Why?

Because there is no worldwide quality source for addresses!

Really, that’s no joke. There are many commercial providers for “industrialized countries” of variable quality/pricing but worldwide coverage is lacking, the data formats are diverse and the license terms provider specific.

There are also some open source projects related to addresses though, each with their gochas. Two of these projects are mentioned in the last section “Honorable Mentions” at the end of this article, along with their drawbacks.

This project is born in order to provide quality addresses with worldwide coverage under an open license, by directly extracting addresses from the raw data dumps of OpenStreetMap.

Birth of OpenStreetData.org

How does the it look like? Here is a screenshot, but if you prefer, check out the website directly.

It is divided into two parts: extracts and addresses. Another “points of interest” was planned, but not further developed due to lack of time.

Country dumps

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En resumen, lo que haré será mejorar los trazados de una larga autopista, reemplazándolos por otros trazos mejor dibujados en JOSM, a los que posteriormente asignaré toda las etiquetas correspondientes que debe tener toda vialidad mapeada en OSM.

El procedimiento ya lo he realizado antes, a modo de prueba, en otras vialidades importantes en mi país, entre las que puedo enlistar:

• Un tramo de 15 kilómetros de una autopista en las regiones orientales de mi país. Comenzando aquí y terminado en este puente de acá.
• La autopista más importante del país, que conecta a Caracas con el principal puerto y aeropuerto. La llamada Autopista Caracas-La Guaira, la cual afortunadamente tiene cobertura en Mapillary y por lo tanto pude trazarla toda con gran detalle. En un gran tramo que va desde aquí hasta acá. Tramo que además incluye 2 túneles que ningún mapa digital podía representar bien.
• Y la más reciente, un gran tramo de 280 kilómetros de la carretera más aislada del país, que va desde aquí hasta acá.

El tramo de hoy serán 90 kilómetros de autopista que van desde aquí hasta acá.

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Paso 1: Análisis

Luego de calibrar la imagen satelital usando trazas GPS:

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Letzte Woche war ich auf der Velocity in Leipzig. Alles darüber hier:

http://warumichradfahre.blog/2023/05/16/ich-war-dabei-velocity-2023-in-leipzig/

Bin in Leipzig auch einiges an Rad gefahren, vor allem mit Rädern von Nextbike und Swapfiets (siehe http://warumichradfahre.blog/2023/05/12/swapfiets/).

Dabei war OSM total hilfreich. Mit der Android App OSMAND+ fand ich Wassertürme in Leipzig, die ich mit keiner anderen “Standard-App” wie Komoot z.B. gefunden hätte. Total toll.

First, I am human not a AI.

Recently I got a block by SomeoneElse mostly because my changeset comments were not perfect. I understand their meaning, but the DWG could have talked about it, before blocking just for this.

Explanation for my changeset comments:

I am using hashtag comments, like #DEU, #industry, etc. already a long while. Using hashtags leads in a time, where I got introduced in usecases of hashtags at SOTM and I saw tools who evaluates them (like HDYC and other organised mapping (like HOTOSM using hashtags automatically. The people are using hashtags to filter posts in social network platforms like Twitter.

According to chatgpt you can quickly find an simple explanation what #DEU or #LBY means. It is about the code of ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 which is just a indicator for the countries where the changeset was edited.

The other hashtags were just known categories and local or professional abbrevations. Maybe there is a gap of categorizing or filter changesets for a better overview where and what a mapper is editing.

If you have questions, I am happy to answer them.

오픈스트리트맵 기여자들이 텔레그램에서 좀더 재밌게 소통하고 편한 공간이 되기를 바라면서, 텔레그램에서 쓸 수 있는 OSM 딱지[스티커]를 만들었습니다.
스티커 이미지는 고치거나 더 추가할 수 있으므로 알맞은 이미지나 아이디어가 있으신 분은 알려주시면 고려하도록 하겠습니다.

I wanted to make Telegram a more fun and comfortable place for OSM contributors to communicate, so I created OSM stickers for Telegram.
The sticker image can be fixed or added, so if you have a good image or idea, let me know and I’ll take it into consideration.

You can see all the previews of the stickers by going OpenStreetMap(OSM;오픈스트리트맵)
Please let me know if there is any issue with portrait rights in the above images.

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This is a place

In April, I asked OSM community members to help us out with a better name for the HOT unSummit (which too often was confused with something to do with the United Nations!)

We had more than 100 name suggestions, so thanks a million to everyone who put some thought into it!

The new name for the programme will be…

HOT OpenSummit

So I want to send a big thank you to Courtney Williamson for the suggestion - a token of our appreciation will be on the way soon!

We are working out how to make the actual programme better and will be re-launching it in the coming months. If you know of events (mappy and other) where you think there might be appetite for incorporating open mapping and OpenStreetMap for humanitarian and development purposes, please feel free to reach out (and thanks to those who have already done so!)

Over the weekend we had a great time micro-mapping Hyde Park in Northbridge, and made some new friends! Some attendees of the recent Geogeeks/QGIS Users’ Group presentation evening joined our mapping adventures for the first time.

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eL DIA DE HOY EDITE EL LUGAR DE LAS QUESABIRRIAS EN LA LOCALIDAD DE TUXTLA, CHICO, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO

Suite à l’import des batiments et adresses en Belgique, j’avais comparé, dans un article précédent, le nombre d’adresses par communes entre OSM et la source de référence en Wallonie, le PICC, en septembre 2022.

