SOTM NIGERIA

The State of the Map (SOTM) Nigeria 2022 was the first of its kind to be hosted in my country, Nigeria and it was hosted by the Unique Mappers Network Nigeria.

I can still remember the first meeting we held as the Local Organizing Committee (LOC). There were lots of things we mapped out to do, we created sub-committees, scheduled to hold such meetings every Saturday, and several other plans in order to ensure that the program would be a success.

It wasn’t easy planning such a conference and there were times when I thought to myself ‘what if the program doesn’t turn out okay?’. There was so much we had to do in such little time and it always felt like we hadn’t done enough. However, I’ll continue to be grateful for Victor N. Sunday (Our National Coordinator) and Uchechi Anaduaka (Our Gender Program Coordinator) who were relentless in ensuring that we were all up and doing and that everything that needed to be in place for the conference was coming together gradually.

On 2nd December 2022, the long awaited conference was finally upon us and I was amazed at how our meetings and consistent planning efforts had culminated into such a wonderful event. The attendance (onsite and online), the venue, the refreshments, the paper presentations, the trainings, all turned out great and I am super ecstatic that I was part of the building process of such a memorable conference.

I specially extend my gratitude to Pete Masters, unSummit World Tour Program and Dr. Ibrahim Cisse (Director Western and Northern Africa Hub) for their timely interventions throughout the conference and in sponsoring all the travel grantees (I was one of them).

I am very excited about all that I leant being part of the planning committee for the conference and during the conference. I am also super optimistic that SOTM Nigeria 2023 will be greater and make more impact.

Thank you

Chisom Okwuchi,

Unique Mappers Network, Nigeria

2022 PART 02

##My first State of the Map and FOSS4G (Italy)

When the mail came in, I couldn’t believe it…SotM and FOSS4G all at once…Italy you say – I still think it was a dream!

It was a call to attend the Global State of the Map (SotM) Conference and the Free and Open-Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference in Italy. I didn’t know where to start but I have the Organizers of FOSS4G and my mentor Dr Prestige Makanga to thank in all.

It was the 17th of August when I bordered the plane to Rome. It was a first, overwhelming is the closest I can use but trust me it was way beyond that. My flights got delayed and I got to Rome late, took my trams to Firenze and hail there was a raging storm. The storm delayed my trams too and I got to Firenze around 11pm. Thanks to Cristiano Giovando; he was there all the time till I was right inside the hostel, on my bed and ready for the big day the following day (I’d call him my map, tour guide, keeper and connector). I am very much grateful.

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Hallo, ich hatte bereits 2019 mit der Ergänzung von Einträgen zu meinem Landkreis begonnen und bin dabei einem Irrtum aufgesessen. Mit dem Editor werden Flächen erzeugt und die Liste der Eigenschaften erhält auch den Tag: area=yes. Was mir dabei entgangen ist - damit sind eigentlich nicht Feld- Wald- und Wiesenflächen, Gewerbegrundstücke gemeint, sondern es geht wohl um Flächen innerhalb der Streckenberechnung für Wegeberechnungen Routenplanung mit Anwendungsprogrammen für TomTom, Garmin ect. um klasscher Start-Ziel Abfragen zu ermöglichen. Da es auch flächige Objekte gibt - bei Wasserwegen zB. Seen mit Abfluss oder im Verkehr Marktplätze, Parkplätze, usw, mit mehreren Zu- und Abfahrten benötigt es dieses Element area um Verzweigungen zu ermöglichen.

Nun ist meine Frage, gibt es weitere Tags mit area, die ich bei der Fehlerberichtigung nicht verschlimmbessern sollte.

