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guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/customize-your-map-in-maptiler-cloud.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/customize-your-map-in-maptiler-cloud.html
title: Customize your map in MapTiler Cloud
published: 2018-05-31 10:00:00
fetched: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.382128
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.526049
updated_at: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.478878
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-31-customize-your-map-in-maptiler-cloud-1.png"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>Since the launch, MapTiler Cloud featured seven beautiful base maps for various occasions like background map for presenting own data, car navigation or outdoor activities. But for those who want a specific design to match the company’s brand, we prepared a simple, but powerful tool to design own map style, which is available to all users now.</p>

  <h2 id="entirely-different-map-design-in--a-few-mouseclicks">Entirely different map design in  a few mouse clicks</h2>
  <p>Creating brand new map design is a simple task with Customize tool: you pick about six colors and all map elements will change accordingly.</p>

  <p>The customize tool is available if you create a free account, sign in and click on any map. The <em>Customize a copy</em> button will bring you directly to the tool, where you can see group of layers and color which currently presents this group. By clicking on the color palette, you will get a color selection dialog, where you can define a new color for a selected group. The color selection tool capabilities are operating system dependent and range from a simple window with color selection and its representation in hex format to the complex tools with color-picking options. You can also turn off the layer completely.</p>

  <p>Experimenting is a safe activity, the basic styles stay untouched and available in the administration. Each change can be easily reverted with a reset button.</p>

  <h3 id="languages-fonts-and-3d-buildings">Languages, fonts and 3D buildings</h3>
  <p>From the Customize tool menu, you can access the <em>Language</em> and <em>Mics</em> tab. There are currently more than 50 languages supported with an option to include alternative names for non-latin alphabets. The language selection is also possible for raster tiles. Mics tab offers font selection and a button for switching off 3D buildings.</p>

  <p>All changes based on our basic maps done using Customize tool will stay compatible with future versions of software used on our hosting and data, which are updated weekly. </p>

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  <h2 id="built-fromscratch">Built from scratch</h2>
  <p>Advanced users have also other options how to change the map appearance. Hidden under three dots behind the map in the administration, there is an option to <em>Edit style</em> and <em>Import style</em>, as well as an option to <em>Export style</em>.</p>

  <p>Edit style offers robust map design editor, which gives an option to work on every small map detail. Apart from changing colors, you can also add or remove map elements like buildings, selected landcover or specific POIs.</p>

  <p>MapTiler Cloud also offers importing styles done in an external tool or text editor. Currently, there is a built-in support for GL JSON styling language. </p>

  <p>All customization methods are available in <a href="/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud</a>, which you can start using with a free account.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-31-customize-your-map-in-maptiler-cloud-2.png" alt="With Edit tool, you can either customize a map visually or by writing source code" />
  <em>With Edit tool, you can either customize a map visually or by writing source code</em></p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps.html
title: MapTiler Cloud: map hosting for your apps
published: 2018-05-23 11:00:00
fetched: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.382128
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.528995
updated_at: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.481791
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-23-maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps-1.png"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>Some time ago, we started a project with the aim to simplify creating and using maps based on open-data and running on open-source software. After years of active development, we are announcing <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud</a>, a map hosting service available to everyone.</p>

  <h2 id="maps-of-the-entireworld">Maps of the entire world</h2>
  <p>The heart of our maps is based on OpenStreetMap data. This crowdsourcing project covers entire world and variety of topics: from transportation infrastructure through landcover information to detailed information about multiple kinds of points of interest.</p>

  <p>There are six default base maps available, each suitable for a different purpose:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Street map is the best fit for car navigation and displaying points of interest and markers</li>
    <li>Topo map with contour lines and hillshading is suitable for hiking and outdoor activities,</li>
    <li>Gray and Dark basemaps helps your overlays to stand out.</li>
  </ul>

  <p>All maps are available in 55 languages, which can be optionally auto-selected based on the visitor’s language. In addition, we also offer other datasets like satellite map of the entire world or contour lines and hillshading for outdoor maps.</p>

  <p>We have a free plan for non-commercial projects, which includes open-source and open-data communities, which we highly value for their work. The other plans are billed to ensure sustainability of our project. However, since MapTiler is not venture-funded, we can set the prices relatively low compared to our competitors like Google or Mapbox, because we are not committed to any third-party entity, only to our clients. There is also another advantage of an independent company: all the profit we make can be directed into further development of the project. And most important, we can create a clear business model by selling maps, not end users’ private data or advertisement.</p>

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  <h2 id="use-it-on-the-web-mobile-desktop-or-ingames">Use it on the web, mobile, desktop or in games</h2>
  <p>With a good map in the background, you can let your imagination fly and start developing the coolest application ever. It is easy to add point, line, polygon or completely change the maps and visible data for your own purpose.</p>

  <p>There is an built-in support for most of the popular JavaScript libraries for your web development like Leaflet, OpenLayers, Mapbox GL JS and <a href="/blog/2018/05/openmaptiles-gives-you-freedom-of-sdks.html">much more</a>. You can also use it in numerous mobile SDKs for Android and iOS including Mapbox, Tangram or Carto mobile SDK. The maps are also compatible with desktop GIS like ArcGIS or QGIS and there are static maps for printing and graphics.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-23-maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps-2.png" alt="Use it with your favorite software" />
  <em>Use it with your favorite software</em></p>

  <h2 id="hosting-for-your-owngeodata">Hosting for your own geodata</h2>
  <p>For those who need to enrich your map with more complex data prepared in third-party software, MapTiler Cloud support upload of both vector and raster map tiles in MBTiles format.</p>

  <p>If you have a pile of images you want to overlay over the map or you are just curious about this option, <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/download/">download the free version of MapTiler Desktop</a> application, <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/how-to/overlay-image-over-map/">read</a> the short intro and turn your image into a zoomable map in a few mouse clicks.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-23-maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps-3.png" alt="Custom made campus plan on the Street map as a background" />
  <em>Custom made campus plan on the Street map as a background</em></p>

  <h2 id="powered-by-open-source-and-open-data">Powered by open-source and open-data</h2>
  <p>The hosting is run by a team who stays behind the popular OpenMapTiles project. This also means the core is based on this open-source software and we make a commitment to further development. The openness of our map hosting service is also in the data we provide, where our maps are based on weekly updated OpenStreetMap data.</p>

  <p>If you decide to host your own maps with OpenMapTiles, you have an easy option how to download all the stuff you ever made. The only “vendor lock-in” we use is the quality of our services.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>The only “vendor lock-in” we use is the quality of our services.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>Running own map from robust infrastructure is always difficult from technical as well as financial point of view, but sometimes necessary for special requirements like an intranet or offline deployment. We support this option with our <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/">OpenMapTiles project</a>, which provides pre-generated tiles and software for running a map.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-23-maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps-4.png" alt="Open-source" /></p>

  <h2 id="reliable-infrastructure">Reliable infrastructure</h2>
  <p>MapTiler Cloud runs on a reliable global infrastructure, which is production use by our customers including big companies like IBM, Swiss Railways or Bosch, but also by many smaller organizations and individuals. We highly value every client and even if your company is not listed in Fortune 500, we will take the same care of you.</p>

  <p>The service is running from global CDN with over 110 edge servers (POPs) on 5 continents to ensure minimal latency by selecting geographically closest server of a visitor. There are two fully redundant and automatically replicated core data centers in Western Europe and North America serving the map data. to split the traffic, but with an option to run independently. In both datacenters, we deploy a high-availability setup, with load-balancer actively triggering health checks and setting up failover to additional machines, which are launched to handle increased traffic and peaks. Our commitment in the service-level agreement is 99.9% availability.</p>

  <p>If you want more information or you want directly use the service, visit <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/">www.maptiler.com</a> and get the Free plan.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-23-maptiler-cloud-map-hosting-for-your-apps-5.png" alt="Two fully redundant and automatically replicated core data centers in Western Europe and North America" />
  <em>Two fully redundant and automatically replicated core data centers in Western Europe and North America</em></p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/maptiler-as-google-maps-api-alternative.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/maptiler-as-google-maps-api-alternative.html
title: Google Maps API alternative
published: 2018-05-21 11:00:00
fetched: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.382128
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.531453
updated_at: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.484261
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-21-maptiler-as-google-maps-api-alternative-1.png"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>Google Maps API announced a change in their pricing. While it still starts with a <em>free</em> plan (reduced from 775.000 to 28.000 map views a month), the price for more intense usage grows hugely: the price hike hits unbelievable 1400% percent (from $0.5 to $7 for extra 1.000 map views). And even very low-traffic users with the <em>free</em> plan still pays with their end-users’ personal data and have no control over the map. But we have an alternative.</p>

  <h2 id="free-for-personal-use-fair-prices-for-business">Free for personal use, fair prices for business</h2>
  <p>MapTiler Cloud support individuals with a free personal plan, where you have access to most of the platform’s functionality. All the advantages of the free plan are available for open-source and open-data communities, which we strongly support.</p>

  <p>We do not charge any extra fees for commercial websites or web app with login, use on an intranet, for vehicle or asset tracking (fleet management).</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>Free plan has a monthly soft limit of 100.000 map views, which is enough for most of the smaller websites. For the rest, we have fair prices.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>MapTiler Cloud doesn’t collect any personal information for further commercial use and it is not showing ads on the map, regardless of what kind of user you are.
  If you compare the prices, you can see the dramatic increase, especially if your project starts to grow. Our maps are available at a fraction of what competitors charge.</p>

  <p><a class="btn" href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">Try MapTiler Cloud</a></p>

  <h3 id="monthly-fees-for-commercial-application-with-dynamic-zoomable-maps">Monthly fees for commercial application with dynamic zoomable maps</h3>

  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td> </td>
        <td>Google Maps API</td>
        <td>MapTiler Cloud</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>1.500 views/day</td>
        <td>$125</td>
        <td>$20</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>3.000 views/day</td>
        <td>$445</td>
        <td>$20</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>10.000 views/day</td>
        <td>$1.650</td>
        <td>$56</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>30.000 views/day</td>
        <td>$5.000</td>
        <td>$178</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>100.000 views/day</td>
        <td>$17.000</td>
        <td>$605</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Targeting ads to your visitors</td>
        <td>yes</td>
        <td>no</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Customization</td>
        <td>limited</td>
        <td>full</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Self-hosting</td>
        <td>no</td>
        <td>available</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <p><em><a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/estimate/?visits_per_day=1500&amp;requests_per_visit=4&amp;commercial=1">You can count the estimation based on your web traffic</a></em></p>

  <h2 id="beautiful-basemaps-for-the-entireworld">Beautiful basemaps for the entire world</h2>
  <p>When you <a href="http://www.maptiler.com/maps/#streets//vector/2/0/30">look at our maps</a>, you will see fine details in every corner of the planet. The details you can observe differs depending on what map style you are using. There are six beautiful base styles, which are designed for showing your location, presenting your products on the map, car navigation or outdoor activity. But the whole process is fully under your control: if you want to create your own style from the scratch or just make some fine-tuning, there is a tool for map customization. You can change the color of an element or the whole map. But we don’t stop with simple visual changes: you can also add or remove particular map elements like a specific type of points of interest. The map labels can be shown in more than 50 languages, including a bi-lingual option for non-latin alphabets.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>Maps are fully under your control: you can add or remove any particular map element.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>Those who want to enrich their map with extra geodata, we offer additional layers. There is a global satellite cloudless map, which we are constantly improving: currently, we are working on very high-resolution imagery for the USA and Western Europe. You can also enhance the map with elevation data with contour lines and hillshading. If this is not enough, you can always upload your own geodata and serve these from our reliable high-available infrastructure and integrate these your maps.</p>

  <p>There is a basic place search tool, which is capable to find any populated place or street on the Earth ordered by importance - and we are going to add address and POI search in future.</p>

  <p>We have also a solution for people with specific demands: if you want to run a map from your own servers, behind the firewall or even off-line, we offer you this option with our own OpenMapTiles.com self-hosting service.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-21-maptiler-as-google-maps-api-alternative-3.png" alt="Different basic styles on one picture" />
  <em>Different basic styles on one picture</em></p>

  <h2 id="easy-to-switch-from-google-mapsapi">Easy to switch from Google Maps API</h2>
  <p>Switching from Google Maps API is very simple: just delete the Google Maps code and replace it with a pre-generated code you get in MapTiler Cloud. That’s it, now you have a working map!</p>

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  <p><em>Switch from Google Maps API to MapTiler Cloud in 1 minute</em></p>

  <p>Depending on your need, <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/openmaptiles-gives-you-freedom-of-sdks.html">you can choose</a> what JavaScript library you want to use (we have a map code generator for Leaflet, OpenLayers and Mapbox GL JS), mobile SDKs, desktop GIS or if you want to have a map as a static image for print or graphic design. The recommended libraries and SDKs are open-source and therefore you have a freedom to change the provider at any time in the future.</p>

  <p><a class="btn" href="https://cloud.maptiler.com">Try MapTiler Cloud</a>
  <a class="btn" href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/streets-new-openmaptiles-map-style.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/streets-new-openmaptiles-map-style.html
title: Streets: new OpenMapTiles map style
published: 2018-05-15 11:00:00
fetched: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.382128
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.534597
updated_at: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.487250
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-15-streets-new-openmaptiles-map-style-1.jpg"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>OpenMapTiles has always encouraged the development of map services by giving an option to build a self-hosted map with open-source tools and by providing <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">free non-commercial hosting</a>. For those who support us with their paid plan, we introduce another premium service: a new Street map style.</p>

  <h2 id="map-with-a-clear-roads-hierarchy">Map with a clear roads’ hierarchy</h2>
  <p>Each map style should highlight only the information relevant to its primary objective. When we were designing new map style, we focused on transportation. Therefore the name Streets.</p>

  <p>Streets style is a base map highlighting different transportation methods. Therefore we include roads, railway network, ferry routes, and airports. Moreover, it also shows all relevant POIs like bus stops, petrol stations or subway stations. </p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>Street style is a fresh alternative to Google Maps default style.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>To highlight the roads’ hierarchy, each type of road is represented by different color. While the most saturated colors are representing major roads like highways, more pale colors are used in combination with thin lines for minor roads. By looking at the map, you can at the first look easily judge the overall network and make a quick decision.</p>

  <p><a href="https://www.maptiler.com/maps/#streets//vector/13/114.16915/22.29169" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-15-streets-new-openmaptiles-map-style-2.jpg" alt="Different types of transportation in Hong Kong and bilingual labels" /></a>
  <em>Different types of transportation in Hong Kong and bilingual labels</em></p>

  <h2 id="only-relevant-information-for-quickdecision">Only relevant information for quick decision</h2>
  <p>When looking at a map, you want to capture all necessary information as fast as possible. On the other hand, placing too many details decreases the readability and it takes you longer to get oriented on a map. Therefore we carefully picked only relevant information for each zoom level like POIs, labels, minor roads, and others. As you zoom in, more details appear they disappear as you zoom out to give you clear overlook. Since this is our first version, there could still be some missing or redundant items, especially POIs. Any comments on this topic are very welcomed.</p>

  <p>A good map should also help the person who is using it recognize the features of the real world on the map. On lower zoom levels, we are displaying the land use information which can be seen from a global satellite image. On the higher zoom levels, we show transparent 3D buildings to help a person with orienting in an urban jungle. The buildings can be turned off.</p>

  <p>The map is fully customizable as our MapTiler Cloud supports creating own styles or derivatives of the existing ones with built-in WYSIWYG design tool.</p>

  <p>As each of our map, the Streets style also includes a possibility to change the language. Currently, there are more than 50 languages supported.</p>

  <p><a href="https://www.maptiler.com/maps/#streets//vector/2/0/20" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-15-streets-new-openmaptiles-map-style-3.jpg" alt="Different types of transportation in Hong Kong and bilingual labels" /></a>
  <em>Land use information which can be seen from a satellite image from a global satellite image.</em></p>

  <p>All the map styles including Streets are visible as a browsable map on the <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud</a> page or in the administration.</p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/openmaptiles-gives-you-freedom-of-sdks.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/05/openmaptiles-gives-you-freedom-of-sdks.html
title: OpenMapTiles gives you freedom of SDKs
published: 2018-05-09 11:00:00
fetched: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.382128
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.537739
updated_at: 2019-10-16 12:00:26.490017
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-09-openmaptiles-gives-you-freedom-of-sdks-1.jpg"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>The possibility to select your favorite mobile map SDK, JavaScript library for your web and server for raster tiles increase your freedom of choice with the <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/">OpenMapTiles project</a>. Three new map styles from one of the leaders in map industry, CARTO, demonstrates this power of diversity while using OpenMapTiles.</p>

  <h2 id="open-source-stack-usable-on-multiplesdks">Open-source stack, usable on multiple SDKs</h2>
  <p>Whenever you work on a map, you need to define how each geographical feature will look like. This definition is described using a styling language and it says, for example, that rivers should be rendered starting zoom level 10, with blue color and it should be 8px bold line.</p>

  <p>The styling languages differ in the syntax used for defining the final look and in the implementation by various software tools (mobile SDKs, raster servers, web APIs).</p>

  <p>These are the most popular styling languages today:</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/style-spec/">GL JSON</a></strong>, which is the main styling language of OpenMapTiles, is based on JSON file format defined originally by Mapbox and adopted by ESRI and others - and it supports Mapbox mobile SDKs, ArcGIS Pro and OpenMapTiles Server or TileServer GL raster server.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://mapzen.com/documentation/tangram/yaml/">Tangram YAML</a></strong> uses the markup style popular in Python programming language and can be used with Tangram SDK and Tangram Paparazzi.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="http://tilemill-project.github.io/tilemill/docs/manual/carto/">CartoCSS</a></strong> is similar to CSS used to style websites and is implemented with tools using Mapnik map renderer (the primary OpenStreetMap.org toolkit for rendering raster map tiles) and is also usable with the Carto mobile SDK. There is no native vector tile viewer for web implementing CartoCSS directly.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld">OGC SLD</a></strong> standard based on XML. This language is hard to write directly by humans, so it is typically created by converting from other styling languages or using a visual editor - such as desktop GIS tools like QGIS.</p>

  <p>All of these styling languages are compatible with the OpenMapTiles.</p>

  <h3 id="javascript-for-web-applications">JavaScript for web applications</h3>
  <p>For displaying map data in a web browser as slippy maps, different JavaScript libraries can be used. They provide APIs for building geographic web application similar to Google Maps or Bing Maps but allow you to load the map data from your own server or provider of choice.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://openmaptiles.org/docs/website/openlayers/">OpenLayers</a></strong> supports vector as well as raster tiles and is most advanced in handling coordinate systems and map projections.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://openmaptiles.org/docs/website/mapbox-gl-js/">Mapbox GL JS</a></strong> is another web mapping library. Supports both raster tiles and vector format used by OpenMapTiles.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://openmaptiles.org/docs/website/leaflet/">Leaflet</a></strong> is the lightweight and simple JavaScript library, which can be used either for viewing raster tiles or vector tiles through mapbox-gl-leaflet or VectorGrid plugin.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://openmaptiles.org/docs/website/tangram/">Tangram</a></strong> is another rendering client for web applications which supports OpenMapTiles vector tile schema.</p>

  <p>To inspect different JavaScript libraries next to each other, <a href="https://labs.maptiler.com/carto-basemap-styles/">see the comparison</a>. All of them are ready for HiDPI retina displays.</p>

  <h3 id="multiple-mobile-mapsdks">Multiple mobile map SDKs</h3>
  <p>For bringing your map into a mobile device you need an SDK, which is a kit allowing the development of applications for the mobile operating system. With OpenMapTiles, you have a choice of several SDK for different platforms.</p>

  <p>GL JSON is closely tied to <strong><a href="https://www.mapbox.com/mobile/">Mapbox mobile SDKs</a></strong>, which support both Android and iOS and in addition the Unity game engine.</p>

  <p>Tangram YAML is connected to <strong><a href="https://mapzen.com/documentation/tangram/Android-API/">Tangram SDK</a></strong>, which allows you to create mobile apps for iOS and Android.</p>

  <p>CartoCSS can be best used in <strong><a href="https://carto.com/docs/carto-engine/mobile-sdk/">Carto mobile SDK</a></strong>, which has in-built support for Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms.</p>

  <h3 id="raster-tiles-on-the-serverside">Raster tiles on the server side</h3>
  <p>The freedom of choice is also kept on the server side with a variety of servers rendering raster as well as vector tiles.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://openmaptiles.com/server/">OpenMapTiles Server</a></strong> or <strong><a href="http://tileserver.org/">TileServer GL</a></strong> provides both raster and vector tiles from a GL style.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="http://mapnik.org/">Mapnik library</a></strong> is the toolkit used for rendering maps on the main OpenStreetMap site.</p>

  <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/tangrams/paparazzi">Tangram Paparazzi</a></strong> has its roots in Tangram-ES but serves raster tiles.</p>

  <h3 id="desktop-gis">Desktop GIS</h3>
  <p>Users of desktop GIS software are not left behind. The compatibility with ESRI’s <strong><a href="https://developers.arcgis.com/arcgis-runtime/">ArcGIS Runtime SDK</a></strong> compatibility is achieved for OpenMapTiles. </p>

  <p>Opening raster tiles in <strong>QGIS</strong> is straightforward and there is also a <a href="/how-to/maps-in-desktop-gis/">plugin for loading vector tiles</a> under development.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-05-09-openmaptiles-gives-you-freedom-of-sdks-2.jpg" alt="Voyager, Positron and Dark Matter styles for OpenMapTiles © CARTO" />
  <em>Voyager, Positron and Dark Matter styles for OpenMapTiles © CARTO</em></p>

  <h2 id="new-styles-voyager-positron-and-darkmatter">New styles: Voyager, Positron and Dark Matter</h2>
  <p>With the release of three new map styles, CARTO shows the commitment to the OpenMapTiles project. The styles are available for web and mobile, both raster and vector. The styles are based on OpenMapTiles data schema, use the project’s vector tiles and are implemented in three different styling languages while keeping the same look and feel across the different software tools.</p>

  <ol>
    <li>Voyager - colored map with clear road hierarchy</li>
    <li>Positron - light gray map for further displaying of data</li>
    <li>Dark Matter - dark gray map for displaying data of bigger size</li>
  </ol>

  <p>The code is fully open-source and can be found <a href="https://github.com/CartoDB/basemap-styles">on GitHub</a>.</p>

  <p>You can see our implementation of these styles with several others beautiful styles such as Streets and Topo in <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud hosting</a>.</p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/04/openmaptiles-3-8.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/04/openmaptiles-3-8.html
title: OpenMapTiles 3.8
published: 2018-04-30 11:00:00
fetched: 2019-10-08 11:30:24.257233
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.540296
updated_at: 2019-10-08 11:30:24.367686
summary:
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            alt="Thumb">
            <p>The new release of open-source project OpenMapTiles 3.8, which offers world maps based on OpenStreetMap, brings evolutionary steps rather than revolution. However, a significant number of small-scale changes in the transport layer, water, and other features improves the map look significantly.</p>

  <h2 id="transportation-layer">Transportation layer</h2>
  <p>Navigating through multi-level stack interchange could be challenging. Having a map representing all the layers is very helpful at that moment. Therefore, we imported the so-called z-index into OpenMapTiles 3.8 and made a map style which transparently navigates you visually through all roads even in the complicated crossings called spaghetti junction. The downside of this solution is the size which rises about four times compared to the same style without multilevel crossing. It increases computing requirements for saving into a database, downloading, parsing and rendering and therefore it is not switched on in the base styles. What stays turned on by default is another new attribute: bridge polygon.</p>

  <p>Turn-by-turn navigation is easier with 83 000 imported one-way roads and flexibility to use different types of transportation has been extended by adding tube entrances and other stations.</p>

  <p><a href="https://www.maptiler.com/maps/#streets//vector/16/-1.862625/52.510659" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-04-30-openmaptiles-3-8-2.jpg" alt="OpenMapTiles Spaghetti Junction" /></a>
  <em>The intersection which was first nicknamed as Spaghetti Junction: Gravelly Hill Interchange in Birmingham, England.</em></p>

  <h2 id="water-features">Water features</h2>
  <p>The water layer was enriched by layered features as well. With the new OpenMapTiles release, water bridges and functioning aqueducts are presented in the data as well as in the styles. The same is true for underground watercourses, where streams flowing in culverts or caves are now rendered as a dashed line, which is a common representation of this kind of features.</p>

  <p>In the previous versions, there were missing labels for some bigger water features, namely seas. Since version 3.8, there should be a label for the Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Japan, Celtic Sea and the Chukchi Sea. Also, bigger bays like Bay of Biscay or Gulf of California are now displayed.</p>

  <p><a href="http://www.maptiler.com/maps/#streets//vector/17/4.900879/52.372721" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-04-30-openmaptiles-3-8-3.jpg" alt="OpenMapTiles culvert" /></a></p>

  <p><em>There is a culvert under the famous Nieuwmarkt square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.</em></p>

  <h2 id="other-changes">Other changes</h2>
  <p>One of the significant features which made it to OpenMapTiles 3.8 is sand and beach in the landcover layer. It is also possible to distinguish religions in the places of worship. Some people were confused by borders around leased territories and therefore it is now switched off by default in the styles. This is the case of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base or Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the second one is leased to Russian government until 2050, but it is located in the heart of neighboring Kazakhstan. The leased area has an oval shape measuring 85 and 90 kilometers in diameter.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome">From Wikipedia</a>: The spaceport is currently leased by the Kazakh Government to Russia until 2050, and is managed jointly by the Roscosmos State Corporation and the Russian Aerospace Forces.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>List of all changes can be found as usual on <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/milestone/11?closed=1">GitHub</a> altogether with the source code. You can visually go through all changes on <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/maps/">MapTiler Cloud hosting</a> or download the data and styles from <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/">OpenMapTiles.com</a>.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-04-30-openmaptiles-3-8-4.jpg" alt="Baikonur Cosmodrome" />
  <em>Baikonur Cosmodrome leased to Russia until 2050, is located in the heart of Kazakhstan.</em></p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/04/maps-and-gdpr-privacy-for-your-visitors.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/04/maps-and-gdpr-privacy-for-your-visitors.html
title: Maps and GDPR: privacy for your visitors
published: 2018-04-05 09:00:00
fetched: 2019-09-11 16:00:33.106484
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.543387
updated_at: 2019-09-11 16:00:33.223597
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-04-05-maps-and-gdpr-privacy-for-your-visitors.png"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>As of 25th May 2018, new EU regulation harmonizing data protection across the member states will come into force. The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly abbreviated as GDPR, will enhance the digital rights of EU citizens at the cost of a strict data protection compliance regime. The GDPR applies to all companies and institutions, regardless of their size, inside and outside of the EU, who are working with personal data of EU citizens.</p>

  <h2 id="how-to-prepare-your-organization">How to prepare your organization</h2>
  <p>The new set of digital rights for EU citizens guaranteed by  GDPR means a preparation of companies and organizations handling any kind of personal data, which is any information related to the natural person or data subject that can be used to identify the person directly or indirectly. This doesn’t only mean full name, photo and home address, but also things like IP address, email or even cookie if it can be used to identify the person.</p>

  <p>For companies which are already respecting privacy and handling data in compliant with current legislation, GDPR means just a minor modification of current processes. As the information systems are becoming more complex and the flow of information is increasing, you can miss some details, which are not core to your business. Such an example is a map included in your web page or integrated into your mobile app. However, you are still responsible for all the data being collected and processed according to the GDPR.</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p>The penalty can get up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover — whichever is greater.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>If you haven’t started yet, you should take an action. Prepare yourself by taking these steps:</p>
  <ol>
    <li>Collect, store and process only personal data you really need. Collecting data for advertising purposes is acceptable (if other conditions are fulfilled), saving individuals’ personal data “because maybe they can be useful somehow one day” is not.</li>
    <li>Make sure you have informed consent for all personal data you are working with. If not, try to obtain it additionally. To stay on the safe side, double opt-in is a best practice. Make also sure users have a chance to revoke the consent.</li>
    <li>Have a process for handing over the data to the client if you are requested, updating them if they are out-dated and you are asked to do and to delete all unnecessary personal data you hold or to stop processing them.</li>
    <li>Build new project with security by design. For current ones, make sure the personal data are secured to the highest level you can achieve as a company or organization.</li>
    <li>If your security fails and there is a security incident which involves your clients’ personal data, have a process to inform affected people within 72 hours.</li>
  </ol>

  <p>While most of the changes within an organization need to be done in internal processes, you also should make a revision and modifications on the software side if needed.</p>

  <p>If you take these steps seriously and not just as a box-ticking exercise, it can have a positive effect on your organization. Organizing your data doesn’t just give you tidiness feeling, but also increase efficiency whenever someone has to work with them. Reduction of data can also be a positive thing as <a href="https://www.veritas.com/news-releases/2016-03-15-veritas-global-databerg-report-finds-85-percent-of-stored-data">according to the study</a> 85% of data stored in companies is redundant. And if you take your users’ privacy really seriously and stop provide the information about them to third parties, your business privacy will increase as well, because along with it you will also send out information about your business.</p>

  <p>Underestimating the preparation and ignoring the rules will not just have a negative effect on your business reputation, but your bank account as well: the penalty can get up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover — whichever is greater.</p>

  <h2 id="self-hosted-maps-are-thesolution">Self-hosted maps are the solution</h2>
  <p>While many seek cloud services as their salvation, in case of a security issue, both parties partake in a shared responsibility. Moreover, with even a small piece of code inserted in your web or product, which is tracking your users, you are exposing an information about your business. The flow, composition and other information are gold valued, especially in the tech business.</p>

  <p>While self-hosting a world map can be seen as a high-tech task for a skilled technician, in fact with <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/server/">OpenMapTiles maps</a> it is a 10 minutes clicking job. To guarantee the security, <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles">the source code</a> is available for an inspection. Only with a self-hosted solution you have fully under the control who is coming, what personal data are being collected, what is happening with them and guarantee you are 100% GDPR compliant.</p>

  <h2 id="our-map-hosting-respects-the-end-users-privacy">Our map hosting respects the end-users privacy</h2>
  <p>Those who don’t have enough resources or don’t want to bother with self-hosting a map should search for a safe digital partner. While there are providers which claim to have a free-of-charge service, the price you are paying is your clients’ and business’ data. The <i>free</i> in their case means collecting and processing a massive amount of data and selling it out, mainly by targeted advertisement.</p>

  <p>With <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud map hosting service</a>, you can be sure your clients’ data are not being misused, simply because we do not collect any personal information. Our map services have no geolocation tracking code and we are not making a telemetry. Our services respect privacy by design and are built and maintained by the highest security standard. All the traffic between our servers and end-users is encrypted by HTTPS. </p>

  <p>With the core data centers in the EU, secure infrastructure, transparent business model, you can trust <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud map hosting service</a> as a safe digital GDPR compliant partner.</p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/02/maps-in-the-language-of-visitor.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2018/02/maps-in-the-language-of-visitor.html
title: Maps in the language of visitor
published: 2018-02-09 09:00:00
fetched: 2019-08-14 20:30:24.994564
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.546127
updated_at: 2019-08-14 20:30:25.097655
summary:
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            alt="Thumb">
            <p>When looking at a map, most people quickly orient themselves based on a combination of factors. One of the most important, however, are labels — such as street or city names. Showing place names in the local language and script can significantly improve how the user understands the map and possibly other data visualized on top of it.</p>

  <p>Displaying place names in different world languages on a map is a challenging problem. The OpenMapTiles data already contain labels in more than 50 languages and the coverage has been much improved recently (see our <a href="https://blog.klokantech.com/2017/12/openmaptiles-v3.7.html">recent article</a>). Displaying the data to the users brings two major challenges: preparing proper Unicode font and dynamic language switching (and autodetection) in a web browser.</p>

  <h2 id="unicode-font-for-openstreetmap">Unicode font for OpenStreetMap</h2>
  <p>Modern vector map libraries in web browsers (such as <a href="https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js">MapBox GL JS</a>) use WebGL for high performance (GPU-accelerated) rendering. WebGL (and OpenGL) has no direct support for rendering text and there are several methods how to actually display a text.</p>

  <p>One of the best approaches is using precalculated signed distance fields (SDF), introduce by <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf">Valve in 2007</a>. In this method each character of the font (glyph) is rendered into a raster bitmap (or, more precisely, the distances to the border of the glyph — that’s why the raster looks “fuzzy”).</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-02-09-maps-in-the-language-of-visitor-2.png" alt="Example of a SDF raster" />
  <em>Example of a SDF raster (taken from <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/blog/text-signed-distance-fields/">this blog post</a>)</em></p>

  <p>Rendering text from SDF is fast, the text can be scaled, rotated and can contain a halo for better contrast. Also take a look at this <a href="https://mapbox.github.io/tiny-sdf/">interactive demo of Tiny SDF</a>, which is able to create SDFs on-the-fly in web browser from a local font.</p>

  <p>However, when publishing a vector map online, you want to make sure the labels look the same for all the users regardless of what fonts they have locally installed. SDF fonts are usually distributed in protocol buffers (PBFs), split into ranges of 256 glyphs (0–255, 256–511, …, 65280–65535) so the map library can only download the characters that are actually needed at that moment.</p>

  <p>We have prepared several different ready-to-use fonts and published the source scripts in a <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles/fonts">GitHub repository</a>. The main “Noto Sans” font family is derived from <a href="https://www.google.com/get/noto/">Google Noto project</a> and contains almost any character that you might need to display on the map (in any language!)</p>

  <p>You can <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles/fonts/releases/tag/v2.0">download the prepared fonts now</a> or use our <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud</a> infrastructure where the fonts are ready for production use.</p>

  <h2 id="map-in-your-language-automatically">Map in your language. Automatically.</h2>
  <p>Thanks to the language data in OpenMapTiles and the “Noto Sans” unicode font, you are now able to display the map with labels in more than 50 languages!</p>

  <p>Great, but what if you need to change the language dynamically in the JavaScript? Or automatically detect the language of the browser?</p>

  <p>We have created a new open-source library that extends the functionality of the mapbox-gl-js library, so you can very easily change the language of the labels on OpenMapTiles maps.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2018-02-09-maps-in-the-language-of-visitor-3.gif" alt="Dynamic language switching with JavaScript" />
  <em>Dynamic language switching with JavaScript</em></p>

  <p>See <a href="https://github.com/klokantech/openmaptiles-language">openmaptiles-language repository</a> for details and usage instructions.</p>

  <p>Do you want to try the world maps with more than 50 languages prepared for your business? You can deploy them on your own with <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/">OpenMapTiles</a> or you can rely on our global infrastructure with <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud</a>.</p>


title: OpenMapTiles Map Server: The easiest way to deploy vector OpenStreetMap
published: 2017-12-20 09:00:00
fetched: 2019-07-02 14:30:30.790274
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.548681
updated_at: 2019-07-02 14:30:30.898732
guid:
  https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2017/12/openmaptiles-map-server-the-easiest-way-to-deploy-vector-osm.html

url:
  https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2017/12/openmaptiles-map-server-the-easiest-way-to-deploy-vector-osm.html

summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-20-openmaptiles-map-server-the-easiest-way-to-deploy-vector-osm.png"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>Less than one year ago, <a href="https://openmaptiles.org/">OpenMapTiles</a> open-source project was announced. It simplifies the process of deploying OpenStreetMap maps significantly. However, setting up the whole software toolchain for vector tiles was an obstacle not everybody was able to pass. Today, we are tearing this barrier down by announcing <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/server/">OpenMapTiles Map Server</a>, software which enables everyone to run a map server on his own infrastructure within a few minutes.</p>

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  <h2 id="vector-tiles-for-the-whole-world-in-10-minutes">Vector tiles for the whole world in 10 minutes</h2>

  <p>Setting own map server was seen as an advanced task for skilled admin. With OpenMapTiles Map Server, you can do it with basic computer skills in less than 10 minutes.</p>

  <p>To launch the software you can use a graphical user interface on Windows and Mac or one simple command on any Linux computer.</p>

  <p>The main task of the OpenMapTiles Map Server is to provide you with vector map tiles, however, it covers more than that.</p>

  <p>Backward compatibility with third-party software is important to us. Therefore, if your library, end-user device or third-party software doesn’t support vector tiles, there is a fallback mode with raster tiles. This can be used in libraries such as Leaflet or other tools. Compatibility is also ensured with WMS and WMTS protocols used in ArcGIS, QGIS, and other desktop GIS software.</p>

  <h2 id="styles-schema-and-languages">Styles, schema, and languages</h2>
  <p>If you think about a map, one of the first thoughts is the appearance. By default, there is set of four free and open-source styles. However, if you want to make any change in the style, there is a visual editor where changes are immediately visible. You can also upload your own style in JSON format. Thanks to the vector technology, the tiles’ look are changing on the fly without a need for new rendering.</p>

  <p>The cartography decisions are encoded by the Vector Tile Schema, which is fully free and open-source. It covers the selection of tags used in OpenStreetMap, some features from Natural Earth Data and other OpenData sources.</p>

  <p>OpenMapTiles Map Server comes with built-in support for more than 50 languages. You can easily switch between them and again. The dual language option is supported, which can be useful especially in the countries where Latin is not the main script.</p>

  <h2 id="fast-and-simple">Fast and simple</h2>
  <p>OpenMapTiles was already a giant leap forward in making maps based on OpenStreetMap accessible to a broader audience. OpenMapTiles Map Server goes even further and with help of Docker, you can serve your own map within few minutes using minimum knowledge. It helps experienced admins to minimize their workload and allows to start serving map tiles to novices with minimal or even no administration knowledge.</p>

  <p>For Docker installation there is basic setup available on Windows and Mac, for Linux users, there is the single command you just have to copy and paste into a terminal.</p>

  <p>Once you install Docker, run openmaptiles-server container either from a terminal or in Kitematic GUI. It will start a web server, which is available on localhost. In the web wizard, select the area you want to display, style, and language and the map can be directly displayed on websites with JavaScript viewers, used in native mobile applications on Android and iOS (even offline), or turned into traditional raster tiles or high-resolution images for printing.</p>

  <p>There are ready-to-use vector tiles from OpenMapTiles.com, but if you need more than just a street map, there are additional data available. You can add to your map contour lines, hillshading or additional satellite layer.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-20-openmaptiles-map-server-the-easiest-way-to-deploy-vector-osm.gif" alt="Map setup in a few steps" />
  <em>Map setup in a few steps</em></p>

  <h2 id="what-is-running-behind">What is running behind?</h2>
  <p>OpenMapTiles Map Server combines OpenMapTiles open-source technology with one of the most prominent virtualization technology - Docker.</p>

  <p>OpenMapTiles is an open-source set of tools for deployment of maps. Originally developed by Klokan Technologies and launched early this year, it undergoes heavy development by both KlokanTech employees as well as growing community. This made OpenMapTiles leading technology for creating and deploying vector tiles.</p>

  <p>OpenMapTiles Map Server is a production-ready software package with built-in open-source components (such as memcache or TileServer GL) and it’s tailored specifically for OpenMapTiles data and simple step-by-step configuration.</p>

  <p>Docker is a free and open-source software for virtualization on operating system level. The system of containers, simplify installation of any software and recently an intuitive GUI makes it number one choice for running separate software.</p>

  <p>This combination creates robust, but extremely easy to deploy, solution for your own map service.</p>

  <h2 id="get-started-using-openmaptiles-map-server">Get started using OpenMapTiles Map Server</h2>
  <p>As you can see, OpenMapTiles Map Server is powerful, but simple tool for deploying vector map tiles. It enables everyone to run his own map server on his hardware without any deep IT knowledge.</p>

  <p>Are you ready to create your own map server? Get set by <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/server/">installing Docker</a>, running openmaptiles-server and go by choosing color, languages, and area of your map!</p>

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guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2017/12/openmaptiles-v3.7.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2017/12/openmaptiles-v3.7.html
title: OpenMapTiles v3.7: Truly multilingual
published: 2017-12-12 19:00:00
fetched: 2019-06-14 12:30:22.180787
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.551161
updated_at: 2019-06-14 12:30:22.297630
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-12-openmaptiles-v3.7.png"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>The new version of <a href="https://openmaptiles.org">OpenMapTiles</a> with <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/releases/tag/v3.7">version number 3.7</a> is here and brings another big portion of improvements.</p>

