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   Reck (heavymetalwings@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 07:52:10 JST Reck

   • Håkan Geijer

   @hakan_geijer hashtags are your friend here !! Otherwise map nerds who aren't on kolektiva and don't follow you won't see it

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     De_Minimis (de_minimis@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 08:21:51 JST De_Minimis

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer Have you tried BlenderGIS?

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     Reck (heavymetalwings@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 08:30:54 JST Reck

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer I don't what tags map nerds tend to use because I'm not enough of a map nerd to have tried posting about it before.

     But with this reply I can put out a call asking the map nerds of the fediverse which hashtags they use!

     You can't go wrong with #OSM #OpenStreetMaps #OpenStreetMap #Inkscape

     Maybe also #FediMaps or #mapstodon and #mapmaking or #maps

     Map nerds of the fediverse, am I missing anything?

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     Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 15:57:03 JST Federico Mena Quintero

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer What sort of styling or filtering do you want to do? This sounds like something best done with something like QGIS, not SVG styling.

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     contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Feb-2026 08:38:20 JST contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Håkan Geijer
     • Estrogoon

     Thanks for pinging me, @unionwhore 🙂

     @hakan_geijer I’m not much of an OSM data user, mostly a contributor…but yes, this sounds like a task for QGIS. (JOSM is an OSM editor, and it’s not exactly meant for producing custom maps.)

     One way to get large sets of data from OSM is to use extracts, e.g. as provided by GeoFabrik - https://download.geofabrik.de/

     (PBF is better for programmatic use, whereas Shapefiles have support in GIS applications like QGIS.)

     I recently also learned (at FOSS4G Asia) about how to load OSM’s new vector tiles as a layer in QGIS, to style certain features, and to print the results on paper.

     In QGIS, go to Layer - Add Layer - Add Vector Tile Layer.

     Under Source Type, select Service. Create a new connection with any name, and the URL https://vector.osm.org/shortbread_v1/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt.

     You should now have an interactive vector map. You can change how it looks by adding rules in the Layer Styling panel (Settings - Panels - Layer Styling).

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     Estrogoon (unionwhore@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Friday, 06-Feb-2026 08:38:21 JST Estrogoon

     • Håkan Geijer
     • contrapunctus ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

     @hakan_geijer @contrapunctus