Openstreetmap

The horizontal road is a single road, with a large median and each direction mapped separately. Currently, its mapped with a seperate crossing over each direction of the road, for six in total. Should the crossings be joined? If not, how does the tagging work?

From the newsletter

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.

From the weekly newsletter:

Henry Wilkinson has mapped the Dundas West Station in Toronto, Canada, using the LiDAR sensor on an iPhone 17 Pro, in combination with the Niantic Scaniverse app, to capture 3D data. He then reconstructed the digital 3D scene with Meshroom and Blender before uploading the results to OpenStreetMap through JOSM (using the PicLayer plugin) to align imagery, and iD for streamlined indoor tagging. The completed work enabled detailed indoor mapping of the station, now viewable on OpenLevelUp.

First paragraph from the article:

Despite having a passion for technology, I generally upgrade my phone every 6 years or so. One of the features I have been most excited about this time around is the LIDAR sensor on the iPhone 17 Pro. After some initial success using Niantic’s free Scanniverse app to help make furniture decisions while apartment hunting, I decided to have a go at using it to capture some information to feed OpenStreetMap, my favourite open-data obsession.

Mit einer Reihe von Community-getriebenen Open-Source-Kartenprojekten war es noch nie so einfach, eine Alternative zu Google Maps zu finden, die ohne Werbung oder Tracking auskommt.