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🌐 MAPEO DE RUTAS Y PARADAS COLABORATIVO METROPOLITANO

ÂĄTe invitamos a formar parte de un proyecto ciudadano que busca mejorar la movilidad en toda la zona metropolitana! Tu experiencia diaria como usuario de transporte es valiosa: cada ruta que recorres y cada parada que utilizas ayuda a construir un diagnĂłstico real, actualizado y colaborativo del territorio.

Este mapeo abierto permite identificar:

🚏 Paradas de ascenso y descenso (formales e informales)

đŸ—ș Rutas completas (conjuntos de puntos/coordenadas)

đŸšČ Estacionamientos y biciestacionamientos

🚇 LĂ­neas de metro, tren, telefĂ©rico

🚌 Rutas de camiones, combis, autobuses y servicios especiales

🚐 Transporte escolar, foráneo o alternativo

đŸ› ïž Lugares donde deberĂ­a instalarse o mejorarse una parada

Tu participaciĂłn alimenta una base de datos pĂșblica que serĂĄ Ăștil para estudiantes, investigadores, colectivos, autoridades y cualquier persona interesada en la dignidad de la movilidad.

🔗 Más información y participación: https://encuestaorigendestino.my.canva.site/

Si quieres recibir novedades del proyecto o conocer los resultados, deja tu correo al final del formulario. Juntos podemos construir mejores rutas, mejores decisiones y un territorio mĂĄs accesible para todas y todos.

Location: Colonia INFONAVIT Dr. Ignacio Chåvez, Ciudad de México, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, 14339, México
Posted by supersellout6907 on 14 November 2025 in English.

I’ve been tagging my local area for the last 2 years, and where I live, there are areas which are small yet notable, often past plantations or well known locations usually with origins in colonialist’s estates. For example, Clement Hill was a plantation centered on the house called Mound Court, where Benjamin Clement and his descendants once did their business. As such, the location got called Clement Hill. Similar things happened with Viewmont, New Glasgow, Green Hill, etc. What has confused me though is how to tag these locations. Despite all being the same sort of thing, they all get treated differently, even between maps. Yet they are all single notable locations, either inhabited or not, centered around tracts of land where farms or plantation houses were or are present. There are multiple tags in OSM that cover similar ideas, such as: 1. a locality 2. an isolated settlement 3. a plot 4. a farm 5. a named house 6. a residential area 7. a historic location And as I said, maps treat them differently. Some maps treat them as residences while others highlight them like they do hamlets and towns. Sometimes the location is specified as the name of the plot while other times it’s referring to the general area instead. So how do you tag all these similar yet different locations? I’d like an unambiguous “plantation” or “estate” location tag which signifies that the location: 1. is or was a place where an estate was located. 2. is used like a general settlement name . 3. is between a farm, a plot, and a locality or isolated settlement as not all of these locations are exactly any of them. 4. but conveys the one idea of a significant plantation or similar settlement, either existent or no longer existent, that can be surrounded by smaller residences or be a lone estate, as these 2 scenarios are common in rural Virginia and are both considered the same sort of thing.

Location: Grit, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 24563, United States
Posted by BeardMD on 14 November 2025 in English.

It’s been a while since I posted, and we’ve been working hard in the background to add more (and safe) OSM contributing. Since last we spoke, we’ve actually been in court, defending ourselves against a “competitor” (I wouldn’t consider us competitors, we’re in the same space but they’re for-pay and we’re Libre, Open Source, Open, and Free) who claimed we “stole” their data.

Funnily enough, “their” data seems to come straight from OSM. When I contributed an albergue a while back, I made a typo (Ăš instead of Ă©) and it’s in their dataset. So, yeah, we won, they paid, and they cried. Cheaters always accuse others of cheating.

We renamed ourselves from Camino Now to Ultreia.me, because another competitor didn’t like the fact that we had “Camino” in the name and sued as well.

There is a LOT of money to be made with those apps, which is why they all hate being threatened by a free/libre alternative.

