I am currently graduate with BSc in Environmental science and management from Sokoine University of agriculture. Being a geospatial data enthusiast, I have 2 years of open data experience, working as a remote mapper from SMCoSE Youth mapper and Open Map Development of Tanzania (OMDTZ) in the projects mapping the unmapped for flood resilience, by mapping the extent of this project it provides the better understanding of the problems to the community.
I am also currently among the Crowd2Map intern for the year 2022, these internship programs aim in promoting open data quality, delivering quality data and putting rural Tanzania on the map. I am motivated to participate in this excellent opportunity to learn more about open data and also learn how to provide quality data. Through this program, I hope to improve my knowledge of validation.

i am not sure if when adding new places with organic maps while beeing offline, they get added or just stay on my phone.

travelling the world by bicycle with osm

Beach bar

Mountain names. A new front in the never-ending cacophony of US political discourse.

Two recent mountain peaks had their names changed by the US Board on Geographical names and there is disagreement in the change sets on whether the name given should be the new indigenous name given by the US Board or the English translation of the US Board. To be clear though, I have not seen the official name from a primary source.

The two peaks were promptly edited to their new names in the local Dena’ina (North and South Yuyanq’ Ch’ex) but within 24 hours changed to what I assume is the English translation of the new Dena’ina name (North and South Heaven’s Breath).

To me it seems like a cut and dry answer based on osm standards what should fall in the “name=” attribute. The editor that changed it to the English translation may feel otherwise though so and to avoid a change set dispute I emailed the Data Working Group to get their decision. I haven’t heard from them in over 10 days however and I haven’t received a message to my follow up email on whether my email got to them. If anyone is on the DWG is interested in bringing me on to handle these issues, I would volunteer. For now though, I’ll hold off on changing the name back and hold faith in the process.

news article:

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2022/10/14/anchorages-suicide-peaks-receive-new-denaina-name-of-yuyanq-chex/

relevant changesets:

changeset/127584704

changeset/127643552

changeset/127682614

Mapping

In this diary, I’m trying to show some tips and tricks which can be used by beginner, intermediate, and advanced mappers to improve their mapping capacity and speed up mapping. Hopefully, you will learn a lot and enjoying with these simple tricks. Have fun, and you can even comment and ask in case you need further assistance and training. Welcome, all!

 Java OpenStreetMap Editor (JOSM) 

[Issue1:] How to Map Batch Orthogonal Building
In this scenario we're going to use Mapathoner Plugin in JOSM to draw a batch of Orthogonal Building. So, first, make sure you install Mapathoner Plugin in your JOSM.

[Issue2:] How to Map Batch L-shaped Building

[Issue3:] Draw a Courtyard Building

Validation

At first, many new mappers make a lot of mistakes during mapping. And, this can be caused by some reasons, such as little experience in mapping. Therefore, this part will guide them on what to do and do not, as well as demonstrate some previous mistakes done by mappers.

I wrote a blog post about the new advertising panels being installed in the Sydney CBD, and created a map which imports the OSM data using Overpass Turbo.

jakecoppinger.com/2022/10/mapping-sydney-billboards-a-map-of-every-qms-advertising-screen-in-sydney-with-photographs/

Through August and October I visited every QMS advertising panel. I surveyed their location and ref code to add to OpenStreetMap. I uploaded photos of many displays to Mapillary, which you can view by clicking on pins in the map.

Let me know what you think! Any feedback on improving the tagging is also appreciated.

Track: @warumichRadfahre/traces/5237564

Photos: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhrBI8Ihd76i1T7neTUhVsUUivU5?e=bo3Evb

Bike: #TheViper

• Maps & Hacking
  • I did some hacking & made some maps, see:
    • “Very Fast Money Withdrawl. Distance to the nearest bank for every weapon shop.” 🐦 🐘
    • “The worst night club for a durty take away after chucking out time: Distance to the nearest fast food place for every nightclub” 🐦 🐘
    • Made a map of distance from thatch building to nearest fire hydrant. twitter post🐦, 🐘
    • To do this, I “needed” to create a new tool/script. It’s osm-distance-to-nearest and available on GitHub. You can make maps like this. 🐦 🐘
  • Analyzing OSM changeset data, and found weirdly empty changeset tags. 🐦 🐘
• Inspired by a community member, I asked osmose if they want to get on the en.osm.town fediverse.
  • Remember folks, in OSM, no-one is coming to save you, we have to save ourselves.
• I tried to make DALL-E generate some OSM images, 🐦
• OSMF Board
  • Trademarks
    • Emailed several event organisers, to organise trademark licences for their regional State of the Maps.
    • Replied to one organizer, that as a local chapter they don’t need a speical licence (it’s included in the Local Chapters Agreement)
  • Local Chapters minor beurocracy for 2 potential LCs
  • I checked that the same person is OK with doing the questions for the Board AGM

(As I mentioned, I finally caught corona. Combined with a lack of energy, this is a bit shorter)

Previously…

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Oh was fehlt denn da? Nun nicht mehr. So gut wie alle Hausnummern sind nun eingetragen und Ortdetails ergänzt. Eine Reihe von 360 Grad Bildern werden die nächsten Tage noch nachgemappt. Außerdem wurden Landschaftsdetails ergänzt und Wiesen und Felder ergänzt.

