OpenStreetMap
Adam Martin
- Mapper since:
- 12 June, 2013
- Last map edit:
- 09 April, 2025
I am a Canadian living and working in Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. In 2013, I got interested in improving the map information for my province and attempted to update Google’s maps. However, the process was difficult and prone to errors due to the tools and the oversight structure. I looked about and found the OpenStreetMap project in May of that year, just as ID was being launched. I made an account, quickly accepted the licensing agreement, and began contributing. ** To date, I have uploaded over 4,000 changes to the Map in various areas across North America.
Latest Diaries
Haven’t had much cause to make another blog post in the last month and a half - mostly because I was putting into action the things that I blogged ...
Looking over my area, I am proud to say that there a ridiculous number of fresh water sources. Canada is renowned as possessing one of the largest ...
Taking a look over the municipal map for my area, I note that there is a lot of the local land area that is designated as “open space buffers”. I l...
Land Use versus Residential Private Property
So there aren’t a whole lot of mappers on my side of the pond (the Atlantic). This makes sense - the OSM project started in Europe and has had to g...