it’s me again speaking from beyond the grave lmao!, todays diary entry consists of a bait and switch a user is trying to do first by removing a simple note from South Australias Major Traffic Network, and therefore after based on “Whats on the Ground” change the classifications of the road network to whatever the user feels. The problem with this is that “Whats on the Ground” literally has no authority over “actual nature of the road”. If this does not make sense please read the community link below.

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/automated-edit-to-remove-note-on-highway-trunk-in-sa/108612/12

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ia orana,

J’ai émis une modification pour déplacer le nom de “urufare” de l’autre cotée la baie, mais aucune modification visible. Cordialement

Improving the data within OSM around Beacon, NY and surrounding towns.

Specific road, sidewalk, and bike focus. Improve data about existing buildings and building changes. Improve trail network and information.

Jedním z kanálů je Schwarzenberský kanál, který sloužil ve své době k dopravě dřeva ze šumavských lesů.

Druhým zajímavým vodním dílem je Podkrušnohorský přivaděč , někdy také nazývaný Přivaděč Ohře - Bílina. Jeho role byla jiná, sloužil především jako ochrana povrchových dolů před povodněmi.

Zatímco první kanál využívá přírodních zdrojů vody, ten druhý potřebuje načerpat vodu z Ohře a přivést ji potrubím až na začátek kanálu. Pak už voda teče sama.

A který kanál je delší? No, jednoznačně ten Schwarzenberský. V tom Podkrušnohorském zase proteče víc vody.

زیباترین مدل های لوازم تحریر

Don't map for render
Don't map for geocoder
Don't map for validator
Don't map for database
Don't map for Overpass
Don't map for editors
Don't map for laws
Don't map for statistics
Don't map for yourself
Don't map! Soon the AI will map it all out.

Map often
Map early
Map in the mornings
Map at noon
Map in the evenings
Map late at night
Map from dusk to dawn 
Map on weekends
Map daily 
Map every day in your heart
Map your town or city!
Map what you like
Map where you go
Map whenever possible
Map who you love
Map obscure and rare tags
Map for yourself
Map for humanitarian causes 
Map alone
Map together
Map to your heart's content
Map for Light, Life, Love & Liberty
Map !

TL;DR: There are quite a few places on the continent that still need mapping. If you want to know why and how I came to that conclusion, read on ;-)

Preface

Since March 2023 there’s a handy bot called https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/[email protected] on the Fediverse, that posts a daily “task” out to its followers, highlighting “small towns” in the United States of America, that, to use the same phrasing, “seem like they could use some mapping”, along with a screenshot of the (Carto) map of the area.

Sparing the full technical details, the program randomly picks an entry from an overpass export of all nodes that have any place tag and a population tag with a value of less than 1000 (hence the name “SmallTown”) in the USA (currently 11389), asks overpass whether there are 10 buildings or less in 800 meters around that node and if so, posts about it.

As the bot has been doing this for about 10 months now, there seem to be at least 300 places that match the above description. Naturally, I wondered, how Europe would fare in comparison. Chatting with the bot’s developer, Matthew Wildon (OSM, Fediverse), they told me, that they checked France for potential candidates and found none and then didn’t look into it any further.

What’s on on the Continent?

My interest was now piqued. Would a similar “SmallTownEurope” bot make any sense, or would it run out of things to post within a week? Or is Pascal Neis’ Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap Result Map enough to find areas where mapping is needed?

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Imagen de kai Stachowiak. Licencia: CC0 Public Domain

Hace unos días estuve en Bogotá, que en ese momento estaba afectada por incendios forestales, lo que había levantado el interés en temas medio ambientales en mucha gente. De hecho en una reunión de mapeadores uno de los temas de conversación fue “qué” mapear para contribuir de alguna manera a visibilizar problemas urbanos que se agudizan con el cambio climático.

La charla fue larga y nutrida y todos aprendimos un poco de todos. Quedando en evidencia que se necesita hablar más sobre esto para que las personas que quieran contribuir al mapeo y de paso colaborar de alguna forma con la mitigación del cambio climático puedan encontrar fácilmente cómo hacerlo.

Así pues, a continuación los temas de mapeo planteados en esa charla y algunos otros que agregué a la lista producto de conversaciones con otros mapeadores.

