#OpenStreetMap Z'nacht in Bern am 2. Dezember osmcal.org/event/4198/

Fixing a small notification bug when reversing a way with @vespucci_editor and taking the opportunity to add support for reversing conditional oneways. It is some of weirdest code in the app with lots of hardwired stuff, for example ...

Just spent a couple of hours converting old and half note worthy Framemaker documents from 91-93 to something readable. Among the bangers: multiple letters to regional PTT offices complaining about the multiple 1000s of CHFs we had to (illegally) pay in bonds to get phone lines in to our POPs, ...

To round off the #cloudFlareDown and #githubdown we had an hour long power outage this morning .... seriously considering getting a power station for the coffee machine because of that 😉

It speaks for my nerdy nitpicking nature 😉 that I continue to be annoyed that in 2002 the BAKOM (the Swiss telecoms regulator) modified the AEFV (the ordinance regulating address elements used in telecoms) to include domain names even though there was no legal base to do that. ...

November 1994 I did a company internal presentation on IPng (the competing proposals that would eventually give us IPv6), more than 30 years later I'm still exclusively using an IPv4 network at home ... sigh. #EUnet #Internet #Nostaliga

One of the depressing things about looking back to 88/89 is that is when open systems en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_sy... really started winning, networking and the #Internet being one of levers that worked in our favour. ...

"One of the main problems of the "Internet" today is that it is -near- to impossible to earn money from "non-connectivity" services. This is less a technology problem ..., it's just practically impossible to find a service to provide that somebody else is not doing for free." ...

In "stuff that I've forgotten", did I coin the term "transit" (in an ISP context)? diswww.mit.edu/menelaus.mit... probably not, though nobody else is using it. In any case a discussion that underlines how different the early Internet was from the fairy tales of today. #Internet #EUnet #Nostalgia

Very minor mystery: Does anybody know what happened with the UUCP maps for Switzerland in 1989/1990? That is likely u.che.0 and u.che.1. Up to 1989 Dietrich Wiegandt (who ran cernvax at CERN) posted them to comp.mail.maps, and from 1991 on I posted them from chsun (the CHUUG/EUnet Switzerland). ..

Have you ever noticed that when the invention of the WWW by @timbl.bsky.social is discussed CERN is in Switzerland, just to mysteriously change countries when the first Internet connection in the country is mentioned? Must be a quantum effect. #EUnet #Nostalgia

The next couple of weeks you are all going to have to suffer from a bout of Internet nostalgia from me as I dig through my archives. This is from a February 1993 mail that I sent to colleagues at other #EUnet national orgs asking for them to update the POP (50 total) list I was maintaining ...

Data spaces are now mainly a thing because the open data consulting business has run its course.

community.openstreetmap.org/t/ich-tanke-... #OpenStreetMap

Maintenance release V21.1.2 is available now and has been rolling out for a couple of days, see github.com/MarcusWolsch... for a list of changes since 21.1.0. We've written a bit more on this release here en.osm.town/deck/@vespuc... #OpenStreetMap

gemini is showing signs of AGI ... it's refusing to answer my questions about XSLT.

Need some shade??? www.srf.ch/wissen/mobil... #OpenStreetMap

Tut schon ... #OpenStreetMap

If you are located in #Switzerland and are contributing to #OpenStreetMap or are using a device or app that uses OSM data: please follow us here and on LinkedIn.com/company/swis... or Facebook.com/SwissOSM #garmin #osmandapp #Komoot #organicMaps #Alltrails #LocusMap #wahoo

www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/M... didn't seem to make the news in April (or maybe I was just on vacation :-)). At least for #OpenStreetMap this is bit of a downer as it potentially makes google more competitive, not less.

At the end of this month Microsoft will be ending its Bing map services community.openstreetmap.org/t/discontinu... This has been a key bit of infrastructure #OpenStreetMap has relied on for nearly the last 15 years and was a significant boost to contributions back then. ...

