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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Day 23: Oceania: Continuing in the gist of day 16 I've mapped some companies around the Australiëweg. This was kind of hard, especially looking for the correct tagging for each one. A lot of them fit under office=*, but I don't really know how to tag a company […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Map before editing: Road around business park/industrial estate, one company mapped (in the wrong place)

Map after editing: grass and parking visible, a lot of bollards, and various companies mapped.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Day 22: Going round in circles: Procrastination day today, so not much to actually do before midnight (and I'm already using GMT to give myself two extra hours lol). I've already spent some time mapping this roundabout, but I've added some more details […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Map before mapping, roundabout with grass centre, with a tree in the middle. A cycleway and footway goes around the southern side of the roundabout.

Map after editing, tree and grass replaced by scrub, ditches at the southern side now visible, along with a hedge separating the cycleway and footway.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Got off at Glimmen for a quick trip home, it's actually dark enough here to see some stars.

Bus stop sign for Rijksstraatweg 136 at night

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Starting (sort of) my bus trip at an unusual spot today. This bus stop has been out of use since 2012, when Eelderwolde lost its bus stops in the neighbourhood. Today and tomorrow a few (4) buses use the 2 stops around here when going from the depot to […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Bus stop at night along a road with a grassy median, lined with trees. In the corner a part of a lit advertisement in the shelter is visible.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@smveerman @maartje @Stephanie @jessebot Chocopasta bevalt goed, gebruik de chocopasta puur nu toch al weer sinds februari. Fleur de sel is voor mijn (niet altijd even verfijnde) smaak net iets te veel.

4 potten AH delicata chocopasta, 3 keer puur en 1 keer puur fleur de sel

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Day 18: Resolve a note: Might keep this to one note today, since my brain decided to add way too much detail, though at least it looks pretty now. www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/190…

Map before mapping: commercial building with roads around it

Map after editing: grass, POIs, parking trees and more now visible

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

And a small extra bonus for day 16, I mapped some remaining landuse.

School grounds highlighted in purple industrial landuse, with parking on west side.

School surrounded by grass, hedges and trees

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Day 16: Americas: Decided to take some inspiration from @juminet and map my local "Amerikaweg". Due to it's length, the before and after maps looked the same, so skipping them today. www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/190… #31DayOSMChallenge #Maptober

Shape of Amerikaweg highlighted on a map, roughly a triangle with a line extending to the top right

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Day 15: Go touch grass: Like always, this one took 3 times longer than I expected, despite only doing part of what I wanted. www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/190… #31DayOSMChallenge #Maptober

Map before editing: two block of houses with some sidewalks

Map after editing: Grass, trees and parking visible around blocks

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Day 14: On the ground rules!: After a trip to Germany last week (not by train like on Monday), I noticed the main carriageway of the A7 isn't closed for border controls any more, so time to map it. www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/190… (Didn't plan […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Map before: traffic routed through motorway services

Map after: traffic routed along main carriageway

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Obviously, they render perfectly fine in @MapComplete, even the different types are visible.

MapComplete showing the same parking lot, all spaces are visible, and have different icons. A few of the closer ones have plugs indicating a charging spot or a wheelchair icon.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Day 12: Railfans unite!: Two for one today, I mapped some parking spaces at a railway station, and deleted a train which hasn't run since 2024. The parking spaces don't really render nicely because of the solar roofs above them, but whatever […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Map before editing: Parking lot north of a railway with roofs over a big part

Map after editing: Same parking lot, but the top row of spaces is now visible.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Day 10: The island life Since nobody said it had to be a natural island, I decided to map something on largest artificial island in the world. Actually wanted to do quite a bit more, since I cycled around there past summer, but didn't know the data was this 'bad' […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Map of shopping centre before editing: landuse and roads relatively crudely drawn, and not much details

Map of shopping centre after editing: roads drawn smoother, some details like trees, grass and some individual parking spaces are now visible

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Day 9: Europe: It's been a few days since I've actually added any screenshots, but today I split and updated some landuse. www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/190… #31DayOSMChallenge #Maptober

OSM map, showing mostly one block of residential landuse

OSM map showing different types of landuse, some commercial, some new green and split up blocks of residential landuse

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

In Winschoten, the first two train to Groningen are cancelled and, the first one to Leer as well, so I've bent of my original route, and am going via Stadskanaal and Gieten. Not necessarily faster, but I don't want to wait another twenty minutes.

Sunny picture of Winschoten bus station, with its big letters

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

We've also left Bad Nieuweschans with 8 minutes of delay, and there's also been a cancellation from the train to Leer

Ov info showing delayed departure to Winschoten and cancelled train to Leer

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

And the sun's finally showing. (And after another 10 minutes, so did a 5G connection).

