July 23, 2025
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The OSMF has recently extended the set of map layers on the OpenStreetMap website. And since none of the map designs of the two new layers has been discussed in my review of the state of map design in OpenStreetMap … Continue reading
July 10, 2025
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After introducing the European Arctic Islands in May i am now extending the Musaicum satellite image coverage to the other larger islands and island groups of the Atlantic Ocean. The Musaicum images are a series of regional satellite image mosaics … Continue reading
June 3, 2025
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Going further from what i wrote about in the previous post regarding map design for coastal constructions and harbor features, i here want to look into rendering aquaculture installations. Those have been mapped in OpenStreetMap for a long time with … Continue reading
May 29, 2025
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OpenStreetMap has – despite its British origin – not a very strong maritime focus. Reason for that is probably that only a small percentage of mappers in OpenStreetMap live in a coastal setting. And even for those who live in … Continue reading
May 24, 2025
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I am pleased to announce that another extension of my Musaicum satellite image mosaic coverage is available now. The Musaicum images are a series of regional satellite image mosaics based on Sentinel-2 data started in 2023 that are produced to … Continue reading
March 14, 2025
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I am happy to announce the availability of the next extension of my Musaicum satellite image mosaic series. The Musaicum images are a series of regional satellite image mosaics based on Sentinel-2 data started in 2023 that are produced to … Continue reading
March 5, 2025
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I wrote a comment today on the OSM-Carto issue tracker that i think should get some broader exposure: As many know OSM-Carto has the most sophisticated system of road rendering of all operational OSM based maps. Its complexity allows us … Continue reading
February 6, 2025
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After the larger regional Musaicum satellite image mosaics of Europe and West Asia this further extension of coverage of my Musaicum satellite image mosaic series probably does not look very significant. But it represents a milestone in several aspects i … Continue reading
November 28, 2024
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This post adds another chapter to my previous series of posts on line signatures in maps. Back in the first part of the series i explained and illustrated how the sophisticated techniques in using line signatures in pre-digital maps have … Continue reading
October 25, 2024
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Just wanted to share an observation about public communication of the OpenStreetMap Foundation from the last year: What do these all have in common? That they are not based on OpenStreetMap data. I have written about the practical problems of … Continue reading