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crossing=traffic_signals

After i added Wuppertal to my Route QA i found tons of interesting stuff which basically made routing worse than it needed to be.

The common issue is a pure pedestrian crossing tagged as

highway=traffic_signals
crossing=traffic_signals

This is something completely different than:

highway=crossing
crossing=traffic_signals

The first has a repeating and thus statistically significant penalty which is being taken into account. The latter is a traffic_signal which is only requested on button press, so has no repeating penalty.

In tagging all pedestrian crossing with highway=traffic_signals you slow traffic on the specific roads. Now - where are those pedestrian crossings? On the main roads. So you slow down the main roads and push traffic to the living_streets around. I fixed halve a ton but still a lot left.

Another interesting thing was this:

www.openstreetmap.org/node/13104642234

description=Baustellen-Ampel
highway traffic=signals
traffic_signals=signal
traffic_signals:conditional=yes @ (2025 Aug 27-2026 Mar 31)
traffic_signals:direction=forward

It was a construction traffic_lights which somebody tagged and hoped that a conditional would somehow make it go away magically. It didnt. It gave a penalty until today when i deleted it.

You cant expect conditionals to work everywhere because you tag it. Conditionals work only in some rare and very tight use cases as with maxspeed.

2 days ago

Mapping

Over the past year, our OpenStreetMap Pakistan community has been actively working to map high-risk flood zones across the country—both areas historically affected by extreme flooding and regions facing critical vulnerability during upcoming monsoon seasons.

Shifting from Reactive Response to Proactive Preparedness

During last year’s monsoon floods, our mapping response began after the disaster had already struck. While those post-disaster edits were vital for ongoing emergency response, we recognised the need to get ahead of the curve.

This year, we shifted our strategy completely: we initiated pre-disaster mapping well before the monsoon season arrived.

By leveraging flood projections and high-risk zone data from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and prominent emergency monitoring sources, we identified priority regions across Pakistan. We began our efforts by focusing heavily on areas categorised as the highest risk of severe flooding, ensuring that digital infrastructure is in place before rising waters cut off communities.

Community Coordination & HOT Tasking Manager

Together with two fellow community members, I took charge of creating, organizing, and managing dedicated projects on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Tasking Manager.

To drive contributions and sustain momentum, we have been organising community mapping parties and mapathons. Local mappers and volunteers across Pakistan came together to trace the following:

*Missing road networks and bridge connections

*Remote village footprints and building clusters

*Key natural landmarks and waterways

These precise layers are already empowering ground rescue teams, military logistics, and international aid agencies to plan evacuation routes, calculate population exposure, and navigate flood-affected corridors.

Global Recognition

Our community’s proactive mapping drive was recently highlighted in a feature article by the UK newspaper Oxford Herald:

📰 Read the full feature: [Mapping for Rescue: How Volunteer Maps Are Saving Lives in Pakistan’s Flood Zones] (oxfordherald.co.uk/mapping-for-rescue-how-volunteer-maps-are-saving-lives-in-pakistans-flood-zones)

Looking Ahead: The Work Continues

Because the monsoon season in Pakistan typically extends through the end of August, our work is far from finished. We are currently actively editing, validating, and managing existing tasks while preparing to launch new projects on the Tasking Manager as updated satellite imagery and risk models become available.

A massive thank you to all team members at Kaart & the mappers, validators, and community members who have dedicated their time to this effort!

If you would like to contribute or help validate ongoing tasks, keep an eye on our project listings on the HOT Tasking Manager or reach out directly to the OSM Pakistan community

3 days ago

I’m on my mobile phone, and l find it the most useful tool. If l must work on OSM from the laptop, l’d have to do it offline. For that, l’d have to download the josm offline map, after locating the coordinates.

05/08/’26 01:18

3 days ago

On a silver post on the NE corner of Hwy 64 and 285

4 days ago

August comes with two alarms on the calendar. On August 12, a total solar eclipse sweeps from the Arctic across Greenland and Iceland, reaching northern Spain and the Balearic Islands just before sunset — the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Europe since 1999. Sixteen days later, on August 28, a deep partial lunar eclipse covers 96% of the Moon's surface, making it nearly indistinguishable from a total eclipse for anyone watching from the Americas.

Two rare events in the same month. And both of them unusual in their own way. The solar eclipse arcs up and over the North Pole, which means its path runs north-to-south rather than the typical west-to-east sweep. In Spain, the Sun will sit only a few degrees above the horizon during totality — turning the eclipse into something closer to a golden-hour phenomenon than a midday event. The lunar eclipse, meanwhile, stops just short of totality: at its peak, a narrow bright sliver of the Moon remains uncovered, leaving the rest darkened and faintly reddish.

OsmAnd Astronomy now includes (Android only, currently available in OsmAnd 5.4 beta via Google Play or as a nightly build) dedicated explorers for both events. You can move through the timeline, check visibility for any location on the planet, and see exactly how each eclipse develops — before either of them actually happens.

