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watmildon

Arguing about railway=abandoned is so passé. Real heads argue about railway=would_have_been_abandoned

#OpenStreetMap

openstreetmap.org/way/17249644

Screengrab of the tagging for a railway on OpenStreetMap with the name "Deluth, Pierre and Black Hills Railroad". It is marked as railway=abandoned but the note tag reads "railway graded but never operated".
9 September at 4:00 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon

Giving a talk at 4:00 in the Bonneville room about tools we have to reconcile OSM and GNIS. If mapping with big authoratative datasets is your thing, come see me!

#SOTMUS2024

7 June at 19:20 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon

At my hotel and @organicmaps has the pedestrian bridge cut though! Gotta find who added it to OpenStreetMap and send a thank you.

#SOTMUS2024 #OpenStreetMap

6 June at 20:03 | Open on en.osm.town
governorkeagan :osm:

@watmildon @organicmaps I love seeing small details on the map like that! Sometimes I'll go and compare it against Apple/Google Maps to see the difference

6 June at 22:23 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon

Summer in the United States is just around the corner. For those wanting to dine outside... may I suggest this Overpass query?

Don't worry if it's a bit sparse around you, the data is pretty easy to get added! Other great tags you can help with are takeaway, toilets, and the various diet subkeys.

overpass-turbo.eu/s/1MjS

wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ke
wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ke
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#OpenStreetMap

Summer in the United States is just around the corner. For those wanting to dine outside... may I suggest this Overpass query?

Don't worry if it's a bit sparse around you, the data is pretty easy to get added! Other great tags you can help with are takeaway, toilets, and the various diet subkeys.

overpass-turbo.eu/s/1MjS

Screen shot of OpenStreetMap showing a downtown area with various colored markers for picnic tables, benches, and restaurants.
1 June at 2:25 | Open on en.osm.town
une abeille

@watmildon Being able to find individual water fountains, bike parking spots, benches, etc is one of my favourite features of @organicmaps ! I've taken to micromapping all the local parks in case it helps someone find a shady place to hang out on a hot day. :)

1 June at 3:32 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon

As an experiment, I have published a map of Washington State using the full and complete data dump from OSM. It has a filter functionality to find things based on the tagging and you can now click items to view entities (that's still somewhat buggy).

It's good enough that I can use it to see places to get various flavors of takeout this evening: watmildon.github.io/TIGERMap/W

#OpenStreetMap #Protomaps #maplibre

As an experiment, I have published a map of Washington State using the full and complete data dump from OSM. It has a filter functionality to find things based on the tagging and you can now click items to view entities (that's still somewhat buggy).

It's good enough that I can use it to see places to get various flavors of takeout this evening: watmildon.github.io/TIGERMap/W

9 April at 21:19 | Open on en.osm.town
governorkeagan :osm:

@watmildon That looks very interesting! How difficult is ti get something like this set up?

9 April at 21:50 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon

It looks like speaker invites for State of the Map US are going out. Congrats to everyone who got selected and many many thanks to everyone who submitted talks!

I'll be giving a lighting talk titled "One Year of SmallTownBot" and a full talk about efforts to squeeze more great map data from the GNIS dataset.

Tickets still available. Come see us! openstreetmap.us/events/state-

en.osm.town/@SmallTownUSA
openstreetmap.org/user/watmild

#SOTMUS #OpenStreetMap

It looks like speaker invites for State of the Map US are going out. Congrats to everyone who got selected and many many thanks to everyone who submitted talks!

I'll be giving a lighting talk titled "One Year of SmallTownBot" and a full talk about efforts to squeeze more great map data from the GNIS dataset.

21 March at 20:32 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon

In Washington State there are 2 overlapping and competing fast food chains both called Taco Time.

I spent the last few hours sorting out which is which on #OpenStreetMap and adding/correcting the brand:wikidata tags so hopefully everyone can now find their preferred taco provider.

15 Nov 2023 at 5:38 | Open on en.osm.town
watmildon
watmildon

Been really enjoying working through issues identified by @amapanda's river basin map. Specific enough to be achievable but also varied enough to stay interesting! A perfect OSM QA rabbit hole.

amandasaurus.github.io/osm-riv

27 Aug 2023 at 21:42 | Open on en.osm.town
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