EDIT: The app is now available on Github.

https://github.com/IpswichMapper/SwiftAddress/releases

You can find the APK under “assets”.

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When I intended wanted to map housenumbers in my area, I found out about the app “Keypad-Mapper 3”. This seems like the most efficient way to map housenumbers, as it is designed for that purpose.

However, after downloading (from F-droid archive repository), I found out that it didn’t work. The app had not been updated in 7 years, so no wonder that was to case. Luckily however, online I found a fork of Keypad-Mapper 3 with hungarian translations which worked.

After doing one giant survey with this app, however, I quickly realised how much of a pain it can become to try and clean up the raw data in JOSM. GPS data isn’t really the most accurate thing, and therefore the positions of housenumber nodes (which are based on your GPS position) collected from Keypad Mapper isn’t that accurate either.

This survey took me multiple weeks and multiple changesets to clean up. It was a mess.

I then started to look for alternatives: Streetcomplete seemed like the best option and I did a few surveys with it. However, mapping housenumbers wasn’t the most efficient thing on this app. So I opened a issue on Streetcomplete’s Github repository to try and improve the app. This lead to a increment button which adds/substracts one number from the previous housenumber you entered.

This was quite useful, but it doesn’t work for both sides of the road. Streetcomplete housenumber mapping also requires that you have drawn buildings first, which can be tedious (here is my diary entry explaining how to speed it up slightly).

Then, I heard about OSMpad. This is an old application which is no longer available. However, I liked the design. OSMpad starts up as a map: you then add a housenumber on the map when surveying.

This would obviously lead to cleaner and more accurate data compared to Keypad Mapper, and would not require adding building data.

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See Part 1/n here.

We are happy to share the draft OSM Philippines’ Code of Conduct (CoC) made for and written by the OSM Philippines community members. It is now available for review and comments!

Based from the response on the Miro Board Workshop during Pista ng Mapa 2020, we categorized the “Expected Behavior” into four:

1. Be Respectful
2. Be open and constructively critical
3. Be Inclusive
4. Put the community first, but still prioritize our health

Other topics and questions that we want to consult with the OSM PH community stands: - What should be the consequences of violating the OSM PH CoC? - How do we approve the CoC? - How do we ensure that it is enforced? (One thing that comes to mind is to have an open feedback mechanism/form for members to express criticisms or report violation which should be managed by a committed group of people) - And many more…

The OSM PH CoC is one of the agenda for tomorrow’s 2021 OSM PH Annual Planning Meeting. We hope you can join us! If not, please feel free to comment on the draft. :)

Also, please message me for the google calendar invite for tomorrow’s planning meeting.

Join the OSM LoCos Telegram Channel and subscribe to the talk-ph mailing list for more updates and info!

Maraming salamat/Thank you!

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I started mapping on the 4th of January of this year and so far I have mapped nine days out of eleven. I am studying BA in Maths with Economics in the University of Limerick and this year I was lucky enough to agree an internship with OpenStreetMap Ireland.

Up until now I have been using the ID editor, but when my mouse arrives I will move onto using JOSM. Also, I am going to start using StreetComplete as I have noticed that many buildings are mapped already, but lack detail such as address, house number and number of levels.

I have mainly mapped around Carlow town, especially to the west of the town as shown by my hotspot. I took an interest in that area as I know it well and found the administrative boundary between Laois and Carlow fascinating. I will do a more detailed diary on what I’ve learned on mapping there.

Please feel free to engage with me if you are mapping in Ireland or if you can help me improve.

Project Goal

To map all of Namibia’s building footprint and road network by 2022.

Source Partnerships

My first diary on OpenStreetMap so that you find me.

One of my friend says the Taiwanese technology review website Daodu have a article and Podcast discuss about OpenStreetMap, which is actually the discusion brought by Joe Morrison, reviewing big companies like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft have an unofficial alley fighting against Google. For the technology issue, OpenStreetMap is quite a small minority topic. I think if you are not in the geoinformation industrial, and does not read mass amount of technology news, you will not be familiar with OpenStreetMap. Anyway it is good thing to have some coverage in Taiwan.

