As some will know by now, crannogs are my “thing” at the moment. I was hoping to produce a couple of videos about them on my channel, but it takes a bit longer to get the tag approved than expected. And I can’t tell people how to map crannogs when there is no standard.

But I digress…

While mapping buildings in Co. Cavan in Ireland, I had discovered 12 suspiciously circular features in the lakes within the last 3 weeks, and I had reported them to the National Monuments Service this week. They got back to me yesterday and confirmed 3 as actual crannogs (the rest were apparently just naturally occurring circular vegetation).

• way/1102716166
• way/1106651412
• way/1105294164

If you want to check them out, Bing or Esri Clarity imagery are best.

There are a couple more to report, but I’d rather do it in bulk than send an email every 3 days or so.

I made a quick video about it: https://youtu.be/7BJukQ8hKXw

So, two of my interests are tagging waterways and highways. And of course, where they intersect, there is often a bridge. Here is how my bridge tagging method has progressed over time:

• Bare minimum - split the highway (using e.g. aerial imagery), set bridge=yes and layer=1. This is conventional, if not particularly informative.

Then I found the National Bridge Inventory, which contains not all, but certainly many of the significant bridges in the USA. This data is quite interesting, it includes detailed info on the bridge structure and its integrity.

One can use this to verify the length of the bridge as drawn on the map, in many cases what’s shown in aerial imagery matches to within 1-2m of the specified length. You can also find data on when the bridge was constructed or rebuilt.

• Added context - add start_date tag.

Today, I was thinking, it’s not much more difficult to add an area object for the bridge structure itself using the man_made=bridge tag. In fact, one could then move such tags as start_date and bridge:structure into the separate object.

There is also an existing bridge:ref tag which is loosely defined. Here’s my idea. What if we used the NBI structure/bridge number, where available (in the USA)? You might wonder why that would be useful. Well there is a site https://bridgereports.com, which parses the NBI database with some additional refinements, and displays a nicely formatted summary. A plugin might use the structure/bridge number to display such data.

Something like the following. For the highway:

bridge=yes
highway=secondary
layer=1
ref=KY 218

And for the bridge structure [edit: updated per discussion in comments]:

ref:US:nbi:state_code=21
ref:US:nbi:structure_number=044B00032N
structure=beam
layer=1
man_made=bridge
start_date=1978

Here’s how the metadata could be displayed (using bridge ID “044B00032N”): https://bridgereports.com/1211803

He subido un par de infografías al wiki de OpenStreetMap para ilustrar de forma esquemática cómo mapear zonas de estacionamiento en la calle que incluyan plazas reservadas para personas con movilidad reducida y plazas reservadas para recarga de vehículos eléctricos. Ambos tipos de plazas de estacionamiento ya se encuentran en el mapa del municipio de Málaga gracias a una importación reciente.

Infografía que ejemplifica de forma esquemática la forma de mapear una zona de estacionamiento en la calle que incluya plazas de estacionamiento reservadas para personas con movilidad reducida. Fuente: trabajo propio (CC BY-SA 4.0) disponible en el Wiki de OpenStreetMap.

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Hallo

Freue mich immer über hilfreiche Tipps und Hinweise, was ich hier besser machen kann.

LG M.

매핑에 서툴러서 저가 하는 것이 제대로 되었는지 검증받고 싶거나, 확실하지는 않지만 뭔가 흠이나 탈이 있어 보이거나, 할 수 있는 한 정확하게 편집한다고 했지만 더 잘 알 만한 사람이 검증해 주었으면 싶거나, 바뀌었거나 아닌 것은 확실하나 어떻게 바뀌고 어떻게 아닌지 까지는 잘 모르거나, 그 밖에도 사람 땅그림이들이 검증하거나 더 자세히 고쳐주었으면 하는 것이 있으면 ‘고쳐주기’ 속성에 확인해 줄 사항을 적어주면 됩니다.