Quelques mois plus tard, une mise à jour des principales figures.

En Wallonie, 1,097,519 adresses sont répertoriés dans OSM, contre 1,634,840 dans ICAR (67.1%). On était à 64.4 % en septembre 2022.

Voici une carte choroplète, montrant, pour chaque commune, le degré de complétion des adresses dans OSM par rapport à ICAR. Les limites de provinces sont soulignées par un trait plus gras.

Et une carte de l’évolution des adresses depuis septembre 2022.

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It was really an amazing and excitting experince today at Uniport Mapathon Center, Uniport Mall Abuja Campus, University of Port Harcourt. As i and team contributted to the ENUGU STATE -MAP NIGERIA MAPATHON CAMPAIGN -LET’S MAP NSUKKA LGA FOR SDGS AND SOCIAL GOOD project.

As the new Team Lead of the center, i was so excitted and greatly encouraged by the enthusiasm and Inpiring interest shown by the team members present, who were majorly newly recruited volunteers. their passion for volunteering and Geospatial data triggered a feeling in my heart. .

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San Jose Diary

According https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25728/chinas-new-york-city-sized-earthquake-warning-system-sounds-more-like-way-to-talk-to-subs there is a huge secret ELF-antenna in China called WEM. The exact location is so far unknown, but by the fact, that it looks like an overhead powerline which forms according https://www.newsweek.com/china-giant-antenna-navy-submarine-new-york-city-secret-location-1276332 a cross shape, so it will be able to be mapped by satellite pictures.

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to accompany a friend to an archaeological survey on Ballygawley Lough in Co. Sligo. He’s a metal detectorists who detects on archaeological sites - with a license. Metal detecting is highly restricted in Ireland. There were three divers - one of them had worked on Banshees of Inisheer and Vikings! (At least two of them do diving for movies regularly.) One of the divers doubled as metal detectorist as well, but he also had a sonar device on his canoe. When I had a peak at the screen, I discovered that it was using OpenStreetMap! With attribution! It’s the Lowrance Elite ti2, if anyone is interested. I can’t find any mention of OSM on their website.

There are two crannógs on the lake which was part of why I went with them. I had never seen one in real life, mapped a lot and discovered a few, but never actually seen one. I was offered the spare canoe, but I chickened out when it came to actually paddling over there.

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Erweitert: @cyton/diary/401173

Der Ablauf ist sehr ähnlich geblieben, ich schildere aber nochmal alles, den vorherigen Eintrag muss man also nicht gelesen haben.

Interessante Layer

Straßenbäume, Anlagenbäume

Sind zwei separate Datensätze, sind aber identisch aufgebaut. Leider fehlen teils Bäume, teils an der falschen Stelle, teils um eine Nummer versetzt, oder kombinierte Fehler. Teils fehlen neue Pflanzungen, oder gefällte sind noch zu sehen. Leider haben die neuen kleinen Bäumchen scheinbar nie eine Nummer, das dauert wohl einfach immer.

Straßenbefahrung 2014

Ich habe mich auf die Bäume und anderes Straßenmobiliar konzentriert. Es gibt im “Straßenbefahrung 2014” Layer mehrere interessante WMF, aus denen ich Daten ziehen kann, um diese vor Ort zu prüfen.

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département de l’Aube

Tak tahu nak tulis apa.

I’ve been invited to go to Jordan to consult on a new OSM project involving Jordan’s Royal Scientific Society, the local Youthmappers chapter in Amman, and the Princess Sumaya University, coordinated/commissioned by the UNESCO research chair, Science Communicator Iain Stewart.

The location is Asraq (think Lawrence of Arabia, and ancient Petra; the area sometimes called the ‘Cradle of Civilisation’. Over the centuries, the area has been settled and travelled by many people - from silk-road traders to Moses’s biblical journey, incoming 11th century Druze, to modern syrian refugees.

The wetlands have different cultural significance and inspire/necessitate different cultural practices for many ethnicities, and the now desert has gone through climatic and human-influenced changes which exemplify one of Jordan - and the planet’s - biggest challenges: water supply.

As with so many Disaster Risk environemnts, the problem is compound in nature: climate change has turned once fertile wetlands into desert, whilst Jordan’s excellent record of refugee hosting has meant massive population growth. Result: decreased supply and increased demand for water supply.

I’m looking forward to working with diverse local voices to understand how OpenStreetMap might present some solutions, and am expecting a fascinating mix attitude, behaviour and shared-interest around Water Resource mapping and with Community Asset mapping.

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He estado haciendo una lista de aplicaciones y páginas web con propósito específico en diferentes entradas de mi diario, la cual muestro a continuación. Hoy quiero presentar una lista de aplicaciones móviles y páginas web que permiten subir fotos, que pueden ser usadas para mejorar el mapa.

Otras entradas similares de mi diario:

• Páginas web para mejorar datos de OSM.
• Aplicaciones para mejorar el mapeo en terreno

Muchas de las opciones aquí listadas se pueden usar para asociar una foto con un elemento del mapa con la etiqueta Key:image

Listado de servicios asociados a fotos:

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Mexico