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Animation: A.T. Sinclair / NASA — Public Domain

Solar Eclipse Explorer​

Open the Star Map and tap Search. Among the standard categories — Solar system, Constellations, Stars — you'll now see two new entries: Solar eclipse and Lunar eclipse. Tap Solar eclipse to open the explorer.

The screen switches to a dark view centred on the Sun, with the Moon's disc moving across it. Below, a card shows the current eclipse: its type, the percentage of the Sun obscured, the Sun's altitude at the selected location, and the exact start, maximum, and end times. A timeline slider lets you move through the event minute by minute and watch how the geometry changes.

Tap Show map to open the flat map below the card. The eclipse shadow appears as a path across the planet — a narrow band of totality with the penumbra spreading outward on both sides. Use Fit eclipse path to zoom to the full shadow on the map, or drag the map to any location to recalculate visibility for that point. The card updates instantly: move to Iceland and it shows totality, move to London and it switches to partial with a different obscuration value.

To switch between eclipses, use the arrows on either side of the eclipse title — Previous and Next — to jump to other solar eclipses and explore their paths across different parts of the world.

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Lunar Eclipse Explorer​

Tap Lunar eclipse in Search to open the second explorer. The interface works the same way — timeline, location-based card, map layer — but the event itself looks different.

Instead of a shadow crossing the planet, you're watching the Moon move through Earth's own shadow. The explorer renders both zones: the faint outer penumbra and the darker umbra at the centre. Three eclipse types are supported — penumbral, partial, and total — and the timeline marks the contact points P1 through P4, showing exactly when the Moon crosses each boundary.

What's unique here is the visibility layer. Unlike a solar eclipse, which is visible only along a narrow path, a lunar eclipse is visible from the entire night side of Earth at once. Tap Show map and the tinted region shows everywhere the Moon is above the horizon during the event — often half the planet. Drag the map or move the slider to see how that region shifts as the night progresses.

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Plan Your Eclipse Observation​

In 1504, Christopher Columbus, stranded in Jamaica and facing starvation, consulted an almanac and discovered a total lunar eclipse was coming. He used that knowledge to convince the local people that his god was angry — and when the Moon darkened on schedule, it saved his crew. He had no telescope, no app, and no map. Just a book of predictions and the right timing.

The tools look different now. Before any eclipse, open OsmAnd Astronomy, tap Solar eclipse or Lunar eclipse in Search, and check exactly what you'll see from your location. Move the map, and the card updates instantly — partial or total, obscuration percentage, Sun or Moon altitude, start and end times. Everything Columbus had to calculate by hand, resolved in a single tap.

Use the arrows on the eclipse card to move forward in time — past August, past this year, to any upcoming event. Some eclipses are total, some barely graze the penumbra, some are only visible from the middle of the Pacific. The explorer shows all of them, with the same level of detail for each. If you're planning a trip somewhere and want to know whether an eclipse lines up with your itinerary — or whether you should adjust the itinerary to line up with the eclipse — this is where you find out. Sometimes the sky makes the decision for you.

Don't Have the Astronomy Plugin Yet?​

The sky has two rare events planned for August. As it turns out, so does OsmAnd.

The Astronomy plugin — which includes everything covered in this article — is available with Maps+ and OsmAnd Pro. Until August 5, both are part of the Summer Sale. If you've been on the fence, the timing is hard to ignore. See what's on offer!

5 days ago

23/07/2026-29/07/2026

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[1] ‘OSM Skeleton’ reduces the heterogeneity of OpenStreetMap data | Les Libres Géographes | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Mapping

• [1] Les Libres Géographes has shared a methodology called OSM Skeleton, which aims to reduce the heterogeneity of OpenStreetMap data to create a coherent and locally maintainable common dataset of geographic references. The approach systematically identifies, on a national scale, missing, incomplete, inaccurate, or obsolete features among those considered fundamental: place nodes, road network, and residential areas. It uses a hybrid feature called ‘urban areas’ for analytical purposes. In particular, it generates WMS layers of alerts, instruction pages for easily correcting them in JOSM or iD, tracking statistics, and also a score for the density of POIs in towns. Séverin Ménard will present it at the upcoming SotM in Paris.

Community

• ASRvwde shared ♦ a collection of various mapping tools that support OSM mapping activities.
• Calvin Amevienku, YouthMappers Regional Ambassador to Ghana, has coordinated his first end-of-year mapathon under his working plan for 2026. The initiative organised training for 25 YouthMappers on how to use JOSM and the HOT Tasking Manager. The activity was sponsored by the IVIDES DATA, from Brazil, and the organisers hope the next steps will help improve the mapping skills of the YouthMappers chapter at the University of Education – Winneba.
• Nile_thebest explained that his passion for mapping on OpenStreetMap has never really faded since he first registered more than 11 months ago.
• Christoph Hormann has written a blog post responding to a OSM Community forum discussion about the OSMF’s AI and chatbot policy, under which moderators may delete AI-generated text or images and have been advised to use the Pangram detection tool. He argues the controversy stems from combining moderator authority with technocratic platform management, leaving forum participants without the tools or experience to manage their own social interactions. Drawing on Usenet-era killfiles, he suggests LLM use by human participants would be less contentious if users could individually filter content rather than have it collectively regulated. He concludes that the dispute reflects an unconsidered attempt to centrally control what people write and read, instead of giving them individual freedom to manage it themselves.
• Rphyrin pondered the ethics of conducting large-scale mapathon campaigns after learning that, in a certain neighbourhood, the locals deliberately preferred to make internal navigation difficult for outsiders to increase the security of the neighbourhood’s residents.

