正了一些先辈们所标注的不准确道路，这些道路或是如今已与从前大不相同，或是先前的标注不规范。删去了箐湖和县政府大楼，本人之前的相关数据太过于粗略。增加了一些建筑，删除了已不复存在的地点。有的地方不够详细，明天打算实地勘探后再修改。那么就这样吧，晚安OSM。

A while back a message popped up in my inbox inviting me to compete for a GoPro Max2 360-degree sport camera, courtesy of Meta, which of course now owns Mapillary and thus has a vested interest in supporting crowdsourced collection of street-level imagery. I submitted the application assuming it would come to naught and was pleasantly surprised when a GoPro Max2 appeared on my doorstep on July 15th. What follows is a review of that camera for collecting street-level imagery. Amazon sells this camera for $299. To put that in perspective, I paid about $200 for a RealMe model RMX3241 when we got to Italy for SOTM a couple of years ago and discovered that my wife’s iPhone was not unlocked as advertised, so a local Italian SIM card wouldn’t work.

Description:

The GoPro Max2 features back-to-back fixed-focus-to-infinity fisheye lenses. The built-in processor stitches those images together and stores the combined image as a 360-degree view of everything, not just horizontally but vertically as well. A smartphone app, Quik, can be downloaded to control the camera via a wifi connection (and that is vastly easier than trying to control the camera via the tiny LCD screen). The camera can collect both video and still images, 360-degree JPEGs, which can be displayed by VLC Media Player as well as GoPro’s proprietary Player. GoPro Player, a free download, is a desktop imagery editor that allows you to trim video files and also to edit the point of view of video and still photos.

After charging the batteries I did some initial filming by walking around my back yard and viewing the videos on the camera’s LED screen. That led to basic familiarity; after a short time the controls became relatively intuitive. I downloaded the Quik app to my Android phone, connected the camera and phone, and used it to start and stop the camera, select modes, and generally experimented a bit, then deleted those test videos. The Quik app is not hard to figure out.

I researched on the internet options for mounting the camera on top of a car and settled on the Bushman Panoramic Popeye Magnetic Base, which B&H Photo in New York sold me for about $50 including taxes and shipping. I mounted the camera on the provided 10-inch (25 cm) pole, then mounted the pole on the magnetic base and placed it on the roof of the car with one lens facing left and the other facing right. The magnetic base secured the camera firmly yet was easily removed given the leverage the 10” pole provides.

I collected five sets of video imagery at 30fps on July 29 in the general area of Falls Church, Virginia, and still photographs 2 seconds apart on August 4 in the general area of Annandale, Virginia. I was curious to see if clarity of the images would differ between video and still photos taken from a moving automobile.

Pro:

Setup of the camera is relatively easy though the documentation seems to assume that the user is familiar with GoPro equipment. I already had a GoPro Hero so was not completely at sea but could not figure out how to open the battery door and had to consult with a YouTube video (my fear of breaking something made me check that first).

Once installed and functioning, the GoPro Player software was easy to figure out. It is relatively intuitive and after only a couple of false starts I was able to trim from collected videos the first several frames and last several frames that showed me mounting and dismounting the camera after turning it on (I had not yet experimented with starting and stopping the camera remotely, which I now do). I have not yet used Player for any editing other than that. Transferring the 360-degree files to the desktop computer was easy, by simply removing the camera’s SD card, sticking it into a USB adapter, and copying the files to a dedicated folder on my desktop’s 8Tb SSD.

Mapillary’s updated desktop uploader worked perfectly and uploaded all five trimmed videos relatively quickly. Past versions of the uploader have at times been buggy, so having this version of the uploader work so well was pleasant.

The Quik app works well for starting and stopping the camera, changing modes, and so on. This makes control of the camera from inside a car very easy.

After receiving the video Mapillary parses it, extracting selected frames and posting them on the Mapillary website. This process was surprisingly quick, with the photos appearing the next day. This was a real surprise given that in the past still photographs collected with one of my smartphones running the Mapillary app took several days to be processed and posted. The software appears to remove duplicate frames so stopping at stop signs does not result in several extra frames of the same scene (that is not true if you take still photos, however). This has been a problem with some versions of the Mapillary app, which abandoned distance-based interval setting in favor of time-based, and continued to collect imagery when a vehicle stopped at stop signs and stop lights.

