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최근에 현체로 경주월드 다녀왔거든요? 가기 한 이틀 전에 osm 드가서 경주월드 편집하는데 타카티스크?? (2022년에 운행 중단) 서라벌관람차?? (2022년 8월에 철거) 처음 들어본 게 많아서 당황했습니다. (심지어 타카티스크가 아니라 타가디스코임) 어쨌든 중요한 지물들을 편집했습니다. (미로탐험 없애고, 타임라이더 만들고 등등) 근데 잼민이인 저 혼자 하긴 너무 힘든거 같아서 제발 도와주시면 좋겠습니다 ㅠㅠ

(아니 줄바꿈 왜 안돼;;)

16 hours ago

– Leia em Português

IVIDES DATA® held the third session of the Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026 (or 2026 OSM Workshop Series), focusing on QGIS plugins. Applied cases were presented on accessibility, urban tree cover, and the geolocation of buildings on areas subject to disasters

 

♦ Dr. Raquel Dezidério Souto leading Session 3 of the Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026. The files used in Workshop 3 can be found in the video description. Link

 

IVIDES DATA® successfully held the third live training session of the Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026 on June 12, during which the following were presented:

 

* View and download data on OSM.org * Access to geoservices for loading OSM as a base layer - NextGIS QuickMapServices plugin * Downloading data in QGIS (version 3.22 or later) – QuickOSM and OSM Downloader plugins * Applied cases — accessibility, urban tree cover, and the geolocation of buildings on areas subject to disasters

 

♦ QGIS screenshot showing data extracted using the QuickOSM plugin regarding government offices (blue dots) in Paris and its neighborhood, highlighting those that are wheelchair-accessible (yellow dots) | Map data (c) 2026 OpenStreetMap contributors.

 

♦ QGIS screenshot showing data extracted using the QuickOSM plugin on the location of trees in Paris, highlighting their concentration along major roads | Map data (c) 2026 OpenStreetMap contributors.

 

The Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026 offers single certificates (4 hours per session) and a full certificate (20 hours over five sessions). The training is open to all mappers, regardless of skill level.

 

To participate in the remaining sessions, please register using the form below to receive the link via email (you only need to register once):

 

framaforms.org/oficinas-openstreetmap-2026-ivides-data-r-1777150442

 

Thank you to everyone for participating! The Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026 is organized by IVIDES DATA®, in partnership with the Institute of Geosciences at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in São Paulo, Brazil.

 

Links and credits: QGIS

qgis.org/

NextGIS QuickMapServices

plugins.qgis.org/plugins/quick_map_services/

QuickOSM (by Etienne Trimaille)

plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/

OSM Downloader (by Luiz Andrade)

plugins.qgis.org/plugins/OSMDownloader/

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Important note: IVIDES.org(TM) e IVIDES DATA(TM) are registered trademarks. OpenStreetMap(TM) is a trademark.

Para contato: ivides [at] ivides.org ivides.org a day ago

This is a very simple idea: given a set of GPX traces for a hike you are planning to take, generate a file containing all the waypoints of interest within the area covered by the GPX traces. I create a buffer around the GPX traces and extract the area from OSM. I define a set of tags of interest. I use Ollama with Mistral Nemo to make sure that POIs make sense to visit while walking on foot, as places are sometimes mislabeled in OSM. Before saving the waypoints to a GPX file, I use Ollama again to generate waypoint descriptions and set labels for each waypoint. Feel free to try it out! The code is on GitHub.

a day ago

Earlier today I had to check an alarm on the servers. The alarm was for a non-issue, but I happened to notice a momentary delay to replication across multiple services and I wanted to investigate.

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The rendering servers fell up to four minutes behind on some servers, with all servers falling at least a minute behind normal. Interestingly, there does not seem to be a correlation between the delay and the server capacity.

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The vector tile servers had a more obvious impact with one server falling 12 minutes behind and the other 23 minutes. This increased time is by design. The mod_tile rendering stack has less work to do on updates but it causes more work on future requests for tiles in the updated area. On the other hand, the tilekiln stack has more work to do on updates but subsequent requests to the area are actually slightly faster.

I checked the nominatim lag. The delay is barely discernable so I’m not including the graph.

Checking the minutely replication around the time shows that at 23:13 the replication diffs jumped in size, with 007130004 to 007130010 showing an increased size of 400 kB to 1000 kB. The minutely diffs are normallly under 50 kB.

I examined one of the diffs to see what user edited the most objects. The easiest way was with osmium show 008.osc.gz | grep user | sort | uniq -c | sort -h. This technique isn’t 100% reliable since a tag containing the string “user” would introduce extra results but it’s good enough for a quick manual look.

Immediately it was obvious that this was a revert being done by woodpeck_repair as they had over 100x as many changes than the next user. Looking at the changesets it was a revert of a bad import.

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I still wanted to explore how this showed up on the vector tile systems. The changes came in every minute for several minutes. The graph shows 1. Normal updates before the large diffs, with only 60 seconds between updates 2. update 1 took longer, meaning after it happened it was slightly behind 3. update 2 merged the multiple diffs available. The are the diffs that accumulated between where the green and purple lines intersect below 1 and the purple and yellow intersection to the right. It looks like it updated two minute of data (red or blue lines) in about 4 minutes (time between “valleys”) 4. update 3 took those 4 minutes of new data and took 8 minutes. Looking at the diff size this is when the biggest updates happened 5. update 4 consumed those 8 minutes of data and processed them in 5 minutes 6. update 5 consumed the new 5 minutes of data in about 30 seconds 7. updates continued like normal.

Both axis are measured in time and the blue/red lines are how long it took an update to run. If you plotted the data on a graph where the axises were the same scale all the lines would be at 90 or 45 degrees.

The graph is approximate since updates only come out every 60 seconds and the data is updated every 15 seconds. Also it’s made in a drawing program, not properly graphed.

Looking into the logs I can see more detail about what’s taking the time.

The first large diff was picked up at 23:14:08 and

start time # ways osm2pgsql building tiles
expired tilekiln time backlog left 23:14:08 72056 72s 11391 17s 145s 23:15:40 161002 141s 12811 11s 234s 23:18:16 482221 426s 14158 14s 492s 23:25:40 277978 269s 13568 14s 357s 23:30:25 1225 1225 53 26s 0s

To my surprise, most of the time was spent in osm2pgsql processing ways, not in tilekiln. This means my strategies to minimize tilekiln processing are working.

2 days ago

Manchmal ist Wikimedia Commons eine gute Quelle für Objekte, die in OpenStreetMap fehlen, und manchmal ist es umgekehrt.

Aber wie lassen sich Informationen aus beiden schnell verbinden und am besten noch visualisieren?

Der naive Ansatz

💡 Daten per Abfrage aus Commons und OSM holen und in uMap anzeigen.

🏁 Als Beispiel möchte ich hier alle Ortseingangsschilder aus Sachsen-Anhalt visualisieren.

Naiv bedeutet hier natürlich auch, dass in Commons nicht alle Bilder ihre Standorte koodiert haben.

