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Showoff Sunday - screenshot your cool mapping project (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Did you recently (or not recently) map a cool area that you want to show? Something you are proud of? Post it here! A little explanation of why it is cool might help as well.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a small city in Belgium. The fortifications are a Vauban Fortress; but most parts of those medieval fortifications are now nature reserve (and protected as heritage). Some parts are open water, others are swamps.

However, most of the north-eastern side of the fortress was mapped as "forest" or something generic. After visiting it, I started micromapping this bit by bit. Upon saving and refreshing, the underlying structure of the fortress was suddenly visible, which was a nice surprise!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@pietervdvn

Hi Pieter, do you have a screenshot of this?
Or a pointer into OSM?

I only see the text, no image 😞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@marco @[email protected] Hi Marco,

That is because you are looking to a lemmy post from Mastodon. Seems like the images don't come through properly. Visit https://lemmy.ml/post/1852015 and you'll see the picture.