Following the video experiments I set the camera to collect still photos and cruised Annandale. At 25 mph (40 kph) the 2-second interval (the briefest interval available) was brief enough to collect imagery that nearly always overlapped enough to capture information of interest to an OSM mapper. I suspect that moving any faster than that would leave out useful information in still-photo mode. I noticed no difference in image quality between video and still photos. Imagery is generally sufficient to identify business occupancies, though making out house numbers is hit or miss, and signs farther than about 30 feet (9 meters) from the camera have to have really large letters to be made out.

Cons:

GoPro and Microsoft Store have conspired to install GoPro Player in a subfolder located in the WindowsApps folder. Access to that folder requires administrator privileges, which means that after you install Player it will not run. You click on the icon, the Critical Stop beep sounds, and the user interface fails to appear. Checking Task Manager reveals that the program is running, sort of, but its functions are not accessible to the user. I emailed GoPro Support, which replied with a series of questions, one of which was whether I had tried launching the program as the administrator. That had not occurred to me so I tried it and Player launched. Obviously, running routine programs as the administrator is a less than optimal solution and should be corrected. GoPro and Microsoft Store should arrange for the installation program to install Player in ..\Program Files\GoPro or someplace similar that does not require administrator privileges to launch (most polite program installers ask the user where the program should be installed–this one does not). GoPro’s help desk simply said it follows Microsoft policy on software downloaded from the Microsoft Store and claimed that the program should launch without administrator privileges.

In reviewing the 360-degree photos in OpenStreetMap using the iD editor, while the photos were there and easily manipulated to pan in any direction, anything farther away than about thirty feet (9 meters) was blurry enough that unless the letters were really big the signs were not legible. I noted when comparing these images with imagery collected with my RealMe model RMX3241 smart phone’s 48 megapixel camera that the RealMe’s images are only a hair clearer and thus only slightly more legible. The tradeoff is of course that a 360-degree view allows you place POIs much more precisely and with zero guesswork. This means the Max2 needs to be driven as closely as possible to storefronts and such if you want to collect as much information as possible.

Editing using Quik on the smartphone is nearly impossible and a waste of time. Also, if you download a 360-degree video to the smartphone it both occupies an inordinate amount of space and cannot be easily found in the file system. Quik is useful for remotely controlling the phone and that’s about all.

Battery life when collecting imagery is about two hours, and the kit came with two batteries, so imagery collection is limited to battery life. There is no separate charger included–you charge the battery by connecting a USB cable to a charging port inside the battery door. A separate battery charger, which comes with two spare batteries, costs $79.99 plus shipping and taxes from GoPro. This means your imagery collection during long trips, as I have done at various times, such as collecting imagery on US Route 50 in West Virginia will be limited to battery life times however many batteries you’ve invested in. By contrast, my dash-mounted RealMe smart phone running the Mapillary app can run indefinitely by plugging into a power socket in the car, though it only collects whatever the single lens can see.

Where to see the imagery:

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/apmwa?lat=38.87252489173562&lng=-77.15295395359306&z=17&pKey=1374712051462422&x=0.2523889213771153&y=0.49999999999999983&zoom=0

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/apmwa?lat=38.87073799866701&lng=-77.16677960139998&z=17&pKey=2556032581515703&x=0.7973914264299434&y=0.5&zoom=0

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/apmwa?lat=38.87095690394227&lng=-77.16453690990403&z=17&pKey=1055544633695914&x=0.18044404021753957&y=0.49999999999999983&zoom=0

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/apmwa?lat=38.873351146668114&lng=-77.1461389073852&z=17&pKey=1404069464992751&x=0.15606263554401384&y=0.47321936185741825&zoom=0

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/apmwa?lat=38.865436500000015&lng=-77.19527499999998&z=17&pKey=1900402680923668&x=0.36095465234470736&y=0.5000000000000001&zoom=0

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/apmwa?lat=38.83504210000001&lng=-77.18747680000001&z=18.327593300918466&pKey=2116999718896607&x=0.3076318708877394&y=0.5263241838228742&zoom=0&focus=photo

Bottom line:

For short (under two to four hours) imagery collection expeditions, the GoPro Max2 is a solid collector of street-level imagery, and it makes consulting Mapillary images in iD much more powerful thanks to the 360-degree view. I’m using it to improve OSM in Northern Virginia. Image quality is acceptable. For long drives I will probably stick to the RealMe on long stretches, but put the Max2 on the roof for collecting POIs in towns where we overnight.

