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For most westerners the standard tile layer is basically unreadable in regions of the world where Latin script is not the norm. For this reason German style has been using localization for years. Unfortunately for some people this has been implemented in a somewhat incompatible way regarding standard tile layer which would require changes to Weiterlesen bei Running an Openstreetmap-Tileserver with…
Back in 2019 when I started Open Camping Map a relevant part of my motivation to create this site was that this might help motivating mappers to improve the then very poor tagging state. Now about five years later I was wondering if this actually worked. So I extracted the development of campsite tagging of Weiterlesen bei The state of campsite tagging in OSM
Looking at https://opencampingmap.org one might get the impression that nothing has changed. This is true as far as the general UI is concerned, however quite a lot has been changed behind the scenes. BTW, I still would like to have prettier site icons. Probably somebody with better graphic skills than mine can help here! So Weiterlesen bei News from Open Camping Map
While looking at current campsite tagging I came across a very common mistake which is nested campsite objects as shown on the map above. The problem with such a tagging is that it is unclear for a data consumer like my map what this is supposed to mean if a node tagged tourism = camp_site Weiterlesen bei More updates on Open Camping Map
In diesen Tagen kurz vor dem Höhepunkt der dunklen Jahreszeit hatte ich auf Twitter mal wieder eine Diskussion mit jemandem der blinkender Beleuchtung von Radfahrenden das Wort redete. Gut dachte ich mir, dann schreibe ich doch mal auf was man als Radfahrender bei der Beleuchtung so alles falsch machen kann, denn das ist erstaunlich viel. Weiterlesen bei Die Dos and Don ts der Fahrradbeleuchtung
In most cases it is sufficient to map a camp-site as a closed way or multipolygon. However, there are exeptions and this is what this feature is for. On backcountry campsites there is often no well defined boundary. Thus it may be appropriate to map them as a node only. This is where an additional Weiterlesen bei Announcing support for site-relations in OpenCampingMap
In light of the upcoming virtual meetup on osm2pgsql I decided to write a short blogpost about the top five features I want to see in osm2pgsql. To be able to move my map localisation stuff from PostgreSQL stored procedures to the data import stage I will need the get_bbox() feature of the new flex Weiterlesen bei My most wanted new features for osm2pgsql
I am the Maintainer of the German Style OSM Carto fork and operator of http://tile.openstreetmap.de for a couple of years now. Usually I try to follow upstream releases as fast as possible to make sure that the fork keeps as close to upstream as possible. However, back in March OSM Carto v5.0.0 has been released Weiterlesen bei Why development of German OSM Carto style is currently stuck.
Verschwörungsmythen, wie man Verschwörungstheorien besser nennen sollte, weil es sich dabei selbstverständlich nicht um falsifizierbare Theorien handelt sondern um Dogmen, deren Wahrheit für die Anhänger außer Frage steht, haben in Coronazeiten Hochkonjunktur. Der Grund scheint zu sein, dass manche Menschen wirkliche Probleme damit haben zu akzeptieren, dass es viele Dinge gibt, die zufällig…
Vor vielen Jahren habe ich mich in diesem Blog schon einmal über die Absurdität von ausgeschilderten Fernradwegen ausgelassen. Was sich seither geändert hat ist die Tatsache, dass es das Openstreetmap basierte Routingprogramm, dass ich mir damals gewünscht habe inzwischen gibt. Die Rede ist von Brouter. Eine Software von Arndt Brensched, die es sowohl als App Weiterlesen bei Wie man die Qualität…