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Image by kai Stachowiak. License: CC0 Public Domain

A few days ago I was in Bogotá, which at that time was affected by forest fires, which had raised interest in environmental issues in many people. In fact, at a mappers meeting, one of the topics of conversation was “what” to map to contribute in some way to making visible urban problems that are worsening with climate change.

The talk was long and rich and we all learned a little from each other. It is evident that more needs to be said about this so that people who want to contribute to mapping and in some way collaborate with climate change mitigation can easily find how to do so.

So, below are the mapping topics raised in that talk and some others that I added to the list as a result of conversations with other mappers.

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TL;DR

New users are requesting a review on their changesets, requests which go unanswered most of the time. We can use OSMCha to easily find them and review them.

“Review Requested”

When just starting out, I’m sure most of us have wondered whether we should tick the box stating “I would like someone to review my edits.” Ever wondered who is reviewing those when requested? Turns out, usually, it’s nobody. (See note below)

In my experience, brand new OSM contributors make mistakes frequently. Also, most new mappers don’t stick with it. Both of these points are OK, but we can correct the mistakes to improve data quality, and hopefully let new mappers feel welcome and like they’re part of the community.

The Solution

Fortunately, there is an excellent tool that makes it easy for experienced mappers to find newbie, review-requested, or suspicious changesets - OSMCha. You can also monitor your local area. It’s really fun!

1. Go to OSMCha.org
2. Log in with your OSM account.
3. (Optional) Click on your OSM username dropdown, choose Account Settings. Remove text in “Review Comments Template”. If you don’t, when you verify a changeset as good or bad in OSMCha, it will make an aggressive-sounding comment on your behalf. I prefer to write my own comment on each changeset I review for new mappers.
4. Click the Filters button and choose filters, see note 1 below.
5. Click Save in the upper left so you can come back later without having to enter filters again.
6. Pick a changeset on the left bar, review the changes, and optionally leave a comment. See note 2 below.
7. In the upper right, verify the changeset as good or bad, and maybe add tags. (You can always change things later.)

Notes

Changeset Filters

For reviewing new mappers’ changesets, here are the filters I use:

• Location - Draw a border around my local area. (I review all in Utah and some in USA west)
• Reasons for Flagging - “New Mapper”, “Review Requested” (Set to AND!)
• Review Status - “Not Reviewed”

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Exploring Career Opportunities in Open Source

Sometimes, evaluating an end goal before beginning a journey can be good, especially as regards to career. And if you’re wondering what the next 1 - 3 years look like for someone committed to open source, then I’m happy to explore with you some interesting career opportunities in the open source community and share my story as well.

I was in a tech conference some years back, and during a chit-chat/mingle session before the speakers came on stage, the phrase “open source” was flying around, literally. I got confused and I was having another small chat with myself in my mind, what exactly is open source?

Could it be the company got sponsored by the public? As in “open source?” Haha! I had no idea what everyone was talking about and I was eager to begin the training so that I could learn from the speakers.

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Обновление локальной postgres базы OSM через osm2pgsq заработало, не прошло и двух месяцев.

osm2pgsql-replication update -v -d gis  --max-diff-size 100 --  -G --hstore --tag-transform-script ~/src/openstreetmap-carto/openstreetmap-carto.lua -C 0 --flat-nodes ~/data/nodes.bin --number-processes 8 -S ~/src/openstreetmap-carto/openstreetmap-carto.style

Самое обидное, что не понятно, что конкретно изменилось. Если придется переустановить убунту, а похоже придется, то всё снова может отвалиться.

Так чтобы там не писали на switch2osm, свой тайловый сервер – это побольшей части магия.

Salut tout le monde, je m’appelle Marianna MUKULUNGA, contributrice OSM et faisant partie de la communauté Open Street Map RDC, diplômé en gestion Informatique et Passionné de la Cartographie…