Just in case you are wondering .... we are deliberately letting the building in Blatten VS standing for a couple of days , we -could- have re-tagged them yesterday afternoon. See community.openstreetmap.org/t/blatten-vs... #OpenStreetMap

Just your regular reminder that the @linuxfoundation.org Overture maps tool chains (aka the code to produce their data) are not #opensource software.

Old blog post, still just as relevant today as 11 years ago www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo... ...

Open since yesterday, available for navigation on #OpenStreetMap now

Jetzt auch auf Deutsch sosm.ch/de/fragen-un...

Jetzt hat's plötzlich "klick" gemacht. Nach positivem Erstkontakt mit dem Bundesamt für Energie vor 2 Jahren werden wir sehr hartnäckig ge-ghostet. ...

It really shouldn’t matter if you are building your app or service on Tomtom, Here, google, apple, #OpenStreetMap or swisstopo data and services, the technology is there to make the mobility infrastructure (MODI) vendor agnostic, what is missing is the political will to require it. sosm.ch/modi-faq/

Today the Swiss Federal Council finalised its proposal for a mobility data law to the Swiss parliament. Should be good news, but unluckily isn't. See sosm.ch/de/stellungs... for our statement (English here sosm.ch/statement-on...).

May 2025 maintenance release of V21 is now available on googles play store and from our repository for direct download or with obtanium. github.com/MarcusWolsch... #OpenStreetMap

Der nächste OSM-Stammtisch in Zürich findet diese Woche am Freitag statt. Wir treffen uns in der Bitwäscherei [1], ein Hackerspace in der alten Zürcher Zentralwäscherei. Der Hackerspace ist ein paar Fuss-Minuten vom Bahnhof Hardbrücke entfernt (~300m laut OSRM). ...

swisstopo's WMS and WMTS have been experiencing an outage since mid morning today www.geo.admin.ch/de/wms-wmts-... with other words imagery layers (orthofotos and DEMs) from swisstopo are currently not working in #OpenStreetMap editors.

sosm.ch/fina-and-the... is available now in Swiss High German (and many other languages). #OpenStreetMap

On the way to an #OpenStreetMap mapathlon www.giswiki.ch/Mapathon_UZH... at Rämistrasse 69 in Zürich. The building is where Erwin Schrödinger was working between 1922 and 1927 while he developed the equation (and cat 😀) that is named after him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3... . ...

Vespucci 21 is rolling out on googles playstore now, alternatively you can download it from the releases section of our repo (you can automate that with Obtanium). Don't forget to upload any pending edits before updating! vespucci.io/help/en/21.0... github.com/MarcusWolsch... #OpenStreetMap

Berner OpenStreetMap-Znacht am 8. April 2025 osmcal.org/event/3611/ #OpenStreetMap

Seems as if President Trump has decided to name the former Gulf of Mexico after us, an Italian. Thank you very much for the honor! 😎

Just a reminder for everybody uploading to Panoramax and Mapillary etc. in Switzerland community.openstreetmap.org/t/panoramax-...

Just updated the graphs here wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#C... for the full #OpenStreetMap year. Nothing particularly noteworthy ...

We had 1'349 new #OpenStreetMap contributors make their 1st edit in Switzerland in 2024. And 14'198 since December 2013. Why do we know that? Because we sent all of them a welcome mail.

re-fixed my handle again, seems I broke things in pre-Christmas DNS re-jigging, sigh.

Originally posted on a December 20th on Xitter a couple of years back. On the 20th December 1991, a Friday and for all practical purposes the last working day before Christmas, ...

On Friday December 13th we will be moving some of our infrastructure to a new hosting location. The following services will not be available for the morning and potentially some of the afternoon: osm.ch osm.li planet.osm.ch tagfinder.osm.ch taginfo.osm.ch tasks.osm.ch didok.osm.ch sosm.ch

Apologies to anybody that I'm "double following" aka here and on Mastodon, in general I prefer to toot as @[email protected]