Some time ago we prepared a website that allows you to easily add AED (Automatic Defibrillators) locations to the OSM database. The website is available at: https://openaedmap.org We would like as many people as possible to use it. That’s why we want to remove as many barriers to using this website as possible.

We would like to ask for help in translating into other languages. Translation is done using: Weblate

If you want to add new language beside adding translations here create an issue in GitHub https://github.com/openstreetmap-polska/openaedmap-frontend/issues site uses a list of language to display in navbar.

I’m still “obsessing” about crannógs. There are now 205 mapped in Ireland and the UK with site_type=crannog. The timing is unfortunate with the proposal about changing site_type=crannog to archaeological_site pending, but I have been delayed for so long; I did not want to wait any longer. I’m adding disclaimers to every video to keep watching out for tag changes…

Five parts of a mini series about crannógs are planned, two of them have been published on my channel already, one will go public next Saturday.

I have created a page on the wiki mentioning some of the sources for finding crannógs, and I’m basically covering all the options in these videos.

• Mapping Kilkenny’s only crannóg
• Mapping a Time Team Dig - Llangorse Crannog (Wales)
• Mapping a crannóg found in the School’s Collection (duchas.ie) (Co. Mayo)
• Mapping a crannóg from excavations.ie (Co. Westmeath)
• Mapping a crannóg from WikiCommons (this will most likely be an example from Scotland, because there are hardly any photographs from Ireland)

I’m hoping to gather some interest from historians and archaeologists in OpenStreetMap with this. Long shot…

OSM

The Issue

A common tagging mistake that I’ve encountered a few times is putting the addr:housenumber into the name field. Data of this type tends to be old so it seems the modern tools do a better job keeping this kind of edit from happening. However, when you do find this issue there’s usually a lot of objects to clean up which can be a bother without the right tools.

Finding objects

Here’s the overpass query I’ve used a few times that provides a reasonably stating place:

/*
This has been generated by the overpass-turbo wizard.
The original search was:
“"name"~"^[0-9]" and "building"”
*/
[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
  // query part for: “name~/^[0-9]/ and building”
  way["name"~"^[0-9]"]["building"]({{bbox}});
  relation["name"~"^[0-9]"]["building"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

Update! User marczoutendijk from the Discord server has provided this overpass query that does a great job finding more instances if this with low noise:

(
  node["name"~"^[0-9]+$"]["addr:housenumber"~"^[0-9]+$"]["brand"!~"."]["shop"!~"."]["amenity"!~"."]["highway"!~"."];
);

The Cleanup

The easiest workflow I’ve found it to load the area into JOSM and run a search with some more specificity. Here’s the search for any building way that has a name tag with numbers at the beginning and doesn’t have an addr:housenumber tag:

name~"^[0-9]+" and building=* and type:way and -"addr:housenumber"

Or for names that are up to 3 numbers and nothing more (ex: 7,25,123):

name~"^[0-9]{1,3}" and building=* and type:way and -"addr:housenumber"

Or a name that represents a range of housenumbers (ex: 12-16):

name~"^[0-9]+.[0-9]+" and building=* and type:way and -"addr:housenumber"

Once you have the right set of objects selected, the tag editior will let you rename the “name” tag to “addr:housenumber”. I like to do a spotcheck or values in the name tag to make sure there’s nothing surprising and then the changes can be uploaded.

I do actually map

please don’t ban me

Background

Passionate on earth science and open data and that courage and motive burst my enthusiasm and help me to enroll Bachelors of Geomatics Engineering just after my +2 level. I find this university academic course more interesting than i expected before. Firstly I got to know about the OSM when i was in the first semester of my engineering life through the campus Organization and attend my first ever session on OSM and find it was so interesting. At that time due insufficient network and lack of own knowledge i only start OSM continuing mapping since 2021 but introduced about OSM was since 2019. After engaging so many volunteering work and webinars, mapathons and training sessions, i got chance to do different project at KLL and guidance from the professional mapper helps me a lot to sharp my skills and i am getting more and more interested to mapping.

Later on, I joined Data Quality Intern at HOT from Oct 2022 for 3 months and this is really helping to find better way of controlling data quality and QA tools and so many.

google_spy

Surely, you’ve heard Elon Musk is trying to save / sabotage Twitter (choose the correct answer).

