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Posted by c tito young on 4 April 2021 in English. Last updated on 10 April 2021.

An 80m x 80m geoglyph of a person oriented northeast to southwest wearing a large headdress (horns) appears to possibly be either talking or eating. The drawing shows the person in profile on moderately sloped ground with one eye, profile nose and mouth. There is some kind of shape near its mouth but it is unclear what it.

14°52′24″S, 74°55′1″W -14.8733245, -74.9170801 Vista Alegre, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Location: Vista Alegre, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

A geoglyph of a person with long horns 25m x 50m looks to the southeast while oriented north to south. Both eyes, a nose and mouth are distinguishable along with a head and both horns. There is also some indication what appears to be shoulders and a neckline The geoglyph is situated near other geoglyphs. It is unclear what this geoglyph drawing is trying to indicate.

14°52′27″S, 74°54′59″W -14.8742576, -74.9164740 Vista Alegre, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Location: -14.874, -74.916

On 2nd April 2021, 70628 cross-country / nordic ski ways were members of one of 5849 route relations.

Among them, for 27423 ways, there is a piste:difficulty tag on the relation. I guess that the mapper estimated that the complete trail were ‘novice’, ‘easy’ or whatever.

But OSM is made by humans. We make mistakes. And we are very creatives. So, inevitably, there is 5625 ways where the difficulty of the way is not the same as the difficulty of the route, here are those differences:

Route difficulty Way difficulty Number of ways
novice easy 70
novice intermediate 15
easy novice 195
easy intermediate 463
easy advanced 12
intermediate novice 198
intermediate easy 2607
intermediate advanced 60
intermediate expert 7
advanced novice 53
advanced easy 984
advanced intermediate 766
advanced expert 3
expert easy 47
expert intermediate 64
expert advanced 2
extreme easy 8
extreme intermediate 2
extreme advanced 8

What about those 12 easy trails with ‘advanced’ parts, which are, according to the documentation ‘Steep sections […], with narrow steep passages or sharp turns in steep passages, often icy pistes.’ Somebody is up for a bad surprise.

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Posted by c tito young on 4 April 2021 in English. Last updated on 10 April 2021.

A 50m x 100m Geoglyph appears to be of a figure wearing a poncho heading in a westerly direction. The geoglyph shows the poncho, a face with two eyes, nose and mouth, hair with some kind of head covering. It is unclear why this drawing was made or its relationship to other nearby geoglyphs.

14°52′28″S, 74°55′6″W -14.8745749, -74.9182174 Vista Alegre, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Location: Vista Alegre, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

I made https://mapsaregreat.com/osm_to_svg_in_browser/ that can be used to generate vector maps in SVG format.

Generated maps can be downloaded. This allows much easier reuse of OSM data in some cases. For example where someone needs OSM geometries of relatively small area, but existing tools are too complex for them[0]

It will likely work well for tiny and small areas, it will definitely fail for very large areas.

It is very experimental, feedback is welcomed!

https://github.com/matkoniecz/lunar_assembler/issues has list of known issues and is best place to report existing issues, but feel free to simply leave comments also here.

I am also working on making easier to make own map styles. It is already relatively easy, but documentation is missing.

[0] For many people Overpass Turbo, databases, filtering OSM data will be far too complex.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matkoniecz/lunar_assembler/master/images_for_description/lunar_assembler_in_action.gif


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Posted by dcapillae on 2 April 2021 in Spanish (Español). Last updated on 8 June 2026.

A raíz de documentar el uso de la etiqueta «historic=cemetery», surgió en la lista de etiquetado el tema de cuál sería la mejor forma de etiquetar objetos históricas, si especificando el tipo de objeto en el valor de la etiqueta (p. ej., «historic=cemetery»), forma sugerida por el wiki según la documentación actual de la clave «historic» (documentación no discutida), o usando el etiquetado «historic» como una propiedad del objeto previamente existente (p. ej., «landuse=cemetery» + «historic=yes»).

Vista del cementerio inglés de Málaga Vista del cementerio inglés de Málaga, cementerio histórico y bien de interés cultural (ubicación en OSM). Fuente: trabajo propio (CC BY-SA 4.0) disponible en Wikimedia Commons.

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Location: 36.722, -4.407
Posted by Mastrick_Mapper on 2 April 2021 in English. Last updated on 20 July 2021.

Mapping Mastrick.

I currently have an ambitious plan to map or improve the majority of Mastrick (and other areas that I know). I’ll be relying on a mix of Bing Aerial Imagery, Local Knowledge and a bit of Surveying. The tools I’ll be using are JOSM, id and StreetComplete.

Update: Finished adding buildings, roads and some other additions and alterations to Mastrick.

Location: Mastrick, Sheddocksley and Summerhill, Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted by bo_hot on 2 April 2021 in English.

Well, what a start to the year it’s been.

It’s taken a little while to get this post together, as I think myself and the rest of hot_tech needed a bit of time to recover after kicking of this year in 6th gear with two back to back RaDs.

Some of you may remember these daily posts introducing everyone to the concept of hot_tech Rapid Assessment Design Prints (aka RaDs). Back then, in writing, it all seemed so clear and clean. Now writing this, I remember just how muddy and messy this process is in action. A process of continuous lessons and learning.

Lesson 1: Sprint by name, marathon by nature. It may be called a sprint, but it requires the dedication, resilience and effort of a marathon.


Round 1

Our RaDs started with the intention of better understanding of who hot_tech served and how. Our BIG QUESTION - “What makes our groups stick, tick and thrive?”. We connected and explored with groups such as members of OSM Francophone, UN Mappers, Slum Dwellers International and a host of other super interesting collectives. We learned so much that to capture it all here would result in a post that is either too long, or under representative. As such, a few key learnings I wanted to share and the rest can be content for future posts.