Wikimedia Commons mit PetScan abfragen

Wikimedia Commons bietet mit PetScan ein Tool an, das unter anderem auch nach KML exportiert. Ein Dateiformat, das nach uMap importiert werden kann. Folgende Parameter erzeugen in PetScan nach einem Klick auf “Do It” eine KML-Datei mit den entsprechenden Geo-Informationen:

Parameter Wert Language commons Project wikimedia Depth 1 Categories Zeichen 310 in Saxony-Anhalt Page Properties: Namespaces Commons, File Output: Format KML Output: Page Metadata Image, Coordinates, Default sort

Wichtig ist auch Depth auf größer 0 zu setzen, damit untergeordnete Kategorien miteinbezogen werden, so dass z.B. auch Ortseingangsschilder aus dem Saalekreis gefunden werden.

Der Inhalt der KML sieht dann ungefähr so aus:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
  <Document>
    <Placemark>
      <name>Hundeluft.jpg</name>
      <ExtendedData>
        <Data name="url">
          <value>commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHundeluft%2Ejpg</value>
        </Data>
      </ExtendedData>
      <Point>
        <coordinates>12.34471667, 51.96599722, 0.</coordinates>
      </Point>
    </Placemark>
...

Falls die Datei im Browser angezeigt wird, muss man sie natürlich noch lokal speichern.

OSM Daten in uMap anzeigen

Ich springe jetzt direkt zu uMap, da dort die Daten aus OpenStreetMap per Overpass Query bezogen werden. Das passiert über den Import-Assistent (geht wohl mit Strg+I):

Parameter Wert Ausdruck traffic_sign=city_limit Geometriemodus Standard Suchgebiet Sachsen-Anhalt

Da ich als Wikimedia Commons Kategorie Zeichen 310 in Saxony-Anhalt habe, nehme ich den entsprechenden OSM-Tag traffic_sign=city_limit. Das wird aber auch Zeichen 311 (“Ortsausgangsschilder”) finden. Nicht schlimm, da sie doch so gut wie immer zwei Seiten haben. Der Tag traffic_sign=DE:310 wird wohl nur 533 mal genutzt, da sind wir auch auf der sicheren Seite.

Die Ergebnismenge dieser Abfrage kann dann in eine neue Ebene kopiert werden. Aktuell scheint die Option “Link zur Ebene als Remote-Data” nicht zu funktionieren.

Fazit

🌏 Im Ergebnis überwiegt die Anzahl der kartierten Ortseingangsschilder aus OSM (6353 blaue Fähnchen) die Anzahl der Bilder aus Wikimedia Commons (89 rote Fähnchen).

Fehlen die Geo-Information am Commons-Bild, taucht es in dieser Karte natürlich nicht auf. Wir haben mit diesem Weg auch keine Möglichkeit direkt zu sehen, welche Commons-Bilder fehlen.

Aber falls man das spezielle Hobby oder die ausgeprägte Sammelleidenschaft hat, Ortseingangsschilder zu fotografieren und nach Commons hochzuladen, weiß man jetzt wo noch viel Arbeit wartet (Landkreise Börde und Stendal) und könnte vielleicht mittels BRouter auch gleich eine 🚴‍♂️ Route planen. Doch dazu vielleicht später mehr.

Das Fazit in einem Satz lautet wohl, dass OpenStreetMap eine wirklich schönes Biotop an Daten und Anwendungen geschaffen und ermöglicht hat. 💖

PS: wie bindet man am einfachsten Bilder in OSM-Blogeinträgen ein?

3 days ago

(English version below)

Desafíos y adaptaciones en la organización de mapatones anticipatorios

En el equipo América Latina de HOT tenemos 4 años organizando mapatones preventivos nacionales en México, Perú, Ecuador y Colombia. Estos mapatones responden al 100% a una necesidad de los gobiernos locales y organizaciones dedicadas a la preparación y respuesta ante desastres. La organización de dichos mapatones entonces definen áreas específicas de máxima exposición a desastres en lugares donde llegan estos a ser conocidos porque son recurrentes. Nos lleva a concentrarnos en la categoría de los desastres climáticos. Esto también define en buena parte la temporada en la que deben suceder los mapatones para proceder datos de forma anticipada, no después de que haya pasado.

Otra característica que define la temporalidad de estos mapatones es cuando la población que más participa en las actividades se encuentra con disponibilidad. El conjunto de estos dos factores es lo que define (de manera imperfecta) los periodos de estos mapatones anticipatorios.

El factor climático y académico en la programación

El periodo por exposición a desastres se relaciona bastante con el fenómeno de El Niño y de La Niña. Y la disponibilidad de los estudiantes (disponibilidad relativa) tiene que alejarse de los principales periodos de exámenes y de las vacaciones más grandes, donde sí interés se pierde o donde se dedican a trabajar. Esto no siempre es fácil entonces de conjugar. Para este año 2026, en lugar de mapatones anuales, hemos querido, para maximizar el resultado del esfuerzo de todas las personas participantes en la gestión, realizar un solo gran mapatón regional. Y este debía entonces suceder en un momento que no puede ser ideal, pero que se acerque lo más posible al mejor momento climático y al mejor momento universitario. Esto tenía que ser el mes de junio o antes, pero definitivamente antes del periodo de huracanes ligado con el fenómeno de El Niño o Niña, o al menos a su inicio, y antes entonces de las vacaciones de verano del hemisferio norte.

La coincidencia con la Copa Mundial 2026!!!

Una dificultad interesante es que este periodo en 2026 en América, justamente coincide con la Copa Mundial de Fútbol, con sede parcial en uno de los países participantes, México. Esto representaba un factor de distracción que le podía quitar gran parte de la atención a nuestra actividad, por lo que se nos ocurrió que debíamos competir en término de imagen, o al menos agarrarnos de la tendencia que iba a marcar la Copa Mundial, para aprovechar algo de atención. Así que fue muy natural la idea de hablar de Copa Regional de Mapeo, rápidamente aportando la narrativa de una pelea colectiva contra el cambio climático.

Conexión con la comunidad OSM Africa

Cuando aparecía esa idea en nuestra planeación, casualmente nuestros colegas de África nos comentaban que ellos hacian está conexión desde hace varios años, debido a la gran pasión que tiene esta región para el fútbol en general y el hecho de que, bastante naturalmente, se hable de fútbol al igual que de cualquier tema de la vida, en los chats comunitarios de OpenStreetMap. Dos temas que no tienen aparentemente nada que ver, pero que, como la vida misma, permea también en cualquier espacio de conversación comunitaria. Quería contar aquí la experiencia, que me resulta bastante interesante, de la comunidad regional África, que también denota su gran integración regional histórica, algo que admiro bastante de manera personal. Desde hace más de 3 años, las y los participantes, charlando en los chats de OpenStreetMap sobre los partidos de fútbol sucediendo, se empezaron a retar de forma muy orgánica a que los “vencidos” del partido tendrían que “premiar” a los “ganadores” con mapeo en su país. Cada punto representando un cierto monto de objetos que aportar al ganador. De forma entonces espontánea, la comunidad ha empezado a recurrir a estas retas de forma sistemática y ya por años en las copas futbolísticas de África, repitiendo una receta que les había funcionado como comunidad y que, de hecho, les permite integrarse, crear emoción, y traer el interés de principiantes.

