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Super interesting read about the dynamics in OSM: «[if this trend continues] de facto power within the #OpenStreetMap Foundation will increasingly shift towards individuals or informal interest groups within the sketched de facto membership. Ultimately, it is likely that the board itself in a way becomes an outsider within the organization – being formally in control […], but de facto being dependent on the true insiders of the organization in everything they do.»
https://imagico.de/blog/en/who-are-the-members-of-the-openstreetmap-foundation/

There’s a new #OpenStreetMap website feature related to #Wikidata!
When viewing objects in OSM that have a Wikidata tag, you can now click the Wikidata icon to turn the opaque QID values into human-readable info (plus a link to Wikipedia if any).

I'm planning to run my own #dawarich server to keep track of my location history for quite a while already.
In the meantime, I just look at my #Openstreetmap edit history to see where I've been and when, and it works surprisingly well!
It doesn't bother me that anyone…

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

Huch, Quer (BR) nutzt in einem Beitrag nicht GoogleMaps, sondern Maptiler (OpenStreetMap) (#openstreetmap

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

No mountains for us today.
We were busy at home and had a walk in #badtoelz including the city park afterwards.
(did a lot of #Openstreetmap mapping there as well 😉 - get the #StreetComplete

We are starting the #OpenStreetMap 12-hour global mapathon (UTC 08:00 – 20:00) to celebrate OSM’s 21st birthday! 🎂
If you want to join, check out the following wiki page for details: https://

Wow. I did 100,090 changes to the #openstreetmap. Since I prefer quality over quantity, I am happy with this milestone
https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Bogomil Shopov -…

After yesterday's day at the workshop focused on remote mapping, today it's time for folks to learn how to go out and do some field mapping with @… & ChatMap.
#openstreetmap

I finished casting my ballot for the #OpenStreetMap Foundation Board election! (There are about 5 hours left before the deadline.) And because there are only 4 candidates for 3 open seats and 2 candidates are for reelection, ranking them was a lot simpler this year.

Cool, #OpenStreetMap hat jetzt einen Vector Tile Layer, modern, skalierbar, anpassbar, gefällt mir gut!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.213175/6.776043&layer…

I saw some interesting artefacts in the clouds while doing some #openstreetmap mapping last night.

Yesterday we passed some bus stops that had old fridges standing within the shelter to serve as public book cases <3
When adding them to #openstreetmap I saw that "public_bookcase:type=fridge" is already a thing 😂
https://panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/?background=streets&focus=pic&map=17.23/-31.148162/-64.354433&pic=f222f742-c510-4006-8272-8a0eded6c8ca&speed=250&xyz=146.37/-0.93/30
https://panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/?background=streets&focus=pic&map=17.23/-31.147545/-64.34867&pic=7291f65e-c405-410f-af25-6e7a6c1d01fc&speed=250&xyz=147.61/1.31/30

#OpenStreetMap is turning 21 next month! 🥳
If you or your community is organizing an event to celebrate, then add them to the OSM Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Op

Ich bzw. die Map-Anwendungen (OpenStreetMap und auch die kommerziellen Pendants) bräuchten sowas wie OPML für RSS, um Kartenfavoriten, Track etc. bequem überall nutzen zu können. Am besten gleich an einer (selbsthostbaren) Stelle zu pflegen.
#OSM #OpenStreetMap

When you visit a place where you haven't been before, install the #StreetComplete app and do some of the tasks..
It's like geo caching and helps to improve #openstreetmap - but beware, it can be addictive.- but also quite some fun

OpenFreeMap
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
🗺️ #openfreemap

Yes I do care. OrganicMaps this wasn't expected from you.
Go @…
#organicMaps #comsps

Sometimes I forget that #OpenStreetMap doesn’t search for venues near your location so sometimes I enter „café“ and it zooms all the way across the planet to the village of cafe in Argentina or something.

If you wonder about the quality of Google Maps in the second biggest city of Argentina 🤣
#OpenStreetMap

Wat een beetje teleurstellend is in #Ierland dat er bijna geen wandelroutes en fietsroutes zijn opgenomen in #OpenStreetMap. In Frankrijk bijvoorbeeld zijn soms zelf onzichtbare paadjes nog te vinden op de kaart

Following our mapping party for OpenStreetMap's birthday, I've been thinking more about the diversity of OSM tools and how they help create and maintain a commons.
#OpenStreetMap

I love that one of the accompanying images of the #OpenStreetMap blog post announcing the arrival of the official vector tiles on the OSM website is a map of #Manila’s old Spanish walled city of Intramuros.

Congratulations @… for getting elected to the #OpenStreetMap Foundation Board! 🎉

Finally got around to visualising the output of our combined drone mapping, collecting street-level imagery, and on-the-ground mapping a couple of weeks ago (c.f. #openstreetmap

#DearFedi, does anyone happen to know a website or an app that I could use to easily highlight (as in using color) selected parts of the #railway network (ideally by choosing two stations to get everything in between highlighted), so I could mark which parts of the network I've already traversed, and then share it with you? (needs to include Polish railways)
#rail #map #OpenStreetMap #OpenRailwayMap

That's some amazing 3D mapping work, thanks @… for highlighting it!
#openstreetmap

I finished watching this #Netflix documentary about the #Antwerp 🇧🇪 diamond heist in 2003 and while the film itself is your typical interesting and informative Netflix-style docu, I am again peeved that #OpenStreetMap

I just played a bit with #openstreetmap, and wow, this is a mess! The renderers are doing their best, but what should they do with buildings tagged as "…

