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21/05/2026-27/05/2026 [1] Several animal-related infrastructure features | © imagico | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors. Community Ari Alvarez explained how to find speed limit data for hig…
Got into GSoC 2026! Working on Category Support in Nominatim
Hey there!! I’m Rupam Golui.. though most people online know me as Agasta and I honestly prefer that. I’m a 2nd year CS undergrad from Kolkata, India. Most of my time these days goes into open source and projects (GitHub: Itz-Agasta). I mostly work in Rust, P…
weeklyOSM: weeklyOSM 826
14/05/2026-20/05/2026 [1] tracking geese sightings around the University of Waterloo | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors. Mapping A proposal for the surface=laterite tag, intended to describ…
Current Limitations of OpenStreetMap Smartphone Apps – First Post
Summary Issue #1 when first using offline OpenStreetMap navigation apps for Android, such as OsmAnd, Comaps, and Organic Maps: the size of the map to be downloaded. In many places, it’s the entire country or nothing. And that often amounts to over 100 MB, wit…