January 29, 2023

On running sudo apt update, users will get a notification similar to this, stating that several packages from the universe repository have security updates that require Ubuntu Pro:

The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled: imagemagick libopenexr25 libmagick++-6.q16-8 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libmagickwand-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6.q16 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6-common

February 10, 2023

Currently we run a combination of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS across our server estate.

Ubuntu 20.04 has recently moved away from the established 5 years of maintenance updates and now requires a paid Ubuntu Pro plan to receive some package security updates.

We’ve also had issues with Ubuntu not fully supporting the packages they source from Debian (e.g. : Apache2 which required us to backport a fixed version to workaround an issue affecting mpm event scaling).

Ubuntu has also caused us issue with some packages now only being distributed as snap packages (e.g. : Firefox).

February 20, 2023

Your Ubuntu LTS is still secured in exactly the same way it has always been, with five years of free security updates for the ‘main’ packages in the distribution, and best-effort security coverage for everything else. This has been the promise of Ubuntu since our first LTS in 2006, and remains exactly the same. In fact, thanks to our expanded security team, your LTS is better secured today than ever before, even without Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu Pro is an additional stream of security updates and packages that meet compliance requirements such as FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) or HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), on top of an Ubuntu LTS.

As part of our global mission to amplify the impact of free software, we offer a free personal subscription to Ubuntu Pro that covers up to 5 machines.

November 24, 2023

Servers fume and grisu are now running Debian 12.

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Santarém

My first impressions of Santarém were not very favourable. I had the idea of It being a smaller city, but It covers a wide área and our hostal was quite a distance from the centre. Three nights we had here, and It wasn’t clear what we could with that time.

We walked to the centre and found nice places to be by the river, and a restaurant serving regional dishes, including one (Maniçoba) where they have to cook the manioc leaves for days to remove the toxins. I’m still here to tell the story so they must have done It right.

The first full day we dedicated to exploring the centre and looking for another hotel not so far from the port for our final night. There was, naturally, some mapping to be done as we walked around. Outside of the centre there were areas with few amenities mapped.

The haze from the fires comes and goes in the city, with the wind. But at times the smell of smoke is very strong, and the pollution gets to your eyes and throat. Glad I don’t live here, Madrid ‘s traffic pollution is seriously unhealthy but not as bad as this.

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Manaus To Santarém

Another early morning start as we walked down to the port at dawn to catch the Santarém boat. This time there was none of the queuing and complication that we had in Tabatinga - we showed our ticket and went straight on to the boat.

The early bird catches the best hammock position, and the first impressions of the Madame Crys were positive. It seemed to be a more modern boat than for Tabatinga to Manaus. It didn’t fill up completely but was busy and we did the right thing getting there early.

As we left Manaus It was clear that this was a more powerful, but less noisy, boat. We were up front looking for the meeting of the waters as the appropriately named Río Negro joins the Amazon a short distance out from Manaus For kilometres the two rivers run with little mixing and very different colours, and our boat steered very close to the visible dividing line.

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Contexte

Contributeur depuis quelques temps sur les infrastructures électriques et utilisateur convaincu de StreetComplete, il m’arrive assez régulièrement d’ajouter le tag material sur des poteaux électriques directement depuis mon téléphone.

Il y a environ deux ans, suite à des contributions de terrain sur les réseaux haute tension d’Enedis dans les Vosges. Durant un échange avec un autre contributeur, nous avons eu l’idée de proposer une nouvelle quête sur StreetComplete pour mapper le tag line_attachment.

En effet, ce tag permet de décrire la façon dont la ligne électrique est fixée aux supports (poteaux ou pylônes). Cette information n’est pas forcément visible depuis les vues aériennes notamment due à la présence de végétation, la qualité des orthophotos ou encore les installations trop récentes pour être visibles. Mais l’arrivée progressive du PCRS en France nous permet déjà de renseigner ce tag dans beaucoup de situations sans sortir de chez soi.

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Wir nutzen OSM zur Ergänzung und Verbesserung unser ÖPNV-Auskunftssysteme.

Fragen und Anmerkungen kannst du uns direkt unter [email protected] zukommen lassen.

Informationen zu den von uns bereitgestellten OpenData-Services findest du auf unserer Website

Debrief conducted by Sam Colchester (HOT) partner engagement lead for this activation.

Relevant statistics

In total 171 contributors made over 125,000 edits to OSM including mapping over 96,000 buildings as part of this campaign. (See ohsomeNow Stats page for tracking overall contributions)

Nigeria Floods 2024 daily contributors

Narrative summary

Shortly after the severe flood event in Nigeria on Tuesday 10 September 2024 the director of the Open Mapping Hub - West and Northern Africa requested support from HOT’s central team to respond.

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我的定义: 补全基础的居民楼和商用楼, 以及主要道路, 小区, 学校. 有几个不写: 1, 军事和政府机构, 因为敏感; 2, 棚户区, 如果之后拆迁的话等于无用功了; 3, 小道路, 害怕出错; 4, 拆迁区, 只有我实地到过的地方我才进行删减.

第一阶段: 胶济铁路南, 经十路-玉函路-二环南路以北, 凤凰路以西区域

• 历城区

1. 山大路街道 (24/11/19)
2. 洪家楼街道 (24/11/20)
3. 东风街道 (24/12/3)

• 市中区

1. 大观园街道
2. 杆石桥街道

• 历下区

1. 姚家街道 (24/11/30) 姚家街道基本完成, 很多小区和发电厂看着有, 但是将来可能面临拆迁. 得等3年后济南CBD片区尘埃落定了再补充.
2. 龙洞街道 (24/12/1)
3. 甸柳街道 (24/12/5)
4. 智远街道 (24/12/7)
5. 舜华路街道 (24/12/13)
6. 汉峪片区 (25/1/5)

进入了气象学上的冬天

• 阳光
• 气温
• 风

Manaus

I had very mixed feelings about returning to Manaus, 36 years after my first failed attempt at an Amazon boat ride to Belém. I hadn”t expected ever to return, had it not been for the FOSS4G announcement of Belém as the 2024 location. I hadn’t liked the city much the first time, although this had a lot to do with the local climate. Maybe I’m a bit more used to this now, after living so many years in Spain, but Manaus still felt like the hottest place I had been on the journey.

We got a new member of the team here, my partner Silvia flew in from Madrid just a few hours after the Tabatinga boat had docked. When she booked her flight back in August we had very little idea of when I was going to arrive in Manaus, in the end it worked out very well.

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My Talk at State of the Map 2024

(How the iD Editor still can to do better in the long term)

This September, I presented some ideas for the future of OSM’s iD editor at the State of the Map conference in Nairobi. Now, the video recording of the talk is online. To summarize the talk’s content: I identified two core challenges faced by the iD editor which need to be addressed in the upcoming years:

1. Data Complexity

Naturally, OSM’s data got more complex over time – as an example, a simple school might have typically been mapped as a single POI node in OSM a couple of years ago, while nowadays the state of the art is to model it using multiple map features that are nested within each other. While this allows to represent the reality in a high level of detail, the added complexity needs to be accommodated for by the tooling, especially in an editor tailored for beginner mappers like iD. For a deep dive into this topic, see also Sarah Hoffmann’s talk at the same conference.

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Перевел статью из вики ОСМ на русский.

Первая переведенная мною статья , надеюсь идея HD разметки дорог будет развиваться дальше.

Nyt sää alkaa olla sen verran kylmä, ja välillä luminen, että voidaan todeta, että on aika siirtää pyöräpysäköintipaikkojen kartoitus talvilevolle ja jatkaa urakkaa isommassa määrin sitten, kun pakkaset ovat taas väistyneet.

Kauden 2024 projektina itselläni oli seuraavanlaisia asioita läpikäytävänä omalta tarkastelualueeltani:

• Käydään määräpuutteelliset pyöräpysäköintialueet läpi ja täydennetään niihin olennaisimmat tiedot.
• Tarkistetaan pyöräpysäköintialueet, joihin ei ole koskettu sitten vuoden 2018 alun jälkeen, että onko mikään merkittävästi muuttunut.
• Käydään juna-asemien pyöräpysäköintimahdollisuudet läpi.
• Aloitetaan koulujen ja päiväkotien pyöräpysäköintimahdollisuuksien läpikäynti. Tästä tuli kirjoitettua Päiväkotien ja koulujen pyöräpysäköintitilanne -artikkelissa vähän pidemmälti.

Näissä projekteissa huomiona se, että kun merkitsen pyöräpysäköintimahdollisuuksia kartalle, en ota huomioon kiekonväännintelineiden olemassaoloa. Paitsi jos kyseinen pysäköintialue on jonkun muun lisäämä kartalle. Tähän syynä se, että kyseiset telineet on huonompi vaihtoehto pyörän pysäköinnin suhteen kuin kiinnittää pyörä aitaan tai tolppaan. Ja eivät toimi suunnitellusti isolle osalle pyörätyypeistä, jotka ei osu siihen yhteen platoniseen ideaaliipyörätyyppiin, jolle kyseinen telinemalli on mitoitettu.

Huomiota kiinnittäneitä asioita

Kartoituskauden aikana jotkut asiat kiinnitti huomiota positiivisessa määrin.

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Tabatinga To Manaus 3

By day 3 on the Manaus boat I was beginning to doubt that we might get there the next day. It seemed the boat was moving too slowly, we were tracking the route and there was a lot of river still before Manaus.

What we didn’t know is that the boat stops less on the second half of the journey, I guess because many of the places further downstream have their own services to Manaus. It did stop briefly in the river a couple of times just to let people off onto a smaller boat that was waiting.

The main event of the third day was a fairly thorough police check of the boat. I was fast asleep in my hammock when It happened, men had to line up on one side of the deck, women on the other. All baggage was also lined up in the middle so they could pass the sniffer dog by everything. We were stopped about an hour for this, it’s quite a routine thing on public transport here, I was told.

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IVIDES.org promoveu oficina de mapeamento colaborativo com OpenStreetMap e criação de mapa Web com uMap

A oficina foi ministrada pela Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto, presidenta do IVIDES.org, instituto virtual de pesquisa que, há 18 anos, tem se dedicado a disseminar conhecimento livre e trocar informações sobre temáticas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento sustentável (na visão de I. Sachs). A oficina faz parte da programação da VII Jornada de Geotecnologias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - VII JGEOTEC e contou com recursos do IVIDES DATA e parceria com o Laboratório GeoCart-UFRJ.

Esta atividade corresponde à última, das 17 oficinas celebradas pelo IVIDES.org, somente em 2024, em cooperação com muitos atores importantes no Brasil, em países da América do Norte (como o México, neste ano) e países da África lusófona (como Moçambique, neste ano), de universidades federais, grupos YouthMappers (orientação para a criação de novos grupos e treinamento de grupos já existentes).

No vídeo, em português, são apresentados:

• Conceitos iniciais sobre mapeamento colaborativo, de modo geral;

• OpenStreetMap - modelo de dados, editores, APPs, plugins para QGIS;

• uMap - detalhamento da configuração geral do mapa e configurações específicas para camadas; dicas de design para favorecer o carregamento do mapa; treinamento com dados do Censo Demográfico do Brasil de 2022, demonstração sobre importação de dados para gerar camada estática; e criação de camada dinâmica, a partir de consulta com Overpass Turbo.

Vídeo gravado da Live

https://www.youtube.com/live/5w21smhYN1k

Material para treinamento

Para entrar em contato, favor enviar mensagem para: [email protected]

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IVIDES DATA é uma empresa de pequeno porte, sediada no Rio de Janeiro, de consultoria em tecnologia da informação.

GeoCart - Laboratório de Cartografia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).

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Tabatinga To Manaus 2

Sleeping solidly is not that simple, the boat can stop at any time of night, and it turns out the range of comfortable sleeping positions in a hammock is not that big. But it doesn’t matter, the only schedule on board revolves around meal times, there’s nothing else to prevent anyone from resting when they feel like it. It can also be surprisingly cold on the open boat at night. I came prepared with a thin blanket and it’s not unusual to feel the need for a cover during the night. The first night there was also a distraction, a spectacular lightning display in the distance.

Day 2 started with our early breakfast, a ham roll and a cup of ridiculously sweet coffee. If there is one thing I really dislike in Brazil it is this custom where the people who make the coffee decide how much sugar the person who drinks the coffee is going to want. It’s always a lot, obviously there is a major sugar cane surplus. I managed to get some progress done on my diary entries and then it was river watching as a big rain storm moved in whilst the boat was ar one of the stops. In 20 minutes water was pouring down all the slopes towards the port. A small creek under a wooden bridge transformed into a torrent. All water still welcome in tbe Amazon, looking at the banks of the river I reckon there is room in the river for 8-10 metres more of water.

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In the past weekend, I did (two) walks in Ghent where we used https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance to spot surveillance cameras. The press was interested as well, resulting in some interviews and articles!

Those are in Dutch of course.

The local TV did a decent job: https://avs.be/nieuws/openstreetmap-vrijwilligers-brengen-cameras-in-gent-in-kaart

The newspaper article: https://www.hln.be/gent/vrijwilligers-trekken-door-gentse-straten-om-alle-cameras-in-kaart-te-brengen-een-half-miljoen-hangen-er-in-dit-land-maar-niemand-weet-exact-waar~a8b9341c/ which isn’t to bad as well (paywalled, without paywall: https://archive.ph/4GUZQ)

And on VTM: https://www.vtmgo.be/vtmgo/afspelen/e9e73a3b-b932-400a-91b9-af78622cbbaf (starting at 20:30, account required; I wasn’t able to rip it)

Edit 2024-12-02: the local municipalities also wrote about it: https://www.wvigisco.be/tips-en-tricks/open-data/openstreetmap/vrijwilligers-inventariseren-bewakingscameras-met-mapcomplete/

(If you don’t want to create an account, you can also find them on my NAS)

A new week, a new OpenStreetMap-NG development update. This week, we announce the release of two significant features: an overhaul of the User Diaries and the implementation of client-side password hashing.

🔖 You can read other development diaries here:
@NorthCrab/diary/

⭐ This project is open-source — join us today:
https://github.com/openstreetmap-ng/openstreetmap-ng

🛈 This initiative is not affiliated with the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

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Video Summary

Join me for a guided tour of the new functionalities. In this week’s video, I compare OpenStreetMap-NG’s approach with the current implementation, highlighting key improvements in navigation, performance, and user experience.

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The Second Boat -Tabatinga To Manaus

Departure day from Tabatinga and the start of the real adventure. Be here at 8, they told us when we bought the tickets, so here we were not much after that time, but once the people waiting for the fast boat had left there was just a handful of us. I didn’t mind, the early arrivals get the best hammock space and 4 days is a long time to spend in the wrong spot.

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