I am currently active on a geospatial application called QGIS, which supports official tiles from OpenStreetMap that I gain access to while I am online. I have not downloaded the tiles from OSM, nor would I consider such a download feasible, because of the frequent updates to the map, as well as large swathes of outdated information on the map. New constructions, demolitions, and additional changes to the map in various regions are often not displayed on OpenStreetMap until a few years later, and manual contributors have unfortunately created adversarial layers that may or may not perpetuate at different zoom levels. However, to alleviate the concerns stemming from an outdated open map, I am actively creating a polygon layer to divide different contributors into zones, often influenced by urban, suburban, and rural characteristics within their respective zones.
For the State of North Carolina specifically, I am currently in an advocacy process for OpenStreetMap contributors in the Outer Banks (OBX) region, actively seeking new contributors to update the map and possibly create additional GIS layers showcasing relevant crises such as sea level rise in particular. So far, the map has been successful at covering the region in its entirety, and I wish to showcase the project on QGIS Cloud if available.
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