I’ve just started OSM editing, so I figure I’ll make a diary entry. I don’t expect to contribute a great deal of data, just things that I find relevant to my own usage of OSM (like most OSM contributors, I’m sure). At the moment, I’m numbering the buildings on my street and correcting building shapes so that Google Maps might hopefully pick up the improvements and so my own pet tracking app is a lot easier to comprehend.

There is chaos happening in the OpenStreetMap Hong Kong community recently. Someone keeps changing peak name into its old name and sometimes changing hamlet into its old name too. There are some senior OpenStreetMap contributors who remind him

and changed the names to old names. Some old names are original from Hakka people, which use different Chinese characters compared to Hong Kong Cantonese names.

The community members reverted his edit, and included the name he added as alt_name or old_name. But he doesn’t accept it, and changes back to the name he added. And of course not listening to others’ concerns. There are so many Hong Kong hiking apps using OpenStreetMap data. His edits made things worse for people who rely on apps’ map data.

He and the community members have edit wars for months. I use my Data Working Group privilege and hope to solve the chaos. I block several accounts and hope they could listen and discuss with the concerned community members. But soon we find out he has multi-accounts or a butch of coordinated accounts. And I have to block those accounts too.

Taiwan hiking community relies on OpenStreetMap data too, just like in Hong Kong. But fortunately, Taiwanese Hokkien origin names have just a few differences from Taiwanese Mandarin, compare to Hong Kong Hakka and Hong Kong Cantonese. Just a few years ago, the OpenStreetMap Taiwan community have an agreement with the Taiwan Hiking community, we will map the survey points and peaks separately. And will not upload survay GPS traces to the OpenStreetMap database.

OpenStreetMap Taiwan’s biggest use case is hiking. And the hiking trail is drawn and maintained by the hiking community in Taiwan, making the hiking trails very detail compare to roads network, POI, buildings and landuses in Taiwan. Taiwan situation is quite different compared to Africa, South Asia, or South East Asia, we didn’t have much use case of emergency.

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最近香港遐个 OpenStreetMap 社群有出代誌，有人一直共山的名改做舊的名，閣加添聚落的名改做舊的名。有較資深的人共伊講會當添加 alt_name 抑是 old_name 嘛袂聽得。有山友看袂落去，開記者會共大眾報告，紛擾香港社群幾個月的編輯戰佮欲予使用 OpenStreetMap 的人啥款的山區內容。

欲改逐家慣勢的山名的人，用一本家己踏查結果寫的冊，毋是經過學術方式檢驗內容，嘛忽略大眾有慣勢的山名，已經叫幾若年矣。有袂少山的古早名是客家人留落來的，用的漢字較這馬香港話是無啥仝。社群的人改伊的編輯，嘛予伊改轉來，嘛毋聽別人的解說佮顧慮。香港有誠濟用 OpenStreetMap 資料的山 app，予伊按呢改變亂操操。

𪜶編輯戰進行幾個月矣，幾工前我用 Data Working Group 的身份介入，共毋聽勸的口座封鎖，毋過看來伊有足濟口座，繼續編輯伊認為正確的山名佮地號名。好佳哉香港社群的人會當及時改就轉來，猶毋過一寡 app 猶是掠舊的地圖資料，予錯誤的資料留佇頂面。

其實親像 OpenStreetMap 佮維基百科，上驚一寡堅持家己是著的人，別人改in的資料，就趕緊改轉來，嘛無法度溝通。有骨力會社群，毋過予人封鎖，伊繼續創新口座繼續編輯，無咧放棄。

台灣嘛有發生相的代誌，有一个口座叫愛台灣的，毋知佗位揣的山路GPS，共別人的路線畫佇咧 OpenStreetMap 頂懸。有真濟揣無其他來源，可能是探查的路線嘛予人畫去。

嘛有人毋管基石佮上懸所在分開標示，共基石攏總改做山峰，予袂少人誤會。幾年前 OpenStreetMap 社群有共𬦰山社群講好矣，就是基石就是基石，山峰佮基石應該獨立標示。

臺灣遮的 OpenStreetMap 的發展重點佇咧𬦰山山路的部份，佮非洲、南亞、東南亞的國家是救災目的無仝。歐美遐的國家有完整的山路開放資料，所以逐家不論是公司、社團想欲做𬦰山地圖誠容易。臺灣無商業力量想欲做𬦰山地圖，煞予 OpenStreetMap 有機會發揮。

看著香港最近的事件，仝款有𬦰山的人愛開放街圖，靠熱心貢獻者，會當畫完整的山路。

• HK01 報導：行山｜共享地圖OpenStreetMap爆改地名大戰　山友憂慮增加意外
• 山城縱走 hkhiker意見
• 記者會直播

Treinamento da UMBRAOSM Abril 2022

UMBRAOSM Training April 2022.