Local chapter news

• OpenStreetMap US’s July 2026 newsletter has been published.

Events

• OSM US tooted that the SOTMUS 2026 videos are available on its YouTube channel. There are almost 60 videos available in the playlist.

OSM research

• Robert Klar and David Gundlegård applied machine learning to predict zonal travel demand using OSM-derived built environment features, including land use, points of interest, and road network attributes, combined with population estimates from WorldPop, in two case study cities: Stockholm and Norrköping. Their research shows that OSM features, particularly those related to residential land use, buildings, and POIs (e.g. companies, healthcare facilities, and public transportation), are strong predictors of zonal travel demand.

Maps

• EclipseMap is an interactive map by Alessio Zanol that allows users to explore the visibility of the solar eclipse on 12 August across Europe. The map shows whether the solar eclipse will be total or partial at a selected location. The app uses OpenStreetMap-based vector tiles from OpenFreeMap as its base map.
• The Agroecology Map is an interactive web map based on OpenStreetMap, maintained by Marcelo S Souza and Eduardo F Formighieri, which showcases agroecological initiatives, as well as records of places and practices. It is intended to promote the sharing of open knowledge and strengthen collaborative networks across different regions. The source is available on Codeberg.
• The Flosm Power Grid is a web map showing the global infrastructure of electricity grids, from high to low voltage, with substations and power plants, all based on OSM data. The elements can be visualised individually via a fold-out selection bar to the left of the map. It is maintained by 123map GmbH & Co.KG and hosted at 123map.de. You can see the set of tags used by this project on taginfo.

OSM in action

• Equidistance.io has analysed OpenStreetMap data and declared The Greene Man on Euston Road to be London’s most equidistant pub. Based on public transport journeys from where residents of all 33 London boroughs actually live, no borough requires more than 70 minutes to reach the pub, with a travel time difference of just 47 minutes between the nearest and furthest boroughs.
• Following Czechia, #geoweirdness turned its attention to proposed national mergers, such as ‘Pan-Iberism’ between Spain and Portugal. Today, the idea has lost momentum since both countries are now part of the EU.
• Denjam used ♦ OpenStreetMap data to answer the question: ‘What proportion of beauty salons in a particular city allow customers to book online without having to ring first’?

Software

• The openstreetmap-website project celebrated 20 years since the first commit with some old screenshots of a very different era.
• Soon, when uploading a GPX trace to OSM, you will no longer be able to choose some of the visibility levels, as the website development team is working to simplify and improve the GPX trace management system.
• OSM2CDR is a web service that exports OpenStreetMap data for any drawn area or administrative boundary into 62+ formats aimed at non-GIS users, CorelDRAW CDR, AutoCAD DWG/DXF, SVG, STL for 3D printing, and dozens of other formats, keeping map layers editable and clipping exports to administrative boundaries. The catalogue offers about 2.9 million ready to use admin areas in 193 countries. There is also a blog with rich content. The ODbL attribution is embedded in every export.
• OWL Places can now work in reverse: adding OpenStreetMap links to Wikidata.

Programming

• Juno Computers have developed Car Navigation, a navigation app for Linux systems. It uses OpenStreetMap data and services for place search and route planning, including Photon, Nominatim, OSRM, and Valhalla.
• Andy Townsend has updated his diary entry describing how to set up an Overpass API server, covering data for Britain and Ireland only (we reported earlier). The guide is a response to the ongoing overload of public Overpass servers and uses an actively maintained forked version of the Overpass software. The guide walks you through server setup on Hetzner cloud hardware, Apache configuration, compilation, and loading data from a Geofabrik extract. The post also links to other installation guides, including Brian Sperlongano’s guide and an earlier diary entry by Kai Johnson.
• Milan Janosov shared an urban data science reading list, including a hands-on path from your first OpenStreetMap query to city-scale spatial models.

Releases

• Baba version 1.22.1 for Panoramax contributions from Android has been released.

Did you know that …

• … BeMaps.es? BeMaps is a web-based mapping tool that allows you to create and share maps in three steps: upload data, select a map template, and publish or share with specific recipients. This tool offers pre-prepared data layers for regions around the world. BeMaps was developed by the GEOT (Geography) and IAAA (Information Systems) research groups at the University of Zaragoza, in collaboration with the company Geoslab. As well as a free version, there are paid plans available for educational purposes, non-profit organisations, and standard use.
• … Milan Janosov posted, on Substack, a short guide ‘OpenStreetMap vs Global Building Atlas (GBA) Explained’? It includes Python scripts to extract buildings from OSM and the GBA, a new dataset from the Technical University of Munich covering 2.75 billion buildings worldwide, derived from satellite imagery and deep learning (we reported earlier).

