As a friend and I were adding the 57th tag to a climbing gym in Belgium, I wondered what the element with the highest tag count is. I couldn’t find such stats (which may be a good thing), so I downloaded belgium-latest.osm.pbf from Geofabrik and wrote a simple Python script that uses Pyosmium to do some counting for me.

Without further ado: the Belgian record for highest tag count is… the relation for Belgium itself actually, which currently has 491 tags. The non-relation with the highest tag count is, boringly, the node for Belgium, with 288 tags. Next up are Brussels (156 tags), the Council of the European Union (79 tags), one particular section of the River Meuse that somehow got its name mapped in 57 different languages (65 tags) and the Irish embassy (also 65 tags). Next up is the first element that has a lot of tags not because it’s just flooded with languages! This maritime beacon north of Antwerp in the River Scheldt has a respectable 63 tags to describe all its lights. Our climbing gym is not far off from this one, and has a lot more diverse information in its tags I’d say.

I noticed that the relation for Belgium also has a high version number, it’s at its 1043th revision. That prompted me to take a look at version numbers too. But 1043 isn’t even close to our record, which goes to the superroute relation for the E40 (version 3141). Granted, that’s international. The version record for a purely Belgian object is the hiking route GR 126 (version 1103) from Brussels to Membre-sur-Semois. Just like with tag counts, I find it more interesting to look at non-relations here, though. There the honour for highest version goes to one of the outer rings of a farmland multipolygon south of Mons, which is at version 277. Funnily enough, in contrast with its senior version number, it almost has no tags to speak of, only a source!

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I created this for my own use, but am sharing it here because it might be useful to other people too. This is the style and there’s a brief readme.

It uses different colours to highlight different map layers. It’s not supposed to look nice; just to show you what is there.

I believe that everything described in the schema is included. If a feature does not appear it might be because:

• it’s not in the Shortbread schema.
• it’s in the schema, but is for some reason missing from the OSMF vector tiles.
• it’s in the tiles, but there’s a bug in this style.

There are lots of features in the first category, and there seem to be a couple in the second. If anyone finds anything in the third category please let me know!

In dipalpur okara Punjab Pakistan

Severe floods and landslides devastated Sukabumi Regency, West Java, after two days of intense rainfall, with over 100 mm of rain falling in a short period, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). On Wednesday, December 4, the overflow of the Cikaso and Cibening Rivers inundated numerous areas, displacing residents and severing access roads. The hardest-hit areas included Palabuhanratu, Sagaranten, and Pabuaran. Floodwaters reached heights of 80–90 cm, submerging homes and halting transportation.

In Sagaranten, neighborhoods like Kampung Rangcabungur faced dramatic rescue operations as narrow alleys flooded waist-deep. Rescue teams, battling strong currents, evacuated several infants and their mothers. “We successfully rescued two to three babies. It was a tense process, but thankfully, everyone was saved,” said the Head of the Sukabumi Police’s Samapta Unit.

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Today, panning in Kampala, Uganda, I noticed so many place=village and place=neighbourhood , often the same name is duplicated.

Uganda #Kampala #BadMapping

MapSwipe on the Web Experience

Recently, I had the privilege of leading a MapSwipe training session for a corporate group, and it was an incredibly rewarding experience. While I’ve conducted online trainings before, this one felt particularly special. Despite my initial nerves, I was able to deliver a smooth and engaging training session.

Initially, I felt a bit nervous about taking on the role, especially since I was filling in for a colleague. “Corporate” to me also sounded really scary and extremely formal. However, with a bit of preparation and the support of a wonderful colleague, Nicole, I gained the confidence to deliver a successful training session. I focused on guiding participants through the web version of MapSwipe, a tool close to my heart.

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Backround

About 6 years ago now, the Ireland OSM community had a bunch of online and face-to-face discussions. There was a desire to have a common campaign, rather than everyone just paddling their own canoe, mapping old boundaries, addding 110KV monster pylons, plotting the holy stones of Clonrickert, or whatever you are having yourself.

Why Buildings?