La conférence qui a eu lieu au Cameroun avait comme objectif de réunir différents groupes des jeunes et passionnés de la cartographie… participé à celle-ci nous a permis d'ouvrir nos horizons, de penser grand et de ne pas s'enfermer sur soi même; nous avons apprise des nouvelles méthodes de la cartographie à part ce que nous savions, différente présentation qui nous ont marquée et personnellement celle qui m'as le plus intéressé c'était celle de MARIE MAKUATE qui parlait sur "women-centered disaster resilience in saloum islands" elle nous avait montré comment les femmes joue un rôle très important dans la résilience aux catastrophes dans l'iles saloum; j'ai vite compris qu'à part la cartographie sanitaire que nous faisons chez nous accompagné des différentes type de communauté y compris les femmes; les femmes ont aussi d'autres rôles qu'elles peuvent jouer dans la cartographie; c'était une connaissance de plus qui m'a ouvert les idées sur ce que je peux aussi entreprendre dans mon pays dans le futur;

le débat de CHARLES CHILUFYA sur le" Bridging Gender Gaps in OSM" car il est était question d'évaluer le taux de pourcentage de femmes dans OSM et qu'est-ce qui peut être à la base ce faible pourcentage et il avait donner quelque piste de solution qui peut pousser les femmes que s'intégrer dans OSM.

Charles Chilufya- Presenting about Gender Gaps in OSM Africa and Tech.

il y'a aussi le thème de BAFAMODEI HOPEFUL qui avait présenté sur "Campaigning and Engaging Girls and women Towards positive change using Open Mapping Tech in Nigeria" qui par sa présentation montrait que la cartographie ouverte est l'une des moyens par lesquels un changement positif peut être réalisé pour les filles et femmes du Nigeria qui depuis longtemps elles sont toujours écartés dans la communauté;

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Disclaimer: I used changesets through August 2023 to calculate the statistics

• 84% of changesets closed within a minute

• 99.6% closed within two hours

Diagram of the distribution of changesets durations (count/duration in seconds):

The upper part is in the form of a table:

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My reflection about SotM Africa 2023 held in Yaoundé, Cameroon which focused on the theme “Open Mapping as a support tool for local development in Africa”. The State of the Map Africa (SotM Africa) is a bi-annual regional conference that celebrates the culture of open mapping, open data, GIS and its impact across Africa. It was a great opportunity for mappers, GIS & Open Mapping enthusiasts, data users, and other stakeholders in the OpenStreetMap community to come together, share knowledge, and collaborate on projects.

• Presentations and workshops: The variety of presentations on topics related to OpenStreetMap, and GIS such as Field mapping techniques, data analysis, and community building. I learned about new tools, methods, and techniques, and also gained insights into the challenges and opportunities facing OpenStreetMap in Africa and how we can collaborate together to develop and solve Open Mapping & Data challenges in Africa.

• Networking: The conference offered a great opportunity to meet with other people from other part of Africa & world, who are passionate about OpenStreetMap. I was opportune to make new friends, (the Likes of Kennedy, Yves Emmanuel, Charles, Emmanuel, Janet, and the OSM Cameroon team), established professional connections, or found collaborators for future projects

• Cultural and social Night experiences: The conference was also a chance for me to experience the Cameroonian culture especially during the social night event seeing different culture, dancing steps etc., I enjoyed the hospitality offered, local food, music, and dance, and learned more about the history and traditions of Cameroon.

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Credit: Photos from UPRI Youthmappers

Had so much funnn and so mappy from last Saturday’s OpenStreetMap Philippines’ 2024 Year-Starter mapping party #OSMPHarin2024* !

THANK YOU for everyone who has participated, and spent time with us and for mapping!

OSM PH community members’ aspirations

For introduction and icebreaker, our wonderful host (Jikka) asked us to introduce ourselves and share our aspirations for the 2024. Since some participants are new/beginner to OSM, aspirations can be personal and/or OSM-related.

From learning how to swim, graduating this year (lots of them are students from UPRI), healthier lifestyle (more sleep, eating on time and exercise) to growing the community and being more involved in OSM, we are really aspiring this year! Hope to go back to this and see by end of the year!

OSM field mapping and mobile tools

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THANK YOU FOR JOINING our Communications Skillshare Series!

I had fun organizing and participating in these comms skillshare sessions!

Comment if you have attended or watched the sessions! Let’s level up those communications skills this year! :D

You can rewatch the recordings here

User-Friendly Website Design with Brazil Singh

Brazil is currently the President of Youthmappers Chapter at Eastern University of Bangladesh. He shared his expertise and experience in creating user-friendly website design using WordPress. He presented theoretical and step-by-step guide on how to create a website. This webinar was inspired by his passion to support Youthmappers chapters to design their own website.

Links:

1. feedback and comments
2. recordings
3. slides

Also shoutout to Eka Diweti who hosted the webinar session! PS. I enjoyed listening to Eka! She said she was nervous but her voice was so calm and professional (watch the recording to listen!) :)

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