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“Free drinking water soon available in Belgium's 100 largest train stations”: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/810782/free-drinking-water-soon-available-in-belgiums-100-largest-train-stations-tbtb

So, how would you tag this ?

amenity=drinking_water
fountain=bottle_refill
access=yes
wheelchair=yes
fee=no
operator=NMBS/SNCB

#OpenStreetMap #Belgium #water #SNCB #NMBS

cc: @openstreetmap

i'm on mostly on android so excuse my unfamiliarity.

i was talking about osm with an apple fan. There's osm and organic maps on app store but is there an app like street complete for iPhoners?

Summary of the video (generated by Kagi):

• Addis Map Transit works to map public transportation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using OpenStreetMap. They have mapped bus routes, stations and worked to provide digital transportation information services.
• Digital Matatus Consortium worked to map matatu (mini-bus) routes in Nairobi, Kenya to provide open transportation data and analyze accessibility issues. They standardized the data in GTFS format.
• Truy Association helps make public transportation easier and more accessible in the global South through mobile apps and open data. They encourage communities to map their transportation systems.
• Mobility Hub created an online course to teach people how to map public transportation in OpenStreetMap, covering topics like GTFS and using the JOSM editor.
• Mapping transportation helps provide digital route planning apps and services, empowering users and operators. It also allows analysis of issues like access to services.
• Open data standards like GTFS are important to make transportation data usable in apps and analysis. Converting OSM data to GTFS was a focus.
• Community involvement and crowdsourced data helps keep transportation maps accurate and up-to-date as systems change.
• Presenters discussed challenges like gaining permissions and maintaining government relationships and data.
• Transportation mapping empowers underserved groups and improves planning and equitable access to opportunities.
• Open source tools, networks and training are needed to support mapping efforts globally, especially in the global South.

How would you map a refill shop on OSM? Those places you can go with containers and buy by weight.

@openstreetmap@lemmy.ml @openstreetmap@a.gup.pe #OpenStreetMap

I did not yet fully understand this proposal in its current state, since there are lot of different possibilities to tag sidewalks, footpathes etc.

What do you think?

I've been out mapping local bus routes recently. Some photos from the camera roll that aren't of bus stops @openstreetmap@lemmy.ml @openstreetmap@a.gup.pe

#Oxford #OpenStreetMap #communism #horses #ParkAndRide #PhoneBooth

How many of them did you create?

Is there a way to overlay property lot lines (aka land ownership maps) on the map of preferably a mobile FOSS application? I like OSM And and I know there are ways to make certain obscure things work. OnX Hunt has this feature but I don't want to use the application

hello!

Is there an app that can make routes for wheelchair users? #OpenStreetMap contains the info about staircases, ramps, curbs, all aspects of accessible or inaccessible city environment, someone should be using it

Or is there a convenivent interface for viewing this kind of data? So we don't have to view it through #osm editors

I was out walking around and "popping" quests on StreetComplete. I was wondering what the consensus is on the question "Who is allowed to park here?" In this case, it's an ungated parking lot next to a commercial/industrial warehouse with many companies occupying the same space. A few of the parking spots had a sign indicating "reserved for XYZ customers", but most did not. This is not a city-owned parking lot. What's the right answer?

How many of them did you create?

It seems pretty clear that street-level imaging on OSM is pretty lacking, unless you only want to see highways.

I'm looking to start mapping street-level images for my city, but it seems like there are three players (integrated in the OSM editor), and I don't know which to commit to:

-KartaView

-Mapillary

-mapilio

My gut is to go with the one with the largest user base (Mapillary), but they are owned by Facebook and who knows what direction they will take in the future or what our images will actually be used for in the long-run.

Karta seems dead.

And Mapilio seems like a knock-off of Mapillary, but with a much smaller user base and an uncertain future.

Are any worth investing hundreds of hours of time to?

on a block of downtown san francisco, there are two block-long lines labelled 'address interpolation'. there aren't many nodes along this block, but the ones that exist mostly have explicit addresses assigned.

these were created 14 years ago (potlatch 0.10f). what do they do, are they valuable to renderers or to the map itself?

Running around with StreetComplete, the app sometimes tells me to leave a note instead, which I do. Short time later, I receive an email that another person has resolved my note. That's nice, but wouldn't it be better to do it all on my own?

I think I need a more powerful Editor for that, and installed Vespucci. Now I'm scared to break things. What are the next steps, how to proceed?

Download APK now (v4 still being rolled out for app stores): https://github.com/Zverik/every_door/releases/tag/v4.0 Main site: https://every-door.app/

OpenStreetMap Belgium announces European camera grant project.

No less than 20 GoPro Max cameras available for qualifying contributors to contribute 360° street-level pictures.

To read conditions and apply: https://openstreetmap.be/en/2023/10/07/european-camera-grant.html

Cc: @openstreetmap #GoPro #Mapillary #KartaView #Panoramax #OpenStreetMap

Mitarbeit bei OpenStreetMap: "Viel lesen um alles richtig einzutragen" oder "Fang einfach an!"? Für den einfachen Einstieg gibt es StreetComplete, aber auch noch einige weitere Optionen und viele Möglichkeiten, Hilfe zu bekommen. - ein Überblick [transl.: Contributing to OpenStreetMap: "Read a lot to get it right" or "Just get started"? For an easy start, there is StreetComplete, but also some other options and many ways to get help. - An overview]

The article is based on a survey and includes recommendations for...

• Apps, editors and tools for easy entry into mapping (StreetComplete, MapComplete, EveryDoor, OrganicMaps, OpenStop)
• StreetComplete alternatives for iOS users (Go Maps!!, OSM GO!)
• Other editors: iD, JOSM, Vespucci, OSMand
• Special challenges when getting started with mapping from the user's perspective
• Tips for a deeper entry
• Link list (feel free to add to it)

Please report and/or remove this post if you feel this post doesn't belong in the community :)

The intent of this post is to provide a link to the promo post, so community members can add additional details about the community, as well as an explanation for where new users may be coming from.

Here is a link to the post: https://lemmy.ca/post/6586269

Here are links to the community, so you can find the post on your home instance:

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca

https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo

67 stops, phew.... Time to sleep now.

[screenshot of the JOSM editor software downloading an absurd amount of GPS points, dialog box says 'downloading points 1,445,000 to 1,450,000...']

Why are there so many points here wtf.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6483361

I see that quite a few major roads in Ontario are getting paved shoulders, plenty wide enough for cyclists, despite not being marked as bike lanes/routes.

An example of this is HWY7/12 in Port Perry - all new shoulders.

There is a tag: cycleway=shoulder, which gives me reason to think that we should be doing this.

What say you guys?

UPDATE: Bike Ottawa has some guidance on the matter. I'll be using the cycleway=soulder tag for roads that have SMOOTH and WIDE shoulders that would work well for cyclists.

I am aware of the guide on their github

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/EXPERIMENTAL_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT_SUPPORT.md

But that is not something I would want to do for myself, much less so the people I usually recommend OM to :/

Is it just the lack of UI/UX or is there actually a quality issue regarding the GTFS/OSM source data?