This is the English version of osm.org/user/yumean1119/diary/364501

Hello.

I have wanted to organize tagging schemes of educational institutions outside school. I conducted a simple survey to understand the current situation, using cram schools as an example.

For this survey, we focused on “Meiko Gijuku”(明光義塾), which is a nationwide chain of tutoring schools. https://www.meikogijuku.jp

When I typed “明光義塾” into OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 49 POIs appeared. (As of May 22, 2019)

Here is the result:

Number of tags

amenity=school 18

amenity=prep_school 14

amenity=training 5

office=educational_institution 4

office=company 2

amenity=preschool 1

shop=yes 1

only building=* 4

Findings and my opinions:

amenity=school and amenity=prep_school account for about 2/3 of the total.

*amenity=school is obviously considered inappropriate. I think this should be limited to formal schools (Both public and private).

*Both English and Japanese pages for amenity=prep_school in the OSM wiki pages have only one line . Also, as far as I have looked up the preliminary school on wikipedia,

I think it is appropriate to interpret it as a “high school” to prepare for advancing to higher education, but at least these “high schools” in Japan are nothing but amenity=school.

*amenity=training has been abandoned.

osm.wiki/Proposed_features/training

*amenity=preschool is the old tag for preschool and is now replaced by amenity=kindergarten.

The spelling is very similar to prep_school, and it is also linked from JA: How to map a, so a mapper may have used it incorrectly.

osm.wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpreschool

*In my opinion,the most appropriate current tag for representing cram schools is office=educational_institution.

However, as far as I can see from Meikogijuku, there is only one person who uses this other than me.

And the wiki page says it is intended to be used for public education organizations such as boards of education.

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State of the Map US provides a great place to share, especially if you are new to the conference. First time speakers and attendees bring new energy, stories, topics and ideas to the conference. It would be great to see many new faces in Minneapolis, September 5-8.

Do you have an OSM story, but have never done a talk at SOTM US or elsewhere? Have some questions about what it is like to present at the conference? We want to hear from you, so I am hosting a second Zoom session this Wednesday to answer any questions and help to brainstorm your ideas.

Join me and others from the OpenStreetMap US community on Wednesday May 22, 8pm ET, SOTM US CFP info session. Join via zoom. (Phone dial-in available also.)

If you would like to join the session, kindly sign up here!

To go ahead and submit your talk, please do so here!

I went to the OSCAL conference about Open Source software and OpenStreetMap in Tirana. It took me 3 years to finally decide to go ahead and do it and I had no idea what to expect when I arrived. But once I was there, I very quickly noticed that everything is perfectly fine and safe in the streets of Tirana. When I arrived at the conference I received a very warm welcome from the organisers who form a very active community in their local hackerspace. I was very happy that I could share some of my experience with OSM, OsmAND and Mapillary, and of course the PT_Assistant plugin. While walking between AirBNB and the venue, I tried to make as many pictures for Mapillary as I could, even on the bus to the airport: https://www.mapillary.com/map/im/k7CBwtE2S8quA5LUvfq19Q (They seem to need cycle highways there too, this guy is risking his life on the motorway)

I tried to get JOSM going on the computers in the classrooms, but that wasn’t a great success, as Java wasn’t installed on the Windows and the virtual machines with Ubuntu didn’t have enough memory to work very well. My plan now is to show the possibilities of JOSM and QGIS during Hangout sessions, maybe Hangout on Air. I never tried that before, but it should work quite well and it’s a great way to overcome the physical distance between us in the period between conferences :-)

Hi All,

I’m interested in exploring how we can record innovation precincts from a mapping/placemaking context. There are a bunch of landmarks in our area (Cremorne) that would enhance the maps for this area - I’m keen to explore what we can capture.

Cheers, Dave.

I am ElmoTexas, and, with my username, one might suggest that I hail from Little Elm, Texas. Which is entirely true.

When browsing my corner of the town, I noticed that all the buildings were absent from Sunset Pointe, save a few. My goal in the next few weeks is to get all of these mapped.

I came to OSM via OpenGeoFiction, a website that uses this software. I really like the incentive of this project, and will do whatever I can to make progress on it.

