Openstreetmap VS littlenavmap

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

https://www.hotosm.org/tools-and-data runs software that's used for example after an earthquake. The tasking manager specifically is a reactjs app plus postgresql with plenty of open issues. HOTOSM has full-time staff, I'm not sure if the developers are full-time, but it's more organized than a volunteer project.

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ is Ruby on Rails (easy installable with a docker setup). The maintainers have trouble even reviewing incoming PRs so an experienced person who can triage, test, review is currently needed.

If you're in the US then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_for_America might be worth having a look at.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ will soon annouce vetted organizations who do open source. (last year https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2023/organizati...). Project are paid, the process is long though, all summer. https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

> 9450 S. W. Barns Rd

Portlandians: Are Barns Rd and Barnes Rd the same thing? Looks like a nice spot if so: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.50901/-122.77468

That building is now a SFX agency: https://hellohinge.com/ (No relation to the dating app)

Also curious if the TEKsystems employment agency next door took its name from Tektronix.

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!

It's shown on OpenStreetMap, but not as a street: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.3682/1.0330

There's a wealth of resources on youtube for whatever kind of flight you're planning on doing. I'd personally recommend Jonathan Beckett's channel, where he has videos on GPS flight planning and radionavigation in smaller planes. If you prefer general aviation I'd highly recommend Little Navmap, and as other posters have said sites like Simbrief and Skyvector are available too.

For flight planning I suggest using LittleNav Map. It's free and it can also follow along on your flights.

For the route I use littlenavmap (https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html) for the flight plans I also use Google Earth to make a sketch of the global route. And for record I use OBS to record all the flight on the cabin view and flightrecord (https://es.flightsim.to/file/8163/flight-recorder) for record some parts of the flight and then review and record in a external view

My advice would be to use LittleNavMap. This tool pulls all it's data from the sim. So the NDB's you see in LittleNavMap are the ones in the game, and thus should work.

It is not worth it, trust me. LittleNavMap..

BTW, if you want to get a feel for what impact a Navigraph subscription might have then download Little Navmap. It's free and comes with a copy of an older cycle of Navigraph data.

Download is at https://github.com/albar965/littlenavmap/releases/tag/v2.8.8, Assets section at the bottom of the page.

Easiest and free-est thing to do would be to run Little Navmap, which will show you a breadcrumb trail of your flight path. It will show you vertical information in its flight profile, too, though it can get a little cluttered if your path crosses over itself.

I use little navmap https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html and it's free. You can set it up any way you want. You can zoom in real close or zoom out real far. There will be a yellow plane that depicts your movements. There are a lot of Youtube videos on it if you want to check it out first before using it.