Openstreetmap VS city-roads

Contributing is simple:

1. When you see a trail or any other feature that doesn't appear on the map, take a picture.

2. When you get home, visit https://www.openstreetmap.org and start drawing.

The website has satellite images overlayed wirh map data, so it's easy to see what you are doing.

You can look at your pictures to remind yourself of what was missing.

If you have recorded your ride,you can also upload your GPX trace to OpenStreetMap to make it easier to trace features that don't show up clearly on satellite images.

What impressed me was that it looks like openstreetmap shows the bridge as down already.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/39.2144/-76.5279

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Way overdue. OpenStreetMap's website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced three years ago) are not rendered there because the maintainers can no longer be bothered, or dislike the tag personally despite broad community backing.

What worries me for this new effort is that Paul Norman is one of the two remaining Carto sometimes-active maintainers who refuse to merge contributed PRs or even provide alternative minimal support for features like highway=busway, leading to awkward gaps on the baseline map shown on openstreetmap.org.

I would love to be surprised in a positive way about this new effort, but I'm not holding my hopes up. Thankfully OpenStreetMap can be thoroughly useful in apps like OsmAnd and OrganicMaps, and the tile-based Tracestrack Topo layer on openstreetmap.org is getting quite decent:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#layers=P

Yes, https://www.openstreetmap.org has quite inconsistent detail as it relies on people mapping stuff.

And help is welcome, anyone can join and help with mapping!

OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the same every now and then. Also Google uses the location data of it's users to change routes depending on congestion afaik. Don't expect that from OsmAnd.

All the above are based on https://www.openstreetmap.org

You previously made a tool for visualising all roads in a city that I like a lot.

Hey, I am trying to generate G code for my 3D printer that I converted to a plotter. For now i tried only modest SVG and using Inkscape with GcodeTools has been super convenient. However Now I wanna do something a bit more complicated, I am trying to use the svg outputted by City Roads to plot a map of a city. It's quite a complicated model so everytime I try converting it GcodeTools crashes. Is there any solution, g code simplification, other software ???

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/ - Draw all roads in any city at once.

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/ This website allows you to select a city and then draws every single road on a screen.

There’s also this road map maker that can make blank maps of your city or county. I used these together to learn my area.

City roads – This website renders every single road within a city\ (23 comments)

A more advanced way that allows you to load any city and place them anywhere on the canvas would be via console API. This page has an example that shows how to render both Seattle and Tokyo next to each other

JavaScript all the way down. It's all open source: https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads

The query that I run indeed includes more than just car-driven roads. Anything marked as a `highway` gets included by default.