古橋先生のツイートを見て、自分もマッパーになれるかなと思い、やってきました。

もともと地図を見るのが大好きで、旅行に行く前には部屋に地図を貼って毎日ルートや地形を考えながら過ごし、現地での写真は位置情報つきで保管して、あとでルートを思い出しながら長期間ニヤニヤします。名所旧跡を見るより、道を辿るのが好きで、乗り物に乗り続けて移動するのが好きです。

自宅付近は怖いので、旅行先を登録していきたいと思います。道路情報などは地元の方に敵いませんが、できることから。

도움이 필요합니다. ‘가격 정책’에 대한 태그를 제안해 보려 합니다.

I need help. I would like to suggest a tag for ‘price policy’.

• ‘가격 정책’에 대한 태그를 제안해 보려 합니다. 한국말과 영어가 능숙하신 분들의 도움의 손길을 부탁드립니다.
• 먼저 ‘제안‘과 ‘제안 절차‘라는 OSM 위키 문서가 있는데 한말글로 번역이 되어 있다면 관심을 가지는 분들이 좀더 늘어날 것 같습니다.

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(물건에 대한 가격은 아니고)어떤 장소나 시설물에 대한 가격 정책 안에는 여러가지 하위 정책을 가진 경우가 많습니다. 대한민국을 보기로 들어, 노인 우대, 어린이 할인, 학생 할인, 유공자 할인, 지역민 할인 혹은 무료, … 이런 수많은 정책들을 속성에 반영해 둔다면 자료를 추출하거나 필터링할 때 큰 도움이 될 것 같습니다.

(작성 중……)

El mapa está manipulado por regiones según he observado y mi experiencia de trabajo.

Not only “the mole people” live underground, as there are large urban areas, publicly accessible, built below the ground level, and indoors in general.

As an example of an indoor world: Easton Helsinki, in Finland, which has about 4.8 million visitors per annum. (Source.) It’s built on multiple levels. OpenStreetMap doesn’t yet have support for such multi-levelled maps, but it could: a level is just a layer.

Mostly underground is the bus terminal at Kamppi, in Helsinki. It has elevators and escalators carrying countless people up and down, in and out of tunnels and halls. Most of this world underground isn’t yet seen in OpenStreetMap.

TL:DR River Polygons with river lines good, river lines alone bad.

Water Body digitization is the base line of water networks on openstreetmap. Every point, line, and polygon has been either manually created or generated through a computer application. Much like roads, rivers and other water bodies can be and sometimes are crucial resource for transporting goods.

Historically, cities and small towns were generally near a water body for drinking/bathing water, cargo transportation, and in the past one hundred and fifty years rivers are used for electric power generation.

Water Body Polygons are used in all types of maps so why not make these features correct by providing a more detailed polygon over just providing a line.

EX. The Sprague River in Klamath County Oregon is a perfect example of having many twists, turns, islands, and variable width across it’s path. Detailing these features in larger scales may not be as necessary as smaller scales below 1:150,000.

Добавлено и/или отредактировано 109 объектов, в районе пос. Исеть, пос. Северка (Свердл обл). Нарисовано несколько лесных дорожек, бродов, охот вышек и охот полей. Кольцо получилось без малого 100 км. Двигались по заранее запланированному маршруту, и каждый раз боролся с желанием повернуть на отсутствующую на карте дорожку, коих было прилично в том районе)

I tried using a GoPro Hero on foot to assist in mapping foot routes, with mixed results. For foot route recording, you need to keep the “blind circle” as small as possible, because you want to record the surface, kerbs and the usually small poles carrying the signs. If you mount the camera say on a stick in a backpack, the forward view always is largely your own head. Second requirement: you want to capture the usually small signs, often with even smaller lettering, and the text under regular signs, which give hikers details about access and rules, e.g. dog access and breeding season closure.

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OSM에서 정의한 속성 규칙에 맞지 않는 곳을 보여주는 연장
Nominatim QA Tool

حالياً اعمل على صناعة طائره شخصيه لشخص واحد وسوف انتهي من صنعها خلال ٣ اشهر تقريباً

특히 차길 갈림길에서 진행방향을 잘 표시해 주는 것은 지도의 쓰임새를 좋게 하는 데에 무척 중요합니다.(나중에 그림을 덧붙이겠습니다.)

