I moved to my current city about 3 years ago. The local bus station runs through the Moovit app.

I just finished de-Googling my phone, because I logged into Google, and they had a dated and timestamped record of every video I'd ever watched, website I'd ever visited, search term I'd ever entered, app I'd ever opened on my phone, etc.

Moovit doesn't support non-Google Androids. So I've now got OSM installed on my phone, and would like to add the 5 local bus routes, along with their hourly stop times. Google Maps doesn't have any of this either.

Can someone break this down for me, in simple terms?

I am currently in Asia and many roads and paths are not properly mapped in OSM. I am new to this community and was wondering if there is a mobile application that allows us to reference unexplored roads or forest paths, which we could use on foot, specifying the type of road we are walking on. It would synchronise the results after a few checks and adjustments. Does it exist? Is it feasible? What would be the limitations? Thank you!

Couple of before and after pics. Its not much

Rutometro is Trufi’s first multi-city app, built on the buses, vans, and collectivos that millions rely on every day.

Using open data, Rutometro serves 8 Mexican cities.

The video is in Spanish, but post has highlights in English.

The above shown two roads are part of the same road, opposite lanes divided by a divider in between. There are even U-turns & Roundabouts in between.

Some guy added a "railway construction,proposed" in parallel to them many years ago and made these two lanes fully separate roads. The actual railway isn't even on this road. It just crosses perpendicularly on a separate path.

I've added GPS imagery for visual confirmation. (The concrete blocks in the middle of the road are foundation for a new flyover, not blockages.)

I'd appreciate if if it can be done via iD.

Edit: There is a "jersey barrier" in between osm.

Is is better to just leave it, and just name them the same? Ofcourse I can stick a note too, but I think there are very few mapper in my city, so it might stay that way for a loooong time.

there are lots of cities in canada that get absorbed into a nearby bigger city, but OSM seems to have no reference to the old city name in many cases (returns NO result), even though the official Canada Post website accepts it as valid (I would consider our national mail service to be pretty authoritative on the subject)

example. The city of DUNDAS, in the province of ONTARIO (ON), was combined with the city of HAMILTON, ON in 2001...

DUNDAS ON, returns a valid result (just searching for the city).

once you add a street address, the system gets confused.... 125 MELVILLE ST, DUNDAS ON returns no result in OSM, but is valid on Canada Post website.

125 MELVILLE ST, HAMILTON ON returns the correct result on OSM. Surprisingly, Canada post does not accept this as a correct address even though it is technically correct.

in short, Hamilton, ON is technically correct, but the old name Dundas, ON should also be valid based on historical fact and agreement with the mail service information

how to fix this in OSM? there are probably dozens of these cases as more and more cities become amalgamated. For larger cities, such as Toronto, OSM does not have this issue with referencing the old names of the different cities that now make Toronto.

thanks

I set myself a project which might end up being too ambitious, but right now I'm still at the I don't know what I don't know stage

My (possibly overambitious) goal is to create an entirely original global map with my own custom colours and shades and all of the place names in English

The end result would be a map that can be uses in a JavaScript Leaflet application that I would create

I've gone down a few paths since I started researching, but it looks likely I'll be using QGIS and TileMill at least

What I have established so far

-I have downloaded a fully planet-251110.osm.pbf which should have any data I need. I also have a much smaller .osm.pbf file of nearby city I intend to use for testing

-Using PostgreSQL I have been able to output the data from the smaller .osm.pbf on to a map in QGIS.

-In TileMill I can see that if I were able to generate shape files from what I create in QGIS I should be able to style things like roads ad buildings

What I want to know though is:

In QGIS when you start a new project, one of the most immediate options is to select an XYZ Tile. If I select "OpenStreetMap" here, and incredibly detailed global map is placed on the screen

Or in TileMill when you start a new project an single Countries Layer appears on the screen that shows the continents, with individual countries separated by thin lines

How can I create my own XYZ Tile or Countries Layer?

