I wrote a module for #OpenStreetMap web maps using the #LeafletJS API: With https://github.com/plepe/leaflet-overpass-lens you can query map items around the mouse pointer.

See the short screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzVa9E0Yo8

Demo application: https://xover.mud.at/~skunk/leaflet-overpass-lens/

Recently, I added a new category, which shows all heritage protected items (at least those, which are tagged correctly in OpenStreetMap). Additionally, I created a web-application which helps tagging heritage protected items in Austria (and Berlin, Germany). I blogged about this here.

• OpenStreetBrowser with heritage protection category
• About taggin

Ich hab letztens schon mein neues Tool vorgestellt, welches dabei hilft, OGD Datensätze mit Wikidata, Wikipedia Listen, Wikimedia Commons und OpenStreetMap abzugleichen.

In einem neuen Screencast hab ich beschrieben, wie man das Tool selber installiert und dann eigene Datensätze hinzufügen kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PKUCjS2HL8

Außerdem gibt es einen neuen Datensatz: die öffentlichen Toilettenanlagen in Wien!

Ich hab ein kleines Tool geschrieben, welches dabei hilft OGD Datensätze mit Wikimedia (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata) und OpenStreetMap abzugleichen. Es findet sich auf hier: https://www.openstreetmap.at/checker.

Da das Tool nicht ganz selbst-erklärend ist, hab ich ein kleines Erklärungsvideo gemacht: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Is-3ssA7U

Der Source Code findet sich auf Github. Ich freue mich über Kommentare, Ideen und Code-Beiträge!

Originally, I wrote this post for my blog: http://plepe.at/398

I love mapping for the OpenStreetMap project, it’s a very pleasing thing to do. I especially like to do it as vacation activity, because then I’m exploring new places anyway, but I also like to do it my home town.

Recently I’m concentrating on mapping artwork and memorials. Even in a well-mapped city like Vienna, Austria, there’s still plenty to do. For example, most social housing building complexes (Vienna is famous for it’s social housing) have some kind of artwork, e.g. some murals or statues in the gardens.

Some examples:

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The category “Construction” under Infrastructure has been split into three sub categories:

• Construction sites: landuse=construction, highway=construction, building=construction, railway=construction and all items with a tag prefixed with ‘construction:’.
• Proposals: landuse=proposed, highway=proposed, building=proposed, railway=proposed and all items with a tag prefixed with ‘proposed:’.
• Developable areas: landuse=greenfield and landuse=brownfield.

Further updates:

• Public transport amenities: Now includes airports (although I’m considering creating a whole “Aeroways” category and move them there)
• Individual Traffic / Maxspeed: now include maxspeed=walk (cyan) and maxspeed=none (magenta).

Example of the “Developable Areas” category:

The latest feature update brings links to tag listings of an object. There are a variety of tags which will be converted to links: first of all website, url, phone and similar, but also wikipedia, image and wikidata. Finally the “Tag2Link” rules (JOSM also uses this under that name) are imported from Wikidata and OSM Sophox. In some cases there are multiple possible links, which will be presented in a small popup to let you choose an appropriate provider (as you can see in the screenshot for the ‘icao’ tag).

-> https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/

The toolbar in the sidebar now includes a globe symbol. It will show information about the current view and highlight the view center with a crosshair.

When activating GPS location, your location will be highlighted. Also, details will be included in the toolbar panel.

The details of map features show geographic information about the object: coordinates, length and area (when applicable).

In the Options you can configure coordinate formats and unit systems.

Also, in the Options you can select which editor will be used, when clicking the ‘edit’ button in a map feature popup.

For all translators: there are quite a few strings which need translation in the User Interface category.

A current update allows symbols to use the scale of the current map view for parameters (e.g. for width or offset of lines). To demonstrate these features, the “Railway gauge” category now shows the rails with the correct offsets (although the exact configuration for multi-gauge rails is neither mapped nor evaluated) (available from zoom level 18). Code.

