Irpavi 2 South Route

The city of La Paz, Bolivia, has the Puma Katari public transportation service, which covers the 9 macro districts and is currently deployed through 10 routes. Since its launch, this service has been a great promise, offering benefits such as preferential treatment for people with disabilities, children and the elderly, in addition to allowing the transport of bicycles in the front compartments of the buses, thus encouraging the use of this means of transportation. ecological. We are often traveling to different places in the city to carry out our field work. We know that some visitors or even people who know about this transportation service face difficulties because they do not know which route to take or where the stops are, especially when trying to reach peripheral areas.

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Over the past year, I made a lot of contributions to Regina’s OSM. Since snow has made surveying difficult, I felt a retrospective on those contributions were a good idea. Many edits came through the StreetComplete app, though more intensive projects have called for desktop editing. Creating a separate network for sidewalks and starting to make indoor maps for a couple buildings are the items I’m most excited about. The changes made to the Regina Wiki page on OSM were pretty large but hopefully will give a good overview of where active mapping projects are at. Creating a wiki page for Regina Transit will hopefully help to make updates to it easier to coordinate.

You can read more on my blog post here: https://www.malleyeno.com/Blog/Winter-Retrospective-2025—OpenStreetMap-for-Regina

In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads. A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with highway=crossing where the crosswalk is located. The routeplanner would apply a time penalty, the rendering engine shows a little icon, and done.

With an extra attribute (namely crossing_ref) a more precise type and the type of markings was indicated.

Then, someone figured out they could also shove in information about the traffic signals. This kind of works for simple crossings, but breaks down for bigger intersections. crossing=unmarked, crossing=uncontrolled and crossing=controlled were added. And crossing=zebra, cause zebra crossings are so common. And crossing=marked, which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ~~tea~~ crossing=uncontrolled.

In the mean time, people started mapping cycleways and sidewalks/footways separately, giving rise to a second way of tagging crossings: along the way; as highway=footway with footway=crossing.

Some ported over the traffic signal metadata over on the way, as they were used to doing on a node. Others starting mapping the traffic lights separately, often as barrier at the precise location where the pedestrian/cyclist/car driver has to wait.

This gives the potential of having the traffic light metadata on three separate locations:

1) Once on the point where the road and the footway meet 2) Once on the footway, marked with crossing 3) Once on the traffic light node on the footway

In other words, the current tagging is a clusterfuck.

Why do I care?

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Place: Nor Yungas, Yolosa, Bolivia – Senda Verde Animal Shelter

Senda Verde is a refuge dedicated to the rehabilitation and protection of wildlife in the Amazon rainforest of Bolivia. Unlike a conventional tourist destination, its main mission is to provide care and rehabilitation to rescued animals, many of which have been victims of illegal wildlife trafficking, mistreatment in captivity, or have been affected by the burning of their habitats. Although it welcomes visitors to support its operations, educate, and raise awareness about conservation, Senda Verde primarily focuses on animal welfare and promoting responsible wildlife practices.

Illegal wildlife trafficking consists of the illicit commercialization of wild species that are stolen from their natural habitats. In Bolivia, alarming cases of illegal wildlife trafficking have begun to occupy a prominent place on the media agenda.

Senda Verde Wildlife Sanctuary is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of rescued native Bolivian wildlife by providing medical care, food, and housing. Their mission is to save and protect rescued wild animals from cruelty and suffering, as well as to inspire people to care for wildlife.

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Monumenten Heiloo
Baafjespolder

En el marco de la estrategia nacional para la eliminación de la Malaria, la precisión en la localización y cuantificación de la población en riesgo es fundamental. Este ejercicio técnico demuestra cómo el uso de datos geográficos abiertos OpenStreetMap y tecnologías de análisis libre Python permite generar diagnósticos territoriales en tiempo récord, optimizando la toma de decisiones en salud pública.

La importancia de los Datos Abiertos en Salud

Para que una intervención de salud (como el rociamiento residual o la distribución de toldillos) sea efectiva, se debe saber dónde está la gente. Los datos libres permiten:

• Reducir costos: El acceso a cartografía detallada sin pagar licencias costosas.

