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@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-06-03 19:05:54

Was looking for a trash can in this Black Forest town, searched in @…, no results, so I walked around and added all trash cans I could find and other stuff I found useful 🗑️
#OpenStreetMap

Unterkirnach (small German town in Black Forest) i Organic Maps, 7 blue dots marking trash cans.
Openstreetmap.org screenshot, showing red and orange rectangles of my latest changed regions in Unterkirnach
@seav@en.osm.town
2025-06-02 11:40:05

Silly #LinkedOpenData contribution of the day (month? year?): adding #Caltech’s iconic Fleming Cannon to #OpenStreetMap and #Wikidata

Node: ‪Fleming Cannon‬ (‪12880607063‬)
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-05-25 17:53:04

«Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation»
Interesting piece on how games use #OpenStreetMap data. No mention of how those games might accidentally incentivize vandalism to achieve game objectives though!
theverge.com/games/672035/open

@FFMbyBicycle@digitalcourage.social
2025-05-27 08:18:29
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Kümmere mich eigentlich lieber um die Aktualität von #OpenStreetMap, aber gelegentlich muss ich dann doch auch bei #GoogleMaps korrigierend eingreifen. Damit lässt sich der Autoverkehr normalerweise hervorragend lenken 🧐
Sobald Google Maps eine Straße z.B. als gesperrt für…

Screenshot einer Webseite mit der Überschrift "Meine Kartenänderungen" und einer Tabelle. Dort sind die Namen geschwärzt, der Status steht bei den meisten auf "Übernommen" und bei einem noch auf "In Bearbeitung"
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-05-25 17:53:04

«Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation»
Interesting piece on how games use #OpenStreetMap data. No mention of how those games might accidentally incentivize vandalism to achieve game objectives though!
theverge.com/games/672035/open

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-06-01 09:58:17

Done mapping all 10 #barangays of Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan, #Philippines 🇵🇭 in #OpenStreetMap, creating their #Wikidata

Screenshot of an Overpass Turbo query result map showing the boundaries and the node label positions of the 10 barangays of Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan, with the relation of Luuk-Bungsod selected showing its tags.
Screenshot of the Wikidata Query Service query results showing a table of the 10 barangays of Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan, along with some of their properties such as population, coordinates, PSGC (Philippine Standard Geographic Code), and OpenStreetMap IDs.
Screenshot of the Wikidata Query Service query results switched to the bubble chart visualization depicting the relative population sizes of the 10 barangays of Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan.

overpass turbo
A web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap which runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map.

@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social
2025-04-22 07:25:13

@… je vroeg een tijdje geleden over tracking-vrij routes maken. Ik heb nu Organic Maps onder #linux draaien als Flatpak. Werkt net zo goed als de app, en maakt ook prima routes op basis van

Install Organic Maps on Linux | Flathub
Free offline maps for everyone

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-05-16 14:17:18

Sixteen years ago today, the #OpenStreetMap #Philippines community 🇵🇭 held the first ever mapping party in the country. And our target was the picturesque city of #Tagaytay.

@freeminded@tooting.ch
2025-03-15 13:36:02

What are your favorite show cases and uses of #OpenStreetMap or #UMAP to impress my colleges @… and demonstrate what can be achieved by #opendata and #opensource?
I'm preparing a little presentation which I will happily share.