I use JOSM, and recommend everyone to do so, as it is extremely simple and easy to follow.

Anyway, I hope to chat with some down in the comments, and happy mapping!

While editing this evening I scrolled through my community going down the full length of the river that runs through town. I was adding any boat ramps and parking areas that were not already on the map. I found a few boat ramps which are slipways in OSM to be presented differently. I found one that was a line that made a box. I found some that were points. one that was a point along a line, and then some that were just straight lines. I found it interesting to see how some parking lots were areas while others were just points. I would assume that there is no real protocol for how to properly mark a slipway of parking lot. I just wanted to make not of this finding and share it if thats what happens to these diary entries. I am still learning the program and wanted to try this feature out. more for myself to remember that there are many ways to skin a cat.

next project may be marking the points along the Colorado river where there are campgrounds.

The great utility of Sentinel images is that it provides the most recent images, almost weekly, at resolutions up to 10m/pixel, that can help much on mapping landuse, urbanization and major features on OSM, mostly on remote places not usally acessible to survey.

Example: Growing human occupation in Amazonia
Location: osm.org/edit#map=16/-9.5540/-72.1440

Bing and DG Image (Hi-res), date of tiles here 2006:

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I thought I’d digitize the buildings and sidewalks in my hometown of Earlville, Iowa to learn how to add data to OSM. I learned that sometimes it’s helpful to switch between maps to get more complete data. The Bing map was more recent but not as clear so I’d use the other clear map most of the time. I knew the town council had mandated that everyone put a sidewalk in front of their house and the clear map didn’t show this so I had to switch to the Bing map which had them. Unfortunately the maps didn’t quite line up so I had to do some interpolation. I also learned that it’s helpful to go to a blurry map at times especially if that map is from a different angle or different time of year as that can help see a roof outline hidden by a tree on a clear map. I know the subject line says, “Finished” and that I’ve visited it a few times to correct or improve a few things and will probably continue to do that as I become more proficient - so I’m really not “finished”. The oddest thing I ran into was how to define the denomination of a church that was a combination of two (separate with semicolon). I’m writing an app at work to pull data from OSM and create a map in our format so I have to remind myself that many values can have multiple values.

My first-week at kaart internship summer of maps, I was so excited I didn’t expect that I will able to catch up cause a lot of activities I need to do before I can join the internship so when I enabled to join even though I’m late they still gave me a chance and when I hear that news I was shock and so happy at the same time.

The day I started there a lot of instructions and tasks that you must carry out It’s may not going to be easy but when you carry out that tasks it was so satisfying and by slowly finishing every task that we’ve been met we started enjoying it.

In this week I learned a lot of new things like shortcut keys and some new techniques so we can finish our tasks faster and easier. I’m so excited and I can’t wait to discover new things and learn from them.

The internship program is still continuing and I’m learning a lot from my co-workers and instructor even from my mistake that I have done. When I realized something, it teaches me how to become more competitive and skillful in this field. But still, it’s never been easy for me to map because there are so many things that I need to learn even at this point.

Yesterday they taught us a new skill for mapping or how to create our own tile set for map. Somehow it is interesting, but the idea of designing a map was a hard thing for me. Although a had a hard time in designing yet I’m still learning to overcome it with the help of my colleagues or by practicing my skill for that and it was fun at all.

This week I’m gaining more knowledge and still figuring out my mistake to become a more efficient mapper.

Being part of the Internship Program got me to experience how it is to feel in a workplace. Their mindset when it comes to accomplishing tasks, being serious on their work and how they work, sharing and learning from the experiences of your colleagues, this are just some of the things that I have experienced in this internship.

Being an effective mapper doesn’t just depend on your skill, it also depends on how you cooperate with your colleagues. There are a lot things that I still need to know. Working with others help me understand more about mapping. Not everyone experiences the same thing, tasks can be done in many various ways. The workflow of each person may vary. Being in such an environment, I get to become a better version of myself. Everyone helps each other by sharing their strategies and how things can be done properly. I look forward for the days that are about to come.

