I made this “brilliant essay” about the US/Canada flag positions on Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls.

What does it have to do with OpenStreetMaps?

Well it turns out OpenStreetMaps’ version of the US/Canada boundary is different than that of the International Boundary Commission’s.

Sure hope somebody here will fix it one day, updating OpenStreetMaps’ version with that of the Commission’s.

It’s a series of “turning points” in a river. Sorry about Ground Truth. You’ll just have to trust them.

But if you can’t trust them, who can you trust?

Added my home in Almokhayam Zoon, Abs District, Hajjah Governorate.

Three more quarters left! No more simple points to mark a building anymore!

Magic Earth möchte dass man im Kreisverkehr Richtung Wien GERADEAUS fährt. Übersichtlicher wäre HALTEN SIE SICH LINKS oder FAHREN SIE AUF DIE LINKE SPUR oder dergleichen. Fährt man geradeaus kommt man, wer die Strecke nicht kennt, eventuell auf die Autobahn Richtung Salzburg

Magic Earth sagt man soll von der Jedleseerstrasse HALBRECHTS abbiegen um auf die Floridsdorfer Hauptstrasse und in weiterer Folge auf die A22 zu gelangen. Die Ansage sollte meiner Meinung nach heissen BIEGEN SIE RECHTS AB. Biegt man halbrechts ab fährt mancher Richtung AN DER OBEREN ALTEN DONAU

After a slight nudge from another user, I changed the attributes of the ghost bikes I had entered the day before. And also the attributes of the ghost bike on the outskirts of Pulheim on the border with Cologne. Also, I uploaded a track through Ehrenfeld yesterday.

@warumichRadfahre/traces/5262583

Übersetzt mit DeepL https://www.deepl.com/app/?utm_source=android&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=share-translation

после отправки java8 по речке стикс, вместе с ней уплыл и JavaWebStart, через который у меня долгое время автоматически обновлялся josm.
немного поковырялся с OpenWebStart - он у меня просто не пошел.

после чего нашел элементарное решение в виде опции классического wget.

-N –timestamping Turn on time-stamping.

опция допускает скачивание файла только в случае если время файла на удаленном сервере больше чем время локального файла. что нам и нужно.
еще требуется чтобы файл лежал в текущей рабочей директории.

получился простенький скрипт, который работает много-много лет еще со времен виндовс хп.
josm_start.bat

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:: переходим в директорию где содержится файл джосма.
cd С:\path\to\josm

:: проверяем на обновления и перекачиваем джосм если нужно
wget -N https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-tested.jar
:: есть еще https://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-latest.jar
:: Development version, посвежее и вероятно побагованнее

:: запускаем через Hidden Start чтобы не зависало консольное окошко
:: у вас эта строчка будет другая
C:\path\to\HiddenStart\hstart64.exe /NOCONSOLE “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-17\bin\java.exe -Xms1024M -jar C:\path\to\josm\josm-tested.jar”

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всё, теперь джосм проверяется на обновления каждый запуск.
ярлык на скрипт можно положить куда угодно.

недавно спрашивали, вот таки добрался написать.

• Foreword + Summary
• Details:– Early to 1199
• Details:– 1200 to 1399
• Details:– 1400 to 1599
• Details:– 1600 to 1799

26 November 2022
The last page in this sequence of diary entries used to be “1800 to current”. It became so large as to become unreasonable, so I have broken it up into two pages: the original first half is now “1800 to 1899” (this page), whilst the second is now 1900 to current.

Details:– 1800 to 1899

• 1800 July 2: Twin Acts of Union are enacted by the Parliaments of Great Britain and of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (this was all of Ireland; previously the union was a Personal Union due to having the same monarch — see 1541). These Acts came into force on 1 January 1801, and the 1ˢᵗ joint Parliament was on 22 January 1801.
   
  This was the moment when the modern UK Flag came into being (used as a “Union Jack” on UK ships). It is the 1707 Great Britain flag united with the red saltire of Ireland. Interestingly, the GB flag is symmetrical, whilst the UK flag is not (meaning that it should NOT be hung upside-down nor reversed).

… See full entry

• Foreword + Summary
• Details:– Early to 1199
• Details:– 1200 to 1399
• Details:– 1400 to 1599

Details:– 1600 to 1799

… See full entry

• Foreword + Summary
• Details:– Early to 1199
• Details:– 1200 to 1399

Details:– 1400 to 1599

… See full entry

• Foreword + Summary
• Details:– Early to 1199

Details:– 1200 to 1399

… See full entry

• Foreword + Summary
   
  (What followed the original Foreword + Summary was a single, complete list of dates & significant events on those dates. I should have realised — but did not — how easily that would become long & unwieldy for a single post. So, whilst it is simpler for searching to keep everything on one page, for ease of loading I’ve split everything into 5 x 200-year chunks.)

Details:– Early to 1199

This first post covers way more than 200 years, and Nottingham barely features at all (the first direct mention is at 800). However, each army that travelled in the East of England from south to north (or the reverse) would have had to travel by either Nottingham or Derby due to the barrier posed by the Trent + Humber (these rivers cannot be forded below West Bridgford).