Conclusión y reflexión

En América Latina la realidad muy diferente y no se ve tanto potencial de replicar tal cual, dado que estas cosas nacen de la comunidad misma. Pero me ha parecido bastante interesante e inspirador. Más que el uso del fútbol, la capacidad de fluir con algo que crea emoción, y llevarlo al mapeo En LATAM el fútbol no ha estado presente en las conversaciones de la comunidad LATAM, o nunca lo he visto. Otros temas movilizan, como en este momento la Amazonía, una región que preocupa, apasiona y que unifica a varios países.

¿Qué otras articulaciones temáticas curiosas han visto en sus comunidades, que aparentemente no se relacionan con el mapeo, pero al final lo fomentan de forma espontánea?

Invitados a reaccionar @Osunga @Jomokela @Katerrega

-Escrito sin uso de IA-

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English version

Challenges and Adaptations in Organizing Anticipatory Mapathons

The HOT Latin America team has been organizing national preventive mapathons in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia for four years. These mapathons fully address a need expressed by local governments and organizations dedicated to disaster preparedness and response. Organizing these mapathons, therefore, involves identifying specific areas of highest disaster risk in locations where such risks are well-known due to their recurring nature. This leads us to focus on the category of climate-related disasters. It also largely determines the season in which the mapathons must take place in order to collect data in advance, rather than after the fact.

Another factor that determines the timing of these mapping events is when the population most actively involved in the activities is available. The combination of these two factors is what defines (albeit imperfectly) the timeframes for these proactive mapping events.

Climate and Academic Factors in Scheduling

The disaster exposure period is closely related to the El Niño and La Niña phenomena. And students’ availability (relative availability) must avoid major exam periods and extended vacations, when interest wanes or students are focused on work. Balancing these factors is not always easy. For 2026, instead of annual mapathons, we wanted—to maximize the results of the efforts of everyone involved in the project—to hold a single large regional mapathon. This would have to take place at a time that, while not ideal, comes as close as possible to the best weather conditions and the best time for university students. This would have to be in June or earlier, but definitely before the hurricane season linked to the El Niño or La Niña phenomenon—or at least before it begins—and before the northern hemisphere’s summer vacation.

The overlap with the 2026 World Cup!!!

An interesting challenge is that this period in 2026 in the Americas coincides precisely with the World Cup, which will be partially hosted by one of the participating countries, Mexico. This posed a distraction that could divert much of the attention away from our event, so we realized we needed to compete in terms of visibility—or at least ride the wave of the trend the World Cup would set—to capture some of that attention. So it was only natural to propose the idea of a Regional Mapping Cup, quickly framing it as a collective fight against climate change.

Connection with the OSM Africa Community

Just as this idea was emerging in our planning, our colleagues in Africa happened to mention that they had been making this connection for several years, due to the region’s great passion for soccer in general and the fact that, quite naturally, soccer is discussed just like any other topic in life in OpenStreetMap community chats. Two topics that seemingly have nothing to do with each other, but which, like life itself, permeate any space for community conversation. I wanted to share here the experience—which I find quite interesting—of the Africa regional community, which also reflects its strong historical regional integration, something I personally admire greatly. For more than three years now, participants chatting in OpenStreetMap chat rooms about ongoing soccer matches have, in a very organic way, begun challenging each other so that the “losers” of the match would have to “reward” the “winners” with mapping in their country. Each point represents a certain number of features to be contributed to the winner. Spontaneously, the community has begun to rely on these challenges systematically for years now during African soccer tournaments, repeating a formula that has worked for them as a community and that, in fact, allows them to come together, generate excitement, and attract the interest of newcomers.

Conclusion and Reflection

In Latin America, the reality is very different, and I don’t see much potential for replicating this model exactly, since these initiatives arise from the community itself. But I found it quite interesting and inspiring. More than the use of soccer itself, it’s the ability to go with the flow of something that creates excitement and apply it to mapping. In Latin America, soccer hasn’t been part of the community’s conversations—or at least I’ve never seen it. Other issues mobilize people, such as the Amazon right now—a region that concerns, captivates, and unites several countries.

What other intriguing thematic connections have you seen in your communities—ones that don’t seem related to mapping at first glance but ultimately foster it spontaneously?

Feel free to share your thoughts @Osunga @Jomokela @Katerrega

-Written without the use of AI. Translated with Deepl-

4 days ago

Waiting for someone to do Portland on OHM. About 90% of the people reading this will go “What is Open Historical Map!?”. It’s sadly never used… I wish it was updated more often…

6 days ago

04/06/2026-10/06/2026

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[1] Playground map ‘Spieli’ | © m_fuhrmann | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Community

• Anne-Karoline Distel announced that a new video on mapping historic lifting stones is now available on YouTube. Historically, lifting stones were used to test the physical strength of men.
• The MapLibre May 2026 newsletter has been published, authored by Bart Louwers, Frank Elsinga, Harel Mazor, Ramya Ragupathy, and Stephanie May.
• HOT has published ♦ an open course on seagrass mapping to support coastal conservation efforts. The initiative outlines how seagrass imagery will be collected using drones and later mapped through an OpenStreetMap-based technology stack, including iD.
• Rtnf tried the newly released OSRM Trip demo page to solve a simple Travelling Salesman Problem that he encountered daily while living in Bandung.
• Raquel Dezidério Souto described in her user diary what it was like to sponsor the CityMapper externship project and how she got to know the OSM Africa community whilst attending SotM Africa 2024.

Local chapter news

• Katja Hafernkorn reported ♦►♦ that FOSSGIS participated in the exhibitors’ forum at KonGeoS Dessau 2026, providing information about Open Source GIS, OpenStreetMap, and the FOSSGIS association.
• FOSSGIS e.V. advertised ♦►♦ a vacancy for a position focused on OpenStreetMap training and community work. The application deadline is 8 July 2026.

Events

• An additional uMap has been published for the State of the Map 2026 (Paris), providing detailed information on the locations of various facilities at the event venue.The interactive map also includes public transportation guidance to the Musée des Arts et Métiers, which will host the conference’s Saturday evening social event. In addition, attendees can use the map to navigate between the SotM venue and Disneyland Paris, including access to the TGV station at Marne-la-Vallée.
• You can find information about the State of the Map 2026 on the uMap provided by the event’s organisers.There is also a call ♦ for sponsorship on LinkedIn and on the event’s promotional document.
• Andres Gomez Casanova reported that the State of the Map Colombia 2026 ♦ will take place at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá from 3 and 4 July 2026.

OSM research

• HeiGIT presented new research on training deep learning for land-use and land-cover mapping, with landscape metrics derived from OpenStreetMap, supporting more spatially consistent and interpretable GeoAI models.

Maps

• [1] With Spieli, m_fuhrmann has launched ♦ a new, user-friendly web map for playgrounds. The project is based on a fork of the ‘Berlin Playground Map’ and is firmly committed to an open ecosystem. While the playground data comes directly from OpenStreetMap, images are integrated via Panoramax and reviews via Mangrove Reviews.Particularly noteworthy is the technical architecture: Spieli is designed as a federated network of independent data nodes, enabling decentralized hosting and high scalability.For parents, the site offers helpful filters (e.g., by flooring type or accessibility) as well as suggestions for nearby points of interest (such as ice cream shops ♦).

  Mappers benefit from integrated data quality assessment and direct links to MapComplete, making it easy to improve the data.

  The project is currently seeking active support: Anyone with resources to spare is invited to host their own data nodes (mfuhrmann.github.io/spieli/) (e.g., for additional federal states or abroad). Discussion is possible via Matrix (matrix.to/#/#spieli:matrix.org), and the source code is available on GitHub (github.com/mfuhrmann/spieli).

