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Randal Hale (He/Him)<p>OM US looks for funding. <a href="https://openstreetmap.us/news/2025/07/charter-projects-face-uncertain-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.us/news/2025/07/</span><span class="invisible">charter-projects-face-uncertain-future/</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/osmus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osmus</span></a></p>
Schlechter Beifahrer<p>Was ich nicht verstehe:<br>Wenn ich Apps nutze, die das Openstreetmap Kartenmaterial nutzen, braucht jede App eigene offline Kartendownloads.<br>Die sind dann mehrfach, je nach Anzahl der Apps, auf dem Mobiltelefon vorhanden.<br>Wäre es nicht besser, Optionen zu implementieren, dass diese einen gemeinsamen Ordner für die Basiskarten verwenden, der optional vom User festgelegt werden kann?<br>Spezielle Overlays können dann ja App-spezifisch festgelegt werden.</p><p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Openstreetmap</span></a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>At least one co-organizer has repeatedly expressed that they would prefer to say “mapping meetup” rather than “mapping party”…but “mapping meetup” has always sounded a little too “exclusive” and too socializing-focused to me…</p><p>Another option was “mapathon”. In the past I thought it would sound tiring or time-consuming, but perhaps it can express the thrill of sustained collective activity instead?</p><p>Also thought of some new terms - “MapWalk”, and “MapStroll”…the former was well-received, so we’ll try using “MapWalk” in the future. </p><p>We’re also toying with the idea of a bicycle-oriented event, and “MapWalk” could be changed to “MapCycle” for that.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>Even on the night before the party, we were agonizing over the perpetual question - what editor to teach to newcomers?</p><p>And after the workshop and the latest mapping party, I think I have a new and improved idea.</p><ol><li>We always introduce CoMaps (and earlier Organic Maps) to newcomers, focusing on it as a means of using OSM. But we avoid using its editor - offline data can be confusing and (in the presence of concurrent editors) can more easily lead to duplication.</li></ol><p>But if we want people to recommend CoMaps to other, less technical people…they may want the latter to be able to add places without installing another app.</p><ol><li>I have long admired StreetComplete’s gamified interface, but always figured that it would cause issues in a mapping party.</li></ol><p>But perhaps we can incorporate it after all? The people it is most likely to cause issues for are the Vespucci users, and they are experienced enough (and Vespucci’s tooling is good enough) to handle upload conflicts.</p><p>Another issue is that if a user adds some data using a StreetComplete layer, it takes time for quests to appear for it.</p><ol><li>MapComplete is good because it puts together the things people coming from Google Maps often expect from OSM - map data, photos, and ratings+reviews. The questions and the photo-taking may also add some variety and fun, and the photos also help other mappers verify the data and add details.</li></ol><p>So here’s the new idea -</p><ol><li>We practice adding 1-3 POIs with CoMaps. There may be duplication, but that’s okay, we (the organizers) will clean it up later as we usually do.</li><li>Then, we add 5-10 POIs with MapComplete.</li><li>Finally, we try out StreetComplete to add more details to the streets and POIs. We will use team mode to divide quests between people on the same team.</li></ol><p>I’ll test the viability of this process soon.</p><p>(Vespucci will go back to being an editor for regular participants.)</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>So…I’m now inviting people to volunteer as facilitators of future mapping parties, on a per-event basis.</p><p>I think it’s high time I encouraged other people to play a more active role in actually conducting the event. <a href="https://codeberg.org/OpenStreetMap-Delhi/mapping-party-process" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Documenting the event process</a> gives people the chance to prepare, but there won’t be much incentive to do so until someone actually gets to step into the role.</p><p>I’m also advising the regulars to familiarize themselves with the process document, so they can prompt and help the facilitator if they miss anything important.</p><p>I’ll try to have some preparatory online “rehearsals” for facilitators, so they aren’t just jumping straight into the “performance”.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>Some postmortem notes about our 19th mapping party…</p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/114933115184001431" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/114933115184001431</a></p><p>On a positive note, I think this was a productive party. 8 out of 10 participants were experienced mappers, and I’m happy with the data we added to the market. 👍</p><p>On the other hand, there were hardly any people from Noida - clearly, the publicity needs more work 😐 </p><p>One participant recommended posting on Luma, so I guess we’ll be trying that.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a></p>
🚲<p>I was hoping OSM’s new vector tiles would let me design a biking-centric style without hosting tiles myself, but if I’m reading it correctly, shortbread has only limited tags and many of them exist only at certain zoom levels. Looks like I would need to roll my own tiles still anyway. <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a></p>
