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Temporary Road Closures Database and API - GSOC 2025

Sounds interesting! Magic Earth has reporting functionality for road events, but doesn’t actually use it in routing. I suppose the easiest way to implement this in OSM is through some parser that would translate event info into conditional tags?

Overture Places Data: Matching to OSM Tags

Good write up, interesting application of OpenAI’s platform. I wonder if Overture themselves are able to give pointers on how they came up with their tags - unless they’ve just taken all the business categories on Facebook or something

Speed limits on highway=primary

I was unpleasantly surprised at how undermapped a lot of the UK is. Given the data available, and OSM starting in the UK, it’s quite sad

Portales para fotos a nivel de calle

Mapilio looks peculiar, but ultimately doomed. I can’t see where they can fit in that market, given Mapillary needed to be bought out to survive

Assessing the quality of electric vehicle charging station data (with a specific focus on the "capacity" tag)

Good write up (and props to your colleagues for knowing what OSM is and how the data can be). One issue I found with the capacity tag and the last anomalous indicator you noted is sometimes people generalise a bit - eg where there is an installation of a few chargers, but a mapper only places one node, and then tries to correct this by summing up the capacities of each charger. Also, a few of the datasets (eg from infrastructure providers) I’ve seen have no or little detailed capacity data (ie split by socket type etc)

When is a path not a path?

Great write up. I’ve come across non existent paths mapped seemingly by blindly following OS before, a few times when out and about. I previously assumed the path was just mapped a while ago, or has grown over, but turns out it’s just rubbish data. Probably worth keeping the way tagged with eg was:highway, to stop people from remapping again from OS

OSMCha alternatives (sort of)

Yep, I was left with the same thought!

All of these (as far as I know) lack the main feature of OSMCha, which is to filter and show all change sets in a specific area sorted by date. Pascal Neis has some tools with similar functionality, but generally limited to a smaller area. Achavi is also a good tool for changeset-level review

Comparison of 360 Cameras on Mapillary

Chris Beddow (of Mapillary) has been using the Labpano Pilot recently, and I was quite disappointed with output for the price. All consumer 360 cameras are rubbish for detail, so I use a 4 GoPro setup instead. Not seamless, but much better, and ofter an easier workflow. To get anything useful in 360, you need to start looking at Insta360 Pro/Pro2