• Christoph Hormann continued an in-depth discussion on non-locality in tiled rule-based map rendering, building on an earlier article that helped renew interest in OSM-Carto development.

OSM in action

• Bayreuther Tagblatt used ♦►♦ an OpenStreetMap-based map to visualise road closure areas related to the 10th ‘Mainauenlauf’ running event, scheduled to take place on Sunday 14 June 2026.
• Niederrhein Nachrichten used ♦►♦ an OpenStreetMap-based map to highlight parking areas available for visitors attending the Kleve Children’s Festival, scheduled to be held at the Kleve Zoo on Sunday 14 June.
• FerryGoGo helps travellers explore ferry routes worldwide through interactive maps, local route guides and practical advice built around real journeys by sea. It uses OpenStreetMap and shows ferry routes, ports and connections across each country.
• Phystech Mission have used ♦ an OpenStreetMap-based map to visualise the locations of technology companies and research institutes where graduates of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology are employed.
• Mediazona, BBC Russian Service, and a team of volunteers have created an interactive ♦ map showing the geographic distribution of confirmed Russian military casualties in their war against Ukraine. The dataset is compiled from open sources, including obituaries, media reports, local government publications, and other publicly available records, while the basemap uses OpenFreeMap tiles generated from OpenStreetMap data. Click the map icon at the bottom of the page to open the map.

Licenses

• Editora IVIDES ♦►♦ has published a Swahili translation [sw] of Tout savoir sur la licence ODbL: la licence d’OpenStreetMap pour cartographier en commun, originally written in French by the Fédération des pros d’OSM, Kila Kitu Unachohitaji Kujua Kuhusu Leseni ya ODbL. The translation from English into Swahili was carried out by Hemed Lungo and Tatu Sultan Lungo (Tanzania) and edited by Raquel Deziderio Souto, who wrote about this on LinkedIn.

Software

• OsmAnd is celebrating its 16th birthday, and to mark the occasion they will be giving away a 1- or 3-month Pro subscription to anyone who answers the quiz correctly by Monday 15 June.
• Marina Petkova and François Lacombe have authored ♦►♦ an article ‘Tracking and Promoting Contributions to OSM with Podoma’. Podoma is a programme for monitoring contributions to OSM, allowing users to measure and visualise activity related to a specific topic or area (we reported earlier).

Programming

• Timo Roest posted, on LinkedIn, about a custom PySpark data source to read .PBF files, seamlessly integrating osmium-powered OSM data ingestion into the Spark ecosystem. He explained how it works, and worked through a refresher on OSM data structures and why parsing them is a challenge.

Releases

• A new release of OSRM, version 26.6.1, is now available. Users can try out the updated demo ahead of its integration into the official front end.
• Alexis Lecanu has released Baba version 1.22.0, for contributing to Panoramax on Android, featuring several feature additions and bug fixes.

OSM in the media

• Danmarks Radio, Denmark’s national broadcaster, used an OpenStreetMap-based map to illustrate ♦ a major railway disruption caused by a damaged overhead power line near Sorø. The disruption was believed to have occurred after a train’s pantograph became entangled ♦►♦ in an overhead wire, forcing rail services between Ringsted and Slagelse to stop.

Other “geo” things

• Patty Heyda outlined the concept of ‘counter maps’, describing them as cartographic reinterpretations that challenge established assumptions and broaden dominant narratives to include previously excluded perspectives. As mapping becomes increasingly shaped by political interests, remapping practices are presented as a way to expose underlying systems of power to public view. The concept has also influenced activists, who use counter mapping to re-integrate previously omitted information into mainstream representations.
• YellowMap ♦►♦, a company based in Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is sponsoring ♦►♦ MapLibre. According to the company, the decision to migrate to MapLibre was driven by a desire to modernise and add functionality. At the core of YellowMap’s product offering is SmartMaps, built to address the strict data privacy demands of the European B2B market.
• Jeremy Hsu, of Ars Technica, highlighted a preprint paper by Todd Humphreys and colleagues investigating ‘continental-scale’ GPS interference across Europe.

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6 days ago

Hi again!

In my previous diary entry I introduced myself and my GSoC project with Valhalla, and I mentioned we were still putting the finishing touches on the exact main goal. Now we have it! We’re focusing on area routing. This is basically means making the router cross open pedestrian areas (like squares) instead of walking around them and generating weird and inefficient routes. This diary entry is a deep dive into the research I’ve done while exploring the different options.

The problem with pedestrian areas

When you ask a router to go across a square, you would expect it to cross it like any person would. But a lot of routers don’t do that, they may send you around the perimeter or go along the streets surrounding the square. The problem here is that the open area has no “ways” inside of it to travel on.

Let’s see one example (using Valhalla) on Plaza Santo Domingo in Murcia (my hometown!):

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The path we’re seeing is clearly not the one we’d take if we were walking down the square. The difference between going straight and going around is ~100 meters vs ~370 meters. There is quite a big gap between them, and this isn’t even the worst square!

Why it happens

In OSM, a pedestrian square is typically mapped as highway=pedestrian and area=yes. But this just defines the shape of the surface, there’s nothing inside it for the router to walk along.

Some mappers solve this manually by drawing “virtual footways” across the area, along paths that the people actually walk. An example can be Josefsplatz in Vienna which has some of these crossings ways drawn. It works, but it doesn’t scale (someone has to draw and maintain them everywhere).

What we want instead is to let the router generate those footways automatically from the area’s geometry. That is area routing.

The case study

Of course, before start to write any code, my mentors and I agreed the best way was to understand the geometry visually. So I started taking real squares from OSM and comparing several approaches for generating crossing edges. To do this I started using QGIS (I’m very thankful that Nils taught me how to use it!)

There are a lot of different approaches for this like straight skeleton or grid sampling, but I focused mainly on the two that seemed more interesting for our case. The visibility graph and medial axis (each one with a couple of variations) :

• Visibility graph (VG): Connect every pair of polygon vertices that can “see” each other.
• Reduced VG: Visibility graph generates too many edges, one solution to this is to keep only the edges that lie on the shortest paths between entrances of the square.
• Medial axis: the “skeleton” of the shape, the set of points that are equally distant from the two nearest edges.
• Pruned medial axis: Is the medial axis with its small dangling branches removed, plus connect it to the entrances.

VG:

♦ Reduced VG:

♦ Medial axis:

♦ Pruned medial axis:

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I tested this on several squares with different shapes, like Stephansplatz Vienna, Rockefeller Plaza NY, Puerta del sol Madrid Spain and a few more…

I would show all of them but it will be a bit long and boring! But I can tell you about the results.

Results

First of all, talking about the number of edges each one generates, we can see the VG generates more than 5k edges in some cases, way too many to insert them into a routing graph. But with the reduced VG we manage to stay at ~50 edges even in big squares since it depends more on the number of entrances than on the size.

On the other hand, medial axis each version also stays at a very low number of edges. The medial axis may not be the most direct, but it produces very natural and human routes.

So between reduced VG and pruned medial axis, we can say that medial axis is simpler and has the same efficiency in most of squares except the bigger ones but even in these ones, the result of the medial axis is extremely good. And after all this thinking we decided to go with the medial axis (with pruning).