In my personal option the Daodu article is quite shallow, especially the most important part which give OpenStreetMap its unique standing point, is that united big technology companies like Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, all decide to support OpenStreetMap project by different methods to avoid using Google Maps. If you do not have your own map solution, you have to use the market’s best solution, that is your enemy’s product Google Maps. So these companies accumulate data on OpenStreetMap, supporting the open source map solution, and they do not need to make a map solution on scratch.

Due to Taiwan media environment, media outlet have editors monitor English media to ediit and translate news reports into Mandarin news articles. Daodu used materials that was already discuss for a while in OpenStreetMap ecosystem, and did not follow the activities of local communities in Taiwan. The community in Taiwan is more emphasizing on basic infrastructure, their work is not that easy to get attention on the internet.

For those who want know more about OpenStreetMap project in Taiwan, you could search for the keyword, there are some articles on the first page of search result. I once worked for a technology media, sometimes have the chance to write about OpenStreetMap and the community.

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Hello, World!

Hello, tiles /0/0/0 to /19/274877906944/274877906944!

Hello, (1.6).toLocaleString() million new friends!

I write software that creates maps. I have been doing this for ten years. I build nice maps.

Two examples:

https://theo-armour.github.io/2021/sandbox/map-tile-loader-3d/

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HOT is at the beginning of a transformation. One aspect of this is setting up regional hubs in Asia, East Africa, West Africa, and Latin America/Caribbean. Last week, the first ever Regional Director started working at HOT - Dr. Nama Budhathoki. I wanted to take the opportunity to outline some of the early thinking around what a hub should be, and questions that Nama, myself and others are thinking about. The plans and details of hub implementation will be led by Nama over the coming year - there are no specifics or details to share on that yet. This post is to share thinking, that is evolving quickly - input, ideas, comments are very welcome - please comment on this post or chat with us on Slack. Nama is also joined by a few other hub team members; a Community Manager (Mikko Tamura), Partnerships Manager (Bry Damasco), and Operations/HR Associate (Bea Ocampo).

In this post, you’ll see the use of hOSM, which stands for humanitarian OpenStreetMap. Whereas HOT is often used to describe the work of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team as an organization, hOSM is used to describe the humanitarian OpenStreetMap ecosystem as a whole.

What is the purpose of a hub, and how is thinking around this evolving?

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Hi All,

For all those playing along at home, hot_tech - The tech team at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - kicked off our Design Sprints yesterday and I thought I would share the BIG question we’re looking to explore (and our pretty hot dot map).

Sprint Theme: Group Mapping
BIG question: What makes group glue? What makes mapping groups stick, tick and strong:

If you have some thoughts or opinions about mapping in groups (or what makes them stick, tick or strong) or any of the questions you see here, reach out to us and we can include you in our engage days (Wednesday and Thursday, any time zone). You can DM us here, or complete this form >

Signed up for open map

I had stumbled into the area of the Nazca lines. With so little of the geoglyphs indicated I decided to trace the artwork with the hope better ground images might be made focusing on specific places. There is also plans to have field visits during a four year span between 2021- 2025. The key objective in tracing this lines is defining the line groups in the valleys and their geoglyph and associated petroglyphs.

Geoglyphs included: Figures Lines Multi-lines Irregular shapes Incomplete and completed artworks

If anyone is interested, I have started a series of YouTube tutorials to help historically interested people discover OpenStreetMap and learn how to use OSM, uMap etc. I’m using Ireland as an example, but some things might apply to other countries as well: YouTube Playlist

I started with the “basic basics”, because the majority of people in Ireland have not heard of OSM unfortunately.

It’s really strange the fact that, after you went multiple times in the same zone, you still find little details to adjust on osm the next time you are there. Maybe you can add some surface, maybe there’s a little path you never went through, maybe you discover a little spring you never noticed.

I think the optimal way to handle this kind of “zones” would be to reside there for 1-2 weeks and complete it (if that’s even possible).

It still remain awesome the feeling of unknown you have in the mountains, where there are hundred of little paths that nearly nobody have used in the last years. I really feel like an explorer!

