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PlaneMad

Mapper since:
26 декабрь 2005
Last map edit:
27 июль 2025

My name is Arun and have lived in Abu Dhabi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Dharamsala, Mumbai, Washington DC and now in Goa. While navigating my surroundings with by walking, hiking, cycling and using public transport, OSM becomes a great place to map my journeys across the earth.

Started making maps for Wikipedia in 2005 and eventually started contributing to OSM from 2008 to be able to create better maps using open data.

Currently working at Mapbox as a cartographic engineer to build the future of web mapping.

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Latest Diaries

Diary Entry How to find the changeset details of any OSM map feature

Wrote this quick guide after realizing its not so easy to find how to do this. Visible features The easiest way to find more details about any fe...

Comments 2 comments Date 8 август 2018

Diary Entry Descriptions of OSM tags in any language using Wikidata

Ever wanted documentation of OSM tags in your own language? Thanks to Wikidata, this might be quite simple: OSM tags in Japanese | German | Engl...

Comments 9 comments Date 10 гыйнвар 2018

Diary Entry Viewing OpenStreetMap tiles in GL

Was fiddling through the Mapbox GL JS API today, and thought i’d see if I can get the default OSM raster tiles to render on GL. Turned out to be su...

Comments 8 comments Date 22 декабрь 2017

Diary Entry Talk and workshop: State of validation, State of the Map, Japan

This Friday, I will be at SOTM in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima this weekend talking about the state of validation on OpenStreetMap! I will talk about t...

Comments 0 comments Date 15 август 2017