Sun showing through window above empty fields

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

And that's the Friesenbrücke again, this time with a bit more light.

Slightly blurry shot looking at the Ems from the Friesenbrücke

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Connection was not there (by a few seconds), though here's an actual picture

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

A bit dark, so no real photos, but the first train has just crossed the Friesenbrücke🥳

Departure display showing train to Leer at 5:38

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

And that was the last rail replacement Groningen - Leer. After almost 16 years, tomorrow morning the first (public) train to Leer will depart at 5:38🥳

Bus standing at bus stop. The bus has a livery consisting of orange and white, with details about the Wunderline

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Day 3: Fix a fixme: Quite an early start today (or a late night), so I decided it was finally time to do some cleanup at the local department store. Cleaned up some old shops (tagged with fixme tags), corrected some positions and added some missing ones. I get […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Map of department store with a few shops in a cluster

Map of the same department store, the shops are more spread out and some footways are visible

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

First day of #Maptober and today's theme is Tree or woods and I decided to mapp some of the missing trees around the roundabout at the Julianaplein in Groningen. As usual I ended up mapping quite some more details. #31DayOSMChallenge

Map of roundabout with a few trees and some green

Map with many trees visible and more greenery

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I expected lots of stuff to happen today, but somehow cycling home at night eating an ice cream wasn't on that list. At least it was a fun day/night out.

Blurry photo of my hand holding the handlebars of my bicycle and a partially eaten Magnum. A (bright) display shows 20 km/h. In the background a cycleway with water on the left side and a tree lined road on the right is visible.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

[re: Food] @smveerman Interestingly enough it seems McDonald's Belgium also has the McFlurry Popcorn Caramel (though it's from Canada there). I personally prefer the McFlurry Choc Pretzel, which is now available in Germany and is from Belgium (and not available there now AFAIK).

Snippet of Belgian McDonald's website showing McFlurry Popcorn Caramel, with a Canadian flag.

Full text:
McFlurry® Popcorn Caramel
Mmmisdadig lekker... Een verassende mix uit Canada. Smeuïg softijs en knapperige popcorn gecoat in karamel.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I can see the stars from the bus stop (@ 4 ➡️ Groningen, Hoofdstation uitstaphalte NZ) #NowTräwelling traewelling.de/status/8746474

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I have absolutely no idea what made me cycle two kilometers to make this photo and ending up with an empty battery on my folding bike, but I did. I kinda wonder whether this joke will stay, since this temporary night bus is actually staying beyond just this […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Departures display from 4:27 showing two departures:
409 Groningen 5 minutes
428 Naar huis 12 minutes
Beneath that a warning about bus 84 not stopping here due to roadworks, together with the advice of using line 20 to/from the station.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

It's also showing "Naar huis" as destination, even in journey planners

Travel information screen showing Naar huis as destination

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

@gspeed0689 Nice, it's been a while since I've been. I was gonna go to the Icebreaker party myself, but felt a bit tired after burning *checks health app* 4280 kcal.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

@gspeed0689 There's enough space at the Code Sprint (and some space at the workshops)

Room filled with chairs and tables, in the background, two screens are displaying a welcome message.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

That's a new one, a departure display showing a line that stopped ten years ago.

Departure display with 2 lines:
310 Veendam 5min
110 Winschoten via Veendam Station 19min

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

I thought I'd seen all possible weird route deviations, but I don't think I've seen a bus route that has to turn via a (closed) cycleway and a construction site.

Front door of bus parked at construction site, a different bus is coming from the right of the site

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

This is definitely one of those moments where after wondering whether I could, I never stopped to think about whether I should. Anyways, my label printer and power bank now look less boring I guess.

Label printer and power bank painted to look like a trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Yay, it's almost World Public Transport Day, just two more weeks.

Screen showing travel information for line 820 - The Passion and an advert for World Public Transport Day

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Since it's #TransgenderDayOfVisibility today, so decided to try doing some nail art, turned out better than I was expecting for a first time. #TDOV

Hand with painted nails in the colours blue, pink, white, pink and blue, the colours of the transgender flag. They also feature a heart outline in the colours pink, white, blue, white and blue.

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

@smveerman Had to dig into the photo archive, but found a picture from last year. (And this weekend + Monday there are no trains again)

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

At some point they must've had all possible variations for the Mcdonald's shower gel... Might be a nicer smell than last year's though (en.osm.town/@RLin/114225281591794843).

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Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rlin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

@smveerman Never noticed that before, same for the seats in the middle only having a two-point seat belt, as opposed to the three-point seatbelts in the rest of the bus. Probably because up till now I've always taken the same seat in the front-right.

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