Another thing I’ve discovered while testing all of this, is that we have to be a bit selective and “play safe” with the squares we are dealing with, because OSM data is huge and we can not make sure every square is perfectly tagged/mapped.

We’ve also discussed a few design rules as, entrance detection, size threshold of very small areas and how to deal with a few more cases.

What’s next

Now that we have a better view we can start with the implementation in Valhalla! I’ve enjoyed a lot learning QGIS and watching how these algorithms would work for each square, it’s been actually fun!

If you know any especially weird or interesting squares (whether is good or badly mapped) I’d love to hear about them, more test cases are always welcome. Or maybe some ideas that pop into your mind while reading this, everything helps!

As always, huge thanks to Kevin, Chris and Nils for all the guidance and of course for being so understanding and friendly. You can follow the progress in my PRs to Valhalla and here in my diary.

More soon, bye!

7 days ago

Dieser Monat war extrem stressig für mich und ich muss pendeln und kann daher nicht zum Stammtisch. Nächstes Mal bin ich aber wieder dabei. Viel Spaß an alle die zum Stammtisch gehen.

9 days ago

We are happy to announce the release of osm2pgsql version 2.3.0. It contains major changes to the tile expire, a new style tester script and many more changes.

Expire

Quick and efficient expire and re-rendering of tiles with changed data is important for OSM. Historically osm2pgsql didn’t do a great job figuring out which tiles are affected by some change. Quite some work went into this release to improve that situation. Most importantly polygons are now not expired by bounding box any more but the shape of the polygon is taken into account. For large polygons with weird shapes, this can make quite a difference.

A larger refactoring was needed to be able to support “diff expire”: When an object changes, we used to always expire all tiles intersecting the old or the new geometry of an object. We can now expire tiles based on the symmetric difference between old and new geometry. A small change in, say, a large lake will then only affect the tile(s) covering that small change, not the whole area. This feature has to be enabled using the diff_expire = true setting in the table definition.

The number of tiles to be expired can be quite large if the input geometries are large or if there are many geometries. Numbers of tiles in the billions can crash osm2pgsql because it runs out of memory. Such large numbers can also overwhelm any kind of re-rendering mechanism run after osm2pgsql to bring tiles up to date. In day-to-day processing this should not happen, but it can happen due to vandalism or misconfiguration.

To protect against this problem, this version introduces limits on the number of tiles that can be affected by a single geometry and the overall number of tiles that an expire output will generate for each run of osm2pgsql. Defaults for these limits are quite high to not negatively affect existing setups. It is recommended to review and adapt the limits for each expire output based on your configuration and expire processing.

Overall the code related to expire processing is much cleaner and some bugs in corner-cases were removed.

Style Tester

The newly added tool osm2pgsql-test-style allows you to test your Lua style file using a BDD-style testing language. osm2pgsql has tested its own styles and functionality with such BDD tests for a long time. We’ve cleaned up the code of the framework behind these tests and moved it into its own stand-alone file, so it can now be used externally.

New Id Cache Function

It is sometimes useful to process tagged nodes together with the ways they are on. Examples are barrier tags on highways (such as a lift gate) or a ford in a river. On some maps, the size and orientation of the “lift gate” or the “ford” symbol depends on the type and geometry of the way it is on.

Doing the processing for this is possible in PostGIS, but not easy and not cheap. So we added some functionality to osm2pgsql to help with this: When processing nodes, you instruct osm2pgsql in the Lua config file to store the Ids of some nodes (for instance with the “ford=yes” tag) in the “Id cache”. Later, when processing the ways this information can be retrieved and used to store the node together with the way geometry or do other processing.

Thanks to @dch0ph for bringing up this issue and testing the implementation.

Geometry Processing

We are adding more and more functionality around geometries to osm2pgsql accessible from the Lua config file. It is more convenient and often much faster to do this processing while the data is being imported instead of inside the database later on.

• Function :as_point(n) can now be used to create a point geometry from an OSM way object. The parameter n is the 1-based index of the member nodes.
• The spherical_area() function was changed to use the spheroid instead of a sphere, it now returns the same value as ST_Sphere(geography, use_spheroid = true).
• A spherical_length() function was added.
• Geometries can now be checked for equality in Lua using the == operator.
• New n_points() function to get the number of points in any geometry.

The Rest…

There are lots of smaller fixes, cleanups, improvements and other changes:

• Tile-based generalizer strategies now support an option max_tiles_per_run to limit the number of tiles processed per run to spread the update load over a longer time.
• More PostgreSQL data types are supported: double precision, and timestamp (with or without time zone). Thanks to @amandasaurus for the double precision PR.
• Some command line option values/combinations that have so far only shown warnings, will now stop osm2pgsql with an error.
• The minimum PostgreSQL version supported is 12.
• Fix: osm2pgsql-expire is now installed on make install.
• Fix: Handle case where raster-union generalizer is used without group-by.

11 days ago

As I had mentioned in my last post where I explain what they are, I had long planned to make a video about mapping historic lifting stones. It took a while to get to sites and some footage etc and to figure out how to map them best, at least in my opinion, but the video is now online on Youtube. I’ve added subtitles in English, German, Irish, Basque, Finnish, Icelandic and Welsh, because these are to my knowledge the countries where the tradition is still upheld or has been revived. For everything but German, I used the auto-translate function, but YouTube tends to not know the correct word for “lifting stone” in the respective languages, so if anyone can correct me on the subtitles, I’d be grateful. For the same reason, I did not translate the title of the videos into most of these languages, and also because I didn’t want to give the impression that it was completely available in these languages. It is possible now, I think, to have the audio generated in other languages, but that is too creepy to me. As curious as I am to hear myself speak fluent Welsh, I’ll give it a pass.

I’m hoping to do another shorter video about mapping them using OSMAnd, but I need to get to a site of an unmapped stone first which is easier said than done, considering I don’t drive and there are not that many unmapped ones near me. The sites in the current video were accessible by public transport, walking and cycling, so it’s a very sustainable video in its production.

I’ve also done a bit more work on the English wiki page for historic=lifting_stone, translated it into German and written a wiki page for leisure=lifting_stone. The latter is for the newly placed stones and the historic ones that are being lifted again.

I would appreciate if people capable of the above languages could translate the wiki pages into those languages to get a wider coverage of them being mapped.

10 days ago

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) Board of Directors is excited to share this blog post with all of our community members. From June 6th-7th, members of the Board of Directors Craig Allan (Chair), Dani Waltersdorfer Jimenez (Secretary), Roland Olbricht (Treasurer), Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Laura Mugeha, Maurizio Napolitano, and facilitator Allen Gunn (also known as Gunner), met for two full working days in Madrid to discuss and tackle priorities and action items that need to be accomplished in the next 12 months. Amongst the discussed topics are a fundraising campaign, the “reviving” of the Communications Working Group (CWG), a new job posting which will be shared in the next coming months, the OSMF move to the European Union (EU), the launch of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy, and other topics. It is truly a pleasure to work with a team that is aligned on shared values including trust and respect, who are pushing for the success of a shared passion: the OpenStreetMap project. It must be noted however, that all of this could not have been possible without the leadership, patience, and tremendous organizational skills of Gunner who has been the OSMF facilitator for over 10 years. Thank you, Gunner!