  <p>Probably the most visible enhancement is better language coverage. The 3.6 version already brought more than 50 languages, now you can enjoy even more places to be translated by binding Wikidata together with OpenStreetMap objects. The quantity boosted tremendously, especially for non-Latin scripts in countries using Latin script, and vice versa.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-12-openmaptiles-v3.7_1.png" alt="Part of the Czech Republic in Chinese" />
  <em>Part of the Czech Republic in Chinese without and with Wikidata</em></p>

  <p>Previously deserted areas on zoom level 7 now thrive with life due to change in rendering preferences. Big forest areas are shown sooner to give a viewer context of an area. A higher number of city labels helps with orientation in space.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-12-openmaptiles-v3.7_2.png" alt="Central Finland" />
  <em>Central Finland in version 3.6 and 3.7</em></p>

  <p>Natural Earth was upgraded to newest, 4th version, which brings new city ranking and other up-to-date data.</p>

  <p>Update in OpenStreetMap attribute iso_a2 helps to solve an issue with countries with limited recognition as well as disputed areas. They have now lower priority during rendering process and therefore are not blocking country labels anymore. Labeling was improved for countries with a large number of islands, like Denmark, Indonesia or Philippines. They are now rendered on the same zoom levels like countries with similar size, which are monolithic.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-12-openmaptiles-v3.7_3.png" alt="Transnistria is shown at lower zoom level" />
  <em>Transnistria is shown at lower zoom level than Moldova and with thinner font</em></p>

  <p>The railway infrastructure is now shown on higher zoom levels (main rails zoom level 8+, branch rails and narrow gauges zoom level 10+, light rails zoom level 11+). Brand new is ferry routes rendering, which helps you to plan your journey through seas. For airports, the most visible enhancement is label rendering starting at zoom level 10.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-12-openmaptiles-v3.7_4.png" alt="Ferry routes" />
  <em>Ferry route between Elsinore, Denmark, and Helsingborg, Sweden</em></p>

  <p>Talking about ships, the labels for oceans undertook major improvements as well. The name of a big sea (e.g. The Arabian Sea) is shown on lower zoom levels and the smaller seas and bays (The Red Sea, The Persian Gulf, …) pops-up while zooming in, while the superior sea’s label stays.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-12-openmaptiles-v3.7.png" alt="Ferry routes" />
  <em>New labels for seas bordering Arabian peninsula</em></p>

  <p>Try new maps on <a href="https://maptiler.com/cloud/">MapTiler Cloud</a></p>

  <p>Check release notes for 3.7 on <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/releases/tag/v3.7">GitHub</a></p>

  <p>Download from <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/">OpenMapTiles Downloads</a></p>

  <p>If you need to tips for an upgrade of your style look at <a href="https://github.com/openmaptiles/osm-bright-gl-style/pull/12">pull request on Bright style</a></p>


guid: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2017/12/openmaptiles-satellite.html
url: https://www.maptiler.com/blog/2017/12/openmaptiles-satellite.html
title: OpenMapTiles Satellite
updated: 2017-12-06 11:00:00
fetched: 2019-06-10 21:30:53.861418
created_at: 2019-06-09 18:12:26.553526
updated_at: 2019-06-10 21:30:54.007897
summary:
  <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-06-openmaptiles-satellite.jpg"
            alt="Thumb">
            <p>Planet Earth is a wonderful place: from various shades of blue in oceans through green waste of forests to always white tops of mountains. Our planet offers spectacular palette of colours made by nature as well as human beings.</p>

  <p>OpenMapTiles Satellite gives something one cannot manage to visit his life: high-resolution aerial view of all the beauty our home planet overflow. They can be  easily combined with other OpenMapTiles layers to create comprehensive user experience.</p>

  <p>You can start with an exploration on <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/satellite/">OpenMapTiles Satellite page</a> where previews are available or <a href="https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/">download the data</a>.</p>

  <h2 id="endless-summer">Endless summer</h2>
  <p>Currently, there are tiles covering the whole world until the zoom level 13 with the resolution of approximately 20m per pixel. To create a cloudless map, the images from northern hemisphere were taken in summertime and the ones for southern hemisphere during winter, thus during its summertime as well.</p>

  <p>Additional imageries with higher resolution are planned to be published in Q1 2018 from countries which provide their aerial imageries under open data license. This includes countries like USA, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, France and many others.</p>

  <p>The data comes from ESA Sentinel-2 satellites orbiting 790 km above the surface and are processed by <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cluster/">MapTiler Cluster</a> technology.</p>

  <amp-youtube data-videoid="TmG8o21vB7E" layout="responsive" width="768" height="432" data-param-rel="0"></amp-youtube>

  <h2 id="need-more">Need more?</h2>
  <p>If you need to add your own data into part of the OpenMapTiles Satellite, e.g. extremely high-resolution imageries from drones, and use a satellite imagery supplied by us for the rest of the world, there is an easy way with <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/desktop/">MapTiler Desktop</a>. The software comes with user friendly graphical interface, which ensures the image processing is available even for non-technical people.</p>

  <p>All you need to do is to drag and drop your images, set the coordinate system, visually geolocate the images if they are not pre-processed and render them in a selected format. The best fit for mixing with OpenMapTiles is the MBTiles format. There is a <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/how-to/overlay-image-over-map/">short overview</a> as well as <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/how-to/">full documentation</a> available.</p>

  <p>There is free as well as the paid professional version available, depending on your needs.
  <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/">
    <img src="https://www.maptiler.com/media/2017-12-06-openmaptiles-satellite_1.png" alt="MapTiler banner" />
  </a></p>

  <h2 id="want-to-get-started">Want to get started?</h2>
  <p>The whole planet has about 200GB in size. However, there are packages sliced by continents, countries and even regions for bigger nations. If you still hesitate, there is a low-resolution package which contains zoom 0 - 5, has less than 30MB and is available completely for free.</p>

  <p>If you decided to download your area, you will get a package in MBTiles or GeoPackage format. Self-hosting on your own infrastructure is possible and can run even offline if needed.</p>

  <p>However, we offer our clients <a href="https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/">hosting on our own infrastructure</a>, which is spread over more than 100 datacentres, contains high-availability setup, SSL, DDOS protection, load-balancer with failover, duplication of main datacenters in Europe and North America, and weekly update of OpenStreetMap tiles.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786
title: HiddenStreetMap
published: 2019-06-09 22:52:48
fetched: 2019-06-14 04:00:04.473580
created_at: 2019-06-09 23:32:22.587070
updated_at: 2019-06-14 04:00:04.598614
summary:
  <h1 id="how-open-is-openstreetmap"><em>How Open is OpenStreetMap?</em></h1>
  <p><em>StreetMap</em> yes, but I’m not too sure about the <em>Open</em> bit.</p>

  <p>Consider the following:</p>

  <ol>
    <li>
      <p>These Diary Pages are Closed Tight Shut  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  The HSM admin unilaterally <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368755" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">closed all Diary pages</a> to the outside world on 18&nbsp;May. Ostensibly that was a short-term measure to stop a <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/172800" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">spam-storm</a>. We will know more if access for the SEs ever get restored to those pages.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  The <em>admin</em> action means that only those that already <em>know</em> that there are <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Diary Pages</a> can visit them. In addition, it means that there is zero method of finding any specific page on this site, as there are zero internal search facilities. That is a dramatic problem, since a great many people have taken hours &amp; hours to give large amounts of help for mappers via these pages, all of which is now invisible.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>The Map Pages are Closed Tight Shut  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  There are millions &amp; millions of HSM <em>nodes</em>, <em>ways</em> &amp; <em>relations</em> within the Map accessed from <em>osm.org</em>, and not a single one is listed in any Search Engine. That is also a deliberate measure by the HSM <em>admin</em> although, unlike the Diary pages, it has been a feature for a great many years. It means that not a single one of the millions of <em>Points of Interest</em> (PoI) that have been entered by all of HSM’s mappers will ever be found by any general user. That raises a very important point:– is that what you want, and does it have to be that way? And if by any chance your response is <em>“well, nothing I say will make any difference”</em> you now know why <em>OSM</em> has become <em>HSM</em>.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>All <em>Admin</em> action appears to be Unilateral - Zero Consultation  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  Apart from the <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">website issues</a> page, which only a few geeks will even know exists, there appears to be zero consultation between those that direct action on the site &amp; the HSM community.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  No-one can know everything, and an open-source movement is supposed to provide a method for an additive process to be in place. Is that happening with HSM?</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>The HSM Admin are removing items that they do not like without consultation  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  I’ve had code snippets in some recent pages which the <em>admin</em> have removed. They have never said anything to me, nor asked before removing them. That is disgusting, and the opposite of open. Welcome to the gulag.</p>
    </li>
  </ol>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Silka123/diary/368785
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Silka123/diary/368785
title: Новости из мира OpenStreetMap № 463 (28.05.2019-03.06.2019)
published: 2019-06-09 21:59:45
fetched: 2019-06-13 17:00:05.532288
created_at: 2019-06-09 23:32:22.590790
updated_at: 2019-06-13 17:00:05.694478
summary:
  <p>На Хабре <a href="https://habr.com/ru/post/455455/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">вышел</a> перевод очередного выпуска WeeklyOSM.</p>

  <p>Обратите внимание на новость про редактор OSM от Facebook - это нечто. Не поленитесь и прочитайте саму статью.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Verdizulo/diary/368783
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Verdizulo/diary/368783
title: Aldono de brand:wikipedia – sennecesa kaj diskutinda funkcio de redaktilo iD
published: 2019-06-09 20:56:06
fetched: 2019-06-13 07:30:03.703621
created_at: 2019-06-09 23:32:22.595984
updated_at: 2019-06-13 07:30:03.831832
summary:
  <p>De ioma tempo la redaktilo iD provas unuigi vendejojn/punktojn de intereso de diversaj markoj, enkondukante la etikedojn brand, brand:wikidata kaj brand:wikipedia. La du unuaj estas necesaj, tamen la etikedo brand:wikipedia <em>hazarde</em> preskaŭ ĉiam ligas al angla Vikipedio.</p>

  <p>La redaktilo markas punktojn sen Vikipedia-ligilo en tiu ĉi <em>nedezirata</em> lingvo kiel havantajn nekompletajn etikedojn:
  <img src="https://i.postimg.cc/76DzpzPv/redakti-objekton.png" alt="">
  kaj instigas al amase ilin <em>ripari</em>:
  <img src="https://i.postimg.cc/HLTsm9Mt/problemoj.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>Mi volis protesti kontraŭ imperiisma angla lingvo kaj provis aldirekti kelkajn ligilojn de vestaj vendejoj al lingvo de lando, el kiu la firmao devenas: <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/2720" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/2720</a>.
  <strong>Ĉiuj miaj agoj estis blokitaj</strong> ĉe github/osmalb:
  <img src="https://i.postimg.cc/J03HKzCr/blokado.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>Mi provis diskonigi la problemon pli supre: <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6471" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6471</a>.
  Miaj argumentoj estis <a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajlohomo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">troigitaj kaj parodiitaj</a>:</p>

  <p>“Se vi vere maltrankvilas pri angla hegemonio, mi rigardus ĉiujn OSM-etikedojn, ne ses vestaĵojn.”</p>

  <p>Kutima uzanto de OSM ne devas scii etikedojn, pri ĉio zorgas redaktiloj kaj aliaj programoj.</p>

  <p>Nuntempe (2019-06-09) la ĉefpaĝo de OSM eĉ ne ebligas klaki en brand:wikipedia (sed brand:wkidata funkcias): <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4984595571" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">ekzemplo</a>.</p>

  <p>Ĉiuj viaj kodeksoj de konduto estas fek’ valoraj kaj algluitaj nur por bone aspekti.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Verdizulo/diary/368782
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Verdizulo/diary/368782
title: Dodawanie brand:wikipedia – niepotrzebna i kontrowersyjna funkcja edytora iD
published: 2019-06-09 20:37:35
fetched: 2019-06-12 22:30:03.862294
created_at: 2019-06-09 23:32:22.598746
updated_at: 2019-06-12 22:30:03.986141
summary:
  <p>Od pewnego czasu edytor ID stara się ujednolicić sklepy/punkty usługowe różnych marek wprowadzając znaczniki brand, brand:wikidata i brand:wikipedia. U ile dwa pierwsze są konieczne to brand:wikipedia <em>przypadkowo</em> prowadzi prawie zawsze wersji angielskiej.</p>

  <p>Edytor oznacza punkty bez odnośnika do Wikipedii w tym <em>niefajnym</em> języku jako mające niekompletne znaczniki:
  <img src="https://i.postimg.cc/76DzpzPv/redakti-objekton.png" alt="">
  i zachęca do ich seryjnego <em>naprawiania</em>:
  <img src="https://i.postimg.cc/HLTsm9Mt/problemoj.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>Chcąc zaprotestować przeciwko imperialistycznemu językowi angielskiemu przekierowałem kilka odnośników do brand:wikipedia na język kraju, z którego firma pochodzi: <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/2720" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/2720</a>.
  Skończyło się to <strong>blokadą wszelkich akcji</strong> na github/osmalb:
  <img src="https://i.postimg.cc/J03HKzCr/blokado.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>Próbowałem nagłośnić problem nieco wyżej: <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6471" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6471</a>.
  Moje <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofizmat_rozszerzenia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">argumenty zostały przekręcone</a>, jakobym chciał zmienić znaczniki w OSM:</p>

  <p>„Jeśli naprawdę martwisz się o hegemonię angielską, przyjrzałbym się wszystkim tagom OSM, a nie sześciu sklepom odzieżowym.”</p>

  <p>Przeciętny użytkownik nie musi znać tagów (po polsku znaczników), wszystko za niego robią edytory.</p>

  <p>Obecnie (2019-06-09) strona główna OSM nawet nie pozwala kliknąć w brand:wikipedia (brand:wikidata działa): <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4984595571" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">przykład</a>.</p>

  <p>Te wszystkie wasze kodeksy postępowania są uja warte i są wklejane tylko na pokaz.</p>


title: انسانیت
published: 2019-06-09 23:52:11
fetched: 2019-06-14 09:00:04.658340
created_at: 2019-06-10 00:02:44.611403
updated_at: 2019-06-14 09:00:04.815317
guid:
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%F0%9F%A7%9A%F0%9F%8F%BB%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8FNegAh%E2%9D%A3%EF%B8%8F/diary/368787

url:
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%F0%9F%A7%9A%F0%9F%8F%BB%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8FNegAh%E2%9D%A3%EF%B8%8F/diary/368787

summary:
  <p>📝</p>

  <p>این‌جا مقصد نیست. آغاز هم نیست. فقط گریزی‌ست برای حرف زدن با خودم، با خودش. با کسی که همواره در من است و با من نیست، و از این روست که “او” خطابش می‌کنم.
  تکه‌ای هستم جدا شده از چیزی که نمی‌شناسمش. تبعید شده‌ام به زمین انسان‌ها. سیاره‌ام مدت‌هاست که فراموشم کرده است. لااقل بر من بتاب، تا بی‌تابی‌هایم را در تابش خودت ببینی…</p>

  <p>🖋#آنتوان_دوسنت_اگزوپری</p>

  <p>🆔 @faryademedad</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Craft%20Studio/diary/368788
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Craft%20Studio/diary/368788
title: Event Planners
updated: 2019-06-10 05:13:48
fetched: 2019-06-10 05:37:07.081034
created_at: 2019-06-10 05:37:07.210992
updated_at: 2019-06-10 05:37:07.210992
summary:
  <p>Craft Studio Events is an event planner company in Dubai. We organize children events, private events &amp; corporate events in Dubai with best event management services in the UAE.
  <a href="https://craftstudio.ae/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://craftstudio.ae/</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kairo1/diary/368789
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/kairo1/diary/368789
title: Serverprobleme
published: 2019-06-10 07:29:02
fetched: 2019-06-14 11:00:03.859562
created_at: 2019-06-10 07:38:48.883908
updated_at: 2019-06-14 11:00:04.191071
summary:
  <p>Gibt es schon eine Aussage wann die Serverprobleme behoben sind. Ich wollte Karten auf mein Garmin laden  und habe dies gelesen.</p>


guid: http://blog.openstreetmap.de/?p=15861
url: http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2019/06/wochennotiz-nr-463/
title: Wochennotiz Nr. 463
published: 2019-06-10 07:55:08
fetched: 2019-08-12 14:30:22.284915
created_at: 2019-06-10 07:59:41.564924
updated_at: 2019-08-12 14:30:23.782537
summary:
  28.05.2019-03.06.2019 Multimapas &#8211; eine Kombination vieler historischer, topographischer, Satelliten- und Straßenkarten 1 &#124; © CC BY 4.0 &#8211; Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España &#124; © Leaflet &#124; © OpenStreetMap Mitwirkende Mapping Die neueste Version von „How Did You Contribute“ von &#8230; <a href="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2019/06/wochennotiz-nr-463/">Weiterlesen <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>

content:
  <p>28.05.2019-03.06.2019</p>
  <p><!-- place picture here --></p>
  <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 680px;">
  <p class="wp-caption-text"><img src="https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/06/462_T_ES.png" alt="pic" width="670" height="540" /></p>
  <p class="wp-caption-text">Multimapas &#8211; eine Kombination vieler historischer, topographischer, Satelliten- und Straßenkarten <a href="#wn461_20136"><sup>1</sup></a> | © CC BY 4.0 &#8211; Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España | © Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap Mitwirkende</p>
  </div>
  <h2 id="wn463_mapping">Mapping</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20234">Die neueste Version von „<a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/">How Did You Contribute</a>“ von Pascal Neis <a href="https://twitter.com/pascal_n/status/1135576546863980545?s=19">zeigt</a> nun mit Hilfe von Osmose auch Infos zur Qualität der Edits des Benutzers an.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20217">Das Maps-Team von Facebook hat den auf iD-basierenden OSM-Editor „RapiD“ <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DrishT/diary/368711">vorgestellt</a>. Er soll es erleichtern, durch Machine Learning automatisch erkannte Objekte zu OSM hinzuzufügen.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20251">WiGeoGIS, ein Auftragnehmer der Tankstellenkette OMV, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Updating_assets_of_OMV_group">kündigt</a> an, die Tankstellen der Marken OMV, AVANTI, Petrom, FE Trading und EuroTruck in OSM zu verbessern. Siehe dazu auch eine Diskussion auf der Mailingliste Talk (<a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-May/082617.html">Mai-Archiv</a>, <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082642.html">Juni-Archiv</a>).</li>
  <li id="wn463_20224">Valor Naram stellt eine <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/changing_table#Second_voting">überarbeitete Version</a> zum Tagging von <code>changing_table=*</code> zur Abstimmung.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20241">Das Team von Maps.Me hat einen <a href="http://osm-subway.maps.me/">Validator</a> für U-Bahnsysteme <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-transit/2019-May/002171.html">entwickelt</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_community">Community</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20231">Simon Poole <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-June/045873.html">macht</a> auf der Mailingliste Tagging Vorschläge, wie man auf der Mailingliste mit der steigenden Anzahl an Nachrichten und Proposals umgehen könne (<a href="http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/A-modest-proposal-to-increase-the-usefulness-of-the-tagging-list-tt5940967.html">Nabble</a>).</li>
  <li id="wn463_20243">In Kasachstan gibt es jetzt eine <a href="https://t.me/osm_kz">OSM-Telegram-Gruppe</a>. (Eine <a href="https://t.me/osm_de">für Deutschland</a> gibt es übrigens auch!)</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_openstreetmap_foundation">OpenStreetMap Foundation</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20223">Joost Schouppe <a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/05/28/osmf-board-face-to-face-meeting-2019/">berichtet</a> im offiziellen Blog der OSM Foundation über das OSMF-Vorstandstreffen in Brüssel.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_veranstaltungen">Veranstaltungen</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20219">OpenStreetMap Argentinien hat <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenStreetMapAR/status/1134095605918248960">angekündigt</a>, dass eine lokale SotM, am Samstag, den 27. Juli in Santa Fe stattfinden wird.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_humanitarian_osm">Humanitarian OSM</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20220">HOT <a href="https://www.hotosm.org/updates/hands-on-assisted-tasks/">berichtet</a> auf seinem Blog über eine experimentelle Version des Tasking Managers, die maschinelles Lernen für verschiedene Aufgaben beinhaltet.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20213">Simon Johnson <a href="https://medium.com/hetco-zine/minimum-viable-data-when-less-data-is-more-valuable-d225b5fa9c1b">schreibt</a> auf Medium darüber, wie &#8220;Big Data&#8221; in der humanitären Community oft im Widerspruch zur Idee der &#8220;Minimum viable data&#8221; steht &#8211; der Idee, dass weniger Daten tatsächlich wertvoller sind, weil sie qualitativ besser und leichter zu überprüfen sind.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20247">In einem Blogeintrag mit dem Titel <a href="http://osm.gryph.de/2019/06/better-bombing-with-machine-learning/">Better Bombing with Machine Learning</a> weist Frederik Ramm darauf hin, dass Bildverarbeitungstechnologien/Machine Learning vom Militär zum Bombardement aus der Luft verwendet werden und die OSM-Community darüber nachdenken sollte, ob sie Firmen, die diese Technik für OSM verwenden, so lobpreisen sollte.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_karten">Karten</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20226">Richard Fairhust <a href="https://twitter.com/richardf/status/1134552669195067392">twittert</a> ein Beispiel dafür, wie Lua verwendet wird, um Namen automatisch zu transliterieren, während OSM-Daten für das Rendering verarbeitet werden. Die Nachbearbeitung von OSM-Daten auf diese Weise erübrigt weitgehend die Verwendung vieler Namen:&lt;iso-code&gt; Tags.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_releases">Releases</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20265">Es gibt wieder eine neue stabile <a href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Changelog#stable-release-19.05">JOSM Version</a> (15155). Kategoriesymbole und ein Feld zum Filtern der Hintergrundbildeinstellungen wurden hinzugefügt, dynamische Einträge im Menü Hintergrundbilder werden in Untermenüs angezeigt und viele weitere Verbesserungen.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20237">Der OsmAnd Online GPS Tracker <a href="https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-tracker-0-5-released">erhielt</a> die Version 0.5. Neu sind Kontaktsuche, Proxy-Einstellungen, GPS-Einstellungen und aktive Markierungen.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20221">Dank v2.0 von <a href="https://github.com/babykarte/babykarte.github.io/releases/tag/v.2.0">Babykarte</a> werden Babys den Weg nicht mehr verlieren. Oder besser gesagt, es wird für Eltern einfacher, kinderfreundliche Einrichtungen zu finden.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_kennst_du_schon_…">Kennst du schon …</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20225">&#8230; <a href="https://www.opentrailview.org/">OpenTrailView 360</a>, das StreetView für Wanderer?</li>
  <li id="wn463_20232">&#8230; den spanischen Software-Entwickler <a href="http://javier.jimenezshaw.com/">Javier Jiménez Shaw</a>, der in Berlin lebt und arbeitet? Er hat viele historische, topographische, Satelliten- und Straßenkarten miteinander kombiniert. Javier hat seine Kartenseite auf Leaflet <a href="http://javier.jimenezshaw.com/mapas/">migriert</a>.[1]</li>
  <li id="wn463_20233">&#8230; die Karte <a href="http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/showcase_4783#5/47.798/16.172">aller uMap-Karten</a>?</li>
  <li id="wn463_20240">&#8230; dass der russische Mapper Roman Shuvalov auf Basis von OSM eine „Fahrradkarte der Samara-Region“ <a href="http://cycletrailmap.romanshuvalov.com">erstellte</a> und ein Spiel namens „Generation Streets“ <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/887970/Generation_Streets/">entwickelte</a>, das bei Steam erhältlich ist?</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_osm_in_der_presse">OSM in der Presse</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20230">BBC Radio 4 versucht in einem <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06d1xw0">Podcast</a> die Frage zu beantworten, ob es mehr Sterne im Universum oder Sandkörner an allen Stränden der Erde gibt. Um die Anzahl der Sandkörner grob zu berechnen, wurde eine OSM-Planet-Datei ausgewertet.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20242">Ein Interview mit dem russischen Mapper Ilya Zverev wurde auf Habr <a href="https://habr.com/ru/post/454038/">veröffentlicht</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/ru.svg" alt="(ru)" />. Er sprach darüber, was er zwei Jahre lang im OSMF Board gemacht hat, warum die amerikanische OSM-Gemeinschaft die freundlichste ist und warum man an Offline-Konferenzen teilnehmen muss. (automatische <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=DE&amp;u=https://habr.com/ru/post/454038/">Übersetzung</a>)</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_weitere_themen_mit_geo-bezug">Weitere Themen mit Geo-Bezug</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn463_20228">Taya Lavrinenko von Mapbox <a href="https://blog.mapbox.com/doh-making-a-simspons-inspired-map-with-expressions-86e633b61ede">zeigt</a>, wie man eine Karte im Simpsons-Design erstellt.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20216">John Murray hat die neueste Version von Rapids AI, einer datenwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek für GPUs, <a href="https://twitter.com/MurrayData/status/1131824861058347008">verwendet</a>, um Entfernungen innerhalb von Großbritannien von einem Punkt in wenigen Sekunden zu berechnen.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20222">Ein <a href="https://modus.medium.com/what-makes-a-map-good-4db0de3b2cec">Ausschnitt</a> aus einem bald erscheinenden Buch von Barbara Tversky diskutiert die Frage, was eine gute Karte ausmacht.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20218">Eine Marke für Outdoor-Kleidung hat ziemlich dreist <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644158/north-face-wikipedia-hack-leo-burnett-top-imagens">versucht</a>, heimlich Eigenwerbung in Wikipedia-Bilder einzubauen. Eine weitere Gefahr, denen freie Plattformen offenbar ausgesetzt sind.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20229">Daniel J-H <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/daniel-j-h/diary/368726">kündigt</a> eine neue Version von RoboSat an, die Straßen und Gebäude in Luftbildern erkennen kann.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20235">Der GIScience News Blog von der Uni Heidelberg <a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2019/05/31/the-triangle-of-shared-data-sources/">zeigt</a> ein Dreieck von gemeinsamen Datenquellen und prägt den Begriff „Geographical Shared Data Sources“ (GSDS) für den Bezug auf Shared Data Sources im geografischen Bereich. Mitwirkende und Benutzer sollen dies und weitere Begriffe teilen.</li>
  <li id="wn463_20236">Welt.de <a href="https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article194577987/Apps-fuer-Wassersportler-Die-besten-Anwendungen-fuer-iOS-und-Android.html">berichtet</a> über die wichtigsten Apps für Wassersportler. Die <a href="http://openseamap.org/index.php?id=openseamap&amp;no_cache=1">OpenSeaMap</a> spielt dabei eine wichtige Rolle.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn463_wochenvorschau">Wochenvorschau</h2>
  <table>
  <thead>
  <tr>
  <th>Wo</th>
  <th>Was</th>
  <th>Wann</th>
  <th>Land</th>
  </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  <tr>
  <td>Rennes</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-10</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bordeaux</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-10</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lyon</td>
  <td>Rencontre mensuelle pour tous</td>
  <td>2019-06-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Zürich</td>
  <td>OSM Stammtisch Zürich</td>
  <td>2019-06-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/ch.svg" alt="switzerland" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bordeaux</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Hamburg</td>
  <td>Hamburger Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Wuppertal</td>
  <td>Wuppertaler Stammtisch im Hutmacher 18 Uhr</td>
  <td>2019-06-12</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Leoben</td>
  <td>Stammtisch Obersteiermark</td>
  <td>2019-06-13</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/at.svg" alt="austria" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>München</td>
  <td>Münchner Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-13</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bochum</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-13</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Berlin</td>
  <td>132. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-14</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>State of the Map France 2019</td>
  <td>2019-06-14-2019-06-16</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Essen</td>
  <td>5. OSM-Sommercamp und 12. FOSSGIS-Hackingevent im Linuxhotel</td>
  <td>2019-06-14-2019-06-16</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bonn</td>
  <td>Bonner Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lüneburg</td>
  <td>Lüneburger Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rostock</td>
  <td>Rostocker Treffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Karlsruhe</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-19</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Leoberdorf</td>
  <td>Leobersdorfer Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/at.svg" alt="austria" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rennes</td>
  <td>Préparer ses randos pédestres ou vélos</td>
  <td>2019-06-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bremen</td>
  <td>Bremer Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-24</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-26</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lübeck</td>
  <td>Lübecker Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Mannheim</td>
  <td>Mannheimer Mapathons e.V.</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Düsseldorf</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-28</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>Erasmus+ EuYoutH_OSM Meeting</td>
  <td>2019-09-18-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>HOT Summit 2019</td>
  <td>2019-09-19-2019-09-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>State of the Map 2019 (international conference)</td>
  <td>2019-09-21-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  </tbody>
  </table>
  <p>Hinweis:<br />
  Wer seinen Termin hier in der Liste sehen möchte, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar">trage</a> ihn in den <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events">Kalender</a> ein. Nur Termine, die dort stehen, werden in die Wochennotiz übernommen. Bitte <a href="https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/calendar/preview"> prüfe die Veranstaltung</a> in unserem öffentlichen Kalendertool und korrigiere bitte die Einträge im Kalender, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar">wenn notwendig.</a></p>
  <p align="right"><i>Diese Wochennotiz wurde erstellt von <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Map-Peter">Map-Peter</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nakaner">Nakaner</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rainero">Rainero</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rogehm">Rogehm</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SK53">SK53</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Silka123">Silka123</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheFive">TheFive</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/manfred__r">derFred</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/doktorpixel14">doktorpixel14</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/geologist">geologist</a>.</i></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mainpastidatasgp/diary/368794
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mainpastidatasgp/diary/368794
title: mengkaji alat alat rumusan togel terjitu
updated: 2019-06-10 20:56:46
fetched: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.572522
created_at: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.722800
updated_at: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.722800
summary:
  <p>Siapa yang tidak tahu tentang permainan togel?permainan yang sudah tidak asing di telinga para pecinta judi dari masa ke masa..
  Permainan judi Togel ialah merupakan permainan yang memprediksi atau menebak angka nomor  yang akan keluar dalam pasaran togel yang ada di Singapura. Permainan sudah lama ada dan banyak yang menyukai permainan tebak angka ini dan permainan ini telah banyak orang yang telah memainkannya dan menyukai game ini karena game ini dapat memberi kita keuntungan dalam bermain tapi ingat permainan togel ini juga bisa membuat para pemain terbuai dan kalah. Game ini disebut Lotere dan Toto di setiap negara negara menyebutnya yang berbeda beda. Karena hadiah yang lumayan besar menurut kebanyakan orang makanya untuk mendapat kan hadiahny tidak lah terlalul mudah. ini harus duiakui oleh masyarakat itu sendiri. Begitu juga pecinta judi togel yang ada diseluruh dunia.</p>

  <p>Maka dari itu para pemain judi togel online dari berbagai togel yang ada di online ataupun bandar offline,mulai mempelajari rumus rumusan agar bisa menebak angka yang akan keluar.
  dan juga kami dari mainpasti juga menyediakan prediksi rumusan terjitu yang kami racik sedemikian mungkin agar bisa memenangkan jp dari bandar bandar togel online.
  pertama mungkin anda bisa melihat dari <a href="https://mainpasti.group/-pengeluaran-sgp/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Data SGP</a></p>

  <p>Permainan togel online memiliki pusat yaitu di Singapura untuk membuka pasarannya sehingga dinamakan singapurapools. Banyak orang Indonesia juga ikut bermain dalam permainan judi singapurapools ini tetapi semuanya dimainkan melalui agen darat yang kemudia dibuang ke berbagai agen darat lainnya. Kegiatan permainan perjudian oleh agen darat di Indonesia sangat berbahaya. Karena Indonesia sendiri memiliki undang-undang yang melarang apapun semua kegiatan yang berhubungan dalam perjudian. Jadi bermain dengan agen darat sangat berbahaya bagi para membernya. Karena kita tidak tahu apa yang akan terjadi di kedepannya nanti. Karena bisa saja agen daratnya ditangkap polisi sehingga uang kemenangan kita tidak akan dibayar apabila agennya tertangkap polisi</p>

  <p>Bagi Anda yang menyukai Permainan Judi Togel online Anda dapat memasang semua taruhan anda secara online. Karena pada zaman ini teknologi dunia sudah berkembang dengan pesat membuat permainan judi togel ini tersedia dalam bentuk online. Permainan judi togel online ini juga disediakan oleh beberapa situs judi online tepercaya, sehingga Anda dapat memasang taruhan judi Togel dengan nyaman dan aman. Bermain Togel Perjudian Online akan membuat Anda lebih aman karena Anda tidak perlu takut dengan hukum atau oknum yang dibuat oleh pemerintahan yang ada di Indonesia karena anda bisa mengaksesnya ditempat-tempat mana saja yang menurut anda terasa nyaman.</p>

  <p>Dan sebelum bacaan ini saya akhiri,kiranya para pemain jangan terlalu terbuai dan tetap bermain aman dan pasti ,dan jadikan kami Mainpastigroup menjadi website acuan prediksi togel anda .</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Antikankauf/diary/368793
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Antikankauf/diary/368793
title: Antiqutäten Ankauf Wien
updated: 2019-06-10 14:04:40
fetched: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.572522
created_at: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.726752
updated_at: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.726752
summary:
  <p>Antik-Ankauf bietet Ihnen einen seriösen Ankauf von Verlassenschaften in Wien, Niederösterreich und Burgenland. Mit uns an Ihrer Seite können Sie von dem Nachlass profitieren. Bei einer kurzen Besichtigung können wir uns alles genau anschauen und Ihnen ein Preisvorschlag machen. Unser Team übernimmt die komplette Räumung von A-Z. Dabei achten wir immer auf eine umweltfreundliche Entsorgung und fachgerechte Trennung. Vor Ort können wir feststellen ob Gegenstände für eine Wiederverwertung vorhanden sind. Wir rechnen den gesamten Verkaufswert Ihrer Altwaren vor Ort und entziehen diesen von den Räumungskosten weg. Je höher der Wert, desto günstiger wird die Entrümpelung. Selbstverständlich zahlen wir Ihnen auch eine Ablöse gleich in bar an.
  <a href="https://antikankauf-wien.at/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://antikankauf-wien.at/</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cdrik_69/diary/368790
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cdrik_69/diary/368790
title: J'ai testé pour vous : la cartographie collaborative avec des élèves.
published: 2019-06-10 09:10:15
fetched: 2019-06-15 10:00:04.048098
created_at: 2019-06-10 21:30:13.734741
updated_at: 2019-06-15 10:00:04.196726
summary:
  <p>Dans un <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cdrik_69/diary/240068" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">précédent billet</a>, j’expliquais que la <em>cartographie collaborative sur OpenStreetMap</em> arrivait comme capacité attendue dans le nouveau programme de seconde en SNT.</p>

  <p>Je me suis donc dit que j’allais profiter de mes 2 dernières heures de cours avec mes premières STI Développement Durable pour aller cartographier des POI (Point Of Interest) liés au développement durable aux alentours du lycée.</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.frayssinet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/carto_201906.jpg" alt=""></p>

  <p>L’objectif principal était de tester le bon fonctionnement d’une sortie terrain avec les élèves et être mieux organisé l’année prochaine avec les groupes de secondes.</p>

  <h1 id="cration-du-compte-osm">Création du compte OSM</h1>

  <p>Après avoir obtenu l’autorisation de la sortie par l’administration et envoyé un message aux élèves pour leur dire de venir avec leur smartphone chargé, j’ai crée un compte classe (en utilisant mon courriel professionnel). Cela a 3 avantages :
  - ne pas avoir à faire créer des comptes individuels aux élèves,
  - pouvoir modifier le mot de passe à l’issue de la carto-partie,
  - faciliter la revue des contributions à posteriori.</p>

  <p>Si des élèves souhaitent poursuivre la cartographie, ils pourront eux-mêmes se créer un compte individuel.</p>

  <h1 id="en-classe">En classe</h1>

  <h2 id="prsentation-dopenstreetmap">Présentation d’OpenStreetMap</h2>

  <p>Le matin, j’ai consacré une petite heure à présenter OpenStreetMap en utilisant les fonctionnalités de l’ENT pour créer des activités :</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.frayssinet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sélection_117.png" alt="Présentation OSM"></p>

  <p>L’évolution de la <a href="https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#10/45.6174/4.7626" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">carte OSM entre 2007 et maintenant</a> est toujours intéressante à montrer, ainsi que le <a href="http://live.openstreetmap.fr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">live OSM</a>.</p>

  <h2 id="les-outils-et-les-applications">Les outils et les applications</h2>

  <p>J’ai ensuite montré les différentes applications disponibles pour les utilisateurs finaux, mais aussi les contributeurs. J’ai recensé toujours cela sur l’ENT afin que les élèves retrouvent les liens dans leur cahier de texte :</p>

  <p><img src="https://www.frayssinet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/applications_OSM.png" alt="Applications Smartphones"></p>

  <p>La principale difficulté est de gérer l’hétérogénéité des smartphones des élèves :</p>

  <ul>
    <li>pas de smartphone : aucun sur mon groupe de 17 élèves</li>
    <li>pas de 3G/4G : 4 sur 17</li>
    <li>système iOS (iPhone) : 4 ou 5 sur 17</li>
    <li>plus beaucoup de batterie, de place restante ou de forfait data.</li>
  </ul>

  <p>Ainsi, l’année prochaine, j’ai prévu l’achat de 20 tablettes Android pour les sorties (N.B. : ces tablettes seront bien sûr mutualisées avec d’autres disciplines).</p>

  <p>Du coup, seul les élèves ayant un smartphone Android ont installé <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/blob/master/README.md" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">StreetComplete</a>, un élève a aussi installé <a href="https://osmand.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OsmAnd</a>.</p>

  <p>Pour tous (iOS et Android), ils sont allés sur la <a href="https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/728d71-Theme_Developpement_Durable_SNT_Academie_de_Lyon_#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">carte MapContrib</a> que j’avais préparée, mais aussi sur la carte <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/</a>.</p>

  <h2 id="la-localisation">La localisation</h2>

  <p>L’autre paramétrage à faire faire aux élèves est la <em>géolocalisation</em> de leur smartphone.
  Il faut leur faire comprendre la différence entre la géolocalisation avec la puce GPS (et leur dire que c’est un système américain et aborder Galiléo) et l’usage des réseaux ‘autres’ permettant une géolocalisation approximative mais intéressante quand on est dans un bâtiment. C’est une capacité attendue du programme de SNT.</p>

  <h1 id="la-sortie-terrain">La sortie terrain</h1>

  <p>17 élèves pour 3 encadrants, c’était plutôt confortable…</p>

  <p>La première étape est de donner le login et mot de passe du compte OSM précédemment crée. Cette étape fut laborieuse et fera partie des points d’amélioration pour l’année prochaine.</p>

  <p>Il y a eu globalement peu de contributions vu le nombre d’élèves, voici l’<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/1STI2D2%20-%20Diderot%20-%20Lyon%20-%202019/history#map=18/45.76860/4.82660" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">historique du compte</a>.</p>

  <p>Toutes les contributions ne sont pas liées au développement durable mais ce n’est pas grave, l’important était de contribuer.</p>

  <p>Voici ce que l’on peut retenir de la sortie :</p>

  <ul>
    <li><em>StreetComplete</em> est l’application la plus intuitive, en revanche, les téléchargements de quêtes ne sont pas forcément rapides. Il faut donc, avant de sortir, les télécharger…</li>
    <li>L’ajout de <em>notes OSM</em> (via le point d’exclamation en bas à gauche) de StreetComplete est vraiment très pratique, en revanche, je vais faire remonter l’information au développeur (ticket <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/1422" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">ici</a> ) car les élèves ne déplacent pas leur marqueur, on se retrouve donc avec des notes dans des bâtiments que l’on risque de ne pas voir par la suite :</li>
  </ul>

  <p><img src="https://www.frayssinet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/notes_osm.png" alt=""></p>