Other “geo” things

• The Digital Encyclopedia of Africa compiles the civilisations, languages, myths, architecture, and living traditions of indigenous communities across the continent. The website has an interactive map and is full of city profiles which are based on open archives (UNESCO, museums, public libraries), alongside premium and scholarly sources for deeper research.
• Arte is showing the video ‘Contre-cartographie: What Google Maps Doesn’t Show You’. Two French artists feature in it: Larissa Fassler and Mathias Poisson. They explain the concept of counter-cartography. This approach challenges our usual relationship with space. It also questions how we normally represent the world. This brings to light issues that would otherwise go unnoticed. The video has subtitles in English, Spanish, Polish, and Italian.
• Werner Pluta, of Heise, reported that researchers from RWTH Aachen, ETH Zurich, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia triggered an artificial earthquake with a magnitude just below zero in the Alps as part of an experiment to improve future earthquake prediction.
• While Joël Lapointe, an amateur astronomer, was planning a camping vacation in 2024 he observed a strange 25 km depression near lake Marsal, north of Magpie in Quebec, that looked like a meteor crater in satellite imagery. Alerted geologists explored the site and confirmed the discovery of this previously unidentified 390-million-year-old Uhackatik meteor crater. The name was chosen in consultation with the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit.
• Jnally, of Spatial Source, reported that Andrii Rohovyi recently improved the routing algorithm of OpenTripPlanner. Rohovyi explained their improvement in a preprint, ‘Early Pruning for Public Transport Routing’, available on arXiv.

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5 days ago

Es gibt so Mapper die haben IMHO nichts, aber auch gar nichts in OpenStreetmap verloren. Auf die einfache Nachfragen warum Objekte gelöscht werden die in der Realität existieren und bei denen es Sinn macht das sie existieren wird erst behauptet das wäre nicht so. Nach links auf Mapillary Bildern kommt dann:

LOL, Flo - bei allem Respekt - du bist so ein unglaublicher Spast. Du schreibst ständig substanzlosen Quatsch. Mach was produktives und belästige nicht andere Mapper. Nebenbei bemerkt sind alle von dir verlinkten Bilder veraltet und zeigen den Zustand vor dem Umbau des Kreisverkehrs. Und jetzt zitiere ich mal den Komiker Dieter Nuhr: "Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, einfach mal Fresse halten." ♦

Nur leider sind die Verkehrsinseln auch nach dem Umbau da. Auch heute in der Abendsonne.

Mapillary Image ♦

Und natürlich wird auch nicht gespart an weiteren Beleidigungen

Bitte bearbeite keine Dinge in diesem Detail, von der du keine Ortskenntnis hast. Danke. ♦

Nur - ich war Nachweislich vor Ort. Und es gibt jede menge Fotos.

Ich weiss nicht ob es sinnvoll ist das Mapper sich von anderen als "Spast" betiteln lassen müssen, oder man solle "einfach mal Fresse halten".

IMHO sind das Umgangsformen die sich OSM nicht leisten sollte.

6 days ago

I am currently focusing my mapping work on the Taiping Heritage Zone. Most of the shoplot footprints and major buildings have been completed, and I am now working on detailed micromapping for schools, museums, and government buildings.

Please feel free to contribute by adding any missing information, such as shop or stall names, building levels, address numbers, or other relevant details that I may have missed.

Let’s work together to make Taiping one of the most complete and detailed small-town maps in Malaysia on OpenStreetMap.

6 days ago

この diary は アカウントロックされた経緯の説明 の関連記事です。

DWGが仕事をしていないようなので催促しました

Glassmanによる不当なアカウントロックと ‘int_name’の大量削除問題 を３月に「通報」したのですが、なんの進捗もないようなので催促のメッセージを送りました。 osm.org/user_blocks/19857

原文はこちらです（英語）
Re: 2026年08月 1日 04:27

日本のコミュニティ向けに日本語の翻訳を示します。

[Ticket#2026013110000088]www.openstreetmap.org/messages/1338706

DWG（Data Working Group）への声明（日本語訳）

DWGの皆様へ

まず、返信が遅れたことをお伝えいたします。
この遅延は意図的なものであり、int_name に関するコミュニティフォーラムでの議論が一定の段階に達し、適切な説明が可能になるまで待つ必要があったためです。
community.openstreetmap.org/t/key-int-name-must-be-deprecated/142316/49

この期間中、DWGからのコミュニケーションにおいて重大な誤解が存在することが明らかになりました。
DWGは、私 hayashi を別のマッパー「無限の刃」と繰り返し混同しています。
この誤認により、本来別の人物に向けられるべき指摘や警告が私に対して送られ、DWGのメッセージには一貫性がなく、対応不能な状態が続いていました。

