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• Post #4350638

  Don't forget! `air_conditioning=yes/no` is the tag you can map now! When you walk into a shop/cafe/restaurant do you immediately notice the cold air? You should be happy for 2 reasons! You can cool down, and now you have something to map into OSM! https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:air_conditioning #OpenStreetMap #OSM #aircon #climatecrises

• Post #3819497

  I think I just added the first `amenity=place_of_worship,​religion=esotericism` to OSM

• Post #3171415

  #Postpass is an #SQL server. It (#PostgreSQL) can do data processing, and convert your data, meaning your map styles are simple and easy to understand. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Postpass/Examples#Colouring_bus_routes_by_starting_number

• Post #3171414

  There isn't a #MapComplete thing for “Does this place have air conditioning?”, right? Anyone good with MC want to whisk that up for me? Summer in Europe, so this would be nice to have! #OpenStreetMap #AC #airconditioning

• Post #3171413

  RE: https://en.osm.town/@sotm/116611905574591561 Tickets for State of the Map are on sale! #sotm2026

• Post #3171412

  RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116680227092507825 I mean, #OpenStreetMap and #OpenStreetMapFoundation has problems, but c'mon, at least we're not as bad as #Wikipedia #OSM #OSMF

• Post #3171411

  Hope everyone has a good time at #gpn

• Post #2602443

  In my recent holiday in Montenegro, I double checked almost 500 PoIs while there! 💪🏻 (i.e. how many `check_date` tags I edited). (I did loads of other edits too)

• Post #2602442

  State of the Map (@sotm), the global OpenStreetMap conference, is considering organising childcare for attendees. Please fill out this survey! https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/childcare-at-the-next-sotm-survey/143589 #OpenStreetMap #OSM #sotm #sotm2026 #childcare

• Post #2602441

  RE: https://mapstodon.space/@jjimenezshaw/116538490402767712 I'm reinstalling a WMS server. We should get these stickers!

• Post #2602440

  Today's #Postpass quickie: The same address points (same number & street) but too close together. Possible mapping mistakes? https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2pEJ #openStreetMap

• Post #2379851

  Open Source projects often have a tag for their bug reports/issues called “good first issue”. Something new people can work on, to get used to this software project. Looks like like AI/LLM bots are scanning for that, and sending drive-by patches “fixing” those issue. This drains maintainer's time. Something that used to be good to help new software developers, is draining software maintainer's energy. Thanks GenAI! https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/...

• Post #2080554

  Is there any way (in OSM) to map the _type_ of pedestrian crossing symbol? Some places have different styles. e.g. Mainz has this Mainzelmännchen, Berlin, famously has different one for East & West Berlin. How does one store that in OSM? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mainzelm%C3%A4nnchen-Ampel.png #OpenStreetMap #OSM

• Post #2020309

  RE: https://en.osm.town/@amapanda/116520890379560322 I'm not as anti-AI/LLM as some people. But I can't help but feel sad at how much of the “open internet” is being turned off, due to the side effect of AI/LLM (or their scrapers)....

• Post #1590880

  One of the great things about @weeklyOSM (the OSM newsletter) is how trans friendly they are! I transitioned while on the OSMF Board. They asked how they should cover that, and let me write the entry¹ “One of the OSMF Board members has changed her name to Amanda McCann.” I didn't mention my dead name², or state that I was changing genders³. 😄 There were no bros demanding some historical legacy reasons “well actually”'ing https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/14691#:~:text=One%20of%20...

• Post #1199607

  I've started an #OpenStreetMap wiki page of all the projects which are analysing which streets are named after women/men https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gender_Representation_in_Street_Naming #map #gender #gis #gischat #patriarchy

• Post #1163097

  oh boy. with #postpass & #OverpassUltra I can generate heatmaps directly from OSM data. Here's a heatmap of `place` tag's with this query ``` --- type: postpass style: layers: - type: heatmap heatmap-radius: 20 heatmap-weight: ["get", "count"] heatmap-intensity: 0.0001 --- select count(*), geom from ( select ST_SnapToGrid(geom, 0.1) as geom from postpass_point where tags?'place' AND geom &a...

• Post #1163096

  We know how exciting it is that we can make heatmaps with #OverpassUltra (cause it uses #MapLibre). And now I realised you can make A GLOBE! put this at the start of your style and GO GLOBULAR! style: projection: type: "globe" Thanks @trailstash! #OpenStreetMap #OSM #OverpassUltra #Ultra

• Post #1145405

  Do you know about “Universal Greeting Time”? > UGT is convention that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant 😆 🔗 http://www.theilya.com/mips/ugt.html

• Post #1009790

  If you want to find the longest `opening_hours` tag in #OpenStreetMap, you can use this #Postpass SQL query! SELECT tags, geom FROM postpass_pointlinepolygon ORDER BY length(tags->>'opening_hours') desc nulls last limit 1 That's it. #SQL is really powerful. 🙂 https://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=%7B%7Bdata%3Asql%2Cserver%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpostpass.geofabrik.de%2Fapi%2F0.2%2F%7D%7D%0A%0ASELECT%20tags%2C%20geom%0AFROM%20postpass_pointlinepolygon%0AORD...

• Post #690755

  you wouldn't copy a map