Track:

@warumichRadfahre/traces/5232776

Pics: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhrBI8Ihd76ixlCjy_xRIrqfeHc5?e=dWfA8U

This is a Tasking Manager for Disaster response mapping for Flash Flood in Jembrana District, Bali in October 2022

I pleased to contribute in order to find response to the areas affected by floods and landslides due to heavy rainfall in South Africa through mapping.

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I am thrilled to have my first session with OSM Rwanda, This is where Geospatial data are free woow!!!!

I am so pleased to attend this training of the Rwanda monthly mapathon today being 29th October 2022 at Classic Hotel

It is my pleasure to attend that event (unique mappers network Nigeria collaboration with OSM Rwanda to map Rwanda Monthly Mapathon). I have earned more skills, which will help me to improve my mapping skills so that i can edit too many features like roads, buildings and many others, which will help me to contribute to global spatial data.

It’s an amazing opportunity being one of the mappers around, kudos to the OSMRwnda chapter and The #UniqueMappersNetwork for this training

I am very happy to be one of the contributors of map Rwanda, this is my first mapping and I will keep mapping,

Thank you

本文仅为对客观情况的概述，很多内容仅为口口相传的转述，不含任何观点。请勿作为新闻报道或百科条目的可靠参考资料引用。

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北京时间昨天（10月28日）下午开始，Openstreetmap官网在中国内地无法直接访问，到今天上午时基本可以确定是网站被墙了。方式是DNS污染。受到影响的范围是以openstreetmap.org结尾的所有网址。

目前已知造成的影响如下：（以下均为不使用加速器的直连）

1、以openstreetmap.org结尾的所有网站均无法访问，显示为TIMED_OUT。包括但不限于osm主站、osmwiki、网页iD编辑器、论坛和用户日志。

使用单独网址进行的渲染方式不受影响。因此在已使用相关工具打开网页的前提下，可以浏览自行车地图、公共交通地图等渲染风格。（但是由于根本打不开网页所以这条并没有什么卵用）

2、此前大量中国用户喜欢使用的Openrailwaymap可以正常打开网站，但是网站无法获取osm默认Carto渲染的底图，只能看到二次渲染的铁路线。

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운전을 배우는 가장 확실한 방법은 바로 손수 운전을 하면서 익히는 것입니다.
하지만 이렇게 하면 너무 위험 부담이 크기 때문에 이론을 가르치고 방법을 가르치고 그리고 안전한 곳에서 익히고 그렇게 면허를 따고 나서 길로 나서는 것입니다.(면허를 따고 나서도 실제 길에 익숙해 지는 과정으로 ‘연수’라는 것도 하게 됩니다.)
OSM 그리기(매핑)은 운전 만큼 위험한 일이 별로 없기에 약간만 공부를 하고는 바로 하실 수 있습니다.
혹은 성격이 급하신 분은 바로 그리기에 손을 댈 수도 있습니다.
하지만 이렇게 하면 이미 서로 정한 규칙에 따라 그리던 것에 뜻하지 않게 방해를 하고 이미 해 놓은 것을 망가뜨리는 일도 종종 벌어집니다.
사실 OSM이 꽤 되었기 때문에 그 동안 정해놓은 원칙, 규칙 같은 것이 꽤 많습니다.
그걸 다 익히고 나서 발을 딛으려 한다면 아마 지레 지쳐 나가떨어질 것입니다.
그래서 어려운 얘기 다 빼고 가장 쉬운 것부터 해 보실 수 있도록 설명해 보고자 합니다.

먼저 가질 마음의 자세

• 가장 기초적인 것만 건드리겠다는 생각
• 내 능력 밖의 일은 다른 사람에게 맡기겠다는 생각

(고치고 있습니다.)

https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org 에 가입을 해서 연습처럼 그려볼 수 있습니다.
이 곳은 OSM과는 다른 공간으로 설령 잘못 그린다 해도 OSM에는 영향이 없습니다.
실수를 할까 걱정이 되신다면, 이 곳에서 충분히 연습하신 다음에 OSM에 적용을 해도 좋을 것입니다.
다른 분들도 함께 하는 공간이기 때문에 좀 틀리는 것은 상관이 없으나 일부러 훼손을 하지는 마시기 바랍니다.