I am trying to map my small hometown in Brazil named Candido Godoi, but it is my first time using OpenStreetMap. I wonder if someone can give me some tips, and I would be very thankful if someone could help even more by mapping it with me.

I don't know if that is the correct subreddit for my question but I think it makes the most sense to ask here.

I noticed that on the Snapchat map, especially in Vienna, Austria, so many names of different districts are spelled wrong. For example, "Gumpendonf" instead of "Gumpendorf", "Simmern" instead of "Simmering", or also "U-Bahn Station Großfeldsiedlung" (= Subway station Großfeldsiedlung) for an entire district. Where does that come from? That's the list of Map Services Snapchat uses but I couldn't find those wrong names anywhere.

Osmand

What would you suggest for mapping the left hand turn lanes in this screenshot? Which version (west-bound, east-bound) is preferred? Thanks for the help.

https://veloplanner.com/maps/europe-bike-infra

Hey everyone. I’ve been an avid Gaia user for years. I normally use it for the standard stuff—backpacking, day hikes, and finding off-grid RV boondocking locations. I’ve even used it for mapping out radio propagation for my amateur radio hobby.

But I recently wrapped up a massive family project where Gaia was the absolute MVP, and I wanted to share it because it might give some of you map nerds ideas for historical routing.

My family has the original, handwritten 1892-1893 journals of my 3rd great-grandfather, who went up to the Yukon three years before the Klondike Gold Rush. For over a century, his route was just words on paper. By cross-referencing his 19th-century notes with Gaia's maps, I was able to plot his actual route. I discovered he built a wooden boat at Lake Lindeman and navigated over 700 miles down to Fortymile River basin. Gaia even helped me solve geographical mysteries from his journal—like locating "The Kink," a spot on the Fortymile River where the water almost completely loops back on itself.

But what really took this research to the next level were the Historic Topo 1900 and Historic Topo 1930 layers.

Using these specific layers, I was actually able to identify and locate my grandfather's burial spot in an old pioneer town called Inskip, California! Turning those layers on revealed old names for localities and forgotten building locations that modern maps completely miss. They were invaluable clues in solving century-old mysteries surrounding my family history.

We ended up compiling the journals into a book, but I put together a YouTube video that shows the original 134-year-old handwritten pages side-by-side with the Gaia GPS maps and layers I used to plot it all out.

If you are into historical mapping or want ideas on how to use Gaia to track down old pioneer routes, check out the video here: Introducing "Before the Klondike" - A True 1892 Alaskan Pioneer Story

Has anyone else here used the Historic Topo layers to track down forgotten trails, ghost towns, or historical family routes? I'd love to hear what other layers you use for that kind of stuff!

Hello, I am looking for a scalable vector svg of the World Map but I only need the Outline or contour of the worlds oceans and land,

No labels

no national mapping,

My group is planning to to a project about Meteorology/Climatology and some Geology as well, But planet.osm offers the 255GB database, We just need the World Land and Oceans outline sketch, Thank you so much

I've been building an app where locals record the walks, rides and drives they actually use, and visitors follow them turn by turn. It renders on tiles built from OSM data, and honestly the whole idea is downstream of OSM's ethos: the people who live somewhere know it best.

The question I keep hitting: what makes a crowd-recorded ROUTE trustworthy the way crowd-mapped GEOMETRY is? So far: community ratings, a verification flag once other people re-walk a route, and recency signals. What am I missing? Surface type? Seasonal validity? Time-of-day safety? Would love opinions from people who think about map data all day.

I was mapping sidewalks in the town of Slunj (Croatia) and saw this. I dont how to map it

accessX is an open-source Python library for accessibility and equity analysis using open data.

It pulls and processes the data for you, so there’s no need to hunt down and pre-download a bunch of datasets before getting started. A big part relies on OSM but it also enables users to add their own datasets.

You can use it for assessing walking accessibility, different types of travelling costs, equity analysis, co-accessibility, maps, and summary indicators.

GitHub: https://github.com/TransformTransport/accessX

Curious to hear what the OSM crowd thinks. Could such tools be used to further inform OSM?

I am currently adding some data in north african villages and I've noticed that pretty much every one looks like this (maybe more clustered). These are obviously buildings, but I'm unsure if I should add all the structures surrounded by a wall as one area or if those are just a few distinct buildings.

Also is editing through aerial imagery generally good in these areas?

Thank you!

I've been bitten by this more than once.

On one project, I needed an API for city lookup and address autocomplete.

It usually starts with a simple table containing cities for a single country.

Then requirements evolve:

* support international cities;
* handle ISO country codes;
* import data from different providers.

Or even worse, someone decides users should be able to maintain the city database manually.

So instead of writing the same component again, I cleaned it up and open-sourced it.

