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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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https://mapcomplete.org/ is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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Watch a live visualization of OpenStreetMap edits in real time (globe.osm.lol)

submitted 6 months ago by new_otters_raft@piefed.ca to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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Martijn van Exel has developed the osm-mapper-globe, a visualisation dashboard that enables users to watch OpenStreetMap edits in real time on an interactive globe. The code is available on Codeberg under an ISC licence.

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[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Really impressive, didn't expect that much activity all over the world

[–] new_otters_raft@piefed.ca 0 points 6 months ago

I keep meaning to check this when it is daytime in North America. Europeans are contributing a lot :)

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago

On average 6000 people work on osm daily globally, creating 40000 changesets. That'd around one changeset per 3 seconds.

You can browse statistics like these here: https://osmstats.neis-one.org/

[–] Rokin@leminal.space 0 points 6 months ago

Looks great!