  <ul>
    <li>L’élève qui avait installé <em>OsmAnd</em> a beaucoup contribué car on peut modifier des POI, supprimer, ajouter… c’est plus complet. L’autre avantage, c’est qu’elle fonctionne hors-ligne, elle trouvera facilement sa place sur une tablette dépourvue de 4G.</li>
    <li>MapContrib ne semble pas trop apprécier les nombreuses couches que j’avais réalisées et affichait des erreurs réseau, il faudra que je vois cela avec son développeur.</li>
    <li>Les élèves peu motivés durant l’année ne le sont pas plus lors de la sortie, préférant chasser le Pokemon… sur une carte OpenStreetMap ! Information à leur préciser tout de même…</li>
  </ul>

  <h1 id="points-damlioration-pour-les-prochaines-sorties-en-snt">Points d’amélioration pour les prochaines sorties en SNT</h1>

  <p>Cette sortie m’a permis de valider certains points mais également de mettre en évidence des problèmes. Ainsi, voici quelques pistes d’améliorations pour l’année prochaine :</p>

  <ul>
    <li>le login et mot de passe devront être donné sur un document papier, avec les procédures pour les applications (papier relevé en fin de paramétrage). Les élèves seront ainsi autonomes sur les appareils.</li>
    <li>il faudra faire des groupes d’élèves de 2 à 4 élèves, ayant des missions propres (en plus de la cartographie, ils auront une ballade urbaine thématique à réaliser : prise de photos géolocalisées, narration, création d’une carte numérique en aval de la sortie…). Chaque groupe disposera d’au moins une tablette avec OsmAnd (la carte du lieu sera téléchargée en amont), d’un smartphone Android avec StreetComplete et MapContrib. Il faudra donc limiter le plus possible le nombre d’écrans.</li>
    <li>2h semble être un temps globalement satisfaisant, 1h30 pourra être court en fonction du lieu.</li>
    <li>il faudra prendre le temps de bien comprendre les applications en amont, notamment OsmAnd et StreetComplete (contributions et notes avec photos). Ce travail peut se faire en classe.</li>
  </ul>

  <h2 id="pour-finir-sur-un-peu-dhumour-dlves-">Pour finir sur un peu d’humour d’élèves :)</h2>

  <p>Un parc à vélos :</p>

  <p><img src="https://westnordost.de/p/3533.jpg" alt=""></p>

  <p>Dommage que StreetComplete ne conserve pas les exifs, on aurait pu connaître, via les métadonnées, le smartphone ayant pris la photo et alerter l’élève :)</p>

  <h1 id="bonus">Bonus</h1>

  <ul>
    <li>Pour ceux qui souhaitent en savoir plus sur OpenStreetMap, voici une émission radio à laquelle j’ai participée : <a href="https://radio.picasoft.net/co/2019-06-07.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Radio Graf’hit</a></li>
    <li>Jean-François Perrat, « Organiser un mapathon ou une séance de cartographie participative en classe », Géoconfluences, juin 2019 : <a href="http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/programmes/outils/mapathon-carto" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/programmes/outils/mapathon-carto</a></li>
  </ul>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/OSMF%20Data%20Working%20Group/diary/368797
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/OSMF%20Data%20Working%20Group/diary/368797
title: Thank You!
published: 2019-06-10 22:23:18
fetched: 2019-06-16 12:30:04.106567
created_at: 2019-06-10 22:30:04.562494
updated_at: 2019-06-16 12:30:04.262685
summary:
  <p>Just a quick note to pass on some words of thanks that we’ve received at the DWG:</p>

  <p>It’s from someone who says that they’ve been using OpenStreetMap for a few years, and they have noticed who it has improved.  It goes on to say that before “I was often using google maps just after trying on openstreetmap because I didn’t know the exact address of the location.  Thank you so much for this good work.”</p>

  <p>So everyone who’s been adding address location and other data, please consider yourself thanked!</p>

  <p>Best Regards,</p>

  <p>Andy (SomeoneElse) on behalf of the Data Working Group.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gappleto97/diary/368798
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gappleto97/diary/368798
title: Intel Folsom's Mapathon with the Gold Country Red Cross
published: 2019-06-10 23:13:55
fetched: 2019-06-16 20:30:04.580979
created_at: 2019-06-10 23:30:03.896223
updated_at: 2019-06-16 20:30:04.738131
summary:
  <p>Last Friday, Intel Folsom hosted a mapathon with the Missing Maps Project. Estimated attendance was 56 mappers, plus 2 volunteers from the Gold Country Red Cross and 1 volunteer from Intel to answer their questions. The work was done on <a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/5378" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HOT project 5378</a> from roughly 2-4pm Pacific time (21:00-23:00 UTC). This was the second such event, and it is anticipated that we will have another one, though the date is not yet known.</p>

  <p>The changesets generated can be found <a href="https://osmcha.mapbox.com/filters?filters=%7B%22geometry%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%7B%22coordinates%22%3A%5B%5B%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%2C%5B98.68576000217394%2C16.720988398762245%5D%2C%5B98.26794038664121%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B97.04233618105792%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B93.89476174399198%2C16.29368450170334%5D%2C%5B91.7499543842298%2C21.094056627410623%5D%2C%5B95.53818556511948%2C21.30181574035298%5D%2C%5B99.77209100257971%2C21.14602377890344%5D%2C%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%5D%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22Polygon%22%7D%2C%22value%22%3A%7B%22coordinates%22%3A%5B%5B%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%2C%5B98.68576000217394%2C16.720988398762245%5D%2C%5B98.26794038664121%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B97.04233618105792%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B93.89476174399198%2C16.29368450170334%5D%2C%5B91.7499543842298%2C21.094056627410623%5D%2C%5B95.53818556511948%2C21.30181574035298%5D%2C%5B99.77209100257971%2C21.14602377890344%5D%2C%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%5D%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22Polygon%22%7D%7D%5D%2C%22date__gte%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%222019-06-07%22%2C%22value%22%3A%222019-06-07%22%7D%5D%2C%22date__lte%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%222019-06-08%22%2C%22value%22%3A%222019-06-08%22%7D%5D%2C%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22hotosm-project-5378%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22hotosm-project-5378%22%7D%5D%2C%22ids%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%2271039093-71040996%22%2C%22value%22%3A%2271039093-71040996%22%7D%5D%7D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">here</a> (starting after #71039093).</p>

  <p>Edit: it was brought to my attention that one participant did not sign the photo release. I will post an edited version when I have permission to do so.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gappleto97/diary/368799
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gappleto97/diary/368799
title: Intel en Folsom, California albergó un "mapathon" con el Proyecto de Missing Maps
published: 2019-06-10 23:43:21
fetched: 2019-06-17 11:00:03.951965
created_at: 2019-06-11 00:00:04.157803
updated_at: 2019-06-17 11:00:04.113096
summary:
  <p>El viernes pasado, Intel en Folsom, California albergó un “mapathon” con el Proyecto de Missing Maps. Había approximadamente 56 cartógrafos, más 2 voluntarios de la Cruz Roja de Gold Country y un voluntario de Intel para responder sus preguntas. Trabajamos en el <a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/5378" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">proyecto de HOT 5378</a> de aproximadamente 2 a 4 pm del Pacífico (21 a 23 de UTC). Este fue el segundo evento, y creo que habrá otro en el futuro, pero no sabemos cuándo.</p>

  <p>Los cambios hechos pueden encontrarse <a href="https://osmcha.mapbox.com/filters?filters=%7B%22geometry%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%7B%22coordinates%22%3A%5B%5B%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%2C%5B98.68576000217394%2C16.720988398762245%5D%2C%5B98.26794038664121%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B97.04233618105792%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B93.89476174399198%2C16.29368450170334%5D%2C%5B91.7499543842298%2C21.094056627410623%5D%2C%5B95.53818556511948%2C21.30181574035298%5D%2C%5B99.77209100257971%2C21.14602377890344%5D%2C%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%5D%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22Polygon%22%7D%2C%22value%22%3A%7B%22coordinates%22%3A%5B%5B%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%2C%5B98.68576000217394%2C16.720988398762245%5D%2C%5B98.26794038664121%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B97.04233618105792%2C15.221388629166938%5D%2C%5B93.89476174399198%2C16.29368450170334%5D%2C%5B91.7499543842298%2C21.094056627410623%5D%2C%5B95.53818556511948%2C21.30181574035298%5D%2C%5B99.77209100257971%2C21.14602377890344%5D%2C%5B97.65513828384388%2C19.000851956853353%5D%5D%5D%2C%22type%22%3A%22Polygon%22%7D%7D%5D%2C%22date__gte%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%222019-06-07%22%2C%22value%22%3A%222019-06-07%22%7D%5D%2C%22date__lte%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%222019-06-08%22%2C%22value%22%3A%222019-06-08%22%7D%5D%2C%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22hotosm-project-5378%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22hotosm-project-5378%22%7D%5D%2C%22ids%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%2271039093-71040996%22%2C%22value%22%3A%2271039093-71040996%22%7D%5D%7D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">aquí</a> (después de #71039093).</p>

  <p>Perdona mi mal español.</p>

  <p>e: Escuché un cartógrafo no firmó la forma de la foto. Cuando pueda, voy a publicar una foto editada.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/nurzhankanatzhanov/diary/368801
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/nurzhankanatzhanov/diary/368801
title: Credentials
updated: 2019-06-11 06:29:04
fetched: 2019-06-11 07:00:03.559797
created_at: 2019-06-11 06:30:04.543246
updated_at: 2019-06-11 07:00:03.649293
summary:
  <p>Company: Lean Solutions
  Place: Almaty, Kazakhstan
  Email: <a href="mailto:kartybazy@mail.ru" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">kartybazy@mail.ru</a>
  Phone: +77011671051</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PBN%20post/diary/368802
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PBN%20post/diary/368802
title: PBN post
updated: 2019-06-11 06:55:46
fetched: 2019-06-11 07:00:03.559797
created_at: 2019-06-11 07:00:03.645992
updated_at: 2019-06-11 07:00:03.645992
summary:
  <p>Looking for an affordable professional SEO services provider in USA? VFMSEO is best SEO marketing Company who offers cheap Search Engine Optimization Services pricing.”<a href="https://www.vfmseo.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.vfmseo.com/</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ludo_chat/diary/368805
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ludo_chat/diary/368805
title: Classic Board Game ludo chat
updated: 2019-06-11 11:52:54
fetched: 2019-06-11 14:00:03.654963
created_at: 2019-06-11 12:00:03.522835
updated_at: 2019-06-11 14:00:03.731511
summary:
  <p>Ludo is a game which refreshes the childhood days in a modern way. Being a classic board game, it can be played between friends, family &amp; kids via offline and also with online worldwide players by using online modes. This cross-platform the multiplayer game app is available for Android mobile platform at the same time. Real chats and video calling features make Ludo Game exciting among player of all age.
  Ludo is a classic ludo game with unlimited video calling and audio chat features.
  Features-
  •	Video Calling Feature- LudoChat comes with video calling feature that is an amazing and advanced feature in the world of the game. Due to the video calling feature, players can chat by video calling during playing game.
  •	Customized Dice Color And Background Wall Set- Change color of dice and set 3D background wall as per your choice and feel 3D animation game on LudoChat.
  •	Board Game- Due to its advanced features and exciting levels, LudoChat has come in the top rank of all board game.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JasonManoloudis/diary/368806
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JasonManoloudis/diary/368806
title: GSoC 2019 - Font rendering for traffic sings with custom text - OSM2World
published: 2019-06-11 12:50:33
fetched: 2019-06-17 17:30:03.800737
created_at: 2019-06-11 13:00:04.184055
updated_at: 2019-06-17 17:30:03.988211
summary:
  <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
  <p>This is the very first entry regarding the official work on this year’s Google Summer of Code! As seen in the subject line, the first task was about implementing the ability to render traffic signs that “require” custom text in their definition upon mapping them. This is preferred compared to the alternative of having a different texture stored in the <em>textures</em> folder for every traffic signs available, for obvious reasons (e.g. huge number of textures) as well as for scalability purposes. As the available time for each task is limited and a number of existing traffic signs are rarely mapped (tested with <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">overpass</a>), this first implementation showcases 2 widely used sign types, those of <em>DE:274</em> (speed limit) and <em>DE:1001-31</em> . So, let’s take a look on the changes of the past 2 weeks:</p>

  <h2 id="restructuring">Restructuring</h2>
  <p>Material objects use a list of TextureData objects to define the data necessary in case a texture was going to be applied to a material. Each TextureData entry in this list represents a texture layer to be applied. Up until now, these layers always referred to an already stored image. So if we were going to implement the ability to render an image with text “on the go”, this had to be changed. Therefore the first step was to introduce a TextTextureData class and define the following hierarchy:</p>

  <table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th style="text-align: left">Abstract class</th>
        <th style="text-align: center">First implementation</th>
        <th style="text-align: right">Second implementation</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td style="text-align: left">TextureData</td>
        <td style="text-align: center">TextTextureData</td>
        <td style="text-align: right">ImageTextureData</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <p>A <code>getFile()</code> method was added to each of these classes with the purpose of</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Generating and saving an appropriate temporary image with text rendered, when it comes to TextTextureData</li>
    <li>Returning <code>this.file</code> when it comes to ImageTextureData</li>
  </ul>

  <p>With that, the lists that previously accepted the “default” ImageTextureData are now able to accept layers of TextTextureData type as well. <br>
  That pretty much sums up the restructuring part so let’s move on to additions/changes on existing parts of the codebase.</p>

  <h2 id="other-additionschanges">Other additions/changes</h2>

  <h3 id="materialsjava">Materials.java</h3>

  <p>As a next step, it was deemed essential that the TextTextureData layers could be configured via a .properties file, just like the Image ones already do. That required</p>

  <ol>
    <li>To decide the format of the new .properties entries</li>
    <li>To refactor the <code>ConfigureMaterials(Config)</code> method, defined in <code>Materials.java</code>  that handles exactly that part</li>
  </ol>

  <p>The attribute that would declare the beginning of TextTextureData fields definitions was decided to be that of <em>type = text</em> . With that said, here is an example of a definition of <strong>some</strong> of the TextTextureData fields, for the <em>SIGN_DE_1001_31</em> material:</p>

  <pre><code>material_SIGN_DE_1001_31_texture1_type = text
  material_SIGN_DE_1001_31_texture1_font = Interstate,20
  material_SIGN_DE_1001_31_texture1_topOffset = 60
  </code></pre>

  <h3 id="trafficsignmodulejava">TrafficSignModule.java</h3>

  <p>That was arguably the class with the most changes necessary. <br>
  First of all, the <code>TrafficSignType</code> enumeration was replaced with a <code>TrafficSignType.java</code> class, containing exact same fields and constructor. This might seem a rather small change but it opened the way for 2 major changes to take place:</p>

  <ol>
    <li><strong>A different material can be now used to define each TrafficSignType instance</strong>. Prior to that, each enumeration constant had its material already defined (e.g. the first argument in <code>DE_101(SIGN_DE_101, 1, 2)</code>) meaning that, if a change to a TextureData layer had to be made for only 1 sign of <em>DE_101</em> type, all other <em>DE_101</em> type signs present in the .osm input file, would also be affected by that change.</li>
    <li><strong>The concept of “non-supported” traffic sign has now a different meaning</strong>. With a few additional lines of code, a “non-supported” sign is now a sign with no texture layers defined for it. In such a case, a default white traffic sign will be rendered. Prior to that, a “non-supported” sign would be one that was not included in the enumeration constants and in that case, no sign would have been rendered at all.</li>
  </ol>

  <p>To make use of the first newly available potential, the <code>configureMaterial(ConfMaterial originalMaterial, String value)</code> method was introduced. The <em>originalMaterial</em> parameter represents the already defined material for the appropriate sign. Ultimately, <code>configureMaterial()</code> generates and returns a new ConfMaterial object, identical to the originalMaterial one with the only difference found in the TextureDataList. A new list is used in the returned object that has the appropriate TextTextureData layer changed to one with the correct text <em>value</em> , taken from the .osm input file tag. That generated material is later used in the TrafficSignType definition.</p>

  <h2 id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
  <p>There are of course more smaller changes in other parts of the codebase as well as <strong>a lot</strong> of bug resolving that were not listed here but the above should sum up all the major ones for this task. Changes can be found in <a href="https://github.com/JayGhb/OSM2World/tree/Font-rendering-for-signs-with-custom-text" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">this branch</a> of my fork of OSM2World. It is likely that I continue to make small modifications on it in the following days, in order to reach a mergable state. Depending on their importance, I may include a brief of them in the next diary post. <br> Until then, thank you for following the updates! I look forward to posting the next one</p>

  <h2 id="png-output-of-current-results">Png output of current results</h2>
  <p><img src="https://imgur.com/148H1he" alt="png output"></p>

  <h2 id="coming-up-human-readable-traffic-sign-values">Coming up: <em>Human-readable traffic sign values</em></h2>
  <p>GSoC Application document: <a href="https://github.com/JayGhb/GSoC-2019-Application" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://github.com/JayGhb/GSoC-2019-Application</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/APM39/diary/368807
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/APM39/diary/368807
title: Oconto County
published: 2019-06-11 15:53:55
fetched: 2019-06-17 23:00:05.482520
created_at: 2019-06-11 16:00:03.860879
updated_at: 2019-06-17 23:00:05.648111
summary:
  <p>As of June 2019, I began importing buildings for Oconto County from the State Cartographer’s office.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ndeyi%20Queeneth/diary/368808
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ndeyi%20Queeneth/diary/368808
title: A new me
published: 2019-06-11 18:11:47
fetched: 2019-06-18 05:30:04.551753
created_at: 2019-06-11 18:30:04.351139
updated_at: 2019-06-18 05:30:04.719842
summary:
  <p>I’m excited to be here. I’ve been longing to join the UniqueMappersTeam for some time. After my first meeting with the team at the International Women Day 2019 event with the theme “Balance for Better” i’ve always longed to belong here.</p>

  <p>Finally, i met them today at the World Environment Day programme organised by INRES titled “Beat Air Pollution” and its just amazing. The treat by Mr. Victor Sunday (the team coordinator), the lessons etc was just beyond my expectation.</p>

  <p>I am now a mapper and there’s got to be more!!</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/raphaelmirc/diary/368811
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/raphaelmirc/diary/368811
title: Cidade de Vitoria de Santo Antão - Pernambuco com a Relação dos seus Bairros Atualizada.
published: 2019-06-12 10:07:36
fetched: 2019-06-18 10:30:04.020699
created_at: 2019-06-12 10:30:03.771944
updated_at: 2019-06-18 10:30:04.192667
summary:
  <p>Bom dia a todos os Mapeadores;</p>

  <p>Ultimamente tenho me dedicado a Inserir as Prefeituras de Cidades Municipais de Pernambuco conforme mostra o link do overpass; <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/JSC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/JSC</a> , mais conforme a necessidade de se delimitar as Áreas dos Bairros da Cidade de Vitoria de Santo Antão em Pernambuco foi feita delimitação e o resultado foram esses bairros todos divididos em suas Respectivas Áreas;</p>

  <p>Cidade Vitoria de Santo Antão - PE; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/303684" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/303684</a></p>

  <h2 id="administrative">Administrative</h2>

  <p>Água Branca	boundary:administrative	relation 9677119</p>

  <p>Alto Jose Leal	boundary:administrative	relation 9677318</p>

  <p>Bela Vista	boundary:administrative	relation 9677271</p>

  <p>Bento Velho	boundary:administrative	relation 9676776</p>

  <p>Caiçara	boundary:administrative	relation 9670612</p>

  <p>Cajá	boundary:administrative	relation 9677129</p>

  <p>Cajueiro	boundary:administrative	relation 9670679</p>

  <p>Campinas	boundary:administrative	relation 9670685</p>

  <p>Centro	boundary:administrative	relation 9677412</p>

  <p>Conceição	boundary:administrative	relation 9677146</p>

  <p>Espirito Santo	boundary:administrative	relation 9671071</p>

  <p>Figueiras	boundary:administrative	relation 9671247</p>

  <p>Galileia	boundary:administrative	relation 9671085</p>

  <p>Jardim Ipiranga	boundary:administrative	relation 9671253</p>

  <p>Jardim São Pedro	boundary:administrative	relation 9677183</p>

  <p>Lidia Queiroz	boundary:administrative	relation 9678315</p>

  <p>Livramento	boundary:administrative	relation 9677388</p>

  <p>Mangueira	boundary:administrative	relation 9671051</p>

  <p>Maranhão	boundary:administrative	relation 9677242</p>

  <p>Matriz	boundary:administrative	relation 9677174</p>

  <p>Maues	boundary:administrative	relation 9677513</p>

  <p>Natuba	boundary:administrative	relation 9670759</p>

  <p>Nossa Senhora do Amparo	boundary:administrative	relation 9676480</p>

  <p>Parque Industrial	boundary:administrative	relation 9677078</p>

  <p>Redenção	boundary:administrative	relation 9678361</p>

  <p>Santana	boundary:administrative	relation 9677112</p>

  <p>Bom Mapeamento a todos;</p>

  <p>Convido a todos a participar da Nossa Sala no Telegram Átraves do link; <a href="https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@osm_pernambuco" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@osm_pernambuco</a></p>

  <p>Acesse o Site GuiaOsmBR tudo sobre Tutoriais, Apostilas e Videos; <a href="http://guiaosmbr.webnode.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">http://guiaosmbr.webnode.com</a></p>

  <p>Raphaelmirc
  Recife/PE.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368814
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368814
title: BloatedStreetMap
published: 2019-06-12 15:26:26
fetched: 2019-06-18 15:00:03.738861
created_at: 2019-06-12 15:30:04.354382
updated_at: 2019-06-18 15:00:03.901996
summary:
  <h1 id="has-openstreetmap-osm-become-bloatedstreetmap-bsm">Has <em>OpenStreetMap</em> (OSM) become <em>BloatedStreetMap</em> (BSM)?</h1>

  <h2 id="im-much-too-big-to-let-the-world-see-me"><em>“I’m much too big to let the world see me”</em></h2>
  <p>That is the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786#comment44943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">view of the BSM Admin</a>:</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p><em>“crawling billions of objects puts (too much load) on our servers”</em></p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>I do not agree. Certainly setup changes could help reduce current load/bandwidth, but that is not the actual problem.</p>

  <p>First &amp; foremost I believe it to be a question of <em>attitude</em> rather than a technical problem.</p>

  <p>If you really <em>want</em> the whole world to be able to access the map then you will find a way to do that. You will make it happen. I also happen to be in a position to know that it is possible to be able to open access to all, and can prove it, but even so — it is attitude first, and if you do not have the right attitude and are unwilling to change then, with all respect, I will suggest that you find another job.</p>

  <p>Time for me to make real some of the statements above. Consider the following (apologies in advance, some of this is very geeky):–</p>

  <ol>
    <li><em>It is possible to be able to open access to all</em>  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  BSM &amp; <a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">SFS (StopForumSpam)</a> handle a similar amount of traffic yet BSM has 90&nbsp;times the number of servers that SFS has. Think about that for a few moments. Are you beginning to understand why the topic for this post is <em>“BloatedStreetMap”</em>?  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  SFS allows absolutely anyone to <a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com/usage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">access an API</a> (an interface designed for bots to auto-query, auto-post + auto-return information) without registration. It has been doing that for 10&nbsp;years (<a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">52&nbsp;billion queries</a>) upon a single server made available for free by a hosting company. So yes, SFS is serving billions of queries with ease to anyone that interrogates it 24/7/365 worldwide, most of whom are bots! At the same time it has a forum for registered users to provide help &amp; receive feedback.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  Now please remember that spam is one of the worst problems being suffered by every server on the planet, and yet SFS is able to store &amp; supply spammer details submitted by hundreds of thousands of servers. Yet, BSM has 90 servers and SFS has just one. What is the difference? It is called attitude.  <br>
  &nbsp;</li>
    <li>
      <p><em>The BSM server-setup Bloats the Bandwidth rather than Reduces It</em>  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  I’ll keep this as geek-less as possible.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  The current BSM Server setup produces pages that inflate the bandwidth and as such increase the server load. In part that is due to (what I consider to be) setup-errors within the BSM <em>Content Negotiation</em>. First, a quick explanation of <em>Content Negotiation</em>…   <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  <strong><em>Content Negotiation for Dummies</em></strong>  <br>
  The simplest way to understand this is to consider what happens when you browse through a series of web-pages from the same server. As you request each new page your browser will request that page from the server. However, some things like pictures, logos, etc. (and the CSS + script) may have already been obtained and therefore not need re-requesting. Finally, you may at some point use the <em>Back-button</em> to look at a page that you have already obtained, in which case there should be no need to re-request anything on that page from the server. The mechanism that allows all this to work is called <em>Content Negotiation</em>.   <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  The point for the user is that <em>Content Negotiation</em> makes for a fast experience within the browser, and the point for the server is that it lowers bandwidth &amp; therefore reduces server load a <em>lot</em>. Unfortunately, BSM has setup dynamic pages — like the Map and these Diary pages — so that many of the bandwidth-saving features are switched off. Here are the main ones:  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
   → <strong><em>Server Setup-Errors — no <code>Last-Modified</code>, weak <code>ETag</code> + wrong <code>Cache-Control</code></em></strong>  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  If you look at the Response Headers for one of the Map pages (below; see <a href="https://www.webmasterworld.com/html/4949061.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">here</a> if the BSM admin have removed it) you will see that there is both an <code>ETag</code> header plus a <em>“must-revalidate”</em> <code>Cache-Control</code> header. The <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1046966/ddg#1383359" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">latter says</a> effectively <em>“do not cache”</em> whilst the former relies on a cache to work. Having both in the same Response is nonsense and means that bandwidth will constantly be bloated since any pages already in the browser cache will never be used.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  The lack of a <code>Last-Modified</code> header is also problematic. If you look at <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.3.4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">section&nbsp;13.3.4 of the HTTP/1.1 rfc</a> you will see the following phrase:–</p>

      <blockquote>
        <p><strong><em>13.3.4 Rules for When to Use Entity Tags and Last-Modified Dates</em></strong>  <br>
  …  <br>
  In other words, the preferred behavior for an HTTP/1.1 origin server is to send both a strong entity tag and a Last-Modified value.</p>
      </blockquote>

      <p>And it gets worse. So far I’ve been talking about dynamic HTML pages (static files such as <em>robots.txt</em> (below) are supplied by Apache and have full &amp; proper headers). However, other static files have Response headers that are NOT directly under Apache control and suffer the same bandwidth bloat:  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
   → <strong><em>Server Setup-Errors — page Static files have the same errors</em></strong>  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  I loaded the URL below in FireFox 60.7.0esr (64-bit) (the following pattern is identical with Chrome), loaded up Web developer tools, switched to the Network tab + pressed <em>Refresh</em>. In an ideal world, every element on the page should have been loaded from cache, since the page had only come from the server seconds before. In fact, EVERY element on the page was re-loaded from the BSM server, even all so-called static files. Here are some important features:  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
   • A browser Request header: <code>If-None-Match W/"99fe0dc7d5ac6370b3fa12b2c3ce255e-gzip"</code>  <br>
   • A server Response header: <code>etag W/"27e7819c5ad740808181b4863f9310d4-gzip"</code>  <br>
   &nbsp; (they do not match, so the page is re-sent, even though both are actually identical)  <br>
   • Static files: Neither <code>Last-Modified</code> nor <code>ETag</code> are supplied by the server for any static file, and a <code>Cache-Control max-age=0</code> Request header from the Browser therefore causes the server to re-supply each file all over again</p>
    </li>
  </ol>

  <p>The above is so dumb, and so easy to fix.</p>

  <p>These are selected Response headers for one of the map pages:-</p>

  <pre><code>$ wget -O /dev/null -S https://www.osm.org/way/17236956 
  --2019-06-11 19:15:05-- https://www.osm.org/way/17236956 
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
  Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:15:05 GMT 
  Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) 
  Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate 
  Content-Encoding: gzip
  Vary: Accept-Language,Accept-Encoding 
  Content-Language: en 
  ETag: W/"6b6023e8efd4983110d4097ec2ee5e56" 
  Status: 200 OK 
  Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 
  Connection: Keep-Alive 
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked 
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 
  Length: unspecified [text/html] 
  Saving to: ‘/dev/null’ 
  </code></pre>

  <p>…and a static file under Apache control, which basically makes the point that Apache always sends both HTTP/1.1 + HTTP/1.0 headers:</p>

  <pre><code>$ wget -O /dev/null -S https://www.osm.org/robots.txt 
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
  Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:29:58 GMT 
  Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) 
  Last-Modified: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:26:06 GMT 
  ETag: "184-58aab0255d051" 
  Accept-Ranges: bytes 
  Content-Length: 388 
  Vary: Accept-Encoding 
  Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
  </code></pre>

  <p><strong><em>Update June 16, 2019:</em></strong>  <br>
  Having rechecked the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17236956" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">same page</a> as before prior to making a <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2260" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">GitHub Issue</a> the cache situation is changed, so here is an update:</p>

  <p><em>Files that are cached &amp; receive a <code>304 Not Modified</code> on f5 Refresh:</em>  <br>
  10 x PNG files; eg <a href="https://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/130245/85447.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/130245/85447.png</a>  <br>
  all are (example Response header):  <br>
  cache-control: max-age=210416  <br>
  etag: “8b71a4849e1133bdb17816c870b7a54a”  <br>
  expires: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:13:38 GMT  <br>
  via toothless.openstreetmap.org  <br>
  <strong><em>Notes:</em></strong>  <br>
  ETags are strong + match &amp; therefore the file gets a 304, even though Request Header is <code>Cache-Control: max-age=0</code>; still no <code>Last-Modified</code> supplied</p>

  <p><em>Files that receive a <code>200 GET</code> (re-supply, no cache) on f5 Refresh:</em>  <br>
  1 x Main HTML document eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17236956" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17236956</a>  <br>
  cache-control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate  <br>
  <strong><em>Notes:</em></strong>  <br>
  Weak ETag does not match; neither <code>Last-Modified</code> nor <code>Expires</code> supplied.</p>

  <p>3 x CSS eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/screen-ltr-56c86771fc241440e36145999d4069209b6ea9ce7e508d48090ae525920df422.css" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/screen-ltr-….css</a>  <br>
  1 x GIF eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/searching-d2110831ff86cb780e0911cd005e82482bfc71a0c626b56812ece6d52db2e6e0.gif" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/searching-….gif</a>  <br>
  3 x JS eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/application-7dc66b028055a8a9bfe43cf7d19b6a06b3a64a54efcbb1ae996f40ae3d5209c1.js" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/application-….js</a>  <br>
  7 x PNG eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/directions-40b86df47e67e386cb848cb45095c340f45a8283778f9205e3ae9cc1b371dc65.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/directions-….png</a>  <br>
  2 x SVG eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/osm_logo-0e91a8acd0a92c1bf14204322322e57c65c2a7e318fec6907252fed929b7d6d3.svg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/osm_logo-….svg</a>  <br>
  all are (Response header):  <br>
  expires: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:46:41 GMT  <br>
  <strong><em>Notes:</em></strong>  <br>
  Neither <code>Last-Modified</code> nor <code>ETag</code> supplied, hence no 304</p>

  <p>1 x JS eg <a href="https://piwik.openstreetmap.org/piwik.js" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://piwik.openstreetmap.org/piwik.js</a>  <br>
  <strong><em>Notes:</em></strong>  <br>
  Both <code>Last-Modified</code> + strong <code>ETag</code> are supplied and match the Response Header, but neither <code>Cache-Control</code> nor <code>Expires</code> are supplied, hence no 304</p>

  <p>1 x XML eg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/17236956/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/17236956/full</a>  <br>
  cache-control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate  <br>
  <strong><em>Notes:</em></strong>  <br>
  Neither <code>Last-Modified</code> nor <code>ETag</code> nor <code>Expires</code> supplied, hence no 304</p>

  <p>2 x GIF eg <a href="https://piwik.openstreetmap.org/piwik.php?action_name=Way:%20Handel%20Street%20(17236956)%20|%20OpenStreetMap&amp;idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;r=930424&amp;h=14&amp;m=46&amp;s=46&amp;url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17236956&amp;_id=cb6b1d8c931daa74&amp;_idts=1560390184&amp;_idvc=2&amp;_idn=0&amp;_refts=0&amp;_viewts=1560692774&amp;send_image=1&amp;cookie=1&amp;res=1366x768&amp;gt_ms=114&amp;pv_id=W3ovWr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://piwik.openstreetmap.org/piwik.php?action_name=… (a 1x1 pixel)</a> <br>
  Cache-Control: no-store  <br>
  <strong><em>Notes:</em></strong>  <br>
  Neither <code>Last-Modified</code> nor <code>ETag</code> nor <code>Expires</code> supplied, hence no 304</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Roland%20Haeder/diary/368815
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Roland%20Haeder/diary/368815
title: First donations received today!
published: 2019-06-12 22:01:35
fetched: 2019-06-18 16:30:04.214313
created_at: 2019-06-12 22:30:03.935273
updated_at: 2019-06-18 16:30:04.368968
summary:
  <p>Today I got a bottle of Fanta, 330ml from Burge-r-s and a very nice Cappucino from Expresso Perfetto. I even made <a href="https://cloud.mxchange.org/index.php/s/149vSQYmDeENiuY?path=%2FOSM%20donations%2F201906" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">pictures</a> of it. Thank you both again!</p>


guid: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/?p=176636545
url: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/06/13/surveying-openstreetmap/
title: Surveying OpenStreetMap
published: 2019-06-13 00:00:39
fetched: 2019-09-09 02:00:03.252080
created_at: 2019-06-13 00:30:03.855977
updated_at: 2019-09-09 02:00:03.405826
summary:
  Ahead of the Board Face to Face in Brussels we asked people across the project to share the most important topics facing OpenStreetMap. Thank you to every one of you who responded – 161 people in total! We want to share how we found this valuable and how it informed the meeting, some summary results [&#8230;]

content:
  <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OSM_microphone-1024x683.png" alt="" class="wp-image-176636426" srcset="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OSM_microphone-1024x683.png 1024w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OSM_microphone-300x200.png 300w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OSM_microphone-768x512.png 768w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OSM_microphone-624x416.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><em>CC-BY-SA 4.0</em></a><em> OSM <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Communication_Working_Group">CWG</a></em></figcaption></figure>



  <h1 id="Surveying-OpenStreetMap"></h1>



  <p>Ahead of the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/05/28/osmf-board-face-to-face-meeting-2019/" target="_blank">Board Face to Face in Brussels</a> we asked people across the project <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/05/09/osmf-board-face-to-face-meeting-suggest-the-topics-and-issues-that-matter-to-you/" target="_blank">to share the most important topics facing OpenStreetMap</a>. Thank you to every one of you who responded – 161 people in total! We want to share how we found this valuable and how it informed the meeting, some summary results and specific follow ups underway. Surveys are something with want to repeat – and we want help to implement with the best practice, and cover the right topics.</p>



  <h2 id="The-value-of-surveying"></h2>



  <h2 id="The-value-of-surveying">The value of surveying</h2>



  <p>You would think that the Board, seven people with presence in many different communities and communication channels, would know nearly everything happening in the project and what issues were top of mind. But with such an enormous scale of work and messaging, it’s impossible to form a cohesive picture. There are many people whose voices we don’t otherwise hear – due to language, the proliferation of channels, and communication style. We know that these 161 responses provide just one window into how we might improve community feedback loops. With a formal structure like the Board of Directors, with formal meetings and minutes and statements, it’s hard for everyone else to know we are listening.</p>



  <p>OpenStreetMap is made up of everyone who takes part in it, and hearing each other’s voices in a coordinated way, on a regular basis, will help prioritize where work is needed and what actions to pursue. It ensures a standard way to engage. Surveying can help set up mechanisms to route issues to the right place, share pathways for OpenStreetMap members to contribute and address problems, and identify where the project as a whole needs more help to come up with answers. We can identify people and topics for more in depth follow up. This will only work and be useful if there is actual follow through and transparency on what we hear through surveys.</p>



  <h2 id="The-results-of-this-survey"></h2>



  <h2 id="The-results-of-this-survey">The results of this survey</h2>



  <p>Frederik summarized and classified each of the responses, to produce this summary list. This is just one way of classifying the responses – other Board members had similar breakdowns, but nothing as comprehensive. There weren’t tags for everything, and some responses were clearly not relevant. Most didn’t specify what they thought the Board could, but expressed generally things they’d like to see happen.</p>



  <ul><li>some form of Global Logic/Hostile Takeover concern</li><li>some concern about building a friendlier, better informed, more inclusive community (different users stressing different targets for inclusivity e.g. regions, countries, interest groups)</li><li>the suggestion that tagging rules need to be clearer, better documented, or a better process needs to exist</li><li>dissatisfaction with how the iD editor manages tagging decisions (largely a different group from the 13 as above)</li><li>need for better QA and vandalism detection</li><li>growing the project or membership in various ways</li><li>dissatisfaction with the website features, including tile speed</li><li>improve governance, improve Working Groups, better Conflict of Interest handling</li><li>hire developer and/or management staff</li><li>limit the ability of new mappers to contribute (and break things)</li><li>provide more/better education support, partner with education institutions</li><li>enforce attribution more</li><li>desire to have vector tiles on web site</li><li>make imports easier (and 2x control rogue imports better)</li><li>improve cartography</li><li>protect against commercial influence</li><li>overhaul wiki (but see tagging above, these could also mean tagging)</li><li>resource better imagery</li></ul>



  <p>We aren’t publishing the raw survey comments because we neglected to ask in the survey if it was ok to publish, or if the response should remain anonymous. This is something we will address in future surveys.</p>



  <h2 id="How-we-incorporated-the-responses-into-the-meeting"></h2>



  <h2 id="How-we-incorporated-the-responses-into-the-meeting">How we incorporated the responses into the meeting</h2>



  <p>We looked at the survey results after day 1 was done, so we had a full day to work already, directly with each other and all the ideas we each had brought the meeting. Saturday evening, we all received the results by email, and fair to say that all of us read every one. The next morning, we had spent time going round to everyone and hearing each other’s reflections, identifying where the survey input complemented work underway, as well as identify gaps in our scope.</p>



  <p>Fair to say that building a more inclusive &amp; healthy community, governance issues, hostile takeover, and growing the project were already top of mind. What surprised us were topics like tagging, software, and infrastructure issues. Of course we know these are top issues, but as the Board, it’s typically not been our role to get involved in such topics. Some of the concerns simply involved a rerouting problem – there are clear places to share feedback on things like the default cartography, and our plan is to share some of these items directly with those responsible. But for other issues like tagging, like iD, it’s more complicated and not clear how change is supposed to happen. There are “routing problems” in OSM and <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org">OSMF</a>. We broadly think there may be a role for the Board in helping facilitate the community to find the way, but we’re not sure how it should work. In the mean time, we are having a few direct conversations to listen more.</p>



  <p>We then later had half the Board take part in a 90 minute working session specifically on surveys (the other half worked on the takeover risk and governance changes topic). We generated ideas that make up much of this blog post – how are surveys valuable, what did we learn from this one, and how do we want to do surveys in the future.</p>



  <h2 id="Methods-and-topics-for-future-surveys-–-we-need-your-help"></h2>



  <h2 id="Methods-and-topics-for-future-surveys-–-we-need-your-help">Methods and topics for future surveys – we need your help</h2>



  <p>During our working session, we had to pull back several times from diving down the rabbit hole of methodology. We’ll start here with some top level design thoughts on how we see surveying at OSMF.</p>