Anyhow, we now sync hostel data back. Mainly telephone numbers, opening hours, wheelchair access, kitchen access, washer/dryer, those things.

Location: Asén, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, A Coruña, Galicia, 15705, Spain

RETEX : Fin de mon trekking urbain recyclage

Ă  suivre peut-ĂȘtre :

  • entrĂ©e de journal (Ă  venir) : Rencontres au fil des randonnĂ©es cartograpuiques
  • entrĂ©e de journal (Ă  venir) : Questions existentielles sur ma rencontre avec panoramax
  • entrĂ©e de journal (Ă  venir) : Questions existentielles sur OSM et le monde WikimĂ©dia

Mon trekking urbain recyclage est maintenant fini (en ce qui concerne la tentative de cartographie de tous les points d’apport volontaire de l’intercommunalitĂ© GPS&O.

Bilan quantitatif.

J’avais estimĂ© au dĂ©part 240 noeuds Ă  crĂ©er et la pratique m’a clairement dĂ©trompĂ©. j’en suis Ă  :

  • 1659 noeuds PAV et 8 dĂ©chĂšteries créés (ou complĂ©tĂ©s s’ils existaient dĂ©jĂ )
  • 320 km parcourus Ă  pied pour passer devant chacun de ces points, les gĂ©olocaliser et les photographier (sans compter bien sĂ»r les plus de 500 km en voiture Ă©lectrique pour aller et revenir aux dĂ©parts des 32 boucles pĂ©destres)
  • 6000 photos prises (une par une, pas de sĂ©quence GoPro), dont 2000 versĂ©es Ă  Panoramax

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Location: MĂ©dan, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France mĂ©tropolitaine, 78670, France
Posted by GridRecce_Import on 11 November 2025 in English. Last updated on 26 November 2025.

The goal of this project is to improve address coverage in the City of Brampton on OpenStreetMap by verifying and adding missing address information using open data provided through the Brampton GeoHub. The DATASET includes authoritative municipal address points, which serve as a reliable source for accurate street names, house numbers, and related attributes.

Data Source: - Dataset: Municipal Address Points - License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - Attribution: “Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Brampton.”

Scope: - City of Brampton only - Single-family dwellings and clearly matched building polygons

26 Nov 2025, Edit: Project paused until a suitable dataset with a compatible usage license can be obtained. Thank you to users pointing out the Brampton license may not cover OSM usage.

Posted by AlexSpritze on 11 November 2025 in German (Deutsch).

Okay, warum nicht mal filmen, was man so bei OpenStreetMap fĂŒr Änderungen vornimmt?

https://www.youtube.com/@AlexSpritze_OSM

Geht zum GlĂŒck schneller als gedacht, auch wenn das erste Video nur ein One-Shot ist, ohne weitere Bearbeitungen und ohne Ton. Naja, die bewegten Bilder sprechen fĂŒr sich.

Location: Wolfen-Nord, Wolfen, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Sachsen-Anhalt, 06766, Deutschland

About eight months ago I started mapping my hometown, and earlier today I reached a major milestone of having gone over everywhere boxed in by the Sabine River Diversion Canal and the CPKC railroad. I’ve gotten a lot more detailed and generally more accurate with mapping, so rather than moving on I’m going to do a (hopefully much quicker) second pass, particularly for where I did not yet start using street-level imagery to verify road names, building/business names, and other micromapping targets I like to do (an embarrassing number of power poles and street lamps). I expect to have every road de-tigered and every visibly signed POI named sometime next year. From that point on I think I’ll focus on de-tigering the rest of the road network in the parish, then maybe start mapping other nearby towns.

Posted by jonnymccullagh on 10 November 2025 in English.

As part of the Ireland chapter of OpenStreetMap a few years ago I set up a tileserver and a map frontend that defaulted to showing placenames in the Irish language (Gaeilge). Recently I spent some time improving both these services.