ICYMI yesterday: I've been writing about the diversity of tools for contributing to #OpenStreetMap and how this diversity plays a role in creating and maintaining a healthy commons.
https://tzovar.as/tool-diversity/

Oof. #OpenStreetMap minutely replication is currently broken: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/131884
For me this means that recent edits I made are not queryable via O…

Is OSM partially down? New data isn't able to be queried on the map, and new data isn't being rendered
I’m finding that I can pull data into JOSM and iD that I know exists (due to recently pushed edits), but a query on the map doesn’t list them (not to mention that they also aren’t being rendered; however, when something’s awaiting rendering, I always, at least by my experience, can still query it). For example, this query should list building=toilets, but it doesn’t. If I edit that location in iD I can see the aforementioned feature, and I can also pull it into JOSM, but it isn’t b…

Had a blast at our little #OpenStreetMap birthday celebration. 🍰 🧉
It ended up being too windy to fly drones for long. Instead we recorded street-level images for #panoramax and GPS tracks, in addition to doing a lot of live surveying – using a huge range of tools that allow contributing to OSM!
In no particular order we at least used: @…, @…, @…, @…, HOTOSM's ChatMap, iD and JOSM.
Having so many different ways of making contributions is a real feature.

I got a commission to render a map of the municipality of Macabebe (and Masantol) in the province of Pampanga, #Philippines 🇵🇭. So here’s a preview of the said map.
Almost all of the data is from #OpenStreetMap.
(Commissions are open if you want maps and like how I create maps. 😉)

I’m amazed that the FOSM site is still alive.
#OpenStreetMap and was created by folks who didn’t want OSM to switch to ODbL away from CC BY-SA back in 2012. If y…

The final @… logo voting is still happening on @… for another day (and a bit)!
Check out the cool designs and leave your 👍 for your favorite(s) here: #openstreetmap

Happy 21st Birthday @…! 🍰 🥳 🎈
Gonna meet up with friends to celebrate, do some on-the-ground surveying, probably also walk around with a 360° cam to get imagery for @…. And fly a drone, to get some nice aerial imagery while we're at it! 🗺️ 📷
And of course have some cake too 😂
#OpenStreetMap #panoramax

«Our project [#openstreetmap] is constantly under a threat from technical people, who see it as a database, or a fixed structure, or an API to work with – and not as a community of people with specific knowledge who make the map as a by-product of understanding the world.»
So we'll put by @… ❤️🙏

If anyone else who's in the #OpenStreetMap/#opensource cosmos needs a reason to stop using Organic Maps and switch to some free/open alternatives:
In addition to them rolling their own 'data license', it seems like their recent license modifications for code could also be viewed as violating the Apache license/the creation of a non-FOSS license too.
That the devs are unwilling to give a clear answer to those questions speaks volumes imho…
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/10987

Today @… and I did our first hike close to our new home, up Cerro Ascochinga, doing some #OpenStreetMap surveying on the side. 🗺️

With the #OpenStreetMap website’s new #VectorTiles, it’s nice to see that we can zoom in to level 23! Unfortunately, if the vector coordinates are not stored with OSM’s 7 decimal places for higher-zoom tiles, then what’s the point of all that zoom? 👀

Not to pat myself on the back, but I'm really happy with how the alt texts of the @… bot that are generated from #openstreetmap tags through an Overpass query.
It makes the alt text show where the image was taken, what's potentially in the frame but also context around it. I enjoy reading them every day!

I feel a while ago I saw website here where you could enter an #openstreetmap building ID and it would make a 3D render based on the 3D annotation. For the life of me I can't find the URL, does anyone have an idea?
@… I think you might have shared it at some point with the bandstand of Greenwich Park 😄
[EDIT: Answered thanks to @… , see options here https://floss.social/@hbond/114965004674098103 ]

After a workshop on mapping with #OpenStreetMap, we attended the #MarchaFederalUniversitaria in Río Cuarto.
A set of more images of openly licensed images in full-size is on Flickr: #darktable #documentaryphotography

En español también! ♥️
#Openstreetmap #MakerFaireHannover #makerfaire #makerfaire2025hannover

First things first when moving in: fixing the wrong street name on #openstreetmap 😅😁

Slowly making some progress with mapping out our new neighborhood!
Before/After created with #OpenStreetMap

«Komoot’s core tech of Leaflet map, Graphhopper routing engine, and #OpenStreetMap data are all free, open-source projects. This is in addition to all the open-source web servers, databases, and operating systems that tech companies build upon. They leech off the open-source commons»
I'm convinced that this is one of the big reasons why we need some form of @… sooner rather than later, to ensure our commons can be saved from corp capture.

I wrote a few words about how I made the @… bot and what I learned as part of doing so.
I'd also love some feedback on the current alt-text-strategy!
#openstreetmap #panoramax
https://tzovar.as/panoramax-bot/

That @… now links out to the #panoramax images if they are annotated on objects (using the `panoramax=` tag), it's a good reason to go through existing sequences and link images to things!
#panoramax #openstreetmap

Already worked on a small improvement to @… – to provide some more context in the alt-text of the images.
The best idea I've come up for now: Get the features that close to the location of the image from #openstreetmap to get an idea what's "on the map" there.
See some examples on Codeberg: #panoramax

Over the last 1 1/2 days I've hacked together a little Mastodon bot that posts once a day to update on how the #panoramax federation is evolving in terms of instances, images, and contributors.
I'm sure there's still plenty of bugs, but you can follow it under @… and it made its first little thread here: #openstreetmap

Done mapping all 15 #barangays of Bien Unido, Bohol, #Philippines 🇵🇭 in #OpenStreetMap, updating their #Wikidata