私は hayashi です。
私は 無限の刃 ではありません。

int_name の削除を提案し、実際に削除を行ったのは 「無限の刃」氏であり、私ではありません。

1. 「あなたの主張」という誤った認識について

DWGは以前、次のように述べています。

> I'm not sure you have people convinced with your argument. > あなたの主張で人々を納得させられたかどうかは、定かではありません。

しかし、この評価は事実に反しています。

• int_name の廃止を主張したのは 「無限の刃」氏 です。
• int_name を大量削除したのも 「無限の刃」氏 です。
• 日本コミュニティからの警告を無視したのも 「無限の刃」氏 です。
• この行為を通報したのは 私 hayashi です。

私は int_name を削除していません。
私は int_name の廃止を主張していません。
私はただ、int_name を廃止する理由を質問しただけであり、その質問には一度も回答がありません。
参照： community.openstreetmap.org/t/key-int-name-must-be-deprecated/142316/38

さらにコミュニティフォーラムでは：

• 「無限の刃」氏の提案を支持する投稿は 一つもありません
• 私の意見を「一方的」と批判する投稿も 一つもありません
• 多くのマッパーが「無限の刃」氏の一方的な行動に懸念を示しています

DWGが「私の主張がコミュニティを説得できていない」と述べたのは、人物の取り違えによる誤認です。

2. 私への「コミュニティ参加の推奨」を繰り返すのはやめてください

DWGは繰り返し、私に「ローカルコミュニティに参加するように」と促しています。
これは不適切であり、直ちにやめるべきです。

私は長年、日本のOSMコミュニティに積極的に参加してきました：
osm.org/user/hayashi/diary/408467

日本コミュニティではすでに：

• name:en の用法が議論され
• Wikiに合意内容がまとめられ
• int_name の扱いについても共通理解が形成されています

DWGが私に「コミュニティのフィードバックを求めよ」と指示するのは、以下の事実を無視しています：

• コミュニティの合意はすでに存在する
• 私はその合意形成に参加している
• コミュニティ参加を拒否しているのは 「無限の刃」氏である

DWGの繰り返しの指示は、日本コミュニティの実態を把握していないことを示しています。

DWGは次のようにも述べています：

> What is the most active Japanese community discussion place? > 日本コミュニティの主要な議論場所はどこか？

これは、DWGがコミュニティの状況を確認せずに指示を出していることを明確に示しています。

私はDWGに対し、正確な情報を得るために OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan に問い合わせるよう繰り返し助言しています：

3. DWGは「無限の刃」氏にコミュニティ合意を遵守させるべきです

「無限の刃」氏は、複数のコミュニティメンバーからの参加要請を無視しています：

• community.openstreetmap.org/t/key-int-name-must-be-deprecated/142316/3
• community.openstreetmap.org/t/key-int-name-must-be-deprecated/142316/9
• community.openstreetmap.org/t/key-int-name-must-be-deprecated/142316/37
• community.openstreetmap.org/t/key-int-name-must-be-deprecated/142316/39
  および osm.org/changeset/179745083

彼の行動は：

• 日本コミュニティの合意と対立し
• コミュニティの承認なくWikiを書き換え
• コミュニティの合意なく int_name を大量削除する

という重大な問題を含んでいます。

日本コミュニティはこれらの行為を 不適切であると一致して認識しています。

DWGはこの問題に直接対処する必要があります。

4. 紛争解決の進捗について報告を求めます

「無限の刃」氏による int_name の大量削除について、私が通報してから相当な時間が経過しています。
進展があるのが当然であり、DWGの対応状況を日本コミュニティに報告する必要があります。

以下の点について、現状をお知らせください：

1. DWGは「無限の刃」氏に対し、int_name の削除を一方的に主張するのではなく、コミュニティ合意に従うよう指示しましたか？
2. DWGは「Glassman」氏に対し、int_name の削除を強制する前にコミュニティ合意を確認するよう指示しましたか？
3. DWGは「Glassman」氏に対し、通報者をブロックする前にコミュニティ合意を確認するよう指示しましたか？
4. 「Glassman」氏はOSMフォーラム内で hayashi に対するブロック理由を変更しています。
   このブロックの無効化または撤回手続きはどうなっていますか？
5. 「無限の刃」氏によって削除されたタグのリバート作業は、現在どの段階ですか？

5. DWGの責務について

DWGの役割は、特定のマッパーに int_name の解釈を強制することではありません。
DWGの役割は、紛争を調停し、公正な手続きを保証し、コミュニティ合意を尊重することです。

DWGがこの責務を果たすことを強く求めます。

======================= 以上です

7 days ago

Cette année encore, j’ai eu la chance d’aller en Mongolie. Grâce à neostumbler, je suis en mesure de montrer l’intégralité de mon voyage: ♦

Le premier jour, j’ai pris un forfait chez mobicom, afin d’avoir de la donnée durant tout le séjour et cela a fonctionné. J’ai pu donc prendre des traces avec StreetComplete et OSM tracker, J’ai pris plein de photos pour avoir des références quand je serai dans josm. J’ai bien joué à StreetComplete comme on peut le voir dans la capture d’écran suivante : ♦

Il me reste donc plein d’édition à faire sur jsom, mais aussi à mettre mon blog sur la Mongolie plus à jour avec le récit de ce voyage 2026. Pour les plus curieux d’entre vous j’ai mis en ligne quelques videos sur la plateforme peertube et des photos ici et là.

