POI classification and OSM, a match made in hell

Teasing good POI data out of OSM is hard. I am doing it.

ETL With OpenStreetMap: Simple Things Are Simple, But Then What?

OpenStreetMap data comes to you unfiltered, raw. OSM, being a crowdsourced map, gives you no guarantees of completeness, accuracy, or generally fitness for use. It's up to you to design a data pipeline that gets you the geodata you actually need.

Meet Your Mappers 1.2 is out

Geolocation, no more log in and a clear button!

Pedestrian Accessibility in OpenStreetMap

Developing a detection algorithm for pedestrian infrastructure map completeness in OpenStreetMap data

OpenStreetMap JOSM Turn Lane Tagging Tutorial Video

Learn how to tag turn lanes in OpenStreetMap using JOSM with this step-by-step video tutorial.

Meet Your Mappers - Discover OpenStreetMappers Around You!

Meet Your Mappers is a new tool I wrote that lets you find active OSM mappers around you. It is free for anyone to use.

Building an OSM Tools Quick Access Browser Extension

This post was 95% written by AI. This is an absolutely terrible idea, as you can see. None of my other posts are written in whole or in part by AI.

JOSM tip: filtering

Quadkeys are sometimes hard to find

Running JOSM as a Java Web Start application on Linux Mint

OSM Pedestrian Density Visualization

Capturing and uploading 360° imagery with Mapillary: 3. Front vs Side

Keeping a thematic OpenStreetMap database up-to-date with osm2pgsql

Capturing and uploading 360° imagery with Mapillary: 2. BIKE

Capturing and uploading 360° imagery with Mapillary: 1. WALK

RapiD Bookmarklets

adding high quality gis data to osm, one feature at a time

adding microsoft building footprints to OSM with MapRoulette: why, and how

experiments with pyosmium, part 2

experiments with pyosmium, part 1