{"id":1343,"date":"2026-08-13T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:56:33","slug":"new-mapping-tool-urbanistmap-org-visualizes-global-proposed-and-under-construction-infrastructure-from-openstreetmap-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/maps\/new-mapping-tool-urbanistmap-org-visualizes-global-proposed-and-under-construction-infrastructure-from-openstreetmap-data\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mapping Tool UrbanistMap.org Visualizes Global Proposed and Under-Construction Infrastructure from OpenStreetMap Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A new interactive website, urbanistmap.org, has launched to help users explore roads, railways, buildings, and other infrastructure projects that are tagged as proposed, planned, or under construction in OpenStreetMap (OSM).<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">he site was introduced in May 2026 by a relatively new OSM contributor on the OpenStreetMap Community Forum. The creator noted that while OpenRailwayMap already provides strong coverage for rail projects, no equivalent global overview existed for roads, buildings, and other ways with these status tags. The tool fills that gap by rendering OSM data focused on future and ongoing developments, revealing \u201centire proposed highways\u201d that many mappers and observers might otherwise overlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Global coverage of OSM ways tagged proposed, planned, or construction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interactive map interface allowing users to zoom into specific regions and inspect project details.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability for users to submit additional projects by drawing shapes or uploading georeferenced image overlays (such as blueprints or aerial views of project areas).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daily imports from OSM, with filters (including last-modified date) to help identify potentially outdated entries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support for images and project information, with ongoing refinements based on community feedback (such as merging related features into single projects and improving image handling).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site is primarily a browsing and visualization tool rather than a direct editor for OSM. User-submitted projects currently remain on the website and do not automatically sync back to the main OpenStreetMap database\u2014a point the developer has openly discussed with the community, given that mapping highly speculative or early-stage proposals is sometimes discouraged in OSM to maintain data accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new interactive website, urbanistmap.org, has launched to help users explore roads, railways, buildings, and other infrastructure projects that are tagged as proposed, planned, or under construction in OpenStreetMap (OSM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maps","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-map.org\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}