https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap#DDoS#Scrapers#AI
Beyond fresh #OpenstreetMap data, you can now search for æøå, disable the display of speed limits on Android, and when navigating in Apple Car Play or Android Auto, 3D buildings are disabled to improve legibility of the map. ...
a sharepic with two screenshots demonstrating the disabling of speed limits and the improved search
Beyond fresh #OpenstreetMap data, you can now search for æøå, disable the display of speed limits on Android, and when navigating in Apple Car Play or Android Auto, 3D buildings are disabled to improve legibility of the map.
👉 https://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/18410 👈
Issue 811 of #weeklyOSM is out. 🌏
涵蓋 #開放街圖#osm 世界大小事的新一期 weeklyOSM 已經發佈 🚀
Lisez les dernières nouvelles de l'univers #openstreetmap 🗺️
Viele Neuigkeiten aus der #osm Welt 📰
新一期的OSM周刊已经发布 🌏
Se ha publicado un nuevo número del semanarioOSM 🌐
最新の週刊OSMが発行されました。⛩️
주간OSM 최신호가 나왔습니다 💬
Тижневик OSM тепер доступний Українською 📲 @openstreetmap
Tymczasem w Niemczech "Head of Security" w koncernie energetycznym ma na LinkedInie ból dupy o to, że nie dość, że na OpenStreetMapie podają informacje o jego podstacjach to jeszcze wpisują takie groźne szczegóły jak fakt, że… jest otoczona płotem!
I jeszcze udowadnia swój niedobór kompetencji poprzez zaciemnienie informacji tak, że nie było aż tak trudno odgadnąć o którą podstację mu chodziło XD
A map showing continental Europe with a few dozen dots marking time capsules. Some have buried and target opening dates. The different color dots indicate which of the three tag schemes a point used on OSM: man_made=time_capsule, historic=time_capsule, memorial=time_capsule.
Il progetto del mese della comunità italiana di #OpenStreetMap è dedicato alla mappatura dei lampioni. Che può sembrare una stupidaggine, ma tutti se dobbiamo scegliere tra una strada buia o illuminata da percorrere la sera scegliamo quasi sicuramente quella illuminata.
👉 https://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/18388 👈
Issue 810 of #weeklyOSM is out. 🌏
涵蓋 #開放街圖#osm 世界大小事的新一期 weeklyOSM 已經發佈 🚀
Lisez les dernières nouvelles de l'univers #openstreetmap 🗺️
Viele Neuigkeiten aus der #osm Welt 📰
新一期的OSM周刊已经发布 🌏
Se ha publicado un nuevo número del semanarioOSM 🌐
最新の週刊OSMが発行されました。⛩️
주간OSM 최신호가 나왔습니다 💬
Тижневик OSM тепер доступний Українською 📲 @openstreetmap
One of my highlights of yesterday's Mapping USA online conference was osm.kids, a map using #OpenStreetMap that's made for #children! If you're zoomed in, it highlights things like playgrounds, fire stations, schools and ice cream shops.
When you zoom out, you see city and country names and flags so you can learn all about those!
It is so creative and I love it. osm.kids demonstrates so well that you can make maps with OSM that you cannot make with any other map tools out there.
Alarm bei OpenStreetMap! 🚨 Das freie Kartenprojekt steht vor einer ernsten Herausforderung: Tausende KI-Bots greifen aktuell massenhaft Daten ab und bringen damit das gesamte Projekt in Gefahr.
Auf dem Bild ist ein Kartenausschnitt von OpenStreetMap zu sehen. Im Bild steht: "Server am Limit:
KI-Bots sammeln massenhaft Kartendaten von OpenStreetMap" darunter steht: "Tausende automatisierte Bots greifen aktuell auf die offenen Kartendaten von OpenStreetMap zu und bringen das Projekt finanziell unter Druck."
To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI#Bots#Abuse
#MagicEarth navigation, that I used for years and endorsed, has just updated on my phone. It seems they changed interface (in a good way, I admit), and the app is now “freemium”; among the paid (subscription-only) options are offline maps.
Okay, I get it, every company needs money. And I'd gladly pay to get live traffic info, 3D view, Android Auto integration… but maps? You must be joking, guys. You have the maps literally from me and other #OpenStreetMap contributors. What we gave you, you're now trying to sell back to us. No way.