진행방향에 따른 차선이 나뉘어 있지 않고 하나로 그려진 경우, 특히 골목길이 큰 길과 만나는 경우에는 가끔 우합류는 허용이 되지만, 좌합류는 (중앙차선에 막혀)허용이 되지 않는 경우가 있습니다. 또 갈림길 대기선에서 유턴이 허용되지 않는 경우도 가끔 있고요… 이런 것들이 표시가 되지 않으면 길찾기를 했을 때 아주 엉뚱한 경로를 알려주게 됩니다. (브라우저 안 편집기(iD)에서는 이게 참 쉬운데, JOSM에서는 제가 방법을 터득하지 못한 건지 꽤 어렵고 복잡하네요. 쉽게 할 수 있는 수를 아시는 분이 계시면 좀 알려주시면 고맙겠습니다.) 갈림길의 점을 누르면 진행방향 표시를 할 수가 있는데, 여기서 진행을 해도 되는 방향을 정해 주면 됩니다.

이것은 특히 길찾기 같은 걸 할 때 정확한 정보를 줄 수 있어 무척 중요합니다. 많은 분들이 좀더 신경을 써 주시면 아주 쓸모있는 OSM이 될 것이라 생각합니다.

YouthMappers Pre-conference meeting.

On the 18th August YouthMappers called its members to meet. This was a great moment ever for YouthMappers member to meet again for second conference since 2017. This gathering was the combination of the 2020 research fellows, regional ambassadors, YouthMappers technical supporters, director, communication officer and the board members.

The first meeting created a space for YouthMappers members to be updated, knowing one another, interacted, collaborated and above discussed the major impacts in their communities as a collective. In the process of continuity in the building of young people who define their future through community works and actively engaged in identifying problems and offering solutions, YouthMappers awarded certificates of appreciation to all its young people. This was a great motivation to Youths who tirelessly and selflessly contribute to open sources.

Highlights:

In 2022 during the conference YouthMappers @[youthmappers.org] launched the first ever documentary in history, highlighting the major impact and voices of young people inclusively. Additionally, in recognizing the efforts of young people across the #67 countries with #327 YouthMappers chapters, young people combined their voices and released the book around all sustainable development goals. This book is a true reflection of YouthMappers current, Alumni, technical team and board of directors voices. It has showcased some major impacts, works and efforts of the young people in their different communities.

The original of this post is on Discourse https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/what-happens-if-let-others-keep-sponsoring-against-openstreetmap/4343?u=fititnt .

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The ad (circa 2017)

Source

https://twitter.com/sp8962/status/838676848301260800

Finances (2020, around 100x difference without need to do any core function)

• OpenStreetMap Foundation (226,273 GBP at 2020, https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/df/OSMF_directors_report_and_unaudited_financial_statements_year_ended_20201231.PDF
• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team United States Inc (26,562,141 USD at 2020, https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm-website/blob/gh-pages/downloads/2020-Form-990.pdf)

Részletek:

https://wiki.osm.org/Hungary/20221024

Tappa tribunale

• Mapping
  • Keep up the regular mapping around the place, and while at SotM
  • I wish people would stop adding new man_made tags. #
• I posted about my State of the Map 2022, which used up most of my mental OSM energy for August.
• OSMF Board
  • Some suggestions for SotM 2023 generated some board ⇄ sotm wg emails. (I tried to do the right thing and CC the right people while communicating. This policy was adopted by the Board last year. The board member who claimed the board supported the CM bid didn’t tell the rest of the board of this).
  • Local Chapters
    • At SotM, apparently 2 groups asked a fellow board member about becoming a local chapter for Nigeria & Eritrea.
    • I got their contact details and started reaching out to them to start the process
  • Board Meeting
    • I attended the Aug 2022 Board meeting
      • I did plan to schedule an AB meeting with corp. memb.
    • also attended the Aug 2022 mid month chat, there was discussion about
      • odbl-only imports
      • prep for SotM 2022 (osmf stand, board AMA)
      • whether monthly reports from pers. comm. were needed (probably not)

(sorry if i’m missing some details, I’m trying to finish this)

Previously…

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