User:ZeLonewolf
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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
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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 |
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| 2020-10-25 | 2020-11-24 |  25-2 (93%)
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A proposal to add boundary=special_economic_zone as way of tagging SEZs. |
| 2020-11-25 | 2020-12-26 | 35-0 (100%)
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A proposal (adopted from User:Espen) to add hazard tagging. |
| 2021-01-26 | 2021-02-09 | 32-0 (100%)
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A proposal to add man_made=tailings_pond as a way of tagging tailings ponds. |
| 2021-01-31 | 2021-03-04 | 31-0 (100%)
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A proposal to add basin=evaporation as a way of tagging evaporation ponds. |
| 2020-12-20 | 2022-01-31 | 54-0 (100%)
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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
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
Index
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