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• Post #3856704

  Enough gloom and doom for now. I just updated the #OpenStreetMap contributor stats at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_statistics_reports for Q2 2026. And yes, we have an all time high in monthly contributors, surpassing the likely pandemic driven peak in early 2021. And next month might be even better.

• Post #3133033

  One day somebody needs to explain to me why LinkedIn is the social medium of choice for "digital sovereignty" proponents, at least of those that have something to do with government(s).

• Post #3133032

  Jedes mal wenn ich https://www.sem.admin.ch/dam/sem/de/data/buergerrecht/einbuergerung/listen/ee-liste-unterlagen-art24a.pdf.download.pdf/ee-liste-unterlagen-art24a-d.pdf frage ich mich ja was ist daran eigentlich "erleichtert" (und ich bin in solchen Dingen jetzt nicht unbewandert). Kontext: beide unser Kinder haben die 5 Jahre Schule Grenze geschafft und wir werden den Papierkrieg wohl diesen Sommer anfangen.

• Post #1968910

  Just released version 5.100 https://github.com/simonpoole/beautified-JOSM-preset/releases/tag/5.100.0 of my @josmeditor compatible #OpenStreetMap preset collection. That is the 100th release in format 5 of more than 200 in total since I initially forked this back in August of 2012. It is has developed from simply being the JOSM presets with different icons to the most comprehensive default preset for OSM editing for many years now with more than double the curated keys and tags than the stan...

• Post #1968909

  ... @vespucci_editor has long supported using an "area" type in the preset configuration that indicates that the preset item in question is applicable to simple polygons when used as areas and multi-polygons, but I never switched over the actual preset file to use this. But I wrote the xslt to do this some time last year (including removing it for the JOSM backwards compatible version) and will be making the switch for one of the upcoming major Vespucci releases.

• Post #1968907

  This https://youtu.be/kH_bSvf7EVA is something for #OpenStreetMap to nerd out about. @standupmaths

• Post #1304778

  No self respecting #OpenStreetMap-er would ever use the fact that they are a volunteer to justify lousy quality.

• Post #1009786

  Preparing for the traditional Autumn Karlsruher #OpenStreetMap Hackweekend https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Hack_Weekend_November_2025hosted by @geofabrik starting tomorrow .... rebased !&%!!! 8 stalled feature branches that I'm probably not going to work on, but just in case .... BTW outside of Geofabrik providing space and pizzas, everybody is there on their own dime

• Post #708074

  I hope there is a special place in hell for #OpenStreetMap mappers that split up border ways (as in administrative borders) to reuse short pieces in landuse multipolygons. For those not in the know: this saves nothing and makes boundaries very very slow to update.