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"Latest Changes" is mobile friendly now

Diterbitkan oleh rene78 pada 23 Desember 2021 dalam English. Terakhir diperbarui pada 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:

  1. Open the Latest-Changes web app.
  2. Zoom to the area of interest
  3. Check and validate the changesets of the last 7 days (1 day, 3 days, 1 month).
  4. 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/

Screenshot of "latest changes"

Check latest changes in certain area

Diterbitkan oleh rene78 pada 9 Desember 2019 dalam English. Terakhir diperbarui pada 11 Januari 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:

  1. Open the Latest-Changes web app
  2. Zoom to the area of interest
  3. Check and validate the changesets of the last 7 days (1 day, 3 days, 1 month).
  4. 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/

Screenshot

The power of OSM

Diterbitkan oleh rene78 pada 24 Mei 2018 dalam English. Terakhir diperbarui pada 12 Juni 2018.

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.

Lokasi: Nyaung Kaing, Waw Township, Bago District, Bago Region, Myanmar