8 days ago

Androidアプリ「OSM郵便マップ」をリリースしました

OpenStreetMapのデータを利用した、日本郵便向けの地図アプリです。 登録されているPOIの可視化に加え、煩雑な収集時刻の入力を補助する画面など、編集向けの機能も搭載しています。

Wiki: osm.wiki/JA:OSM郵便マップ

GPS距離判定で現地入力を強いていますが、実装検証はエミュレータではなく現地に足を運んで試してました

これから

• ゆうゆう窓口の営業時間対応
• ゆうちょ銀行ATMの表示 辺りを実装しようと考えています

8月最初の月曜日

近隣を所管する田富郵便局の平日1便の収集ルートと時間が変わるようで、サーベイした1週間後には平日収集時刻が変わることが判明しています。巡回しなきゃ…。

9 days ago

在 2026 年 7 月初，Wikidata 台灣與 OpenStreetMap 台灣社群一同在嘉義高鐵站集合，架設好車頂相機，在目標區嘉義縣海線一帶鄉鎮的廟宇以及其聚落，也一邊開車一邊記錄沿途的街景。

從嘉義高鐵站旁的糖鐵車站出發，兵分多路前往嘉義縣沿海太保市、朴子市、東石鄉; 義竹鄉、布袋鎮與鹿草鄉，記錄當地欠缺的地圖圖資與照片。在車上奔馬記錄沿途街景，然後到了廟宇則下車記錄內外觀與攃拜主神。中午大家在湖口飯吃休息用中餐，而傍晚則在鹿草安溪中寮城隍廟集合，觀察廟會活動，為第一天的踏查畫下句點。

第二天的工作坊則是下午進行，在嘉義市區的活動場所台灣圖書室進行，介紹 OpenStreetMap、Wikidata 與維基導遊。

在台灣，維基與開放街圖常面臨上網人口少的地方，比較沒有人願意參與貢獻的窘境。藉由兩個社群活躍成員去台灣各地在地人低度參與的地方去記錄地方地圖圖資以及在地廟宇，補足缺少的資訊。而藉影像補捉工具的協助，如手機相機拍廟宇的外觀與內景，架在車上的 360 相機或相機記錄沿途街景，則讓我們的貢獻延伸至兩天的踏查與工作坊之後，繼續各自在電腦前面整理資料與繪製當地的地圖圖資。

在 OpenStreetMap 的發源地英國，常有一間接一間酒吧接力飲酒聊天談論社群的事情，也順便將沿途的商家記錄下來。在台灣的街景踏查團，則是一間一間的廟宇接連進行踏查，除了記錄，也順便進行 OpenStreetMap 圖資的更新。在台灣，廟宇常是當地聚落的中心點，許多公共事務在廟宇協調與分配，大型的廟宇甚至也會吸引商販前來擺攤做生意。

感謝台灣維基媒體協會與地圖公司 TomTom 的協助，提供舉辦活動所需要的資源。

9 days ago

··· I didn’t start contributing to OSM because of any grand philosophy or ideology. I simply began editing because I needed to. But as I became more involved, I learned more about what I believed OSM stood for—openness, decentralization, freedom to collaborate, and a community built around shared stewardship rather than commercial ownership. At least, that was how I came to understand OSM.

That understanding was what motivated me to continue contributing. I chose to spend my time improving OSM instead of Google Maps or the dominant commercial map used in my country. I even spent time studying OSM’s principles and community practices because I wanted to contribute in a way that respected those values.

If utility had been my only motivation, I probably wouldn’t have contributed to OSM at all. In the region where I live, almost nobody actually uses OSM. From a purely practical perspective, my efforts have very little visible impact. Yet I kept contributing because I believed OSM represented something fundamentally different from commercial mapping platforms. That belief—not efficiency or popularity—was what made my contributions meaningful.

For that reason, I don’t believe corporate participation is inherently a problem. OSM is open to everyone, and companies should absolutely be free to use the data and contribute to improving it.

My concern is not that companies participate. My concern is whether, over time, the priorities of the project could gradually shift toward the interests of organizations that naturally have business objectives and far greater resources than individual volunteers. Simply saying that “companies are part of the community” doesn’t fully address that concern. To me, the more important question is not whether companies belong here, but how the community ensures that the values and priorities shaped by volunteers remain just as influential as corporate interests.

Perhaps this is the source of my confusion.