from marathon to speedway

I build bike + train loops in France by crossing OpenStreetMap with the official cycling-route reference (RVM / Réseau vélo et marche). Two points I’d value the community’s view on: at which level the identity (ref) of a multi-level superroute should live, and whether the emerging ref:FR:RVM tag (which carries the RVM id and gives an exact OSM↔RVM join key) is worth spreading. Full write-up (FR): https://tisseurdevoies.fr/articles/openstreetmap-veloroutes-retour-experience

Je fais du vélo, j’aime rentrer en train, et j’ai fini par construire un outil qui repère les boucles réalisables entre deux gares. Pour ça, je croise les véloroutes d’OpenStreetMap avec le référentiel officiel des véloroutes françaises, RVM (Réseau vélo et marche).

J’ai documenté ce retour d’expérience (choix du référentiel, rapprochement des deux sources et reconstruction d’une géométrie exploitable) ici : OpenStreetMap et les véloroutes françaises : retour d’expérience de Tisseur de Voies

Je voulais surtout soumettre ici les deux points sur lesquels votre avis m’aiderait le plus.

1. Où placer l’identité d’un itinéraire dans une hiérarchie superroute / route ?

Les grandes véloroutes sont souvent modélisées avec plusieurs niveaux de relations.

La Route des Grandes Alpes, par exemple, a une racine type=superroute portant ref=VRGA, puis un « tracé principal » et des « variantes », puis les étapes. La structure est très utile, mais un consommateur qui ne traite que les relations feuilles type=route perd alors l’identité portée par la racine.

Sur la quarantaine de superroutes vélo que j’ai analysées en France, j’observe plusieurs situations : ref uniquement sur la racine, présent également sur certaines relations filles, ou parfois absent à certains niveaux.

J’ai trouvé différentes documentations et propositions sur les hiérarchies de routes, mais je n’ai pas identifié de convention suffisamment claire pour un consommateur de données :

dans une hiérarchie superroute / route, quelle duplication de ref, network et éventuellement name est aujourd’hui considérée comme souhaitable ?

L’objectif côté consommateur serait de pouvoir conserver à la fois l’identité de l’itinéraire et sa structure hiérarchique, sans déduire l’une à partir de l’autre.

Détail et exemple de la Route des Grandes Alpes

2. ref:FR:RVM : une clé de jointure OSM ↔ RVM ?

Le rapprochement entre OSM et RVM n’est pas simple par ref : dans mon jeu de données, le numero RVM et le ref OSM ne coïncident que dans environ un cas sur quatre.

J’ai en revanche rencontré le tag ref:FR:RVM, dont la valeur correspond à l’id_iti du Réseau vélo et marche / RVM.

Dans les cas que j’ai vérifiés, cela fournit une clé de rapprochement directe et non ambiguë entre l’itinéraire OSM et son entrée dans RVM. Mais le tag reste très rare : je le trouve sur moins de 1 % des véloroutes analysées.

Est-ce un tag déjà utilisé ou discuté par d’autres contributeurs ? Et serait-il pertinent de le documenter ou d’en encourager l’usage lorsqu’une correspondance RVM est certaine ?

Question liée à la précédente : si oui, sur quel niveau d’une hiérarchie superroute / route faudrait-il idéalement porter cet identifiant ?

Détail sur le rapprochement OSM ↔ RVM

Le reste du retour d’expérience porte notamment sur le dédoublonnage OSM / RVM, les tronçons partagés par plusieurs itinéraires, les hiérarchies de relations, les bacs et la reconstruction d’une continuité exploitable par un algorithme.

Sur ce dernier point, je considère bien l’ordre des membres d’une relation route comme une information significative ; simplement, côté consommateur, je ne peux pas supposer qu’il suffise à résoudre tous les cas de hiérarchies, variantes ou embranchements que je rencontre.

Je prends volontiers les contre-exemples, corrections ou pointeurs vers une convention que j’aurais manquée, y compris si certaines de mes hypothèses côté consommateur sont à revoir.

