Analysing Swarm Intelligence: What's a Highway?

OSM exists now since more than 20 years. During this time, a tagging scheme evolved. It has undergone several changes since, is partly approved by ...

Why Geometry Matters

At work1, I started creating a real pedestrian routing that uses sidewalks rather than the middle of the road (unlike most pedestrian routing softw...

Postboxes with New Collection Times

Deutsche Post, which operates almost all of Germany’s postboxes, recently changed the collection times for most of them. This was discussed on th...

Summary, Outlook and a Real-Life Example

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts about the new OSM file format “OMA”. This is the last post. At the end of the article you’ll find ...