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New updates to "Latest Changes"
Posted by rene78 on 5 July 2022 in English. Last updated on 10 January 2023.“Latest changes” (https://rene78.github.io/latest-changes/) got a few improvements:
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"Latest Changes" is mobile friendly now
Posted by rene78 on 23 December 2021 in English. Last updated on 15 April 2022.Recently I have worked a bit on the web app “Latest Changes” (https://rene78.github.io/latest-changes/) in order to make it more mobile-friendly. Hope someone finds it useful.
Quick reminder to the ones of you, who don’t know the app yet. The purpose is to check recent OSM changes within a certain cartographic boundary, for example your home town. It is very simple and powerful:
- Open the Latest-Changes web app.
- Zoom to the area of interest
- Check and validate the changesets of the last 7 days (1 day, 3 days, 1 month).
- Bookmark the URL to regularly come back and monitor your area of interest.
The link on top leads to my version of the app. The original one can be found under https://tyrasd.github.io/latest-changes/
Check latest changes in certain area
Posted by rene78 on 9 December 2019 in English. Last updated on 11 January 2020.I quickly want to introduce the tool “Latest Changes” to the ones of you, who don’t know it yet. The purpose is to check recent OSM changes within a certain cartographic boundary, for example your home town. It is very simple and powerful:
- Open the Latest-Changes web app
- Zoom to the area of interest
- Check and validate the changesets of the last 7 days (1 day, 3 days, 1 month).
- Bookmark the URL to regularly come back and monitor your area of interest.
The link under 1. leads to my version of the app. The original one can be found under https://tyrasd.github.io/latest-changes/
I would like to recount an interesting encounter I had during a bike trip in Myanmar. In December 2016 I cycled from Yangon/Myanmar to Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia. Beforehand I was armchair mapping some tracks east of Bago, Myanmar in order to avoid the stinky and noisy main road and slightly short-cut the trip. Later I used OsmAnd+ to navigate those tracks.
It was precisely on these roads in the middle of nowhere - Google Maps is literally blank there - where I met a female solo bike traveller. She used Maps.me to navigate and was using ‘my’ roads to go into the opposite direction.
Quite entertaining to see the real world impact of all our mapping efforts.
Here is a picture of one of those newly mapped roads at a slightly different location.