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Posted by Brazil Singh on 12 December 2023 in English. Last updated on 26 January 2024.

Brazil

HOT Community Meeting Recap

Hello community! Today I joined for the first time a meeting and shared my skills with the guests.

Host: Dara,

Attendees: Brazil, Mahjabin, Ralph, Pete, Arnalie, Nicole, Eden, Hawa, Daniel, Franco

Introduction:

The recent HOT community meeting brought together passionate individuals from various corners of the globe, united by a common goal - humanitarian open mapping. Led by Dara, the meeting featured insightful introductions, icebreaker moments, and shoutouts to commendable efforts within the community. As we reflect on the highlights, it becomes clear that the spirit of collaboration and dedication is alive and thriving in the HOT community.

Icebreaker Moments:

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Posted by Brazil Singh on 12 December 2023 in English. Last updated on 26 January 2024.

Brazil I am delighted to share that I have received the “State of the Map Asia 2023 Community Champion Awards” as a recognition for advocating the use of OpenStreetMap and community-building across different groups, spaces, and regions in the Asia-Pacific region and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity within the community. I am grateful to the SOTM Asia team, my colleagues, mentors, family and friends and everyone who has been part of this amazing journey.

Posted by Robhubi (inaktiv) on 11 December 2023 in German (Deutsch).

Unschön, mag ich gar nicht. Mach ich trotzdem manchmal.

Zum Editieren von Objekten einer Objektklasse muss ich sie identifizieren und unterscheiden können. In den meisten Fällen ist der Name dafür ausreichend. Aber nicht immer. Der Name könnte nicht existieren oder er existiert mehrfach im Editiergebiet. Einfachste Lösung: Namen erfinden bzw. auf Unterscheidbarkeit modifizieren.

Einfach ja, aber unsauber. Grundsätzlich ist hier das Wiki sehr klar: im name-Tag soll nur ein real existierender Eigenname stehen und nur der Eigenname [1].

Beispiele für suspekte Eigennamen

Meine konstruierten Namen

Viele Radrouten haben Alternativen, Zubringer und optionale Exkursionen. Nur bei kleinen und einfachen (ohne forward/backward) Routen verwende ich zur Benennung die Rolleneigenschaft [3]. Meist teile ich die Route aber in eine Hauptroute und in eine Alternative Route, mit allen Varianten, Zubringer und Exkursionen, auf. Oft unterteile ich auch die Hauptroute weiter in Etappen, um die Größe der Relationen unter 500 Mitgliedern zu halten.

Zur Unterscheidung der Teilrelationen ergänzte ich bisher die Namen:

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Posted by Branko Kokanovic on 11 December 2023 in English.

Hi,

My name is Branko from Microsoft. Microsoft’s involvement with OSM spans several impactful contributions:

  • Providing Bing imagery since 2010 for free use in OSM for whole world (and all the drama that comes with it)
  • Creating Map builder – intuitive editor for Bing users that want to edit OSM map (and all the drama that comes with it)
  • Maintaining iD in the interim period before Martin took over (sorry, no drama here, just plain good old maintainership)
  • Released world coverage of AI-mined building footprints and road data as open data

This list is not intended to be PR for Microsoft, and I know this sounds like a corporate cliché, but this list is hopefully showing that Microsoft is really committed to success of OSM. Stuff that we did previously, stuff in that list above, is stuff that we think will benefit the community and improve OSM contributions. And we hope it did! A lot of us recently visited SotM EU 2023 and I hope you saw us all around. That event allowed us to see stuff from a different perspective and to try to think out of the box. So, we thought, what if we pause trying to figure out what is the best way to improve OSM contributions on our own and instead - ask YOU how Microsoft can help!? Yes, YOU, the community, directly here in the diary😊. I know this may sound unconventional, but hey – OSM is also not the most conventional project out there, so we thought this might just be the proper way to gather interesting ideas.

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A week ago, one of my riding companions lost her horse in a tragic traffic accident at a busy intersection. Now, the Colorado equestrian community is demanding change in our suburbs to prevent pedestrian, equestrian, and cyclist injuries and deaths. One of our starting steps is to map popular riding routes that use public roads so that our legislators can identify problem areas and work to resolve unsafe traffic conditions caused by inadequate infrastructure.

Location: Mount Olivet, Jefferson County, Colorado, 80004, United States