What’s new on the OpenStreetMap website? - #28 by pablobm - General talk - OpenStreetMap Community Forum

What’s new on the OpenStreetMap website? - #28 by pablobm - General talk - OpenStreetMap Community Forum
What’s new on the OpenStreetMap website?
General talk
website
news
pablobm
(Pablo Brasero)
April 3, 2026, 6:50am
28
(Many contributors this time! So I have to split the post much earlier in order to work around the limit of 10 user mentions per post).
Fighting abuse
We tweaked headers to
prevent redirects to the login page from being cached
. (
@TomH
The
robots.txt file now lists some additional pages
where robots were getting stuck in. (
@pnorman
We integrated
Cloudflare Turnstile
into the signup page to
protect against automated abuse
@TomH
To help tile servers verify requests,
all pages with maps are now sending TOTP cookies
. (
@TomH
Behind the scenes
There’s now a
new way to handle notifications in the website
. You won’t see anything new in the UI just yet, but this will remove some blockers we have had for a while in this department. The groundwork for this integration included
refactoring existing code to better suit the new library
and
writing missing tests
, and was followed by changes to
the configuration of job queues
and the conversion of existing notifications to use the new system (
one
two
). (
@pablobm
@TomH
We chipped away at the lint warnings,
correcting one pending RuboCop rule
simplifying our Herb configuration
and adapting to meet newly-enabled Herb rules (
one
two
three
four
). (
@TomH
@hlfan
Programmers don’t like duplication in their code. That’s why we reduced it in
our JavaScript
our templates
our tests
our asset handling
where we source our icons from
, and generally
when parsing HTML
. (
@hlfan
@pablobm
@TomH
We also don’t like inconsistency! We’ll avoid it even for
small things like file names
. (
@hlfan
Little by little, we make things more efficient, with better
handling of relations
leveraging HTTP2 when requesting tiles
, and
ensuring that SVG are optimised
, as well as by
deleting unused code
. (
@pablobm
@TomH
We improved the macOS development environment by adapting a test (
one
two
), giving an
option to disable parallel tests
, and
updating the docs
. (
@pablobm
@TomH
And finally, we
upgraded Rails to version 8.1.3
(and previously to
8.1.2.1
). (
@TomH
We also had little help from our friends
@Minh_Nguyen
Nikerabbit
@Firefishy
marcoroth
, and
mjourdan
, who provided reviews to check we were not doing anything silly!
OSM is for everyone and it speaks your language
The website is currently available in 111 languages and counting! This would not be possible without the work of our team of translators, which this month saw the first contributions by
FL2226
(Italian)
Moonborn
(Cyrillic Kazakh),
Neriah
(Hebrew),
Serieminou
(French),
Tuwewanzi
(Lakota),
@wouterko
(Dutch),
Sikmir
(Finnish, Russian),
@MaliMrav
(Serbian), and
Mo.Hajeer
(Arabic). You can help too! Visit
Translation - OpenStreetMap Wiki
to learn about it.
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