Gegenwind :antifa:🇺🇳🖖<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hessen.social/@adfc_ffm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adfc_ffm</span></a></span> habs mal in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> eingetragen</p>
Kalytis<p>Does anybody know why <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/JOSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JOSM</span></a> refuses to apply correctly hiding filter when the editor is set to an indoor view, please ? I'd like to map the 2nd floor, and hide the lines of the 1st floor in order not to confuse myself 🙏 <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a></p>
Bogomil Shopov - Бого<p>Уикипедия и информация за Габровския&nbsp;регион</p><p>След като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия, за да се вижда за селото. Другата цел беше да видим дали има неща, които можеше да бъдат опреснени. Така се случи, че научихме за двама човека допринесли супер много за България, но са забравени.</p><p><a href="https://bogomil.info/6002" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bogomil.info/6002</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://hapyyr.com/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://hapyyr.com/tags/gabrovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gabrovo</span></a> <a href="https://hapyyr.com/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a></p>
GeoDesk<p>🎉 Just released: Version 1.0 of libgeodesk, our <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> Toolkit for C++. Build insanely fast <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> geospatial applications -- 100% free &amp; open-source. docs.geodesk.com/cpp</p>
FOSSGIS Verein<p>Vom 19. – 21. September 2025 findet das nächste FOSSGIS-OSM-Communitytreffen <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@FOSSGISeV" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FOSSGISeV</span></a></span> im <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://linuxhotel.social/@linuxhotel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxhotel</span></a></span> in Essen statt. </p><p>Wer teilnehmen möchte, trägt sich im Wiki ein<br><a href="https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_OSM_Communitytreffen_2025_Nummer_24" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_OSM_Co</span><span class="invisible">mmunitytreffen_2025_Nummer_24</span></a> oder liest die Einladungsmail auf der <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FOSSGISTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSGISTalk</span></a>-Mailingliste dazu: <a href="https://lists.fossgis.de/pipermail/fossgis-talk-liste/2025-July/013412.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lists.fossgis.de/pipermail/fos</span><span class="invisible">sgis-talk-liste/2025-July/013412.html</span></a></p><p>Wer Fragen hat, fragt <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hafi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hafi</span></a></span> oder <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@rudzick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rudzick</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FOSSGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSGIS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSGeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSGeo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linuxhotel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxhotel</span></a></p>
Blue Ghost<p>Massachusetts Pirate Party supports a map that identifies the location of surveillance cameras and the area under surveillance.</p><p>Surveillance under Surveillance alternative, this site shutting down October 2025.</p><p>Anyone can update the map with camera locations around the world.</p><p>The map is based on OpenStreetMap but the data is not visualized on OpenStreetMap.org.</p><p>Website: <a href="https://cctv.masspirates.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cctv.masspirates.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Mastodon: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.globalpirates.net/@masspirates" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>masspirates</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MassPirates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassPirates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PirateParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PirateParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CCTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCTV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a></p>
inthedarkwelive<p>Frage mich, wie zuverlässig die Markierung von als "mit dem Rad befahrbaren Wegen" auf Openstreetmap ist. Also, im Sinne von "DÜRFEN befahren werden", nicht "KÖNNEN befahren werden" 🤔</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/osm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osm</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openstreetmap</span></a></p>
OpenStreetMap India<p>A big thanks to all 11 participants of the 18th <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Delhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Delhi</span></a> Mapping Party! 🙂 </p><p>We hope you will join us again to help make <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> better. Each mapper matters!</p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OsmNcr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OsmNcr</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Noida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Noida</span></a></p>