👉 https://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/18380 👈
Issue 809 of #weeklyOSM is out. 🌏
涵蓋 #開放街圖#osm 世界大小事的新一期 weeklyOSM 已經發佈 🚀
Lisez les dernières nouvelles de l'univers #openstreetmap 🗺️
Viele Neuigkeiten aus der #osm Welt 📰
新一期的OSM周刊已经发布 🌏
Se ha publicado un nuevo número del semanarioOSM 🌐
最新の週刊OSMが発行されました。⛩️
주간OSM 최신호가 나왔습니다 💬
Тижневик OSM тепер доступний Українською 📲 @openstreetmap
👉 https://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/18373 👈
Issue 808 of #weeklyOSM is out. 🌏
涵蓋 #開放街圖#osm 世界大小事的新一期 weeklyOSM 已經發佈 🚀
Lisez les dernières nouvelles de l'univers #openstreetmap 🗺️
Viele Neuigkeiten aus der #osm Welt 📰
新一期的OSM周刊已经发布 🌏
Se ha publicado un nuevo número del semanarioOSM 🌐
最新の週刊OSMが発行されました。⛩️
주간OSM 최신호가 나왔습니다 💬
Тижневик OSM тепер доступний Українською 📲 @openstreetmap
I like searching for POIs via a query language on Overpass. My queries tend to be quite simple - "get all amenities of x type, in y area that have z tag". The rendered map showing matching POIs is a nice-to-have, but not completely necessary. ...
Everybody knows Escher's waterfall picture: A perpetual motion machine where water from the base of a waterfall appears to run downhill along the water path before reaching the top of the waterfall.
The house at the bottom left, that is at level -1 when you are at the top of the waterfall, and level 0 or higher when you take into account that water flows down, back to the top of the waterfall here.
At street level 0 (if that stupid truck wasn't there....) you would see the entrance of the Caringbah family practise, and next to it you have the escalator ("Lift to shops") to the Cincotta Chemist.
I've been trying to get the shops in my area in the OpenStreetMap, properly with levels etc. This Cincotta Chemist is both at level 1 and at level 0, the same as the house on the Escher's waterfall. Or the escalator is going from level 0 to level 0. I just cannot get it working.
At the end I just ignored the escalator. ignored that there is a part of the chemist above the doctors, and everything is happy in my head now.... (Except for that gnawing feeling that there is a part of the map wrong)
The image depicts a watermill with an elevated aqueduct and waterwheel as the main feature. The aqueduct begins at the waterwheel and flows behind it. The walls of the aqueduct step downward, suggesting that it slopes downhill. The aqueduct turns sharply three times, first to the left, then to the right, and finally to the left again. The viewer looks down at the scene diagonally, which means that from the viewer's perspective the aqueduct appears to be slanted upward. The viewer is also looking across the scene diagonally from the lower right, which means that from the viewer's perspective the two left-hand turns are directly in line with each other, while the waterwheel, the forward turn and the end of the aqueduct are all in line. The second left-hand turn is supported by pillars from the first, while the other two corners are supported by a tower of pillars that begins at the waterwheel. The water falls off the edge of the aqueduct and over the waterwheel in an impossible infinite cycle; in his notes on the picture, Escher points out that some water must be periodically added to this perpetual motion machine to compensate for evaporation. The use of the Penrose stairs is paralleled by Escher's Ascending and Descending (1960), where instead of the flow of water, two lines of monks endlessly march uphill or downhill around the four flights of stairs.[2]
👉 https://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/18367 👈
Issue 807 of #weeklyOSM is out. 🌏
涵蓋 #開放街圖#osm 世界大小事的新一期 weeklyOSM 已經發佈 🚀
Lisez les dernières nouvelles de l'univers #openstreetmap 🗺️
Viele Neuigkeiten aus der #osm Welt 📰
新一期的OSM周刊已经发布 🌏
Se ha publicado un nuevo número del semanarioOSM 🌐
最新の週刊OSMが発行されました。⛩️
주간OSM 최신호가 나왔습니다 💬
Тижневик OSM тепер доступний Українською 📲 @openstreetmap
Release 2026.02.09 is out!
Beyond fresh #OpenstreetMap data, you can now search for æøå, disable the display of speed limits on Android, and when navigating in Apple Car Play or Android Auto, 3D buildings are disabled to improve legibility of the map. ...
Geomob podcast about CoMaps ( thegeomob.com )
Last week, the good folks at @geomob released an interview with CoMaps contributor Anton. ...
How to query the map offline, on Linux?
I like searching for POIs via a query language on Overpass. My queries tend to be quite simple - "get all amenities of x type, in y area that have z tag". The rendered map showing matching POIs is a nice-to-have, but not completely necessary. ...
Interview for the OpenCage blog ( blog.opencagedata.com )
Some of our contributors have collaborated to do an interview for the OpenCage blog. ...