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dankarran

Mapper since:
November 30, 2005
Last map edit:
July 26, 2025

My name is Dan Karran and I’m currently living in Canning Town, London E16. I’ve been involved in mapping the Isle of Man, Stuttgart and London.

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry Ideas for short URLs to places on OpenStreetMap

I wonder if we can improve the way maps of places can be accessed on osm.org using short, friendly URLs... If you look at pages on the wiki, they ...

Comments 3 comments Date November 20, 2011

Diary Entry Icons for data browser pages

I posted a while back about some tinkering I'd been doing with the OpenStreetMap data browser pages, adding icons to nodes and ways when they're sh...

Comments 7 comments Date May 16, 2010

Diary Entry Possible improvements for the data browser pages

I've been having a bit of a tinker with the changeset browser pages (e.g.) this evening, trying to improve them a little. It's great to have the br...

Comments 12 comments Date March 06, 2010

Diary Entry Micro-mapping mainline train stations

If you have a mainline train station near you in the UK, you may be interested to know that you can now use the maps from the Network Rail site (e....

Comments 6 comments Date November 26, 2009