If embracing greater corporate participation is a natural direction for OSM, then what is the unique value that continues to distinguish OSM? I don’t believe OSM’s identity has ever been about being anti-business or anti-capitalist. Rather, I believed it was about remaining independent of any single commercial interest, and about building a project where individuals could participate on equal footing in a genuinely open community.

So I would genuinely like to ask those who have been part of this community much longer than I have:

As corporate participation continues to grow, what do you believe will continue to make OSM fundamentally different from commercial mapping platforms? And what principles or safeguards do you think are important to ensure that corporate participation strengthens the project without gradually redefining its priorities?

*** This comment was written in response to the article, “Who Really Owns OpenStreetMap? A Personal Concern About Big Tech in OSM”. If contributing to OSM is ultimately no different from contributing to a commercial map service, then I see little motivation to invest my time and effort in contributing to OSM, given that it provides so little practical benefit to me or to the people around me.

2 days ago

This afternoon, I noticed that several of my colleagues were visiting a recently opened school in the far south.

They took several photos, which is quite a rarity on the internet, since not many people actually go there and upload pictures of the newly built buildings.

I wanted to upload those photos, hoping they might be useful for anyone trying to find information about the place.

Then I remembered that OpenStreetMap has this image=* tag.

I could associate an image with the place by adding an image URL there. So I opened Vespucci on my Android phone and added the image URL to the object.

Now I’m back at my PC, and I wanted to make a simple app (or maybe just a script) to browse every image=* tag that exists in OpenStreetMap.

At first, I thought of doing it the usual way : build a Leaflet web map, query the Overpass API, then display the images in popups.

But then I remembered that the Overpass API has recently been under heavy load.

From what I’ve heard, it’s because of a barrage of AI scrapers… or maybe just a flood of quick-and-dirty, vibe-coded OSM apps being produced en masse.

Whatever the exact reason, it has noticeably affected the service.

Knowing that, I was discouraged from making the situation any worse. So I scrapped that idea.

Then I remembered something else:

Overpass Ultra.

I don’t know exactly how it works internally, but I assume it uses a different Overpass API endpoint than the ones I would normally query directly.

If that’s the case, perhaps using Ultra wouldn’t add to the current strain on the public Overpass servers.

I also realized that Overpass Ultra’s advanced styling syntax lets me solve the whole problem directly within the query itself, without having to build my own Leaflet-based web app.

So here it is: a quickly put-together Ultra query that displays every OpenStreetMap object containing an image=* tag and shows the referenced image in a simple popup.

---
title: OSM image popup
description: Show only the object name and its image.
popupTemplate: >
  <h2>
    {% if tags.name %}
      {{ tags.name }}
    {% else %}
      {{ type }} {{ id }}
    {% endif %}
  </h2>

  {% if tags.image %}
    <img src="{{ tags.image }}" style="max-width:400px;max-height:300px;">
  {% endif %}
---

[bbox:{{bbox}}];

nwr["image"];

out geom;

♦

Problem solved. My curiosity is satisfied, and I hope this little project won’t contribute to the worsening of the current Overpass API situation.

3 days ago

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Life in a multi-million population City can be tough on Introverted minds. For me, mapping in OpenStreetMap is first and foremost an activity to improve publicly accessible geodata around my local and known places, though it has also recently become a way for me to virtually travel to far away places. Exploring remote corners of the earth that are not quite as bustling with activity, where not every square-meter has already been meticulously mapped to the nth degree. Theres even a subreddit for this kind of exploration: /r/GoogleEarthFinds !

Zooming in on a random patch of rainforest, a tiny island in the pacific or one of the thousands of meandering arms off the Amazonas shows a mostly untouched view of nature. Panning around looking for interesting landmarks, it only takes a few minutes to stumble upon a secluded village whose roads are not even connected to the world-wide network, or a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. These are the places that fascinate me the most. I get lost in imagining what life is like there, who lives there, what untold stories do these places hold? While daydreaming of this, i map the buildings I see, paths and roads, things that can safely be confirmed from aerial imagery. Switching to different imagery providers can show how these places evolved, has the village grown or shrunk? Have Roads been extended or left to be reclaimed by mother nature? A handy website for viewing satellite imagery with different timestamps is livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback

Usually I just zoom into random places and see where it takes me. With the power of Overpass Turbo, one can find places in a slightly organized fashion. Below is a prompt which shows islands that have residential areas on them, within the current view of the map:

[out:json][timeout:25];
(
nwr["place"="island"]({{bbox}});
  );

nwr["landuse"="residential"]({{bbox}});

// print results
out geom;

Or simply highlighting villages in the current map view:

[out:json][timeout:25];
(
nwr["place"="village"]({{bbox}});
  );

// print results
out geom;

