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Rostranimin

Mapper since:
April 08, 2008
Last map edit:
August 04, 2025

Welcome/Hello. I am… Local to Edinburgh, Scotland. I have now been editing for many years, and I’ve introduced others to OSM through workshops and other interventions. I tend to work by surveying personally, with a GPS, backed up with use of aerial photography etc. My job also involves contact with OSM so it’s relatively common that I add notes where I notice errors or omissions but do not immediately have the time to carry out surveys or edits. I’m always very very happy to receive comment or questions on any edits. I’m particularly involved/interested in the mapping of tracks and paths and cycle routes such as the National Cycle Network - often outside Edinburgh. Most wish for… 1) improvements to openstreetmap.org which are targeted at those who come to the site having heard of Openstreetmap (but who don’t want to be mappers); and 2) improvements in tagging conventions around paths and footways to account for the massive variation in what a ‘path’ or ‘footway’ represents on the ground.

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry Categorising paths, another attempt

New proposal for categorising paths: osm.wiki/Proposed_features/path_defined_by I previously wrote about the challenges of categorising paths - a...

Comments 0 comments Date July 28, 2019

Diary Entry Categorising paths

In relation to this: draft of a tagging scheme for path categorisation. I’ve been mapping actively now for 4 years, and I’ve tended to concentrate...

Comments 18 comments Date March 10, 2015

Diary Entry Google Map Maker

Not a proper diary entry perhaps - but this is what’s in my head so seems relevant to write: Tell me again why we don’t need OSM to be accessible ...

Comments 19 comments Date April 11, 2013

Diary Entry impassable gate?

Anyone know how to tag a gate which is impassable (tall) and only open for a few hours a couple of times a week? No idea what the legal status is -...

Comments 6 comments Date February 17, 2013