Dia: 27 de Abril de 2022.

Hora: 17:30hs (UTC3).

Link do Treinamento: https://meet.google.com/aib-ieae-oai

UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap www.umbraosm.com.br

Boa Noite!!

Convido(a) a participar do nosso grupo de mapeadores OpenStreetMap da UMBRAOSM ( União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap) no aplicativo Telegram, o link da nossa sala e esse; https://t.me/grupoumbraosm

Baixe o Aplicativo do Telegram na Loja de Aplicativo Play Store e Instale o APP, em seguida entre em nossa sala atraves do link´s https://t.me/grupoumbraosm

aguardo você em nossa sala.

Acompanhe os Projetos da UMBRAOSM no OpenstreetMap na Wiki; osm.wiki/Umbraosm

Nosso Site; www.umbraosm.com.br

No Site voce encontra link para ser usado no Openstreetmap, como sites com informações do IBGE, Site que e usado como ferramenta para o OSM, Aplicativos GPS usando o OSM, Data de Eventos e etc.

A UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap Tem Disponivel Para Mapeamento diversas tarefas no site da HOT que podem ajudar no Mapeamento do Openstreetmap em todo o Brasil.

Terefas para Mapear na HOT.

BRASIL - PRAIA ILHA DE ITAMARACÁ (PE) - EDIFÍCIOS https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12290

BRASIL -FERVEDOURO - (MG) - EDIFÍCIOS, ESTRADAS, PONTOS DE INTERESSE E ÁREA VERDE. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12343

BRASIL -MIRADOURO - (MG) - EDIFÍCIOS, ESTRADAS, PONTOS DE INTERESSE E ÁREA VERDE. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12344

BRASIL - VITORIA DE SANTO ANTÃO (PE) - MAPEAMENTO DE EDIFÍCIOS, ÁREAS VERDES E RIOS. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12089

BRASIL - PALMARES(PE) EDIFÍCIOS, AREA VERDE E PONTOS DE INTERESSE. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/12266

Um forte abraço.,

Raphael de Assis

Recife-PE;

Membro do Coletivo UmbraOSM.

Coletivo UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do OpenstreetMap www.umbraosm.com.br

A seguito di una gradevole conversazione via email con un altro utente OSM, salvo qui tre utili URL personalizzati da usare come strato di sfondo in fase di modifica delle mappe sul sito OpenStreetMap con l’editor integrato iD. Clicca sull’icona “Impostazioni dello sfondo” nel menu verticale a destra, scorri la lista degli sfondi disponibili e scegli l’ultima voce “Personalizzato”, clicca sui tre puntini sulla destra, copia ed incolla uno degli URL personalizzati che trovi qua sotto ed infine clicca sul pulsante “OK” per salvare le modifiche ed iniziare ad utilizzare la nuova mappa.

1) True Ortofoto EagleFVG 2020

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:trueorto_FVG_1720&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

2) Vector CTRN (Carta Tecnica Regionale Numerica) 1:5000

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:CTRN5000&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

3) Hillshade

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:Hillshade&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

After a pleasant email chat with another OSM user, I’m saving here three useful custom URLs to use as a background layer when editing maps on OpenStreetMap website with integrated iD editor. Just click on the “Background Settings” icon in the right vertical menu, scroll down the list of available backgrounds and choose the last item labeled “Custom”, click on the three dots on the right, copy and paste one of the custom URLs you can find below and finally click on the “OK” button to save changes and start using the newly added map layer.

1) True Ortofoto EagleFVG 2020

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:trueorto_FVG_1720&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

2) Vector CTRN (Carta Tecnica Regionale Numerica) 1:5000

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:CTRN5000&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

3) Hillshade

http://irdat-ortofoto.regione.fvg.it/geoserver/ows?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ortofoto:Hillshade&STYLES=&CRS={proj}&WIDTH={width}&HEIGHT={height}&BBOX={bbox}

During validation on HOT’s Tasking Manager giving feedback to mappers is crucial to enable improvement and encourage them to continue mapping. Beginners make the most errors, catching them as early as possible to provide constructive feedback can limit the quantity of errors and steer them in the right direction. This can lead to an overall increase in data quality.

I’ve outlined some of the most frequent feedback that I give to mappers while validating projects that involve mapping buildings as well as explaining the importance of intervening. Please feel free to use these comments in your own validation efforts on HOT’s Tasking Manager.

