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Longest routes, routers and the antemeridian

It also seems like an even longer route would be Cape Town <-> Chukchi Peninsula, but no routers demo instances support such transcontinental trips; the demo OSRM instance at least splits the road network between ~eurasia and ~africa. Also of note that seems that both regions are publicly connected only by this single border post between Egypt and Israel:

osm.org/#map=18/29.57482/34.97837

There are more, but all go across military zones on both sides, and it seems like most routers won’t take you through there.

Regional parking and rest areas - my method

Would you tag https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=rest_area also those highway stops that are bigger than just toilets + picnic tables? For instance these guys:

osm.org/#map=17/43.41499/6.45305

A guide to mapping with the help of image segmentation

Thank you for this tutorial, I’ll try to follow it soon to reclassify some areas around my home. It would be nice to have some screenshots or even a short video showing all this.

Is this how gen Z works? They talk through hashtags right?

Parsed with kramdown Headings # Heading

Water Body Digitization

TL:DR River Polygons with river lines good, river lines alone bad.

Don’t forget: River polygons alone bad too.

Also: River polygons that include many different rivers and/or streams bad too.

I’m not sure what to do about cutting riverbanks at bridges like here: osm.org/?mlat=43.12263&mlon=5.96405#map=18/43.12263/5.96405&layers=Y

On taggings and stylings

Well, the fact that you think of them as buildings is already a local thing :) Here they’re mostly rooms embedded in the first/ground (another local thing!) floor of buildings.

On taggings and stylings

Offer universal vector tiles, i.e. vector tiles that everywhere contain all OSM data in that tile. This should relieve the technical burden such that people with design focus easier can design new styles.

This might be harder than you think. VT still define at which ZLs features appear; f.i., ‘amenities’ (as defined by the osm-carto style) at ZL 10 or more. If anyone would like to render some of those amenities at a lower ZL (that is, 9 or less), they would have to change the minzoom of that layer in osm-carto, and would have to ask you to something similar to your VT compiler.

For tags that is still not rendered on OSM default map tile, they can design their own style for that tags

This could also allow local communities to tag things that are not “translatable” around the world: AFAIK, supermarkets are similar all over the world, but shops selling magazines and newspapers are different in Argentina, España and France. When you go to a “presse” in France you know you can buy many other stuff that’s consistent all over the country but not in the rest of the world. A “kiosko” in at least Argentina is something you will be pressed to find in Europe. A “rotisería” in Argentina is not quite what a “rotisserie” is in France. I’m pretty sure there are gazillion of similar examples from all over the world.

OTOH, mappers are not necessarily good at drawing icons; I talk from personal experience :)

Test Partenza

funziona :)

Test

PASS

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Newbie mapper's whining, joy and fear

From another non native speaker, your English is perfect :)

I have no car

Bicycle or kick scooter would be fine, the city does not look that big :)

if I shift Esri layer now, to match my moved buildings? I suppose, gps tracks will be looking misplaced then? No! They are still ‘somewhat on roads’, and that magic gives me anxiety

I think that’s expected. Tracks most probably are independent of imagery, that’s why you could consider tracks as ‘ground truth’ and align imagery based on that. At least, that’s the theory.

If you have more questions, I suggest you to join the #osm IRC channel at oftc.org and ask about these things; I’m not an expert on those myself.

I’m not sure even that what I do is right

As long as you think is the right data, please do. If later someone finds a better alignment, I think the data can be easily realigned. But again, better ask more knowledgeable people. IRC as I mentioned above (mostly synchronous, chat), or maybe the new site at https://community.openstreetmap.org/ (more async, forum).

How do I make a website using openstreetmap platform on a chromebook?

osm.org is already a site that uses the OSM ‘platform’ (we don’t call it that, so probably you will have to explain what do you mean by that). are you asking how do develop a similar one on a chromebook?

Started my first edit within my local area

Welcome! If you like to map Points Of Interest (POIs) while walking around, I suggest either OsmAnd or maybe the new Every Door. Other apps I recommend are Street Complete.

редагування місцевості в україни

For a moment I thought this could be vandalism, given that the title mentions Ukraine (україни), but the user is just adding a bunch of houses. Still, two comments:

  • Change descriptions could be more descriptive
  • There have been calls in the community to not map Ukraine. I can’t find references to it, but the posts have been written in English and … Ukranian, I think?
Crazy Roofing with Simple 3D Buildings

yeah, it works now :)

Cartographic generalisation

That newsly site seems to just pick up semi/pseudo random articles from wikipedia and repost them verbatim. Here’s the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartographic_generalization

A week waiting for render, and a trip out

while I was waiting for the render to cache on my PC

next time Control-F5 :)

Simple F9P (rtk) howto

@StephaneP: have you read anything about enhancing phones’ GPS by attaching external antennas?

Simple F9P (rtk) howto

Ah, I was only finding on their site the F9P module and was wondering abut soldering :)

Simple F9P (rtk) howto

Any chances of pictures of the final setup? schematics? Links to the products?