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What made this meeting particularly special is that we had the honor and pleasure of working from the TomTom offices in Madrid. We want to truly highlight our gratitude for TomTom for sharing their space with us, and most of all, we want to give a big shout-out to Priscilla Zachée for spending her weekend with us.

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Face-to-face meetings are unlike others. For those who don’t know, us Board Members live in different countries all over the globe, so having the opportunity to work together, “ideate”, brainstorm, discuss tough topics, and enjoy our time together is quite treasured and important for us. And on the front of the importance of human connection, we promise to keep pushing forward the key that makes OpenStreetMap truly unique, unlike any other geospatial database out there: Our essence is our community.

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We’d like to extend a thank you to all members of the community for your continued trust and passion for the OSM Project. We are always here for you should you have any questions or comments.

– The Board

21 hours ago

– Read in English

IVIDES DATA® realiza a terceira sessão do Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026, tratando de plugins para QGIS. Casos aplicados sobre acessibilidade, arborização urbana e localização de edificações em áreas de risco foram apresentados

 

♦ Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto conduzindo a sessão 3 do Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026. Os arquivos utilizados na oficina 3 podem ser encontrados na descrição do vídeo. Link

 

A empresa IVIDES DATA® realizou com sucesso o terceiro treinamento ao vivo do Ciclo de Oficinas OpenStreetMap 2026, em 12 de junho, quando foram apresentados:

 

* Consulta e download dos dados em OSM.org * Acesso a geosserviços para carregamento do OSM como base layer (camada base) - plugin NextGIS QuickMapServices * Download dos dados no QGIS (versão 3.22 ou superior) – plugins QuickOSM e OSM Downloader * Demonstração de casos aplicados - acessibilidade, arborização urbana, edificações localizadas em encostas

 

♦ Tela de captura do QGIS com dados extraídos com plugin QuickOSM sobre os escritórios governamentais (pontos azuis) em Paris e arredores, mostrando aqueles que possuem acesso a cadeirantes (pontos amarelos) | Dados do mapa (c) 2026 Contribuidores do OpenStreetMap.

 

♦ Tela de captura do QGIS com dados extraídos com plugin QuickOSM sobre localização de árvores em Paris, mostrando a sua concentração em vias principais | Dados do mapa (c) 2026 Contribuidores do OpenStreetMap.

 

No Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026, são oferecidos certificados avulsos (4h/sessão) ou um certificado completo (20h/ cinco sessões). O treinamento é livre e para todos os níveis de mapeadores.

 

Para participar das demais sessões, realizar a inscrição via formulário abaixo, para receber o link por e-mail (basta se inscrever uma vez):

 

framaforms.org/oficinas-openstreetmap-2026-ivides-data-r-1777150442

 

Agradecemos a participação de todos!

 

O Ciclo de Oficinas OSM 2026 é promovido pela empresa IVIDES DATA®, em parceria com o Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp (São Paulo, Brasil).

 

Links e créditos do texto: QGIS

qgis.org/

NextGIS QuickMapServices

plugins.qgis.org/plugins/quick_map_services/

QuickOSM (autor: Etienne Trimaille)

plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/

OSM Downloader (autor: Luiz Andrade)

plugins.qgis.org/plugins/OSMDownloader/

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Nota importante: IVIDES.org® e IVIDES DATA® são marcas registradas. OpenStreetMap® é uma marca registrada.

Para contato: ivides [at] ivides.org ivides.org a day ago

Mapping Sitka is pretty much my identity. I was upset when someone reverted my work because honestly I’ve been working every waking hour for a few months now. It was good though because I needed to step back and not take it too seriously. I’ve had some manic episodes late in life and they unlocked some anger I’m not familiar with. It was actually impressive how mad I got. Anyway, what are these diaries for if not a super personal post? Stay mappy people

a day ago

Editora IVIDES has published the Swahili translation of the FPOSM booklet on the ODbL license

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Download SW VERSION

 

The original work Tout savoir sur la license ODbL : la licence d’OpenStreetMap pour cartographier en commun was written in French in 2024 and updated in 2026 by the Fédération des Pros d’OSM, a French organization that brings together various companies and professionals working with open data, OpenStreetMap, and related software. The authors of the original booklet are: François Lacombe (Datactivist), Florian Lainez (Jungle Bus), Antoine Riche (Carto’Cité) and Christophe Biez (Latitude-Cartagène Cartographies).

The translation to Swahili was done by Hemed Lungo and Tatu Sultan Lungo, from Tanzania, and the booklet was edited by Raquel Dezidério Souto (Editora IVIDES).

The work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 France (CC BY-SA 2.0 FR). Text of the license

 

 

Download EN VERSION

 

Download VERSÃO PT

 

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Important note: OpenStreetMap® is registered trademark.

 

To keep contact: ivides [at] ivides.org ivides.org 3 days ago

I’ve been reflecting on the balance between mapping for ‘volume’ and mapping for ‘precision.’ While I understand the value of quick, large-area edits for global visibility, I find it a bit puzzling when polygons are generalized to the point of overlapping everything in sight—especially when high-resolution imagery is available.

I’ve noticed a trend where edit counts are sometimes treated as the ultimate metric of a mapper’s worth. I reckon we should be careful not to let the pursuit of ‘top contributor’ stats overshadow the primary goal of creating a detailed, accurate map for everyone. For me, a well-traced building or a correctly aligned path is worth far more than a high edit count achieved through imprecise mass-mapping. I’m always keen to learn the best practices, so if there’s a standard way to maintain precision while contributing efficiently, I’m all ears. Cheers.

4 days ago

Mapadour, le groupe des contributeur⋅rices OpenStreetMap du Pays Basque et Sud Landes, a été particulièrement actif ces derniers mois.

♦Sa dernière réunion le 11 juin 2026 à Ustaritz est l’occasion de faire le point sur les dynamiques et les projets auxquels participe le groupe.

Ses membres interviennent localement mais aussi bien au-delà, en Nouvelle-Aquitaine jusqu’aux confins de la Finlande en passant par Paris et l’Italie sur toutes sortes de problématiques.

Panoramax

Les contributeur⋅rices locaux ont été très actifs puisqu’avec la Gopro d’OSM France et les autres matériels personnels pour alimenter la connaissance du territoire avec 228 003 photos et 2 747,66 km parcourus entre juin 2025 et mai 2026.

Ils ont également expérimenté plusieurs nouvelles fonctionnalités :

• La reconnaissance d’objets dans les photos est possible via un système de tags qui peut être automatique ou manuels comme à Bayonne où dans une même photo on peut identifier un escalier et un panneau d’interdiction.
• Cartographie indoor : la visionneuse Panoramax permet un affichage pratique des photos prises dans les espaces multi-niveaux, par exemple les musées, universités, bibliothèques et autres bâtiments publics, etc. LaNum a mis en pratique cette possibilité pour produire une visite virtuelle du Pavillon Izarbel à Bidart.

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Mobilisation de la communauté par des acteurs territoriaux

Tourisme, développement rural, santé, plusieurs organisations mobilisent les données OSM dans leurs projets et s’appuient sur la communauté Mapadour.

