OpenStreetMap
mapmeld
- Mapper since:
- January 28, 2011
- Last map edit:
- July 18, 2025
This is my OpenStreetMap profile. You can add me as a friend here, or on Mapstodon @mapmeld@mapstodon.space
Map things which I wrote about
- Visiting Baarle-Hertog/Nassau
- Translating OSM UI to Maldivian Dhivehi
- OSM and non-OSM distortions on the Chinese border
- Where people tag Living Streets in the US
- What is going on with Arabic in OSM iD?
- Map renders on the Cyprus border
Future map interests
- Encouraging more map translations, local adoption, 25% threshold
- Supporting campaigns to tag streetscapes, floodplain agriculture, refugee and displaced locations
- There is a particular Arabic script ligature which doesn’t render properly in Noto (seen in central Erbil / Hawler) so the map tile looks weird
- Improving OSM UI language select for multi-auto-suggest instead of typing ISO codes
Latest Diaries
For years, an issue with Kurdish language, Arabic script, and OpenStreetMap tiles has been on my radar. In 2023 I got OSM to update Noto fonts on t...
Last fall I posted about “Living Streets of OpenStreetMap US”. In Las Vegas, I encountered two pedestrian streets (tagged with highway=pedestrian),...
Notes from Lake Superior Bike + Map Part 2/2
Continuing last week’s trip from Duluth, MN to Ashland, WI with a loop around Bayfield County. Now that I’m on the lake shore, I started seeing a ...
Notes from Lake Superior Bike + Map
Originally posted on https://blog.georeactor.com I had the idea to go bike touring on the western tip of Lake Superior. There’s a lot to say, but ...