User:ZeLonewolf

Presenting at State of The Map US, Tucson, AZ, April 1, 2022

This user submits data to OpenStreetMap under the name ZeLonewolf.	This user hails from the USA	en This user is a native speaker of English.
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Hello! My name is Brian Sperlongano, and I am based in Rhode Island, USA. My mapping interests include boundaries, protected areas, and hiking trails.

I have previously served on the OpenStreetMap US board of directors.

Outside Projects

• I am the creator of StreetFerret, which is based on OpenStreetMap and Strava. As part of this project, I help fix administrative boundaries worldwide, primarily at level 7 and 8.

Significant Contributions

US-30 ALT-TRK-BUS

I founded the OpenStreetMap Americana project, which aims to produce a map in the style of North American maps, with comprehensive highway shield rendering on a vector tile stack.

I have completed the following projects:

• In January 2024, I presented "Vector Tiles & DevOps: Streamlining Contributions at OpenStreetMap Americana" at Mapping USA
• In May 2023, I gave an OSM US "Mappy Hour" presentation titled "Building and Growing an Open Source Community Project"
• In April 2022, I presented "An American Map Style" at State of the Map US in Tucson, AZ
• In April 2021, I gave an OSM US "Mappy Hour" presentation on river mapping titled "A brief paddle through river tagging"
• I developed Chrome and Firefox plugins for human-readable views of wikidata tagging on openstreetmap.org.
• I wrote a guide on Configuring an Overpass Server on Ubuntu
• I developed a shell script for bulk downloading OSM mailing lists on Unix/Linux systems
• I hiked and mapped the entire North South Trail North South Trail, a 77-mile route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Massachusetts state line, over a series of 11 hikes.
• I created a protected area inspector for the United States, based on the PAD-US data set, in collaboration with ke9tv.
• I mapped town, city, and township boundaries in Maine, USA.
• I wrote a MapRoulette guest blog post for the USA GNIS Reservoir Node Challenge
• I removed the service=driveway2 tag and in the process inadvertently started the top Community Forum thread of all time.
• I successfully advocated for converting the Discourse support forum from voting threads to normal threaded discussions.

I am currently working the following projects:

• A collaborative project to modernize river tagging.
• An AJAX replacement for the {{taginfo}} template.
• I am mapping land use and land cover data for Rhode Island, one town at a time. See an example of my work on Prudence Island Prudence Island.
• I am contributing to the United States Public Lands project in order to document public land tagging standards for Rhode Island.

Favorite Edits

• I was kicked out of a National Wildlife Refuge for running.
• I mapped Rhode Island's famous Big Blue Bug Big Blue Bug.
• I was offered weed on four separate occasions at this spot in Montego Bay, Jamaica

Proposal Development

I am a strong proponent of using the OpenStreetMap proposal process to achieve consensus on tagging schemes. If you are interested in writing a proposal, and would like private help or feedback, I would be happy to assist in helping you get your idea through the proposal process.

Completed

RFC	Vote End	Result	Description
2020-10-25	2020-11-24	25-2 (93%)	A proposal to add boundary=special_economic_zone as way of tagging SEZs.
2020-11-25	2020-12-26	35-0 (100%)	A proposal (adopted from User:Espen) to add hazard tagging.
2021-01-26	2021-02-09	32-0 (100%)	A proposal to add man_made=tailings_pond as a way of tagging tailings ponds.
2021-01-31	2021-03-04	31-0 (100%)	A proposal to add basin=evaporation as a way of tagging evaporation ponds.
2020-12-20	2022-01-31	54-0 (100%)	A proposal to define reservoir, lake, and pond.
2023-01-02			A proposal for modeling oceanic seas as nodes.

Actively Working

• A proposal for the tagging of clarifiers and oxidation ditches.
• A proposal for the tagging of water treatment ponds and basins.
• A proposal to add a way to tag the boundaries of parks.
• An under-construction proposal to fix duplicate boundary relation member ways.
• An under-construction proposal to fix ownership=*.
• An under-construction proposal to fix protect_class=*.

Things that need a proposal to fix

• Deprecate shoulder:left=* and shoulder:right=* in favor of shoulder=*.
• Adopt landuse=reservoir_watershed in favor of protect_class=12
• Provide a mechanism for indefinite boundaries (such as indefinite=yes)
• Replace waterway=boatyard with landuse=industrial + industrial=shipyard
• historic=house
• landuse=forest
• lava=pahoehoe and lava=aa
• Rivers, possibly stream/plunge pools
• leisure=recreation_ground
• Restriction boundaries
• Two ways to tag pharmacies

Archived

• User:ZeLonewolf/proposals/Key:park:ownership
• User:ZeLonewolf/proposals/Key:park:public_level

Utility Pages

• List of Overpass cleanup queries.
• User:ZeLonewolf/Irish city fix
• Download arbitrary PBF files
• Tag history
• Tag deprecation watch

Future projects

Things I'm not working on, but would like to:

• Map the Washington Rochambeau Historic Route
• Finish the mapping of the Appalachian Trail
• Extract deprecation data from Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:PossibleSynonym

Possible Cleanup Tasks

• Relation:land_area

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