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SomeoneElse This user is a moderator

Mapper since:
August 24, 2008
Last map edit:
December 19, 2025

I live near York (UK), though I do occasionally venture further afield. I mainly map footpaths and other out-of-town things. Also see related profile on Mastodon.

There are some bits and pieces (including two parts of an OSM-Carto-derived rendering style designed for out-of-town England and Wales) over at Github that look like this. There are some wiki pages behind here (mostly to do with tileserver setup).

I’m a member of the Data Working Group (that’s what the blue star above means), but if you’ve got any issues to raise with the DWG the group email address is the best one to use.

Other related accounts are SomeoneElse2. SomeoneElseSC and SomeoneElse_Revert, which is mainly used where people have requested that I help with reversions.

The “User id” of this account is “61942” and the text above this should include “Mapper since: 24 August, 2008”. I mention that because there have been a few attempts over the years to impersonate DWG members, including me, using names such as “SomeoneEIse” (with a capital “i” instead of a lower case “l”) and others with various UTF-8 versions of characters that look similar to, but are not, regular ascii characters.

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry Plumbing the depths of OSM keys and values

I look after a map style that’s designed to show rural pedestrian-focused information (hiking routes etc.). It natively supports zoom levels up ...

Comments 0 comments Date November 29, 2025

Diary Entry A Shortbread map style that looks a bit less beige

The https://www.openstreetmap.org website currently has two “OSM-hosted” map styles on it - the “Standard” style (raster tiles) and a “Shortbread...

Comments 3 comments Date November 20, 2025

Diary Entry Pedestrian crossing details on Garmin maps

… and following on from the previous entry, Maps for Garmin devices at map.atownsend.org.uk now show crossing details too: The following tags fr...

Comments 2 comments Date November 07, 2025

Diary Entry Why is showing pedestrian crossings so complicated?

I have a couple of web maps, and they are supposed to show pedestrian crossings. If there’s some crossing infrastructure (for example - zebra st...

Comments 5 comments Date November 03, 2025