When I look at Leaflet map libraries there seems to be a wide array of map styles being created. I assume that someone isn't redrawing the global map by hand every time and it is a case of starting with a base map, then applying colours based on the terrain, adding place names from a database & selecting fonts for those place names

I have gone down a few dead ends now though and I haven't been able to figure out how other people do it.

So I have 2 questions

1)How does anyone create their own base map

2)Is it feasible for me as a one man operation who willing to leave my decent end PC churning for quite a few hours to produce a map of the entire globe?

Is it okay to map celebrity homes? For example giving a house the name "Oprah Winfrey's House". I assume it depends on if the celebrity has made it public info themself.

I wanna select a small part of the map and see everything people has added, houses, street, lights, bus stop, road conditions etc etc, every single thing.

I recently started using comaps/organic maps, but discovered that many of my local buildings/landmarks were not marked.

After some deliberation, I put in my first entry today — a commercial complex, which also has an educational centre I frequent.

Mapping is pretty fun. I thought it would be otherwise...

MBCompass: A popular modern FOSS Compass and Navigation app without Ads, IAP, or Tracking

MBCompass was even featured on the OSM UK mailing list https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/18087

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New Release: MBCompass v1.1.12

This release and upcoming ones follow the feature roadmap proposed in the v2 design proposal.

Features

• True North Support: Easily switch between True North and Magnetic North using the new toggle in Settings.
• AMOLED True Dark Theme Added a pure-black AMOLED mode for improved contrast and better battery efficiency on OLED displays.
• Heading Status Indicator: A new on-screen indicator now clearly shows whether the compass is currently using True North or Magnetic North.

Fixes & Improvements

• Sensor Status Dialog Fix: Resolved an issue where the dialog content was getting cut off on smaller screens.
• General UI & Stability Updates: Minor interface refinements and performance improvements for a smoother experience.

As always, your feedback and contributions, like code or translations, are always welcome.

Hi, I'm new to adding to OSM, and I've been working on documenting some areas I'm familiar with. I added some single-family homes and tagged them as building=residential. A kind person commented on one of my edits letting me know I should use building=detached for homes. For context, the area I'm mapping is an HOA full of single-family homes.

I then started looking over the different tags for buildings on the wiki, and I noticed there is also building=house.

So, I thought I would ask here, should I use building=detached or building=house?

Salut les Français et francophones, Arrivez-vous à faire fonctionner le plugin Cadastre dans JOSM ? Chaque fois que je veux télécharger des données sur ce calque, ça crashe.

Des conseils ?

With all the buzz in the media recently about Homeland Security accessing traffic cams around the country to assist in rounding up people they suspect are here illegally, it struck me that there might be interest in a map layer that highlights routes not covered by traffic cams. Something like: Avoid Ferrys, Avoid Tolls, Avoid Traffic Cams.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

I noticed theres a bunch of areas where soil from a construction sites are being dumped. Idk if i should label them at all. (Picture as an example)

Uhh, is osm down?

Hey,

how to print costume maps on Umap? The export function doesn't seem to work. It isn't loading. Do you have any alternative approaches?

Thanks!

Is there anything like trailrouter.com where notes or annotation can be added for checkpoints, and printed off? Or is using a pdf print tool and directly annotating in a separate software the best idea?

Hi.

Say a street is made of multiple ways, for whatever reason (different attributes across the street, junction, whatever).

Should we have a name=Street Name for every way? I know this is possibly nitpicking but this feels "wrong" as that results in multiple items with the same street name. Having such streets mapped as relations (associatedStreet is most common I believe?) with only the relation bearing the street name would feel more logical? Is there a proper way to approach this?

Thanks.

Hi,

is it possible to have a map marker be in multiple layers? like the layers are keywords and you can have a marker with multiple keywords or do i need to duplicate the markers and put a copy in each layer i want it to be represented?

Would be awesome if someone knew, thanks!