Thank you for the pointer

Yes, for my daily online activities (writing, coding, browsing), I only have this one Windows laptop. So when I do web development, I usually handle both development and testing in my Windows environment before deploying to a Linux-based server (or maybe I should really consider setting up a Linux dual boot for a better development environment in the future).

I’ve been curious for a long time about how to serve my own tile server using the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet. In the past, I’ve successfully set up several vector tile servers using other stylesheets, but I still don’t know how to use the openstreetmap-carto itself (the other currently available vector stylesheets still don’t satisfy me for some reason, and I really like osm-carto 😂).

What I really want to build is something similar to the slippy map on the osm.kr homepage : a raster tile server (using openstreetmap-carto style) showing only a limited region, with some local modifications to the osm-carto rendering (i heard somewhere that tiles.osm.kr excludes military bases to comply with local regulations, something like that).

I read the openstreetmap-carto installation guide, but it seems to be intended for someone who wants to process data for the entire planet.

I wonder if there’s a simpler way to do this instead. And finally, this article I read recently gave me some hope : gather the MBTiles and serve them via TileServer-GL (or mbtileserver). That’s the kind of simplicity I’ve been looking for for a long time 😂.

@TonyJC Have you tried the “Imagery Offset” feature in the iD editor?

Is there a new Esri World Imagery update? Did they announce it somewhere?

Found it…

Fulberg & Ochsenbodenstrasse (Unteriberg, Schwyz, Switzerland)

osm.org/way/41145127#map=15/47.03422/8.86283

Video link with timestamp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orbzTpqlBok&t=35s

I wonder if anyone can locate the actual location shown on that map using an advanced Overpass query. (I see bridges, rivers, roads, and peaks in the image. Can we create an Overpass query to check for all locations that contain these features nearby?)

The research team has drafted a report page here : osm.wiki/User:Rphyrin/LCCWG

Really cool.

I wonder if you could export and share those OSMCarto-like QGIS symbology settings so we can skip the time-consuming setup and benefit from your hard work instead 😂

I wonder if there is even a surefire solution to fix the inherent problems that any ‘anyone can edit’ collaborative project (like this one) faces. Not everyone has enough resources to defend every inch of the content, whether against prank vandals or a very persistent good-faith editor (who was misled and actually caused significant damage to the project). The back-and-forth edit warring is exhausting and feels pointless. Also, not everyone has the mental stamina to prolong the conflict by reporting it to the available higher authority.

Or maybe we could look up to more mature projects out there (like Wikipedia). Over time, they made the project less and less inclusive (only the trusted elites have the privilege to edit the content), all for the sake of quality assurance.