5 days ago

August 2–8 August 2

• Fixed Reynoldsburg borders; borders now up-to-date as of most recent annexation on May 24, 2026.
• Updated Reynoldsburg population; increased to 43,350 according to U.S. Census Bureau.
• Added intermittent stream called Little Jordan Run.
• Modified Jackson Avenue; changed “one way” value to “no” and added note that signage by the Street Department is incorrect. Correct name is Jackson Avenue not Jackson Street.
• Modifed Burkey Avenue; changed “one way” value to “no” and added note that signage by the Street Department is incorrect. Correct name is Burkey Avenue, not Burkey Drive.
• Modified Burkey Court; switches from Burkey Avenue to Burkey Court at the intersection with Southwood Avenue, not in the middle of the road.
• Fixed name of Taylor Park Drive (originally shown as just “Taylor Park”).
• Fixed differentiation between Taylor Road and Taylor Road Southwest.
• Added info to Raider Stadium (Reynoldsburg High School football stadium).
• Removed Smokey Bones brand from building at 2200 Baltimore-Reynoldsburg Road (closed permanently after bankruptcy).
• Added info to Reynoldsburg High School’s Livingston Campus.

August 3

• Fixed name of Taylor Road.
• Added 5 ponds near Lakeland Hills neighborhood.

August 5

• Added name of TS Tech Drive as indicated by street signs in the area.
• Added name to the remaining portion of Wilma Drive.

5 days ago

To-do: Add bus route 42 stops through Highton and Belmont. Will be referring to McHarry’s route map and ensuring match with Transport Victoria resources.

6 days ago

Gerade eben mappe ich den Bayern-Park detaillierter. Durch meine frühere Jahreskarte konnte ich den Park oft besuchen und kenne daher viele Bereiche aus eigener Erfahrung. Jetzt nutze ich dieses Wissen, um Details des Parks in OpenStreetMap zu verbessern.

Als Ziele habe ich folgende:

• Alle POIs überprüfen und ggf. eintragen/aktualisieren
• Alle (oder zumindest den größten Teil von allen) Wege überprüfen und ggf. hinzufügen/aktualisieren
• Generell mehr Details hinzufügen

6 days ago

As explained in this french diary entry I left a bunch of notes, took a bunch of traces while visiting Mongolia in July. The main reason, was that I was playing with StreetComplete and firing Vespucci would have annoyed my wife adding notes was easier. So I left notes, for later. Today I decided to start editing based on my memory and some of the notes. While editing, I saw a very high number of these in the center of UB. ♦

Many are old, and the imagery is old. Is there a process to clean up notes? Are there people willing to spend time taking these notes and making the edits that for some are probably needed?

7 days ago

Le Tour des Cimetières approche la fin. dernière étape : Lyon - Saint Étienne. 55 des 3882 tâches subsistent. :) .. Fini !!! .. terminé en moins de 12h.

7 days ago

Upgraded from the Max to the Max2. Going to publish my settings here so it’s easier for me to find.

Walking

• Same settings as Bicycle Settings below, except set the Interval to 1 or 2 seconds depending on walking speed. 2 if casually walking, 1 if brisk.
• Very important: Use a selfie stick and hold camera at least 6 inches above head to capture better images. The higher the better.

Bicycle, My main method of capturing imagery. Most tested.

• Time Lapse 360 Video
• Resolution 8K
• Interval 0.5 Seconds
• Bit Depth 10-Bit
• EV Comp 0
• ISO Min 100
• ISO Max 800
• Color Natural
• Sharpness Low
• Denoise Low
• Bit Rate Max

Car

Still need to test and figure out the settings. I currently use a dash cam for a car and I don’t have an exterior mount for my GoPro. Dash cam I use is an AZDOME GS63H. Very simple to use and great quality images. And one of the few dash cams that work with Mapillary for less than $100. I got mine on Ebay for about $50.

8 days ago

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, there are over three million lakes in Alaska with a surface area larger than five acres!

Currently, in OpenStreetMap, there are roughly two hundred and forty two thousand elements in Alaska tagged with natural=water, which is a generic tag for an area filled with water.

So, I have decided to embark on mapping natural areas filled with water!

I use the USGS elevation data for alignment, as it seems to have the best alignment to where things actually are on the ground. The USGS imagery is sometimes aligned with the elevation data, but sometimes is not, so the Mapbox and ESRI Clarity imagery is instrumental in areas where it is more accurate to the elevation data.

The National Map Topographic is extremely useful for some lakes, for those where it matches the elevation data well. Often though, it does not match the elevation data.

I posted about this in the OpenStreetMap Slack, and have received help from Watmildon, who has been very kind and extremely helpful! He is helping with the technical aspects of this, and has brought the 3DHP program to my attention, a hydrology program from USGS that is based on elevation data and thus much more accurate than the older NHP data. He is helping to setup a website where one can view the differences between OpenStreetMap, NHP, and the 3DHP, and eventually I hope to be able to overlay the 3DHP data onto an OpenStreetMap editor so I can use it to assist the mapping.

Thanks for reading and happy mapping!

Sources:

www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=rivers.main

taginfo.geofabrik.de/north-america:us:alaska/search?q=natural%3Dwater

www.usgs.gov/3dhp

9 days ago

Test

9 days ago