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The total mess of tagging crossings and a way to move forward

Re @Ruben:

Indeed, 12 lights. Seems like I miscounted; I’ve edited it.

Re: button_operated: indeed, it sometimes cannot be determined. We should keep =yes in this case. When it can be determined, we have the different values.

Re: lot of work: I don’t have the time and energy to do all of this as well. However, some data users (i.e. blind people, municipality workers, people lobbying for cycle infra) need this data. We might be to lazy to do this, but we shouldn’t be stopping them either!

Why is showing pedestrian crossings so complicated?

Small note: the link to the github is not a permalink; the linenumber drifted out of sync. This is a permanent (but stale) link: https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/26fca6b352b17b7be36066a13a54a8e17a9f6a28/shared_lua.lua#L7424

Validating trees

I’ve now added a maximum height check and circumference check into mapcomplete/trees, it won’t accept trees bigger then 116m now

Mapping Gun Violence Memorials

Hey,

Have a look to MapComplete/memorials where you can add memorials and pictures straight into OSM+Panoramax

Validating trees

Checkout https://mapcomplete.org/trees

My urban trekking "recycling"

Is https://mapcomplete.org (esp https://mapcomplete.org/waste) something that would fit your workflow? That uploads to our panormax-instance without a hassle

Wheelchair Accessibility Mapping in Regina - Some Thoughts

I’ve also did quite some research and tagging work on accessible wheelchair toilets: osm.wiki/Wheelchair_accessible_toilets

Wheelchair Accessibility Mapping in Regina - Some Thoughts

@Malle_Yeno,

Actually, I see accessibility as a routing problem. If one maps all the indoor corridors, the elevators, the stairs, the doors, … with their respective properties, a user can ask a (still to be created) routeplanner to give them an accessible route. This way, they can get a route (or “no route possible”) for their specific usecase; could also be reused for moms with strollers, people with bicycles in e.g. train stations, …

Wheelchair Accessibility Mapping in Regina - Some Thoughts

In my opinion, adding https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:wheelchair=yes/no/limited is not very useful. It gives some indication, but actually measuring is more valuable - especially cause there is a huge difference in the range of abilities of wheelchair users (e.g. a young, strong person in a wheelchair who has the arm power to get over e.g. 10cm high kerbs vs an old person in an electric scooter, for which even 5cm is an insurmountable problem).

With https://mapcomplete.org/onwheels, I’ve tackled this problem by adding the individual (indoor) doors; it is up to the data consumer to figure out afterwards what doors are suitable to them and which are not.

An overview of reviews made with MapComplete – 2025 edition

@Strubble: correct, it lives on a dynamic IP but I forgot to config the dynDNS. Oopsie…

It should be back online

Power infrastructure, climate change and OpenStreetMap

Very interesting!

A few remarks and questions:

  • First of all, how do you fend of the criticism that “this data shouldn’t be publicly available, as Russia/terrorists/people with bad intentions might attack the power infrastructure”? In my opinion, those bad actors will do their own research anyway
  • You’re also welcome to test https://MapComplete.org - one can make a custom layer showing OSM data and asking questions. It is partly inspired on StreetComplete, but focuses on one topic at a time. You can build such a layer yourself on https://mapcomplete.org/studio
  • There is a typo (“OpenStretMap”)
Moving pictures from IMGUR to Panoramax: some thoughts and little facts
  1. Federation takes some time. Ask in the panoramax char how long. Same for updating the map tiles.
  2. It depends on a few factors which geolocation is assigned, this is still something that is in development. See the issue tracker for more info.
  3. There are about 40K images now. The hetzner instance has 160GB capacity IIRC. I think 150K images is doavle, but Thibault does the hosting.
Moving pictures from IMGUR to Panoramax: some thoughts and little facts

Hey @Binnette,

That is a supercute and superfun theme. I’ve had some inquiries about this before and why this will never be an official theme: https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete/issues/1499

How to verify your OpenStreetMap-account on Mastodon?

Jup, I see the checkmark on your profile too now!

Yeah, I read the Weekly too and saw that they mentioned this.