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scruss

Mapper since:
17. Mee 2007
Last map edit:
4. Juli 2025

Hairy auld Scottish git in Toronto. Plays banjo, sometimes. Callsign VA3PID. Blogs at scruss.com

Has an import account: scruss_imports. Will use it wisely, if at all.

Latest Diaries

Blog-Antrag so how do you map beaver dams? 🇨🇦

There are a couple I walk by every week, both pretty large. I’ve tagged them natural=beaver_dam ‘cos I found it in some discussion on the wiki som...

Comments 0 comments Datum 11. Juli 2024

Blog-Antrag Don't name your "landuse="s …

… unless you want a greatbighuge label inexplicably hovering over the map at z=16. Looking over this fine city of Toronto, I saw a couple of brown...

Comments 0 comments Datum 3. September 2023

Blog-Antrag Do I call out Toronto Police Service over their lack of OSM attribution?

Toronto Police Service has major, systemic problems. But they also have this one: This is my hastily-georeferenced version of the image from thi...

Comments 3 comments Datum 8. August 2022

Blog-Antrag Turned off to make you aware of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market protests … wtf?

Dear OSMers — The Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on copyright in the Digital Single Market COM/2016/0593 f...

Comments 4 comments Datum 21. Mäerz 2019