It led a bunch of people to flee from Twitter and discover Mastodon.

Never heard of Matodon ? “Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service” says Wikipedia.

more info

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Amanda from the OSMF is running her own instance called (https://en.osm.town/). She’s looking (threatening?) for a logo.

We need your creativity !

Below, my proposals :

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Open source culture is increasing day by day in Turkey. In this way, many platforms and associations have been established in the field of open source and data. Many of them organize events, workshops and studies in their field. Websites or social media accounts have been added to reach them. If there is an association, organization or platform you would like to be added to, please get in touch. (It is constantly updated.)

Yer Çizenler Mapping for Everyone

Openstreetmap Türkiye Telegram Channel

Openstreetmap Türkiye Facebook

WeeklyOSM TR

Turkey Open Source Platform

Free Software Association

Wikimedia Turkey

Open Data and Technology Association

Introduction

My name is Japhet Masunzu from the Democratic Republic of Congo

What i like

• Christian music

• mapping

• Eating rice and beans

Lien osm.org/user/JaphetMasunzu/diary

HOT Data Quality Internship 2022

HOT Data Quality Internship 2022 is a good HOT program for which we had the privilege to be selected, in order to increase our knowledge about openstreetmap data validation and quality control tools. It is really a good time of training and information very profitable.

Introduction

My name is Japhet Masunzu from the Democratic Republic of Congo

What i like

• Christian music

• mapping

• Eating rice and beans

Lien

I want to do a study of parking lot areas vs. property taxes lost and nearby population density. So I have been working through the Houston Heights adding parking lot polygons. I may try to finish up the building outlines south of 11th street while I’m at it.

I have collected data for google

no wait I didn’t

Yep, it was a mistake :(

Brazilian Mapper asks for donation to continue his full-time mapping work. Brazil

website for donation: https://opencollective.com/playzinhoagro

Preciso da sua ajuda: Como você pode ajudar a apoiar meu trabalho Criada por PlayzinhoAgro a 10 setembro 2022 em Portuguese (Português) English Version

Nesses últimos 2 anos como voluntário em tempo integral desenvolvi vários projetos de mapeamento pelo Brasil, por acreditar ser meu dever contribuir por conta do deficit que o mapa tinha na minha região. Minha meta como mapeador é tentar diminuir os espaços em branco no OpenStreetMap para que mais pessoas possam usá-los e assim mais mapeadores surgirem.

Entendo que nem todo mundo tem tempo ou interesse em mapear, no máximo fica no básico e muitas vezes acaba esquecendo do OSM por não consegui usar no seu dia a dia, ainda mais em um país como o Brasil onde dificilmente um trabalhador teria tempo para ficar atualizando mapas.

Tenho me dedicado diariamente ao OSM, mas infelizmente isso tem um custo e já que não sou nenhum herdeiro, tem sido bem difícil conciliar meu trabalho como voluntário e minha vida pessoal, já passei por fases muito complicadas desde que eu decidi me dedicar em tempo integral, mas também tive muitas ajudas.

Trabalhar no OSM não é uma tarefa fácil, pois seu trabalho nunca está concluído, sempre há novas mudanças que precisam ser mapeadas, erros a serem corrigidos, é um trabalho contínuo que exige certo nível de conhecimento e experiencia adquirida com o tempo.

Um dos primeiros projetos que eu fiz foi usando o DAMN e depois o Taskmanger para poder gerenciar e mapear cidades inteiras, com esse projeto foram quase 20 cidades que foram totalmente mapeadas desde as estradas aos edifícios.

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I guess I didn’t keep up with this diary. I’ve been busy since that first entry.

I’ve gone through both Cleveland National Forest and San Bernardino National Forest to fill in and tag forest roads and trails. At this point, both forests should have all of the official routes of travel with their official names and refs. There will be some differences between OSM and the FS Topo data source where conditions on the ground are different from what USFS has in their data set.

I also worked with a team of mappers to update all the Sq___ names that were changed by BGN/USGS in both OSM and Wikidata. (See https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-completes-removal-sq-federal-use and https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/all-official-sq-names.) That made me really happy because the unfortunately named local “Squaw Tit” that I used in my backcountry navigation course is now appropriately named “Mat Kwa’Kurr.”