Systour

Depuis le début 2026, Mapadour s’implique activement dans ce projet européen visant à tester la contribution à OSM comme une bonne pratique du tourisme durable. La région Nouvelle-Aquitaine est impliquée au travers de l’APESA et la zone géographique Sud Landes/Pays Basque a été identifiée comme dynamique sur le sujet de la cartographie collaborative. 3 mapathons (valorisation des produits locaux) et 1 cartopartie (déplacements durables) ont été organisés avec l’appui du groupe qui a pu également partager son savoir faire non seulement avec l’APESA mais aussi avec les partenaires italiens et finlandais. ♦

Projet Life – Pyrénées4Clima

Suite à SYSTOUR et à l’intérêt des participants, un autre projet européen a engagé des actions autour d’OSM : Pyrénées4Clima (projet transfrontalier dont les vallées Béarnaises et l’Aragon). Le 24 juin prochain, le projet souhaite recenser les solutions de mobilité durable en Vallée d’Ossau et découvrir la cartographie collaborative comme outil de coopération territoriale.

CTPS Boost’Up Santé

Cette organisation œuvre au quotidien pour améliorer l’accès aux soins, renforcer la coordination entre professionnels et développer des actions de prévention adaptées aux besoins du territoire Bayonne, Boucau et Seignanx. Sa coordinatrice a sollicité Mapadour pour comprendre comment actualiser les données des cabinets médicaux dans OpenStreetMap afin de les réutiliser pour ses membres.

Contributions via l’open data

Le groupe Mapadour a réalisé des démonstrations et des bonnes pratiques de contribution à OSM à partir des données proposées en open data par la ville de Bayonne grâce à des outils plus avancés comme JOSM.

Ainsi, l’ensemble des arbres des jardins publics René Cassin et Léon Bonnat de Bayonne ont pu être cartographiés grâce aux données en open data mises à disposition par la ville : l’inventaire continu des arbres depuis 1997 et bientôt une nouvelle orthophoto prise en juin 2025.

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Cet exemple peut inspirer les communes qui souhaitent valoriser les ilots de fraicheurs auprès des citoyens via la cartographie participative comme le suggère l’ADEME et la commune de Toulouse qui l’a expérimenté.

Participation aux événements communautaires

L’Assemblée Générale d’OpenStreetMap France s’est tenue le 6 juin 2026 et comme tous les groupes locaux français, Mapadour a transmis un compte rendu de ses activités pour le rapport de l’association. L’occasion de se rendre compte de son dynamisme et des services communautaires essentiels qu’elle maintient.

Enfin, la communauté Mapadour appelle à se rendre au State Of The Map organisé à Paris du 28 au 30 août 2026. C’est la première fois que la France accueillera cet événement où toute la communauté OSM mondiale se retrouvera autour de conférences et workshop.

L’importance des groupes locaux

Aujourd’hui, 16 groupes locaux en France permettent au millier de contributeur⋅ices isolé⋅es derrière leurs écrans de se retrouver, d’échanger et d’interagir avec leur territoire de proximité mais aussi d’autres régions françaises voire européennes.

Ces communautés sont très précieuses car elles motivent à l’amélioration continue de la carte OpenStreetMap en lien avec les besoins concrets des territoires.

C’est pourquoi, plus que jamais, LaNum Pays Basque s’implique dans la vie du groupe Mapadour et invite à le rejoindre. Chaque participant⋅e, selon ses contraintes, est libre d’être présent⋅e à toutes les réunions, d’arriver après l’heure de début convenue, ou de partir avant celle de fin.

Contacter Mapadour

Le groupe local dispose de plusieurs moyens de communication :

• E-mail : mapadour@openstreetmap.fr
• Liste de discussions : local-sudouest@listes.openstreetmap.fr (vous êtes encouragé⋅e⋅s à vous abonner)
• Forum OpenStreetMap France : avec une sous-catégorie et un tag mapadour
• Le Wiki du groupe
• L’Agenda du Libre et OSM Calendar pour les annonces principales

5 days ago

State of the Map US 2026 Presented by OpenStreetMap US was this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. As any good breakfast lover, I tried to seek out the best breakfast food in the area of Capitol Square. Here’s my thoughts:

Friday: Wonderstate Coffee (on OSM)

This is a very modern looking coffee shop (think crisp whites and light woods - if Apple had a coffee shop) with a great seating area outside overlooking the Capitol Square and is in a very nice spot to be shaded in the morning to enjoy your coffee or small food item. Only downside to sitting outside is you are very close to the road - but that’s to be expected in a downtown area.

I ordered a plain bagel and cream cheese, and an iced coffee with cream and sugar. Typically where I am this means drip coffee poured over ice, but the barista recommended an Americano… when in Rome I suppose. The coffee was delicious, and the bagel came out with more cream cheese than I think I have ever seen on a bagel (not complaining! Just surprising!)

Cost: $9.23 Rating: 7/10

Saturday: Marigold Kitchen (on OSM)

Such a cute spot! I was searching this day for a good omelette and this place seemed highly recommended. The feel was much more artsy coffeehouse vibe, plenty of lighting and a small outdoor seating area, but I ate inside. I was greeted and handed a menu at the door, ordered at the counter, and was recommended the pancakes as well as the omelette if I was hungry enough. Very friendly staff throughout even during what was clearly an elevated breakfast rush with the farmers market getting started just outside!

I ordered a bacon and cheese omelette with red potatoes and greens, a short stack of pancakes, and again I was offered an Americano (this time leaving room for creamer, which was appreciated! No Sweet n’ Low, had to use regular sugar) The omelette was delicious if a bit deconstructed, the potatoes were well done in slices rather than the chunks you may be picturing for breakfast potatoes, and the greens were OK, but nothing to write home about. The unexpected standout winner of this place was the buttermilk pancakes, if I had known what I know now I would have completely changed my plan from omelette to a full stack from the start. Probably the best pancake I have had in my life. It is sweet, on account of the powdered sugar, strawberry, and syrup but absolutely worth a special trip.

On exit, there was a line forming outside, so this place is popular with more than just me! A bit on the expensive side, but I did essentially get 2 meal items and a coffee.

Cost: $31.65 Rating: 8/10

Sunday: Gotham Bagels (on OSM)

This place was recommended by Madison locals on my first day, but I made the trek over on my last day in Madison. There was a beautiful dog patiently waiting for it’s human outside, which I feel added to the charm of the place. Another spot I could tell is used to being busy, this space is (as you can probably guess) is themed as Gotham city/NYC with the typical NY bagel shop aesthetic and feel. Long tables, bar stools, and you can order ahead, use a tablet, or order at the counter.

I ordered a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese bagel which came with cheddar by default. I was given a number and waited to be called. They were in the low 60’s when I sat down, and I was 81, to give you an idea of volume. The wait was the only thing I can really comment on that could be improved but honestly they were hustling in there! I ate the bagel on my way back to the hotel to grab my bags, and let me tell you that sandwich was absolutely fantastic! Unwrapping the really well wrapped sandwich felt like Christmas morning. the eggs and bacon were well seasoned, cheese melty and you can tell hasn’t been just sitting out for awhile. The bagel was soft and chewy on the inside with a wonderful crust. I probably could’ve eaten 2 if I knew ahead of time but didn’t want to go through the wait again. Delicious all-around and perfect for breakfast on-the-go.