Vector Tileserver

Previously the default style was named ‘ga’ and available at: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/ga However, last weekend I added a new ‘style’ named ‘sraid-v1’. You can take a look at it here: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/sraid-v1/ The screenshots below show a comparison. The new style is much brighter and has icons generated from Maki icons into a sprite sheet (see generate_sprites.py in the github repo). I also fixed a few things I didn’t like about the old ‘ga’ style.

If you are currently using tiles from tileserver.openstreetmap.ie and want to use the new ones, you will need to change the code where it currently points to: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/ga/ You can now use: https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/sraid-v1/ So to use this vector tileset you might use something like the code below with MapLibreGL var map = new maplibregl.Map({ container: 'map', style: 'https://tileserver.openstreetmap.ie/styles/sraid-v1/style.json' + keyParam, hash: true, maxPitch: 85 }); The previous style ‘ga’ is still present so there should be no breaks in functionality if you choose to continue using the old style. The code is available here: https://github.com/jonnymccullagh/irish-language-osm-tiles

Léarscåil

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Posted by Mapper_Toledo2025 on 10 November 2025 in English.

Dear OSM users,

I need to inform you that, unfortunately, the Toledo Province area is quite neglected and lacks detail. This isn’t anyone’s fault, obviously; it’s something that needs improvement, and together we can fix it. Furthermore, one of the most populated areas of Toledo, the La Sagra region and its surroundings, lacks updates and good features. We also cover the southern Madrid area, which also lacks updates.

WE NEED PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THIS AREA.

LET’S DO SOMETHING BIG.

Thanks for reading.

Posted by Mapper_Toledo2025 on 10 November 2025 in Spanish (Español).

Queridos usuarios de OSM

Necesito comunicaros que por desgracia la zona de la Provincia de toledo esta bastante abandonada y con pocos detalles esto no es culpa de nadie obviamente es una cosa a mejorar y que todos unidos podemos arreglar ademas una de las zonas mas pobladas de toledo la provincia de la sagra y alrededores carecen de modificaciones y buenos detalles tambien abarcamos la zona del sur de madrid que tambien carece de actualizaciones

NECESITAMOS GENTE QUE LE PREOCUPE LA ZONA MENCIONADA

HAGAMOS ALGO GRANDE

Gracias por Leer

He tenido que añadir muchas cosas a este lugar durante mi jornada laboral. Necesito a alguien que, conmigo, añada a Getafe lugares que aĂșn no estĂĄn en el mapa. Por favor, escrĂ­banme en privado para decirme quiĂ©n quiere colaborar en este proyecto llamado: ÂĄAyudemos a Getafe! AvĂ­senme si les interesa. LeerĂ© sus mensajes. AdiĂłs, Kitsunderoku

I had to add so many things to this place during my courent day in the job. I need someone that with me add to Getafe some things that there aren’t on the map. Please, write me in private to let me now who want to colaborate in this proyect that is name: Lets help Getafe!!!! Let me now who is interesed writting me. I will read your menseges. Bye Kitsunderoku

Posted by jimmyjamjar10101 on 10 November 2025 in English.

More recently I find myself addicted to OSM once more after a long hiatus. I guess working in the civil road design space has me interested in capturing features around the streets such as crossings, sidewalks, street furniture and recreation spaces.

I’m shocked by the number of sidewalks I have found that cross a street not as a crossing. I’m fixing these as I find them.

My end goal is to try and resolve as many items from StreetComplete as I can around where I live and work, adding to the accuracy of the overall map model locally.

Posted by waldegger on 9 November 2025 in German (Deutsch).

Neue Edits

Da ich Organic Maps am Handy nutze und entdeckt habe, dass manche Informationen oft jahrealt und ĂŒberholt sind, bearbeite ich nun wieder OSM.

Sammlung - öffentlich zugÀngliche Klavier

Eine Idee, die ich umsetzen will, ist eine Art Übersichtskarte von öffentlich zugĂ€nglichen Pianos und FlĂŒgeln. Ich finde es selbst oft sehr reizvoll beim Reisen, wenn man als Musiker ein freistehendes, öffentlich zugĂ€ngliches Instrument wie ein Klavier entdeckt und darauf spielen darf.