I noticed yesterday when tracking the delivery truck for our new dishwasher install and was pleasantly surprised to see OSM as the map.

It was mentioned in the weeklyOSM as having been used for strengthening disaster risk reduction efforts: https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/18130

The steps:

1. Define an area of interest
2. Run a map quality check
3. Export a PDF of the sketch map and let locals fill it out with relevant markings
4. Scan / photograph the marked up sketch map
5. Upload to sketch maps to get the collected markings as geodata

Some FAQs:

So far the Sketch Map Tool has only been tested on neighborhood or city level. The tool works best for study areas which are smaller than 50km².

Please make sure not to accidentally mark the globes at the edge as they are needed for automatic map detection. Use thicker felt-tip pens with intense colors; red, blue, and black work best. Prepare the same set of pens for all interviewers.

I just ran across a changeset that removed addr:city from a bunch of POIs, on the grounds that it was "redundant with boundary data." Some of these POIs had a Canadian postcode that would indeed imply city, but others had no postcode. The city could of course be calculated by the POI's presence inside the city relation, but I hadn't seen this as a rationale to remove information before.

Would people consider this valid? By extension, should I stop documenting the city when I create a POI; is it considered noise?

Digitizing informal public transport on OSM through collaboration. Volunteers ride routes to trace them. Universities and civic groups strengthen the base map. Trufi helps turn this into GTFS so it can live inside apps. The result is not just an app, but a system where open data empowers both riders and planners.

Note: A Spanish language podcast with a few curated quotes in English on the page.

The BusBoy app pointed him to usable routes in the city, and locals confirmed the details. But at the edge of town, Christoph met the reality of inter-city travelers: There's no app for that (yet).

I have historically mapped the keys "wikidata=" and "name=" of restaurants such as McDonalds. According to the OSM wiki name vs brand is the contributor's pick in this instance.

However, I have just learned about "brand:wikidata=". Is there a useful difference to use this key with the keys I normally use or would it be redundant?

• key:brand
• key:brand:wikidata
• key:wikidata

how do i mark a square that's open to cars and should also show up on maps as part of the road map?

this excluded cars ☞
place | square
highway | road

now i'm trying with ☞
area:highway | yes

How to blackstamp my head in street-level images?

I just purchased an Insta360 X4 to create street-level images for Mapillary & Panoramax and took my first pictures with it. As much as I love my hair, I don't really want to see it in street pictures.

In other users' images, I often see a black circle or something similar where a head would normally be. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything quickly: Which image editing tool that can edit 360-degree images can I use to put a black stamp on my head before uploading the images?

#Insta360 #GoPro #OpenStreetMap #Mapillary #Panoramax #StreetLevelImages #ImageEditing #ImageProcessing #AskFedi
@openstreetmap @askfedi

Can't do that with any other map service I know of!

geteilt von: https://feddit.nl/post/33407329

We've all already talked about switching away from google/apple maps to something like openstreetmaps, mapy, tomtom amigo, etc. But all of these services use openstreetmaps (UK non-profit) as a source and they still miss a lot of local data even for bigger cities!

If you have some spare time, think about adding a bit of data to the map with your local knowledge. There's a lot of business data missing that is on google maps like websites, phone numbers and opening hours but also stuff like parking lots and whether they're publicly accessible and free or not. Adding these makes the competition of ALL services using OSM as a source better.

I also use the mobile app https://streetcomplete.app/ and https://every-door.app/ to add data while on my walks, these make my walks more engaging and I actually take longer ones + see new places because of it. Streetcomplete also has a focus on important and easy to collect data with their default filters, and you can choose what you want to contribute.

If you really want to get into the thick of it and contribute more than just simple data you can always check out https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute and see in which of the many ways you can contribute!

Mainstream mobility experts often discount the scale and vitality of informal transport, and the role of open data such as OSM. At UITP 2025, we pierced the bubble and connected with our allies.

An open source web tool under MIT license dedicated to OSINT and geospatial forensics using OpenStreetMap Overpass API

https://github.com/nikoko107/OSINTMap