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Posted by spmobile7129 on 6 November 2024 in Thai (ไทย). Last updated on 9 November 2024.

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Posted by Geojay_gis on 6 November 2024 in English.

It was a memorable moment for me attending State of the map Nigeria 2024 conference as I was opportune to meet and engage with professionals and volunteers from different backgrounds.

FROM ZARIA TO ILE-IFE

All the away from Zaria in Kaduna state, Northwest of Nigeria down to Ile-Ife in Osun state, Southwest of Nigeria for State of the map Nigeria 2024 conference. Since it was a long Journey I had to stop at Lokoja, Kogi state for a day. The following day I continued the journey down to Ile-Ife, Osun state. The venue of the conference was at African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (AFRIGIST) inside Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria.

THE OPENING MAPPING PARTY

It was a good beginning starting the programme with an opening mapping party. The opening mapping party started around 6:39pm with the introduction of attendees. A welcome address was done by Dr. Victor Sunday who welcomed everyone to the opening mapping party. Thereafter, the session was handed over to Mr. Calvin Menttor from Ghana who introduced the attendees to OpenStreetMaps.

Activities accomplished in mapping party

  1. OSM account opening
  2. Downloading and installation of JOSM
  3. Linking of JOSM with OSM account
  4. JOSM setup and plugins installation
  5. Building mapping: Project 657 (Nigeria- Mapping Missing Roads and Buildings in Ilesa) was done
  6. Uploading of mapped layer to the OSM server The chairperson in person of Dr. Victor Sunday concluded the session by giving the history of OpenStreetMap and how it became global. The mapping party came to an end by 9:45pm

DAY 2 OF THE CONFERENCE

The programme started by 9:35am with an opening prayer followed by the singing of the national anthem. The introduction of guests to the high table was done and the opening remarks were given by Prof. Lazarus Mustapha Ojigi. The welcome address and the goodwill message were delivered by Dr. Victor Sunday.

Key activities for day 2

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Posted by Cyrille37Bot on 5 November 2024 in French (Français). Last updated on 6 November 2024.

L’argumentaire:

Le commentaire des changesets : “Remove tag ‘network:type’ for relation ‘network’=’lwn’ in country ‘France, admin_level ‘6’, ref ‘' #UpdateLwnNetworks" où "osm_ref" est le numéro du département.

Départements traités:

  • Indre-et-Loire (37)
  • Loir-et-Cher (41)
  • Maine-et-Loire (49)
  • Loiret (45)

Le script est là: https://framagit.org/Cyrille37/osm-promenades-lwn/-/issues/9

Location: La Lyonnerie, Sorigny, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France métropolitaine, 37250, France

A while back I had taken a look comparing my local OGL to others in our area that were approved and listed on the wiki. Noting the similarities to existing documents I added our local cities as well per their attribution requirements. This differs slightly from documentation the that the legal working group has produced here https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants

I’ve not heard back from the legal questions email with my question after a few days now. But wanted to keep productive and provide supporting due diligence I am able to help out on. This seemed like a reasonable platform to use for such.

Comparing the latest “reviewed and approved” OGL from Guelph https://explore.guelph.ca/pages/open-data-license

To Edmonton and Calgary which are in turn based on the Alberta licenses. https://data.edmonton.ca/stories/s/City-of-Edmonton-Open-Data-Terms-of-Use/msh8-if28/ https://data.calgary.ca/stories/s/Open-Calgary-Terms-of-Use/u45n-7awa/ https://open.alberta.ca/licence

The majority of the documents and verbiage are identical, the differences i am able to note are as follows:

  • Preambles differ slightly for each document; however all roll up to the OGL - Canada
  • General formatting
  • Call out to relevant local attribution, acts
  • Alberta, Calgary and Edmonton add an additional exemption for “Information or Record that are not accessible under applicable laws” with an extra definition for “Records” pointing to the Alberta freedom of information and protection of Privacy act. Guelf (and others) directly reference the act as “information not accessible under the municipal freedom of information and protection of privacy act”

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Location: Rossdale, Central Core, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Заметка ; #Колыбель Богов? Добавил координаты, которые нашел Николай *000

Location: сельское поселение Сахули, Курумканский район, Республика Бурятия, Дальневосточный федеральный округ, Россия

We’re thrilled to announce that our OpenStreetMap Kerala Annual Community Meetup 2024 has now been officially branded as State of the Map Kerala 2024! Heartfelt thanks to the OpenStreetMap Foundation for swiftly approving the license—this may be the first time a regional State of the Map is hosted in India, and possibly even globally!