  <ul><li>Keep a consistent pace of at least annually, and perhaps up to quarterly when topics are raised. These can be schedule at coordinated, quieter points along the “OSM Calendar” (prior to Annual General Meeting, Face-to-Face board meeting, State of the Map). Frequency also will help to gauge enduring issues, emerging issues, and one-offs.</li><li>Strike a balance of rigorous and achievable – we aren’t doing surveys for social science publication, but we do want to have a good standard of results we can trust.</li><li>Work collaboratively in building surveys with more experienced folks in OSM community, especially from academia/research. Gather input and refine questions from in person at <a href="https://stateofthemap.org/">SotMs</a>, <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Groups">Working Groups</a>, <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters">Chapters</a>, <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board">Advisory Board</a>, Regions.</li><li>Identify ownership of surveying processes in OSMF – for now the Board. This also means taking responsible stewardship of the submitted data.</li><li>Build a trusted process by demonstrating responsiveness and follow through to survey results. That means share summary results and actions by board/OSMF, as well as option for anonymously sharing raw results.</li><li>Reach a broad population, by a wide and documented set of outreach channels (<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_lists">mailing lists</a>, <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/">forums</a>, telegram, slacks, FB groups, etc). Also take distinct opportunities to have self selection surveys vs random selection where a specific population is chosen.</li><li>Surveys should not be burdensome on responders. Clearly say up front what will be asked, is it multiple choice or free text, and how much time is needed. Keep a baseline of background questions (like OSM experience and roles and location).</li><li>Make this a repeatable sound methodology. Means following a process step by actionable step.</li></ul>



  <p>Definitely opening thoughts. If you have experience in undertaking surveys, we’d love to talk to you about how to approach.</p>



  <p>Finally, we brainstormed questions we’d like to ask on surveys. Broad topics were on our organizational development and governance, the technical roadmap and priorities, regional “nuances” in how OSM works, a survey directed to companies, and community engagement and health.</p>



  <ul><li>What are you doing that other communities can learn from?</li><li>Volunteering in OSM: what do you ideally want to do, and what do you need to do it?</li><li>Why are you in OSM? What was your best experience? What was your worst?</li><li>What are the different roles and kinds of contributions you have made?</li><li>Where do you communicate and why?</li><li>If you are not in OSMF, what would it take to convince you to <a href="https://join.osmfoundation.org/">join</a>? What would you change?</li></ul>



  <p>What questions do you want to ask the OSM community? And, more importantly, how do you see survey results informing our collective next steps? Let us know either in the comments, on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a> or send an email to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="mailto:board@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">board@osmfoundation.org</a>.</p>



  <p>Want to help with methodology? Send us an email to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="mailto:board@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">board@osmfoundation.org</a> with subject “Survey methodology help”, and we’ll let you know when we gather to start planning the next survey soon.<br /><br /><em>OpenStreetMap Foundation <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Member_Bios">board</a></em></p>



  <p><br /><em><strong>What is the OpenStreetMap Foundation</strong></em><br /><em>The </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><em>OpenStreetMap Foundation</em></a><em> is a not-for-profit organisation, formed in the UK to support the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data for anyone to use and share. The OpenStreetMap Foundation owns and maintains the infrastructure of the OpenStreetMap project, is financially supported by membership fees and </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://donate.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank"><em>donations</em></a><em>, and organises the annual, international </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://stateofthemap.org/" target="_blank"><em>State of the Map</em></a><em> conference. The OpenStreetMap Foundation has no full-time employees and it is supporting the OpenStreetMap project through the work of our volunteer </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/WorkingGroups" target="_blank"><em>Working Groups</em></a><em>. Please consider becoming a </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://join.osmfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><em>member</em></a><em> and read about our </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://join.osmfoundation.org/fee-waiver-program/" target="_blank"><em>fee-waiver program</em></a><em>. </em></p>



  <p></p>



  <p><em><strong>What is OpenStreetMap</strong><br /><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> was founded in 2004 and is a international project to create a free map of the world. To do so, we, thousands of volunteers, collect data about roads, railways, rivers, forests, buildings and a lot more worldwide. Our map data can be downloaded for free by everyone and used for any purpose – including commercial usage. It is possible to produce your own maps which highlight certain features, to calculate routes etc. OpenStreetMap is increasingly used when one needs maps which can be very quickly, or easily, updated.</em></p>



  <p></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Luana_B/diary/368817
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Luana_B/diary/368817
title: Just signed up!
published: 2019-06-13 00:56:12
fetched: 2019-06-19 06:30:04.174896
created_at: 2019-06-13 01:00:03.919628
updated_at: 2019-06-19 06:30:04.352305
summary:
  <p>I’m hoping this will be a good project for me. I have loved maps since I was a small child and my father and I used to spend hours pouring over his atlas and maps of everywhere. 
  I feel closer to him doing this sort of activity.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GOwin/diary/368816
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GOwin/diary/368816
title: Pista ng Mapa, the Philippine map-py conference
published: 2019-06-13 00:48:26
fetched: 2019-06-18 21:30:04.671790
created_at: 2019-06-13 01:00:03.922789
updated_at: 2019-06-18 21:30:04.820578
summary:
  <p>The Philippines is known for our thousands of colorful, loud, and fun <em>fiestas</em> (festivals) we celebrate yearly.  Our Fiestas can be religious, cultural, or both and are marked by religious activities, parades, cultural rituals, trade fairs, exhibits, concerts, pageants and various games and contests. There’s always one thing, or another, reason to celebrate.</p>

  <p>The reality of that of the Philippine open mapping community is that many (if not most) of the community activities happen in the capital region, Metro Manila. It is not that we don’t have contributors but outside of our metropolis, they are less organized and thinly spread out across our 7,641 islands.</p>

  <p>In 2016, when advocates from the local OpenStreetMap and FOSS4G community organized the State of the Map Asia conference in Manila, many of us were inspired in organizing a similar, major event but with a more local flavor, targeting local enthusiasts and participants.</p>

  <p><img src="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/thumb/7/7d/2016_sotm_asia_group_photo.jpg/640px-2016_sotm_asia_group_photo.jpg" alt="Alt text"></p>

  <p>Finally, in January this year, we’ve gathered enough map-py friends who committed to organizing a one-day conference and delivering workshops, as long as we can find a suitable venue. We didn’t have any specific place in mind, but we’re pretty sure it won’t be anywhere in Manila.</p>

  <p>What started as a dreamy conversation between friends who committed to facilitating a few topics to fit a small, one-day conference back in January, has expanded to three days, with two workshop tracks, and more volunteers jumping in to lead or facilitate workshops and panels. Whew!</p>

  <p>We are pleased to announce the first Pista ng Mapa conference in the Visayas, in the city of gentle people, Dumaguete:
  <img src="https://telegra.ph/file/8e98070b9251ca944ce3a.png" alt="Pista ng Mapa 2019, Dumaguete City"></p>

  <p>“Pista ng Mapa” (English: Festiva of Maps) is envisioned to celebrate the success of open data and maps in the country, especially in the fields of community development, transport, and humanitarian action. It aims to encourage diverse participation and stimulate the growth of vibrant hyper-local contributors’ communities outside the capital region by providing free access to talks, technical workshops, and panel discussions.</p>

  <p>We are excited to work with Foundation University, one of Dumaguete City’s pioneer in private education and leader in I.T., who will be hosting the three-day event this August. The free workshops are open to the public, and made possible by our generous sponsors: Kaart Group, Mapillary, and Grab.</p>

  <p>We know that there’s already a growing number of contributors from this region, and I hope that this would be an opportunity to finally meet many of you in real life, as well as learn from each other. We have workshops topics that include sessions that don’t expect any previous OpenStreetMap or GIS experience, and therefore newcomers are very welcome indeed.</p>

  <p>We can accommodate more people during the plenary talks and panel sessions, but our hands-on workshops are limited by the computer laboratory facilities.</p>

  <p>Hurry, and reserve for your free slot from our <a href="https://ti.to/PistaNgmapa/2019" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">event registration site</a>!</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/368821
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/368821
title: Vespucci 13.1 Beta Highlights
published: 2019-06-13 08:54:47
fetched: 2019-06-19 15:30:03.805296
created_at: 2019-06-13 09:00:03.558069
updated_at: 2019-06-19 15:30:03.972896
summary:
  <p>This is a minor release mainly containing UI improvements. You can install the beta from the google play store (after enabling the “beta” releases setting), or obtain it from the <a href="https://github.com/MarcusWolschon/osmeditor4android/releases/tag/13.1.0.2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Vespucci repository</a>.</p>

  <h3 id="updated-opening-hours-editor">Updated opening hours editor</h3>

  <p>The opening hours editor (a separate project found <a href="https://github.com/simonpoole/OpeningHoursFragment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">here</a>) has received a number of updates, including</p>

  <ul>
    <li>tapping the time bars will start a large time picker, this was previously only available via the menu.</li>
    <li>ability to load and save templates to on device files.</li>
    <li>support for region and object type specific templates.</li>
  </ul>

  <h3 id="use-of-saf-file-picker-for-android-kitkat-and-later">Use of SAF file picker for Android KitKat and later</h3>

  <p>Previously, to give a consistent look and feel over as many different Android version as possible, we were using a third party file picker/selector for those operations that require a file to be selected for input or output. Unluckily in recent Android versions removable “SD card” storage has become unavailable to the third party library which is rather annoying as this is the location where you typically want to save larger files.</p>

  <p>To work around this we are now using the system SAF (Storage Access Framework) file picker for Android KitKat (19) and later, in older Android version the third party file picker should work fine. Using the SAF file picker does have the additional advantage that cloud-based storage location are usable for operations that don’t need direct file access, so you can save and load files from your favourite cloud storage provider if you want to.</p>

  <h3 id="download-offline-data-directly-with-automatic-configuration">Download offline data directly with automatic configuration</h3>

  <p><img src="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/1/18/Mapsplit.poole.ch.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>To make using offline OSM data in <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/193235" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">MSF format</a> easier I’ve added a small UI that will display the available files from <a href="https://mapsplit.poole.ch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">mapsplit.poole.ch</a>, download them with the Android download manager and configure a new API entry if necessary.</p>

  <p>Yes, I know we should be using lavish amounts of corporate newspeak to generate “excitement” among the more gullible here, but frankly I can’t be bothered. We’ve mentioned the work on complete offline support more than enough as is.</p>

  <h3 id="support-for-multi-line-comments-and-source-in-the-upload-dialog-and-multi-line-text-fields-in-the-form-tag-editing-ui">Support for multi-line comments and source in the upload dialog, and multi-line text fields in the form tag editing UI</h3>

  <p>Comment and source field are now multi-line making adding longer texts far easier. Further multi-line input fields are supported in the form based tag editor, depending on the “length” attribute in the presets.</p>

  <h3 id="improvements-js-support">Improvements JS support</h3>

  <p>The layout of the JS console has been improved and scripts from preset fields are now evaluated after all fields have been set, allowing for order independent consistent behaviour. Further the key - preset mapping is now visible to scripts.</p>

  <h3 id="gpx-and-geojson-files-can-be-loaded-via-intent">GPX and GeoJson files can be loaded via Intent</h3>

  <p>Clicking a GPS or GeoJson/Json file in a file manager should now show Vespucci as an app that can read the files.</p>

  <h3 id="go-to-coordinates-function-and-olc-support">Go to coordinates function and OLC support</h3>

  <p>The “GPS” menu now features an item “Go to coordinates” that will display an input field that will accept coordinates in a wide range of formats and Open Location Codes. Further, the element information dialog will display the OLC equivalent of the coordinates for Nodes.</p>

  <p>We do make an attempt to resolve shortened OLC codes, but this requires network connectivity and is not guaranteed to give the same results as a google based implementation or even remain stable over time.</p>

  <h3 id="improvements-josm-style-remote-control">Improvements JOSM style remote control</h3>

  <p>We now support imagery configuration and draft comment and source tags, see <a href="http://vespucci.io/tutorials/vespucci_intents/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Controlling Vespucci from other apps</a>.</p>

  <h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>

  <ul>
    <li>Data style configuration provided that doesn’t render multi-polygons, this may help performance on slow devices.</li>
    <li>Lots of stability improvements.</li>
    <li>Support reading Overpass API generated non-standard OSM XML data from files.</li>
  </ul>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jkirk/diary/368822
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jkirk/diary/368822
title: Street names in Croatia
published: 2019-06-13 10:35:02
fetched: 2019-06-19 22:00:04.394391
created_at: 2019-06-13 11:00:03.981270
updated_at: 2019-06-19 22:00:04.560719
summary:
  <p>Today learned about <a href="https://geoportal.dgu.hr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://geoportal.dgu.hr/</a> the Geoportal by the University of Zagreb (Thx to <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/morlautrer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">morlautrer</a> for pointing me to this!).</p>

  <p>This is a valuable source to check the street names when mapping in Croatia.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sykul/diary/368828
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sykul/diary/368828
title: Cleaning up road names in China
published: 2019-06-14 04:42:33
fetched: 2019-06-21 01:00:03.923531
created_at: 2019-06-14 05:00:15.877873
updated_at: 2019-06-21 01:00:04.101132
summary:
  <p>In China, names should almost always be in Chinese. There are some exceptions like with certain shop names but things like road names should certainly always be in Chinese. I kept seeing the following problems cropping up:</p>

  <p>Abbreviated road names like “name:en=W. Shuncheng Str.”.</p>

  <p>Mixed Chinese and English/pinyin like “name=文艺路 Wenyi Road”.</p>

  <p>English road names using ‘Lu’ instead of ‘Road’ (Lu is the diacritic-less pinyin for ‘road’ in Chinese, often used by English speakers when naming Chinese roads even in English).</p>

  <p>English names in the name= tag rather than the name:en= tag.</p>

  <p>Finding 2 and 4 could be done together. I initially tried to figure out how to use Overpass Turbo to find a mix of hanzi and Latin alphabet, but then I realised it was much simpler than that because no valid Chinese road name would contain Latin letters, so I just had to search name= for Latin letters. The query is as follows:</p>

  <p>[out:json][timeout:25]; way[“highway”]<a href="{{bbox}}" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">“name”~”[A-Za-z]”</a>; out center;</p>

  <p>Actually, as it turns out there might be some valid road names with Latin letters in them. Namely alphanumeric codes like ‘G203’ or whatever. Whether these should be tagged as name= or ref= I’ll leave someone else to figure out. If the name was mixed English/Chinese and name:en= already existed, I just deleted the English from name=. If there was no existing name:en=, I created that tag and moved the English name into it.</p>

  <p>Number 3 is also fairly easy to spot.</p>

  <p>[out:json][timeout:25]; way[“highway”]<a href="{{bbox}}" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">“name:en”~”Lu$”</a>; out center;</p>

  <p>Number 1 required a combination of queries (there’s probably a way to search for them all in one go but I just did it one by one this time). For example:</p>

  <p>[out:json][timeout:25]; way[“highway”]<a href="{{bbox}}" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">“name:en”~”W\.”</a>; out center;</p>

  <p>This finds all roads like “W. Shuncheng Road” (full stops have to be escaped with two backslashes (and also turns out the markdown for OSM diary entries requires you to escape backslashes)).</p>

  <p>The same principle applies for “E.”, “S.”, and “N.”. Then “Rd” is just another simple search. “Str” is similar but needs to be searched as “Str$” to find only occurrences at the end of the line, or else it will match everything with “Str” in it.</p>

  <p>Not the most fun in the world but it is certainly a lot more efficient thanks to Overpass Turbo, and I’m happy to say that as far as I can tell the walled part of Xi’an is now completely free of these errors!</p>

  <p>Edit:</p>

  <p>A while later a different way of finding the mixed character names occurred to me. Look for names that have characters in a-z and also not in a-z.</p>

  <p><a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/jC1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/jC1</a></p>

  <p>[out:json][timeout:25];
  way[“highway”][“name”~”[a-z]”,i]<a href="{{bbox}}" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">“name”~”[^a-z0-9 .-]”,i</a>;
  out center;</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Atakua/diary/368829
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Atakua/diary/368829
title: On Land Cover Import
published: 2019-06-14 05:49:11
fetched: 2019-06-21 03:00:03.971435
created_at: 2019-06-14 06:00:04.006020
updated_at: 2019-06-21 03:00:04.148972
summary:
  <p>Originally posted here: <a href="https://atakua.org/w/landuse-conflation.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://atakua.org/w/landuse-conflation.html</a> . Reposted here as it might be easier for some people to find it in the diaries.</p>

  <p>Land cover geographic data is what is mostly represented as <code>landuse=*</code> in 
  the OSM database. Other tagging schemes e.g. <code>landcover=*</code> also exist.</p>

  <p>During the ongoing land cover import for Sweden [1] I learned several things that 
  were not documented anywhere in the OSM wiki or elsewhere, as far as I know.
  Below are my observations on what pitfalls and issues arise during all stages of
  the import, from data conversion to conflation and tag choice.</p>

  <p>Data import of zero-dimensional (separate points of interest) and linear (roads)
  objects are regularly done in OSM. Some documentation and tools to assist with
  such imports exist.
  Compared to them, importing of polygons and multipolygons has unique challenges.</p>

  <p>Please make sure you read the OSM import guidelines [2], [7] before you start working
  on an import. Then document as much of the process as possible for your own and
  other reference, as it is likely to take more time to finish than you originally
  estimated.</p>

  <h3 id="general-lessons-learned">General lessons learned</h3>

  <ol>
    <li>Start small. Choose a small subset of import data and experiment with it. You
  are likely to improve your data processing pipeline several times, and it is 
  faster to evaluate what an end result would look like on a small piece of data.
  When your approach starts looking good enough to be applied to a larger scale,
  still try to keep individual pieces of uploaded data reasonably small as this
  reduces risks of data conflicts, incomplete uploads, and generally helps with
  parallelizing the work.</li>
    <li>Prepare for a lot of opposition. The OSM community had many cases with badly
  carried out imports. A small mistake in data that may be forgivable and
  easily correctable when made once becomes a major problem with replicated at 
  scale by a script. People are very defensive against especially land cover
  imports. Just be persistent, listen for constructive feedback, ignore
  non-constructive feedback, improve your tools and data, do not blindly trust
  your tools.</li>
    <li>Keep track of what is done. Document everything. Your import will take quite 
  some time, you are likely to forget what you did in the beginning. As more 
  than one person may work on importing, situations when two or more people 
  attempt to process the same geographical extent in parallel are possible.
  Write it down to keep track of what is done and by whom.
  Besides, there are not many success stories about land cover imports, and we
  need more documented experience on the topic.</li>
    <li>Find those who are interested in the same thing. Depending on your ambitions,
  you will have to import hundreds of thousands of new objects. Find some same
  minded individuals to parallelize as much of manual work as possible.</li>
    <li>
      <p>Learn your tools and write new tools. As a lot of data processing is done 
  in JOSM, including final touch ups and often the uploading and conflict 
  resolution,. Learning and knowing the most effective ways to accomplish 
  everyday tasks helps to speed the process up. Learn the editor’s shortcut key 
  combinations, or change them to match your taste.
  Some good key combinations helping to work with multiple data layers 
  that I did not know before starting the import are mentioned in [11].
  Programming skills are also a must for at least one person in your group who 
  develops an automated data conversion pipeline or adjusts existing tools for
  the purpose. Always look for ways to automate tedious work. And always look
  for ways to improve your data processing pipeline, as you’ll learn new patterns
  in your new or existing OSM data.</p>
    </li>
    <li>Think about coordinate systems early. It is not enough to assume that everything
  comes in WGS84. Convert data to same coordinate systems before you start
  merging or otherwise processing it. I discovered that depending on the moment
  when a dataset is finally brought to WGS84 there may or may not be weird
  effects such as overlapping of adjacent tiles, loss of precisions resulting in
  self-intersections of polygons, or other avoidable effects.</li>
  </ol>

  <h3 id="on-source-data">On Source data</h3>

  <p>The source data for your import may be either in raster or vector form. 
  If you have choice, prefer importing vector data as it would save you one step 
  in data processing and avoid troubles related to raster to vector conversion.</p>

  <h4 id="data-actuality">Data actuality</h4>

  <p>It goes without saying that source of the import should be up to date. Cross-checking
  it against available aerial imagery throughout the import process should help with
  judging of how modern the offered data is.</p>

  <h4 id="objects-classification">Objects classification</h4>

  <p>Take notice of what classes of features are present in the import data, how well
  they can be translated into the OSM tagging scheme. You may certainly want to
  throw away, reclassify or merge several feature classes present in 
  the import data.</p>

  <p>Even after you have started the import, continuously estimate and cross-check 
  that the classification is consistently applied in the source, correctly translated
  to the OSM tagging schema, and how often misclassification mistakes requiring 
  manual correction occur.</p>

  <p>As an example, an area classified as “grass” in a source dataset may be in fact 
  representing a golf course, a park, a farmland, a heath etc. in different parts
  of a country. They are tagged differently in the OSM, and, if possible, this 
  difference should be preserved.</p>

  <p>Check regularly for misclassification of features, especially when you switch 
  between areas with largely different biotops. Tags choice for tundra is likely to be
  different from those used for more southern areas, and will require adjustments 
  to the tag correspondence mapping used in your data processing routines.</p>

  <p>Be aware that there are also unsolved issues of tagging of e.g. <code>natural=wood</code>
  against <code>landuse=forest</code> that might affect your decisions on tags choice.
  Very good points on complexity of properly tagging of land cover are presented
  in [3].</p>

  <h4 id="data-resolution">Data resolution</h4>

  <p>For linear objects it is important to adequately reflect shape and position 
  of actual natural features they represent.</p>

  <p>Data resolution is also important as certain types of objects are worth importing 
  only if they are represented with resolution fine enough. Conversely, having 
  objects with too many details will result in an increase of amount of raw data 
  to process without giving any benefits to the end result.</p>

  <p>It is easy to tell resolution of a raster data as it is defined by pixel size.
  For vector data, estimation of how good newly added polygons are aligned with 
  existing ones can be used as a rough indication of data resolution.</p>

  <p>Consider the following example. For a forest, having its details drawn on a map 
  in the range of 1 to 10 meters should be just enough for practical uses.
  A forest with a unit resolution of 100 meters is of less use for e.g.
  pedestrians. But mapping a forest with resolution of 10 centimeters is basically
  outlining every tree, which is of little practical use for larger territories.</p>

  <p>Similarly, trying to create an outline of regular buildings from data with resolution
  of one meter or worse will not succeed to capture their true shape. A data with
  10 cm details can be used to correctly detect all 90 degree angles of buildings.</p>

  <h4 id="converting-data-to-osm-format">Converting data to OSM format</h4>

  <p>Most likely the import data will not be in a format directly acceptable by the OSM 
  database, that is, OSM XML or equivalent binary formats. Additional processing 
  steps will be needed to load the data one or more third-party or custom written
  tools.</p>

  <p>Several freely available GIS applications, libraries and frameworks are 
  available to help you with data processing: QGIS, GRASS GIS, GDAL, OGR etc.
  However, knowing programming is a must at this stage as it is often simpler to
  write a small Python (or similar comparable scripted language) converter than to
  try do the same work in a GUI tool. Moreover, many steps require automation
  to be applied to many files, which can also be automated through scripting.</p>

  <p>Raster data may often be available in GeoTIFF format which is a TIFF image with
  additional metadata describing coordinate system, bounding box, pixels meaning etc.
  Vector data can be present in many forms, from simple CSV files to ESRI shapefiles,
  XML-based GML, JSON-based GeoJSON files, or even stored in a geospatial database.</p>

  <p>Once data is converted into the OSM XML format, a few tools are available to 
  process it as well, such as command-line tools <code>osmconvert</code>, <code>osmfilter</code>, 
  and tools and plug-ins for the main OSM editor JOSM.</p>

  <h3 id="importing-a-single-feature">Importing a single feature</h3>

  <p>The whole process of importing can be described by repeated addition, 
  modification or deletion of <em>features</em>, in the land cover case represented by 
  individual units of forests, farmlands, residential areas etc. Such features 
  have to be extracted from the source data, and then inserted into the OSM 
  database. Many decisions have to be made to make sure that enough useful 
  information is extracted and not much noise is introduced at the same time,
  so that the new feature does won’t create more trouble than good it brings.</p>

  <p>The following tasks have to be solved for every import feature considered for manipulation.</p>

  <ol>
    <li>
      <p>Tracing vector boundaries of a feature. For vector data, the boundaries 
  should be already in vector format. For raster data, individual pixels with the 
  same classification have to be grouped into bigger vector outlines of (multi)polygons.
  Certain tools exist that can assist with solving this [4].</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>Assigning correct tags to features. The tagging scheme of OSM has unique properties,
  and deciding what tags a (multi)polygons should have is very important. At the
  very least the tagging for new features should match with what has been already 
  been used for tagging objects in the same area.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>Assuring correct mutual boundaries between old and new features. The OSM project
  support only a single data layer, and everything has to be nicely organized in
  that only layer. Although different types of land cover may overlap in 
  reality, it is not the common case. No sharp border can be often  defined 
  between two natural or artificial areas either,
  but maps often simplify this to actually representing things as a single border.
  Certain types of overlaps are definitely considered to be erroneous, e.g.
  two forests overlapping by a large part, or forest sliding into a lake. Note that
  this task is affected by how accurate boundaries were specified for pre-mapped
  features. Sometimes it is feasible to delete old objects and replace them with 
  new ones, provided that there is enough evidence that new features do not lose
  any information present in the old objects.
  See further discussion on the subject below.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>Assuring correct borders between adjacent imported data pieces. As a dataset
  for land cover is rarely imported in a single go for the whole planet, 
  it is bound to be split into more or less arbitrary sized and shaped chunks.
  The data itself does not necessarily dictate on what principle such splitting
  is to be made. Borders for these chunks may be chosen based on an administrative
  principle (import by country, municipality, city, region etc) and/or by data size 
  limitations (rectangular tiles of several kilometers wide etc.) Regardless of
  a chosen strategy, artificial borders will be imposed upon the data. E.g. 
  one can split what in reality is a single farmland into several parts. 
  It is often important to hide such seams in the end result by carefully “sewing” 
  the features back together. In certain cases of bugs in the splitting process,
  new data pieces may even start overlapping with adjacent pieces, which only 
  adds extra manual work without any value.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>Finding balance between data density and usefulness.
  Even if import data resolution looks to be optimal, it is often worth to 
  further filter, smooth, remove small details or otherwise pre- and postprocess
  resulting features. Let us consider a few examples. 
  a) For the case of raster data, it is worth removing lone “forest” pixels 
  marking individual trees standing in a farmland or in a residential area.
  b) Rasterization noise is always an issue to deal with: imported data should 
  not look “pixelated” with suspiciously looking 90 degrees corners where there
  should be none. c) Lastly,  many nodes lying on a straight line can be safely
  removed without losing accuracy of vector data but reducing its size. 
  A lot of filters exist for both simplification and smoothing [4] [5],
  but most of them require some experimentation to find their optimal parameters
  to be run with. Doing too aggressive filtering can destroy essential parts of
  imported features.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>Keeping feature size under control. Artificial splitting of import data 
  surprisingly has its own positive effects on keeping size/area of natural features
  in check. An automatically traced forest can turn into a multipolygon that 
  spans many dozens of thousands of nodes and hundreds of inner ways. In practice
  having several smaller and simpler organized adjacent polygons covering the
  same area is better. Other means to keep features’ size in check can be used.
  For example, roads crossing forests can effectively cut them in smaller parts
  that are then represented as more contained features.</p>
    </li>
  </ol>

  <h3 id="conflation-with-existing-data">Conflation with existing data</h3>

  <p>Conflation is merging data from two or more sources into a single consistent
  representation. For us, it means merging two layers of vector data:
  “new” with import features and “old” with existing features — into a single 
  layer to be then uploaded to the main OSM database.</p>

  <p>Let us assume that both the “old” data already present in the OSM and “new” data
  to be imported are self-consistent: no overlapping happens, no broken 
  polygons are present etc. Always make sure that it is true for both layers <em>before</em>
  you start merging them, and fix discovered problems early.</p>

  <p>When these data layers are self-consistent, new inconsistencies can only arise 
  from interaction of old and new features. For the land cover case, it is the
  (multi)polygons intersecting and overlapping each other in all possible ways.</p>

  <p>Start thinking about how you are going to address these problem <em>early</em> in the 
  import process. Solving them efficiently is a critical component of having 
  a successful import.</p>

  <p>Algorithmically, problems of finding exact shape of overlapping, points of 
  intersections, common borders etc. of two or several multipolygons are very far 
  from trivial. Solutions to such problems tend to be algorithmically complex meaning
  applying them for huge number of features with many nodes in each may take 
  unreasonable time to finish.</p>

  <p>Whenever possible, the conflation task should be simplified. Compromises between
  speed, accuracy and data loss/simplification have to be made. Improve your
  conflation algorithms as you progress with early data chunks and learn the issues
  arising over them. If you see that same tasks arise over and over and take a 
  lot of human time to be resolved manually, integrate a solution for it into your
  algorithms.</p>

  <p>For situations when old and new features overlap, intersect or otherwise
  happen to be in a conflict, define a consistent decision making strategy on which 
  modifications to conflicting features will be applied. For example, one should 
  decide in which situations old or new nodes are to be removed, moved or added, 
  whether conflicting features are to be merged, or if there are conditions for 
  some of them to be thrown away.</p>

  <p>Be on lookout for common patterns in the data that can be easily solved by a
  computer. More complex cases can be marked by computer for manual resolution.</p>

  <p>Do not leave too much work for humans however. Humans are bad with tedious work, 
  and will quickly start making mistakes. Everything that is reasonable to do by 
  a machine for conflation should be done by machine.</p>

  <p>It is easiest to solve conflicts when no conflicts can arise. For the features,
  if no features can overlap, they cannot conflict. In this sense, undershoot in
  data is better than overshoot, but again, make an informed decision that applies
  to your imports best.</p>

  <p>Consider that making sure that features’ borders are aligned is easier than
  making a decision about what to do with two arbitrarily overlapping polygons. This 
  means that making sure that no two old/new feature pairs overlap would help 
  greatly with conflation. Simply saying, importing features only for areas
  where there is “white space” on the map is easier than importing features to 
  already tightly mapped areas. You might clean up the space first by removing 
  old features (according to some strategy), or just leave those alone.</p>

  <p>Decide how to verify that conflation is correct. JOSM validator helps with detecting
  when e.g. two ways with identical “landuse” tags overlap. But it does not check 
  for everything, and certain cases that are obvious for a human to be wrong are
  skipped by the validator.
  Use it and other similar tools, as well as visual inspection of the result, 
  to see that no (obvious) errors have slipped into the end result.</p>

  <p>Let us consider different strategies to approaching the data merging task.</p>

  <h4 id="raster-vs-raster">Raster vs Raster</h4>

  <p>This is arguably the simplest case of data conflation as the task can be reduced
  to comparing values of individual pixels as two pixels are either fully overlap
  or do not overlap at all (provided that two rasters are brought to the same resolution
  and extent position). There is no problem with detecting intersections of
  (multi)polygons. Algorithmic complexity is proportional to the area of a
  raster map in pixels.</p>

  <p>Existing OSM data is vector, not raster. You can however, rasterize it 
  [6] into a matrix of values that can then be processed together with the import
  raster data layer. Now, a decision about every pixel of import data can now be made
  based on two data sources: old data for the pixel, and new data from the import.
  For example, pixels for which there already is some data in the OSM database
  can be made “invisible” for the vectorization process, and tracing will not create
  any vector features passing through such pixels. This will effectively make
  sure that no “deep” overlapping between old and new features can happen. 
  However, due to data loss at the rasterization process now borders of old and 
  new features may and will intersect somewhat along their common borders. Thus,
  the task of making sure two features do not overlap is reduced to the task of
  making sure two features have a common border.</p>

  <p>This approach was used with the Sweden land cover import [1]. 
  Issues discovered so far and solutions for them.</p>

  <ol>
    <li>
      <p>Make sure that the raster datasets being compared are completely <em>identical</em>
  in their extent (bounding box position and dimensions), resolution and 
  coordinate projection systems. Tools that work with geographic data in raster
  formats typically expect all layers to have <em>exactly</em> the same dimensions, 
  no relative shifting, no variation in projections etc. Not all of them have 
  proper error reporting when these conditions do not hold. An incorrectly skewed
  mask layer creates holes for phantom features in the resulting vector layer,
  simultaneously leaving a lot of overlapping for features that should not have
  been generated at all.</p>
    </li>
    <li>Quality of existing OSM data starts to affect results of vectorization of
  the import data layer. Any errors or simplifications that are present in old 
  OSM data will be reflected in the eventual vector data to import. For example,
  a roughly and sketchy drawn forest patch will be able to partially mask a 
  nearby farmland about to be imported, thus making its shape to be wrong. A road
  that was drawn too far off its actual position will create a phantom cutline
  in your data.</li>
    <li>Because there may be multiple ways to draw a border for a forest or another
  natural patch of land, sliver (long and thin) patches of land cover may 
  appear in the data. They stem from “subtracting” of two almost identically
  shaped old and new polygons.</li>
    <li>To effectively prevent new land cover polygons to creep over roads, include 
  roads into the mask layer. However, because roads usually have no “thickness”,
  use buffering [12] to create an area around them, effectively turning them into 
  long curved polygons. The same applies to railroads. To prevent houses from
  being partially covered by small patches of trees, you can try buffering them
  as well.</li>
  </ol>

  <h4 id="vector-vs-vector-conflict-solving">Vector vs vector conflict solving</h4>

  <p>There are no known tools working directly with OSM-format data that allow
  for conflict resolution with another set of vector features. One can, however, 
  import existing OSM data into one of GIS applications together with import vector
  data and do your processing there, then export modified import vector features
  to an OSM file. More exploration is needed in this direction to see how efficient
  and accurate it can be, e.g. using vector overlaying [10].</p>

  <p>You might consider some old vector features for removal from the OSM dataset if 
  new features that are located at the same position are of better spatial resolution,
  quality or tagging set.
  For example, data coming from older imports may be considered for replacement by
  new, more recent/detailed import data. Be careful however with editing OSM XML
  extract files in your scripts as simply deleting (or marking for deletion) nodes,
  ways or relations may leave dangling references from other objects somewhere outside
  the current map extent. Typically, it is best avoided to automatically remove 
  old features; the final decision must be made in manual mode.</p>

  <p>Deleting objects is easier in new data layers as they have not yet been “observed”
  in a global database and no external references could be created yet, so you can
  just drop unnecessary objects from your files. Land cover data is almost always
  redundant to some extent, so often instead of trying to solve a complex conflicting
  overlapping or intersection it is easier to remove them altogether and replace with
  a manually drawn configuration.</p>

  <p>If your old and new vector features can overlap in an arbitrary manner, you should
  explore known algorithms for merging, subtracting etc. operations on (multi)polygons.
  Be sure to measure their performance however as they may be too slow for bigger
  datasets. A simpler and faster spatial strategies to detect some common cases of
  (non)interactions between features should be cleverly used. For example, 
  before calculating an intersection of two polygons, check if their bounding 
  boxes overlap. If they do not overlap, there is no chance of intersection either,
  and there is no need to run a complex algorithm for discovering that.
  There are many spatial indexes invented to aid with the general task of telling
  whether two objects are “close” to each other.</p>

  <p>If there is a guarantee that features may only intersect in a tight area along
  their common borders, one can try snapping [8] of nodes to lines in an attempt to
  unify the border between the features. This is not universal, however, as 
  there will always be cases when manual post-editing will be needed. The 
  following JOSM plug-in [9] was developed to assist with a kind of node snapping
  in JOSM; it still relies on manual adjustment for complex cases.</p>

  <h3 id="to-be-continued-practical-examples-of-problems-and-solutions">To be continued: practical examples of problems and solutions</h3>

  <p>There are a lot of common specific issues with the land cover data and its 
  conflation. Pictures should also definitely help with explaining them.
  I plan to talk about these in more details later in a separate post.</p>

  <h3 id="links">Links</h3>

  <ol>
    <li><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/NMD_2018_Import_Plan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/NMD_2018_Import_Plan</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landcover" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landcover</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_polygonize.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_polygonize.html</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass77/manuals/v.generalize.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://grass.osgeo.org/grass77/manuals/v.generalize.html</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_rasterize.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_rasterize.html</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass77/manuals/v.clean.html#snap-lines-to-vertex-in-threshold" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://grass.osgeo.org/grass77/manuals/v.clean.html#snap-lines-to-vertex-in-threshold</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/grigory-rechistov/snapnewnodes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://github.com/grigory-rechistov/snapnewnodes</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/manuals/v.overlay.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/manuals/v.overlay.html</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoshD/diary/16048" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JoshD/diary/16048</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/manuals/v.buffer.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/manuals/v.buffer.html</a></li>
  </ol>


guid: http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=522
url: https://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=522
title: Rework of the OSM Inspector Routing View
published: 2019-06-14 08:54:48
fetched: 2019-06-14 09:00:13.791000
created_at: 2019-06-14 09:00:13.815455
updated_at: 2019-06-14 09:00:13.815455
summary:
  We recently rewrote the OSM Inspector Routing View. The old views were used quite a lot by mappers to find potential routing errors. Unfortunately, they made use of PostGIS to find nearby, unconnected roads which meant having to import the whole road network into a PostGIS database every day. To make matters worse, the island [&#8230;]

content:
  <p><img title="Screenshot of the OSM Inspector Routing view around Landau/Pfalz, Germany" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/routing-landau.png" alt="Screenshot of the OSM Inspector Routing view around Landau/Pfalz, Germany" /></p>
  <p>We recently rewrote the<a href="http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=routing&amp;lon=34.71349&amp;lat=-5.17547&amp;zoom=7"> OSM Inspector Routing View</a>. The old views were used quite a lot by mappers to find potential routing errors. Unfortunately, they made use of PostGIS to find nearby, unconnected roads which meant having to import the whole road network into a PostGIS database every day. To make matters worse, the island and duplicate segment detection was implemented using OSRM which also has relatively heavy system requirements, especially if you do not limit yourself to automobile routing. This made us have a closer look at using GraphHopper to generate the routing view.</p>
  <p>The new backend code was implemented from scratch and does not aim to be a one-by-one reimplementation. It uses GraphHopper to read the planet, build up the graph, analyse it and find nearby edges. Our code uses a forked version of GraphHopper 0.12 with the following changes:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>The original GraphHopper lacks some callback functions in its <code>OSMReader</code> class. Our changes allow us to build additional indexes and populate maps mapping from internal edge or node IDs to OSM object IDs.</li>
  <li>The <code>PrepareRoutingSubnetworks</code> class which removes islands from the graph is not extensible but we need to write the edges being removed to a GeoJSON file.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>In addition to forking, we implemented a new routing profile (&#8220;flag encoder&#8221; in GraphHopper speak) accepting any road and ignoring access restrictions. It is used to find duplicated edges, unconnected roads, and islands.</p>
  <p>The backend code is <a href="https://github.com/geofabrik/osmi_routing">available on GitHub.</a></p>
  <p>The new routing view has the following groups of layers:</p>
  <h2>Duplicated Edges</h2>
  <p>These layers show edges which exist twice in the graph. The blue ones are almost always real errors and should be fixed by comparing the tags and history of both ways. The purple ones are locations where two edges have equal geometry and at least one of them is an area. Opinions whether areas should share nodes with neighbouring roads are diverse among the OSM community. Therefore, these cases are shown in a separate layer at high zoom levels only.</p>
  <p>The results of the duplicated edges layer (not involving areas) are similar to those of OSRM. Minor differences are possible where OSRM excluded a road due to access restrictions while our new implementation includes it.</p>
  <h2>Islands</h2>
  <p><img title="Screenshot of the OSM Inspector Routing view in Normal, Illinois, US" src="/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/routing-normal-illiniois.png" alt="Screenshot of the OSM Inspector Routing view in Normal, Illinois, US" /><br />
  The use of GraphHopper allows us to identify routing islands for multiple types of vehicles in one go. The OSM Inspector now provides islands for cars and bicycles using slightly modified version of the original profiles of GraphHopper (we use fewer bits to store the speed because island detection does not take travel times or distances into account). In addition, a layer with islands inaccessible to any vehicle is provided. This layer contains fewer entries in total but those contained are more serious because they are not caused by correct or incorrect access restriction tagging in OSM.</p>
  <h2>Unconnected Nodes</h2>
  <p>Most development time was spent finding a set of unconnected nodes layers with a proper separation of very likely, likely, potential errors and likely false positives. We are grateful to the folks on the <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66177">German OSM forum</a> who pointed out many bugs and too high rates of false positives.</p>
  <p>Nodes where a single edge ends but with other edges within 15 meters are assigned to one of 6 priority classes. A distance below 2 meters makes a unconnected node appear in the top layer. The further composition of the layers depends on the road class, the distance, and access restrictions. The priority of unconnected nodes involving private access roads is reduced by 1. Service roads and footpaths get low default levels. In addition, the following rules avoid too many false positives:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><code>noexit=yes</code> and <code>entrance=*</code> make unconnected nodes disappear.</li>
  <li>Nearby edges on different layers/levels are ignored.</li>
  <li>Linear barriers (fences, walls, embankments) are taken into account.</li>
  <li>Unconnected open ends of parking aisles are ignored if they snap to a parallel edge.</li>
  <li>If the distance between the open end node and its snap point on the graph is less than twice as long as the beeline distance, no point is shown.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>The &#8220;snap points&#8221; layer shows the snap points of open ends helping to understand the situation.</p>
  <p>Not all entries in the unconnected nodes layers are mistakes. Often, adding a linear barrier is helpful. The more blueish a point is, the less likely it is a mistake at all. Don&#8217;t feel forced to add <code>noexit=yes</code> to every point the OSM Inspector complains about. You are not mapping for the validator <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.4/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>


guid: https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/?p=382
url: https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/index.php/2019/06/15/utm-grid-overlay-experimental/
title: UTM Grid Overlay (Experimental!)
published: 2019-06-15 17:23:05
fetched: 2019-10-13 12:30:23.958277
created_at: 2019-06-15 17:30:23.796723
updated_at: 2019-10-13 12:30:24.023008
summary:
  Over the years there were requests for UTM support in my MapOSMatic instance every once in a while. I now spent most of the first day of this years FOSSGIS Summer Camp on the topic, and I’m now happy to announce a first exeprimental implementation of an UTM grid overlay. The screenshot shows the grid overlay &#8230; <a href="https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/index.php/2019/06/15/utm-grid-overlay-experimental/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "UTM Grid Overlay (Experimental!)"</span></a>

content:
  <p><a name="preamble"></a></p>
  <p>Over the years there were requests for UTM support in my <a href="https://print.get-map.org/">MapOSMatic instance</a> every once in a while.</p>
  <p>I now spent most of the first day of this years <a href="https://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_Hacking_Event_2019_Nummer_12">FOSSGIS Summer Camp</a> on the topic, and I’m now happy to announce a first exeprimental implementation of an UTM grid overlay.</p>
  <p>The screenshot shows the grid overlay only for clarity, it shows the grid for transition between two UTM zones, and the not-yet-perfect label placing:</p>
  <p><a href="https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/utf-grid-example.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-385" src="https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/utf-grid-example-300x205.png" alt="" width="300" height="205" srcset="https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/utf-grid-example-300x205.png 300w, https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/utf-grid-example-768x524.png 768w, https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/utf-grid-example.png 987w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a></p>
  <p>If you are interested in further progress on this feature you may wat to subscribe to the <a href="https://github.com/hholzgra/ocitysmap/issues/23">Feature Request</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/O%20Fim/diary/368835
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/O%20Fim/diary/368835
title: Numeração em Pinheiros
published: 2019-06-15 19:14:01
fetched: 2019-06-21 18:00:04.144231
created_at: 2019-06-15 19:30:03.813665
updated_at: 2019-06-21 18:00:04.330043
summary:
  <p>Rua Butantã, Avenida Eusébio Matoso, Rua Paes Leme, Rua Eugênio de Medeiros e Diversas outras na região 100% numeradas , foram corrigidos erros na nomeação excluídos edifícios não mais existentes inclusos faixas de pedestres semáforos  pontos de ônibus iluminação etc.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ika-chan!/diary/368836
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ika-chan!/diary/368836
title: RfC: Using junction:ref=* on motorway interchanges
published: 2019-06-15 22:24:08
fetched: 2019-06-21 22:00:04.245936
created_at: 2019-06-15 22:30:04.151135
updated_at: 2019-06-21 22:00:04.429926
summary:
  <p>The Greek OSM community would like to hear from you on how <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/junction_details" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">junction:ref</a>=* can be used on free-flowing motorway interchanges.</p>