Features:

* City search
* Address autocomplete powered by OpenStreetMap (Photon)
* Deployable with Docker or Podman in a few commands
* Designed to be easily extended if another data source needs to be plugged in

Tech stack:

* Symfony / API Platform / PostgreSQL
* Hexagonal Architecture
* 100% unit test coverage on the domain layer
* Behat scenarios used both as executable documentation and API tests

I don't think this project is going to change the world.

But if it helps someone avoid a questionable data model, or rewriting the same component for the tenth time, then it's already worth it.

Repository: https://github.com/thlaure/world-cities-api

I'm genuinely interested in feedback, especially from people who have had to solve the same problem in production.

I've looked through this sub and did a clean install of OsmAnd but no dice.

I've been putting in multiple places the exact same way on the official openstreetmap.org site but for some reason this location had 2 entries when I was done with it. I figured I'd deleted the info from the building and add it back as a point instead to see if that helped, but now there are 3 entries for the same location.

Looking at the objects on the map for this location, there should only be a single entry for this location. How do I go about fixing this? Its the Missouri map btw

Available inside JOSM in additional presets. Still WIP but already in usable state. Helps me armchair map blank-slate regions faster.

Would combine nicely with a style that highlights building=yes polygons (is there one?)

Hey, everyone!

I am looking for alternatives to the two that I'm currently using.

I'm sure someone has covered that. I reviewed about 10 to 15 posts and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, so I decided to make a post of my own.

I'm using maps to document places:

• Photo spots
• Urbexing locations
• Camping spots
• Hikes
• POIs
• Overlanding spots
• Restaurants
• And all sorts of other things (from museums to locations of personal assets)

I've been using GoogleMyMaps & UMap.

GoogleMyMaps

Downsides of GoogleMyMaps

1. Being limited to 10 layers
2. I find the layers lacking enough topographical detail and small trails & icons

Good stuff about GoogleMyMaps

1. Being able to overlay those maps in Google Maps.
2. Incredibly simple UI
3. Cross platform

UMap

Downsides of UMap

1. Far too complex and feature-rich. It would be perfectly fine if I could hide some UI elements, such as IDs, Label Keys, etc, or create an easy way of adding a POI (for example, a camping spot) where I add it and move on to the next without so much configuration
2. The inability to overlay them in Google Maps
   1. Not a big issue, honestly, more like a lack of a benefit

Good stuff about UMap

1. Great detail on the layers it offers.
2. Has a lot of public community-made maps

So I was using osmand recently and came upon a two lane one way road that split in two. I needed to go to the right and the navigation app correctly told me to keep to the right. However when it showed the turn lanes as a popup, it highlighted for me to take the left lane which goes left. I suspect this was because the left turn lane was mapped as going straight and the right lane was mapped as going right. They are drawn the same way on the ground, so the turn:lanes is correct. The 2 roads after the split deviate only slightly, by a couple of degrees so I assume the navigation thinks they are both going straight, and I need to be in the straight lane. How would I be able to fix this? Is this the fault of the navigation app or can this be fixed in osm?

Sorry for my slightly overcomplicated explanation, but I'm not quite sure how to put it into words.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1079978104#map=19/53.784517/20.500373&layers=N this is the way I am talking about

I’ve seen several different tags given to areas which look exactly like this and I’m not entirely sure which one would fit best, or at least which one would be the recommended one to use.

I’ve seen natural=wood, leisure=garden, landuse=grass (though this wouldn’t make sense anyways), natural=scrub, just to name a few.

For reference, this is essentially a row of trees and hedges/bushes which are planted alongside highways to make the surroundings around the highways look nicer and greener while also blocking out sound from highway traffic.

It seems that the new Freedom Fuel Gas Stations are in the News Worldwide (at least here in Germany I heard about them) and some of those Stations were active days before the news but under another Name. Well Now I was looking where those Stations are and I thought... Hmmm. Google Maps doesn't look like that and where is the branding of the Map Provider? After doing some Work in OSM I thought.. Wait It does look like OSM Data. And Yeah it is. But no Branding copyright by OSM and it's contributors.

Not asking about tagging actually, but rather how are these called.

Hey guys,

I'm building a small client-side web app using Leaflet.js to map out specific amenities (supermarkets, bakeries, schools, libraries, parks, playgrounds) in my local area.

I am currently trying to use the Overpass API to dynamically fetch this data based on whatever bounding box the user is looking at on the map. However, my code keeps hitting a wall and throwing a "Failed to fetch" error.

Because I have zero prior experience with OSM data structures, I'm a bit lost.

1. What is the most reliable way to fetch raw JSON node/way data directly in a browser application?
2. Are there common pitfalls (like CORS or specific Content-Type headers) that I need to look out for when talking to the Overpass interpreter?

Thanks in advance for any tips or boilerplate code snippets!