[There is one caveat to offer to the last sentence above: the roman road Ermine Street travelled from London to Lincoln to York, and the Humber Bridge did not exist at that time. That suggests that the Roman Army waded across the Humber. Graham Boanas also did that on August 21, 2005, but as someone born in Hull I would not advise it to anyone else.]

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Parece que cuando el termino coincide entre ambos idiomas, el valenciano prefiere un termino con uso más frecuente en el castellano antiguo.

Regidor (valenciano) vs Concejal (castellano)

Por lo que para un usuario normal las combinaciones logicas y posibles a la hora de buscar son:

Carrer del regidor xxxx Carrer Regidor xxxx Calle del regidor xxxx Calle Regidor xxxx Carrer del concejal xxxx Carrer concejal xxxx Calle del concejal xxxx Calle concejal xxxx

Currently two POI added:

• ghost bike under the Rodenkirchen bridge
• ghost bike at the Rodenkirchen train station.

Including the pictures I took on All Saints’ Day on the ADFC Cologne ride.

My ride is available here: @warumichRadfahre/traces/5255301

Version française ci-dessous / Versão portuguesa abaixo / Versión en español a continuación

Sharing here the results and finding of the Project: [Language] Localization as an Inclusion and Participatory Enabler that I shared last year: English / French / Portuguese and was able to present remotely at State of the Map 2022.

You can watch the recording here (in English): SotM 2022 page (with link to English slide presentation / Youtube (with English captions)

Conclusion

The findings of this project are not sufficient to create a self-sustainable localization strategy. The next section highlights key takeaways - challenges, opportunities and recommendation that can be put into action for future localization projects.

Key takeaways

Challenges	Opportunities
No known accurate machine for certain languages. e.g. Tiếng Việt	Collaborate with existing network - e.g. Community <> Industry
We were not able to provide a list of available resources	Maintain a list of available resources to translate to help contributors target resources that will be valuable to translate for their communities.
We translated a resource that cannot be used in the future e.g. Open Mapping Grants	Focus on evergreen or evolving resources
Technical Barrier	Provide onboarding on the use of the translation tools
Time Commitment	Provide value and recognition to contributors
No concrete plan on how to measure impact of localized translation to the communities.	The project should have a more robust approach to evaluating impact plans (i.e. how to monitor, measure and evaluate impact) and should be aligned with your organization’s MERL approach.

Translation workflow

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Got an email today informing me that I have been selected as a travel grant recipient for the Pista ng Mapa - State of the Map Asia 2022. Excited to go to Legazpi, Albay to meet the OSM and FOSS4G community!

What did I do on OSM in October? First of all, I reactivated my user account and orientated myself a bit. Then I started uploading special cycling tours of mine as gpx. I recorded the tours before with the OSMAND+ app and then uploaded them, as well as some POIs.

That’s just a start.

Besides the OSMAND+ app, I use UMAP on the net, which is also based on OSM. You can find my tracks here:

@warumichRadfahre/traces

I have been cycling very actively since 2010 and record all my rides and keep detailed statistics. You can find my last monthly report here:

https://sway.office.com/qEbb1HRwoK3SfWDy

At the request of OpenStreetMap Ireland, I am sharing the lessons learnt from collecting AED data in Poland. I hope to also help other local OpenStreetMap communities with this type of project.

Instead of an introduction.

There is no official record system for these devices in Poland. Both of these databases are closed and the locations of AEDs they contain are highly imprecise, with descriptions missing in many places and the accuracy leaving much to be desired. Our initial analysis has shown that there is little or no usefulness of this data for rescuers.

For this reason, we have decided to start collecting this data and, in order to facilitate this process, to prepare a portal that will support us in this task and, at the same time, display the devices already entered in order to motivate non-OSMP editors to search for and enter their locations into OpenStreetMap. I will try my best to describe the process we have arrived at by trial and error during this project.

Make a plan!

A necessary step was to adopt a minimum usability label for the location of the devices by talking to colleagues involved professionally or voluntarily in the emergency services, and to turn their comments and experiences into a uniform way of labelling AEDs. The fruits of this work can be found on the Polish wiki page: osm.wiki/Pl:Tag:emergency%3Ddefibrillator.

Thanks to the team who created the dedicated AED portal. And is currently working on its international version openaedmap.org, we have had a much easier process of gathering information and greater reliability. Thanks are especially due Tomek, Ancymon, Filip and many others.

We took the tags access and defibrillator:location as key. The following table describes exactly how we standardised the tags for access:

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On November 15, 2022, the Silver Line Extension in Washington D.C. will open. I edited the new Silver Line stations (Reston Town Center, Herndon, Innovation Center, Washington Dulles International Airport, Loudoun Gateway, and Ashburn) to reflect the new opening date and add more information about them. Still, I was wondering when I should actually route the Silver Line through the new stations, should I do it now since we know the opening date or should I wait until November 15? In addition, I know that Metrobus, Loudoun County Transit, and Fairfax Connector plan on changing, adding, or removing routes to coincide with the new openings, when should I start changing this on OSM?

BarriereScouts

Die Ausbildungsmodule von den Sozialheld*innen zum BarriereScout sind abgeschlossen. Die Erweiterung der Wheelmap sind in Arbeit. Ich werde bis dahin OpenStreetMap für weiter Details nutzen, die ich noch nicht bei Wheelmap eintragen kann.