  <p>Examples of motorway interchanges under discussion include the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4951/-0.4963" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">M4/M25 interchange</a> near Heathrow, and the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/38.0623/23.7491" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Α1/Α6 interchange</a> near Metamorfosi.</p>

  <p>Whatever is decided by the Greek community may influence how we use junction:ref=* for similar interchanges worldwide.</p>

  <p>Comments and suggestions may be posted on the key’s <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/junction_details" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">talk page</a>, or the <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66435" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">forum thread</a>: both pages are monitored.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368837
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368837
title: GaslitStreetMap
published: 2019-06-15 23:07:06
fetched: 2019-06-21 22:30:04.507467
created_at: 2019-06-15 23:30:03.913022
updated_at: 2019-06-21 22:30:04.684881
summary:
  <h1 id="has-openstreetmap-osm-become-gaslitstreetmap-gsm">Has <em>OpenStreetMap</em> (OSM) become <em>GaslitStreetMap</em> (GSM)?</h1>

  <h2 id="believe-what-i-tell-you--not-what-you-see"><em>“Believe What I Tell You &amp; Not What You See”</em></h2>
  <p><strong><em>A stroll down Memory Lane</em></strong>  <br>
  In <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/172800" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Spam Attacks</a> the floods of spam drowning these Diary pages were quantified, whilst in <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368755" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Extreme SEO</a> was news that the spam had now been killed by killing all Diary page visibility. In <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HiddenStreetMap</a> it was that large parts of the entire site are invisible to the general public, and Diary pages are completely dark. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368814" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">BloatedStreetMap</a> was news that this site’s setup unnecessarily bloats all site-bandwidth and thus inflates site-load.</p>

  <p>I presented evidence throughout the above, but also pointed out that it was not just a technical issue. It was first a question of attitude &amp; desire. To quote the <em>Spice Girls</em>, what do you really, <em>really</em> want?</p>

  <p>If <a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">SFS</a> are handling a similar workload as GSM, which they are, yet doing it with a single server whilst GSM has 90&nbsp;servers, which it has, then there is clear headroom for the SEs to light up this site.  <br>
  &nbsp;•&nbsp;A setup that conforms with industry best-practice to remove the bloat would be a good start  <br>
  &nbsp;•&nbsp;Standard methods are available to stop fast-scrapes  <br>
  &nbsp;•&nbsp;Moderation on new users is the standard method to bring spam under control, yet leave current users fully visible.</p>

  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>My evidence was ignored and I experienced personal attack from a small coterie who can be found throughout the <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commits" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">site GitHub comments</a>. They are in part a self-affirming circle showing classic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">narcissistic</a> behaviour.</td>
        <td><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Narcissus-Caravaggio_%281594-96%29_edited.jpg/396px-Narcissus-Caravaggio_%281594-96%29_edited.jpg" alt="the narcissist"></td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <p>Those that were <em>narcissists</em> never thanked me for the evidence, nor examined it, but only attacked me in personal terms for anything that they considered reflected badly upon themselves. I’ll give some clear examples of this later, but first…</p>

  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>Here is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">definition of <em>“Gaslighting”</em></a> from Wikipedia, <a href="https://youtu.be/oqvFVX4FOqY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">so familiar now</a> to USA readers due to it’s <a href="https://youtu.be/k3H9EqOl9_M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">constant use</a> by the <a href="https://youtu.be/6nhoGIvOKJU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">malignant narcissist</a> that now occupies the White House:</td>
        <td><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Gaslight_1944_trailer%283%29.jpg" alt="Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight"></td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <blockquote>
    <p><strong><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Gaslighting</a></em></strong> is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s belief.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>I made 3 assertions in <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HiddenStreetMap</a>:–</p>

  <ol>
    <li>These Diary Pages are Closed Tight Shut</li>
    <li>The Map Pages are Closed Tight Shut</li>
    <li>All <em>Admin</em> action appears to be Unilateral - Zero Consultation</li>
  </ol>

  <p><strong><em>A Classic Example of Gaslighting &amp; Mis-Direction:–</em></strong>  <br>
  After writing <em><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HiddenStreetMap</a></em> the GSM Admin <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786#comment44943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">immediately tried</a> to <em>gaslight</em> me:–</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368786#comment44943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">10 June 2019 07:18</a>:  <br>
  Wasn’t it you that suggested blocking indexing of the diary pages as a temporary measure?</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>That was nonsense. I think that the Diary pages are useful, and <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/275003" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">my prior suggestion</a> was to place new users into moderation. That Admin, in contrast, <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2218#issuecomment-493661418" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">hates these diaries</a> and wants to remove them:–</p>

  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2218#issuecomment-493661418" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">18 May 2019, 10:08 BST</a>:  <br>
  Frankly I think a more reasoned response would be that it is ridiculous for us to be running a blog system that is entirely unrelated to our primary purpose and just ditch the diaries altogether.</p>

    <p><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/338244#comment44765" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">18 May 2019 at 10:05</a>  <br>
  Personally at this point I am inclined to just close down the diaries - they are not core to our service and should probably never have been implemented and it’s unlikely we will ever be able to implement the sort of tools that a product focused on blogging can manage and that they will continue to consume ever larger amounts of administrators time.</p>
  </blockquote>

  <p>Rather than being a servant to a larger affair, that <em>Admin</em> believes himself to be in charge of it all. That is a most dangerous delusion. However, do not miss the misdirection (yet another <em>Gaslight</em> technique deployed by narcissists). Blocking Diary pages from indexing by the SEs was a unilateral <em>Admin</em> action which he does not want to be discussed, so he attempts to deflect into other matters. Once you know how they work this is oh so predictable.</p>

  <p>For a final word on the diaries, realise that they allow air &amp; light into a common discussion across all issues related to OSM, but not GSM. The <em>Admin</em> wants these diaries to be dark, and that is precisely what a narcissist <em>would</em> want.</p>

  <p><strong><em>A final, less important example of gaslighting:–</em></strong>  <br>
  …came on 5 June with the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368755" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Extreme SEO</a> post. I listed the contents of <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/public/robots.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">robots.txt</a> and pointed out that it contained a broken link to the <em>Sitemap</em>. Without acknowledgement nor thanks it got <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/31e1204dfab9b81346a2881ac0943ba37a76a323" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">fixed by the Admin</a> on the same day shortly after the post went up. However, underlining the previous paragraph, 4&nbsp;years previously <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/1113" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">BushmanK opened an issue</a> pointing out that the <em>Sitemap</em> was missing and got short shrift about it from the <em>Admin</em> (a <em>Sitemap</em> is a vital tool for good SEO, whilst a broken <em>robots.txt</em> is the perfect way to get downgraded by the SEs). Nevertheless, on Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:07:41 GMT the previous day’s fix was <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/2249" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">post-allocated to that old issue</a>.</p>

  <p>Please forgive a long post. I’m trying to disinfect the foul atmosphere here with sunlight.</p>


guid: https://weeklyosm.eu/?p=12177
url: http://weeklyosm.eu/archives/12177
title: weeklyOSM 464
published: 2019-06-16 09:47:19
fetched: 2019-08-21 12:30:27.438285
created_at: 2019-06-16 10:00:31.377162
updated_at: 2019-08-21 12:30:29.521541
summary:
  04/06/2019-10/06/2019 Mapping North Korea a new project from Maarten van den Hoven 1 &#124; Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL Mapping Jean-Louis Zimmerman tweets a few unusual curiosities which may challenge OSM mapping and tagging. (automatic translation) Joseph Eisenberg has posted his proposal for the tag waterway=tidal channel to the tagging mailing list for discussion. [&#8230;]

content:
  <p>04/06/2019-10/06/2019</p>
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  Mapping North Korea a new project from Maarten van den Hoven <a href="#wn464_20262"><sup>1</sup></a> | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL</p>
  </div>
  <h2 id="wn464_mapping">Mapping</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20257">Jean-Louis Zimmerman <a href="https://twitter.com/JLZIMMERMANN/status/1135436710492479488">tweets</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/fr.svg" alt="(fr)" /> a few unusual curiosities which may challenge OSM mapping and tagging. (automatic <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://twitter.com/JLZIMMERMANN/status/1135436710492479488">translation</a>)</li>
  <li id="wn464_20261">Joseph Eisenberg has <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-June/045924.html">posted</a> his <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:waterway%3Dtidal_channel">proposal</a> for the tag <code>waterway=tidal channel</code> to the tagging mailing list for discussion. It is based on a discussion that took place in September 2018 to map natural tidal waterways.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20270">The OSM mapper Simon Legner <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-June/009896.html">reported</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-June/009896.html">translation</a>) on the Talk-at mailing list that he added the new layers of the Austrian government&#8217;s Open Data portal (OGD) to the editor layer index. He <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/#using-this-index">describes</a> more about it on his github page.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20262">[1] <a href="https://mappingnorthkorea.com/">Mapping North Korea</a> is a new project from <a href="https://maartenvandenhoven.com/">Maarten van den Hoven</a> to remotely map North Korea, with a Tasking Manager style web interface.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20292">In order to be able to help people in crisis areas quickly, helpers depend on high-quality maps. For many areas, these maps must first be produced. In doing so, <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/">Doctors Without Borders</a> is supported by modern technology &#8211; and by thousands of volunteers. On 25 June 2019 from 19:00 &#8211; 22:00, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/missing-maps-february-mapathon-berlin-registration-55959352931">meet</a> interested people for a <a href="https://www.missingmaps.org/">Missing Maps</a> Mapathon at Wikimedia in Berlin.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_community">Community</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20268">Nicolas Chavent <a href="https://twitter.com/nicolas_chavent/status/1138422723351371777">published</a> a Twitter moment about two weeks of OSM and free Geomatics training in Brazzaville (Congo) targeted to the local OSM community and stakeholders from the research, development and local authorities. The courses were facilitated with the help of members of Congolese communities and a Togolese mapper with the support of the International Organisation of Francophonie (OIF).</li>
  <li id="wn464_20249">On the mailing list OSM-talk the question was <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-May/thread.html#82607">asked</a> whether there are volunteers who want to organise a discussion forum at the upcoming SotM about the OSM Editor iD. However, <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082647.html">a suggestion was</a> made that it is not a good idea to hold a &#8220;tribunal&#8221; on iD, but that it would be better to collect ideas by September 1st and then discuss them.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20280">The OSM user Joseph Eisenberg <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082654.html">asked</a> on the mailing list OSM-talk whether the element <code>data item</code> on OSM Wiki pages should be used for description texts. The reason for this is that he found no or only very short descriptions for the tags, <code>natural=peninsula</code> and <code>natural=isthmus</code> on the wiki pages. When editing the wiki pages he could not find an element for the description and was referred to the element data item by other OSM users. Eisenberg also says that the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_items">wiki page</a> for the element is very confusing and therefore its use is not clear to him.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20266">A <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66410">discussion</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66410">translation</a>) about the mapping of &#8220;unpacked&#8221; stores on the German forum, previously tagged with <code>bulk_purchase</code>, was followed by a <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66440">discussion</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66440">translation</a>) on the French forum on the same topic, but independently of each other. Now new tagging <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66456">is discussed</a> together in English under the heading &#8220;Tag[ging] shops accepting that customers bring their own containers&#8221;.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_imports">Imports</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20253">HOT <a href="https://tasks-assisted.hotosm.org/">have set</a> up a Tasking Manager for computer vision imports.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_openstreetmap_foundation">OpenStreetMap Foundation</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20263">The <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DWG_2019_05_22">minutes</a> of the meeting of the OSMF Data Working Group on 22 May 2019 have been published.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_humanitarian_osm">Humanitarian OSM</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20274">The website <a href="https://www.geospatialworld.net">geospatialworld</a> has <a href="https://www.geospatialworld.net/article/missing-maps-project-uses-tech-to-aid-relief-work-in-disaster-hit-area/">published</a> an article about the Missing Map project. It introduces the project and its goals.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20267">Intel Folsom hosted a mapathon with the Missing Maps Project. Estimated attendance was 56 mappers, plus 2 volunteers from the Red Cross and 1 volunteer from Intel to answer their questions. You can read more <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gappleto97/diary/368798">here</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_maps">Maps</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20250">Said Turksever <a href="https://twitter.com/asturksever/status/1135936043251830784">tweeted</a> about ICT4Society in Turkey, a project using OSM and Mapillary to help improve social inclusion for people with disabilities, and links to the resulting <a href="https://izmirosmcommunity.github.io/izmiraccessiblitymap.html">map</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_licences">Licences</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20278">Following a long discussion with Facebook and their map suppliers (Mapbox), Nuno Caldeira <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082653.html">asked</a> the Board of OSMF about terminating Facebook&#8217;s rights under ODbL. As source of his request he mentioned chapter <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/index.html">9.4 c)</a> of the ODbL. This follows a long discussion about attribution of OSM in <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-February/thread.html#82136">February</a> and <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-March/thread.html#82139">March</a> this year on the main &#8220;talk&#8221; list.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_software">Software</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20277">K_sakanoshita published (<a href="https://twitter.com/K_Sakanoshita/status/1137171558932176896">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/K.Sakanoshita/posts/2257122831069481">Facebook</a>) new version of &#8220;<a href="https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~saka/accessmap/">Machi-aruki Map maker</a>&#8220;, used for creating printed maps for disaster planning etc. New features are now available to add cafes and restaurants, fire hydrant icons and labels.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_programming">Programming</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20252">Quincy Morgan <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6483">suggests</a> in a GitHub ticket that iD from version 3.0 should become a general GeoJSON editor.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_releases">Releases</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20272">In the new release of OsmAnd 2.80 (iOS), Mapillary photos are displayed for navigation, as is already the case on Android. In addition to performance improvements there were many other adjustments. You can <a href="https://osmand.net/blog">read</a> more about this in OsmAnd&#8217;s blog.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_did_you_know_…">Did you know …</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20276">&#8230; a few lines of code with the 3-D Tool <a href="https://codepen.io/osmbuildings/pen/oVVXEm">3D OSM Buildings</a> lets us rotate a panoramic view.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_other_“geo”_things">Other “geo” things</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20269">The longest glass floor bridge in the world was recently <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37127725">opened</a> in East China as a new attraction in the &#8220;Huaxi World Adventure Park&#8221; at the Great Wall of China. With a length of 518 m it replaces the previous record holder (488 m). <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/695845767">Here&#8217;s</a> where you can find this on OSM.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20271">Margaret Lee <a href="https://blog.mapbox.com/data-the-route-from-a-blank-map-to-a-live-map-4fe5cf68d78">describes</a> in Mapbox&#8217;s blog &#8220;The route from a blank map to a live map&#8221;.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20260">Malvika Mahesh, a research intern of the <a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/author/observer-research-foundation/">Observer Research Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/06062019-drawing-lines-on-the-internet-border-conflicts-and-the-politics-behind-digital-maps-sound-acceptable-analysis/">writes</a> in his article &#8220;Drawing Lines On The Internet: Border Conflicts And The Politics Behind Digital Maps&#8221; on the different treatment of borders in digital maps. He also praises OpenStreetMap&#8217;s &#8220;on the ground&#8221; rule (see also OSM&#8217;s <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf">Disputed Territories</a> (PDF) policy &#8211; itself <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2019-February/thread.html#5972">not always accepted</a> across the board in OSM) , and criticises Google&#8217;s current approach. An interesting link from that article is a <a href="http://metrocosm.com/disputed-territories-map.html">map</a> summarising worldwide disputes.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20258"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Environment_Day">World Environment Day</a> took place on 5 June. A <a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2019/06/05/support-the-global-osm-climate-protection-map-at-worldenvironmentday/">post</a> at the University of Heidelberg&#8217;s GIScience News Blog <a href="https://klimaschutzkarte.de/index_En.html">links</a> to the global OSM-based climate protection map, with a call to contribute to climate protection through more sustainable lifestyles.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20248">The <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-cyclists-take-over-streets-demand-more-space-for-bikes/a-49008564">changes</a> in Berlin from being a car-friendly to a bicycle-friendly city can be seen at <a href="https://fixmyberlin.de/planungen">FixMyBerlin</a>, where the <a href="https://fixmyberlin.de/zustand">current state</a> of cycle-friendliness is also displayed.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20246">BMW <a href="https://www.golem.de/news/sicherheit-bmw-teilt-verkehrsdaten-unter-cc-lizenz-1906-141662.html">published</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.ca/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fsicherheit-bmw-teilt-verkehrsdaten-unter-cc-lizenz-1906-141662.html">translation</a>) &#8220;safety-relevant traffic data&#8221;, collected by BMW vehicles, under the CC-BY-NC-SA license, which excludes commercial use, but which a <a href="https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/united-kingdom/article/detail/T0296690EN/bmw-group-enhances-road-safety-by-sharing-anonymised-traffic-data?language=en_GB">BMW press release</a> incorrectly describes as &#8220;free&#8221;.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_upcoming_events">Upcoming Events</h2>
  <table>
  <thead>
  <tr>
  <th>Where</th>
  <th>What</th>
  <th>When</th>
  <th>Country</th>
  </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>State of the Map France</td>
  <td>2019-06-14-2019-06-16</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Essen</td>
  <td>5. OSM-Sommercamp und 12. FOSSGIS-Hackingevent im Linuxhotel</td>
  <td>2019-06-14-2019-06-16</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Kyoto</td>
  <td>京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第9回 光明寺</td>
  <td>2019-06-15</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/08/jp.svg" alt="japan" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Dublin</td>
  <td>OSM Ireland AGM &amp; Talks</td>
  <td>2019-06-15</td>
  <td><img src="http://www.weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ie.svg" alt="ireland" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Coimbra</td>
  <td>Training School on Quality Control of OpenStreetMap Data</td>
  <td>2019-06-17-2019-06-19</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/10/pt.svg" alt="portugal" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Cologne Bonn Airport</td>
  <td>Bonner Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lüneburg</td>
  <td>Lüneburger Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rostock</td>
  <td>Rostocker Treffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Coimbra</td>
  <td>Coimbra Mapping Party</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/10/pt.svg" alt="portugal" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Karlsruhe</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-19</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Leoberdorf</td>
  <td>Leobersdorfer Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/at.svg" alt="austria" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rennes</td>
  <td>Préparer ses randos pédestres ou vélos</td>
  <td>2019-06-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bremen</td>
  <td>Bremer Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-24</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Angra do Heroísmo</td>
  <td>Erasmus+ EuYoutH OSM Meeting</td>
  <td>2019-06-24-2019-06-29</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/10/pt.svg" alt="portugal" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Salt Lake City</td>
  <td>SLC Map Night</td>
  <td>2019-06-25</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/us.svg" alt="united states" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-26</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>São Paulo</td>
  <td>OpenStreetMap no MundoGeo Connect</td>
  <td>2019-06-26</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/03/br.svg" alt="brazil" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lübeck</td>
  <td>Lübecker Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Mannheim</td>
  <td>Mannheimer Mapathons e.V.</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Düsseldorf</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-28</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Kyoto</td>
  <td>幕末京都オープンデータソン#11：京の浪士と池田屋事件</td>
  <td>2019-06-29</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/08/jp.svg" alt="japan" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Sakai</td>
  <td>百舌鳥古墳群マッピングパーティ</td>
  <td>2019-06-30</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/08/jp.svg" alt="japan" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Žilina</td>
  <td>Missing Maps mapathon Zilina #5 at Faculty of Management Science and Informatics University of Zilina</td>
  <td>2019-07-02</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/06/sk.svg" alt="slovakia" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Cologne</td>
  <td>Köln Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Stuttgart</td>
  <td>Stuttgarter Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Essen</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bochum</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Nantes</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Dresden</td>
  <td>Stammtisch Dresden</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Ivrea</td>
  <td>Incontro mensile</td>
  <td>2019-07-06</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/it.svg" alt="italy" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Makati City</td>
  <td>OSMPH × GrabPH Mapathon 1</td>
  <td>2019-07-06</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/ph.svg" alt="philippines" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Santa Fe</td>
  <td>State of the Map Argentina 2019</td>
  <td>2019-07-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/03/ar.svg" alt="argentina" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Minneapolis</td>
  <td>State of the Map U.S. 2019 [1]</td>
  <td>2019-09-06-2019-09-08</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/us.svg" alt="united states" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Edinburgh</td>
  <td>FOSS4GUK 2019</td>
  <td>2019-09-18-2019-09-21</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/uk.svg" alt="united kingdom" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>Erasmus+ EuYoutH OSM Meeting</td>
  <td>2019-09-18-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>HOT Summit 2019</td>
  <td>2019-09-19-2019-09-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>State of the Map 2019 [2]</td>
  <td>2019-09-21-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Wellington</td>
  <td>FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019</td>
  <td>2019-11-12-2019-11-15</td>
  <td><img src="https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/06/nz.svg" alt="new zealand" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Grand-Bassam</td>
  <td>State of the Map Africa 2019</td>
  <td>2019-11-22-2019-11-24</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/10/ci.svg" alt="ivory coast" /></td>
  </tr>
  </tbody>
  </table>
  <p>Note: If you like to see your event here, please <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar">put it into</a> the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please <a href="https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/calendar/preview"> check your event</a> in our public calendar preview and correct it, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar">where appropriate</a>.</p>
  <p align="right"><i>This weeklyOSM was <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages"> produced</a> by <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nakaner">Nakaner</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot">Polyglot</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rogehm">Rogehm</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SK53">SK53</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse">SomeoneElse</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheSwavu">TheSwavu</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/manfred__r">derFred</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/geologist">geologist</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/fofliajinal">jinalfoflia</a>.</i></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/368839
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/368839
title: Add your team to OSMCha
published: 2019-06-16 12:41:42
fetched: 2019-06-22 08:00:04.604209
created_at: 2019-06-16 13:00:04.638409
updated_at: 2019-06-22 08:00:04.780293
summary:
  <p>Many companies and organizations have a group of mappers editing on OpenStreetMap. We have created a feature on OSMCha to publish team lists of users, and then filter or hide changesets created by one or more mapping teams.</p>

  <p>This week we pushed some adjustments to make it more useful for the OpenStreetMap community. So let’s see how it works.</p>

  <p>In the OSMCha user menu, there is an option “My teams”.</p>

  <p><img src="https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_FF3DF4FB5E218E7ABC88B263BB63207D2A4DB420048C825452F8C62C15AAD75A_1559555469323_Screenshot+from+2019-06-03+06-34-46.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>That opens the “My mapping teams page”, listing the teams your user has already created on OSMCha. Clicking on the <strong><em>“Add +”</em></strong> button, you will be able to add the details of a new team.</p>

  <p><img src="https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_FF3DF4FB5E218E7ABC88B263BB63207D2A4DB420048C825452F8C62C15AAD75A_1559555541874_Screenshot_2019-06-03+OSM+Changeset+Analyzer1.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>The required minimum structure of the users JSON format is:</p>

  <p><code>
  [{"username": "user_1"}, {"username": "user_2"}]
  </code></p>

  <p>However you can add other fields if you want.</p>

  <p>If the team you created is part of an <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">organized editing initiative</a>, please <a href="https://github.com/mapbox/osmcha-frontend/issues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">open an issue</a> on our GitHub repository requesting your team to be considered a “Verified team”. That way, an OSMCha admin can validate your team and it will appear on the filter page with an indication that the team was created and maintained by your company/organization.</p>

  <p>Finally, on the Filters page, we have three team fields: <em>“Mapping teams”</em>,  “<em>Hide mapping teams</em>”, and “<em>Hide verified mapping teams</em>”. They allow for filtering or exclusion of changesets from one or more teams, and to hide changesets created by all the verified mapping teams.</p>

  <p><img src="https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_FF3DF4FB5E218E7ABC88B263BB63207D2A4DB420048C825452F8C62C15AAD75A_1560688415708_Screenshot_2019-06-16+OSM+Changeset+Analyzer.png" alt=""></p>

  <p>The mapping team management can also be used through the API. Check out the <a href="https://osmcha.mapbox.com/api-docs/#/mapping-team" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">API Docs</a> for instructions about the endpoints.</p>

  <p>We expect this new feature helps the OSM community to be even more effective on changeset validation. If you have some question or new ideas, please open an issue on <a href="https://github.com/mapbox/osmcha-frontend/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">our GitHub</a>.</p>


guid: http://blog.openstreetmap.de/?p=15863
url: http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2019/06/wochennotiz-nr-464/
title: Wochennotiz Nr. 464
published: 2019-06-16 14:56:34
fetched: 2019-08-21 12:30:19.874377
created_at: 2019-06-16 15:00:23.286534
updated_at: 2019-08-21 12:30:21.288931
summary:
  04.06.2019-10.06.2019 &#8220;Mapping North Korea&#8221; &#8211; ein neues Projekt von Maarten van den Hoven 1 &#124; © OpenStreetMap Mitwirkende, ODbL Mapping Jean-Louis Zimmerman twittert ein paar ungewöhnliche Kuriositäten, die Herausforderungen für das OSM-Mapping und -Tagging darstellen können. (automatische Übersetzung) Joseph Eisenberg &#8230; <a href="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/blog/2019/06/wochennotiz-nr-464/">Weiterlesen <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>

content:
  <p>04.06.2019-10.06.2019</p>
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  <div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1031px;">
  <p class="wp-caption-text"><img src="https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/06/464_T_EN.png" alt="Logo" width="1021" height="774" /><br />
  &#8220;Mapping North Korea&#8221; &#8211; ein neues Projekt von Maarten van den Hoven <a href="#wn464_20262"><sup>1</sup></a> | © OpenStreetMap Mitwirkende, ODbL</p>
  </div>
  <h2 id="wn464_mapping">Mapping</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20257">Jean-Louis Zimmerman <a href="https://twitter.com/JLZIMMERMANN/status/1135436710492479488">twittert</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/fr.svg" alt="(fr)" /> ein paar ungewöhnliche Kuriositäten, die Herausforderungen für das OSM-Mapping und -Tagging darstellen können. (automatische <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=DE&amp;u=https://twitter.com/JLZIMMERMANN/status/1135436710492479488">Übersetzung</a>)</li>
  <li id="wn464_20261">Joseph Eisenberg hat auf der Mailingliste Tagging sein <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:waterway%3Dtidal_channel">Proposal</a> für den Tag <code>waterway=tidal_channel</code> zur Diskussion <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-June/045924.html">gestellt</a>. Grundlage dafür ist eine Diskussion, die bereits im September 2018 stattgefunden hat, um natürliche Gezeitenwasserwege zu mappen.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20270">Der OSM-Mapper simon04 hat auf der Mailingliste Talk-at <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-June/009896.html">berichtet</a>, dass er die neuen Layer vom österreichischen Opendataportal (OGD) in den Editor-Layer-Index eingepflegt hat. Näheres dazu <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/#using-this-index">beschreibt</a> er auf seiner github-Seite.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20283">Im deutschen OSM-Forum wird darüber <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66465">diskutiert</a>, ob es angemessen ist, Straßen kurz vor Kreuzungen aufzuteilen, weil Tempolimit-Schilder nicht auf der Kreuzung, sondern wenige Meter später stehen.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20262">[1] <a href="https://mappingnorthkorea.com/">Mapping North Korea</a> ist ein neues Projekt von <a href="https://maartenvandenhoven.com/">Maarten van den Hoven</a> zur Fernkartierung von Nordkorea mit einer Weboberfläche im Tasking-Manager-Stil.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20292">Um Menschen in Krisengebieten rasch helfen zu können, sind Helferinnen und Helfer auf hochwertiges Kartenmaterial angewiesen. Für viele Gebiete müssen diese Karten erst angefertigt werden. Dabei wird <a href="https://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/">ÄRZTE OHNE GRENZEN</a> von moderner Technik unterstützt – und von tausenden Freiwilligen. Am 25. Juni von 19:00 &#8211; 22:00 <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/missing-maps-february-mapathon-berlin-registration-55959352931">treffen sich</a> Interessierte zu einem <a href="https://www.missingmaps.org/">Missing Maps</a> Mapathon bei Wikimedia in Berlin.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_community">Community</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20268">Nicolas Chavent <a href="https://twitter.com/nicolas_chavent/status/1138422723351371777">veröffentlichte</a> einen Twitter-Moment über zwei Wochen OSM und kostenloses Geomatik-Training in Brazzaville (Kongo), das sich an die lokale OSM-Gemeinschaft und Interessenvertreter aus Forschung und Entwicklung sowie an lokale Behörden richtete. Die Kurse wurden mit Hilfe von Mitgliedern kongolesischer Gemeinschaften und einem togoischen Mapper mit Unterstützung der Internationalen Organisation der Francophonie (OIF) durchgeführt.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20249">Auf der Mailingliste Talk wurde die Frage <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082647.html">gestellt</a>, ob es Freiwillige gibt, die ein Diskussionsforum auf der kommenden SotM über den OSM-Editor iD organisieren wollen. Es gibt allerdings Gegenmeinungen, dass es nicht gut ist ein Tribunal über iD abzuhalten, sondern dass es besser wäre bis zum 1. September Ideen zu sammeln und diese dann zu diskutieren.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20280">Der OSM-Benutzer Joseph Eisenberg hat auf der Mailingliste OSM-talk die Frage <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082654.html">gestellt</a>, ob das Element <code>data item</code> auf OSM-Wikiseiten für Beschreibungstexte zu verwenden ist. Hintergrund dazu ist, dass er auf den Wikiseiten zu den Tags <code>natural=peninsula</code> und <code>natural=isthmus</code> keine oder nur sehr kurze Beschreibungen gefunden hat. Beim Anpassen der Wikiseiten konnte er kein Element für die Beschreibung finden und wurde von anderen OSM-Benutzern auf das Element <code>data item</code> hingewiesen. Joseph Eisenberg meint außerdem, dass die <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Data_items">Wikiseite</a> zu dem Element sehr verwirrend und daher die Verwendung für ihn nicht klar sei.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20266">Eine <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66410">Diskussion im deutschen Forum</a> über das Mapping von „Unverpackt“-Läden, bisher mit <code>bulk_purchase</code> getaggt, folgte eine <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66440">Diskussion im französischen Forum</a> über das gleiche Thema, aber unabhängig voneinander. Nun wird bilateral nach Möglichkeiten und neuem Tagging <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66456">gesucht</a>, um verpackungsfreie Einkaufsmöglichkeiten, sowie die Möglichkeit, eigene Verpackungen zum Einkauf mitzubringen, auch in OSM abzubilden.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_importe">Importe</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20253">HOT hat einen Tasking-Manager mit der Unterstützung der gängigsten Machine-learning-Techniken <a href="https://tasks-assisted.hotosm.org/">eingerichtet</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_openstreetmap_foundation">OpenStreetMap Foundation</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20264">Hanna Krüger hat Informationen zum Frauenanteil und der Verteilung anderer Merkmale unter den Teilnehmern der FOSSGIS-Konferenzen der letzten Jahre zusammengetragen (<a href="https://www.fossgis.de/w/images/7/7f/Diversity_im_FOSSGIS.pdf">PDF</a>).</li>
  <li id="wn464_20263">Das <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DWG_2019_05_22">Protokoll</a> der Sitzung der Data Working Group der OSMF vom 22. Mai wurde veröffentlicht.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_humanitarian_osm">Humanitarian OSM</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20274">Die Seite <a href="https://www.geospatialworld.net">geospatialworld</a> hat einen Artikel über das Missing Maps Projekt <a href="https://www.geospatialworld.net/article/missing-maps-project-uses-tech-to-aid-relief-work-in-disaster-hit-area/">publiziert</a>, in dem das Projekt und deren Ziele vorgestellt werden.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20267">Intel Folsom <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gappleto97/diary/368798">veranstaltete</a> einen Mapathon mit dem Missing Maps Projekt. Geschätzte Teilnehmerzahl waren 56 Kartographen plus 2 Freiwillige vom Roten Kreuz und 1 Freiwilliger von Intel, um ihre Fragen zu beantworten.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_karten">Karten</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20250">Turksever <a href="https://twitter.com/asturksever/status/1135936043251830784">twittert</a> über ICT4Society in der Türkei, ein Projekt unter Verwendung von OSM und Mapillary, um die soziale Integration von Menschen mit Behinderungen zu verbessern.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_lizenzen">Lizenzen</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20278">Nuno Caldeira hat den OSMF-Vorstand <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082653.html">gebeten</a>, Facebook gemäß Artikel 9.4c der <a href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/index.html">Open Database License</a> über die bestehenden Lizenzverletzungen in Kenntnis zu setzen und ein Erlöschen der Nutzungsrechte bei ausbleibender Einhaltung nach 30 Tagen anzukündigen. Das führte zu einer längeren Diskussion auf der Mailingliste Talk.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_programme">Programme</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20277">K_sakanoshita hat (<a href="https://twitter.com/K_Sakanoshita/status/1137171558932176896">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/K.Sakanoshita/posts/2257122831069481">Facebook</a>) eine neue Version von „<a href="https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~saka/accessmap/">Machi-aruki Map maker</a>“ veröffentlicht. Neue Funktionen erlauben es Cafés, Restaurants und Hydranten in OSM einzupflegen.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_programmierung">Programmierung</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20252">Quincy Morgan <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/6483">erwähnt</a> in einem GitHub-Ticket, dass iD ab Version 3.0 ein allgemeiner GeoJSON-Editor werden solle.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_releases">Releases</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20272">In der neuen iOS-Version von OsmAnd 2.80 werden, wie bereits von Android gewohnt, Mapillary-Fotos für die Navigation angezeigt. Neben einer Leistungsverbesserung gab es noch viele weitere Anpassungen. Dazu ist näheres im Blog von OsmAnd zu <a href="https://osmand.net/blog">erfahren</a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_kennst_du_schon_…">Kennst du schon …</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20276">&#8230; das 3D Tool <a href="https://codepen.io/osmbuildings/pen/oVVXEm">3D OSM Buildings</a>? Die Parameter lassen sich nach eigenen Wünschen einstellen.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_weitere_themen_mit_geo-bezug">Weitere Themen mit Geo-Bezug</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn464_20269">Die längste Glasbodenbrücke der Welt wurde vor kurzem in Ostchina als neue Attraktion im „Huaxi World Adventure Park“ an der Chinesischen Mauer <a href="https://www.travelbook.de/attraktionen/architektur/laengste-glasbodenbruecke-der-welt">eröffnet</a> und löst mit 518 m Länge den bisherigen Rekordhalter (488 m) ab. Im OSM-<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/31.8528/120.4456">Tagging</a> liegt noch Potenzial. Es verwundert, dass „die Mauer“ nicht erfasst ist.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20271">Margaret Lee <a href="https://blog.mapbox.com/data-the-route-from-a-blank-map-to-a-live-map-4fe5cf68d78">beschreibt</a> in Mapbox&#8217;s Blog den Prozess von einer leeren Karte zu einer Live-Karte.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20260">Malvika Mahesh, ein Praktikant der <a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/author/observer-research-foundation/">Observer Research Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/06062019-drawing-lines-on-the-internet-border-conflicts-and-the-politics-behind-digital-maps-sound-acceptable-analysis/">schreibt</a> in seinem Artikel &#8220;Drawing Lines On The Internet: Border Conflicts And The Politics Behind Digital Maps&#8217; Sound Acceptable?&#8221; über die unterschiedliche Behandlung von Grenzen in digitalen Karten. Er betont auch die „on the ground“-Regel in OSM und hinterfragt Googles Vorgehensweise. U.a. wird eine <a href="http://metrocosm.com/disputed-territories-map.html">Karte strittiger Grenzen</a> verlinkt.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20275">Garmin hat ein neues Offroad-Navi „Overlander“ <a href="https://www.pocketnavigation.de/2019/05/garmin-overlander-off-road/">herausgebracht</a>. Dazu sind OpenStreetMap-Karten mit Daten zum Höhenprofil für die Reliefdarstellung implementiert. Mit vielen weiteren Features, aber auch zu einem stolzen Preis, ist das „Overlande“ eher ein Gerät für „Weltenbummler“ mit entsprechend ausgestattetem Fahrzeug.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20258">Am 5. Juni fand der <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltumwelttag">Weltumwelttag</a> statt. Der GIScience News Blog, Uni Heidelberg, <a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2019/06/05/support-the-global-osm-climate-protection-map-at-worldenvironmentday/">erinnert</a> daran und zeigt noch mal die globale OSM-basierte <a href="https://klimaschutzkarte.de/index_En.html">Klimaschutzkarte</a>, mit der Aufforderung, durch einen nachhaltigeren Lebensstil zum Klimaschutz beizutragen.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20259">Google hat ein Rollout für Google Maps, das die Anzeige der aktuell gefahrenen Geschwindigkeit ermöglicht, <a href="https://www.android-user.de/google-maps-rollout-der-geschwindigkeitsanzeige-beginnt/">gestartet</a>. Will man darauf allerdings nicht warten, kann man sich mit Hilfe der App <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pluscubed.velociraptor&amp;hl=de">Velociraptor</a> die Geschwindigkeitsdaten aus den Datenquellen TomTom Maps, HERE Maps oder OSM per Overlay in Google Maps einblenden, wobei nur die OSM-Daten kostenlos zur Verfügung stehen.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20279">Im GoogleWatchBlog <a href="https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2019/06/google-maps-apple-streetview/">wird</a> der Erfolg von Apple Maps beleuchtet, die mit eigenen Mitteln an einer Streetview-Funktion arbeitet. OpenStreetMap wird am Rande erwähnt als größter Mitbewerber „allerdings nur im Mapping- und Routen-Bereich und ohne kommerzielle Interessen“.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20248">Die Verkehrswende in Berlin hin zu einer fahrradfreundlichen Stadt wird mit OpenStreetMap unter <a href="https://fixmyberlin.de/planungen">FixMyBerlin</a> visualisiert; in einem zweiten Layer wird der derzeitige <a href="https://fixmyberlin.de/zustand">Zustand</a> der Radfahrerfreundlichkeit dargestellt.</li>
  <li id="wn464_20246">BMW <a href="https://www.golem.de/news/sicherheit-bmw-teilt-verkehrsdaten-unter-cc-lizenz-1906-141662.html">veröffentlicht</a> „sicherheitsrelevante Verkehrsdaten“, die von BMW-Fahrzeugen erfasst worden sind, unter der CC-BY-NC-SA-Lizenz, die kommerzielle Nutzung ausschließt, in der <a href="https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/deutschland/article/detail/T0296690DE/bmw-group-erhoeht-die-verkehrssicherheit-durch-das-teilen-von-anonymisierten-verkehrsdaten">BMW-Pressemitteilung</a> aber fälschlicherweise als „frei“ bezeichnet wird.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn464_wochenvorschau">Wochenvorschau</h2>
  <table>
  <thead>
  <tr>
  <th>Wo</th>
  <th>Was</th>
  <th>Wann</th>
  <th>Land</th>
  </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>State of the Map France</td>
  <td>2019-06-14-2019-06-16</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Essen</td>
  <td>5. OSM-Sommercamp und 12. FOSSGIS-Hackingevent im Linuxhotel</td>
  <td>2019-06-14-2019-06-16</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bonn</td>
  <td>Bonner Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lüneburg</td>
  <td>Lüneburger Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rostock</td>
  <td>Rostocker Treffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-18</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Karlsruhe</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-19</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Leoberdorf</td>
  <td>Leobersdorfer Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/at.svg" alt="austria" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rennes</td>
  <td>Préparer ses randos pédestres ou vélos</td>
  <td>2019-06-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bremen</td>
  <td>Bremer Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-24</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-26</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lübeck</td>
  <td>Lübecker Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Mannheim</td>
  <td>Mannheimer Mapathons e.V.</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Düsseldorf</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-28</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Cologne</td>
  <td>Köln Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Stuttgart</td>
  <td>Stuttgarter Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Essen</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bochum</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Nantes</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Dresden</td>
  <td>Stammtisch Dresden</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>Erasmus+ EuYoutH OSM Meeting</td>
  <td>2019-09-18-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>HOT Summit 2019</td>
  <td>2019-09-19-2019-09-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>State of the Map 2019 [2]</td>
  <td>2019-09-21-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  </tbody>
  </table>
  <p>Hinweis:<br />
  Wer seinen Termin hier in der Liste sehen möchte, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar">trage</a> ihn in den <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events">Kalender</a> ein. Nur Termine, die dort stehen, werden in die Wochennotiz übernommen. Bitte <a href="https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/calendar/preview"> prüfe die Veranstaltung</a> in unserem öffentlichen Kalendertool und korrigiere bitte die Einträge im Kalender, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Calendar">wenn notwendig.</a></p>
  <p align="right"><i>Diese Wochennotiz wurde erstellt von <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Map-Peter">Map-Peter</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nakaner">Nakaner</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rainero">Rainero</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rogehm">Rogehm</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SK53">SK53</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse">SomeoneElse</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bjoern_m">bjoern_m</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/manfred__r">derFred</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/doktorpixel14">doktorpixel14</a>, <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/geologist">geologist</a>.</i></p>


