April/May in KDE Itinerary

Since the previous report two month ago, Itinerary got support for booking URLs, a newer foundation for its Android packages, and more detailed shared vehicle information.

New Features

Booking URLs

Some public transport services provide booking deep links together with their journey search results. That is, you can directly book the journey you have just searched in Itinerary or KTrip…

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weeklyOSM 825

07/05/2026-13/05/2026

[1] A walking tracker for Apple watchOS | © David Smith | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Mapping

  • Comments are requested on this proposal:
    • data_center:tier, data_center:total_power, data_center:IT_power, data_center:IT_area, proposed by LunaLune, to extend telecom=data_center features with standardised technical attributes such as…
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FOSSGIS Community Meeting May 2026

Last weekend I joined parts of the FOSSGIS Community Meeting at Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany, focusing on topics related to organizing this year’s edition of the Open Transport Community Conference.

FOSSGIS Community Meeting

Twice a year FOSSGIS e.V. (the German local chapter of OpenStreetMap) hosts a multi-day meeting at Linuxhotel, for people to work on primarily non-technical topics,…

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Interview: Volker Krause on Transitous

Today in our OpenStreetMap interview series we speak with Volker Krause about Transitous, a community-driven, open platform for public transport routing. We explore the challenges of relying on proprietary transit APIs, the importance of open data for mobility, and how projects like Transitous are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with OpenStreetMap and collaborative infrastructure.

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weeklyOSM 821

09/04/2026-15/04/2026

[1] From Coordinates to Wall Art: Stylised Map Posters Online | © Yousuf Amanuel | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Mapping

  • Comments are requested on this proposal:
    • terminal=yes to consistently map freight terminals and better describe connected transport modes and handled cargo.

Mapping campaigns

  • A new MapRoulette challenge in Germany…
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KDE Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2026

I spent the last week in Graz, Austria, attending a KDE sprint as well as Grazer Linuxtage.

KDE Sprint

Just like last year, the Grazer Linuxtage team had made rooms available for KDE people to meet in the week prior to the conference. More than twenty contributors attended, below are a few notes from discussions I have been involved with.

Photo by Kieryn Darkwater

AppStream release…

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FOSSGIS Conference 2026

Last week I attended this year’s FOSSGIS-Konferenz in Göttingen, Germany, focusing on public transport and indoor navigation topics.

Photo by FOSSGIS e.V.

OSM indoor mapping

As it is tradition by now, Tobias and I hosted the Indoor OSM BoF.

The (translated) session notes are in the wiki. There’s some recurring themes, such as increasing the level of detail in the third dimension, as well…

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February/March in KDE Itinerary

In the past two months since the previous report we added a new welcome screen, warnings about some potentially expensive mistakes and support for more data sources in Switzerland to KDE Itinerary, among many other improvements.

New Features

Improved welcome screen

The welcome screen shown on the first start of Itinerary has been reworked and now contains the most relevant settings…

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OSM Hack Weekend February 2026

Last weekend I attended another OSM Hack Weekend, hosted by Geofabrik in Karlsruhe, focusing on improvements to Transitous and KDE Itinerary.

KDE Itinerary

The Itinerary UI got a bit of polish:

  • Better defaults when importing a full trip from a previous export.
  • Better defaults when adding an entrance time to an event that doesn’t have a start time yet, also preventing invisible…
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