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Nepal Red Cross society is mapping Duduwa Rural municipality under the Preparedness For Emergency Response programme. The current Action is a continuation and consolidation of the previous two projects aiming at enhancing preparedness for emergency response through the development and establishment of national systems and mechanisms.
Spent 1.5 hours mapping various sectors.
I recently stumbled upon Osmose which is helping me track down errors from my early days of editing.
Back in early 2014 I did quite a few CANVEC imports in southern Saskatchewan and didn’t notice immediately that my workflow was introducing problems. Rather than upload the entire CANVEC layer in JOSM, I was selectively copying element classes to a new layer. I didn’t realize that by doing that I was breaking multipolgons and introducing duplicate inner polygons and duplicate overlapping nodes. Once I noticed the problem I switched to a pruning approach, but had no easy way to locate what needed fixing.
67,000 issues to work though, but I’m optimistic there is quite a lot of overlap within that list. Fixing a single duplicate polygon could also clear up a dozen duplicate node issues at the same time.
A new version of CGImap, the rails port acceleration layer written in C++, has been released!
Full release notes: https://github.com/zerebubuth/openstreetmap-cgimap/releases/tag/v0.8.0
I have Added an exercise location in Singapore
I released Divide and map. Now. – the damn project at the beginning of the year. Also, I presented the damn project at FOSDEM. I was pretty nervous, and I have to work on my presentation skills. The talk was too chaotic, I know. Anyway – now, I want to present changes in the damn client since the release.
Inspired by tasking manager stats, I implemented mapping and review rates. The damn project is ready for these upgrades. All kinds of statistics can be computed from the commits.
The mapper can map or review a random square of an area. Square to map/review selection is server-dependent. I am going to implement something like map the nearest square in the future. However, I think that the decision about a square to map should still be on the server. The user should say something like: “Hey, I am willing to contribute with mapping something like this,” and the server replies: “Good, try this one.” I don’t think that the manual square lock is a good idea.
I moved the essentials procedures to the damn client library and implemented a workaround for the geometry of two and fewer points. Just mark such square done automatically.
I speeded up the whole client! (For developers: if you want, you may test it on your own – git checkout v0.1.0, then back to git checkout master.) Also, I changed the design slightly. I am not a designer, so I am doing small changes as I feel it.
I added squares map. It indeed helps mappers to imagine the remarkable work done.
The next is the mappers’ score. There is a list of mappers and reviewers with their corresponding number of squares done. And the last upgrade – it’s finally possible to logout (for developers: delete JWT token stored as a cookie; the default cookie expiration is one year), and there is a user’s last week statistics. It would be possible to load all the user’s commits and compute overall statistics, but it takes quite long.
I love my wife and kids
I am Adil Omary from Ardhi University, Dar es salaam, Tanzania. I can work well with QGIS, ARCGIS, can perform Environmental modeling such as landslide susceptibility and flood mapping using Remote Sensing and field data. I am very passionate in helping the community through mapping and field works. Contact me via adilomary@gmail.com
UniqueMappersTeam National Leaders and members Meeting on Mapathon held on 14th February 2020 by 8:40-10: 40pm
Agenda 1. Review of the ongoing Mapathon. 2. Preview of Ogrute Mapathon
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4602723253
Meeting ID: 460 272 3253.
The ongoing Mapathon for mapping vurnerable community of oil spilage in River state was reviewed. LionMappersTeam Enugu Campus have 832 Edits UniqueMappersTeam Yola have 298 Edits LionMappersTeam Nsukka have 109 Edits While the rest of the teams have no edit. The national coordinator pleaded that our best is not yet enough. He asked all to go back and do the needful.
The preview on the Ogrute Mapathon which will hold on 15th to 23rd February was done by the coordinator and he stated that the following must be done to qualify you for the Mapathon
Register the Eventbrite You must have at least 50 edits from task 6909 (oil spilage) to be qualified You must be an advanced mapper who knows how to digitise.
Questions, answer and Suggestion session. Chukwu Kingsley of LionMappersTeam Enugu Campus suggested that the team leader should be monitoring and check up on their members because from his observations on task 6909, many mappers are not doing the right thing. The national coordinator emphasizes more on it and tell the house why it is important to do it the right way.
Mrs Ifunanya Obim asked for the Hashtag that will be used for the Ogrute Mapathon. The national coordinator explained to her.
End.
i would like to find an app, which records your voice and links it to the gps location , exemple : if on a race-track you could have the feedback from the app, and you can modify/add the recorded information in the log, just by speaking
for example :
voice-start-cmd : START -> starts recording/playing your voice/recording during , if no entry and silence no recording, if gps position has voice recording, plays it , but still listens to voice and changes/adds the recorded information linked to that particular gps position
pause-cmd ; PAUSE -> pauses the recording only plays gps-location-linked information
stop-cmd : STOP no voice play / recording
the final result will be if for example you say at the beginning of the track PAUSE, it will play the instructions/info you entered during a previous pass-by ………. 90 degrees turn to right ahead , go in breaks smoothly , ….. slight turn to left,
or whatever instructions a rally co rider gives to the pilot
Hi. During my engagement in swedish hiking groups I became aware of the need for a service for extracting GPX-files with huts and shelters to put into GPS-devices and phones.
I built a simple website to fill this need which was a fun and learning experience :)
Try it out here: https://pangose.github.io/gpx-extractor/ Code: https://github.com/pangoSE/gpx-extractor
It was quite stressful. Been on this for three days now but hopefully we’ll get a perfect work tomorrow.
The National Mapathon update of UniqueMappers Nigeria is done via zoom…..
Summary of the meeting hosted on zoom by the National Coordinator UniqueMappers Nigeria on 12th February 2020 by 8- 9:40pm
6 Persons attended the meeting from 5 States representing 6 Chapters.
The progress of the Mapathon in each state was analysed.
The National Coordinator gave instructions to State Coordinators and Team leaders to motivate the mappers in their states and Chapters to map more consistently and efficiently.
The National Coordinator gave updates of ongoing mapping events and informed all about the JOSM Beginners Training/Webinar which will take place on 29th February 2020.
Questions and Answers session
I wished I realised earlier that today, 11th of February 2020, was the 10th year anniversary of my discovery of OSM. I would have spent a bit more time writing a proper entry with some numbers and highlights but it’s a bit too late to dive onto a long writing.
I’ll just give another quick shout to the Japan road alignement work that has been highlighted a few years ago and that I never really quit. There is still a lot to do. I, for some reason focused on the areas around Nagoya during the last 2 years, but if anyone wants to join, Japan is big enough :)
Happy to start another decade of mapping though. Happy anniversary to me!
Minutely Extracts (protomaps.com/extracts) is a new service for on-demand OpenStreetMap extracts in .osm.pbf format.
I’ve stopped this project in Sep 2020, mostly because I learned that I had misunderstood the concept of a “shared lane” on Dutch roads. There aren’t nearly as many as I had thought. Another project has spun off, though: checking primary and secondary roads in my area for bike accessibility. Primaries, in particular, are not usually open for bikes: either there’s an adjacent compulsory bike path (typically G12a) or bikes are forbidden explicitly (board NL:C9 or NL:C15). I’ve learned that the hard way when Komoot (based on OSM data) sent me on one such secondary one day. That particular problem was fixed the same day, and it got me started on surveying primaries and secondaries (in person, using Mapillary, or using public data on Dutch road signs) in my area. Here’s the corresponding Overpass query: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/YvO
Old text below:
I see a tendency to equip more and more local secondary and tertiary highways with either an adjacent bike path or an (advisory) bike lane = fietssuggestiestrook, cycleway=shared_lane in OSM speak. This isn’t always reflected in OSM, yet. I’ve fixed some that I’ve come across, but I suspect there’s many more.
Because I find that they matter for bicycle routing, I’ll try and survey those that I can access easily, in province Groningen. Mapillary will help reduce my mileage. The idea is to tag all secondary and tertiary highways outside of town (buiten de bebouwde kom) with a cycleway tag (cycleway=no if none is present), except if they’re tagged bicycle=no or bicycle=use_sidepath. While I’m at it, I’ll also set mofa and moped tags, surface, and where surveyed locally: smoothness. Things like weight limits, updated speed limits and so on will be by-catch.
Spent 1 hour mapping various sectors, inputting building locations.
08-Feb-2020
Mapathon Training Saturday 8 February 2020 at A109 SURVEYING CLASS BY 11 am- 4pm
In the training, we learn how to digitize We also explore other packages like; Osmfight Hashtag OSM dairy How do you contribute to OSM Leadership board Train our new members and sign them up. Etc
Chukwu, Kingsley Chika Team leader LMT
10 feb 2020 8-9:30pm
The National Coordinator highlighted the progress of the ongoing Mapathon exercise…..
Actions:.
Enugu mappers are doing well, having their Team leader as the number one Mapper on their leaders board… They are encouraged to do more….
Kogi Mappers to take off and start their mapping exercise…..
UniqueMapper Yola is doing well with only two mappers on their leaders board… They should involve more mappers and ensure consistency in mapping as only only one has a mapping record today while the second mapper mapped for the last time two days ago Q and A session
Mandatory Community Training Webinar
Topic: Mapathon & MissingMaps WG Training
Time 10:00 am-11:30 am
Saturday 1st February 2020 Highlights 1.Introduction:working with OSM Global & Local Community 2. Working with OSM platform 3.Working with tasks.hotosm.org 4.The MissingMap Project 5.Q & A
Meeting ID: 460 272 3253