After the second week of Kaart’s internship, I gained more experience and knowledge in geo-mapping. My JOSM skills is improving, I tend to use more shortcuts which let me finish my task faster. Aside from my JOSM skills, my experience extended more on each tasks I do and upload.

This week is more on consistent work which is applying our first week of training. I made my work accurate and detailed, in this way my data represented is clean and exact. The whole week I kept correcting my small mistakes which lessened it in my work. So far I am focusing on less errors, steady workflow and uploading accurate data.

Also in this week, we had a small workshop which is about MapBox. We created our own map with our own designed style. I learned something new again and I hope could use it in the future.

I am looking forward for the third week. Again thank you for this opportunity.

This week I mainly focus on what I did last week.The difference is that last week was about relearning the basics of the technicality on what we were about to do for the whole month. At this time using JOSM was quite familiar to me now. I now learned how to map imagery that will not just focus on the roads and buildings but the whole image as a whole also considering the details, accuracy and artistic side of mapping. Fixing some errors was easy now since I already know how to fix the problems and been tackling different errors most of the time. Some errors are difficult since I am thought yet and I am not in that level of solving such as boundary errors.

I was also though on how to design a interactive 3D map. Designing was fun and I was inclined to it. I am still learning and exploring on how to specially the codes of a map. We are still continuing an activity on road connection, still improving how to map an image at a professional level and validating my co-interns to learn what common or new mistakes had happen. I also notice not all mappers have the same logic and ability as one is, so one has a different technique on doing a task and has a specific skill set or strength in mapping, Our director even introduce us on the shallow part of the geo-mapping field and how it is part of IT field.

For me mapping is another opportunity in what I may take in the future as a professional. Since the mapping industry in the Philippines is somehow they say ‘low’ . I would consider it then as a in demand job in the country. Being a mapper and an IT student has its mutual relation to each other which will somehow beneficial to me in being a professional soon.

I have currently worked on these ‘major’ edits

• Updating/Adding Jafai Kuta and Kudang Tenda, in The Gambia
• Adding more buildings in Banjul, The Gambia
• Properly adding and updating Sare Male, The Gambia
• Adding and revising small parks of Skelmersdale, The UK.

Along with some Misc. edits in Asheboro, NC.

NOTE: All edits are made using aerial mapping, and only the ones in Skelmersdale and Asheboro do I have any actual knowledge of the locations.

Beginning in May of 2019, I began importing building footprints for Brown County, Wisconsin. These were sourced from the State Cartographer’s office, and is part of a larger project of importing this data for other counties in the state.

osm.wiki/Wisconsin_Multi-County_Building_Footprint_Import

Over the last few months, we’ve been building an offline-first field mapping tool for the OpenStreetMap ecosystem called Observe. Observe makes field surveying and verification easy for mappers, and works on iOS and Android.

Motivation

Field verification is an important part of keeping OSM data accurate. So far, field mapping exercises are largely manual, cumbersome, or require internet connectivity. OpenStreetMap has an active mobile editing ecosystem, but doesn’t offer the same editing experience as iD for beginners. Most often, mapping campaigns need a tool as good as iD that allows edits from the field to verify existing data and improve data quality.

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I don’t like staying in months without adding one edit to my profile. I have to borrow data, power supply to make sure i add my quota to OSM today.

A_Genuine_Lover_of_OSM

#Passion_to_be_top_comes_someday_missingmaps

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GSoC 2019 Project

Hello again OSM community! This summer, I will once again be working on a GSoC project to improve the iD editor. This time, my goal is to improve the link between HOTOSM’s Tasking Manager and the iD editor. The Tasking Manager is an incredibly valuable management tool that helps target mapping and gives new users guidance. However, the Tasking Manager has a weak connection with it’s primary OSM editor, iD. Starting an edit changes some settings on the Tasking Manager side, such as locking a task. A user is then sent to the iD editor who makes edits normally, guided by a task bounding box. Beyond this, there is little integration. A user cannot see details of the task, lock, or unlock a task without switching back to the Tasking Manager webpage.

About the project

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As a charity effort, my work colleagues and I did trail maintenance at Lollypop Farm. I took my GPSr along and recorded the trails and streams.