openstreetmap-website

I wouldn't compare osm-website and osm-carto at all. The commit logs are very different. openstreetmap-website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commi... . Numerous commits most days. openstreetmap-carto: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/commits . So far in 2024; one small regression fixed, one niche bit of tagging added to an existing style, some largely pointless code style tidying. That's it.

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

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website is the website and database. In practice, a lot of the database code is in an accelerator https://github.com/openstreetmap/cgimap . Then there is also a bunch of different code bases that consume the data in a format that is dumped out of the main database (but that format is more or less aligned with the database storage). Section 6.1, Core Software, in the pdf, lists some of the more important pieces of it.

What's the advantage compared to using https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and Organic Maps, or self-hosting them? (the website is https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website and the tile server is https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/)

If anybody misses Rails and is familiar with OSM organization and culture, then please have a go with https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website . There are many small and big improvements that are waiting to be implemented.

There's lots of different routing engines built with OSM data. The units they expose are an implementation choice. The routing engines available on https://www.openstreetmap.org/ (click the bendy arrow next to the search box on the upper left) do return km. I'm not sure why this stalled out, but it looks like much of the implementation is available: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/...

The website (and all of the mapping tools) are free software. The repo is on their github: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website For mobile I recommend OsmAnd: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand

One of the example Rails applications they use is the code which powers the OpenStreetMap website. They populated their install by randomly filling in fields on the website. Which doesn't include any map editing! For OSM they suggest changing how the diary feature operates, which is a tiny, almost irrelevant part of the OSM website software stack. The OSM database has millions of geographic objects, and they talk about the diary system on the website. > For example, when we profile the latest version of Openstreetmap, a collaborative editable map system, we find that a lot of time is spent on generating a location_name string for every diary based on the diary’s longitude, latitude, and language properties stored in the diary_entry table The paper claims to have filed bug reports, and has URLs. But those links don't exist. Paper: https:/

I would probably try to make a bookmarklet that registered a couple more engines: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/...

The https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website has its flaws but it's the largest open source Rails code base I've seen. Actively maintained.

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ a rails app basically and a way to import the planet back into the database (not sure how to do this but I think its possible). You wont have any of the history, and no users info etc, but you can edit and if you have tile server set up can serve tiles from it as well. Far better though is to import the data into PostGIS (the rendering database) and edit and add that way with a desktop gis.

"What we learned is that OSM data can be quite terrible at times in minute ways that made it look decent but made routing nearly impossible." This is exactly why we've exposed routing on the front page of osm.org. I run my own site with OSM-based routing, http://cycle.travel/map . When I first got the routing engine up and running, I literally spent the next fortnight fixing routing bugs in OSM - "I'd go that way, why doesn't the router agree?". By putting routing front-and-centre, we're hoping that our dedicated contributors - and OSM contributors are nothing if not dedicated! - will do exactly that: they'll find an error and fix it. In the UK and Germany this'll just be little slip-ups, turn restrictions and so on, but in the US there are whole counties that need serious fixup. That's why I submitted the pull request for this[1] and why

> Until we can put an address, like we can in GMaps, and get a pin in the right location You can already do that. Routing is in the works (see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issue...). For now you can use http://map.project-osrm.org/ but having it in plain sight on osm.org will definitely be better