State of the Map Kerala 2024

Event Details

  • Location: College of Veterinary Science, KVASU, Pookode, Wayanad, Kerala, India
  • Dates: November 16-17, 2024

This year, we’re excited to partner with Meta, FOSS United, TomTom, DhiSigma Systems, Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU), and National Service Scheme. We’re also grateful for the support from Sahya Digital Conservation Foundation, Geominds, and community partners Wikimedians of Kerala User Group, OpenDataKerala, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Community, and the OpenStreetMap India Community. Updated List availabile here.

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Location: Pokkode Diary Colony, Pookode, Vythiri, Wayanad, Kerala, 673576, India

If you have some expertise the problem of correct rendering of border disputes and some spare time, then your help is welcome. If not, than of course you are welcome too!

Therefore I opened a discussion on this topic: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/border-disputes-inconsistency-in-data-and-redering-who-can-help/121126/5

Posted by tyr_asd on 3 November 2024 in English.

Attending the recent hack weekend in Berlin, I got inspired to work on a neat feature in overpass turbo. Honestly speaking, in the past few years, the tool did not the amount of attention from the developer’s (my) side that it deserves. What came clear to me at the hacking event is that a lot of people still use it on a very regular basis and that it is an invaluable part of the OSM bag of tools, which was really nice to hear.

Auto Styler (beta)

So, what someone proposed was to extend the current query wizard feature to also support the styling of the results using mapcss. What I took from that suggestion was that it should not be hard to implement a dedicated helper dialog that auto-generates MapCSS to style the data according to the values of a selectable tag and color palette. And I’m glad to say that after a quite productive two days, there’s now already a beta version already available to test out on overpass-turbo.eu.

Screenshot of the dialog of the new auto styler dialog in overpass turbo.

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I recently had the privilege of attending the State of the Map (SOTM) Nigeria 2024 conference in Ile-Ife, Osun State, and I am deeply grateful for the experience and the opportunities it provided. I was fortunate to receive a partial grant that covered my transportation, accommodation, and meals, allowing me to participate fully, and I am truly appreciative of this support.

The conference, centered around AI-assisted mapping, drone technology, and open geospatial tools for advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was an incredible learning experience. The sessions led by professors, doctors, and online hosts highlighted the potential of these technologies in addressing real-world challenges.

I am especially thankful to Dr. Victor Sunday, the National Coordinator of Unique Mappers Network, for his encouragement and support in making this experience possible. The distinguished speakers greatly enriched the conference. Prof. Kamorudeen Folorunso Aleem kicked off the event with an insightful session on Open Geospatial, AI Technologies, and Geospatial Data Policies in Nigeria, which set the stage for critical discussions on data governance. Prof. Lazarus Mustapha Ojigi, the Executive Director/Professor of Geomatics at the African Regional Institute for Geospatial Information Science & Technology (AFRIGIST), shared his expertise on Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Geospatial Mapping and Modelling Techniques for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, providing valuable insights into the integration of AI in geospatial analysis.

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Posted by richlv on 1 November 2024 in English. Last updated on 5 November 2024.

Cashless payments have increased dramatically lately, specially during the COVID-19 “main years”. Still, paying in cash can be crucial as a resilience method (think internet, power, banking system outages). It can be used as a great tool to slightly improve privacy. Paying in cash at a cashier usually is an option, but machines handling cash could be preferable, for example:

  • Elderly people might prefer a machine handling their coins as opposed to trying to count them themselves.
  • People who prefer reduced social contact.
  • Cash/coin enthusiasts who prefer cash payments.

Tag payment:cash:machine is suggested to map the status here. Possible values:

  • no - All cash handling happens by humans only.
  • yes - Machines are available for cash handling.
  • cashier - Machines are available for cash handling at cashiers (often limited to coins).
  • self-service - Machines are available for cash handling at self-service stations.

