Post #2375409

2026-01-31 16:39 UTC

One of my highlights of yesterday&#39;s Mapping USA online conference was osm.kids, a map using #OpenStreetMap that&#39;s made for #children! If you&#39;re zoomed in, it highlights things like playgrounds, fire stations, schools and ice cream shops. When you zoom out, you see city and country names and flags so you can learn all about those! It is so creative and I love it. osm.kids demonstrates so well that you can make maps with OSM that you cannot make with any other map tools out there.

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@verweyen@social.cologne 2026-01-31 18:42

@mvexel@en.osm.town I absolutely LOVE this! We've gotten so used to Google maps pushing yet another Starbucks and even more shopping to the foreground, while quality of life is more about parks and ice cream parlors 🍦

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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-01-31 19:15

@mvexel@en.osm.town This is really lovely. 🥰

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@richlv@mastodon.social 2026-01-31 20:56

@mvexel@en.osm.town That doesn't seem to be linked - testing with protocol: https://osm.kids

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@mfuhrmann@hessen.social 2026-02-01 17:35

@mvexel@en.osm.town I am spending a lot of time into mapping playgrounds. But there is no fancy web frontend that presents them. What does this one do? Is it online somewhere?

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@smsm1@mastodon.green 2026-02-01 21:06

@mvexel@en.osm.town the map tiles to be 3.5 months old as an ice cream parlour I marked as closed then is still showing.

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@venite@mastodon.nl 2026-02-01 21:07

@mvexel@en.osm.town @Pepijn@mastodon.online I somehow thought you should have this shoved in your face

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@jwrm22@hsnl.social 2026-02-01 22:07

@mvexel@en.osm.town Very cool! I never knew there were so many playgrounds in my neighborhood.

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@harry_wood@en.osm.town 2026-02-02 14:38

@mvexel@en.osm.town I showed this to my 6 year old daughter yesterday, and I can confirm she enjoyed both the zoomed out globe with flags, and the zoomed in playgrounds and ice-cream! So who made this map? There's no "about" information anywhere.

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@rrustema@mastodon.social 2026-02-04 07:14

@mvexel@en.osm.town Is it easy to make maps? I would love to make a 'fixmystreet' layer for the whole world, also where there is no responsive government. It could make them more responsive if there are thousands of complaints of what needs fixing.

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@jorieke@mstdn.social 2026-02-07 18:07

@mvexel@en.osm.town very nice! I'd love to learn more about the design process, were there children involved??

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