Cost: $9.75 Rating: 9/10

6 days ago

Hallo zusammen, nach meiner Ansicht wäre es sinnvoll ein Symbol für einen AED zu erstellen. Dann könnte man auch die Standorte von diesen Geräten in den Karten einpflegen. Die Abkürzung AED steht für Automatisierter Externer Defibrillator (oft auch als „Laien-Defi“ oder „Herzstarter“ bezeichnet). Es handelt sich um ein kleines, tragbares medizinisches Gerät, das bei einem plötzlichen Herzstillstand durch gezielte Stromstöße lebensgefährliche Herzrhythmusstörungen beenden kann. Diese Geräte sind wichtig für Ersthelfer die bereits eine Reanimation durchführen bevor der Rettungsdienst eintrifft. Ein Symbol wäre zum Beispiel wie in meinem Link vorgeschlagen eine gute Idee. shop.murer-feuerschutz.de/images/thumbs/0028576_241717.jpeg Ich würde mich freuen, wenn man dies umsetzen könnte. Mit freundlichen Grüßen D. Weinig

7 days ago

Chaque numéro d’adresse = addr:place

8 days ago

Please help me raise funds to purchase the missing sheets from the complete historical 1:50,000 topographic map series of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia.

gofund.me/f12d5f3d2

Donate and more information at www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-historical-zimbabwe-topographic-maps

Previous donation drives:

• Namibia (South West Africa) - 2008 - namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/
• Eswatini (Swaziland): - 2015 - eswatini-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/

In the unlikely event that any funds remain after purchasing the Zimbabwe map sheets, they will be used to buy missing sheets from the Lesotho or Malawi 1:50,000 topographic map series, which are planned as future projects.

9 days ago

If you use the amazing better-osm-org browser extension/userscript to review changesets, you are probably familiar with its default red, green, and yellow diff highlighting.

While the default colors are great, sometimes you want a custom color scheme that feels more comfortable for your eyes during long validation sessions. For instance, changing the added tags to a cool cyan, keeping deleted tags red, and making modified tags a soft cream/yellow.

Since the script dynamically manages light/dark themes, the easiest way to override these colors globally without messing up the extension’s code is by using custom CSS via the Stylus extension.

How to Apply It:

1. Install the Stylus extension (Chrome/Firefox/Edge).
2. Go to openstreetmap.org.
3. Click the Stylus extension icon and select ”(+) Write style for: openstreetmap.org”.
4. Paste the CSS code below into the editor, give it a name (e.g., Better OSM Custom Colors), and hit Save.

The CSS Code:

/* 1. MODIFIED TAGS -> SOFT CREAM / YELLOW */
    tr.quick-look-modified-tag th,
    tr.quick-look-modified-tag td {
        background: rgba(255, 235, 150, 0.7) !important;
        color: #000000 !important;
    }

/* 2. DELETED TAGS -> RED */
    tr.quick-look-deleted-tag th,
    tr.quick-look-deleted-tag td {
        background: rgba(238, 51, 9, 0.6) !important;
        color: #000000 !important;
    }

/* 3. NEW TAGS -> CYAN */
    tr.quick-look-new-tag th,
    tr.quick-look-new-tag td,
    tr.quick-look-added-tag th,
    tr.quick-look-added-tag td {
        background: rgba(0, 200, 220, 0.6) !important;
        color: #000000 !important;
    }

10 days ago

En menos de un mes, en Colombia vamos a organizar el primer State of the Map. Este evento conmemora muchas cosas: primero, que la comunidad OSM Colombia es capaz de hacer un evento de marca internacional; segundo, que tenemos una entidad formalmente organizada para representar la comunidad la cual es la Asociación de Cartografía Colaborativa de Colombia - AC3; tercero, que dicha Asociación es oficialmente un capítulo de la fundación OpenStreetMap mundial, para representar a OSM en Colombia.

Como parte de la organización que estamos haciendo, queremos invitar a muchas personas que estén interesadas en el mapa para que nos reunamos por motivo de este evento, ya que no son solo charlas de OSM, sino también es unir a la comunidad, compartir, conocerlos. Entre las cosas que queremos, es proponer un punto de encuentro para todos esos mapeadores de OSM, y no solo los usuarios actuales sino que también queremos invitar a esos usuarios que contribuyeron mucho en el pasado, y que de pronto ya no están tan interesados en el proyecto, pero de pronto, al ver a la comunidad unida, se vuelven a interesar.

Para esto no encontré una utilidad en Internet disponible. Como ya lo mencioné entre líneas, la de Neis Pascal es solo para los usuarios que han contribuido en los últimos 60 días, pero queríamos tener la lista de los usuarios que han apoyado al mapa de Colombia desde su origen. Entonces, por medio del IDE Cursor y con un par de buenos prompts de AI, me generó este proyecto: github.com/angoca/topOSMcontributors.

Después de descargar el archivo de GeoFrabrik que es con el que se puede hacer la magia, se procesaron todo el histórico de Colombia y pude obtener los 500 usuarios que más han contribuido en Colombia.

Lo interesante, es que como parte de las contribuciones, obtuve unas estadísticas muy buenas de la gente que contribuimos en OSM en Colombia. Y aprovecho para felicitar a Juan Melo, quien lleva 5 años en el proyecto, y es el que más ha contribuido en todo* aspecto.

A continuación los listados por categoría, en orden ascendente.

Más de 400K versions:

• harriercoold
• humano
• carfog81
• Facalderonm
• Manchito
• Leonardo Gutierrez
• Joël Koeckhoven
• Federico Explorador
• JLOSM
• JuanMelo

Más de 4K changesets:

• JLOSM
• H_S
• Joël Koeckhoven
• Facalderonm
• carfog81
• AM2023
• Federico Explorador
• AngocA
• JuanMelo
• German C

Más de 400K nodes:

• harriercoold
• Facalderonm
• humano
• carfog81
• Leonardo Gutierrez
• Manchito
• Joël Koeckhoven
• JLOSM
• Federico Explorador
• JuanMelo

Más de 50K ways:

• carfog81
• surrendo
• unmaperomas
• Federico Explorador
• Penelope86
• TeBaMa
• Leonardo Gutierrez
• Facalderonm
• JLOSM
• JuanMelo

Más de 1K relations:

• Leonardo Gutierrez
• carciofo
• Barto920203
• AngocA
• woodpeck_repair
• JLOSM
• carfog81
• Facalderonm
• humano
• JuanMelo

*) Como pueden ver, solo en una categoría Juan Melo no queda en primera posición, en la de cantidad de changeset. De resto, se puede observar como Juan es una persona muy valiosa para la comunidad de Colombia y de Latam.

Así es la salida del programa:

rank user_id username versions changesets nodes ways relations first_edit last_edit 1 12906384 JuanMelo 6054274 43434 5226131 811830 16313 2021-03-23 19:16:13 2026-05-31 17:03:31 2 4494325 JLOSM 5436744 7777 5084701 343454 8589 2016-08-29 03:23:25 2026-05-31 02:30:31 3 293454 Federico Explorador 5244934 10942 5087027 154629 3278 2010-05-27 16:26:41 2025-10-15 18:49:11 4 91958 Joël Koeckhoven 1590943 7948 1530153 60270 520 2014-12-27 20:48:06 2021-11-30 06:40:03 5 77400 Leonardo Gutierrez 1332867 3390 1124307 204965 3595 2008-12-15 01:58:13 2026-01-19 02:11:30 11 days ago