guid: https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/?p=389
url: https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/index.php/2019/06/16/umap-geojson-export-api-support/
title: Umap GeoJson Export API Support
published: 2019-06-16 20:16:38
fetched: 2019-10-13 12:30:23.958277
created_at: 2019-06-16 21:00:28.588551
updated_at: 2019-10-13 12:30:24.020417
summary:
  Upload of Umap files exported manually via the Umap web interface has been supported by my MapOSMatic instance for quite a while, and the MapOSMatic API has also supported submitting a Umap file via an URL instead of uploading an actual file. There&#8217;s also a (so far inofficial) export URL for exporting an Umap for &#8230; <a href="https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/index.php/2019/06/16/umap-geojson-export-api-support/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Umap GeoJson Export API Support"</span></a>

content:
  <p><a name="preamble"></a> </p>
  <p>Upload of <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap">Umap</a> files exported manually via the Umap web interface has been supported by <a href="https://print.get-map.org/">my MapOSMatic instance</a> for quite a while, and the <a href="https://print.get-map.org/about/api/">MapOSMatic API</a> has also supported submitting a Umap file via an URL instead of uploading an actual file.</p>
  <p>There&#8217;s also a (so far inofficial) export URL for exporting an Umap for exporting a map directly, without manual browser interaction.</p>
  <p>See this <a href="https://github.com/umap-project/umap/issues/78">Umap Github issue</a> for a more detailed description.</p>
  <p>The basic idea is that for a map with Id 123 the stable web access URL would be:</p>
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  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/m/123</pre>
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  <p>and the inofficial map export URL</p>
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  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/123/geojson</pre>
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  <p>Unfortunately the export file retrieved this URL is not yet complete though, as unlike the manualy exported file unsing &#8220;Export all data&#8221; in the web interface, it only contain the maps meta data, and references to the actual data layers, but not the actual layer data itself.</p>
  <p>So when processing a file exported this way, we first need to check the &#8220;urls&#8221; dictionary from the map properties for the <code>datalayer_view</code> URL path, and combine this with the protocol and host part from the maps own export URL.</p>
  <p>For the original Umap instance the <code>datalayer_view</code> looks like this:</p>
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  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">/en/datalayer/{pk}/</pre>
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  <p>and so the full URL template becomes</p>
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  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/datalayer/{pk}/</pre>
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  <p>The <code>{pk}</code> placeholder needs to be replaced with the Ids from the <code>datalayers</code> list entries, which e.g. look like this:</p>
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  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">{
  "name": "Layer 1",
  "id": 123456,
  "displayOnLoad": true
  }</pre>
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  <p>So we need to download actual layers data from URLs like</p>
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  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/datalayer/123456/</pre>
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  <p>which returns JSON data we need to append to the <code>layers</code> list to form a complete export file.</p>
  <p>Once we fetched and merged all data layers we can then process the resulting JSON document the same way as the JSON exported from the web frontend.</p>
  <p>This should allow a more direct integration between Umap and MapOSMatic servers, to automate the process of creating printed representations of maps generated with Umap.</p>
  <p>An API request to render an umap with Id 123 would then simply look like this:</p>
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  <td style="padding:0.5em;">
  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">{
      "umap_url": "https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/123/geojson/"
  }</pre>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <p>In actual PHP code for example launching a map rendering job for this umap would look like this:</p>
  <table border="0" bgcolor="#e8e8e8" width="100%" style="margin:0.2em 0;">
  <tr>
  <td style="padding:0.5em;">
  <pre style="margin:0; padding:0;">&lt;?php
  require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

  header("Content-type: text/plain");

  define('BASE_URL', 'https://print.get-map.org/apis/v1/');

  $data = ['umap_url' =&gt; 'https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/123/geojson/'];

  $request = new HTTP_Request2(BASE_URL . "jobs");

  $request-&gt;setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST)
          -&gt;addPostParameter('job', json_encode($data));

  $response = $request-&gt;send();
  $status   = $response-&gt;getStatus();

  if ($status &lt; 200 || $status &gt; 299) {
      print_r($response-&gt;getBody());
      exit;
  }

  $reply = json_decode($response-&gt;getBody());
  echo "Result URL: ".$reply-&gt;interactive."\n";</pre>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/368840
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/368840
title: My Mapillary Trips
published: 2019-06-17 10:43:47
fetched: 2019-06-22 16:30:04.142885
created_at: 2019-06-17 11:00:04.063789
updated_at: 2019-06-22 16:30:04.334236
summary:
  <p>I’ve been collecting geo-referenced photos since I started contributing to OpenStreetMap. When I discovered <a href="https://www.mapillary.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Mapillary</a> a few years ago, I decided to upload these photos so that other people can use them in their own mapping.</p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/34941657-acab6c24-fa1a-11e7-946d-cee74c30bbe1.gif" alt="grafitti">
  <br><em>Street art in <a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=14.643353999999999&amp;lng=121.103839&amp;z=17&amp;pKey=2m-EJBXbKGzy00IEPPwJeQ&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Marikina’s freedom wall</a></em></p>

  <p>Here’s a few sequence I found interesting to revisit whenever I go to the Mapillary website (links to each sequence are included for viewing the high-res photos).  They are categorized according to the mode of travel.</p>

  <h2 id="section">☑️ 🚶</h2>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20378569/f382d9cc-acbc-11e6-9bbe-b3126304104b.gif" alt="walk_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=14.636275999999999&amp;lng=121.081577&amp;z=17.3699308564797&amp;pKey=CFtrF1clyUCHktMeqrG8Ww&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">University steps, Philippines</a></strong> - I used to work within a university campus, part of <a href="https://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/my-daily-bike-commute-challenge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">my daily commute is to carry my bike on a footway with ~90-steps</a>.  It’s always a challenge to do this every morning!</p>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20381796/157e3bea-accf-11e6-8b0e-8f08df8371d7.gif" alt="walk2_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=12.853927777777812&amp;lng=76.48481666666669&amp;z=16.554575607504578&amp;pKey=Qq9UIdQq8HREk9KvSR9RTQ&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Bahubali monolith, Vindhyagiri Hill, India</a></strong> - When I moved to India, my colleagues would take me to temples outside of Bangalore.  Here’s the interior of the Jain temple of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gommateshwara_statue" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Bahubali above a hill in Shravanabelagola</a> in Hassan.  Temples in India only allows walking on foot starting from the climb up the hill and into the complex.</p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/32930839-1cf24542-cb87-11e7-9ee3-8af5de527d06.gif" alt="pamilacan">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=9.514219444444407&amp;lng=123.68501111111118&amp;z=15.480018530802576&amp;pKey=b7R2PSL4_CCliHFFDYK38A&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Bohol, Philippines</a></strong> - A casual walk around an island with white sand beach.</p>

  <h2 id="section-1">☑️ 🚲</h2>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20382472/151cf79c-acd2-11e6-87b9-10f5b58fe02d.gif" alt="cycle_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=14.626148&amp;lng=121.092951&amp;z=16.778538570655787&amp;focus=photo&amp;pKey=fdR7TDci6FTZJoL3H-TNng" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Marikina River Park, Philippines</a></strong> - Cycling is my preferred mode of travel.  On weekends, I usually take my kids to the nearby riverside park for casual cycling. Mounting the camera allows me to do surveying too!</p>

  <h2 id="section-2">☑️ 🚣 🛳</h2>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20381988/edf1f1ba-accf-11e6-9929-e027836a27fc.gif" alt="boat_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=45.4325936&amp;lng=12.327752049998825&amp;z=14.496480124941716&amp;focus=photo&amp;pKey=hWYur-NzzgndJM-BK8O0Ww" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Venice Grand Canal, Italy</a></strong> - Travelling Venice is only possible by boat, what a great way to experience photo mapping through the Grand Canal!</p>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20382280/3e2a3330-acd1-11e6-81ff-574126ba5318.gif" alt="kayak_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=16.243473971298872&amp;lng=119.93070275519865&amp;z=17&amp;pKey=pxHOEI9xABPW_SN4RCgj6A&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Mangrove forest, Philippines</a></strong> - While doing a university research for monitoring recovery of mangrove forest, the only way to survey is by air or through the muddy substrate.  This time I opted to use a kayak.</p>

  <h2 id="section-3">☑️ 🚗</h2>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20382169/a415e712-acd0-11e6-845d-5b4ebc2f158b.gif" alt="car_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=6.982799&amp;lng=124.35981699999999&amp;z=16.583953447966383&amp;pKey=V4kcmNC6sZfusrMCzCPZBg&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Mindanao refugee camp, Philippines</a></strong> - When the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamasapano_clash" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Mamasapano clash</a> happened.  A lot of civilian were displaced in the surrounding towns due to the military operations.  I worked with the regional response agency in mapping and documenting the IDP camps around the region.  In most cases, it is the first time these informal camps were documented in a digital map.</p>

  <p><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/353700/20382877/af4255e6-acd3-11e6-89eb-709a604dba1f.gif" alt="car2_mapillary">
  <br><strong><a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning?lat=10.972734999999972&amp;lng=124.96228500000007&amp;z=18.892356245841327&amp;pKey=Z9-3VjNDQgs5RdgVTpRocg&amp;focus=photo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">TY Haiyan affected communities, Philippines</a></strong> - In the aftermath of the Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, there is an urgency to map and document the damage for the post-recovery efforts.  I visited a lot of these areas as part of my work.  My camera took continuous shots for most of the trip.</p>

  <h2 id="next------">Next? 🐴 ✈️ 🚅 🚀 🎈 🚡</h2>
  <p>Who knows? I plan to continue <a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/maning" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">collecting and sharing photos in Mapillary</a>, maybe with other mode of transport. 😛</p>

  <p>Do you want to know more about collecting street-level photos?  <strong>We have an exciting session about that in the inaugural <a href="https://ti.to/PistaNgmapa/2019" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Pista ng Mapa in Dumaguete on Aug 1-3</a></strong>.  Come join us and you might get nice schwags from Mapillary!</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368842
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368842
title: YaketySaxStreetMap
published: 2019-06-17 11:52:54
fetched: 2019-06-22 23:00:04.809174
created_at: 2019-06-17 12:00:04.230625
updated_at: 2019-06-22 23:00:04.979921
summary:
  <h2 id="yesterday-openstreetmap-osm-became-yaketysaxstreetmap-yssm">Yesterday <em>OpenStreetMap</em> (OSM) became <em>YaketySaxStreetMap</em> (YSSM)</h2>

  <h3 id="not-really-the-kind-of-experience-you-may-want"><em>“Not really the kind of experience you may want”</em></h3>

  <p><strong><em>Today’s update</em></strong>  <br>
  Enabling <em><code>Last-Modified</code></em> has fixed all problems with all files, with the sole exception of the HTML/XML + <em>piwick</em> files. The first two <em>could</em> be fixed but our <em>admin</em> is not prepared to look at it, and the last <s>come from another site</s> are being looked at right now. Still, a prompt fix for all the rest, so well done for that. Shame that I had to suffer a full day’s worth of insults just to get that done.</p>

  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>Yesterday, 16 June began for me with a series of posts into <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">openstreetmap-website/issues</a> (my first use of a GitHub <em>issues</em> page). The start of my <em>YaketySaxStreetMap</em> day.</td>
        <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Benny_Hill.JPG/640px-Benny_Hill.JPG" alt="Benny Hill"></a></td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <p><strong><em>Benny Hill &amp; Yakety Sax</em></strong>  <br>
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Benny Hill</a> was a multi-millionaire comedy actor that featured on TV thoughout my late-youth. One of his signature pieces was a speeded-up pre-filmed physical-comedy routine with <a href="http://www.orangefreesounds.com/benny-hill-theme/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Yakety Sax</a> blaring out as the background music. If you download the MP3 from the web-page link, and play it whilst beating your head against a brick wall, then you will get the inside feeling of what yesterday was like for me.</p>

  <p><strong><em>More strolls down Memory Lane</em></strong>  <br>
  After discovering earlier in the month that this site’s setup unnecessarily bloats all site-bandwidth and thus inflates site-load I <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/368814" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">documented those discoveries here</a>. Doing that helped me get my head straight about what was happening so that I could (perhaps) give a useful report where it was needed, the <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">website issues page</a>. I found that to be a most painful experience.</p>

  <ol>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/305" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Last-Modified header missing from almost all Website Static Files</a>  <br>
  This was a bizarre experience, which led to me asking the YSSM Admin if he was a Gemini (due to the 180° <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volte-face" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Volte-face</a> that he performed):  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  &nbsp;→ <strong><em>First:</em></strong> The YSSM Admin closed the Issue  <br>
  &nbsp;&nbsp;(he always does that, presumably to stop anybody else from being able to comment; after all, this website <em>is</em> his personal property)  <br>
  &nbsp;→ <strong><em>Second:</em></strong> The YSSM Admin commented <em>“Please don’t waster your time”</em>  <br>
  &nbsp;→ <strong><em>Third:</em></strong> An hour later he said <em>“Re-enabled the <code>Last-Modified</code> header in <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/commit/d7eb7df41c4c67b388e191a3da66714eb4bd6cd8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">openstreetmap/chef@d7eb7df</a>”</em>  <br>
  &nbsp;</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/306" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HTML document can never receive a 304 Not Modified</a>  <br>
  The origin server supplies a different <code>eTag</code> value on every access even though those are just seconds apart. That is an undeniable bug.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  Again, most frustrating. All I got from this was insult &amp; attack from the YSSM Admin. Nothing got resolved &amp; someone else closed it with <em>“Locking this because it is not productive.”</em> No-one else is willing to tackle the admin over his insulting &amp; narcissistic behaviour, and thus they become complicit in it and it grows.  <br>
  &nbsp;</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2262" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Certain Static (?) files can never receive a 304 Not Modified</a>  <br>
  16 different files which appear to be files-on-disk. The caching is accurate for these files but the server never sends either <code>eTag</code> nor <code>Last-Modified</code> for the files so their delivery can never be sped up. Once again, a clear bug.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  I forgot to include the <code>cache-control</code> value in my first post. I knew that the admin was close behind me in looking at the posts (because he immediately closed each one after reading it) so I added a comment to flag the fact of the addition + edited the original post to add that value. The admin then added an insulting comment: <em>“Look if you have something sensible to report then please do so in a clear way.”</em>  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  I responded: <em>“I’ve noticed that you go out of your way to insult every new person that comes along, so it is hardly surprising that you stop most people from getting involved.”</em> No newbie should be dealt with like this. No old fogie like me should have to deal with it. We are attempting to report bugs, not insult the organisation nor it’s workers. He really needs to get over himself.  <br>
  &nbsp;</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2263" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">A Static JS file can never receive a 304 Not Modified</a>  <br>
  This is the inside-out version of the previous static files. It has a strong <code>eTag</code> + <code>Last-Modified</code>, but no caching nor <code>Expires</code> so no 304.  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  The IP for <em>openstreetmap.org</em> is 130.117.76.[11-13], and that is unrelated to the 193.60.236.14 for <em>piwik.openstreetmap.org</em> that supplies this file (<em>Information Systems, University College London</em>), but I did not suspect that at that time. Nothing was happening on GitHub with this file so I telephoned <em>Craig</em>, a senior Network Engineer to try to talk with the Webmaster for that server. I eventually got an email back referring me back to OSM (UCL host it but OSM administer it). Talk now continues in GitHub.   <br>
  &nbsp;</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2264" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">A Static (?) XML file can never receive a 304 Not Modified</a>  <br>
  The reply for this small file gets to the heart of the problem, which is to do with <em>attitude</em> and is actually not at all technical.  <br>
  &nbsp;</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/308" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">The 1x1 GIF pixels do not receive a 304 Not Modified</a>  <br>
  (another product of my apalling sense of humour)  <br>
  The admin informed us that <em>“Piwiki is nothing to do with this repository.”</em>  <br>
  &nbsp;  <br>
  So, it seems that this webbug comes from University College London (actually that statement is misleading as UCL host the servers but OSM administer them).</li>
  </ol>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Lars%20ST3422/diary/368843
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Lars%20ST3422/diary/368843
title: Editing of Maps
published: 2019-06-17 22:44:39
fetched: 2019-06-23 02:00:04.011439
created_at: 2019-06-17 23:00:05.600169
updated_at: 2019-06-23 02:00:04.175456
summary:
  <p>I had the idea it would be easy to do a few quick fixes to some regional shortcomings of OpenStreetMap. It turned out that I was totally wrong. Quick is a term anyone new to OSM should erase from his vocabulary, if my experiences are something like typical. It was frustrating from the very start and it did not change the few times I tried to contribute to the project.</p>

  <p>I do not think that OSM can reach really many users if it stays like this. It is just not possible to do a few quick additions  to the maps without spending a lot of time to find out how to do even the simplest changes. It should be possible, for example, to intuitively mark a road as closed when road works pop up. There would have to be buttons for frequent changes like closing a road due to road works. Would operating the maps, putting in changes, would be an intuitive task, I am sure many more would contribute and there would be much less missing in the maps and the map would be more up to date.</p>

  <p>Sorry for the negative comment to a project I think is basically a good project. But I really think there should be changes to make it a lot easier for newbies to contribute. I am not ready to put in that much time just to figure out how to do things.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rrbaker/diary/368844
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rrbaker/diary/368844
title: 2019 HOT Board Candidate Statement
published: 2019-06-18 01:07:16
fetched: 2019-06-23 04:30:03.794754
created_at: 2019-06-18 01:30:04.170868
updated_at: 2019-06-23 04:30:03.963957
summary:
  <p>Hello HOT members,</p>

  <p>Thanks very much for taking the time to click through, read, and consider my candidate statement for a position on the HOT Board of Directors.</p>

  <p>My name is Rob Baker and I’m currently the Director of Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, located at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. Prior to joining the team here, I was located in Washington, DC for seven years where I worked as Lead Technologist for USAID’s Global Development Lab; the World Bank’s Innovation Lab, where I ran a team on open data; a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, where my team and I installed the agency’s first CDO and created open data policy; and was COO of Ushahidi, having started with them as a volunteer in 2010 following the Haiti earthquake.</p>

  <p>It was in 2010 when I got involved with OSM and when HOT launched. I contributed to mapping parties in Haiti and in Indonesia, working to help train local communities on not only the practice but the value of being seen on the map. In the years since, I was proud to represent HOT at several public events and continue to champion everything from the old Field Papers to Missing Maps.</p>

  <p>I hope that I can use my diverse, humanitarian experience to be an active advocate for HOT. My background as a technologist and coder means I understand and, more importantly, help translate technical processes, especially for non-technical audiences. I understand what it’s like working with larger institutions and bureaucracies, what constraints they have and how to navigate those policies. And my entire career is in non-profits and development work, so how our iNGO, governmental ministries, and CSOs operate in these contexts. While I have not been able to directly contribute to HOT for some time, I know this is a meaningful way I can be more involved.</p>

  <p>So how would I like to be involved and what do I see as priority issues for HOT? In addition to doing what I think are the core tasks of helping grow and foster the HOT community and find new partnerships:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>
      <p>I’d like to continue the efforts of the board to promote and foster diversity and gender inclusivity among our community of contributors and users. The current board and the community have made tremendous progress here but we all have to continue to make this a priority, making sure it’s not only addressed but operationalize. This means ongoing dialogue with the community to make sure voices are heard and proactively running our own analytics to identify and address gaps.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>To promote more data consistency and quality. Conversations about standardizing our approach are not the most exciting and can feel very prescriptive but they’re also the means by which we overcome more barriers to adoption, where companies, governments, and organizations feel confident about HOT’s contributions and OSM at large, and users are more satisfied that their contributions are truly making a noticeable difference.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>To help highlight use cases of HOT, providing the context required by organizations to understand the costs and challenges involved but more so the many benefits that come with seeing this work in the context of a humanitarian response or contributing to resilience building. I think growing the community is always important, but I’d sooner direct more attention to improving and refining HOT’s narrative so that our current community feels valued and new and current partners clearly see the reasons to remain involved and invested.</p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>Help further issues related to code of conduct, ethics, and duty of care. This is something my team and I research, and such a critical part of all humanitarian response. I think it provides an opportunity for HOT on a couple fronts, where there is an opportunity to make sure we are doing the best we can four our members and community, and where HOT has made so much progress on this front, serving as a model to other organizations.</p>
    </li>
  </ul>

  <p>Thank you for taking the time to read all this, for your consideration, and for everything you do to make HOT and OSM great.</p>

  <p>Best regards,
  R</p>


guid: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/?p=176636563
url: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/06/18/calling-for-nominees-for-the-openstreetmap-awards-2019/
title: Calling for nominees for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2019
published: 2019-06-18 06:07:03
fetched: 2019-10-14 22:30:03.681825
created_at: 2019-06-18 06:30:04.360296
updated_at: 2019-10-14 22:30:03.851213
summary:
  We are announcing the call for nominees for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2019, which will be presented this September at the State of the Map 2019 conference in Heidelberg! These are community awards, as nominees and winners are chosen by the community. The Awards strive to be a worldwide event for all OpenStreetMap members, including developers, [&#8230;]

content:
  <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/awards18-diploma-1024x576.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-176636564" srcset="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/awards18-diploma-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/awards18-diploma-300x169.jpg 300w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/awards18-diploma-768x432.jpg 768w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/awards18-diploma-624x351.jpg 624w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/awards18-diploma.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>Photo by @KTMLivingLabs</figcaption></figure>



  <p>We are announcing the <a href="http://awards.osmz.ru/">call for nominees</a> for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2019, which will be presented this September at the State of the Map 2019  conference in Heidelberg!</p>



  <p>These are community awards, as nominees and winners are chosen by the  community. The Awards strive to be a worldwide event for all  OpenStreetMap members, including developers, mappers, community leaders, blog writers and everyone else. We need your help to find the best of  OpenStreetMap globally.</p>



  <p>For the fourth awards, we have made some changes. Gone are the three  regional categories. Sorry. We have strong enough OSM representation in  these countries to be listed together with other candidates. Also, there is a new category: Team Achievement Award. Companies, teams and groups  should go there, to not compete with people in other categories. We had  quite a lot of issues because of that mixing previously: how do you  compare a mapper and an entire local chapter?</p>



  <p>We’re mostly looking for new innovations, so only projects/works that were  announced after June 1st 2018 are eligible. The Ulf Möller Award is an  exception to this. Everyone is eligible regardless of the time when they  were active in the project. You personally and your friends are eligible, do add yourself! Winners of past awards and selection committee members (in their categories) cannot be nominated.</p>



  <p>The call for nominees will close in a month — on 15th of July. Whenever you see an interesting entry on OSM diaries or in WeeklyOSM, take a moment to submit the name for the award. The more nominees we have, the more  interesting the final voting will be. Please keep in mind that we have the OpenStreetMap Awards and <a href="http://awards.osmz.ru/">nominate people now</a>!</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gnesss/diary/368845
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gnesss/diary/368845
title: Incremental detail
published: 2019-06-18 10:17:47
fetched: 2019-06-23 06:30:04.318969
created_at: 2019-06-18 10:30:04.142235
updated_at: 2019-06-23 06:30:04.486978
summary:
  <h1 id="building-the-map-up">Building the map up</h1>
  <p>Thinking about how data is contributed to OSM, an interesting problem is how the detail and level of information is increased over time. Some things are quite easy to refine, but others are definitely not.</p>

  <h2 id="adding-basic-data">Adding basic data</h2>
  <p>This appears to be straight forward. OSM makes it easy to add <em>some</em> data. Things like tracing aerial imagery to add roads, residential land use, parks. It’s rough data quality, but is not a problem, as to put assumed detail in would not be so helpful.. 
  In the UK, it is increasingly rare to have a totally blank canvas to start with. It feels like most of the coarsest data of roads and villages have been mapped.</p>

  <h2 id="improving-data">Improving data</h2>
  <p>Once new data sets are available, like street level imagery, further granular detail can be added. The ability to refine the coarsely entered data varies a lot, depending on what it is. 
  A building being determined as a place of worship, or simply a detached house is easily done. change the tag, draw the outline or adjust the bounds if needed. Adding an address.</p>

  <p>You can do this on one building on a street and it is an improvement, even if you haven’t done the rest of the street.</p>

  <h1 id="some-cases-where-it-falls-down">Some cases where it falls down</h1>

  <p>A few examples I’ve seen through my own experience or via talk-gb is where useful data could be added, but unless it is entered to a high level of detail throughout the vicinity, and in its entirety, instead of enriching the map, it can hinder its use.</p>

  <h2 id="sidewalks-and-pavements">Sidewalks and pavements</h2>
  <p>I love this kind of information, but it is difficult to add. You can add it as a tag to a way, or as a separate way. There are many long standing differing of conventions of where to add this data and where not to. The topic of sidewalks/pavements merits its own post.
  In the UK, sidewalks are generally not added at all, or only added if the pavement is separated from the adjacent road by something else. Routing engines seemingly assume most roads (motorways excluded) as possible to walk along. With the exception of some major roads and motorways, there’s no legal reason not to thing that, but plenty of practical ones.</p>

  <p>But the point here is, if you only add the pavement as a separate way (or as tags, even) to a single road in a neighbourhood, it needs a lot of detail up front. Without that detail, it can be found to be not useful, confusing routing engines, data extraction and humans reading the map.</p>

  <p>The ease of humans reading the map is interesting. Mapping for the renderer is not a great habit, but presentation of data for users is important, such that you can’t totally ignore it. Yeah, the renderer should be fixed instead, but with half a dozen rendering engines dominating the usage, there’s some convergence of how tags are being interpreted and drawn.</p>

  <h2 id="road-junctions">Road Junctions</h2>
  <p>A simple junction might first be mapped as a couple or more ways intersecting. To enrich this data, you can fairly easily be converted into a roundabout, or add turning restrictions.</p>

  <p>It gets more difficult once traffic signalling is to be added, and exceptionally more difficult to add in pedestrian crossing points - particularly if the pedestrian crossing is split to only cross one direction of traffic at a time. Pedestrian interfaces to the road junction are hugely important and useful to have mapped - in my opinion. No one likes to find they can’t cross over the road from one particular side of the junction and could have done so had they crossed onto the opposite pavement 100 meters earlier. Or having to cross 4+ lanes of traffic where a traffic island could have halved that.</p>

  <p>This is not something that can be gradually added to a map. You need certain things to be at a suitable level of detail before you can meaningfully add this adjacent data.</p>

  <p>I like that openstreetmap allows people to map the things that interest them the most, but there’s clearly a hierarchy of detail where some items enable others.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Silka123/diary/368847
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Silka123/diary/368847
title: Новости из мира OpenStreetMap № 464 (04.06.2019-10.06.2019)
published: 2019-06-18 14:33:07
fetched: 2019-06-24 23:00:04.662437
created_at: 2019-06-18 15:00:03.853183
updated_at: 2019-06-24 23:00:04.812709
summary:
  <p>Перевод свежего выпуска WeeklyOSM № 464 на русский - <a href="https://habr.com/ru/post/456606/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">выполнен</a>.</p>

  <p>Обратите внимание на следующие моменты:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Японский сервис “Machi-aruki Map maker“</li>
    <li>Размышления Мальвики Махеш об обозначении спорных границ на эл.картах и карту оспариваемых территорий мира</li>
    <li>Карта велодружелюбности Берлина</li>
  </ul>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cartixa/diary/368848
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cartixa/diary/368848
title: cruzamentos
published: 2019-06-18 16:17:31
fetched: 2019-06-25 00:30:04.162056
created_at: 2019-06-18 16:30:04.313347
updated_at: 2019-06-25 00:30:04.306749
summary:
  <p>a melhor maneira de fazer estes entroncamentos e cruzamentos  <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?gpx=3018902#map=18/39.32868/-9.00256" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?gpx=3018902#map=18/39.32868/-9.00256</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/368849
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/368849
title: NGI Zero grant for StreetComplete development
published: 2019-06-18 21:16:50
fetched: 2019-06-25 03:00:04.857085
created_at: 2019-06-18 21:30:04.766548
updated_at: 2019-06-25 03:00:05.030174
summary:
  <p>StreetComplete is an application allowing to contribute to OSM by answering simple question. It makes possible to contribute without learning about tagging schemes and without learning how to handle interface of more general editor like JOSM, iD or Vespucci.</p>

  <p>I <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=is%3Apr+author%3Amatkoniecz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">contributed to StreetComplete in past</a>. Recently I received a grant that will allow me to spend more time on improving it.</p>

  <p>Grant is funded by a NLnet as part of <a href="https://nlnet.nl/discovery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">NGI Zero grants</a>. StretComplete grant is mentioned by NLnet at <a href="https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGIZeroDiscovery.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGIZeroDiscovery.html</a>  and <a href="https://nlnet.nl/project/StreetComplete/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://nlnet.nl/project/StreetComplete/</a> pages. It will allow me to spend far more time on improving StreetComplete.</p>

  <p>I will participate in project as usual, sending pull requests that will be reviewed and accepted (or rejected) by StreetComplete author, <a href="https://github.com/westnordost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Tobias Zwick</a>.</p>

  <p>Note that I selected topics of work to be done (based mostly on open issues on the bug tracker) and that Tobias who will review pull requests remains completely independent - I am sole beneficiary of the grant.</p>


guid: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/?p=176636581
url: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/06/19/june-solstice/
title: The June solstice is upon us
published: 2019-06-19 01:55:13
fetched: 2019-10-24 08:00:04.334881
created_at: 2019-06-19 02:00:03.535237
updated_at: 2019-10-24 08:00:04.516806
summary:
  The June solstice is upon us, which means the seasons are changing &#8212; and with that, lots of opportunities to map, no matter which hemisphere you&#8217;re in! If you&#8217;re in the northern hemisphere, why not take a look at your local outdoor fun: maybe it&#8217;s swimming pools, beaches, hiking and biking trails, and the like. [&#8230;]

content:
  <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sundial_by_Simon_Moroder_photo_by_Giovanni_Novara_at_flickr-746x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-176636616" width="560" height="768" srcset="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sundial_by_Simon_Moroder_photo_by_Giovanni_Novara_at_flickr.jpg 746w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sundial_by_Simon_Moroder_photo_by_Giovanni_Novara_at_flickr-219x300.jpg 219w, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sundial_by_Simon_Moroder_photo_by_Giovanni_Novara_at_flickr-624x857.jpg 624w" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" /><figcaption><em>Spherical sundial by Simon Moroder. Photo by </em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/giovanni_novara1"><em>Giovanni Novara</em></a><em>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a></em></figcaption></figure></div>



  <p>The June solstice is upon us, which means the seasons are changing &#8212; and with that, lots of opportunities to map, no matter which hemisphere you&#8217;re in!<br /><br />If you&#8217;re in the northern hemisphere, why not take a look at your local outdoor fun: maybe it&#8217;s swimming pools, beaches, hiking and biking trails, and the like. The parks and playgrounds might be busy, as well as sports pitches, places to camp, national parks, wildlife parks and more. Midsummer is also a holiday in many countries, why not map the local traditions like permanent maypoles? Or mapping your local ice cream parlours might be fun.</p>



  <p>And if you&#8217;re in the southern hemisphere, it&#8217;s winter! It may be a bit colder, and good weather for winter sports like skiing, or maybe just staying indoors at your local pub, restaurant, indoor pool and so on. Are your local favorites on the map already? There are also winter festivals all over the hemisphere, have you mapped them? And in warmer climates, it may be nice weather for exploring outside, going surfing, taking road trips and more.</p>



  <p>Speaking of the solstice, are the observatories and other astronomical facilities in your area mapped? Is the sundial of the cover photograph mapped?</p>



  <p>You can also try recording GPS tracks or taking GPS-tagged photos of your outings to help yourself and others add more data to the map. Or you can even look for things named summer and help complete the map there! For example, the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1577430183#map=18/36.51248/4.36354">hamlet of Summer, Algeria</a>, the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29228773">Summer Palace in Beijing</a>, the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2249505473">Summer Place pub in San Francisco</a> and the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/457391214">Summer Hill Creek in Australia</a>. Or maybe there are locations named Winter near you.<br /><br />Do you have any other ideas for seasonal mapping? Let everyone know in the comments.</p>



  <p></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/patrick%20hervet/diary/368852
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/patrick%20hervet/diary/368852
title: probléme d'édition
published: 2019-06-19 06:31:03
fetched: 2019-06-25 05:30:04.345805
created_at: 2019-06-19 07:00:04.103719
updated_at: 2019-06-25 05:30:04.497528
summary:
  <p>Bonjour,
  Je n’arrive plus à modifier des données sur ma carte. pouvez vous me donner la démarche afin de pouvoir le faire?
  cordialement
  patrick hervet</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/368856
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/368856
title: Running for the HOT board again - Pete Masters candidate statement
published: 2019-06-19 22:15:06
fetched: 2019-06-25 14:30:04.908718
created_at: 2019-06-19 22:30:04.792121
updated_at: 2019-06-25 14:30:05.044018
summary:
  <p>I am just finishing my first two-year board term for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and am running for another two years. This diary is written to tell HOT voting members why, so that they can decide whether to vote for me or not…</p>

  <h2 id="priorities-for-another-term">Priorities for another term</h2>

  <p>Having spent the last couple of years meeting and talking to people, reading documentation, attending board meetings and discussing ideas and issues, I have a much better understanding of where we are strong as an organisation and should double down and where we are weak and perhaps need to focus more. These perspectives have some very pragmatic implications in terms of where I would prioritise my time if I were re-elected… I would like to take you through the top two of those priorities…</p>

  <h2 id="strengthening-our-governance">Strengthening our governance</h2>

  <p>Firstly, I’d like to make sure that HOT strengthens the expertise and skills necessary at board level for an organisation of its size and ambition. Secondly, I’d like to contribute to a movement within HOT to reconnect the organisation with its members, creating more opportunities for meaningful contribution from the diverse communities they represent.</p>

  <p>On the priority number one, we have already started to take concrete steps towards recruiting an advisory board. This idea was first floated years ago and when I joined the board I was actually against it. I thought that it would move HOT away from its model of community governance. Now, I don’t - I think having a strong advisory board will allow our community-elected board to be more focused on leveraging data and mapping to support people in crisis and the HOT community itself.</p>

  <p>We know that we have skills / knowledge gaps on the board - finance and legal being two obvious ones - and it is not surprising. HOT voting membership tends to attract mappers or techies or community organisers, rather than accountants and lawyers. I would like to see through the recruitment of the right people to the right advisory positions and work out how we structure ourselves and the work we have committed to doing, so that they can best contribute to HOT’s mission.</p>

  <h2 id="changing-how-we-engage-as-members">Changing how we engage as members</h2>

  <p>On priority two, I feel like the work done by the strategic working group last year was really great and that so many people turned up to contribute was excellent! However, beyond that piece of work and voting in elections like this, we are very quiet as a membership.</p>

  <p>I feel strongly that if HOT is to remain community-led and open-first and to continue to hold voluntary contribution to be central to who we are, we need to change how we do things. These characteristics are just words if we as members feel less and less engaged or that there are less and less ways to contribute meaningfully.</p>

  <p>I know that others feel the same and I would like to contribute to the work to reverse this trend and represent that work as a priority at board level.</p>

  <h2 id="next-two-years">Next two years</h2>

  <p>I believe I have served HOT well as a board member so far… I remain a proud humanitarian who sees the good that HOT, our partners and the wider OpenStreetMap community do in the field and an active member of the Missing Maps community in the UK. I believe we can do better at doing things differently as an NGO, bringing the value of open data, innovation and community to impact on serious humanitarian work.</p>

