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A Nice Mapping Trip

@Dron007: It seems to prevent peeing in the corners, but if you’re drunk or desperate enough, nothing will stop you. I saw two men publicly urinate in Nice, one of them not even in a corner.

Logo de OSM en formato real

Well done, that’s funny and genius at the same time!

OpenData for drinking water refill stations

@InsertUser: It’s the same on EveryDoor, they don’t use the refill tag, but the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:bottle=yes. No harm using both, just in case, in you want to go to that effort.

Finding SEO spam in OSM

Thanks for taking the time to put so much effort into it.

OpenData for drinking water refill stations

@philippec: Fair enough, it is probably a bit fast. I was planning on doing a longer video, but I haven’t found any other refill places yet. I can’t map the same place twice.

The official tags are explained on the wiki, though: drinking_water:refill=*.

OpenData for drinking water refill stations

I’m afraid I don’t understand your argument about going back in time. I make shorts to prove how little time it takes to map certain things.

My pandemic mapping project: Cheltenham addresses

Great work, I agree with most of your points, one very important one being the high viz vest. People are very concerned about their privacy an their children.

I mapped a lot of addresses using StreetComplete, but buildings were already mostly mapped. For new estates, I use OSMAnd as well.

I love the visualizations as well!

new tag man_made=urine_deflector

@ChristianA: It’s not going to be my lifelong mission to map them, just a way to draw attention to them. But I agree; you won’t get that diversity on any other map.

new tag man_made=urine_deflector

@MxxCon: No, it’s the thing behind the lamp post. It’s all explained on the wiki and in the video.

Velocity Leizpig

Als Exil-Leipzigerin freut mich das, bin dort fast nur Rad gefahren als Verkehrsmittel. Das war allerdings vor meiner OSM-Zeit bzw ganz am Anfang, als ich noch Anfängerin war.

Hier in Kilkenny war letzes Wochenende auch Fahrradfestival (BikeFest), witzig.

interesting trip to Co. Sligo

Thanks for checking that out, I see it under 5.6 under the first link now.

too far behind

Don’t despair, take your time and do as much as you can.

Data getting out of date can easily become a problem, I agree with that. But it can’t be helped, we are only human after all.

3D Mapping

Sieht gut aus. Kirchen sind natuerlich immer am beeindruckendsten.

Mapping and learning about milk churn stands

Thanks, Adrian. I hadn’t realized how many memorials there were that aren’t genuine milk churn stands, in Ireland and Germany. Maybe we should use memorial=milk_churn_stand for those. The date is a bit of a giveaway, I would think. Maybe the people in charge of the heritage garden know.

Mapping and learning about milk churn stands

@Skinfaxi: Great to hear that so many are surviving. I was told on Twitter that thousands survive Ireland, but we’ll only know once they’re all mapped. ;-) It’s interesting, because they were only in use for about 50-80 years, and were disused in many countries by the 1970s, as far as I have found out.

Mapping and learning about milk churn stands

Thanks for finding that on the wiki. I vaguely remembered looking for that when creating the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic=ogham_stone tag, but couldn’t find it this time, and I preferred to rely on a written source rather than my memory. Wrong choice possibly. I’ll change the wiki page for milk churn stands so. Would you mind adapting the ones you have mapped, if you did actually map them?

Mapping and learning about milk churn stands

I checked the naming conventions, and the information I found suggested that hyphens are favoured. There you go, that’s the wiki for you.

Seen on my (virtual) travels 3. Old Windmills on Anglesey

So it was you who mapped all the solar power. We noticed that alright. Interesting diary entry as well, thanks!

Mapping National monuments of Ireland

@Mateusz Konieczny: I didn’t invent this tag, and I made sure the structure tagged with it is mentioned in the corresponding wikipedia article linked with related:wikipedia. I am not responsible for other people’s decisions, and I doubt people will go as deep into the tagging to add https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:related:wikipedia=en:Building when they can’t even bother adding house numbers.

OpenStreetMap + Public Transportation Route

Haha, thanks for promoting my video. It’s still a lot of work to map a public transport route, and you easily miss a bit on a bridge or situations like that, where the road bit is very short. I think it’s easier in JOSM to find the gap.