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Ian Dees

Ok after spending way too much time building a Planetiler profile that I'm happy with (thanks Mike B!), I have a global OSM tileset that works from z6-14. It contains all OSM geometries at zoom 14 and simplifies to points for smaller stuff at lower zooms. All properties are on the features, so you can use my fork of @watmildon's TIGERMap to make cool maps like this to see all the different users mapping in your area. iandees.github.io/TIGERMap/doc

Ok after spending way too much time building a Planetiler profile that I'm happy with (thanks Mike B!), I have a global OSM tileset that works from z6-14. It contains all OSM geometries at zoom 14 and simplifies to points for smaller stuff at lower zooms. All properties are on the features, so you can use my fork of @watmildon's TIGERMap to make cool maps like this to see all the different users mapping in your area. iandees.github.io/TIGERMap/doc

A map of OpenStreetMap data around Minneapolis and St. Paul in a browser, colored by unique user names. It's a rainbow of colors!
8 September at 3:52 | Open on social.modest.com
Ian Dees

That's pretty neat, but the cool thing is that the low zoom support means you can zoom out and see a pretty good overview. This really makes Firefox work hard (it's deciding on colors for 100k's of features), but it works. iandees.github.io/TIGERMap/doc
8 September at 3:54 | Open on social.modest.com
Ian Wagner
watmildon
Ian Dees

I built a global PMTiles dataset to use with @watmildon's excellent viewer and he was kind enough to make a page specifically for it. The vector tiles contain almost all of OSM, so you can apply arbitrary filters to see the richness of the data anywhere in the world.

Here's cycleways around the lakes in Minneapolis, for example: watmildon.github.io/TIGERMap/W

29 August at 1:46 | Open on social.modest.com
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Ilya Zverev

@ian

I wonder if it's possible to use MapCSS to style it (which is better suited for OSM data model).

wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ma

29 August at 7:14 | Open on en.osm.town
Ilya Zverev

@ian @watmildon

Also it looks like point queries don't display anything (e.g. highway=bus_stop).

29 August at 7:16 | Open on en.osm.town
Ian Dees

@simon I'm pondering a tool to help OpenStreetMappers where I could take a picture of an opening hours sign and ask some combination of LLM/image detection to give me the OSM opening hours format. ChatGPT is great at taking arbitrary hours text and outputting the correct string, but I wonder if you can suggest the right tool/API(s) for finding the hours in an image.

14 August at 19:27 | Open on social.modest.com
Ian Dees

Thanks for the pointers everyone!

I ended up putting together a thing that uses OpenAI's API with gpt-4o-mini to suggest OSM tags for a picture: github.com/iandees/image-to-os

I'll try putting it up on the web somewhere if there's interest. I spent about 15¢ testing it a few dozen times:

A screenshot of a web app that shows an image of a storefront with some phone numbers and opening hours under the name of the place. Underneath, a text box with OpenStreetMap tags suggested, a warning to verify using the tags, and a button to copy them to the clipboard.
15 August at 5:18 | Open on social.modest.com
Ian Dees

It's been a busy few days in the OpenAddresses / All the Places world:

* All the Places just went over 5M entries for the first time: alltheplaces.xyz/

* Nick fixed a bug in OpenAddresses weekly download process that was causing it to stop before re-running all sources. This means all the data was updated for the first time in ~a year. Get your fresh updates at batch.openaddresses.io/

18 March at 15:11 | Open on social.modest.com
Ian Wagner

@ian oh wow 🤯 Time for some data updates indeed!

18 March at 15:31 | Open on fosstodon.org
Ian Dees

After 6 years of working on Snapchat's Snap Map, I was laid off today. If you have any leads for backend, open data, mapping, or other cool computer nerd positions, please let me know!

6 February at 1:54 | Open on social.modest.com
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Ilya Zverev

@ian Oh :( On the other hand, you're smart and experienced, who knows how many great opportunities have been waiting for you to stop working at Snap.

6 February at 6:16 | Open on en.osm.town
CaldeiraG

@ian Damn, sorry to hear that :\

6 February at 8:15 | Open on en.osm.town
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