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SomeoneElse This user is a moderator

Mapper since:
August 24, 2008
Last map edit:
July 26, 2025

I live near York (UK), though I do occasionally venture further afield. I mainly map footpaths and other out-of-town things. Also see related profile on Mastodon.

There are some bits and pieces (including two parts of an OSM-Carto-derived rendering style designed for out-of-town England and Wales) over at Github that look like this. There are some wiki pages behind here (mostly to do with tileserver setup).

I’m a member of the Data Working Group (that’s what the blue star above means), but if you’ve got any issues to raise with the DWG the group email address is the best one to use.

Other related accounts are SomeoneElse2. SomeoneElseSC and SomeoneElse_Revert, which is mainly used where people have requested that I help with reversions.

The “User id” of this account is “61942” and the text above this should include “Mapper since: 24 August, 2008”. I mention that because there have been a few attempts over the years to impersonate DWG members, including me, using names such as “SomeoneEIse” (with a capital “i” instead of a lower case “l”) and others with various UTF-8 versions of characters that look similar to, but are not, regular ascii characters.

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry The Côte de Blubberhouses and the Pacific Ocean

Kex Gill (humorously named the “Côte de Blubberhouses” for a stage of the 2014 Tour de France) is a road in Yorkshire between Harrogate and Skipt...

Comments 2 comments Date July 12, 2025

Diary Entry What food is there - and can I get a wheelchair in?

I recently updated this map: and this one: to show different types of restaurants (the most common cuisine types cause the top part of the ic...

Comments 0 comments Date June 24, 2025

Diary Entry Large and small trees

The diameter_crown tag is fairly well used for trees. It’d be nice when showing trees to show larger ones as larger than smaller ones. One chal...

Comments 4 comments Date May 31, 2025

Diary Entry Using Josm's validator to check boundary relations

Lots of people use editors such as iD, Potlatch, Vespucci, GoMap!! etc. for editing. There are entirely sensible reasons for this - I’ll always tr...

Comments 1 comment Date March 21, 2025