Nicolas

Today I finished mapping all the homes in the Stonebrae Country Club, a gated community surrounding a golf course at the top of the loop where Fairview Avenue becomes Hayward Avenue. In 2010 I worked as a NARFU Census taker and had to note down which addresses were inhabitable because they hadn’t been built yet. Now all that land with just paved streets are homes. Many of my children’s friends live there as they attended the elementary school across the street from the outer bounds of the neighborhood.

Next step is to start my way down Hayward Avenue and eventually into the heart of the city.

30/07/2026-05/08/2026

Mapping campaigns

• Uber has proposed, on the OSM Community forum, an organised editing activity to improve pedestrian mapping in 21 countries. Various mappers criticise it due to a lack of details and because Uber has a poor track record in the UK.

Community

• Rphyrin made an Overpass Ultra script for viewing image=* tags in OpenStreetMap.
• MideaFind has used OpenStreetMap data to collect the locations of stores that might sell portable air conditioners.
• Andrea Grandi explained why Book Corners won’t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap. Pieter Vander Vennet responded in his blog.

Imports

• Oscar Car Rental announced ► that they are planning an organised editing activity to add their 93 missing car rental locations in Germany, along with performing some data maintenance.

OSM research

• Marni Davis documented Atlanta’s immigrant population in the late 19th century, visualising their neighbourhoods on an OpenHistoricalMap basemap.

Maps

• ^[1] Victor Rotariu and his team are developing a live urban heat map that estimates street-level thermal conditions at a resolution of roughly 25 metres. This data will power a new ‘Cool’ routing mode. Rather than selecting only the fastest or shortest cycling route, Cool mode will identify the route with the lowest estimated heat exposure. The goal is simple: help cyclists avoid the hottest streets, enjoy a more comfortable ride, and arrive at their destination with less sweat on hot summer days.

OSM in action

• A 23-year-old student developer from South Korea has created a navigation app for finding shade covered areas, which has shot to the top of the App Store’s navigation apps. The app uses OpenStreetMap data to plot routes.

Software

• HeiGIT presented their latest update on the roadmap toward the new ohsome API 2.0, outlining the next steps in the evolution of the ohsome platform for analysing OpenStreetMap data. The update introduced planned developments, improvements, and future directions aimed at creating a more flexible, efficient, and sustainable API for OSM history data analytics.

Releases

• The CoMaps team published release 2026.07.16, which is now available via Codeberg, F-Droid, Google Play, and the iOS AppStore. This version adds a preview of turn-by-turn directions when creating a route, adds lane guidance and improved next turn descriptions for iOS/CarPlay, per-transport-mode routing options, support for more OSM tags, and many further bug fixes and improvements.
• Organic Maps July 2026 has been released, bringing a collection of bug fixes and general improvements.
• A note for mappers resolving notes: Organic Maps version 2026.07.15 has fixed a long-standing issue, where notes left inside large forest polygons and road lines would always move to the centre of the object. Notes are now added at the user’s click location.
• Tina announced that OsmAnd Astronomy, currently available in the OsmAnd Android 5.4 beta (on paid plans Maps+ and OsmAnd Pro), now includes tools for exploring solar and lunar events. Users can move through a timeline to preview upcoming astronomical events, check eclipse visibility from any location on Earth, and watch exactly how each solar or lunar eclipse will unfold before it actually occurs.
• HeiGIT reported the release of Ohsome-Planet version of 1.3.1, codename ‘Baarle-Hertog‘. This tool is designed to facilitate the transformation of raw OpenStreetMap history data into the geoParquet format, making it more accessible for spatial data analysis.

Did you know that …

• … the OSM Apps Catalog allows you to browse a list of thousands of various map apps?

OSM in the media

• BRUZZ, a local newspaper in Brussels, commented ► on the rise in recent years of private swimming pools in residential neighbourhoods. They praised OSM volunteers for having mapped them and showed maps with their locations.
• Heise’s c’t Open Source Spotlight newsletter reported ► on CoMaps and interviewed OSM community member Bastian Greshake Tzovaras about CoMaps, OSM and free software in general.

Other “geo” things

• Google had integrated its AI image generator ‘Nano Banana 2’ into Google Earth. They removed it two days later after people started abusing it, as the BBC reported.
• The Times of India explained how Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific Ocean by reading the stars, ocean swells, winds, birds, and clouds to find their way.
• In response to the recent news about Moroccan migrants crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, OpenCage reshared their previously published geo-trivia posts about Spain and Morocco.

