People are suggesting reporting a bug on Google Maps for the “Gulf of America” name, and I can't help but think that's completely pointless.

Maybe for many things, there's automated “too many errors reported” systems, but I betcha there's a special exception for “Gulf of America”, to ignore that.

Google can (do?) get billions of dollars in government money. They're gonna autoignore all your error reports rather than risk losing that.

If you want to do something, stop using google maps!

oh are people discovering that there are downsides to having your maps run by one giant corporation, which is willing to bend to the extreme right's latest baby tantrums?

c'mon folks, there is an alternative! You can own your maps yourself! 😁😁

#OpenStreetMap

Wanna help make #maps of #waterways from #OpenStreetMap? #WaterwayMapOrg now includes a first attempt at data export for you.
read more: https://github.com/amandasaurus/waterwaymap.org/issues/74#issuecomment-2557099038

I'd like people to try it out and give me feedback on that data, how it's structured, etc. Is this the best format/layout?

Share the maps you make please. 🙂

#OpenStreetMap data is released under a share-alike licence¹, and that hasn't stopped it succeeding as the to-go global geo datasource. 💪

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¹ i'm simplifying

I mean #ansible is great and all that. But I so often find myself replacing an individual ansible task with a little snippet of #bash shell script.

2024 and shell scripts still kicking ass

New WaterwayMap.org maps! Big Thick Rivers, in map form! The more upstreams a river has, the thicker the line on that map. It's the standard “Natural Waterways (downhills)” view, but *BETTER*.

explore it here: https://waterwaymap.org/#map=3.33/43.56/10.34&tiles=planet-grouped-ends
#OSM #OpenStreetMap #WaterwayMapOrg #gischat #waterway #hydrology #rivers

New #WaterwayMapOrg feature!

The names of rivers are now shown in the river mouth (“ends”) map & data

read more: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/the-end-of-waterway-map/108632/26
🗺 map: https://waterwaymap.org/ends/#map=8.77/53.3533/-6.2678

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #maps #waterway #gis #maps

So, is there gonna be a State of the Map Europe 2025 then? 🥹 :openstreetmap:

@sotmeu @sotm #OpenStreetMap #OSM #SotM #SotMEU

The large, well organised German OSM Community has already planned it's annual 2025 Conference (#fossgis #fossgis2025 ) @FOSSGISeV

i support fully automated luxury gay space communism

and authentically hand-made organic nodes

#craftmapper

@clacke sounds like https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Conversely, you aren't paying for #OpenStreetMap, and you aren't the product. You're part of a global community to liberate maps. 😊😊
https://hackers.town/@lori/112266758656678850

All roads used to lead to Rome, now the longest road in Europe avoids it. 🤣

The longest road¹ in Europe in #OpenStreetMap is the Autostrada Adriatica in Italy, at 774 km. It goes from Bologna to Taranto, and avoids Rome as much as possible by going along the Adriatic Coast of Italy.

¹ (ah, but how do we define “a road” 😉 🧵)

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #maps #map #geo #gis

I calculated this “longest road” from #OpenStreetMap @geofabrik Europe extract.

I define “a road” here as a continuous sequence of OSM ways with a `highway` tag & the same `name` tag. `osm-lump-ways` generates this with one simple command:

osm-lump-ways -i europe-latest.osm.pbf -o euro-roads.geojson -f highway -f name -g name --split-into-single-paths --min-length-m 10000 --split-into-single-paths-by crow_flies

The second-longest road in Europe is at 667 km from Moscow to St. Petersburg «Нева» which is the M-11 motorway. No, I don't know why it's called Нева in OSM. Wikipedia tells me that's a river… 🤔

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #geo

Here's the top 1000 longest roads in Europe (connected OSM `highway`'s with the same `name` tag). Shortest is ~53 km long. (lots hidden behind others).

This shows some clear regional differences, which might have more with how data is mapped in #OpenStreetMap, but might also reflect how different cultures *name* roads.

#OSM #geo #map #europe

Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢

Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch.

This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!

read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra

We can map steps in #OpenStreetMap, and add details like “How many steps are there?”, or “Is there is a hand rail? Tactile paving?”

But maybe we can add *more* details! 😁

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-more-detailed-mapping-of-steps/106795

Looks like the global conference of the #OpenStreetMap community, State of the Map (SotM), will be held in a place where it's illegal to be gay & trans.

🙄🙄🙄
#OpenStreetMap #OSM
<https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2023/08/14/announcing-state-of-the-map-2024-september-6-to-8-2024-join-us-in-nairobi-and-online/>

I posted about misgendering & transphobia I experienced in #OpenStreetMap and the mods hide it unless I could prove the original poster deliberately set out to offend!

????
#Trans #OSM #CodeOfConduct #Transphobia