December 21, 2025
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This is the first post in a short series i intend to publish on recent changes in road rendering in the Alternative-Colors map style. One of the most fundamental techniques of digital rule based map design since the beginning has … Continue reading
December 20, 2025
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I have made a number of changes to the road rendering in my experimental map style in recent months, which i intend to discuss in a number of upcoming blog posts here. In addition to these changes i also made … Continue reading
December 10, 2025
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As indicated in my Hack weekend report i updated the Styleinfo analysis of my Alternative Colors style. This includes some changes in the style i have not yet discussed here on the blog. What is interesting to look at is … Continue reading
November 25, 2025
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There has been an interesting remark by Ilya on Mastodon recently that i want to comment a bit about. First the part about WeeklyOSM: Practically almost everyone in the OSM community reads it and it is a true institution in … Continue reading
November 19, 2025
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Two weeks ago i participated in the OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe. I was not able to take part in many OpenStreetMap related in-person meetings in recent years due to a mixture of lack of budget and scheduling conflicts. So … Continue reading
September 17, 2025
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This blog post is not about what you likely think it is about based on the title. I am not going to analyze the structure of the formal membership of the OSMF with its (based on the latest numbers) 2696 … Continue reading
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
June 22, 2025
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We have summer starting on the northern hemisphere these days – and with that comes, in many parts of Europe and North America, the season of frequent thunderstorms. In OpenStreetMap there currently is a different kind of storm brewing of … 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