Olivier Leroy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@mappingsupport" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mappingsupport</span></a></span> </p><p>Nice curation! And some nice tips (I went a bit fast on the document but bookmarked it! ).</p><p>Honestly I am just sad that we have that bloated mess ... At that point (ie 5000+ ) we are getting close to use a DB to store and document them, it could them link either to the ESRI server and/or to some object storage. </p><p>Would <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a> US be interested by this kind of project? pinging <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@watmildon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>watmildon</span></a></span> Just focus on Public Domain license will be a good start ....</p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>The other feedback I got was that people should be incentivized to improve OSM…e.g. delivery companies which use OSM could give discounts to mappers, and OSM itself could have some badges and achievements…</p><p>In response, I mentioned StreetComplete, presented the heatmap recently added to OSM profiles, and presented the proprietary web services <a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?contrapunctus" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">How Did You Contribute to OpenStreetMap? (HDYC)</a> and <a href="https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries&amp;country=India" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">OSMStats</a>.</p><p>But there’s still a lot more that could be done. At the very least, I hope HDYC and OSMStats can be reimplemented as part of <a href="http://osm.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">osm.org</a> itself…</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>It was pretty funny how that person asked whether there is any way to “reach out to OSM and ask them to only focus on one app”…and I had to gently inform them that OSM (or the OSMF) doesn’t make any apps, that each app was made by independent developers, and that there is no top-down authority dictating who works on what… 😅 </p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>One of the participants said that having multiple apps is too complicated for the average person.</p><p>At that point, I… </p><ul><li>had covered <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/comaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoMaps</a> (with exercises to practice bookmarking things, editing bookmarks, browsing bookmarks, using the navigation, enabling the Metro layer, and using the search), </li><li>had gotten started with <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/id" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iD</a>, </li><li>and had mentioned <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mapcomplete" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MapComplete</a> to the complainant in response to a query of theirs.</li></ul><p>In the heat of the moment I said that having one app that can do it all would become a pretty complicated one (just look at OsmAnd)…but is that really true if the UI is well-designed…?</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osmapp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OsmAPP</a> (<a href="http://osmapp.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">osmapp.org</a>) aims to be one such “universal app for OpenStreetMap”. I hope it can achieve its goals while still remaining tech-illiterate-friendly…</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/delhi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Delhi</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/india" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a></p>
contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>imp3tuz</span></a></span> If your area is totally unmapped - no streets or buildings - go to <a href="http://osm.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">osm.org</a> and click Edit. That opens the browser-based editor called iD. Follow the walkthrough. </p><p>If you want to add all kinds of details and a gamified experience, see <a href="https://streetcomplete.app" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">StreetComplete</a> on Android. (The closest thing on iOS is <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Go_Map!!" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Go Map</a>, until the StreetComplete iOS port is finished.) StreetComplete also supports making photo notes which can be used with iD.</p><p><a href="https://mapcomplete.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">MapComplete</a> is another easy way to add points and notes from your phone and desktop. Uniquely, it also allows you to add photos, ratings, and reviews for places. If it’s too slow on your phone, try the native version.</p><p>If you have questions, search <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wiki.openstreetmap.org</a>. If you still have questions, ask on Fedi or on <a href="https://invite.joinjabber.org/#openstreetmap@conference.macaw.me?join" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the OSM XMPP channel</a> 🙂 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz/114929877915497836" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@imp3tuz/114929877915497836</a></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contramaps" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contraMaps</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/openstreetmap" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/osm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSM</a></p>