Currently mapped objects in Latvia - where green indicates a present cash machine, orange - explicitly tagged “no”.

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1TwJ

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Posted by TheFighter137 on 31 October 2024 in English. Last updated on 1 November 2024.

I definitely seem to love this website. Afterall, it allows me to add some facilities thanks to data provided by french government services : electricity substations, monuments, post boxes, various problems, …

For today, the main municipalities I worked on with OsmOse are Paluel, Néville, Cailleville, Angiens, Cany-Barville, etc… . I also fixed merged adresses and shops so that data is associated accordingly. I started to fix issues in the Rouen metropolis as well, however it will take a few days to finish the whole city considering its size.

Little announcement : I plan to set sort of a weekly schedule to the tasks I want to do. This way, each day of the week will be dedicated to one task in particular, and will have a special name ; for example, SamedInspector (for non-french speakers, it means that saturday would be dedicated to OSM Inspector). Also, even though I will have a weekly schedule, I will switch from 1 entry/day to 1 entry/week that will contain everything I’ve done within the last 7 days.

Posted by alan_gr on 31 October 2024 in English. Last updated on 28 July 2025.

In Part 3 I talked about changes in POI data in a small area over a period of two months. Most of those changes were due to mapping activity, rather than anything that happened in the real world over that period. But I’d like to use a similar approach to better understand how the real-world POIs are evolving.

As I mentioned in Part 3, until recently a significant proportion of POIs in this area had never been mapped in OSM. That means there is no point in the past at which OSM data is anywhere close to a complete set of POIs for this area. But we might be able to learn something from the POIs that were mapped some time ago.

I chose to look back 5 years, to August 2019. I guessed that was roughly the point at which the data was most accurate. Most POIs were added in 2017-2018, so while lots of POIs were missing, those existing in 2019 were probably still fairly accurate. This is how those specific POIs evolved over 5 years, ignoring anything newly created over that period:

  POI count as %
no major change 135 57%
removed 42 18%
changed POI type 38 16%
changed name 22 9%
total 237 100%

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Location: Cristo de la Epidemia, Centro, Málaga, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
Posted by Calvin Menttor on 31 October 2024 in English. Last updated on 3 January 2025.

Day-2 in motion …and suddenly, I woke up early in the morning just to realize that I was in Lagos on 8th October. Ask yourself what brought me here? Hehehehe… Of course, State of the Map Nigeria Conference 2024. Well, well, my journey was tiring but adventurous as well. Now, let’s double our steps to catch up with other activities. It’s a movie. Oh, sorry, it’s a story. You might need a glass of chilled water. Probably!

Welcome to Nigeria!

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Location: Ife North, Osun State, Nigeria
Posted by alan_gr on 31 October 2024 in English. Last updated on 28 July 2025.

As I mentioned in Parts 1 and 2, over the last couple of months I set out to systematically update Points of Interest in four adjoining barrios in the city of Málaga.

A few businesses really did open, close, or change hands over that short period. But the vast majority of the changes in the data reflect the OSM data “catching up” with reality: adding points that had never been mapped in OSM, or updating POIs that had changed in some way since they were last touched by an OSM mapper.

Adding leisure POIs

Closely examining changes over a period is a good way of revealing faulty assumptions. I noticed that three shop locations had disappeared from my data, even though I was sure there were still businesses at those addresses. They are all gyms now, and gyms are tagged as “leisure” - a tag I had completely ignored. I’ve now added leisure POIs. As with “amenity” tags, I excluded some high-volume tags such as “garden” and “swimming pool”. I now have 392 POIs in my current dataset, not 376 as I mentioned in previous diary entries.

Changes over the period

  POI count count distinct feature tags
mid Aug 2024 267 96
+ newly created 141 34
- removed (16) (9)
late Oct 2024 392 121
% change +47% +26%

I mentioned in a previous post that I thought that POIs were reasonably well mapped in this neighbourhood. The numbers suggest that about two thirds of POIs were mapped two months ago. That seems respectable, but not great. There has not been any major expansion of retail space in this area recently. Some of the new additions are locations that were vacant or derelict when the area was first mapped in detail, but the majority have existed for a long time and were simply never mapped in OSM.

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Location: Cristo de la Epidemia, Centro, Málaga, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain