The Nerdiest Cartographer in Belize

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Useful Mapping Tips

Use the 'F' key in ID and JOSM to follow another line of nodes while mapping an area.
Use the spacebar to draw a line following your mouse in ID.
Use the 'Shift+C' keys in ID or 'Ctrl+B' in JOSM to merge lines or to merge an area into another area. If you draw a line inside an area you can combine them to create a hole in the polygon if you use proper inner and outer tags.
Install the buildings plugin on JOSM to quickly draw square or circular buildings and using 'X' key to extrude areas quickly.
admin_level=7 for cities, 8 for towns, 9 for villages, 10 for hamlets, neighbourhoods, suburbs, etc.
Click here to join a Google Drive Folder containing maps of Belize. Streets, addresses, etc.

Objects tag completion in Belize

100% of roads have surface tags.
63% of woods has a leaf_type tag
21% of farmland has a crop tag.

Total of areas in Belize

Sources found here. Ohsome

<table> <tr> <th>Buildings</th> <th>Woods</th> <th>Streams</th> <th>Rivers</th> <th>Coastlines</th></tr> <tr><td>157,000</td> <td>4,300 sq. km.</td> <td>3,823 km</td> <td>2,643 km</td> <td>2,416 km</td></tr> <tr> <th>Meadow/Grassland</th> <th>Wetland</th> <th>Farmland</th> <th>Scrub</th> <th>Residential/Commercial/Industrial</th></tr> <tr><td>1,012 sq. km.</td> <td>624 sq. km.</td> <td>530 sq. km.</td> <td>488 sq. km.</td> <td>181 sq. km.</td></tr> </table>

A list of my accomplishments

A table of villages where I've mapped buildings. link

I started mapping landuse in Belize in 2017 and finished it on September 2, 2023. Shoutout to Tubroos who mapped about 15% of the landuse mainly in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts. Belize

It took me quite a while to map every single island in Belize. One of the toughest challenges was Ambergris Caye with it's countless lagoons and islands.

Not every single building in Belize is mapped, that would be nearly impossible with the occasional satellite update, however I did map every building I could in every village and in the countryside. I didn't focus too much on the cities because those get mapped by other mappers. The most buildings I mapped was in San Pedro Town at over 4,000. I currently have a building mapped count of 48,000 out of 177,000 in the country.

I have been to almost every place in Belize thanks to having been a salesman for 10 years. So when i decided one day to tag every road surface I simply checked if all the paved and concreted roads were tagged and then downloaded all roads that didn't have surface tags in JOSM and simply tagged all remaining roads with surface=unpaved. Street Surface