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🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”
When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!
Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/
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@Edent That's two OB posts that have made me smile today (the other one was the plaque to a plaque)!
Nice work, everyone. Keep it up, it's lovely to have an outcome like this.
@Edent MapComplete or MapRoulette? Your post seems to start mentioning one then describing the other.
@zymurgic AIUI, MapRoulette is a feature of MapComplete. Unless I’ve misunderstood?
@Edent I thought they were two separate means to similar ends. Can't see how to get from mapcomplete to the 'Bench' quest that has screenshots of Maproulette's web application. Would love to link some of the nearby benches, but can't quite work out how to get it.
@Edent Very cool update! Love following this project along!
@Edent great to see and a good example for similar projects
@Edent That's awesome. Love that you can link them in StreetComplete, will try that out.
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