• Transparencia: Procesos auditables donde la comunidad científica y técnica puede validar los cálculos.

• Interoperabilidad: Herramientas que se integran fácilmente con otros sistemas de vigilancia epidemiológica.

El Proyecto: Un Enfoque Minimalista y Potente

Alojado en GitHub: el desarrollo alojado en Streamlitse ha construido bajo una arquitectura minimalista. El objetivo es claro: ofrecer una base sólida que cualquier técnico o investigador pueda consultar, replicar y mejorar para aplicarla a otras enfermedades o necesidades territoriales.

Paso a Paso de la Construcción:

Para lograr una herramienta funcional y ligera, se siguió este proceso:

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Konya

• Ahırlı
• Akören
• Akşehir
• Altınekin İlçe sınırı düzeltildi.
• Beyşehir İlçe sınırı düzeltildi.
• Bozkır
• Cihanbeyli İlçe sınırı düzeltildi.
• Çeltik Tamamlandı.
• Çumra
• Derbent Tamamlandı.
• Derebucak İlçe sınırı düzeltildi.
• Doğanhisar
• Emirgazi
• Ereğli
• Güneysınır
• Hadim
• Halkapınar İlçe sınırı düzeltildi.
• Hüyük
• Ilgın
• Kadınhanı
• Karapınar
• Karatay Merkez ilçe. Başka bir kullanıcı tarafından tamamlandı.
• Kulu Tamamlandı.
• Meram Merkez ilçe. İlçe sınırı düzeltildi, geri kalan mahallelere devam edeceğim.
• Sarayönü
• Selçuklu Merkez ilçe. İlçe sınırı düzeltildi, geri kalan mahallelere devam edeceğim.
• Seydişehir
• Taşkent
• Tuzlukçu
• Yalıhüyük Tamamlandı.
• Yunak

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Last night, I added Arbela, MO, and some geometry in the immediate vicinity. It’s the next village west of Granger, MO.

Today, I did a quick walk for a GPS trace, and then I came home and added some more geometry around Arbela. Unfortunately, I managed to get JOSM into a bad state before uploading, and I decided to start this evening’s changes over again. Alas. It’s almost bedtime, but I was able to redo the buildings and the driveways I’d done before. The water will have to wait until tomorrow.

Merry Mapmas!

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We haven’t had a London pub meet-up in a while. I probably could’ve organised something, but got waylaid by Dundee, and preparing a talk for Dundee, and recovering from all the excitement of Dundee. But of course we need to squeeze a pub meet-up before Christmas…

The Xmas OSMLondon pub meet-up is TONIGHT!

Dundee? I mean State Of The Map EU in Dundee of course. Great fun was had by me.

Here’s me at the kick off session, not quite managing to do my usual mega-cheerful grin, because I had to get up a bit too early off the sleeper train. More of a normal smile. And I’ve slapped some photos on instagram.

• Day 1 fun
• Day 1 sessions
• Day 2 fun
• Day 2 sessions

Instagram isn’t a proper way to do these things, but they’re not really proper photos. Just my crappy snaps. The official photographer shots will appear somewhere better I hope. Maybe the wikimedia commons category. OK I’ll photobomb that with one of mine :-)

Update: The official photos are appearing on the offical website

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I’m kicking myself for not celebrating Mapmas, since I apparently signed up on December 1st. :) Alas.

Well, I’m retconning it, so Merry Mapmas 2025! I know, the staunch Anglicans in the crowd would (rightfully) say: “But shouldn’t it be Mapvent?” And they would be right! But I’ve already typed the title and these two paragraphs, so on we go!

Remote work

I added Granger, MO last night and this morning. It’s the next village to the west after Luray, MO, which the delightful UnmappedSmallTownUSA bot posted the other day. Someone had already done Luray, but there are several municipalities nearby that are unmapped, and Granger was the first one I saw.

This was my first time adding an entire place, and from imagery, too. Some of the buildings were skewed, so I had to trace roof outlines and then position them correctly to correspond to where they ought to actually be. Granger is also quite wooded, and there were areas where I wasn’t sure if it should count as natural=wood or not. I used my best judgement there.