  <p>Let’s talk about how and get working together on this.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Amna%20A/diary/368854
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Amna%20A/diary/368854
title: The Search for a Solution
published: 2019-06-19 19:43:25
fetched: 2019-06-25 11:00:04.475187
created_at: 2019-06-20 01:30:04.531616
updated_at: 2019-06-25 11:00:04.628569
summary:
  <p><i>Last summer I was deployed for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Uganda project and wanted to share an account of some of my time in the field.</i></p>

  <p>My past two years working on global health and development in the epicenter of the field - Washington, D.C. - gave me a good understanding of the refugee crisis and the problems faced by displaced populations around the world. Or so I had thought.</p>

  <p>There are currently estimated to be ~1.4 million refugees in Uganda. It is here that, after a 25 hour flight with two layovers and multiple anti-nausea tablets, I arrived, eager to work with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to promote the mapping of refugee environments for humanitarian purposes.</p>

  <p>I spent my first few days getting oriented in the HOT office in Kampala, and thoroughly enjoying all the city has to offer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_(food)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">rolex</a> stands need to make their way to the States, pronto!). We then headed north to Arua where the huge settlements of Rhino and Imvepi are located.</p>

  <p><a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/commercial-photography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/jGcQeRc.png" alt="Commercial Photography"></a><a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/commercial-photography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ad9StgR.jpg" alt="Commercial Photography"></a> <i>Shamillah and Allan, my amazing partners in crime</i></p>

  <p>In Arua, our task was simple – we train refugee students and teachers on the OpenStreetMap (OSM) platform and mobile data collection in three secondary schools: Ofua Secondary School, Rhino High School, and Imvepi Secondary School. We set off from Kampala at 10 AM on Tuesday. Two car breakdowns, a driving ticket, a taxi, and 15 hours later, Shamillah, Allan, and I finally arrived.</p>

  <p><a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/commercial-photography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Y9s9l0C.jpg" alt="Commercial Photography"></a>
  <i>Pushing our broken car out of the road!</i></p>

  <p>Over time, I have come to value experience over theory. No amount of rote knowledge can replace the understanding your senses provide you. Read all the poetry in the world, but until you experience love, you do not know what it means to find home in another being. Study music theory all you want, but it can never invoke the feeling of transcendence that the sound of a sitar brings with it. The refugee crisis is no exception. Nothing prepared me for witnessing the aftermath of the mass migration of people fleeing war and conflict.</p>

  <p>A bit more about HOT’s mission before I continue: HOT, through training local communities and authorities, promotes the utilization of OSM. This is a free ‘wiki’-style map, which can be used by anybody with a log-in to trace and tag satellite imagery from various sources to help identify important features of any area, contributing to a fully mapped globe. HOT also utilizes a mobile application called OpenDataKit (ODK), which surveyors use to collect GPS coordinates and attributes of various points of interests (i.e. schools, hospitals, water points, latrines, etc.) that are then fed into OpenStreetMap for public consumption. Introducing these tools to refugee schools was something I was particularly excited about because they not only exposed refugee communities to new technology, but also provided them with a sense of ownership and accountability of their living and work spaces.</p>

  <p><a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/commercial-photography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/SIJ5p07.jpg" alt="Commercial Photography"></a>
  <i>Trying to explain GPS coordinates to students. I thought I was making sense…</i></p>

  <p>Shamilah, Allan, and I spent the next three days visiting the schools and training both teachers and students on these two facets of our work. Our first training site, Afua Secondary School, presented the unique challenge of working (in ICT) without a power source. Since we were not able to project the website and guide the trainees as easily as we would’ve liked, Allan improvised, using his amazing drawing skills to replicate the web interface on the chalkboard and direct the students that way. Luckily, power was available at our next site, Rhino High School, so we were able to use the projector. I still remember the energy in the room when we searched for the students’ hometown in South Sudan, Yei, on OSM. Hope, pain, longing, and awe all pervaded through the class  as we virtually walked through the streets of Yei. Re-energized by the enthusiasm, we returned to the camps the next day for our final training only to find that due to miscommunication amongst staff members of Imvepi Secondary School, time had not been allotted for our visit - we unfortunately had to leave without training the students at that location…</p>

  <p>I gathered my thoughts during our twelve hour bus ride back to Kampala, the city that had now become home. What exactly was I feeling? It took some mental poking and prodding but I finally pinpointed it to be frustration. We had just spent three days introducing interesting, helpful, and hopeful technology to students who it seemed many times did not even have access to power, much less computer labs. A one-off training in these circumstances would be limited in its ability to leave a lasting impact. Ignorance is bliss they say. Would introducing laptops and cellphones and selfies, opening these students’ eyes to such resources without a means to access in the future be doing more damage than good? After conversing with my team members about some of my reservations, I realized how aware HOT is of these issues and all it is doing to increase the sustainability of its work and its impact on the global community. HOT spends every last penny to continue these trainings, get people mapping for their own purposes, introduce this system to the NGO world, and skill citizens for employment. Furthermore, there is greater accessibility to mobile phones amongst refugee populations than I originally assumed. But it is still a battle.</p>

  <p><a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/commercial-photography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/74vo10P.jpg" alt="Commercial Photography"></a>
  <i>Selfie time! The students absolutely loved being able to take pictures</i></p>

  <p>Integration of the various humanitarian efforts underway in Uganda is a big first step to creating more sustainable benefits to the refugee community. While all humanitarian coordination in Uganda goes, in theory, through one channel, UNHCR, an increase in collaboration within and between the humanitarian sectors is necessary to identify needs which are not being met, and to direct resources in a more strategic manner.</p>

  <p>There must be a greater push to coordinate efforts if we truly want to make a difference in refugee communities. Some of HOT’s maps of ‘community-witnessed services’ are now on the UNHCR Coordination Web Portal. HOT’s mapping endeavors, if properly utilized, are very helpful in identifying problems in the settlements that need to be taken into consideration when planning resource distribution. If the humanitarian sector at large adapts HOT’s maps into its planning process, there is the potential to greatly reduce the inconsistencies in aid dispersal and increase the impact interventions have in refugee communities.</p>

  <p>One last note: seeing and hearing Ugandans’ warm and welcoming attitude towards refugees was such a breath of fresh air. I found Uganda to be a far less antagonistic host country than America, both in policy and in practice, despite its greater limitation on resources. America could learn a thing or two from Uganda on how to approach displaced populations…</p>

  <p><a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/commercial-photography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/QhcdERc.jpg" alt="Commercial Photography"></a>
  <i>All smiles outside Rhino Camp High School</i></p>


guid: http://www.livingwithdragons.com/?p=669
url: http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2019/06/why-your-community-should-host-sotm
title: Why your community should host SotM
published: 2019-06-19 12:21:15
fetched: 2019-10-09 08:30:12.567660
created_at: 2019-06-20 08:00:13.100944
updated_at: 2019-10-09 08:30:12.600861
summary:
  The OpenStreetMap event of the year is &#8220;State of the Map&#8221; (SotM), an international conference run by OSMF and I love being part of the organising committee that brings so many people to one place. We&#8217;re volunteers and it takes a lot of work and a lot of local knowledge throughout the year to organise [&#8230;]


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/371456
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/diary/371456
published: 2019-06-20 14:53:36
fetched: 2019-06-25 18:00:04.015620
created_at: 2019-06-21 03:00:04.101200
updated_at: 2019-06-25 18:00:04.164789
title:
  Using Facebook's ML derived settlement data for tasking my mapping activity in Banton island, Philippines

summary:
  <p>A couple of weeks back, I was aimlessly panning around the Philippines in the OSM.org website and saw 
  <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/12.9704/121.9850" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Banton island</a> right at the center of the archipelago north of the Sibuyan Sea. I loaded the data in JOSM to check what was actually mapped in the island. It looks like it has decent 
  coverage for roads and very few buildings. So I started adding a few buildings here and there and then it 
  struck me, what would it take to systematically map the whole island remotely?</p>

  <p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Banton_Island_Horizon.JPG" alt="">
  <br><em>Banton Island in Romblon as viewed from a pump boat arriving from Marinduque. Photo credit: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banton_Island_Horizon.JPG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Lawrence Ruiz, Wikimedia Commons</a></em></p>

  <p>This quest has begun …</p>

  <h3 id="choosing-the-imagery">Choosing the imagery</h3>

  <p>First, I checked if there are good imagery available other than Bing, I found that DigitalGlobe (DG) Premium and Standard looks more recent compared to Bing.  Some areas are cloudy in Premium while clear in Standard and vice versa. I figured I can interchange these two depending on where I am mapping.</p>

  <p>I then checked if there are GPS traces in OSM I can use to align DG imagery in case it has an offset.  I found no traces in OSM, not even a sigle dot. Strava has no coverage too.  I guess I will have to use the default referencing from DG.  I confirmed if there are any large offset by comparing to Bing.  Other than a few meters, I did not find large offsets.</p>

  <h3 id="using-facebooks-ml-derived-settlement-data-in-maproulette">Using Facebook’s ML derived settlement data in Maproulette</h3>

  <p>The island is mostly covered by thick vegetation of forest, scrub and coconut orchards.  Just panning around the island trying to find a small hut underneath the foilage is too laborious.  So I thought of using Facebook’s <a href="https://ciesin.columbia.edu/data/hrsl/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">High Resolution Settlement Layer</a> (HRSL) as a guide to identify the location of settlements.  According to HRSL’s metadata, the settlement raster is a “30m pixel where buildings where detected with imagery”.</p>

  <p>I converted the HRSL raster to vector polygons. This layer gave me rough indication where to map or at least pan around the surrounding area of the grid. I then created a Maproulette challenge using the extracted HRSL polygon. With Maproulette, I can easily track which parts of the island I have not visited/traced buildings.</p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679628-dbdcb880-91be-11e9-8dc3-4ed642846ed8.png" alt="HRSL grid">
  <br><em>HRSL grids showing porbably location of settlements.</em></p>

  <p>It took me about a week of <a href="https://osmcha.mapbox.com/?filters=%7B%22date__gte%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22%22%7D%5D%2C%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22banton%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22banton%22%7D%5D%2C%22users%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22maning%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22maning%22%7D%5D%7D" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">casual mapping</a> to finish the whole challenge.  In additon to buildings, I also added and aligned roads, updated the coastline and moved the village nodes closer to the center of the settlements.  In areas where HRSL was absent but settlements exist in the imagery I buildings as well.</p>

  <h3 id="outcomes">Outcomes</h3>

  <p><em>Improved data coverage</em></p>

  <p>Here’s the before and after data for buildings (cyan).</p>

  <table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>Before</th>
        <th>After</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679631-dda67c00-91be-11e9-80a3-d7da902813a8.png" alt=""></td>
        <td><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679629-dd0de580-91be-11e9-8c7c-cbce0b57083e.png" alt=""></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>highway (km) - 41.7 <br> building (n) - 82</td>
        <td>highway (km) - 53.9 <br> building (n) - 1,862</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <p>With a few hours of mapping for a week, I was able to <strong>improve road coverage by 1.2x and buildings by 22x</strong>.</p>

  <p><em>Tasking efficiency</em></p>

  <p>Using FB’s HRSL data as a rough guide for tasking prioritization definitely helped me organize the work.  The whole island covers ~31,000 30x30m grids.  <strong>Using HRSL narrowed it down to only 535 grids (1.7% of the whole island)</strong>.</p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679625-daab8b80-91be-11e9-8bb0-4d7bf73e9f6f.png" alt="">
  <br><em>Comparison of 30x30m grid where HRSL data detected settlements and buildings mapped in OSM.</em></p>

  <table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>Category</th>
        <th>N (%)</th>
        <th>Color</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>HRSL grid with OSM building traced</td>
        <td>361 (~24.4%)</td>
        <td><em style="color: blue">blue</em></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Non-HRSL grid with OSM building traced</td>
        <td>944 (~63.8%)</td>
        <td><em style="color: orange">orange</em></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>HRSL grid without OSM building traced</td>
        <td>174 (~11.8%)</td>
        <td><em style="color: red">red</em></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Total</td>
        <td>1,479</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

  <p>For large scale <strong>mapping effort especially during crisis response, HRSL can be a good proxy to direct mappers areas to focus to get maximum mapping coverage</strong>.  However,  there are areas in the island where I traced buildings but were not detected by FB’s algorithm (~63.8%).  Possible reasons are:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>imagery used for detection is outdated (2012-05-08) compared to DG’s imagery I used for tracing, unfortunately, I cannot confirm the actual date of DG’s imagery in JOSM;</li>
    <li>depending on the date of capture, many isolated houses are obscured by the thick vegetation and thus not detected by their algorithm, I experienced the same problem when swtiching from DG premium and standard.</li>
  </ul>

  <p>Here’s a few zoom-in images for detailed comparison.</p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679621-d8e1c800-91be-11e9-8648-0382ee7ac9a1.png" alt="">
  <br><em>Barangay Poblacion. The largest concentration of settlements in the island, the blue grids confirms presence of settlements in HRSL and presence of buildings in OSM.</em></p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679619-d7180480-91be-11e9-8cad-b83a68841437.png" alt="">
  <br><em>Barangay Tongonan.  Only a few grids of settlement were detected by HRSL within the surrounding areas of Tongonan Elementary School.  Most of the isolated buildings were mapped from DG imagery (yellow grids).</em></p>

  <p><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/353700/59679618-d67f6e00-91be-11e9-9c11-9bbd65524147.png" alt="">
  <br><em>Barangay Yabawon. The false positive (red grids) along the coast from HRSL were mostly high reflectance surfaces such as bare rock, beaches and sea waves which are similar to roofs of houses</em></p>

  <p>In summary, <strong>FB’s HRSL data is a great resource for scoping initial areas to conduct mapping in the absence of ground truth information</strong>.  In most cases, it correctly identified contiguous areas of settlement.  During HOT crisis activation, for example, information from the ground is scarse during the onset of the event, we can use HRSL to define initial areas of interest (AOI) for coordinating mapping. However, it <strong>does not guarantee completeness</strong> (at least in the island I used for this test) because depending on the imagery (recency and quality), isolated settlements maybe missed by the detection.</p>

  <p>Is it complete?  Definitely not, but that is as far as what I can do given the the current sources available.  Of course this was done remotely, I hope this is a good starting point for future mappers who will visit this island.</p>

  <p>Finally, there are 11 mappers who mapped this island before this quest. Thank you to <code>droki, JAT86, burts, PelleB, Shaun Austin, Evelyn Desouzaa, yawor_89, LordOfMaps, 5EE, behappy24, ed_waypointsdotph</code>!</p>

  <h2 id="do-you-have-a-mapping-quest-you-want-to-share--we-love-to-hear-them-at-the-inaugural-pista-ng-mapa-conference-in-dumaguete-this-aug-1-3-2019-come-join-us--to-register-visit-httpstitopistangmapa2019httpstitopistangmapa2019">Do you have a mapping quest you want to share?  We love to hear them at the inaugural Pista ng Mapa conference in Dumaguete this Aug 1-3, 2019, come join us!  To register, visit <a href="https://ti.to/pistangmapa/2019" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://ti.to/pistangmapa/2019</a>.</h2>

  <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://ai.facebook.com/blog/mapping-the-world-to-help-aid-workers-with-weakly-semi-supervised-learning/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">A more technical post on how FB created the HRSL data.</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://stories.thinkingmachin.es/mapthegap/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Thinking Machines analyzed mapping gaps in the Philippines by comparing with FB HRSL data.</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banton,_Romblon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Banton’s Wikipedia article is very informative! I hope I get the chance to visit the island.</a></li>
  </ul>

  <p>Happy mapping!</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mahede%20Hasan/diary/371457
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mahede%20Hasan/diary/371457
title: Mahede Hasan
published: 2019-06-20 16:25:23
fetched: 2019-06-26 03:30:04.651506
created_at: 2019-06-21 04:30:04.673165
updated_at: 2019-06-26 03:30:04.794265
summary:
  <p>General Member,
  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BoiledBhoot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ask.bhoot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Bangladesh Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Operational Team (BHOOT)</a></p>

  <p>Mappers, <a href="https://www.youthmappers.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">YouthMappers</a></p>

  <p>Executive Member, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/321220498214124/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">YouthMappers DhakaCollege</a></p>

  <p>Validator, <a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HOTOSM</a></p>

  <p>My complete Mapper Profile, <a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Mahede%20Hasan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Profile</a></p>

  <p>Connect me: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mahede.hasan.bbf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Facebook</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Instagram</a>  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahede-hasan-4a1295170/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Linkedin</a></p>

  <p>Using Device/Apps for Field: Garmin GPX, FieldPaper, OSMAnd, OpenMapKit,Mapillary, MapSwipe and OSM Contributor</p>

  <h2 id="my-osm-related-accounts">My OSM-related accounts</h2>

  <p>*<a href="https://help.openstreetmap.org/users/16108/mahede-hasan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OSM Help</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/profile.php?id=108361" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OSM Forum</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mahede_Hasan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OSM Wiki</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/mahede96" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Mapillary</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://www.missingmaps.org/users/#/Mahede%20Hasan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">MissingMaps</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://github.com/mahede96" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Github</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org/user/Mahede%20Hasan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">HOTOSM</a></p>

  <p>*<a href="https://tasks.teachosm.org/user/Mahede%20Hasan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Teachosm</a></p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Reinhart%20Previano/diary/382393
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Reinhart%20Previano/diary/382393
title: Upgrading Transjakarta Networks to Public Transport V2 Schema
published: 2019-06-21 05:36:06
fetched: 2019-06-26 06:00:04.350728
created_at: 2019-06-21 18:00:04.280578
updated_at: 2019-06-26 06:00:04.501036
summary:
  <p>I am currently working to improve Transjakarta, one of Jakarta’s major BRT/Busway operators, to comply with <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Public Transport Version 2 schema</a> in OpenStreetMap, though Version 3 is <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Refined_Public_Transport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">being purposed</a>.</p>

  <p><img src="https://webcompat.com/uploads/2019/6/ec6b8b53-3b66-42b1-a4c6-c86233dbd82a.jpeg" alt="image">
  <em>Before and After map of Transjakarta Corridor 9 route, between Pluit and Penjaringan bus stops</em></p>

  <h1 id="legacy-tags-that-id-like-to-keep-for-compatibility">Legacy Tags that I’d like to keep for compatibility:</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><code>amenity=bus_stop</code> for PTV1 compatibility on bus stations</li>
    <li><code>corridorXX=yes</code>: assigns which Transjakarta corridors are served, such as <code>corridor9=yes</code> for Corridor 9 and <code>corridor12=yes</code> for Corridor 12 (see Implementation Notes if you are a developer utilising this tag for queries)</li>
    <li>HOTOSM InAWARE tags</li>
    <li><code>network=Transjakarta</code>, now also reinforced with<code>network:wikidata</code> and <code>wikidata</code> values</li>
    <li><code>shelter=yes</code></li>
    <li><code>shelter_tj=yes</code> (see Implementation Notes if you are a developer utilising this tag for queries)</li>
  </ul>

  <h1 id="things-i-removed">Things I REMOVED</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><code>service=TransJakarta</code>, since this is unacceptable by Osmose and other QA tools (see Implementation Notes if you are a developer utilizing this tag for queries)</li>
  </ul>

  <h1 id="new-things-that-i-added">New things that I added</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><code>bus=yes</code> to meet PTV2 requirements for bus</li>
    <li>Route relation-specific additions:
      <ul>
        <li><strong>New route relations will be added for Corridor sub-routes (e.g. Corridor 1A, 9M, etc.), night services (e.g. M1 for Corridor 1; though I’ll consult with other OSM Public Transport implementations in other places)</strong></li>
        <li>Duplicating roads since many Transjakarta networks operate on one-way roads</li>
        <li><code>network:wikidata=Q1671143</code> for Transjakarta, then add <a href="https://www.wikidata.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Wikidata</a> values for each route relation, e.g. <code>wikidata=Q12492249</code> for Corridor 5</li>
        <li><code>public_transport:version=2</code> to enable JOSM and Osmose debugging</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li>Shelter/station-specific additions:
      <ul>
        <li><strong>Stations may now be represented as a Relation for those which have split platforms and/or multiple objects in OSM, such as in some Corridor 9 stations which are split by toll roads/expressways</strong></li>
        <li><strong>Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) areas are now represented as a separate Relation to connect multiple stations serving different networks</strong></li>
        <li><code>covered=yes</code>, since Transjakarta stations are fully covered (in conjunction to <code>shelter=yes</code>)</li>
        <li><code>departures_board=realtime</code> since all Transjakarta stations (except Metrotrans, Miktrotrans, and Royaltrans services) have a live bus timetable, which can also be accessible through API at <a href="http://api.jakarta.go.id" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">http://api.jakarta.go.id</a></li>
        <li><code>public_transport=stop_position</code> and <code>public_transport=platform</code>, see PTV2 on <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OSM wiki</a> for specific implementation</li>
        <li><code>smoking=no</code> due to government laws, though not necessarily applied to all stops and stations across Jakarta</li>
        <li><code>wheelchair=yes/dedicated/partial/no</code> (optional)</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>

  <h1 id="implementation-notes-for-apps-and-services">Implementation Notes (for apps and services)</h1>
  <ul>
    <li>Please use the Route Relation instead of <code>corridorXX=yes</code> for network queries. After checking on taginfo.openstreetmap.org most of <code>corridorXX</code> tags are only used in Indonesia.</li>
    <li>Additionally, you may include hard-coded Relation IDs which belong to Transjakarta network.</li>
    <li>Please use <code>highway=*</code> and Transjakarta Route Relation IDs instead of <code>service=TransJakarta</code> to query roads which belongs to Transjakarta, as some parts of the routes do NOT have a separate road (or Kassel Kerbs)</li>
    <li>Please use Transjakarta Route Relation objects with <code>role=platform</code> or <code>role=stop_position</code> instead of <code>shelter_tj</code>, as some Transjakarta (especially Royaltrans and Metrotrans) networks do stop at regular bus stations.</li>
  </ul>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WoodWoseWulf/diary/382394
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/WoodWoseWulf/diary/382394
title: Pokemon GO Mappers - What They Do and Why They Do It
published: 2019-06-21 06:16:59
fetched: 2019-06-26 07:00:04.354249
created_at: 2019-06-21 18:30:04.458866
updated_at: 2019-06-26 07:00:04.496310
summary:
  <p>It’s been three years since the launch of Niantic’s Pokemon GO app, a lifetime in the online world. After all this time, there remains a certain frustration and tension between Open Street Map (OSM) volunteer mappers and a subsection of Pokemon GO trainers who seek to edit the map in order to enhance or even cheat their game experience. At least in part, this is caused by a series of misunderstandings about the OSM project, Pokemon GO and the relationship between the two.</p>

  <p>Several guides exist for budding Pokemon GO mappers, such as <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tips_for_new_(Pokemon_Go)_mappers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tips_for_new_(Pokemon_Go)_mappers</a>. However, there are scarce resources aimed in the other direction, that is to say, guides to help mappers understand the motivations driving trainers to make changes to the map, and ways to understand what kinds of changes said trainers are likely to want to make.</p>

  <h1 id="glossary">Glossary</h1>

  <p>Some of the terms I will use here may be unfamiliar to mappers, so I will define them here.</p>

  <h2 id="ex-raidex-eligible">EX Raid/EX Eligible:</h2>

  <p>EX Eligibility is a special characteristic of certain Gyms (see POI definition below) that allows that Gym to occasionally output invitations for a local event in which trainers can obtain a rare Pokemon. (See “EX Eligibility” sub-section below for more detail)</p>

  <h2 id="biome">Biome:</h2>

  <p>A term used by the Pokemon GO community to describe locations where certain kinds of Pokemon might appear. For example, proximity to a  water biome might result in more fish like Pokemon and forests might attract more bugs and plant-like pokemon. Niantic occasionally refers to biomes as “habitats”. (See “#Biomes/Habitats” sub-section below for more detail)</p>

  <h2 id="blocked-area">Blocked Area:</h2>

  <p>An area where Pokemon are forced to stop appearing.</p>

  <h2 id="nest">Nest:</h2>

  <p>A preset area on the map that has an increased occurrence of a particular kind of Pokemon. These change species of Pokemon on a two week cycle and also occasionally when in-game events start and end. (See “Nests” sub-section below for more detail)</p>

  <h2 id="poi">POI:</h2>

  <p>Points of Interest - Niantic keeps a user submitted locations and displays these on the Pokemon GO game map as “Pokestops” and “Gyms” - these are used to generate map pins that trainers can travel to and interact with in order to gain virtual items, earn in-game currency and also play a jazzed up version of “King of the Hill”. POIs in Pokemon GO are not sourced from OSM.</p>

  <h2 id="spawnpoint">Spawnpoint:</h2>

  <p>A point on the Pokemon GO game map where a Pokemon appears each hour. Spawnpoints are aligned to a level 20 S2 cell grid.</p>

  <h2 id="trainer">Trainer:</h2>

  <p>In this context, someone who plays Pokemon GO.</p>

  <h1 id="infrequent-updates">Infrequent Updates:</h1>

  <p>Niantic has seldom updated their OSM derived database since the launch of Pokemon GO. Additionally, Niantic has repeatedly shown that they are capable of using different versions of OSM data from different times simultaneously when updating distinct game features.</p>

  <h2 id="osmpokemon-go-timeline">OSM+Pokemon GO Timeline</h2>

  <p>March 2016 - Pokemon GO Beta Testing Begins.</p>

  <p>April 2016 - OSM-like tags are found by data mining the Android application package for the Pokemon GO Beta client.</p>

  <p>June 2016 - Nest areas are present in the late stages of the Pokemon GO beta.</p>

  <p>July 2016 - Pokemon GO begins to launch around the world using Google Maps to generate its visual game map, but hidden OSM data is observed when it comes to Biomes, Nests and Blocked Areas.</p>

  <p>December 2016 - Niantic distributes spawn points along certain pedestrian highway tags such as “highway”=”path” and “highway”=”footway” apparently using data sourced close to when the game launched in July.</p>

  <p>January 2017 - Pokemon GO launched in South Korea. For apparent legal reasons, in South Korea Niantic uses OSM data to generate game map visuals, and also adds in OSM copyright/source information in the app’s “About” section. Globally, nesting and blocked areas are updated to OSM data sourced from some date between late December 2016 and early January 2017.</p>

  <p>Early/Mid November 2017 - Pokemon GO begins to transition globally to OSM for its visual game map, this rollout happens over several hours. Visual data appears to have been sourced earlier in August. Other OSM features remain unchanged.</p>

  <p>Late November 2017 - EX raids are hinted at occurring in parks and green areas, it is quickly realized that these parks are based on OSM data. Later, it is discovered that the OSM data used for EX Eligibility is from July or August 2016 - meaning that EX raids are possibly using the oldest OSM data still in Pokemon GO. As of mid-2019, this data has never been updated.</p>

  <p>January 2018 - The Pokemon GO visual map is updated to more current OSM data from earlier in January. As with the previous visual update, other features remain unchanged.</p>

  <p>March 2019 - Nests, Blocked areas and spawn points distributed along paths are all updated to OSM data that was seemingly sourced in late February. Map visuals remain unchanged.</p>

  <h1 id="how-osm-impacts-pokemon-go">How OSM impacts Pokemon GO</h1>

  <h2 id="visuals">Visuals:</h2>

  <p>As of  2019, the Pokemon GO visual game map is now entirely based on OSM data, though only a limited number of features render at all, and these can be broken down into 4 basic categories:</p>

  <ol>
    <li>Dark Green “Park” areas</li>
    <li>Blue “Water” areas</li>
    <li>Grey “Highway” lines</li>
    <li>Semi-Transparent 3D “Building” areas</li>
  </ol>

  <p>The following tags are known to visually render in Pokemon GO:</p>

  <p>Parks: “leisure”=”golf_course”, “leisure”=”park” and “landuse”=”recreation_ground”</p>

  <p>Water: “landuse”=”basin”, “landuse”=”reservoir”, “leisure”=”swimming_pool”, “natural”=”water”, “waterway”=”riverbank” and the ocean (beyond coastline ways). Un-closed water lines like most streams and drains do not render in Pokemon Go.</p>

  <p>Highway: Most highway lines render, footways and similar tags tend to render as very thin lines, whereas primary highways are a little thicker than residential roads.</p>

  <p>Buildings: Any building area tagged with building=* will render, building:part and similar tags are also supported and can have quite a nice effect.</p>

  <h2 id="nests">Nests:</h2>

  <p>A nest is an area in Pokemon GO in which a certain species of Pokemon will appear about 25% of the time from all active spawn points contained within that area. Nests “migrate” or change species every 2 weeks and can also change as a result of in-game events.</p>

  <p>There is some evidence that nesting tags may modestly increase the number of spawn points in an area, but there are plenty of nesting areas without any spawn points at all.</p>

  <p>The following tags can create nests if they are present on either closed ways or closed relation based areas:</p>

  <p>leisure=park, landuse=recreation_ground, leisure=recreation_ground, leisure=pitch, leisure=garden, leisure=golf_course, leisure=playground, landuse=meadow, landuse=grass, landuse=greenfield, natural=scrub, natural=heath, natural=grassland, landuse=farmyard, landuse=vineyard, landuse=farmland, landuse=orchard, natural=plateau, natural=valley and natural=moor</p>

  <p>Some nesting Pokemon are highly desirable, however, (in my opinion) Niantic has somewhat backed away from the nesting feature with recent additions to the game, and many newer Pokemon do not appear in nests at this time.</p>

  <h2 id="ex-eligibility">EX Eligibility:</h2>

  <p>Certain POIs that are known as “gyms” are capable of providing trainers with special invitations to obtain a rare Pokemon after specific interactions. In order for the gym POI to be EX Eligible, it must have the center of the level 20 S2 cell that it occupies centered over a mapped area that meets particular criteria.</p>

  <p>EX Eligibility shares the same list of tags as Nesting areas, however, it does not support relations, only closed ways count for EX Eligibility. Additionally, the data used for EX eligibility is old, with eligibility being observed to require the mapped area’s presence on the map in July-August 2016 in order to count.</p>

  <h2 id="blocked-areas">Blocked Areas:</h2>

  <p>Certain areas can block spawns, additionally spawns will not occur within the proximity of certain ways. These include - school grounds, military, wetlands, many water tags used for areas as well as basins, some religion-related tags, higher level highway tags, railways, and powerlines.</p>

  <h2 id="biomeshabitats">Biomes/Habitats:</h2>

  <p>Biomes remain poorly understood, but OSM data certainly has some influence. Tags related to water are, in particular, commonly observed to have a strong correlation to particular biomes. Some trainers have observed lines of water associated Pokemon appearing along underground streams as an example, or have been disappointed when unmapped lakes have yielded no water Pokemon at all.</p>

  <p>OSM’s influence on biomes has perhaps become less important over time, as Niantic has taken steps to diversify and add complexity to the biome system through the addition of features such as in-game weather.</p>

  <h2 id="path-spawns">Path Spawns</h2>

  <p>When Pokemon GO launched, Pokemon spawn point distributions were reliant on a global database that Niantic possibly sourced from Google/Android location pings while they were a division of Google. This disproportionately favored dense urban locations, and in response to this problem Niantic made some changes to how spawn points were distributed.</p>

  <p>One such change involved the addition of spawns to certain highway tags such as highway=footway and highway=path (and also, oddly, highway=unclassified, but not highway=track). While this was likely intended to bolster spawns along hiking trails and in other low pedestrian activity but still high “value” locations such as parks and open nature reserves, it had the side effect of adding spawns too many sidewalks and similar features as well.</p>

  <p>Outside of rural locations, the addition of spawns along paths was modest. The addition of paths does not turn a location into a Pokemon paradise by any means, but they do have the effect of making many previously unplayable locations much more accessible in the game.</p>

  <h1 id="trainer-mapper-motivations">Trainer-Mapper Motivations</h1>

  <p>With the above in mind, we can define a number of archetypes for Pokemon GO inspired mappers</p>

  <h2 id="the-bad">The Bad:</h2>

  <p>The Self-Serving Vandal:</p>

  <p>Their first edit will often involve adding a park or several other nesting features over their house or entire neighborhood. Often this will be accompanied by scribbles of footways and possibly water features.  Often you’ll see no more than 6 to 9 edits out of this kind of mapper.</p>

  <p>More persistent Self-Serving Vandals may attempt to fabricate evidence and play into OSM’s expected benefit of the doubt/”on the ground” culture.</p>

  <p>The Malice Inspired Vandal:</p>

  <p>This mapper will add spawn blocking areas or remove nesting areas en masse. They are often inspired by petty rivalries from Pokemon GOm and can be more tricky to deal with, These mappers can be very persistent, with some cases stretching across multiple accounts and hundreds of edits.</p>

  <p>The Hyper-Altruist Vandal:</p>

  <p>Attempting to help their local gaming community, these mappers are like a Self-Serving Vandal who has had way, way too much caffeine - expect entire residential areas changed to parks, footways everywhere and very messy, truth stretching edits.</p>

  <p>The Graffiti Artist:</p>

  <p>Not that unusual for OSM, but in an attempt to get their name on the map, this mapper will draw text or pictures using features that specifically render in Pokemon GO</p>

  <h2 id="the-good">The Good:</h2>

  <p>The “My Street Wasn’t on the Map” Trainer:</p>

  <p>This mapper will add one or two features, maybe with a couple of errors, maybe not. Once their small set of edits are complete, they will vanish never to be seen again.</p>

  <p>The Empty Town Trainer:</p>

  <p>Often these trainers become mappers because their local areas just simply isn’t on the map. These kinds of mappers are worth a bit of patience as they come to OSM from Pokemon GO with good intentions but often very little experience or guidance.</p>

  <p>The Map-Savvy Trainer:</p>

  <p>Well informed on how Pokemon GO interacts with OSM. In some ways, this mapper is similar to the Hyper-Altruist Vandal but will attempt to play “within the rules” of OSM. While it’s always worth watching in case they go rogue, these mappers are typically very careful, trustworthy and make many worthy additions to the map.</p>

  <p>The Former Trainer:</p>

  <p>They may have started as another kind of Trainer-Mapper, but they have started to spend more and more time editing OSM… “and what was Pokemon GO again? I forgot”.</p>

  <h1 id="discussionconclusion">Discussion/Conclusion:</h1>

  <p>I hope that the above is useful to mappers who are struggling to understand the motivations behind these strange Pokemon GO inspired mappers who have been appearing on OSM over the past few years.</p>

  <p>I know that sometimes, their actions may seem frustrating and even confusing, but in my experience, the vast majority are well-intentioned and in many cases, you wouldn’t even know that they came to OSM as a result of Pokemon GO.</p>

  <p>My personal journey has taken me from adding a cemetery while Pokemon GO was in beta in an attempt to bring out more ghost type Pokemon, to helping remove vandalism and guide new mappers on an almost daily basis. I personally find both Pokemon GO and OSM very rewarding in their own right, and it’s been quite a journey walking the middle road with both of them.</p>

  <p>I’m always happy to answer any questions or write some more on the topic if this is well received (this is my first diary entry so I’m not sure how it’ll turn out). Feel free to comment or shoot me a message at any time.</p>


guid: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/?p=176636639
url: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/06/21/help-the-owg/
title: Can you help the Operations Working Group?
published: 2019-06-21 22:08:01
fetched: 2019-10-24 08:00:04.334881
created_at: 2019-06-21 22:30:03.959002
updated_at: 2019-10-24 08:00:04.512833
summary:
  The OSM Operations Working Group is a volunteer group, responsible for running of the servers owned by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. We are always keen to find new members and we are particularly looking for people who: can analyse our server infrastructure make plans forecast future hardware needs draw up budgets This does involve a certain level [&#8230;]

content:
  <p>The OSM <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org ">Operations Working Group</a> is a volunteer group, responsible for running of the servers owned by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. <br />We are always keen to find new members and we are particularly looking for people who:</p>



  <ul><li>can analyse our server infrastructure</li><li>make plans</li><li>forecast future hardware needs</li><li>draw up budgets</li></ul>



  <p>This does involve a certain level of technical expertise but it’s not writing code, for example, and OWG membership doesn’t grant access to any of the servers &#8211; that’s for our Sysadmins. If you would like to join us, have a read of our <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/owg-membership/">membership policy</a>, and please get in touch!<br /><br />Some additional information:</p>



  <ul><li>OWG&#8217;s main communication channels are <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations">Github</a> and email. We rarely have meetings.</li><li>Estimate of hours per week: 1-3</li></ul>



  <p style="text-align:center">Email us at operations@osmfoundation.org<br />We are also on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/osm_tech">@OSM_Tech</a></p>



  <p>If you have the technical expertise and experience to be a sysadmin, read our <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/sysadmin-membership/">sysadmin membership policy</a> and get in touch.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tasauf1980/diary/382396
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tasauf1980/diary/382396
title: Running for the HOT Board: Candidate Statement from Tasauf A Baki Billah (Ribin)
published: 2019-06-21 10:28:52
fetched: 2019-06-26 09:00:04.164526
created_at: 2019-06-21 22:30:04.634525
updated_at: 2019-06-26 09:00:04.290494
summary:
  <p>Dear all Hot Members,</p>

  <p>First of all I would like to thank Jorieke for nominating me as a candidate. It is surely an honor for me whether I am being elected or not and it will surely encourage me to contribute my furthest best in HOT moving forward in coming days. Thanks to Pete Masters &amp; Ahasanul Hoque for considering me &amp; encouraging for the candidacy.</p>

  <h2 id="involvement-with-hot--osm">Involvement with HOT &amp; OSM:</h2>

  <p>It has been now almost 05 years I have been walking with HOT &amp; OSM. Supposed to be helping out in a MissingMaps piloting project as a translator, instead fell in love with mapping itself! In a very short period of time got involved in the community building process, promoting &amp; supporting OSM based projects &amp; initiatives in Bangladesh. I have been one of the core contacts of HOT &amp; MissingMaps in Bangladesh for a while now. Have been granted voting membership since 2017 &amp; being involved in several working groups. The journey has been surely an eventful one and I’m loving the ride.</p>

  <p>The initial target I had while I joined the community was to make the community one of the most vibrant one in the globe &amp; within a year or so I had it accomplished. From the very beginning of my involvement I have been shouting out in different platforms of HOT &amp; OSM that a self sustaining community only can ensure a sustainable growth of the activities &amp; resilient volunteerism. In last 05 years I dedicated myself &amp; my career completely in structuring the local community to an organizational modality and make sure a sustainable growth. The relentless efforts of me and my fellow mates with support from HOT, MissingMaps &amp; some inspirational individuals made possible to have what I was addressing throughout the time. We now have organizations like OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Community (OSMBDF)aiming to Advocate &amp; govern the OSM related activities within Bangladesh, Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL) A technical team dedicated to build up innovative solution models &amp; applications based on OpenStreetMap and Bangladesh Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Operations Team (BHOOT) a team of volunteers dedicated to support any humanitarian activities related to OSM physically within the country &amp; remotely throughout the globe. Since the organizational formation being implemented since 2017 the teams has been contributed in bulk to Global &amp; Regional humanitarian &amp; OSM activations. Over the period the team BHOOT has contributed more than 15 percent of the total MissingMaps contribution of all time resulting 07 of top 10 contributors in the leaderboard. This is just a mere example of how broad the contribution of the team to the global goal of HOT &amp; OSM. There are ample lot of elaborated discussions can be done of how the teams are bringing added dimensions in contribution through innovation, solution development, resilience modelling &amp; collaboration.</p>

  <h2 id="goal-as-a-board-member">Goal as a Board Member:</h2>

  <p>During my experience with HOT (Though in a very small scale) I felt the community itself is involved very little in the strategic &amp; organizational core other than just volunteering through mapping &amp; support operations. Though there are numbers of working groups present but very few people are engaged actively from the membership, let alone the common community mappers. I would like to see HOT becoming more inclusive actively, especially in the working groups. Would like to work on the mechanism.</p>

  <p>Would love to work on the sustainability of the community groups by scaling up my experience of modality in Bangladesh.</p>

  <p>Work to support reforming HOT operational structure towards a more innovation, diversity &amp; gender equity backend solution mechanism.</p>