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Conférence des évêques de France

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Travail à faire - Rang 1

1. Poursuivre la construction des diocèses
2. Créer les provinces
3. Assembler la CEF

Travail à faire - Rang 2

1. Ajouter les doyennés / paroisses aux diocèses certains existent (ex : https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=1676230&class=boundary&hierarchy=1 / https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=13054918&class=boundary&hierarchy=1), voir aussi sur https://osm-boundaries.com/Map

admin_level

• 1 : Conférence épiscopale
• 4 : Province ecclésiastique
• 6 : Diocèse
• 7 : Doyenné, …
• 8 : Paroisse

Ressources

• osm.wiki/User:FrViPofm
• @raspbeguy/diary/397271
• @cquest/
• changeset/79060178 / changeset/79455967 / changeset/80070393

Today, we had an online meeting HOT Consultation on Measuring Our Collective Progress Towards Enabling Change. It was impactful on how to measure our collective program. Letting the government, private sector and humanitarian communities to see the need why they should help the actors(contributors of the open data source).

Alamat rumah Kg.jelki latarek, Kuala krai,18000 Kelantan

自宅近所のPOIや建物を隙間時間を使ってだいぶ追加しました。 ただここからどうしようかなとも思い始めています。建物の高さとか道路の幅とか測って入れるべき？あんまり使われないのも面白くないので、入れる意味があるのか分からず。

I’ve added many POIs and building near where I live. But I don’t know what to do next. Should I measure the height of buildings and the width of roads to have my neighborhood’s data more concise and completed? I wonder how much it makes sense if I do that.

Bielawa

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• Powód: moje miasto 😍
• Poziom postępu.

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Mapatona na Cidade de Boa Viagem(CE) Brasil.

Mapatona de Edifícios, Área Verde e Ponto de Interesse em Boa Viagem - CE - Brasil.

Mapathon in the City of Boa Viagem(CE) Brazil. Mapathon of Buildings, Green Area and Point of Interest in Boa Viagem - CE - Brazil.

Link de Inscrição:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiJNulOSqVGr30TNnB0VSmbKY0DuFS_aAMhMj1R7NO4VtkxA/viewform

Como MAPEAR:

Instruções para o Mapeamento na Cidade de Nanuque/MG. Edificios: Muitos edifícios são muito próximos mas na verdade não se tocam. Tente mapeá-los o mais próximo possível, sem permitir que eles se conectem entre si ou com as ruas.

Caminho para pedestre: Selecione a tag “footway” - caminhos acessíveis apenas a pé.

Área Verde “Mata Nativa ou Relfa”: Selecione a tag “natural=wood” - Para Mata Nativa ou natural=wood para Relfa.

Ponto de Interesse:

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Mapatona na Cidade de Boa Viagem(CE) Brasil.

Mapatona de Edifícios, Área Verde e Ponto de Interesse em Boa Viagem - CE - Brasil.

Mapathon in the City of Boa Viagem(CE) Brazil. Mapathon of Buildings, Green Area and Point of Interest in Boa Viagem - CE - Brazil.

Link de Inscrição:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiJNulOSqVGr30TNnB0VSmbKY0DuFS_aAMhMj1R7NO4VtkxA/viewform

Como MAPEAR:

Instruções para o Mapeamento na Cidade de Nanuque/MG. Edificios: Muitos edifícios são muito próximos mas na verdade não se tocam. Tente mapeá-los o mais próximo possível, sem permitir que eles se conectem entre si ou com as ruas.

Caminho para pedestre: Selecione a tag “footway” - caminhos acessíveis apenas a pé.

Área Verde “Mata Nativa ou Relfa”: Selecione a tag “natural=wood” - Para Mata Nativa ou natural=wood para Relfa.

Ponto de Interesse:

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I loaded the Plum Creek Timberlands, LP - commercial Forest relation, but I am struggling with tagging, something the Mapnik renderer will accept and recognize. From my reading of the wiki the boundary=Forest seems to have been the compromise to mapping recognizable Forest ownerships that might not fit in boundary=protected_area, leisure=nature_reserve. I gather the idea with the boundary=forest tag allows one to continue mapping natural=water, =wood, =wetland or land use=forest within the boundary. If I could find a conservation easement documented I would change to boundary=Protected_area, the more common tag. But the Mapnik renderer doesn’t recognize the boundary=Forest tag (osm.wiki/AreasTab) making it tempting to add or change to land use=forest and just excluding natural=*, water areas etc.

