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OSM Blogpost about State Of The Map 2025 being held in the Philippines this October

I use osmand, however is there a plugin or separate app that uses traffic data or weather data (road closure/accidents).

I am annoyed by komoot. Is there any suitable alternative for sharing hiking or biking trips online. Something like OSM but for tours. Ideally federated, but I would be happy with anything.

Right now I create a note "so and so business operates at this address" but is there better way to do this? [Using Streetcomplete]

My partner and I love having live location sharing, it's the main feature of Google Maps that we loathe leaving behind. Is there anything in the OSM ecosystem that replicates it?

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When mapping buildings, I'll switch between the ESRI and Bing satellite maps, since they both offer different "freshnes" and clarity, depending on the area.

I keep seeing this in edits, but where can you view this "Lyft-owned street-level imagery"??

I'm sure this has been asked thousands of times, but how do I view the map extracts offline? (.osm and .pbf) Is there a (native) app I can use? Can't find any clear information.

OSM site and data stopped loading in Northwest Russia on all networks I connected to.

Osmand doesn't appear to be able to locate street addresses. Like if I input something like "123 4th Street" all it can do is offer some cross streets, which may be miles away from my intended location.

Just wrote a little blog and made a video about this to hopefully make it easier for folks to figure this out. I've looked it up a few times throughout the years and it was always a little tricky to find.

The #OpenStreetMap Foundation's Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG) is looking for volunteers to help improve the OSMF Affiliation Models!

I'm on Street Complete and I'm trying to differentiate between Concrete, Concrete slabs, and concrete lanes. There's a walkway that's just a normal concrete walkway, I didn't know there were so many designations for this.

I know that is at first a geo database but has anyone build a better web ui where i can plan routes with public transport just like on google maps

For our parkour group, we have a list of spots with custom pictures of the spots, embedded right into google maps, so you don’t have to click on any other website. This is quite cool and convenient. Is there any way to move that list (manually is ok) to OSM? E.g. in a city guides functionality, which I have some memory of, but don’t know where it comes from.

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I’ve been playing around with Google Maps lately to create custom maps.

@openstreetmap A while ago I've seen a before-after screenshot command line tool for osm mentioned somewhere but I cannot find it anymore.I believe it was written in python.Does anyone know the name of the tool in question?

When I read about Overture Maps like a year or 2 ago, it seemed to me that basically they were going to create a whole new thing from scratch.

I’ve encountered some conflicting usages of Tag:landuse=residential. Some areas are very specific, and broken down into individual blocks, while some areas cover multiple blocks. Here’s an example of both styles adjacent to each other:

I’m looking at Tag:crossing=marked, and it’s a little vague. It says:

Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.

@openstreetmap Is there any documentation on mapping individual small plants like flowers or cacti?I'd like to start mapping botanical gardens but cannot find any information on this.

Hi is there some project, instructions or some github repo for converting 360° video and GPX file to something like street view?

I recently got a Pixel and installed GrapheneOS on it. I would like to add some places to the map. Is there anything I need to know regarding preserving my privacy while contributing?

It’s a key feature of Google maps that I don’t have a great replacement for. I assume moderating the reviews would be a significant challenge for the project.

I've got a patio for a restaurant tagged as leisure=outdoor_seating. That page says you can add operator=* as a string, but I'm wondering if I can add a Relation between the patio and the restaurant. This is really for semantic reasons, because if the restaurant changes its name or gets a new owner, it would be nice if the patio didn't then have out-of-date information.

I'm taking a look at traffic circles like this:

I'm looking to tag a simple 4 way stop with typical US red/yellow/green traffic signals. I was wondering what the difference between signal and traffic_lights is in iD, and the wiki page just says this about traffic_lights: