Amᵃᵖanda @amapanda@en.osm.town

I'm a craft mapper. I'm a hacker. I'm a queer trans woman. I want to keep supporting the #OSM project, and I'd like you to consider giving me a preference/voting for me. 🙂

Hi 👋 I'm running for re-election to the #OpenStreetMap Foundation Board, and I'd like you to consider voting for me.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%E1%9A%9B%E1%9A%90%E1%9A%8B%E1%9A%90%E1%9A%85%E1%9A%87%E1%9A%90%E1%9A%9C%20%F0%9F%8F%B3%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%88/diary/398190

I should know not to doubt “weird tags” in OSM in Germany.

It's more likely that my assumptions, or understand, is wrong, than the map data in OSM is wrong.

Apparently, there's a stretch where the river sometimes sinks into the riverbed, and comes out a bit away and eventually flows into the River Rhein.

My friends, it turns out that a part of the Danube is actually intermittant!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube_Sinkhole
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donauversinkung

well…

I saw that (in OpenStreetMap) a stretch of the River Danube was marked as an “intermittant river” (`intermittant=yes`), with the surface marked as “gravel”. and I thought it was a tagging mistake, so I “fixed” it.

Deutsche Post adding €0.05 to the price of a letter inside Germany, and now I need to recalculating what the OpenStreetMap Promotional Material Programme's Stamp System is like, and make it backwards compatible with current stocks.

I must resist the siren song of writing my own map rendering software in rust

maybe I'm just old, and hence interested in old, stable, tech

It shouldn't be this easy to make a map style that can be that broken. The software should automatically make better SQL queries.

Feels like we're missing new developments in raster tile rendering software...

Just had to fix an old mapnik style which was quering postgresql for every OSM area, and then doing the filtering when drawing, i.e. throwing away most of the data it selected.

Here's all the manifestos from everyone (incl. me) who's running for the #OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors vote. 🙂
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM21/Election_to_Board/Answers_and_manifestos/Manifestos

It wouldn't be an #OpenStreetMap Foundation AGM if I didn't break the #OSM wiki with fancy unicode and emojis 😂🙂

I use #PostGIS all the time, but I'm more of a sysadmin than a cartographer.

Apparently yesterday was #GISDay, and hence today is #PostGISDay. 🙂 Awesome names. 🙂