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好的關於這破電源我是非常生氣,一個貼牌電源把我一條記憶體打壞了,下次不用二手的了再用我是小狗。

反正這不是重點,壞了就壞了,誰不會壞嘛。but那個破回收場,明知道裡面都是銅線,還用廢鐵價跟我收,純把我當豬仔宰是吧,還只有十塊錢,十塊錢欸,掛社團我都至少還有一杯手搖,好歹也給我15 20我去買冰水喝,以後不去了,黑。

反正賣完我就嘎拉嘎拉的騎著我的破腳踏車四處閒晃了,三個小時大概騎了20公里吧,沒很累,但到底是誰會把鐵皮屋標廟宇啊,我想說我怎麼沒聽過埔里有這個廟,騎過去一看,還真的鐵皮屋,不過應該是別人家,這人真無聊。還有不知道誰把荒地裡標一個廟宇,我 跑進去被蚊子叮慘了。

今天主要是跑郊區,市區太多要標的了標不完,明天跑田裡的廟吧,車少也好騎。

Posted by Causeistheffect on 18 August 2026 in English.

I remember when I first heard about these traffic cameras this guy paid me to listen to apb and manually log the codes to later look up and learn. Thinking about it these people were dangerous but it was normal for me being a military brat who joined the Marines after high school. I reminded the highest ranking ones of my grandfather who served 30 years. I guess it stirred up emotions making them uncomfortable cause I was clueless of my early departure resulting me in an unforseen path unaligned with my preset destiny.

This contribution is what Google identified as alpr I have a pic of it is just amazing how it doesn’t catch the license plate of a vehicle sitting in the middle of the intersection to prove truth of the occasion. Truth shall set us free

Posted by Causeistheffect on 18 August 2026 in English.

Your life is only a see through I never wanted to be you my goal was to necessary to those who needed a new perspective to bring others from the darkness into the light to be abundant. While in the darkness no one tried to save me instead my heart was like a clothes line chopped up into millions of pieces. I answered to the calling of the darkness and won my right to be to be silent. I learned to dim my brightness to a dull roar to respect those imbedded in the deep roots. They know I veil from divine right always seemed to be an outcast. I fell in love with the people everyone of them are necessary. I can’t speak about a certainty to take place when the times right. I understand it’s necessary thanks for not making it scary. Realization of I’m crazy just like you I’ll be a very bitter taste to you. Don’t take something your not willing to part from.

Posted by rphyrin on 17 August 2026 in English.

Several weeks ago, my bicycle finally got fixed, after being abandoned in a broken state for a long time.

Before that, I didn’t even know that my bicycle was actually broken.

All I knew was that this bicycle was really, really, really tiring to use. Even a short-distance trip was enough to tire me out for the whole day.

I didn’t know that this was caused by something being broken, which meant I had to put in (approximately) twice the effort to make it move (citation needed).

At that time, I simply blamed my own weak body. “Maybe I’m not strong enough to wield this bicycle,” I thought, dejected, considering giving up my whole cycling career prematurely.

Then, one random day, one of my family members used that bicycle, noticed something wrong with it, fixed it, and then it was finally ridable without needing much energy and force.

Alright. Now I can use my bicycle again, I guess.


For short trips, I usually prefer a bicycle to a motorcycle, for several reasons, you name it : hiking gas prices, the need to reduce our own carbon footprint to save the Earth (back then I took the mandatory environmental college course and thanks to that I’m still brainwashed so hard about the need to reduce my own carbon footprint), a nice opportunity to exercise my body, and the previous trauma of using a motorcycle and then suddenly having the engine not start so I had to walk the motorcycle to the nearest repair shop which turned out to be not near at all. Yeah, plenty of reasons.

So this afternoon, I decided to take a long trip to several places in my town, using my recently fixed bicycle.

I started around 4 PM and went home again around 6 PM.

Now it’s night, I’m sitting in front of my laptop, and getting curious : how many kilometers did I traverse this afternoon while cycling?


I didn’t bring a proper GPS device to record my trip this afternoon, but I remember each path that I took today. So, what should I do to calculate the distance?

At first, I tried BRouter.

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Posted by CodentGIS on 17 August 2026 in English.

Oh, where do I start?

