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OpenStreetMap mentions (129)

• Waterway Map

  You can go to https://openstreetmap.org/ , zoom in and enable the map data layer. From there history is accessible. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Bike rack capacity

  Hi! I am working on a project mapping bike racks around my city on OpenStreetMap. One of the attributes that I tag is the rack's capacity, but I haven't come to a conclusion about the capacity of these wave-shaped racks:. Source: 6 months ago

• Get full name of a admin unit in a admin unit hierarchy like Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States of America

  I need the bounding boxes of all adminstrative units in a specific region from the largest (e.g. The state) to the smallest (whatever this is called) including the full name of the district. What I mean by that is what is displayed on openstreetmap.org when I search for e.g. Brooklyn: it will be displayed in the search results as "Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States of America" – the names joined from... Source: 6 months ago

• Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world

  It's OpenStreetMap (ODbL) and Natural Earth (public domain) currently * http://openstreetmap.org * http://naturalearthdata.com. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Coffee Decor Pikmin

  Pikmin Bloom sources Decor locations from OpenStreetMap, it’s not always 100%, but it’s close enough. Source: 6 months ago

Wikimapia mentions (13)

• Open Infrastructure Map

  Wikimapia has some of those, with links or sometimes descriptions with photos. http://wikimapia.org. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Prosperity and Precarity in Imperial Russia's Long Nineteenth Century

  Wikipedia article for Chikino states that the pedestal for the monument commemorating the visit of Alexander II was later used for the monument of Karl Marx, then for the monument of Stalin (neither of those two fellows ever visited the place, as far as I know). Quite a convenient object, now in the need of some stucco.... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Humor and cynicism of the operators at Area 51

  It's still up http://wikimapia.org/ (not https for some reason?). Source: 11 months ago

• Trying to get someone from every province to comment Day 1

  Somewhat oftopic but why we guys aint using this ABSOLUTE BRILLIANT web service : wikimapia.org anymore? Long live the regions! Source: over 1 year ago

• FoRL ⬜🟦⬜ seeks to derail 🚂 Putin regime with these train-wrecking insurgency tactics published for all RF resistance members to act upon asap!

  It is advisable to choose rail tracks leading to military units or other government facilities in order to avoid possible civilian casualties. To search, we recommend using wikimapia.org, military installations are indicated there, which are not visible on ordinary maps. Also, according to satellite maps, you can assess how the object is "operating". For example, at the base, to which the branch you have chosen... Source: almost 2 years ago