Anywho I added all the other tags I could come up with. This commercial Forest data came from the MDNR but for at least the large ownerships doesn’t seem all that up to date, it included some MDNR parcels probably recently acquired. Maybe the larger ownerships are too complex and small changes are hard for the MDNR to stay on top of since they rely on a legal description in the commercial Forest application process. The MDNR comm. Forest data includes owner, so in QGIS I pulled out the corporate owners and dissolved by owner for their holdings, figuring those might get imported first since they are biggest and most likely to remain in the program longer. Since they are adjacent, I got back into fixing up the Escanaba River State Forest and Copper Country State Forest units- I created one for Baraga, Crystal Falls for Copper Country and the Gwinn unit for Escanaba. I did some fixing while ways were in the Escanaba main relation, but got a glitch and it dumped them all out of that, so I went ahead and created a relation for Gwinn rather than reload them all back in to Escanaba. Wheh!

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I’ve recently completed 365 days mapping and went past my 400,000th map change and thought I would reflect a little on it.

I never actually started out to do a year of mapping. I had signed up to OSM way back in 2016 but never made an edit. I don’t recall why, but the project probably seemed impenetrable to me back then. Fast forward to the middle of Covid I started to think about how I could volunteer my time and so I started editing on OSM.

It was only when I noticed I had gone over half a year that I thought a year of mapping was achievable and set it as a goal to myself. Some days were just one edit, some large edits.

Being honest, I would not recommend people to do a year of mapping as it became somewhat forced towards the end. Especially when I had missed a couple of days when I first started mapping so had to keep going for a few extra months to fill them in! I also went through phases where it looked to myself like substantial progress had been made and then periods where there I realised how much was still to be done in my area.

My initial OSM journey started with doing general StreetComplete and OSM editing/tinkering and then I settled on a main objective to map as much residential buildings in the large blank areas Aberdeen, Scotland. Why? To be honest, I don’t really know. Possibly because if they had not been done in over 11 years then they would never get done as people may not see them as a priority or fun to do. I also felt getting the main foundations of an addressable city would have many use cases. Along with the building outlines, I wanted to put down as much addressing as possible leaving just a street side survey to add the house number which can easily be done by anyone using StreetComplete or OSM.

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Ich bin nach einiger Zeit wieder dazu gekommen, mich mit der Erfassung der Bahnstrecke weiter zu befassen. Da ich es jedoch bisher nicht hinbekommen habe, meinen Fieldpapers-Plan zu importieren, habe ich mich einem anderen Teilbereich zugewandt, den mir Dakon in einem Kommentar unter meinem letzten Blogeintrag vorschlug:

Da ich diese Daten für meine eigene Eintragungen als Referenz ebenfalls gut gebrauchen konnte, begann ich heute damit, die Positionen der Hektmetertafeln stückweise zu erfassen. Mein Vorgehen hier war relativ einfach:

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Foto kenangan saya dirumah, Kg.jelkis latarek, kuala krai 18000, Kelantan, Malaysia

After some discussion we at Open Mapping Hub Asia-Pacific have decided not to limit both you and ourselves with weekly fixed time slots, and to support you on your OSM-related issues in an in-need basis.

So, whenever you need support on an OSM-related issue, feel free to contact me by sending a message, an e-mail or by filling out the appointment form and I will get back to you quickly. We can discuss the topic in writing, or set up a short call depending on our calendar availabilities and tackle the challenge together. I’d be very happy to support you in your learning process, and for most of the times the topics discussed are acting as refreshers for me, too.

Here are what was discussed during the past week:

Discussion Topics:

• ”How can I download OSM data within a specific area of interest using Overpass Turbo?”

You can directly write the name of the region as available in its name=* tag in OpenStreetMap in your queries since overpass syntax supports geocoding.

Suppose that you are interested in the parks of Istanbul. Writing leisure=park in Istanbul to the wizard will generate you this query:

[out:json][timeout:25]; {{geocodeArea:Istanbul}}->.searchArea; ( node["leisure"="park"](area.searchArea); way["leisure"="park"](area.searchArea); relation["leisure"="park"](area.searchArea); ); out body; >; out skel qt;

You’ll see the use of geocoder to define the search area in the line:

{{geocodeArea:Istanbul}}->.searchArea;

• ”Cannot get data within the area of interest.”

One reason for it might be that your area of interest might be having the same name with other places in the World. It might be that the query brings data for a different place with the same name, or an empty dataset.

Another reason might be that the place name would consist of multiple words like New Orleans. In that case, while using the wizard, you must write the place name in apostrophes like:

leisure=park in ‘New Orleans’

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