• I marked task 721 as completed
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I will pay one cake, beverage or even send a T-shirt if somebody teach/give me code to identify changesets where street names were inserted.

ie, there was a lot of already traced highways and then somebody modified them, inserting names.

What I would like to do:

1. identify every changeset where street names were inserted in a specific area (Brazil, for example); sorting by the number of affected ways in each changeset would be nice
2. filter by a specific username
3. filter where street names were inserted and some specific value is not present in changeset’s source, source:name or imagery_used

I can host a postgis database with the data if needed (I guess that some SQL black magic will solve this)

Cake, beverage, T-shirt and US$ 100 via paypall if somebody gives me all these 3 features.

Tasks 720 and 721 are almost completed

The exercises of mapping from the citizenship, which are the basis of the present introspection, take origin in the work group of #Repubikla. This group, through several projects articulated among themselves, encourages citizens and organized civil society to be empowered by generating robust data for public policies, and forms a framework where all the urban stakeholder are interrelated and aware from their different and complementary perspectives, in an inclusive way. These two objectives serve the central objective that is the construction of an egalitarian and inclusive city, with high participation in its processes, of the whole of the society.

Through the initiatives of #Mapeaton (Mapathon for and by pedestrians) and then #CrucesNegros (BlackCrosses), we have been approaching methods that sharpen our reading of public space, in a fine level of detail, and in its less visible and tangible dimensions, but more practical and perceptive.

Approaches to qualitative and inclusive methods of auditing the public space

Users of the streets that do not have any motor problem, are the majority of the people in charge of directing the walks during which the audits are carried out. What elements of the transit space can a person who walks without difficulty, easily notice? The tip of the iceberg, the most obvious tangible elements, that even a robot could interpret with banks of images of the city. And for this, we can soon leave the task to artificial intelligence systems (#Mapillary and #OpenStreetCam advance in this sense and will be a reality achievable in a few years).

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We are fast approaching the Equinox (Lord Google tells me that it will be on Monday, 20 March at 10:28 UTC this year). Here is a splendid photo taken a week early of some St Ann’s municipal grass with Spring flowers, taken from St Ann’s Well Road looking North-Eastwards on Monday 13 March (and yes, England really is as green as that in Spring):–

St Ann’s used to be known as Clay Field before it’s 1845 enclosure & development in the 1860s, 70s & 80s¹. Under the road pictured above is a culvert carrying spring-water from the St Ann’s Well. That well was a medieval place of pilgrimage for Kings & others, but was destroyed in 1889 when the Nottingham Suburban Railway (NSR) was built. A photo from last year, showing the remains of the bridge pillar that killed the Well (together with some of the story of the NSR) is at the bottom of my 3rd Diary post.

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A seminar/workshop in German language will be held Friday next week afternoon at our University, Laboratory for interoperable, and open-source Geospatial Software, Data and Standards [1] by Sven Geggus [3], a very experienced German OpenStreetMap contributer:

• 15:00 - 16:0 Uhr: Rendering for Beginners (presentation)
• 15:30 - 17:45 Uhr: Rendering of OSM Data (hands-on workshop)

Location: Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Schellingstr. 24, 70174 Stuttgart, building 2, room 140 [2]

The seminar will be conducted in German. It will not be available as webinar, sorry .

Thanks in advance to Michael Paulmann!

Regards - Franz-Josef

[1] https://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Vermessung/Einrichtungen-Labore/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en?set_language=en&cl=en

[2] osm.org/search?query=HFT%20Stuttgart#map=19/48.77993/9.17324

[3] http://blog.gegg.us/category/fossgis/

Collection, visualization, and sharing of information on disasters and disaster risk provide a basis for strengthening disaster resilience and supporting timely post-disaster response, recovery, and reconstruction efforts. For example, base maps (identifying the location of key infrastructure, and critical assets), hazard risk maps, and evacuation maps are necessary for planning interventions related to disaster risk reduction, including activities related to disaster preparedness. Similarly, information from post-disaster damage assessment is important for guiding activities in response, recovery, and rehabilitation phases, such as rescuing affected communities, providing relief, and developing required recovery and reconstruction plans.

OpenStreetMap (OSM), a method of community-based mapping using satellite imagery and ICT tools, used to develop base maps necessary for planning and prioritizing DRM-related interventions. ICT tools such as mobile phone applications developed to support this mapping approach. OSM provides simple access to its entire database under open license, which is useful for community-based mapping and data sharing in the event of a disaster, as well as in humanitarian and international development work. Since OSM relies on the local community to develop and update detailed base maps, it has become an effective mechanism to strengthen community-based DRM.