There might be one or two structures or ponds outside of the official Granger boundary that I’ve missed, so I’m going to check on that tonight or tomorrow. Then, I’ll map Arbela, another village directly west of Granger.

I’ve really enjoyed getting out in the sun and mapping stuff in my own community, but it was nice and zen to hang out with a friend late last night and trace buildings and ponds in Granger.

In-office

I took a couple GPS traces today. Old Towne Orange in particular is missing most of its sidewalks, it seems. Once I convince myself that I’m not going to misplace a bunch of them, I plan to add them in, with appropriate crossings and such. While still doing doorbells. And I should add some more fire hydrants soon… There really aren’t enough hours in the day heh. If only I could get paid to wander around town all day mapping things. That might actually be the dream.

Merry Mapmas!

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Recently, I started adding a large number of roof:colour tags to buildings that had previously lacked this information. I started in Colorado Springs for no particular reason, but I plan to expand this activity further. For reasons I will explain later, starting and then continuing with American suburbia is easier than mapping other regions, but in theory, my approach would work world wide. For this mapping activity, I developed my own processes along with some little software helpers, that people on the OSM World Discord were interested in when I mentioned them. So without further ado, here is everything you need to know about my roof colour related activities.

Motivation

So why am I doing this to myself? The most honest answer would probably be “more data, more better”, which is mostly why I do any of the things I do on OSM, but there are two more concrete possible applications for the data I add: Art and science.

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Liebe OSM Community

Der OSM Apps Catalog präsentiert bestehende Apps, die auf OSM Daten basieren.

Ich habe Pläne, den OSM Apps Catalog neu zu gestalten. Vor allem die Startseite und die Detailansicht der Apps soll für ein breites Publikum zugänglicher werden.

Um zu verstehen, was es dazu braucht, habe ich eine Umfrage erstellt. Bitte füllt sie aus und teilt eure Perspektive mit mir. Ich bin euch sehr dankbar, wenn ihr die Umfrage an Menschen weiterleitet, die nicht besonders an Technik interessiert sind. Diese Perspektive ist mir besonders wichtig.

Hier geht’s zur Umfrage.

Herzlichen Gruss

Markus aka ToastHawaii

Today is the first day of the AFRIGIST Alumni OSM TRAINING program. I serve as the assistance surveyor of the Redeemed Christiane Church of God

The AFRIGIST Alumni International Network Online Training Workshop on “OpenStreetMap: From Global Action to Local Impact – Leveraging Open Map Data for the SDGs” was successfully delivered, with over 30 participants and trainees joining from different AFRIGIST alumni beneficiary countries across Africa. It was a 2-days workshop held on 15th and 16th December,2025.

The training was facilitated by Dr. Victor Ndubuisi Sunday, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Geography & Environmental Management, University of Port Harcourt, and National Coordinator, Unique Mappers Network, who served as the Resource Person for the programme.

🔹 Training Highlights

Day 1 focused on core concepts and foundational skills, introducing participants to OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a global, open, community-driven geospatial platform and its relevance to local development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sessions covered OSM account creation, OSM Diary use, hands-on mapping with the iD Editor (roads, buildings, POIs), the Map My Village / Map My Community campaign, the HOT Tasking Manager, and best practices in data quality and validation.

Day 2 emphasized advanced and applied workflows, exposing participants to:

Downloading OSM data using Geofabrik and QuickOSM

Loading and managing OSM layers in QGIS

Map visualization and styling

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What a treat -30.6743046,26.7295793 http://conville-farm.com/

It was a nice day. I think I just added more cameras. I also saw several cats, and a very excited dog who ran over to the fence to jump up and say hi. A nice day, indeed.

I also noticed that one of the house numbers on the north side of E Culver Ave seems to be out of order with the rest. The house numbers go: 537, 543, 555, 605, 569, 577. 605 is between 555 and 569, which doesn’t make sense. 618 is across the street, and starts the even-numbered 600 houses. Was it meant to maybe be 565 and some clerical error happened? Is it even a mistake at all or is this something deliberate? I have no idea, but it definitely threw me. I wonder if they struggle to receive packages.