Ich füge hier das achtzeilige Listing meiner Abfrage an, auf der Kartenansicht finden sich die oben erwähnten Flächen in Form von Wiesen, Wäldern, … Weil der Zeilenumbruch anscheinend nicht hinhaut habe ich die jeweilige Zeilennummer in Klammern mit angegeben

°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° {Zeile1} [out:json] [timeout:25]; {Zeile2} {{geocodeArea:Wartburgkreis}}->.searchArea; {Zeile3} ( {Zeile4} way“area”=”yes”; {Zeile5} ); {Zeile6} out body; {Zeile7} >; {Zeile8} out skel qt;

°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Für zweckdienliche Hinweise schon jetzt meinen besten Dank. (November 2019)

I through it might be cool to see what one year of edits looked like in OpenStreetMap, so here is Michigan from January 1st, 2021 to December 31st, 2021.

One Year of OpenStreetMap (YouTube)

This new category shows kerbs (the edge where a road meets a sidewalk). Read more about this in the OpenStreetMap Wiki. The category uses the colours from the Wiki page. Popups will show additional information: type of kerb (lowered, raised, …), they wheelchair accessibility (if set), if the kerb has tactile paving and the height.

For discussion, please go to the OpenStreetMap Community Forum.

Criação das rotas de ciclismo para o OpenCycleMap: (26/12/22) Trilha do Verde, 15 Morros, Rota da Luz, (28/12/22) Caminho dos Anjos, Caminho da Fé, Legado das Águas, (29/12/22) Travessia Estrada Rio Pardo, Rota das Frutas, (07/01/23) Rota das Capelas em Piedade, Passeio Ciclístico em Embu das Artes

I want to use this privilege to express my journey to humanitarian open street mappers network Nigeria and unique mappers network of Nigeria. I’m Muhammad Auwal Muhammad I was introduced to Hot#osm network and unique mappers network Nigeria through Mamman Ali in August 2022, the time he notice I have passion in mapping and environmental data collection and also Open street Mappers network introduced me to Unique Mappers Network of Nigeria. When I joined Unique Mappers Network of Nigeria I meet a lot of high profile people that taught and treated me with respect especially our workaholic national coordinator in person of Mr Victor N Sunday. With a bit knowledge I obtained from online class I had with Unique Mappers Network of Nigeria on Mapilary mobile app. I can contribute my quota. I’m ready to work with my friend Mamman Ali to elevate Unimaid Mappers Team and Unique Mappers Network of Nigeria and Open Street Mappers Network in northeast region and also I would introduce more of my friends to Unique Mappers Network of Nigeria and Open Street Mappers Network. We are still working day and night to do official announcement for open ceremony of Nigerian Army University Biu, NUAB Mappers Compus Biu. Looking. I sincerely appreciate the whole members of Unique Mappers Network of Nigeria and Open Street Mappers Network for the guidance and support given to me from day I joined till date, thank you all.

In the past, Mapillary offered a feature to grab a GPX from image sequences. That feature disappeared at some point, but it would still be useful to get a GPX - to use for OSM, upload to Strava or anything else.

Introducing a quick script to do so - mapillary_to_gpx.pl at https://github.com/richlv/perlscripts .

Example usage:

token='MLY|YOUR|TOKEN'; perl mapillary_to_gpx.pl --image 5652368314832935,5496261470483015,567554981851978,1352688202152043,817276516001059,893732341631081,1833835560326099,670881348042382 --token $token --tzoffset 2 --debug > reezekne2.gpx

My story here will never be complete without mentioning my capacity Boss Mr Sunday Victor,who is the conveyner of the conference and the chairman of SOTM Nigeria 2022 and the national coordinator Unique Mappers Network, Nigeria, Miss Hopeful Bafamodei and Miss Light are part of the reasons I can boldly call myself a member of the Unique Mappers Network Nigeria.

