User:Hauke-stieler

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hauke-stieler.
Coat of arms of Hamburg.svg Hauke-stieler hails from Hamburg.
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de Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.
en-3 This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.
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Matrix user Hauke-stieler uses Matrix as @holeom:matrix.org.
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Go Do Some Mapping Hauke-stieler
prefers to go outside and map.
Pole multi attachement.png Hauke-stieler is interested in micromapping.
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Flag of Germany.svg Hauke-stieler has mapped in Germany.
Flag of Iceland.svg Hauke-stieler has mapped in Iceland.
Flag of Norway.svg Hauke-stieler has mapped in Norway.
JOSM Hauke-stieler submits data to OpenStreetMap using JOSM.
OpenLayers logo.svg Hauke-stieler uses Openlayers, a JavaScript library for interactive maps.
Tux.svg Hauke-stieler uses a Linux-based computer.
Archlinux-logo-only.svg Hauke-stieler uses a computer running Arch Linux.
Hiker Hauke-stieler
is a hiker.
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rides public transport.

Moin[1]. My name is Hauke and I'm a software developer living in Hamburg, Germany.

I'm an outdoor active person, love programming, geodata and contribute to OSM since April 2019 with focus on cycle infrastructure, hiking trails, generally all streets/ways, hydrants and other details I can find.


Mapping activities

I map almost everything I can find using my App GeoNotes and JOSM.

Things I primarily map:

  • Roads and ways including detailed tags
  • Bicycle infrastructure like bicycle parking, road tags, ...
  • Hiking infrastructure like trails, access, guideposts, hiking routes, ...
  • Data relevant for emergency services like hydrants, roads access, barriers, ...
  • Surveillance related things like cameras and surveillance tags on POIs
  • Details like benches, waste baskets, street lamps, ...

Current activities

Apart from my normal mapping, I'm contributing to the project Organised_Editing/Activities/CCCHH-surveillance.

Past activities

  • I systematically added hydrants to OSM
  • Solved wrong cycleway tagging: Some users used the tag cycleway=street in Hamburg, Germany. To turn this into valid cycleway-tags there was some discussion and I created a map.

HOT mapping

I contributed (or have been contributing) to projekts in Ghana and Malawi:

Proposals I worked on

  • tax_free_shopping: Some shops offer a direct tax-refund (e.g. at airports) or indirect refunds via third-party companies (e.g. "Global Blue"). The new key is duty_free=*.

WIP/Paused: Cleanup of bollard tags

See Mechanical_Edits/hauke-stieler_bollard_cleanup_germany for further information. Haven't found the time to to this yet, but it's still on my agenda ... somewhere :D

My non-mapping activities

  • Write software and tools (s. below).
  • Organizing the monthly meetup in Hamburg, Germany (→ Hamburger_Mappertreffen)
  • Organizing workshops and giving presentations on topics like "what is OSM and how to contribute" at the university of Hamburg, Germany. For this purpose, I created slides introducing OSM, application, the data and how to contribute.
  • Of course I also contribute to this wiki.
  • Contributing to Wikipedia, Wikimedia commons and Wikidata as well.

Tools and software development

See my GitHub profile for all projects. Here's an overview:

Active projects

  • SimpleTaskManager: A tasking manager (like the one from HOT or MapCraft) but simpler. (GitHub)
  • GeoNotes: An android app to create georeferences notes and photos. (F-Droids)
  • OSM Open: An web application to find open things at a specific point in time (e.g. everything that's open tomorrow at 15:30)
  • qgis-outdoor-map: A QGIS project to render my own hiking maps.
  • Maintainer of the Arch Linux AUR package josm-latest
  • I also contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia whenever I have something interesting to contribute.

More or less abandoned projects

  • OSM OAuth 1A dummy server: FOR DEVELOPMENT USE ONLY! A server that emulates parts of the OSM API (OAuth and some user details API enpoints).
  • OSM changeset crawler: A quite fast analyser of changesets e.g. by keywords in comments or by missing source-tags.
  • GPX smoother: A tool to make recorded GPX tracks a bit smoother.
  • image2tiles: Cuts an image (e.g. a scan of a hiking map) into XYZ-tiles, which can e.g. used in JOSM.

Not related to OSM

  • wiki2book: A tool to turn multiple Wikipedia pages into good looking EPUB eBooks.
  • The Green Spot: My personal blog about hiking stuff I do and like.
  • hugo-theme-hamburg: A theme for the hugo blog generator.

Contact and additional Links

Feel free to send me a message on osm.org or contact me e.g. via matrix.


  1. Moin (/ˈmɔɪn/) is a short greeting from northern Germany and it just means "Hello, long time to see, how are you? What a great day, isn't it?". Saying moin moin is also common but already considered to be a whole conversation.