OpenStreetMap
Evgeny Arbatov
- Mapper since:
- May 28, 2024
- Last map edit:
- July 25, 2026
I am exploring how people navigate and build cities. I’m a passionate walker and runner, and I want to share the local knowledge I’ve gained with the community.
I wish there were better ways to make sense of the world than creating maps. The places you visit never look quite the way they do on a map. I often wonder what I’m missing and what I’m not yet adding to the map. I hope that map making will point me in the right direction.
Latest Diaries
Diary Entry Extracting Hiking Waypoints from OSM Map
This is a very simple idea: given a set of GPX traces for a hike you are planning to take, generate a file containing all the waypoints of interest...
Diary Entry OSRM Route Planning with Sun Direction
I don’t normally think about the Sun’s direction when I go out running. When it gets exceptionally hot in summer, I start to notice it and wonder i...
Diary Entry Merge Multiple GPX Files to Create Basemap
I often need to create a single GPX file from multiple related but different GPX files from Garmin and Wikiloc. My use case is finding route recomm...
Diary Entry House Hunting with OSM
I was looking for a house and decided to use OSM to help me find the optimal location. I had several fixed conditions: I knew my office location an...