Map showing single and dual gauge tramway tracks in Sofia, Bulgaria

Details: * The value map.metersPerPixel, which measures the size of the pixel at the viewport center in meters, is now available for twig templates. From this you can calculate the width or the offset of a line in meters. E.g. you could use {{ max(5, 3 / map.metersPerPixel) }} as value for width: 3 meters, or at least 5 pixels. * Related to the first feature, you can now also specify the value of certain style parameters (width, offset, …) with a unit: ‘px’ (for screen pixels) and ‘m’ (world meters).

See the README.md for details.

Thanks to Engin Gem, OpenStreetBrowser has a new translation (it was started today, so it’s still very basic): Turkish! Thanks a lot :-)

If you want to create or improve a translation, you can do so on OpenStreetBrowser Weblate.

Check the translation statistics.

Thanks to Syver Stensholt, OpenStreetBrowser has a new translation: Bokmål, which is a written standard for the Norwegian language! Thanks a lot :-)

If you want to create or improve a translation, you can do so on OpenStreetBrowser Weblate.

Check the translation statistics.

A few days ago, Ivan Seoane showed me weblate - an open source translation management system. Very nice and very suitable for OpenStreetBrowser. I installed it right away, you can find it here: https://weblate.openstreetbrowser.org. Also, Ivan is working on the translation for Galician, which is already available.

Be aware, that authentication is not connected to any other service (like OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetBrowser Dev, Github, Weblate), so you need a separate account there.

Not all parts of OpenStreetBrowser can be translated there, e.g. date formats have their own separate repository, as you have to actually produce code (it’s just too complex).

OpenStreetBrowser.org got a new feature update (4.5)! You can now filter category results by certain criteria (e.g. title, type, …).

Read more on the blog: https://blog.openstreetbrowser.org/node/65

This update brings some nice improvements concerning localization: repository-specific language strings, localized start_date and opening_date and a brand-new translation overview page listing all translators.

-> https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/

Again buildings age in Graz, Austria (haven’t found many places so well mapped). This time with German dates. Note also the image, included via Wikidata.

Read more on the OpenStreetBrowser Blog.

The current category update for OpenStreetBrowser has been in the making for quite some time. The main changes are more detailed categories about buildings (type, age, height, …), an inclusion of map features with office tags in thematic maps and more detailed popups in the Culture categories.

-> read more

1. Custom repo: It’s possible to create custom categories for some time now, now you can load an alternative repository as base categories. E.g.: The categories of user mr. satterly. In the repository selector, there’s a link “Use this repository as base repository”.
2. Collapsed lists: The lists of map features (of a category) are now truncated, and there’s a link “Show more results” which will show you the rest.
3. Permalink: As requested, there’s now a “Permalink” in the menu at the bottom.

• https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/

Read more about OpenStreetBrowser on the blog.

New OpenStreetBrowser version! -> https://www.openstreetbrowser.org

Main new feature: * Export all visible map features as GeoJSON, OSM XML or OSM JSON!

More: https://blog.openstreetbrowser.org/node/59

openstreetmap #osm

Until yesterday OpenStreetBrowser completely ignored the “office” key. Now I created an “Offices” category (under “Services”), but I’m not sure about it’s usefulness. It would be great to get some input from the community on this.

-> https://github.com/plepe/openstreetbrowser-categories-main/issues/25

There’s a new category “Swimming and Bathing” (under “Leisure, Sport and Shopping”) in OpenStreetBrowser.

It includes a variety of swimming and bathing facilities:

• leisure=swimming_area
• leisure=water_park
• leisure=beach_resort
• leisure=sports_centre
• natural=water, sport=swimming
• natural=beach
• amenity=public_bath (it will add the “bath:type” in the description)
• tourism=spa_resort
• leisure=swimming_pool (only those, which don’t have “access=private” set)
• leisure=sauna (it will add the “sauna:type” in the description)

If you have ideas for improvements, you can post ideas on the Github issues page.

Last weekend I was on the Sziget Festival which is held every year on Óbudai Sziget (Sziget=Island) in Budapest. I mapped some of the ways there.