And so #osmIRL_buildings was born. It took lots of months to pull together. There was a discussion document put out, and lots of decisions and guidance via videos, long conversations on Telegram, and frequent issues discussed on the mailing lists. The task was designed with a few things in mind. Firstly, the community recognized that compared to other territories, we had relatively small levels of completion of buildings. Secondly, a prominent academic had stated that the Irish Government knew more about the number and condition of cattle than it did about buildings. Thirdly, a lot of citizen science projects were trying to collate and capture where derelict and disused buildings were located in cities, with the hope that they might be repurposed for housing. Fourthly, there was a National Planning Framework launched in 2018 that concluded that the spaces for the next 1 million people to live in could not be sprawl outside of Ireland’s cities and towns. There were other reasons too, but those are the ones I recall, so apologies to all those other reasons and their proponents. Nevertheless, all of the ones I mention here could have been addressed by the creation of a fully open spatial dataset of the buildings on the island, and not what passes for open data by data.gov.ie.

Reservations

Of course there were detractors; some mappers worried about the threat of being inundated by the glibness of millions of “building”=”yes” objects. One man in Kilkenny was worried that the climate would have changed by the time the task would finish. He might yet be right.

Kick Off

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Had to write something about this. Well, the USA Geofabrik (Continental + HI and AK) extract is now well over 10GiB. And my poor Garmins still only can handle 4GiB gmapsupp.img files. Yeah, I have to lose over 6GiB of stuff now to get it to fit. I’m not sure how long this is tenable, but yes it’s a continuing struggle to get it to still work…

Session : 11

Topic : 𝑶𝑺𝑴 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓-𝒖𝒑: 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝑴𝒂𝒑

Offered by Open Mapping Guru Time: June 20, 2024.

Session :10

Open Mapping Guru gifted me for actively participating in the 𝙊𝙎𝙈 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧-𝙪𝙥: 𝙅𝙊𝙎𝙈 𝙋𝙡𝙪𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 training under the 🅾🅿🅴🅽 🅼🅰🅿🅿🅸🅽🅶 🅶🆄🆁🆄 Project last June 15,2024.

I learned in this platform about plugins which is related to Josm Map creator application 🙂 Powered by Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific & Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

I received the new achievement form in the platform of Open Mapping Guru for actively participating in the 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔 Training under the 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕘𝕦𝕣𝕦 Project last May 24, 2024. Thanks to Open Mapping Hub& Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) for creating a space for me to join and get some knowledge. Also thanks to the host Mikko Tamura.

Session: 08📯

𝐎𝐌 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐗 𝐇𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 “𝔸𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕍𝕚𝕤𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕄𝕒𝕡 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒” Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023 last April 12, 2024. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)🥰

Session: 07📯

𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝔹𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕔 ℚ𝔾𝕀𝕊 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕪𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤. held last April 19, 2024. Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Session: 06📯

𝐎𝐌 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: “𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒 𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕆𝕊𝕄 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕆𝕧𝕖𝕣ℙ𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕋𝕦𝕣𝕓𝕠” held last April 27, 2024. under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023.

Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some wonderful person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Session: 05📯

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑿 𝑯𝑶𝑻 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈:”𝕌𝕤𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 ℚ𝔾𝕀𝕊 - 𝔽𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘” held last April 26, 2024 under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023.

Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Session: 03📯

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: “𝔹𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕣 𝕁𝕆𝕊𝕄 𝕍𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟” held last April 20, 2024 Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Session: 02📯

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: “𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝔾𝕀𝕊 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℚ𝔾𝕀𝕊” held last April 20, 2024 Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Session: 01🛜

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑿 𝑯𝑶𝑻 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: “2024 𝙋𝙖𝙥𝙪𝙖 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙖 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙣” It was special session on which project I worked with attention ❤️ Held last April 19, 2024. Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023.

Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

𝑰 am thrilled to share a major achievement in my journey as a dedicated mapper: passing the Open Mapping Guru 2024 Exam and earning my official certification! This recognition affirms my commitment and expertise in open mapping, marking a significant step in my mission to make a positive impact through mapping.

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“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧.” – 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲

I am honored to have participated in the 2024 Climate Change Challenge as a member of “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒏 𝑫𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔”. This challenge, organized by the Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific from May 20 to June 20, 2024, brought together over 200 participants from 54 teams to address climate change through collaborative open mapping efforts. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute my mapping skills alongside so many passionate individuals, and I am proud to have received the Certificate of Participation. It’s inspiring to see how open mapping can make a real impact on global climate action. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 TomTom, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) & Open Mapping Guru , 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲.

ClimateAction #OpenMapping #MappingForChange#ThePinDroppers#OpenStreetMap#ClimateChallenge#openmappingguru