OpenStreetMap
Steven Vance
- Mapper since:
- February 16, 2009
- Last map edit:
- July 22, 2025
Transportation planner in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois. Graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago, sociology and urban planning.
You can read my blog, Steven Can Plan, which is about cities and often utility cycling. My personal website is stevevance.net.
Latest Diaries
How to extract highways and subway lines from OpenStreetMap as a shapefile
Originally posted on my blog Steven Can Plan. It’s possible to use Overpass Turbo to extract any object from the OpenStreetMap “planet” and conver...
ALSINA bus from Seville to Cádiz uses OpenStreetMap
I took a day trip on a coach bus from Seville to Cádiz on Wednesday to visit the beach while staying for a week in Seville. I was surprised near ...
Ensuring proper bike routing in the Chicago Bike Guide
The Chicago Bike Guide depends on directions from MapQuest Open Directions, a free service MapQuest offers that uses the OpenStreetMap database o...
Compiling and mapping Chicago-area campgrounds
I’m adding Chicago-area campgrounds to the Chicago Bike Guide to entice new users and to espouse the enjoyment of medium-distance bike camping. The...