It was around October when I had recently imported the barangay boundaries of my hometown, Cauayan City. I had just asked the GIS team at the local Planning and Development Office to adjust the boundaries again, as many issues were identified in the dataset. A while later, I had an idea to try to help the GIS team adjust the boundaries, because I figured, “Why not?” and they’re probably doing a lot of work already, given so many developments in the area.

The current flawed official map

A little back and forth, but then they stopped responding. I mean, it is basically a 50/50 chance that they respond or not. A little later, I dove into further research and stuff, and I thought of asking an institution to collaborate with me on making a dataset for the PDO to use and merge with theirs, so it can be as accurate as possible (I like things accurate).

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Location: District I, Poblacion, Cauayan, Isabela, Cagayan Valley, 3305, Philippines

呃好吧,我是新來的,可以叫我kiwi,熱愛刷機的kiwi。 先說說我為啥來這好了,我是為了因應「去谷歌化」與「自製BOB包」(好吧我根本就怪人),在網上爬啊爬,並在F-Droid上下載了這個開源地圖。 然後我在我刷了crdroid 8.6的Sony Xperia xz1上安裝了這個軟體,挺讓我驚奇的是,意外的好用,絲滑流暢,甚至在我的低端機上都運行的非常順利。 於是今天我就開始跑點了,我居住的小鎮上有很多無名小店,跑點這個過程讓我感到愉快。 希望各位能多多包涵我這怪人:) My telegram: https://t.me/taro_7421

Posted by rphyrin on 16 August 2026 in English.

One thing that usually worries us as OpenStreetMap mappers is having our hard work deleted by someone else, either accidentally or intentionally.

Thankfully, our edits are still in the database.

The delete operation in OpenStreetMap is not really a delete operation. It simply flips the object’s visible flag from true to false, while retaining its entire history.

And you can resurrect them using JOSM’s “Undelete Object” feature, as long as you have the OSM object’s ID.

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Posted by HRZA on 15 August 2026 in English.

I’m undergoing the learning path “Open Mapping Essentials” on HOT´s learning centre. In the process I have contributed by mapping local businesses and housing buildings in Managua. I also added a few rural roads in the Esteli area. All my changes are based on local knowledge of the areas. I am looking forward to contributing to the OSM and HOT communities.

Location: Planes de Altamira 3, Los Robles, District I, Managua, 14042, Nicaragua
Posted by Loopslol7 on 14 August 2026 in English.

Hi guys.

I would like to emphasize the benefit that the micromapping of certain features can contribute to unhoused communities. Of course, there still needs to be more awareness of OSM within these communities, but the data being there is great for the future and making the map more useful.

Tagging if the seats on benches are separated or not allows people to know where they are able to lay down and thus sleep if they don’t have access to other places to sleep. The tag seats:separated=yes/no is used for this purpose. Ive been adding this to every bench I map. Tagging benches that are not separated is just as important as tagging benches that are.

Drinking water is needed for all humans to live. Knowing where the nearest water fountain is, or the nearest convenience store that will let you fill up a water bottle from their fountain drink dispensers, can be super useful and help when times are tough. Consider looking out for drinking fountains at parks and other public places.

Hope you got something from this, happy mapping and I hope you have a nice day.

Posted by Nile_thebest on 12 August 2026 in English.

On August 12th, 2025, I made my first edit to OpenStreetMap. It has now been exactly one year since I began editing. Here are some of the coolest things I’ve done in my relatively small amount of time spent on this hobby:

  • 3,095 changesets

  • 226486 contributions

  • Added a “surface=” tag to every primary road, trunk road, and motorway in Virginia

  • Made changes in 64 countries

  • Procrastinated mountains of homework

It felt like this year went by so fast. I still remember the moment I discovered OpenStreetMap and how I got instantly addicted.

I hope to be an active contributor for years to come and meet tons of mappy people like me!

Posted by DMH_AU on 12 August 2026 in English.

I’ve now uploaded to the Internet a little web-based program called GPX Reference Point Generator (GPXRPG).

GPXRPG may be of interest to the subset of OSM Contributors who use the OSM iD Editor for “armchair mapping”.

