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Posted by Lübeck on 28 August 2021 in German (Deutsch).

In einem Posting unter https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=73680 ging es mir darum, wie taggt man durch die Flut zerstörte Flächen um diese entsprechend zu kennzeichnen.

Damit das Ergebnis etwas bekannter ist verweise ich deshalb darauf.

Zusätzlich sollten folgende Attribute dann gesetzt werden:

damage:date=2021-07-14

damage:event=#flood0721

damage:type=flood

Jan

Kan je je vakantie beter plannen met Openstreetmap?

Een week op vakantie geweest in Zeeland en wel in Breskens. Met de auto er naar toe en daar een huis gehuurd. Een gewoon huis in het dorp. De uitdaging hoe vind je interessante dingen om in je vakantie te doen. Zoek eens op VVV Breskens, er is geen echte VVV website voor een kleine plaats als Breskens. Er zijn wel wat boekjes met tips maar dan moet je die eerst helemaal pagina voor pagina doorspitten. Apps en websites die vakantie bestemmingen tonen zijn ingericht voor promotie van de meest betalende deelnemer en niet op jouw persoonlijke voorkeur en wensen.

Gezocht een handig systeem waar je je vakantie mee kan plannen die rekening houd met jouw wensen

Ik ben recentelijk gestart met het bekijken van Openstreetmap een wereldwijd open kaart systeem dat door vrijwilligers word onderhouden. Zo kwam het idee op “Kan een open source kaart systeem onderhouden door vrijwilligers informatie bieden voor de tourist”

Een analyse

Als voorbeeld case neem ik even mijn eigen vakantie in Zeeland

Ik zoek dingen die mijn gezin leuk vinden op de vakantie:

  • Strand (zoeken van schelpdieren, krabben, spelen in het zand)
  • Kinderactiviteiten (zwemmen, leuke speeltuin, spannende attracties, geen saaie draaimolens, klein museum niet te langdurig)
  • Eten (Italiaans pizza, Thais, Grill, Vis, Mosselen, Krab, Patat, Tomaten ketchup)

Mogelijkheden en Beperkingen:

  • Ik heb een auto maar een dagje met een boot of de bus is wellicht ook leuk
  • We zijn samen met vrienden, soms zijn we samen dan weer individueel
  • We hebben een (kleine) hond en we houden niet van roken
  • Als het regent wil ik ook wat doen maar dan droog

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Posted by DeBigC on 28 August 2021 in English.

The helpful webstats that are provided by Pascal Neis measure map contributions per sovereign territory. In Ireland we still have a relatively small community, and would seldom have over 400 mappers appearing in his ‘kinda random’ 60 day view of the mapping contributions. It would also be rare to have over 100 map changes recorded by more than 100 of those who make it on to the chart. The pascal records these excludes Northern Ireland, who are part of our community, and where our active mappers also map a good deal.

Anyway, a few weeks ago myself and my fellow Traveller, AK challenged each other to get to the 200K mark. AK has been to that summit before, and me never, though it wouldn’t be uncommon for me to have 100K map changes. I am so thankful to have her comradeship and support. It became less of a race, and more of us egging one another on to map every day for the 60 days, which we duely did, and here is the proof. 200K

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Posted by b-unicycling on 27 August 2021 in English.

On my Facebook page OSMForHistoryBuffs, I’m following a group about holy wells in Ireland, because that is one of my peripheral interests when mapping. People post there about holy wells they have visited, often with a number of photographs. Sometimes people ask for an exact location and are given a googlemaps pin (ugh). When I feel like it, I try to find out where these holy wells are and add them to OSM, obviously I try to avoid the GoogleMaps pin. Often enough, the wells are on the British War Office layer and can be made out on Esri imagery anyway. Sometimes I do then post a link to OSM in that group saying “I’ve added it, look here”.

I’m not sure it is gonna make anyone start mapping, but at least OSM will be better than GoogleMaps as regards to holy wells.

Location: Lisloose, Shanakill, Tralee Rural ED, Tralee Municipal District, County Kerry, Munster, Ireland

Was lesen meine Augen in JOSM?

Für Anfänger*Innen.

Geht es denen noch gut?

Da bekommt man ja Augenkrebs von derartigen Ausdrücken.

Nett wäre es, wenn man zwischen gegendert und ungegendert bei Deutsch als Sprache wählen könnte. Kann man aber nicht. Statt dessen wird es einem aufgezwungen.

Ich habe die Spracheinstellung daraufhin in JOSM auf Englisch umgestellt.

Good tidings!

My effort to add the natural features to Nancy Lake is finished. osm.org/#map=12/61.6291/-150.0966

What was the point of adding these natural features to a wilderness?

Well, besides being one of my favorite spots in Alaska, mostly I’d say it was just another project like mapping Anchorage where I could incrementally improve and feel some accomplishment at the end. At the end of the day, I hope these edits provided value but it’s my goal to be driven by the small neurochemical treat-reward cycle of editing OSM instead of doing nothing which would be less valuable than something.

Location: Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States
Posted by Vishāl Bāgadē on 25 August 2021 in English. Last updated on 26 August 2021.

Aurangabad, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmednagar, Nashik, Dhule, Nandurbar, Shirur, Akole, Bhandardara, Sangamner, Shrirampur, Nevase, Bodhegaon, Shevgaon, Balamtakli, Beed, Ambajogai, Latur, Ghargaon, Badgavhan, Chaklamba, Mungi, Chapadgaon, Nilanga, Udgir, Chikhali, Nanded, Makni, Dhanora, Tulajapur, Chakan, Phopade, Khori, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Ellora, Ajanta, Devgad, Satane, Chakur, Chakan, Satara, Loni, Gangapur, Vaijapur, Kasoda, Ambelohol, Bhalgaon, Chitegaon, Dhorkin, Beedkin, Ichalkaranji, Paithan

En Colombia, los ríos tenían diferentes palabras para la palabra Río que hace parte del nombre. Sin embargo, hacer esta modificación de cada way no era viable, por lo que lo hice de una forma masiva. Aquí muestro los pasos para replicarlo:

  • Buscar el nombre de departamento o región a analizar, para no hacerlo masivo sino por partes.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Colombia/Divisi%C3%B3n_Pol%C3%ADtica#Departamentos

[out:xml]/*fixed by auto repair*//*fixed by auto repair*/[timeout:25]; area[name="Colombia"][admin_level=2][boundary=administrative]->.searchColombia; area[name="Amazonas"][admin_level=4][boundary=administrative]->.searchDpto; ( way["waterway"="river"] ["name"~"^(Rio|rio) "] (area.searchDpto)(area.searchColombia); ); (._;>;); out meta;/*fixed by auto repair*/

  • Revisar que los ríos quedan dentro de Colombia, ya que si son fronterizos no queremos hacer cambios fuera de la jurisdicción. Para esto se ven los resultados de overpass turbo en el mapa.
  • Si quedan fuera de Colombia, editar los ways individualmente para que solo tome lo de Colombia partiéndolos justo en la frontera.
  • Exportar los resultados del query de Overpass Turbo a JOSM.
  • Una vez en JOSM, seleccionar todo, Ctrl A.
  • Abrir el filtro para solo seleccionar los ways Ctrl F.
  • Indicar en la ventana:

selected type:way

  • Adicionar una etiqueta para que modifique todos los ways. En mi caso puse esta:

andres=gomez

  • Guardar los datos como rios.osm
  • Borrar la capa modificada.
  • Desde una terminal que tenga sed (Linux, Max, cygwin, mobaxterm en Windows) hacer el cambio masivo por medio del comando Sed.

sed "s/tag k='name' v='Rio /tag k='name' v='Río /g" rios.osm | sed "s/tag k='name' v='rio /tag k='name' v='Río /g" | sed "s/tag k='name' v='río /tag k='name' v='Río /g" > riosmodif.osm

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Location: UPZ La Esmeralda, Localidad Teusaquillo, Bogotá, Bogotá, Distrito Capital, RAP (Especial) Central, Colombia

Introduction

I started google summer of code with the aim of creating a library that can be easily added to Vespucci and provide it with element comparison features, and provide some other feature requests in Vespucci. I was able to create and deploy the Element History Dialog, which can be found here, where you can find the implementation details for the library.

Work Done

The major work done during the coding period includes the following -

  1. Creating the parser for OSM elements
  2. Creating the parser for Changesets
  3. Creating the UI to list all versions for a selected OSM element
  4. Creating the UI for comparison between different OSM elements
  5. Logic for comparison between tags of different versions of a element
  6. Logic for comparison between data for 2 versions of a node
  7. Logic for comparison between data for 2 versions of a way
  8. Logic for comparison between data for 2 versions of a relation
  9. Handling edge cases like deleted elements and versions
  10. publishing the library and creating the sample application

A more detailed usage guide can be found on the github readme

Future Scope

Some additions to the project that I plan are -

  1. Creating more test cases - currently there are a few unit tests that test the basic functionality of the app, I will add more unit tests to cover most logical operations and few UI tests to test the basic flow of the library
  2. Adding the library to vespucci
  3. Creating Pull Requests on Vespucci for other features mentioned in my gsoc application.

Finally, I would like to say that my experience with the OSM community has been great, and I would love to contribute more to the great projects that are hosted by OSM

Posted by CjMalone on 23 August 2021 in English.

I’ve been working on collecting datasets for various chains across the UK, and the globe. Yesterday I changed the repo to open, so say hello to KAFF Places. It’s mainly got retail chains, but it also some hotel chains, pharmacies and the like. You can see the list here.

This data is first party from their respective websites, interestingly enough there are a lot more quality issues that come with that than I expected. I have reached out to some of them to point out issues, and I’d love to work with all of them to improve their data.

I’m waving any database rights I may have, but because this is first party data each provider holds copyright and/or database rights. I currently do have some rules on which sites I collect data from, the most important rule is that they are publishing the data in Linked Data or Microdata. I personally believe once somebody explicitly publishes data in a machine readable format they want the data to be used. However the law may disagree. This shouldn’t be used as a source for OSM.

Some of this data is already being used by Robert Whittaker in Chain Reaction to help monitor the quality of OSM coverage. I’d also like to see this data being used as an overlay on top of OSM data to increase coverage in under mapped areas, in projects like OsmAnd and Daylight Map Distribution.