  <p>Broaden Advocacy for HOT in local context. Support HOT’s operational needs &amp; efforts for data consistency.</p>

  <h2 id="last-but-not-the-least">Last but not the Least:</h2>

  <p>From the bottom of my heart I always feel myself connected with HOT. I would love to contribute my best with my limited experience &amp; capacity to move HOT forward as a next generation out of the league Organization leading Humanitarian &amp; Open data movement in the coming days.</p>

  <h2 id="cheers">Cheers!</h2>

  <p>Ribin</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Supaplex/diary/382397
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Supaplex/diary/382397
title: 飲水地圖的回顧經驗
published: 2019-06-21 10:32:40
fetched: 2019-06-26 22:30:04.470192
created_at: 2019-06-21 23:00:04.011181
updated_at: 2019-06-26 22:30:04.592049
summary:
  <p>這篇要強調是個人的參與觀察飲水地圖，不適合推論其他社群成員想法，其他人想法只有當他們自己出聲時為準。飲水地圖做為組織對組織的合作案例，追究個人的責任並不是成熟的作法，細數跟環資協會的合作，原本以為做為組織，會有一致的行動方針，至少對外接觸會有一致的行動。然而實際的接觸，社群成員需要一再重覆回應一樣的問題，以及回應滿滿為何要用 OpenStreetMap 的疑問，反映在聚會記錄上出現時常重覆或類似的記敘記錄。做為有組織有資源，並且有十幾年歷史環團的環資協會，需要重覆說明已經有人問過的問題，重申前人早已經說明過的理念，無疑令人失望。</p>

  <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/707/21573672106_0a13f32962_z.jpg" alt="OpenStreetMap GNS">
  <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/othree/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Orthree</a> on Flickr, CC-BY 2.0</p>

  <p>飲水地圖選擇 OpenStreetMap，應該是著眼在本身資料變成OpenStreetMap資料庫，而不是單純選個網路地圖平台套疊在上面。毫無疑問的是，這是相當政治性的決定，自然需要受到公評，細數各項方案的優缺點，但一旦下了決定，環資與OpenStreetMap全力為了當初選定的目標努力衝刺，而非不斷的質疑為何要用。</p>

  <p>OpenStreetMap是世界性質，容納各項有位置資訊的地理圖資平台，當初成立受到維基百科影響，採用類似的開源，社群共同編輯方式進行。從 2004 年成立至今，社群已經擴展到世界各地，台灣也有一定的社群規模參與繪製地圖、維護地圖資料，各自也有關注的主題，如公車、登山、單車、美食商家、無障礙設施等。</p>

  <p>做為有十幾年歷史的環團，自然比起新興計畫 OpenStreetMap 更有組織性，而且也累積一定名氣，資源也比單純網路社群多。然而原先預期人力比 OpenStreetMap 社群多的組織，卻只想電腦螢幕前作業，未好好驗證取得的資料。我自己不時會實地踏查，包括驗證多個飲水點標示，並且直接新增前往的場所中看到的飲水機。政府常常釋出帶有地址但未有經緯度的資料，包括機關手上管理的飲水機清單，有經緯度的資料相當寶貴。假若帶有經緯度的飲水點清單，我自己來匯入都比較快，不需假手他人。</p>

  <p>兩方合作，一方可以不認同對方作法，不對外說出來對方是不會知道，但不願意傾聽、理解 OpenStreetMap 設計的流程，問題就大了。其中有個重要的飲水點 note 處理，就是要處理棘手的飲水點 geocoding 問題，才能得到點位確切位置，並且最終標示進 OpenStreetMap 資料庫裡。OpenStreetMap 如同姊妹計畫維基百科一樣，都有相當嚴謹的授權規模，不相容授權的資料，最終必須被移除。另一項社群的期待 Mapping Party，則已經完全沒有下文。</p>

  <p>環資自身做為媒體角色，也深知媒體宣傳之道，曾數度發佈新聞資訊，打響飲水地圖的知名度。但近期一次萬人標示飲水點的行動，令 OpenStreetMap 社群捏把冷汗，深怕依據先前看到不少次問題編輯，費事點要花數倍的時間編修，省事點移除掉。飲水點回報位置很常有疑問，而且交由不熟悉 OpenStreetMap 編輯方式與社群文化的人，往往不知所以，而且編輯也會出問題。</p>

  <p>OpenStreetMap 在台灣發展初期與性質類似的開源社群開始流傳，漸漸往交通迷、公路迷、單車愛好者、登山愛好者發展，以及理念相近而採用的維基百科，但仍偏 Geek 社群。直到大型網路公司如 Flickr、蘋果、Facebook、Uber，甚至還有 Niantic 在 Pokemon Go資料運算和遊戲內地圖採用，台灣本地有實價登錄地圖，台灣百年歷史地圖採用，OpenStreetMap 在台灣雖然小，但比起以往曝光增加，而且有式各樣的計畫能夠做了，挑選自己有興趣和時間的計畫做，不必牽就單一計畫。</p>

  <p>社群性質的計畫相比一般組織，難以有統一的聲音，社群成員會視自己需要和興趣加入。聚集不夠人來做計畫，意味 OpenStreetMap 台灣社群仍有不少努力空間。但社群的性質的好處，就是會有不同背景的人來加入，逐漸茁壯。</p>

  <p>最後，仍然要感謝環資在 OpenStreetMap 在台還沒有多少聲量，還沒有多少運作的專案時，與 OpenStreetMap 台灣社群合作。透過飲水地圖新增的飲水點，成為各種依賴 OpenStreetMap 圖資的應用，如離線 App，能夠到人生地不熟的地方，找到解渴裝水的地方，不論這些人是不是本地人，懂不懂中文，有沒有聽過台灣環境資訊協會，是否聽過飲水地圖。</p>

  <p>現今 OpenStreetMap 社群能夠處理台灣日常的資料驗證，維繫計畫運作下去，OpenStreetMap 沒有畫完的一天，我們會繼續努力。飲水地圖的程式碼已經 fork 一份到 OSM-TW hack 的 Github 了，相信社群會用有限的時間，改善飲水地圖。</p>


guid: https://weeklyosm.eu/?p=12190
url: http://weeklyosm.eu/archives/12190
title: weeklyOSM 465
published: 2019-06-22 08:50:18
fetched: 2019-08-29 12:30:31.226236
created_at: 2019-06-22 09:00:32.408690
updated_at: 2019-08-29 12:30:33.259398
summary:
  11/06/2019-17/06/2019 The talks held at the recent State of the Map France are available online. 1 &#124; Photo © Thomas Lombard, CC0 Mapping Mateusz Konieczny plans to remove duplicates tags such as sustenance=fast_food together with amenity=fast_food and atm=yes with amenity=atm. Like all mechanical edit plans, this one has caused some discussion on the tagging mailing [&#8230;]

content:
  <p>11/06/2019-17/06/2019</p>
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  <p class="wp-caption-text">The talks held at the recent <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:State_of_the_Map_France_2019">State of the Map France</a> are available online. <a href="#wn465_20304"><sup>1</sup></a> | Photo © Thomas Lombard, CC0</p>
  </div>
  <h2 id="wn465_mapping">Mapping</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20308">Mateusz Konieczny <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082710.html">plans</a> to remove duplicates tags such as <code>sustenance=fast_food</code> together with <code>amenity=fast_food</code> and <code>atm=yes</code> with <code>amenity=atm</code>. Like all mechanical edit plans, this one has caused some discussion on the tagging mailing list.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20294">Joseph Eisenberg <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-June/046033.html">revived</a> his idea to tag individual pitches within a campsite with his <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:tourism%3Dcamp_pitch">proposal</a> of <code>tourism=camp_pitch</code>. His previous rejected proposal was named <code>camp_site=camp_pitch</code>.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20312">On the Talk-at mailing list, OSM mapper Christian Aigner <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-June/009910.html">asked</a> (automatic <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=EN&amp;u=https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-June/009910.html">translation</a>) how to map schools for Shiatsu training. Since he didn&#8217;t find a suggestion in the OSM Wiki, he asked if he should use the tags <code>amenity=education</code> and <code>education=shiatsu</code>. This was denied because <code>amenity=education</code> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Deducation">was set</a> to be deprecated. Another OSM mapper referred him to the German OSM Forum.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20322">The revised version of the proposal <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-June/045995.html">Key:changing_table</a> has been accepted, and it now replaces <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diaper"><code>Key:diaper</code></a>. <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Valor_Naram">Valor Naram</a> has written an <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:changing_table#For_users_of_the_diaper.3D.2A_key">orientation guide</a> for mappers who may be familiar with the old key.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20291">Geofabrik has rewritten the Routing View in <a href="http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=routing&amp;lon=34.71349&amp;lat=-5.17547&amp;zoom=7">OSM Inspector</a>, which is used by many mappers to find unconnected roads and other routing-related issues. The blog article at the company&#8217;s homepage <a href="https://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=522">provides</a> some more details on the changes.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20318">OSMCha now supports creating <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/368839">groups of OSM mappers</a>, and either filtering or hiding changesets made by group members.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_community">Community</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20284">Starting with the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_24_hour_mapathons/Jun_2019_Milton_Keynes_South">Milton Keynes South</a> parliamentary constituency on 12 June 2019, the UK OpenStreetMap community <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2019-June/023054.html">launched</a> a series of <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_24_hour_mapathons"><em>UK 24 hours mapathons</em></a> to improve the map of the UK. Parliamentary constituencies were chosen as they have roughly equal populations.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20297">The Swiss OpenStreetMap Association <a href="https://sosm.ch/2018-activity-report/">has published</a> a blog post detailing its activities in 2018 and the outlook for the near future.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_imports">Imports</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20293">Alexis Athlan from L214, a French Animal Welfare Organisation, <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2019-June/006015.html">announced</a> the plan to import tags which describe the availability of vegan and vegetarian food in 1400 restaurants in France.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20305">David Morais Ferreira <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-lu/2019-June/000192.html">requested</a> feedback concerning a possible import of around 500 remarkable trees in Luxembourg.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20336">Atakua <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Atakua/diary/368829">wrote</a> about the things he has learnt during the import of landuse/landcover data in Sweden. The comprehensive blog post is a must read for all those interested in the topic as it covers a lot of practical guidance and goes far beyond the content of this topic in the OSM wiki.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_openstreetmap_foundation">OpenStreetMap Foundation</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20328">The OSMF <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/9/92/FOSSGIS_annual_report_2019.pdf">published</a> the Annual Report (PDF) of FOSSGIS e.V., its local chapter in Germany.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20329">The <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licensing_Working_Group/Minutes/2019-05-09">minutes</a> of the License Working Group meeting on 9 May have been published. The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oEAxQHjUnZu57K-jq9ByDLNFX1OJMGkxBjMxZI1WoXI">draft Attribution Guidance</a> was discussed during the meeting and readers may remember that the attribution topic caused some noise in the community recently.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_events">Events</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20304">[1] The talks held at the recent <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:State_of_the_Map_France_2019">State of the Map France</a> are being posted <a href="https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr/search?search=2019">online</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/fr.svg" alt="(fr)" />.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20302"><a href="https://www.sncf.com/en">SNCF</a> engineers presented the joint work of SNCF and <a href="https://www.geofabrik.de/projects/railway_routing/index.html">Geofabrik, Karlsruhe</a>, on the development of a routing tool for calculating train paths on the European rail network. Their <a href="https://twitter.com/overflorian/status/1139470862489456640?s=19">innovative clothing</a> also impressed many during the SotM France. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></li>
  <li id="wn465_20311">OSM Mapper <a href="https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?ScubbX">ScubbX</a> has <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2019-June/009918.html">posted</a> on the Talk-at mailing list that there are still 10 free Expo tickets available for AGIT 2019. The <a href="https://www.agit.at">AGIT</a> (2 to 5 July) is the largest geo-exhibition in the German-speaking area. The OSM community will be represented with a stand, where help is still needed.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20286">Philippine OpenStreetMap contributor <a href="http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?GOwin">GOwin</a> reported about an upcoming <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GOwin/diary/368816">local conference, Pista ng Mapa</a>, to be held on 1 to 3 August in Dumaguete City. The conference will feature workshops, talks about open geodata, OpenStreetMap, and discussion panels about the concerns of the local mapping communities. The conference is open to the general public (requires <a href="https://ti.to/PistaNgmapa/2019">RSVP</a>), and is available free of charge.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_humanitarian_osm">Humanitarian OSM</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20285">HOT <a href="https://www.hotosm.org/updates/welcome-hots-new-voting-members-for-2019/">welcomed</a> 38 new <a href="https://www.hotosm.org/voting-members">voting members</a>.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20317">The daily newspaper Trierischer Volksfreund <a href="https://www.volksfreund.de/region/konz-saarburg-hochwald/berufsschueler-helfen-medizinern_aid-39464803">reported</a> about a mapathon in Saarbücken. Vocational school students supported the organisation <a href="https://twitter.com/euYoutH_OSM/status/1138469798822723584">Doctors Without Borders</a> by using their mapping skills acquired in an <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/EuYoutH_OSM">Erasmus+ project</a> to make it easier for beginners to take their first steps in JOSM. Together they improved the map data in Congo.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_education">Education</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20349">After enjoying SotM-FR user Polyglot decided to <a href="https://listes.openstreetmap.fr/wws/arc/transport/2019-06/msg00023.html">organise</a> a series of Hangout sessions in French to explain how the PT_Assistant plugin works for editing public transport itineraries. The first will be on Wednesday 26 June at 19h30 CEST.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_maps">Maps</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20330">OpenStreetMap Belgium <a href="https://twitter.com/osm_be/status/1138169525176885253">announced</a> the availability of new hillshades based on public height data in the Flemish Region and Wallonia and showcase the new layers in an <a href="https://play.osm.be/historischekaart.html#14/50.2023/5.5638/OSMBelgium-SPWHillshadeWallonia-AIVHillshadesoftFlanders">online map</a>.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20306">uMap instances are becoming increasingly popular. The local German OSMF chapter FOSSGIS has <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2019-June/116193.html">funded</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/de.svg" alt="(de)" /> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2019-June/116193.html">translation</a>) the <a href="https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/">new uMap instance</a> at openstreetmap.de.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20316">Since mid May 2019 a Twitter bot named &#8220;OSMTrekkingTips&#8221; has been tweeting a <a href="https://castle-map.infs.ch/">link</a> about a castle or a palace on the &#8220;Castle Dossier Map&#8221; from the account <a href="https://twitter.com/trending_places">@trending_places</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://twitter.com/trending_places">translation</a>) starting at 12 noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The bot was developed by Geometa Lab (Prof. Stefan Keller) to promote OSM in Swiss tourism. (<a href="https://gitlab.com/geometalab/osmtrekkingtips/blob/master/README.md">Python Source Code</a>).</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_open_data">Open Data</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20301">At the <a href="https://twitter.com/sotmfr">State Of The Map FR</a> in Montpellier, the <a href="http://www.ign.fr/">IGN</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://www.ign.fr/">translation</a>) Geospatial Agency and <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.fr/">OSM-FR</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://www.openstreetmap.fr/">translation</a>) have signed a <a href="https://twitter.com/IGNFrance/status/1139460904809062400?s=19">partnership agreement</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://twitter.com/IGNFrance/status/1139460904809062400?s=19">translation</a>). IGN will use OSM-fr style and their tiles on the IGN Geoportail and OSM-fr will use BD-Ortho ortophotos to edit OpenStreetMap.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20331">German Wikipedia is currently surveying users as to which areas of technical improvements they should focus on. The topics include <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2019_Themenschwerpunkte/Bessere_Unterst%C3%BCtzung_von_Geoinformationen">better support of geodata</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/de.svg" alt="(de)" /> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_2019_Themenschwerpunkte/Bessere_Unterst%C3%BCtzung_von_Geoinformationen">translation</a>), which is about better integration of OSM into Wikimedia projects.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_licences">Licences</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20327">The OSMF License Working Group has completed an <a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/2/24/LWG_evaluation_of_OSMF_map_tile_license_2019.pdf">investigation</a> (PDF) as to whether a better license exists for map tiles generated by OSMF servers than the current CC-BY-SA 2.0.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_software">Software</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20335">Frédéric Rodrigo has forked the iD editor and made the version available on <a href="http://id.openstreetmap.fr">id.openstreetmap.fr</a>. He has <a href="https://github.com/frodrigo/iD/commits/compliance">reverted</a> some controversial, much discussed, changes made in the main branch.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20299">The heads of OSMAnd and Maps.Me <a href="https://t.me/ruosm_news/1165">joined</a> <img src="https://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads/2016/12/ru.svg" alt="(ru)" /> their efforts on a new project &#8211; <a href="https://openplacereviews.org/">OpenPlaceReviews</a>. It is expected to help to map points of interest in OSM and also store reviews about them. (automatic <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://t.me/ruosm_news/1165?embed=1">translation</a>)</li>
  <li id="wn465_20346">The largest festivities in the Azores, Portugal, take place 21 to 30 June in Angra do Heroísmo on Terceira Island. <a href="https://azoid.pt/">Azoid Eco Technology</a> (automatic <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=EN&amp;u=https://azoid.pt/">translation</a>) published an app and added an OSM-based map to every event. The app is available for <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sanjoaninas/id1400045287">iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azoid.sanjoaninas&amp;hl=en_US">Android</a>. To know more go to <a href="https://www.sanjoaninas.pt">www.sanjoaninas.pt</a> (automatic <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=EN&amp;u=https://www.sanjoaninas.pt">translation</a>). Maybe in 2020 they could correctly attribute and mention the origin of the data. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f609.png" alt="😉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></li>
  <li id="wn465_20325">The MapOSMatic instance at osm-baustelle.de now supports Umap GeoJSON files via the Umap API without browser interaction. In a blog post Hartmut <a href="https://blog.osm-baustelle.de/index.php/2019/06/16/umap-geojson-export-api-support/">explains</a> how to do this and gives some background info.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_programming">Programming</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20319">There is <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/c18hk1/has_mapbox_vector_tile_mvt_30_spec_development/">speculation</a> that Mapbox has stopped working on version 3.0 of its Mapbox Vector Tile specification. However, it is a fact that the Open Geospatial Consortium <a href="https://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2997">is working</a> on a vectortile specification.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20337">JasonManoloudis <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JasonManoloudis/diary/368806">details</a> his Google Summer of Code project in his OSM user diary. He aims to implement the ability to render traffic signs with custom text in the 3D renderer <a href="http://osm2world.org/">OSM2World</a>.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20300">Changeset uploads are now handled by cgimap (written in C++) instead of the Rails Port (Ruby on Rails implementation of the OSM API), making uploads faster from editors like JOSM and iD. Ilya Zverev <a href="http://shtosm.ru/all/na-si-bystree/">explains</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http://shtosm.ru/all/na-si-bystree/">translation</a>) the details in his blog &#8220;SHTOSM&#8221;.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20298">The developer from 2GIS (a well-known navigator in Russia) <a href="https://habr.com/ru/company/2gis/blog/453182/">writes</a> (<a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https://habr.com/ru/company/2gis/blog/453182/">translation</a>) in a corporate blog about how one can create one&#8217;s own navigator from open sources in just a couple of days.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_releases">Releases</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20321">The latest release of <a href="https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps">Maps</a> (a Maps.Me fork on F-Droid), 9.1.6, finally fixes a longstanding bug preventing users from authenticating into OSM. Now it is possible to edit using the app again.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20290">In his user diary Simon Poole <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/368821">details</a> the changes made in the minor release of the mobile editor <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci">Vespucci</a>, which consists of mainly UI improvements.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20332">The iD maintainers <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/2267">have created</a> a pull request which reverts some of the controversial<br />
  changes, which were discussed recently.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_did_you_know_…">Did you know …</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20313">&#8230; how to tag a a public cabinet that is used to store books to be borrowed by everybody? That&#8217;s a <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpublic_bookcase"><code>amenity=public_bookcase</code></a>.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_other_“geo”_things">Other “geo” things</h2>
  <ul>
  <li id="wn465_20289">The <a href="https://twitter.com/mainau/status/1139108671416393728">world as a flower ball</a> in the shore garden on the flower island <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/47.70418/9.19781">Mainau</a> in Lake Constance.</li>
  <li id="wn465_20314">An online map portal for European geodata was <a href="https://www.directionsmag.com/pressrelease/8911">presented</a> at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam. It was <a href="https://thinkwhere.com">developed</a> by thinkWhere to demonstrate the potential of a single access point to public data.</li>
  </ul>
  <h2 id="wn465_upcoming_events">Upcoming Events</h2>
  <table>
  <thead>
  <tr>
  <th>Where</th>
  <th>What</th>
  <th>When</th>
  <th>Country</th>
  </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
  <tr>
  <td>Norwich</td>
  <td>Mapper meetup</td>
  <td>2019-06-22</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/03/en.svg" alt="england" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Rennes</td>
  <td>Préparer ses randos pédestres ou vélos</td>
  <td>2019-06-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bremen</td>
  <td>Bremer Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-24</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Angra do Heroísmo</td>
  <td>Erasmus+ EuYoutH OSM Meeting</td>
  <td>2019-06-24-2019-06-29</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/10/pt.svg" alt="portugal" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Salt Lake City</td>
  <td>SLC Map Night</td>
  <td>2019-06-25</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/us.svg" alt="united states" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Montpellier</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-06-26</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>São Paulo</td>
  <td>OpenStreetMap no MundoGeo Connect</td>
  <td>2019-06-26</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/03/br.svg" alt="brazil" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lübeck</td>
  <td>Lübecker Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Mannheim</td>
  <td>Mannheimer Mapathons e.V.</td>
  <td>2019-06-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Düsseldorf</td>
  <td>Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-06-28</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>London</td>
  <td>OSMUK Annual Gathering</td>
  <td>2019-06-29</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/uk.svg" alt="united kingdom" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>London</td>
  <td>Wikidata UK Meets OSM</td>
  <td>2019-06-29</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/uk.svg" alt="united kingdom" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Kyoto</td>
  <td>幕末京都オープンデータソン#11：京の浪士と池田屋事件</td>
  <td>2019-06-29</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/08/jp.svg" alt="japan" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Sakai</td>
  <td>百舌鳥古墳群マッピングパーティ</td>
  <td>2019-06-30</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/08/jp.svg" alt="japan" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>London</td>
  <td>Missing Maps Mapathon</td>
  <td>2019-07-02</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/uk.svg" alt="united kingdom" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Žilina</td>
  <td>Missing Maps mapathon Zilina #5 at Faculty of Management Science and Informatics University of Zilina</td>
  <td>2019-07-02</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/06/sk.svg" alt="slovakia" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Cologne</td>
  <td>Köln Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Stuttgart</td>
  <td>Stuttgarter Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Essen</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bochum</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Nantes</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Dresden</td>
  <td>Stammtisch Dresden</td>
  <td>2019-07-04</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Salzburg</td>
  <td>YouthMappers Workshop</td>
  <td>2019-07-05</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/at.svg" alt="austria" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Ivrea</td>
  <td>Incontro mensile</td>
  <td>2019-07-06</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/it.svg" alt="italy" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Makati City</td>
  <td>OSMPH × GrabPH Mapathon 1</td>
  <td>2019-07-06</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/ph.svg" alt="philippines" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Taipei</td>
  <td>OSM x Wikidata #6</td>
  <td>2019-07-08</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/tw.svg" alt="taiwan" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Bordeaux</td>
  <td>Réunion mensuelle</td>
  <td>2019-07-08</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Lyon</td>
  <td>Rencontre mensuelle pour tous</td>
  <td>2019-07-09</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/fr.svg" alt="france" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Munich</td>
  <td>Münchner Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-09</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Salt Lake City</td>
  <td>SLC Mappy Hour</td>
  <td>2019-07-09</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/us.svg" alt="united states" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Hamburg</td>
  <td>Hamburger Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-09</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Zurich</td>
  <td>OSM Stammtisch Zurich</td>
  <td>2019-07-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/02/ch.svg" alt="switzerland" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Berlin</td>
  <td>133. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch</td>
  <td>2019-07-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>San José</td>
  <td>Civic Hack Night &amp; Map Night</td>
  <td>2019-07-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/us.svg" alt="united states" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Ulmer Alb</td>
  <td>Stammtisch Ulmer Alb</td>
  <td>2019-07-11</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Dortmund</td>
  <td>Mappertreffen</td>
  <td>2019-07-12</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
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  <td>Santa Fe</td>
  <td>State of the Map Argentina 2019</td>
  <td>2019-07-27</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/03/ar.svg" alt="argentina" /></td>
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  <td>Dumaguete</td>
  <td>Pista ng Mapa 2019</td>
  <td>2019-08-01-2019-08-03</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/ph.svg" alt="philippines" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td>Minneapolis</td>
  <td>State of the Map U.S. 2019 [1]</td>
  <td>2019-09-06-2019-09-08</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/us.svg" alt="united states" /></td>
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  <td>Edinburgh</td>
  <td>FOSS4GUK 2019</td>
  <td>2019-09-18-2019-09-21</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/05/uk.svg" alt="united kingdom" /></td>
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  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>Erasmus+ EuYoutH OSM Meeting</td>
  <td>2019-09-18-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
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  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>HOT Summit 2019</td>
  <td>2019-09-19-2019-09-20</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
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  <td>Heidelberg</td>
  <td>State of the Map 2019 [2]</td>
  <td>2019-09-21-2019-09-23</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/01/de.svg" alt="germany" /></td>
  </tr>
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  <td>Wellington</td>
  <td>FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019</td>
  <td>2019-11-12-2019-11-15</td>
  <td><img src="https://weeklyosm.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/06/nz.svg" alt="new zealand" /></td>
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  <td>Grand-Bassam</td>
  <td>State of the Map Africa 2019</td>
  <td>2019-11-22-2019-11-24</td>
  <td><img src="http://blog.openstreetmap.de/wp-uploads//2016/10/ci.svg" alt="ivory coast" /></td>
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guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jfact0ry/diary/382401
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jfact0ry/diary/382401
title: Import of Southeast Alaska Hydrology
published: 2019-06-21 23:37:30
fetched: 2019-06-27 16:30:04.431426
created_at: 2019-06-22 12:00:04.624985
updated_at: 2019-06-27 16:30:04.625514
summary:
  <h3 id="getting-alaskas-national-hydrography-data-into-openstreetmap">Getting Alaska’s National Hydrography Data into OpenStreetMap</h3>

  <p>The current coastline in OpenStreetMap is lacking in detail for much of Alaska, particularly the very coastal, Southeast Alaska.</p>

  <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48040309923_216b934411_z.jpg" alt="Jaggedy coastlines"></p>

  <p><em>Myriad Islands - as they appeared in OSM June 2019 (-136.209, 57.634)</em></p>

  <p>I’d like to use National Hydrography Data to improve the entirety of Southeast Alaska in OpenStreetMap. Here is a side-by-side comparison map that shows current OpenStreetMap data (as of 2019-06-07) with NHD data.</p>

  <p><a href="https://jfactory.xyz/maps/hydrography/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OSM / NHD Comparison</a></p>

  <p>The coastline has been my particular interest ever since I started editing the map.</p>

  <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/445/19083715519_7e1b4034d0_z.jpg" alt="Before/after of coastline around Sitka area"></p>

  <p><em>Before and after photos of Sitka, AK coastline photos from ~2013</em></p>

  <p>In addition to the coastline, the data covers lakes and streams so I hope to include that as well during this import process.</p>

  <p>There’s a <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Hydrography_Dataset" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">history of importing NHD into OpenStreetMap</a>, but for Alaska’s coastline it seems untouched by any National Hydrography Data. Recent improvements to Alaska’s hydrography data make now a better time than ever to import data. The <a href="http://akhydro.uaa.alaska.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Alaska Hydrography Technical Working Group</a> has taken initiative to streamline updating the data for Alaska and making it easily accessible. I had come across hydrology data before and this is a big improvement over previous data for Alaska.</p>

  <p>OpenStreetMap’s wiki page on National Hydrography Dataset ultimately discourages imports but I think as far as coastline it will be a huge improvement. It also seems that the data for Alaska is quite good and missing from the map for the most part, so it won’t be a hassle to add features. I aim to use this data to improve much of my surrounding area and I know a few mappers in my area who are highly supportive of this project. I plan on discussing the project with the OSM-imports mailing list.</p>

  <p>I will post a diary entry with an update on the project.</p>

  <h2 id="update">2019-06-22 Update:</h2>

  <h3 id="update-1-way-definition">Update 1: Way Definition</h3>

  <p>After some deliberation on the way definition, I’ve decided to go with the more defined ways. I intend for this coastline to be left untouched for years to come. If someone were to come across the simplified geometry, they might be inclined to improve it. If I upload the more defined ways, I think that will minimize the likelihood of someone attempting to improve the ways later on.</p>

  <p>Here is a photo showing the simplified ways vs. the more defined ways.
  <img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48111194751_5e129c4f57_z.jpg" alt="Islets with lots of definition vs. simplified counterparts"></p>

  <p>As of this moment, the coastline is my first priority and this conclusion I’ve reached concerns only the coastline.</p>

  <h3 id="update-2-response-to-feedback">Update 2: Response to feedback</h3>

  <p>I’ve received feedback that NHD is not that great or the effort involved is not worth it. I would like to respond to this feedback by saying hydrology is an essential component to have in maps if you live in Southeast Alaska.</p>

  <p>A good example of the benefits in the map update is this mapped portage route on Chichagof Island. Compare the distance between the two inlets from the previous OpenStreetMap coastline to the NHD coastline.</p>

  <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48110984286_2884365233_z.jpg" alt="OpenStreetMap current coastline"></p>

  <p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48111027668_7fe2ec6010_z.jpg" alt="OpenStreetMap after NHD update"></p>

  <p>If you used this map to find this portage, you would be left to guess which fork to go down.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ben%20Abelshausen/diary/389708
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ben%20Abelshausen/diary/389708
title: Running for the HOT board - my candidate statement
published: 2019-06-22 11:23:27
fetched: 2019-06-27 21:30:04.018109
created_at: 2019-06-22 23:30:04.285696
updated_at: 2019-06-27 21:30:04.199187
summary:
  <p>This diary post is to inform HOT voting members that don’t know me or want to know more about why I’m running for the HOT board.</p>

  <p>Coming from an OSM background (and not a humanitarian one) I believe HOT should keep focus on it’s community. Having a healthy diverse community ensures HOT stays closer to a grassroots organization. A community enforces an organization in ways we don’t appreciate enough sometimes.</p>

  <p>As a first step to make this happen we need to better define what being a HOT voting member means. For me this means I have 2 main tasks:<br>
  - The governance of HOT, voting and checking up on the board and staff. The public board meetings have improved a lot here already and more information about what HOT staff is doing can help improve this even further.<br>
  - Setting the direction for HOT for the future. What should HOT focus on? I think that should come from the membership. Initiatives like the strategy work group are something I support.</p>

  <p>I’ve always assumed being a member is about these two things. For anything else there is no need to be a member. I think we need to distinguish between the HOT membership, that is meant to govern HOT together with the board, and the wider community. You don’t need to be a HOT voting member to be a valued part of the HOT community. Perhaps we can do with less, but more active members, more focused on their task, and a wider and more open &amp; active community around that.</p>

  <p>Related to that I think it’s very important for HOT to keep supporting and fostering local OSM communities everywhere. Some of what is happening now are things we have been dreaming about for years and have now become reality. Think about State of the Map Africa and the vibrant local communities popping up. When meeting OSM/HOT community members from all over the world it’s obvious that a little support can go a long way to at least kickstart or boost involvement in OSM. We can do even more and as a HOT board member I would like to help make this a priority in the direction HOT should take.</p>

  <p>The advisory board is a good idea and I support this. I can help in finding volunteers to be part of it via my previous experiences and connections. It’s excellent as a means to get skills we don’t have in our membership/community.</p>

  <p>I also believe things can be improved in relation to the formal status of members vs staff vs board members. We should discuss if it should be possible to be employed by HOT and be a board/voting member at the same time for example. We can learn from membership models from other organizations with operational staff &amp; a membership.</p>

  <p>On a more personal level I realize that I have a lot to learn about being a HOT board member and that I don’t know everything. If elected I’m committed to keep an open mind on all issues and adjust my views to new information.</p>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SeverinGeo/diary/389709
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SeverinGeo/diary/389709
title: Règles d'éditions organisées / Directed editing guidelines
published: 2019-06-22 15:14:28
fetched: 2019-06-27 22:00:04.205622
created_at: 2019-06-23 03:30:03.854507
updated_at: 2019-06-27 22:00:04.393054
summary:
  <p>J’ai envoyé aujourd’hui sur ces trois listes de discussion un courriel abordant notamment l’état actuel d’engagement dans le processus de suivi des éditions organisées (plus de si mois après l’adoption par le bureau de l’OSMF des règles d’éditions organisées) de HOT US Inc, Youthmappers et Missing Maps, soit trois organisations grandes pourvoyeuses de ce type d’édition dans OSM  :</p>

  <p>Today, I sent an email on these three discussion lists addressing, among other things, the current state of engagement in the process of monitoring organized editions (more than six months after the OSMF office adopted the organized editions rules) of HOT US Inc, Youthmappers and Missing Maps, three major organizations that provide this type of edition in OSM:</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2019-June/006099.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OSMF</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-June/082745.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">talk générale</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot-francophone/2019-June/001329.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">hot-francophone</a></li>
  </ul>


guid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/adamrowlands/diary/389710
url: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/adamrowlands/diary/389710
title: Running for HOT Board: Adam Rowlands
published: 2019-06-22 18:00:30
fetched: 2019-06-28 09:00:03.894785
created_at: 2019-06-23 06:30:04.437718
updated_at: 2019-06-28 09:00:04.078373
summary:
  <p>Dear HOT members</p>

  <p>Thank you for taking the time to read my candidate statement. I’d like to take this opportunity to outline my previous involvement with HOT (and the broader mapping community), experience to date and outline particular areas of interest which I believe may be beneficial to the broader community.</p>

  <p>But first, I’d like to thank Melanie Eckle for the kind nomination and her guidance in the run up to making the decision to run for the Board. I’d also like to thank the others from the community who’ve fielded questions and offered support as I’ve explored putting myself forward</p>

  <h2 id="why-hot">Why HOT</h2>

  <p>I firmly believe in the power of people and technology to drive positive social change. As such, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to spend several years working around the world on various ‘Tech for Good’/ ICT4D projects, alongside good people doing incredible things. However, there have been frustrations. Too many times I’ve seen organisations inform rather than involve communities in the solutions, resulting in poor solutions - most worrying is that (with good intentions) they often implement solutions which were deemed ‘good enough’ for the community where it was implemented, but wouldn’t be upto the standards the implementers demand themselves. 
  I’ve also seen communities disempowered more broadly through the type of engagement and solutions escalate into costly projects which need to be maintained.</p>

  <h2 id="as-such-when-i-came-across-hot-via-missing-maps-i-was-genuinely-inspired-by-the-following">As such, when I came across HOT (via Missing Maps) I was genuinely inspired by the following:</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>Community centric - people are upskilled and empowered, but how these skills are used is driven by the community themselves, allowing them to spend their time where it’s most valuable</li>
    <li>Volunteer led - a unique culture built on passion and which due to it’s nature must put volunteers at the heart (one of the reasons I joined the Red Cross as this is a core principle)</li>
    <li>Equity of solution - this isn’t another ‘Tech4Good’ solution built on good intentions, OSM is a robust, leading solution used around the world</li>
    <li>Efficient - the passion of volunteers enablers mechanisms such as the microgrants to have impact which far outweighs the associated funding machinery of many other organisations I’ve worked with</li>
    <li>Agility - baked into the core of the model due to the structure of HOT</li>
  </ul>

  <p>I recognise that HOT is on a journey and isn’t perfect, but these are fantastic foundations for social impact.</p>

  <h2 id="involvement-with-the-mapping-community">Involvement with the mapping community</h2>

  <p>I first became aware of HOT when I attended the first Missing Maps Mapathon in London, November 2014. Following this, I returned to work and (alongside Rebecca Firth) helped to set up a mapping community at Accenture - we started with an initial 80 person mapathon and went on to hold events as large as 900 people  in London (alongside Ivan Gayton and Pete Masters) and went on to work with Rebecca to build a mapping community of over 3,500 people within the company, across the globe who contributed to HOT’s work - short video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQEuT5TNqg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">here</a>. We also helped create training and communications/promotional videos for use in the HOT community.</p>

  <p>Building on the work, establishing the mapping community at Accenture, in 2017 I was asked to facilitate the HOT Board Meeting (where I first met Melanie) in Ottawa in addition to supporting the Missing Maps community meeting. This provided a unique insight into the key priorities, challenges and opportunities for the organisation and the workings of the Board.</p>

  <p>Following this I went on to support HOT as part of the HOT Microgrant Review Panel in both 2018 and 2019. Again, this was an inspirational and insightful experience and a privilege I took very seriously given the great impact the various groups were having in their communities and the transformative potential of the grants.
  In fact, at my wedding last year my wife and I even used it as an opportunity to fundraise for HOT - which also gave me a platform to share my passion with friends and family.</p>

  <h2 id="experience-outside-hotmapping">Experience outside HOT/Mapping</h2>

  <p>Outside of my work with the mapping community I spent several years working with various iNGOs across the global south (East Africa, Latin America, South East Asia) as the Digital and Innovation Lead for <a href="https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/accenture-development-partnerships" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">Accenture Development Partnerships</a>. Particular highlights include the ‘Digital Birth Registration’ project looking to improve government data in East Africa (now called <a href="https://www.opencrvs.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">OpenCRVS</a>), as well as helping to set up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x70419OmczA&amp;t=1s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferer">innovation capabilities</a> within large iNGOs.</p>

  <p>Last year I joined the British Red Cross as the Director of Digital and Innovation which includes the GIS department (a Missing Maps partner alongside HOT), enabling me to stay close to the mapping community and advocate for more support for open data/mapping in the sector. It has also allowed me to work on driving positive change within a large, dispersed community of staff and volunteers.</p>

  <p>This range of experience allows me to augment my understanding of HOT (through my roles as corporate partner, NGO partner, microgrants reviewer etc.) with my broader knowledge of Tech4Good and experience of working within large iNGOs on transformation initiatives (as well as supporting fundraising, corporate partnerships, training etc.).</p>

  <h2 id="what-i-would-like-to-achieve-if-elected">What I would like to achieve if elected</h2>
  <ul>
    <li>Continue to extend capabilities to maximise impact e.g. advocacy/communications support for communities</li>
    <li>Explore new opportunities to use technology in ways which drive impact inline with the community’s expectations</li>
    <li>Invest time supporting fundraising/partnership opportunities to support the community/organisation</li>
    <li>Look at how best to support the global community (and partners) to advocate for HOT (and fundraise where appropriate) to increase impact</li>
    <li>Building on my discussions with existing members and staff I believe there is an opportunity to improve core capabilities within the organisation and am passionate about drawing on experience in similar organisations (and my network) to support this.</li>
  </ul>

  <p>Please note that I firmly believe that the board needs to meet the needs of community so please take the above as an initial starting point.</p>

  <h2 id="managing-potential-conflict-of-interest">Managing potential conflict of interest</h2>
  <p>I would also like to state that given my role as a Director of the British Red Cross (a fellow Missing Map partner organisation) there may be questions about conflict of interest (especially regarding funding). Please note, I am well aware of this, but after discussing it with current board members, staff, members and the British Red Cross GIS Team I’ve received unanimous support that this wasn’t seen as an issue and is most likely a benefit given the insight it provides and potential relationships within the sector. That said, similar to other board members (past and present) from Missing Maps partner organisations, this will remain top of mind and I will work with the organisation and membership to flag any potential conflicts of interest which arise and remove myself from discussions/working groups as appropriate.</p>

  <p>I would love this opportunity to help further the work of the HOT community and advocate for the great work it does and look forward to discussing my application further with you</p>

  <p>Many thanks</p>

  <p>Adam</p>

  <p><img src="https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/6039f9ae6e2bae9fc7c5cef49d5abc5e/5DC2DFFD/t51.2885-15/e35/21819909_1452953988150210_7513317875805847552_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com" alt="HOT Summit 2017"></p>