These Contributors add to the OSM database new Area features - particularly urban building footprints - by tracing the outline of each building on an aerial imagery background layer. Before commencing to trace new building outlines, they need to check that the aerial imagery background they have chosen is aligned to OSM’s coordinate system with sub-metre accuracy (and if not, adjust the alignment using the iD Editor’s Imagery Offset dialog).

Two items are required to provide a basis for the alignment check:

  1. a “target spot” in the iD Editor’s Aerial Imagery Background Layer that has accurately known latitude-longitude coordinates. A visible Survey Control Mark with published coordinates would meet this requirement perfectly.

  2. a “reference point feature” in the iD Editor’s OSM Data Layer located at the same coordinates.

GPXRPG is a simple tool to create the required “reference point feature”.
It generates and downloads a GPX track file modelling an Arrow with its tip placed exactly at the published position of the target spot. This track file can then easily be dragged-and-dropped to the iD Editor’s map window to provide that vital OSM reference point feature.

GPXRPG includes a User Guide button which opens a document including an illustrated walk-through of an “armchair mapping” session using a Survey Control Mark and a GPX track file.

You can checkout this program and user guide at www.davidhaycraft.id.au/GPXRPG. Careful - this URL is case-sensitive!

Location: Wanniassa, District of Tuggeranong, Australian Capital Territory, 2903, Australia

For tomorrow’s eclipse I built a small free tool that reconstructs the ground-level view anywhere in the visibility zone, with buildings and forests from OSM extruded over real terrain, and the eclipse computed minute by minute. I posted the technical details on the community forum this week. The tool is at 2026eclipse.eu. Feedback on how your area renders is very welcome, especially where height tagging is sparse.

Posted by zby-cz on 11 August 2026 in English.

OsmAPP is the one integrated app for OpenStreetMap ecosystem for both web and mobile. It should be as easy to use as Google Maps, but fully open-source using all the great services around. It was first aimed at broad public, but now it becomes apparent, that it works best for the OpenStreetMap contributors, who want better UX or share OSM around.

The November release didn’t recieve its release notes until now, so we announce both version together. Also, mind that OsmAPP is updated continuously with every commit, versioning is used only for summarizing the changes.

Special thanks to all 6 contributors in both releases (BilbozZ, Dlurak, Fan Yaowen, Gabriele Monaco, Roman Deev, homtec). ❤️

v1.9.0 (Aug 7, 2026)

This release is mainly an announcement of the OpenClimbing fork 🎉

Since 2023 the OpenClimbing project has been developed alongside OsmAPP in one codebase. But recently the needs of both projects have started to differ, so we decided to fork it into a separate repository. The maintainership of the new repo was kindly taken by @jvaclavik.

Feel free to visit and add a star! Also, check out a ton of new features:
🌐 ➡️ https://github.com/jvaclavik/openclimbing  
           https://openclimbing.org/
           LATEST RELEASE: blogpost – OpenClimbing v2.0

To ensure higher reliability, OsmAPP was moved out of Vercel, and is now powered by a hacky-static-export, currently residing at Github Pages.

general

  • next.js hacky-static-export by @zbycz in #1450, #1493
  • auto deploy VPS on push by @zbycz in #1469

FeaturePanel

  • ⏰ Add coloring for opening times to indicate state by @homtec in #1141
  • Instant fetching for ways by @zbycz in #1488

SearchBox

  • show z/x/y tile boundaries by @zbycz in #1472
  • add more overpass hosts + retry if busy by @jvaclavik in #1460

Locales

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Imagine opening a map and finding almost everything you need for climbing in one place: areas, crags and routes, grades in your preferred system, topo photos, rock type, sun and shade – together with your own ascents and projects.

That is what we are building with OpenClimbing.

OpenClimbing is an open-source climbing guide built on top of OpenStreetMap and other open data. Instead of creating another closed climbing database, we want the data to stay open, reusable and editable by the whole community.

Today, OpenClimbing already contains almost 40,000 climbing routes, with more than 6,000 routes drawn directly on photos, across over 1,000 climbing areas in 31 countries – and the numbers keep growing as people add and improve data in OpenStreetMap.

climbing crag

Anyone can improve a crag, add a missing route or create a topo – and those improvements become part of an open dataset that can also be used by other applications.

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