A great team effort to map missing residential buildings in Germany was recently concluded. Many motivated mappers worked together to add 360,000 buildings all over Germany.

If you’d like to take part in the next round, come join the party at

➡️ MapRoulette: Add buildings in Germany!

Background

This mapping effort began when populated areas in Germany were identified that had neither buildings nor residential land use mapped. A MapRoulette challenge was set up and 14,330 new land use areas and 17,440 buildings were mapped in only 43 days. You can read about the details in my previous blog post MapRoulette: Unmapped residential areas in Germany.

This blog post is about the second round that started afterwards in January 2021.

Procedure

The idea was to find residential or farm yard areas without any buildings. These should contain buildings for sure, or the land use information should be corrected. (Later it turned out that farmyards without fixed buildings are legitimate.)

To this end I imported the Germany dump of OSM into a PostGIS database while already filtering for the desired land use and building types. In PostGIS I spatially intersected the buildings with the land use polygons and removed all land use areas which touched any building.

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Waa Ahmed Caluushe, map shaqo ayaa ku socota

Hey guys, i am looking for a high definition satellite map, which is free and has a very high resolution. I saw some chargeable maps with a 8cm resolution. But is there something similiar on the open source market?

Thanks!

Ich hab ein kleines Tool geschrieben, welches dabei hilft OGD Datensätze mit Wikimedia (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata) und OpenStreetMap abzugleichen. Es findet sich auf hier: https://www.openstreetmap.at/checker.

Da das Tool nicht ganz selbst-erklärend ist, hab ich ein kleines Erklärungsvideo gemacht: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Is-3ssA7U

Der Source Code findet sich auf Github. Ich freue mich über Kommentare, Ideen und Code-Beiträge!

There are some users who register an account and then wait a few years before making their first edit. But this is the longest period, which I stumbled upon when browsing https://welcome.osm.be/ :

@shathis

Registered in 2009-12-04, first edit 2021-11-06.

Who will give more? :)

I copied the outline of another roundabout on bass and put it on where it is. Sadly, I cannot yet get accurate GPS tracks. I implore anyone who can get those tracks and post them publicly or trace them out yourself. There are also some other need items like advised speed limit, join and exit roads, give way signs, and lane attributions as the minimum. But for the time being, I just want it to be mapped at least.

Yesterday, November 8, the event Local Community Building at OSM: Tips, Tricks and Challenges was held, organized by the Hotosm Community Working Group for Spanish-speaking OpenStreetMap communities.

As in any event worth its salt, there is a Document -in Spanish- with the notes on the presentations, conversations and chats, in addition to the video, of course (the video is -again- in Spanish).

I used the aforementioned document to make a live tweeting of the event from the @esopenstreetmap Twitter account, and then it occurred to me to make a thematic summary of the event based on the same notes, in order to facilitate the generation of future actions by the leaders of the communities. That summary is what I present in this post.

Topic Brief: Building Local Community in OSM

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最近湖南株洲一带怎么多了这么多中南大学地信的学生？这是老师留的啥作业啊？

El día de ayer, 8 de noviembre, se llevó a cabo el evento Construcción de comunidad local en OSM: Consejos, trucos y desafíos, organizado por el Community Working Group de Hotosm para las comunidades hispanohablantes de OpenStreetMap.

Como en todo evento que se precie quedó un Documento con las notas sobre las presentaciones, las conversaciones y los chats, además del video por supuesto.

Usé el mencionado documento para hacer un live tweeting del evento desde la cuenta @esopenstreetmap, y luego se me ocurrió hacer un resumen temático del evento tomando como base las mismas notas, con el fin de facilitar la generación de futuras acciones por parte de los líderes de las comunidades. Ese resumen es lo que presento en esta publicación.

Resumen temático: Construcción de comunidad local en OSM

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It’s great to see Users doing OSM editing for Humanitarian use. I live in a Highlands area prone to Frost, and droughts for longer period causing havoc to communities.

I hope to see Relief agencies using our OSM Maps for providing assistance during time odf disaster. Thankyou you OSM, if it hadn’t been your key role in providing open-sourced maps, I don’t think Government agencies will be willing to provide maps to its citizens during times of great need.

Government agencies and Departments don’t provide maps readily and would often come at cost which some can not really access it readily for their use.

I really appreciate the effort by the Developers of OSM and the selfless devotion in creating new features for all Mappers around the world to work on this vital platform for common good for humanity.

Thanks all and happy mapping form Papua New Guinea.

Aha, Blogeinträge.

Das ist ja eigentlich fast schon retro, mittlerweile.

Und jetzt?

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Всем привет!

Сегодня тот день, когда Качаров Михаил пришёл в проект “OpenStreetMap” и начал вносить правки

Jo inbianco

TrackExplorer

TrackExplorer is a solution based on the idea of RaceDirector. The difference is that with TrackExplorer you can use any GPX file - with or without timestamps. You can choose different activities and no matter where on earth you have recorded GPX data, the data can be displayed in an 3D environment.

TrackExplorer Quick Overview

Via the website TrackExplorer Upload you can easily upload any GPX file. If your GPX file does not have a timestamp, you can decide during the upload the speed your data should be displayed in TrackExplorer. This is necessary if you create the GPX file with a route planner – in most cases there are no timestamps available. TrackExplorer offers different activity categories. Depending on your selection, your uploaded GPX data will be displayed with your chosen activity.

TrackExplorer Activities

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Espaço para realização de festas e eventos. Sítio para aluguel.

Comunidade oriunda do antigo projeto do polo de confecções. Construção de habitações em cima de um aterro sanitário desativado no final da década de 1980.

Local destinado para realização de festas e eventos.Sítio de aluguel.

Задача

Внести переимование по сообщению Киевской Городской Администрации:

вулицю Цулукідзе на вулицю Наталі Забіли (видатної письменниці і поетеси);

Процесс

1. Проверяем внесено ли уже переименование

Нашлась только библиотека, значит ето наша задача.

2. Находим улицу по старому названию

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Lust auf einen Aachener Stammtisch?

Wir beabsichtigen einen neuen Aachener Stammtisch zu initiieren! Wer ist mit dabei, wer hat Lust den Aachener Bereich mit aktuellen Geodaten zu aktualisieren? Wir - das sind die Mitarbeitenden des GeoService der Städteregion Aachen.

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