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Location: Naz, Esserts-Salève, Monnetier-Mornex, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Upper Savoy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Metropolitan France, 74560, France

Постоји неслагање литературе о називима река које формирају Каменицу. На топографској карти река која пролази кроз центар Дивчибара означена је као Бела Каменица која се у Тометином пољу спаја са Црном Каменицом и формира Каменицу. У литератури, ”Дивчибаре” Богољуб - Бока Лома и ”Упознај Дивчибаре” - Александар Аца Дамјановић користе се обрнути називи.

Дискусија са LuleWalker

наставак у порукама
Da, zapravo sam ispravio grešku koja se vuče na OSM mapama već dugo vremena. Bela Kamenica izvire u naselju Divčibare od izvora Žujan i par okolnih potoka, protiče kroz naseljeno mesto i obilazi vrh Velika Pleća i nastavlja dalje u pravcu Tometinog Polja. Crna Kamenica izvire ispod Kraljevog Stola i Vlasova i nastavlja takođe ka Tometinom Polju gde se spaja sa Belom Kamenicom i formira Kamenicu.Takvo je stanje na terenu a tako je stanje i u vojnim topografskim mapama. Crna Kamenica ni u jednom delu ne protiče kroz naselje Divčibare. Pravac (greben) Kralljev Sto - Lazino Vrelo - Demirovina - Beli Kamen - Kostići - planinarski dom u Tometinom Polju predstavlja vododelnicu između Crne i Bele Kamenice. Vidim na OSM odnosno na Open Topo Maps da postoji jedan deo Bele Kamenice koji nosi pogrešan naziv Crna Kamenica, ulogovaću se i ispraviću i to parče u ispravan naziv (Bela Kamenica). Proverio sam i na Google Maps - tamo su oznaku u skladu sa ovim što tvrdim. Pozdrav Aleksandar

одговор
Izvinjavam se na kasnom odgovoru. Da, po topografskim kartama stoji kako kažete, ja sam se vodio knjigom “Divčibare” od Bogoljuba Lome. Čudno da je tamo zamenjen naziv ali svakako ima smisla pratiti topografske mape. Hvala Vam na izdvojenom vremenu, Vanja.

Location: Београдско насеље, Дивчибаре, Град Ваљево, Колубарски управни округ, Централна Србија, 14204, Србија

Прошао 20210330 овим путем из правца Равне горе у правцу Мионице, на (20.12146, 44.16127) делује као да главни пут (356) иде на десно а заправо се скида са пута 356 на други пут (према Путевима Србије). Одлучио да пут према Стругаонику променим у tertiary.

Location: Планиница, Општина Мионица, Колубарски управни округ, Централна Србија, Србија
Posted by c tito young on 2 April 2021 in English. Last updated on 10 April 2021.

A 50m x 25m geoglyph of what appears to look like a pointing arrow. is oriented northwest to southeast points at a trail heading in the same direction. It is impossible to determine exactly what the arrow is pointing at but there is a large irregular shaped geoglyph nearby. The pointed arrow direction aims along trail for more than 500m.

14°34′39″S, 75°9′48″W -14.5775299, -75.1634527 Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru

Location: Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru

A 20m wide x 500m long oriented northeast to southwest is a trapezoid geoglyph which appears to also have multiple 1m diameter concave holes or convex dome similar sized varying shapes appear to be in a loosely fit grid formation towards its narrowing tip. It is difficult to tell exactly the purpose of the circular shapes but they cover about 1/3 of the entire trapezoid and there are over 50 of them. The remainder of the trapezoid has other unsorted shapes that the aerial images do not detail making it difficult to trace. The trapezoid is on relatively flat land and lay 400m south of a greater cluster of trapezoid shapes and geoglyph lines. The base of the trapezoid has an interesting smaller trapezoid 25m wide x 75m long that is not clear why that purpose.

14°35′9″S, 75°10′38″W -14.5859621, -75.1771800 Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru

Location: Carlos Tijero, Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, 11331, Peru

Buenas a todos. Estoy a cargo de hacer correcciones y actualizaciones al mapa de Ciudad de Corrientes hace un tiempo. Mis ediciones abarcan vías, señaletica, seguimiento a la construcción de la Autovia Islas Malvinas (RN 12), y actualizaciones en general. Tambien marqué las nuevas instalaciones dedicadas al Covid19. Saludos.

Posted by c tito young on 1 April 2021 in English.

A 200m x 20m wide trapezoid shaped geoglyph with what appears as large graffiti initials have a marked AYF / 10 inside of it. The entire shape is on flat land and roughly etched. . The initials are set upside down with the top of the letters facing nearly southwest. The AYF initials also have periods behind them. It is unclear what the initials stand for. There is also the number 10 indicated below the AYF.

Maybe one might speculate that the initials might stand for Alien Landing Strip.

14°36′43″S, 75°10′30″W -14.6118590, -75.1750500 Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru

Location: Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru
Posted by DeBigC on 31 March 2021 in English. Last updated on 2 April 2021.

The tag #osmIRL_buildings is a kind of handy brand name our community has developed for our mapping campaign to map all of Ireland’s buildings. The campaign started with a brief test at a single mapathon in Galway in September 2019, and kicked off in earnest in Kilkenny at the end of November the same year. I say “in earnest” because this is when tasks were opened and the tasking manager started to be used every day.

The campaign has a number of effects which merit discussion beyond just the obvious upturn in mapping. But let’s mention that upturn first. The upturn started at the same time as the task manager being opened at the end of 2019. The number of buildings went from 810k to 1.5million in those 15 months, which means 47 thousand buildings were added each month.

buildings
picnic images

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