Upcoming Events

Country	Where	Venue	What	When
		Online	Racha Mapping Party	2026-07-27 – 2026-08-09
	नई दिल्ली	Jitsi Meet (online)	OSM’s 22nd Birthday × OSM India Monthly Online Mapathon	2026-08-08 – 2026-08-09
	臺北市	國立臺灣科技大學研揚大樓412-1教室	COSCUP 2026 State of the Map Taiwan 2026 / Wikidata Community Summit 2026	2026-08-09
	New Delhi	Indian Coffee House, Connaught Place	OSM’s 22nd Birthday × OSM Delhi Mapping Party No.30	2026-08-09
	大阪市	11F, Urban Net Midosuji Building, 4-2-13 Awajicho	OpenStreetMap関西カンファレンス2026 / OSM Kansai Conference 2026	2026-08-09
	København	Cafe Bevar’s	OSMmapperCPH	2026-08-09
	臺北市	MozSpace Taipei	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #91	2026-08-10
	Zürich	Bitwäscherei Zürich	190. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich	2026-08-11
	Hamburg	Voraussichtlich: “Variable”, Karolinenstraße 23	Hamburger Mappertreffen	2026-08-11
		temporärhaus	OSM-Stammtisch Ulm/Neu-Ulm	2026-08-11
			Missing Maps Online Mapathon von Ärzte ohne Grenzen	2026-08-12
	München	Echardinger Einkehr	Münchner OSM-Treffen	2026-08-12
			UN Mappers Mappy Hour	2026-08-13
		Hochschule Rhein-Sieg	OSM auf der FrOSCon 2026 in Sankt Augustin	2026-08-15 – 2026-08-16
	Hannover	Hannover Congress Centrum	OSM auf der Maker Faire Hannover 2026	2026-08-15 – 2026-08-16
		Stadt- und Waagenmuseum Oschatz	Kartenwerkstatt Oschatz	2026-08-16
	Magdeburg	Netz39 e.V. , Leibnizstraße 32, 39104 Magdeburg	3. OSM Stammtisch Magdeburg	2026-08-18
			Missing Maps London Mid-Month for Advanced Mappers (no training provided) (Online) [eng]	2026-08-18
	Chemnitz	Kaffeesatz, Chemnitz	OSM-Stammtisch Chemnitz	2026-08-18
	Bonn	Dotty’s	203. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn	2026-08-18
	Derby	The Brunswick, Railway Terrace, Derby	East Midlands pub meet-up	2026-08-18
		Online	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)	2026-08-18
	Karlsruhe	Vogelbräu Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe	2026-08-19
	Amsterdam	TomTom HQ	Maptime Amsterdam: 2026 Summertime Maptime	2026-08-20
	Potsdam	MachBar	Potsdamer Mappertreffen	2026-08-21
	Stadtgebiet Bremen	Online und im Hackerspace Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2026-08-24

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Tourism and Digital Mapping: Research Digital

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SELI KASELA DIGITAL CREATIVE STUDIO

Jalan Pantai Balangan No.85
Jimbaran, Kec. Kuta Selatan
Kabupaten Badung, Bali 80361
Indonesia

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Digital Mapping and Tourism

This entry documents my personal work exploring the relationship between tourism, digital mapping, geographic information, and local destination discovery.

The location featured here is OSSY SURF TRIP BALI in the Balangan area of South Kuta, Badung, Bali, Indonesia.

Mapping Perspective

Digital maps are an important part of modern tourism. Travelers use geographic information to discover:

• Surf schools
• Beaches
• Hotels and accommodation
• Restaurants
• Local businesses
• Attractions
• Roads and transportation
• Points of interest

My interest is in documenting how local tourism places are represented within the wider digital mapping ecosystem.

OpenStreetMap and Local Knowledge

OpenStreetMap provides a collaborative environment for geographic information and community mapping.

This diary entry is part of my personal documentation of tourism, digital mapping, geographic information, and destination discovery.

Location Reference

Place: OSSY SURF TRIP BALI
Area: Balangan, South Kuta, Badung, Bali
Country: Indonesia
Topic: Tourism and Digital Mapping
Purpose: Personal work documentation

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MY LOCATION BUILD OWN INDEPENDENT

Looking 4 surrounding Flock action