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Mapear en OpenStreetMap es dibujar el mundo real para que todos lo puedan usar. Observas: Sales, miras a tu alrededor o usas fotos satelitales libres. Dibujas: Pones un punto, una línea o un área en el editor (como iD). Etiquetas: Le dices qué es con etiquetas, por ejemplo amenity=cafe o highway=residential . Guardas:
– Portuguese below DO THE RIGHT THING AND RECEIVE GOOD IN RETURN: THE ETERNAL CYCLE OF CONSTRUCTION First Moment - That was the question: to attend in-person the SotM 2026 Paris or to support groups in Africa? Around the same time that the organizers of State of the Map 2026 were offering early-bird tickets for the Ope
On 29-30 August, I attended the State of the Map (SotM) conference, in particular the scientific part. It's been 15 years since the last time that I attended the SotM conference (last time 2011!), and it's an opportunity to fill in a knowledge gap that I developed over this period. Unlike other conference reports that
20/08/2026-26/08/2026 [ 1 ] Some tools, maps, and others things that come from the OpenStreetMap French community | © Jean Luis Zimmermann | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors . Mapping In early August, v7.1.0 of the iD tagging schema was released, bringing new features to iD, GoMap!!, EveryDoor, and other editor
Bonjour, as our gracious hosts like to say. The French community, together with the university, put together a fun experience. Keep in mind that this is my first (larger) OSM gathering of any type. As an longtime inhabitant of the forum at c.osm.org I already read a few views on different types of members of our actual
In June 2026, UN Mappers Kenya launched its first ever Youth Climate Mapping Externship ,a seven-week virtual programme designed to put real geospatial tools in the hands of young Kenyans and point them at real climate problems in Nairobi. Nineteen university students answered the call. A Programme Built by UN Mappers
En la página principal de OpenStreetMap osm.org en algunas ocasiones sale un cuadro en el borde superior derecho, con una imagen relacionada con OSM. En muchos casos es promocionando el evento State of the Map global. Aquí algunos ejemplos: Lo bueno, es que no solo se puede usar para eso, sino que puede solicitar la pr
so we have gotten a few questions about the project, mostly present in the first diary post we have made, but here we wanted to state a few basic things as a foundational- idk, statement so to say. firstly, what are we actually doing and why? so one night, at a random hackspace on the 25th of august, we were bored. and
I’m supposed to write a full report about my attendance at State of the Map 2026. But there are so many materials to discuss, especially the technical ones, and I’m already still stuck on day one already. If you check my latest OSM Diary entry in my State of the Map 2026 series, you’ll see that my writing stopped rathe
According to my personal schedule , I was supposed to attend the Guadeloupe room at around 14:50, for a talk titled “State of Panoramax.” But in reality, the opening speech was still continuing at least until 15:02, and I had to sign out at 15:16 . I managed to finally come back at around 15:56, but by that time, the G
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Whenever I run, I carry a GPX device to track my route. Over time, I’ve collected a large set of personal GPX traces. It made me realize that this personal dataset isn’t particularly valuable when I look at individual traces, but it can be made useful once I’ve collected multiple traces over the same city neighborhood.
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