I have two things going on now. I’m filling in the roads that CBP has made in the Jacumba Wilderness Area. There’s been a lot of activity out there recently and some construction work on two new border wall segments. This activity is controversial for a number of reasons, so I think it’s important to document the impact CBP has had in the area.

I’ve also started working with the BLM Ground Transportation Linear Features data set to fill in backcountry routes in SoCal.

I’m starting with the area around Superstition Mountain in Imperial County because it’s a popular area for off-road activities. The terrain there makes navigation challenging, so good maps can make a huge difference.

Unfortunately, the shifting sand dunes in the area also make mapping difficult. And the BLM data is not very good. The BLM tracks wander off into places where there are no tracks on the ground. And the BLM tracks take some improbably dangerous routes over surface features, like crossing the sharp crest of a soft sand dune.

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Projeto pensando pelo mapeador PlayzinhoAgro - Brasil

osm.org/user/PlayzinhoAgro/diary/397900 e Apoiado Pela UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do Openstreetmap.

Project thinking for mapeador PlayzinhoAgro - Brazil.

osm.org/user/PlayzinhoAgro/diary/397900 and Supported by UMBRAOSM - Union of Brazilian Mappers of Openstreetmap.

Reimaginando o perfil de usuário do OSM

Reimagining the OSM User Profile

I would like to start by explaining that this is an exercise in imagination on how we could improve the UX/UI in the OSM profile, this means that some changes were based on my experience and there are still some things missing that I have not explored, like the Diaries, settings and Messages, I would love to get feedbacks from you!!!

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• In 1992 Philippe Starck designed [oar-shaped plaques] for Paris(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panneau_Histoire_de_Paris). They highlight historical buildings and looked very nice!

• In 20o1 Porto was crowned European Capital of Culture, congrats! It involved a lot of development, like a reconstruction of Jardim da Cordoaria. But also installation of the Stark Plaques.

• Location and a full list of this plaques is a mystery and is not on the internet! Ironically, the land of explorers is an unexplored unmapped land.

• Current list is tracked on OSM wiki.

• Fun fact, renowned/infamous explorer Artemy Lebedev took a picture of a plaque that no longer exists.

• I need your help with finding precise location with photographing these plaques:

• https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1640304,-8.6768786,3a,75y,6.78h,99.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s46LyIPwjTEm7PnCROYW0dg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

• https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1475471,-8.6214717,3a,90y,359.26h,97.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAFi1qw9RB0qiX7TO41oZdg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

• https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1559485,-8.6808203,3a,75y,233.68h,85.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shlGth4EjwxvQ_VPZ1EA1yQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DhlGth4EjwxvQ_VPZ1EA1yQ%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D271.5719%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

• osm.org/?mlat=41.145111&mlon=-8.611339&zoom=15#map=19/41.14510/-8.61130

• Please dm me if you have any updates about these Porto Plaques.

• Thank you!

I am terrible at keeping journals, and this will probably be no exception, but I have been enjoying some folks’ regular updates about what they have been up to in the OpenStreetMap world. So let’s give this a try! Two weeks late already for October; life got in the way..

Mapping

I’ve had a pretty active mapping month, but also all over the place, more so than usual.

• I participated in a virtual mapping party at work. We worked on a HOT Tasking Manager project. This is the first time in a while that I had really worked with Tasking Manager. It’s generally easy to use but sometimes the instructions can be clearer. It was good to get out of my mapping ‘comfort zone’.
• I did my usual surveying while out and about using GoMap!! while the weather is still nice.
• I read somewhere that Geofabrik’s OSM Inspector had gotten an update with some new categories, so I gave that a new try. I ended up spending quite a bit of time untangling some invalid polygons.
• Used RapiD to add some government-provided GIS data. I also wrote about this, see below.

Meeting

• We had our monthly OpenStreetMap Utah meetup and it was a special and fun one! I decided I wanted to try out Every Door, the mobile POI and micromapping app. We went to a local mall and I wrote about it. We will do this again!

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How to replicate a OSM database: https://jakobmiksch.eu/post/osm2pgsql-replication-script/

How to convert polygons to points: https://jakobmiksch.eu/post/osm2pgsql-point-polygon/