Correction: Not all the Eswatini sheets I have are full sheet scans. Many have already been cropped.

For Namibia I only have a few as full sheet scans. The copyright of the original sheets is ambiguous as they were published by the South African government prior to Namibian independence. The South African national mapping agency are more than happy with us using their South African sheets and they are listed on osm.org/copyright . I’ve contacted the Namibian national agency before, but never had a reply.

For Eswatini all are full sheet scans. For Zimbabwe ~60% of the sheets I have already, the majority are full sheet scans. All sheets I have the year they were published. I am paying a professional GIS person to help crop and georectify the sheets to allow creating a seamless mosaic.

Eswatini copyright on artistic works is 50 years, many of the sheets are already out of copyright and would be a suitable source for OpenStreetMap. I will reach our to the national mapping agency of Eswatini. I intend to copy all sheets to archive.org

What is the URL of the tiles you are using? Processed tile.openstreetmap.org usage data is published here: https://planet.osm.org/tile_logs/

fantomas, the disk space requirement isn’t an issue. The users table is 35 GB, the spam will be ~ 15 GB. By comparison the way_nodes table is 3735 GB.

Thank you. Enjoyed reading about your Sark mapping adventure.

Could you expand on what you mean? Do you mean using OpenStreetMap tile limits? It is very rare for us to enforce any limits on tile users.

Approximately 9.5 million users account have been removed for various reasons. The primary reason for the account removal was because the account was created exclusively for posting SEO spam, most of these limited the spam to their user profile page.

I estimate around 1.5 million active accounts are still due to be removed because they were created only to post SEO spam.

In the next couple of weeks I will publish sample ham/spam data and ask the community for help in creating a service to help us identify spam.

Nice! I’d be interested to hear what the accuracy is like.

I think the device can also be fed NTRIP data and switched into RTK onboard mode.

Nice work!

We also have a strong policy against spam and unsolicited commercial advertising. Spam is removed and reported, it will negatively affect your search engine rankings.

Could you give a link to the map where you are seeing them? Or post a photo to community.openstreetmap.org and post community site link here.

You do not appear to have any edits. What is the issue?

Likely better ask this question on the forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/br/55

Happy cow is a vegan online business directory / review site. Often establishments display they are registered, similar to CAMRA membership.

@rafnow87 Wow! Thank you.

I’ve had no luck purchasing the sheets. After good communication with the archive they went silent and appear to be ghosting me. :-(

Hi,

Quick introduction, I am a complete outsider to your edits and whatever is being removed.

I briefly looked and it looks like you also map historic and abandoned railway lines like I do. I map primarily in South Africa. eg: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=-32.88052423094326&lon=25.803322792053223&zoom=14

OpenStreetMap has a strong preference to map the current word, and there is definitely a huge amount to map. Mapping historic stuff can be challenging. I have been changed much of railway=abandoned to railway=razed over time, the line and rail is gone, maybe a track bed is left at best. I try not get my mapping in the way of mapping the current world. I map a lot of current state too.

Mapping stations, halts, sidings that have gone are also challenging. I need to ensure they do not “appear” in current data. So prefix abandoned:railway is often used.

Be respectful to all other mappers and try work out their point of view too.

Happy mapping

/ Grant

A note for readers: This is diary entry is about a private project by NorthCrab, it is not endorsed by the OpenStreetMap Foundation or the OpenStreetMap Operations team. The details here are only by NorthCrab. The details are not necessarily agreed by the groups involved with the running of OpenStreetMap.org.

I am waiting for final confirmation from the private archive before I sent up a funding website.

Once the British Library is up and running again I will renew my pass and look at their archive of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) map sheets of Africa.

You are not currently banned. The temporary block placed on your account ended 5 days ago.

AWS dates back to at least 2022, whereas the free AWS credits began just ~6 months ago.

Our AWS usage dates back to late 2017, the amount of data we store has grown over time. We received the AWS credits in August 2022. The credits expire end of August 2023. We have already applied for the next year’s worth of credits. If we don’t receive them we have budgeted a contingency, but will likely immediately terminate the US render server running on AWS. We have extra physical hardware being delivered to OSUOSL to increase the US render server capacity.