OpenStreetMap
mapmeld
- Mapper since:
- January 28, 2011
- Last map edit:
- December 12, 2025
This is my OpenStreetMap profile. You can add me as a friend here, or on Mapstodon @[email protected]
Map things which I wrote about
- Visiting Baarle-Hertog/Nassau
- Translating OSM UI to Maldivian Dhivehi
- OSM and non-OSM distortions on the Chinese border
- Where people tag Living Streets in the US
- What is going on with Arabic in OSM iD?
- Map renders on the Cyprus border
- Contributed to Japanese and Arabic Equal Earth posters
Future map interests
- Encouraging more map translations, local adoption
- Supporting campaigns to tag streetscapes, floodplain agriculture, refugee and displaced locations
- There is a particular Kurdish ligature which doesn’t render properly in Noto, researching fixes for tiles and WebGL
Latest Diaries
Diary Entry Mapping on Herm and Sark
In the English Channel, technically outside of the UK, there are the Crown Dependencies of Jersey and Guernsey. Aside from the main island of Guern...
Diary Entry Does OSM need any more fonts?
For years, an issue with Kurdish language, Arabic script, and OpenStreetMap tiles has been on my radar. In 2023 I got OSM to update Noto fonts on t...
Diary Entry Odds & Ends July 2023
Last fall I posted about “Living Streets of OpenStreetMap US”. In Las Vegas, I encountered two pedestrian streets (tagged with highway=pedestrian),...
Diary Entry Notes from Lake Superior Bike + Map Part 2/2
Continuing last week’s trip from Duluth, MN to Ashland, WI with a loop around Bayfield County. Now that I’m on the lake shore, I started seeing a ...