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Erster Reiseführer mit OSM Karten?

Posted by !i! on 21 May 2011 in German (Deutsch).

Vor fast einem Jahr fragte hier @dittmann nach einer Möglichkeit OSM Karten für einen Reisebericht zu nutzen. Nach verschiedenen Ansätzen ist nun wirklich ein Buch daraus geworden, wo von 10 großen Städten entlang der Donau (Belgrad, Bratislava, Budapest, Bukarest, Linz, Novi Sad, Passau, Russe, Wien) Stadtpläne auf OSM Basis enthalten sind.
http://www.delius-klasing.de/buecher/Kreuzfahrt-Guide+Donau.30138.html?ansicht=

"In diesem Zusammenhang senden wir auch ein großes Dankeschön und Kompliment an die gesamte OpenStreetMap-Gemeinde".

Dem kann ich mich nur anschließen, danke an euch alle! :)

Location: Frengkofen, Bach an der Donau, Donaustauf (VGem), Landkreis Regensburg, Bayern, 93090, Deutschland

Baltic-1 wind park online in OSM, too

Posted by !i! on 21 May 2011 in English. Last updated on 23 May 2011.

Hi,

I got in contact with EnBW, the operator of the new wind park in front of the coast of Germany. They donated me the exact positions of the generators, so now they are visible for Wikipedia and flight simulators, too :)

osm.org/?lat=54.61013&lon=12.64833&zoom=16&layers=M

Location: Küstengewässer einschließlich Anteil am Festlandsockel, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

How do you map in X?

Posted by !i! on 9 May 2011 in English.

Hi,

when I worked on the usergroupsmap, I got in contact with a lot of local OSM chapters. So I was interested how mapping might work in different continents, where the situation is completely different from ours here in central europe.

So I initiated the 'How do you map in ...' series to create a platform where usergroups can give the community a overview how different mapping can be.
#1 presents Russia
osm.wiki/How_do_you_map_in

But this series needs you for new issues! Of course I will assist you in every kind (wiki edits, review, ideas,...) but this personal story should be written by users all over the world
osm.wiki/How_do_you_map_in/new

So who's nation is next? Which place you are interested in?

United Nations look back at HOT Crisismapping Haiti

Posted by !i! on 25 April 2011 in English.

Well great news, the UN released an report, listing the abilities of Crisismapping by our Community during the Haiti desaster
http://www.unfoundation.org/global-issues/technology/disaster-report.html

Think this is a small milestone that shows that OSM is a very serious project :)
Esp. nice cause I wrote an article on Crisismapping in January for the German bureau of civil protection and crisis managing (BBK). Hopefully this will result in more high res material for upcoming activities.

Rostock 1st german city with housenumbers completed

Posted by !i! on 12 April 2011 in English. Last updated on 13 April 2011.

Well, the team of our city was quite busy the past months. Starting from a ratio of somewhat of ~60%, we collected the remaining ones of total 23080 housenumbers since January. At our meetup (with a special 'damn housenumbers completed!' BBQ) we decided that 97% is enough to say that we are finished. The remaining ones are mostly abandoned areas, supermarkets, ... so stuff thats not that easy to fill in in the near future.

Thanks again folks, this community really rocks :-)

Location: Stadtmitte, Ortsbeirat 14 : Stadtmitte, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Rostocker Hausnummern Sprint 90% - Bald geschafft!

Posted by !i! on 25 March 2011 in German (Deutsch).

Man,

es ist kaum zu glauben, was wir in den letzen Wochen (ja klar auch die vielen Monate zuvor) geschafft haben.
Über 90% der Rostocker Hausnummern scheinen wir abgedeckt zu haben
osm.wiki/Rostock

Dann werde ich mich mal an eins der letzten Stückchen Kuchen machen und Dierkow den Rest erledigen :)

Location: Dierkow-West, Ortsbeirat 17 : Dierkow-Ost, Dierkow-West, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deutschland

local OSM meetups - that's it

Posted by !i! on 3 March 2011 in English.

The past weeks I got in contact with every OSM nation that is active on the wiki or mailinglists. The result is not that impressing as I expected: there are only 87 groups Oo
http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de

What I found out is, that a lot of nations are connected using very losely networks of skype, irc, ... mostly cause the distance is to high or the most live somewhere else and do armchair mapping.

We need Y O U for for OSMs wiki! - OR - Is our wiki healthy?

Posted by !i! on 2 March 2011 in English.

In Nov last year I analyzed the user contributions on our Wiki. 4 months past, so I did it again:

-2186 Users were active during the past 3 month
-72.3% did less than 10 edits/3 months
-97% did less than 100 edits/3 months
-only 34 users did over 150 edits/3 months
So I have to say nothing significant changed :(

But it's you we need! A wiki is only useful when it's alive, when outdated content got replaced and everybody does just a bit of this job.

A wiki is OUR library and not a collection of articles that is owned by the authors. So please help us doing one of the following things:

Updating content


You found a page where you know it's last edit is years ago? Check if it's still true what the content says. You might want to ask the editor if it's ok if you edit the page, but this is a wiki, you don't have to cause everything can be undone.

Labeling bad pages


Not the time to update the page? At least mark them for others! Just add one of the following statements to the text.

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