Initially, I did not understand what they were talking about, I thought all they were talking about is cordinates, mapping, maps and all other jargons in Geography, but then I said to myself these two young ladies are not geographers so what is interesting about this network so I decided to settle down to learn. I am not close yet but I cannot stay a day without trying to learn. New things. Fast forward to after the Inaugral Conference where I was asked to be one of the anchor person’s, i was amazed and thrilled at the same time and at the calibre of persons that joined us from overseas and I said to myself this must be a big deal, seeing the likes of Salim,Hajar both from Tomtom, i was begining to get excited that I will have plentyof sweets to share to my village children during Christmas break but I got disappointed knowing that TomTom as a company is far from being a confectionary company, with that disappointed I still continued, till I began to read more, then my eyes opened to diverse opportunities like the fact that as a translator and an interpreter, I wanted to base my research work on subtitling but now, two months to my graduation, I have taken the risk to change my project topic to make my work relevant in open street mapping and also In the field of translation studies. See what OSM has done to me, I pray that with my relationship with you all, Kingsley, Petro, Maman Ali, Chisom, Letwin, Hopeful and Light. I am humble to be learning from you all. With what I learnt so far, i am ready to use my knowledge to reach out to those who need our assistance. How about that!!!!!!

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In this blog post, I am highlighting the significant contributions of the local chapters of YouthMappers in the OSM-Philippines community in 2022 and sharing a short reflection about the impacts of YouthMappers in a local context.

I want to start with this statement from Dr. Patricia Solis: “OpenStreetMap (OSM) community is a community of communities.” It captures the fact that OSM is more than just an online community; some diverse mappers contribute to the growth of the community. Some humanitarian mappers contribute data from a humanitarian perspective, helping minimize the impacts of disasters. Some hobbyists have been contributing particular knowledge all over the world for years. And now, corporate actors like Meta/Mapillary, Apple Maps, and Grab are contributing data concerning their corporate interests and for different use cases. Plus, there are local communities all around the world and also the local chapters of YouthMappers. It’s really impressive how OSM is a representation of different communities on the map. 🗺️

YouthMappers is one community that supports and makes up the OSM community. YouthMappers is an international consortium of university-level student mapping clubs with local chapters in universities of various countries. We leverage open data and open mapping such as OpenStreetMap to solve the development needs of the communities.

As young mappers, our goal is not just to build maps but to build mappers. We strongly believe that building the capacity of our mappers could forge collaboration among the communities and encourage the creation of more maps that could benefit the community. 💪

Based on the statistics last August 2022 provided by Jennings Anderson and Dr. Patricia Solis at State of the Map in Florence, Italy, YouthMappers has 324 university chapters on different campuses in 67 countries, and we are proud to say that most of our members are 45% women. 👏

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Why are we using duplicates in name tag?

(Maybe because it is hard to see difference between more similar relation at one place. So when you see relations in editors, you mostly see name tag or ref tag when there is no name)

• route=railway

route=railway

(mandatory)

In this relation name tag should consist of:

“operator” “ref” “from” - “to”

• route=train

route=train

(recommended)

In this relation name tag should consist of:

“vehicle type” “ref”: “from” => “to”

• route=hiking/cycling

relation/6177257

In this relation name tag consist of:

European long distance path “ref” - “description/note”

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Mar 28, 2020 at 1:18 PM Richard Fairhurst

Let’s use the name= tag in route relations for route names. Let’s use the ref= tag for route numbers. If it doesn’t have a name, it shouldn’t have a name= tag.

Useful links

osm.wiki/Talk:Tag:route%3Drailway

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg51508.html

A month ago, Pista ng Mapa (PnM) and State of the Map Asia 2022 (SotMA) was held in Legazpi City, Albay. It was the first time we organized a face-to-face conference since the pandemic. For the past two years, we have been conducting Pista ng Mapa online since it was impossible to arrange an in-person conference given the risks of the pandemic.

It is with no doubt that the participants had loads of fun, and the memories still linger on. But what are the secrets behind the success of Pista ng Mapa and State of the Map Asia 2022?

Joining the core organizing team - why and how?

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The power of open-source community-driven systems always amazes me. Our collective capacity for solving problems and building upon each other’s work is one of the most wonderful things our society has continued to produce, even in times of hardship.

Water management and power infrastructure had made me busy here for years. Hydropower infrastructure intersects them both.

A new wikipage has been published about that (and waits to be improved) : osm.wiki/Power_generation/Hydropower

It’s not only about dams, power houses but about waterways as well, and OSM tagging model has been continuously developing to describe this. Water management will be more and more important in coming years to tackle droughts and fair water access challenges. Constantly seeking new ways to produce power and store water require accurate data and objectivity.

As hydro mapping and tagging improves on every continent, a more robust documentation on that particular topic may now be useful.

You will probably read it as a complement of existing waterways and water management pages.

• osm.wiki/Waterways
• osm.wiki/Water_management

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Just discovered OpenStreetMap via a post on Mastodon. Seems like my kind of project.

Made some simple edits to a few items around my community. Look forward to getting involved in HOT tasks.

最近は　Tasking Manager 　のページから緊急支援のマッピングや検証をよくしています。海外の洪水災害で河川のマッピングが求められているときに日本と違いどちらに流れているのかわからないことがあります。そんなとき利用できる等高線のレイヤー画像が無いかと探していました。灯台もとぐらしでOpenCycleMapをJOSMの背景にすると等高線が見れることがわかりました。

Years ago, in 2018 specifically, I was introduced to Open Street Map. As a then-Human Resource Assistant, I was in-charge in monitoring the locations of our sales personnel working on the field through the GPS application installed in their mobile phones. But at that time, I had no clue what this is, so, dare I say, I hated using OSM. So, I then ask the developer if I can use Google Maps/Satellite instead. And my wish was granted.

Then in 2020, I joined my current organization where I was introduced to GIS and QGIS. I forgot if it was during my first introduction to GIS or another occasion that reintroduced me to OSM. And my reaction was “Eeek, no.” Thus, the tale of “I Hate OSM” continues since I’ve barely used OSM whenever I create a map.

I never thought about that until now. Until the very second, I decide on this diary’s story of how life is a funny yet wise entity. How it gave me the understanding I lacked 4 years ago and offered me an opportunity to explore more about OSM. And this enlightenment would never have happened if it wasn’t for my GIS sensei, Ferdinand Dailisan, and the Pista ng Mapa X State of the Map 2022 organizers. You see without Sir Ferdinand informing me about PNMxSOTMA2022 and the organizer’s generosity to grant me as one of their travel fund grantees, I would not be here. I won’t be at the conference where my metamorphosis began.

During my whole PNMxSOTMA2022 experience, I got three E’s: experience, enjoyment, and enlightenment.

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What do people think about adding archaeologist_name and archaeologist:wikidata to archaeological sites that have been excavated? It is very niche, I know, but it would help find literature about the excavation, once you have the name of the site director and the location, it should be possible to find literature associated.

It would be very similar to what we do with artwork and associating the artist with it.

I’ve started doing it, but only for two sites so far (1 and 2), because I happened to know who excavated there and because they have wikidata entries.

It would be a great job for all the Time Team fans out there! #justsaying

And I’m not trying to make OSM into a history map, in my defence; I still map a lot of contemporary things.

It all started with a dream. A dreamer from Nepal once dreamt of visiting some foreign country and attending an international conference. After years of his contribution and devotion to open data and mapping, he finally gets the call for State of the Map, Italy but unfortunately, he couldn’t make his way to Firenze, Italy because he only received partial funding. He consoled himself that his time will come-may be not today but someday. Eventually, there was a call for sponsorship by Open Mapping Hub, Asia Pacific(OMHAP). The dreamer then waives new dream of fitting himself in for the STATE OF THE MAP 2022 Conference happening in Legazpi, Philippines.

“If you want something you never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” As the statement says, the boy was totally indulged in finding ways to attend the conference and was ready to give everything this time. He chose to digitize the projects launched by OMHAP. And he was willing to do something he had never done before. He usually mapped 2,000 buildings in a day when he wants to map more. But this time he mapped more than 8,000 buildings in a day which he had never done before. While looking back, he still doesn’t believe he had mapped 8k+ buildings but the stats do not lie. A week later, he received a confirmation that he is going to attend STATE OF THE MAP ASIA 2022 Conference. And also his two presentations were selected to present in the conference. He couldn’t believe this. His happiness knew no bounds and he can’t wait to share this with his family. And this happy, indefatigable guy was none other than Mr. Rabi Shrestha- sorry @frozenrabi- this is how OSM community knows me.

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