OpenStreetMap.org website & our mapping API will be read-only for server maintenance on the 5 October 2025 between 9:00 and 12:00 (UTC/GMT). See the time local to you: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix… #OpenStreetMap #Maintenance 🪛 🤖
Event Time Announcer shows time for OSM.org Maintenance - Read-only - 3 hour window in locations all over the world. In London it happens on neděle 5. říjen 2025, 10:00:00.
Thanks to all the translators for providing translations. And of course, feel free to join the #translation effort to get #MapComplete into your language.
Ergänzung: Bei Hutmacher / #Utopiastadt #Wuppertal steht auch ein Bücherschrank.
Bei @MapComplete gibt es auch eine Karte für Bücherschränke, über die fehlende Schränke leicht ergänzt werden können. Damit werden die #OpenStreetMap -Daten ergänzt, so dass die Orte dann auch auf Open Book Case und allen weiteren Karten, die auf #OSM basieren dazu kommen.
I just added all three #ghostbikes (with photos) in three different spots in the small village of Dresano to #OpenStreetMap. None of them was already registered.
TIL that #Mapycom is more than just a renderer on top of #OpenStreetMap. They actually import buildings from #Overture, which #OSM doesn't consider reliable enough for automatic imports.
From what I've seen, the results are mixed in Greece, with many buildings that don't exist in reality.
#TIL iD - the #OpenStreetMap-editor on the main website - has a "tag this photo id onto the current object" for street level imagery such as @panoramax or #Mapillary
I first noticed this difference a few months back when my driving instructor couldn't find the location that I sent him (because Google Maps doesn't show it at all). Only after I added "Fairway Walk" (see Google Screenshot for the name/location) as a named road to OSM, did it get added to Google Maps. There are still apartments missing from the Google Maps though.
Gemischtmobiler added 7 ghost bikes, answered 32 questions and uploaded 13 images @Thierry1030 answered 3 questions and uploaded an image Andyskinner added a ghost bike, answered 2 questions and uploaded an image ralbso answered 3 questions RudiXXL added a ghost bike and answered a question timbradley1970 added a ghost bike
A #ghostBike is a memorial in the form of a #bicycle painted white. It remembers a cyclist that has been killed by a car and is located near the place of the accident.
OpenStreetMap is a world-wide map that everyone can edit and reuse for free. mapcomplete.org/ghostbikes is an editable map based on OpenStreetMap with ghostbikes.
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!
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 @panoramax. And fly a drone, to get some nice aerial imagery while we're at it! 🗺️ 📷
Even on the night before the party, we were agonizing over the perpetual question - what editor to teach to newcomers?
And after the workshop and the latest mapping party, I think I have a new and improved idea.
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.
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.
I have long admired StreetComplete’s gamified interface, but always figured that it would cause issues in a mapping party.
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.
Another issue is that if a user adds some data using a #StreetComplete layer, it takes time for quests to appear for it.
#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.
So here’s the new idea -
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.
Then, we add 5-10 POIs with MapComplete.
Finally, we try out StreetComplete to add more details to the streets and POIs. We will use SC’s team mode to divide quests between people on the same team.
I’ll test the viability of this process soon.
(Vespucci will go back to being an editor for regular participants.)
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. 👍
On the other hand, there were hardly any people from Noida - clearly, the publicity needs more work 😐
One participant recommended posting on Luma, so I guess we’ll be trying that.
Also, if you like my work, please support me on Liberapay. I’m unemployed, and rely on the community’s support for my contributions.
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A big thanks to all 11 participants of the 18th #OpenStreetMap #Delhi Mapping Party! 🙂
We hope you will join us again to help make #OSM better. Each mapper matters!
#OsmNcr #India #Noida
Mal ab davon, dass ich bisher noch nie eine funktionierende #mapcomplete Karte erstellen konnte 🙈 ...
... träume ich noch von der Tourismus Karte. Die, bei der man einfach während dem Sightseeing allerlei Dinge mappen kann ohne die Karte wechseln zu müssen.
Dinge hinzufügen, Daten erweitern, Bilder und Bewertungen hinzufügen ist das Ziel.
is there an "easy" web based (usable with full sized computer) editor for #OSM ?
I'm looking for one I can use to correct/add things like info about local businesses (such as opening hours, whether a business exists at that location)
I do have an OSM account and have looked on the main site but I click on an element and get all sorts of stuff and am worried about putting in the wrong tag or knackering something on the map that someone else has made..
If it is still around, here is a map of old railway gear. Onoy requirement to be added is to be permanently in the same place: mapcomplete.org/historic_rolli…
"These features rely on tons of our user-generated data—the fuel of the platform... Crucially to the business, we users perform this crucial labor for free and without any say in the direction of the platform."
And this is why I stopped contributing to #MapyCom (and pretty much all proprietary platforms) and started contributing to #OpenStreetMap and #WikimediaCommons last year.
A few days ago I discovered that its possible to add manmade bird nests. I was standing near a stork's nest when I found the topic. And directly added a picture.
I also found by chance that beehives can be added. And that there are also viewpoints to add under the theme of nature.
It would be nice if there was some information and not find by chance.
something new thats still hidden under some Theme?
One thing I miss in #OpenStreetMap, #Organicmaps and so on are contextual images. One thing I don't miss are all the ads. Wikimedia has a lot of contextual photos released under a #CreativeCommons license. (wikishootme.toolforge.org/) Couldn't it be possible to create an integration for OSM to pull images from Wikimedia into a map-app like Organic Maps? That would be awesome.
#OpenStreetMap for #Portland is so extremely outdated that I discovered there used to be a restaurant called Daruma Sushi that closed in 2019 in the same space that is currently hosting Feral. Orange & Blossom was missing entirely. I tried to update both, but since #OrganicMaps didn’t let me log in, I’m not sure if my updates will sit in a queue somewhere…
In any case, #OSM is far from being a reliable #GoogleMaps replacement, unless you somehow already know exactly where you’re going 🙃
I contributed to #OpenStreetMap! But I didn't know that Cyclofix was going to ask me questions, so now I have to go back and test the pump and such, even though my bike is perfectly fine 😂 mapcomplete.org/cyclofix
A map for cyclists to find the appropriate infrastructure for their needs, such as bicycle pumps, drinking water, bicycle shops, repair stations or parkings
I am uploading pictures (#PanoramaX), as well of other details, in the bicycle parking theme of #MapComplete. I like to take the pictures and upload several afterwards.As sometimes I didn't remember whether a bicycle parking has already pictures or not I find useful this simple overpass(overpass-turbo.eu/)that shows you which ones in an area lack them.
For sake of trying something new, we introduced #MapComplete ( @MapComplete ) as the first editor for our 6 new mappers. While there were some rough edges, it enabled them to contribute photos to #Panoramax.
The OpenStreetMap community of Delhi invites everyone to its upcoming mapping party!
Join us and meet new people, explore new places, and learn how to use and improve this community resource.
Been adding restaurant ratings and reviews to Mangrove Reviews @mangroveReviews using MapComplete @MapComplete
I’ve written 6 so far, and there’s more to come! Plenty of WIP drafts to finish 🙂
This really plays to my strengths, combining my love for
writing,
improving OpenStreetMap, free data, and freedom-respecting software,
reviewing (as a child, I liked to review the theatre I watched with my parents…my parents and their theatre friends would often ask me for my review after the show, and would listen to me intently 🥺)
…and trying new things to eat and drink!
If you like my open data reviews and photos, please support me on Liberapay! I need to be able to afford eating out to continue reviewing 😅
PS MapComplete currently removes all line breaks from the reviews it displays (which breaks things like paragraphs and bullet lists), and Mangrove Reviews truncates the text of the reviews it displays. So there’s no perfect way to view the reviews right now…I’ve let the developers know about these issues and they will hopefully fix them soon.
Here is a uMap showing the murals from the 17 Walls project – plus many other mural locations in the city (that are mapped in OpenStreetMap). A great way to explore Denmark’s second-largest city through public art.
Map of the 17 murals in Aarhus from the **17 Walls** project. Each mural is an interpretation of one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
[[https://www.17walls.
🥵'Fait vraiment chaud, hein ! 🥵 Vite ! L'appli carto #CoMaps à la rescousse ! Elle indique points d'eau💧, bibliothèques📖❄️ et parcs🌳 ! Appli sans pub, sans traçage, fluide et jolie ! Bonus : fonctionne hors-ligne🫨 : téléchargez les cartes chez vous sur votre ordiphone et hop, vous avez accès aux cartes sans internet à l'extérieur !
N'hésitez pas à donner au projet♥️, l'appli est en accès gratuit et repose à 100% sur les dons : comaps.app/donate/
Just so you know, #OsmAnd is celebrating its 15th anniversary with 50% off its plans, which you can now pay for directly without paying the 'app tax' to Google or Apple.
I highly recommend OsmAnd — it's a Swiss army knife for maps! Open source. Based on #OpenStreetMap.
High time to announce my newest project: #PublicArtExplorer If you are into art and would like to know what outdoor art is available around you (or any other place you are interested in) this app may be for you. Check it out and let me know what you think.
