OpenStreetMap
mapmeld
- Mapper since:
- January 28, 2011
- Last map edit:
- August 23, 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
- Contributed to Japanese and Arabic Equal Earth posters
Future map interests
- Encouraging more map translations, local adoption
- Supporting campaigns to tag streetscapes, floodplain agriculture, refugee and displaced locations
- There is a particular Kurdish ligature which doesn’t render properly in Noto, researching fixes for tiles and WebGL
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 ...