My pandemic mapping project: Cheltenham addresses

Cheltenham is a town of 116,000 people in south-west England. During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, I spent lots of time collecting addresses in ...

How should I tag paths suitable for off-road wheelchairs and mobility scooters?

A section of the Cotswold Way National Trail on Leckhampton Hill was recently improved to make it suitable for off-road Tramper wheelchairs and mob...

Better address mapping with the JOSM "Coloured Streets" style

For months I’ve been mapping addresses in Cheltenham, England. I recently discovered the JOSM “Coloured Streets” style. It has improved my address ...

Mapping addresses helped find a nine year old mistake in OpenStreetMap (also in Apple Maps, HERE, and TomTom)

The need for addresses One of the things that often comes up in discussions about OpenStreetMap is poor address coverage in some places. Rightly ...