In December, HOT launched a new pillar of work under the name “Transformation and Community.” This pillar will be formed of six teams: four regional hubs, the community team, and the communications team. The Transformation & Community pillar exists to reorient HOT’s work and to serve humanitarian OpenStreetMap communities, individuals, and organizations worldwide. Facing the task of supporting humanitarian OpenStreetMap community growth across 94 countries, over the past few months we’ve established a Community Team, taking the opportunity to welcome exciting (and some familiar) faces into the HOT staff team.

Introducing…

Arnalie Faye Vicario - Online Community Engagement Lead

Who are they? Arnalie has been advocating for a more diverse and inclusive OpenStreetMap community since she first became involved in 2016. She is passionate about building inclusive spaces in the OSM community - where the communities that we serve and map are prioritized, listened to, and are able to voice their concerns. Her professional background is as a GIS specialist, using OSM for projects supporting disaster risk reductions and management in the Philippines (e.g., Project NOAH - WebSAFE and ISAIAH), and OSM for social welfare and development (e.g., the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s MapViewer and MAPAbabae). Alongside OSM Philippines, she is a member and supporter of various local mapping collectives in the country, such as GeoLadiesPH, Ministry of Mapping, UP Resilience Institute Youthmappers, Mapbeks, and Mental Health AWHEREness.

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I’m happy to announce that this week I’ve joined the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team as Community Strategist and Research Lead.

In my new role I’ll be working to support the Humanitarian Open Mapping Movement by building strategies and initiatives based on quality data and research, as well as identifying opportunities to further the Audacious project aims.

We will scale up the support to local mapping communities with the aim of mapping an area home to one billion people, adding places at high risk of natural disaster or experiencing poverty in more than 94 countries worldwide.

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Hi everyone!

Delighted to announce that proposals are in for the hOSM Summit Grant 2020. One grant of $5000 is available to an OSM community that attended at least one of the sessions at the summit (supported by ESRI). In addition to being provided support, mentoring and training during the grant period, one team member will attend and present their project at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Summit 2021 (date and location TBD).

Proposals can be found here: osm.wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Microgrants/Humanitarian_OpenStreetMap_Summit_Grant_2020

If you have some time and would like to give comments/feedback you can do so on each proposals Discussion page. And if you’d like to endorse a project, please do so (this will be taken into consideration during the final selection process).

Instructions to add an endorsement: 1. Log in to the wiki if you are not already logged in. 2. Scroll down to Endorsements and click ‘Edit source’. 3. Add your reason for the endorsement followed by four tilde signs: ~~~~ [Note: The ~~~~ automatically inserts your name and the current date.]

Final review will take place on Monday 18 January so please make endorsements and/or give feedback before then, so that we can take your opinions into consideration.

Thanks!!

Lately I’ve been using uMap to map the local fat bike trails to let local riders know where they are. The trails are just snow so they can get buried by more snow and shift position when re-groomed or abandoned. Come spring they melt away.

I like that I can do most of my gpx line editing in JOSM then import to uMap for final formatting.

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/regina-fat-bike-trails-winter-20202021_538851#12/50.4510/-104.5992

Greetings!

All the changes and contributions are being made for research and educational purposes, through the MSc Program Degree “Leading Innovative Organizations”. Any comments/suggestions on how to productively participate in OSM would be gladly welcomed.

I’ve just updated the contributor statistics for the whole year 2020.

As maps.me has hit the news again, this time in a more negative way, I thought it might interesting to give the influence of the app on new contributors another look.

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you get credit for what you finish, not what you start - unkown

Today is the day to put our ideas into the hands of the people that face the problem.

For those that haven’t heard of Paulo Freire, to introduce him here would not do him justice. However, he fundamentally shaped me both personally and professionally.

‘The people that face the problem, are those best placed to solve it’. - Paulo Friere

There is little I am more passionate about in this world than this statement.

It is for this reason, that Friday is one of my favourite days in the design sprints. It’s the day where we finally get to see if our listening and learning was translated into something that will help people solve their problems. Ultimately it is a day of practicing deep humility.

Whoever teaches, learns in the act of teaching and whoever learns, teaches in the act of learning. - Paulo Friere.

And that’s what we’re here to do. Learn. We are in search of the golden equation: problem + solution = value. Ultimately this is what matters most - no value, no solution.

And once we have found a solution of value? Evolution.

To be continued…

The end of one story, is the beginning of many more. - unkown