Satellite-based damage assessment is becoming a conventional procedure in post-disaster situations to collect rapid and objective damage information cost-effectively. By combining satellite-based damage maps with baseline OSM data, quick and remote identification of disaster locations and the extent of damage, such as the number of damaged buildings categorized by type can be obtained for early emergency response planning of humanitarian rescue, delivery of goods, and effective budget mobilization.

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Hi Community,

It’s Kuo-Yu slayer Chuang from GeoThings, Taiwan. I am now working with a group of ICT specialist/developer. As a team, we sit in the middle of voluntary communities, government agencies, and NGOs (humanitarian organization or standardization organization), for the development of something called “Humanitarian ICT”.

We worked with OSM/HOT Mappers, where we see the power of volunteered geographic information. We worked with Crisis Mappers, where we see the energy of crowdsourcing. We worked as the assistant staff of central/local government, where we learned the work flow in response to disaster in different countries. We worked as the voluntary member of NGO, where we saw the needs of ICT tools to ease the complexity of handling paper works during emergency.

We also co-work with Asian Development Bank on OSM mapping, environment survey, and crisis mapping with the ICT tools for the capacity building to disaster resilience in some Asian countries. We found most of those stakeholders, responsible to disaster preparedness/response/relief, need the detailed basemap plus crowdsourced information for knowing the situation and response. With the detail tagged OSM data by community that including level, material, even the visual condition, warning and evacuation can be performed earlier, and that is just critical for emergency response. That’s the reason why we think HOT is essential, is important. This also made us feel like to contribute to HOT, even we are just some random ICT Geeks :-p

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On the last few weeks, mapping activity around Lagos City, where I map a lot, from POI’s, street names, and buildings, have been increasing. And while I added many POI’s and street names (mostly the very familiar ones) withing the city, there is a lot still missing, that locals are working on. One of the active local user and contributor in Lagos that started mapping activity withing Lagos city is:

lagosmapper

Looking at the edit history, almost all are mapping withing Lagos City, and they are local edits. The increased mapping activity in Lagos is good news that locals there are inspired to map, thanks to all the efforts to put Nigeria on the map. Looking at the mapping activity Project at Ibadan City, the active response from the last weekend mapping party facilitated by “lagosmapper” is a great one. Obviously, the number of OSM contributors mapping Nigeria may increase from this update.

This is the Grade II listed statue & memorial placed above the grave for Bendigo In St Mary’s Rest Garden, Nottingham:–

“In life always brave, fighting like a lion…
In death like a lamb, tranquil in Zion”

Nottingham loves lions ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]) and they so loved William ‘Bendigo’ Thompson that his funeral in 1880 had a procession a mile long with thousands in attendance. He was buried in St Mary’s Cemetery (now called the Rest Garden) and, a hundred years later, all gravestones except his were transferred to the back wall. Unfortunately his monument was carved in soft stone, and acid air from thousands of coal fires has not been kind to it across the last century.

This was said to be (the site has gone) the only photo of Bendigo (sourced from picturethepast.org.uk):–

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That’s not as bad as it looks like:

http://pokemongoinformer.com/create-your-own-nest-in-pokemon-go/

On the last few days, mapping activity around Batangas City, where I map a lot, from POI’s, power networks (NGCP and Meralco), and buildings, have been increasing. And while I added many POI’s and street names (mostly the very familiar ones) in that city, there is a lot still missing, that locals are working on. Some local users in Batangas City that started mapping their city includes:

• imeeperezveedor
• jonadelcrispin
• Brad-M (from the Banaba area)
• Angelique Tan
• crops production
• dunah
• GMMM
• Pranses
• mgjeanleyesa
• alain curt mazo
• Heneral-Hulab
• MjCat
• gberts
• OCVAS R&DC (owned by the Office of the City Veterinarian and Agriculturist/OCVAS in Bolbok)
• EDGF
• digmaan

Looking at their edit history, almost all are mapping within Batangas City, and are possibly local.

Yet, as they are still new, mapping mistakes may still occur, and they can be cleaned up once spotted. And increased mapping activity in Batangas City is good news that locals there are inspired to map, thanks to all my efforts to map there, and the mapping activity for Project NOAH-ISAIAH (now defunct from February 28, 2017, but validation work is still continuing). And looking at the Google Map Maker “graduation” at March 31, 2016, the number of OSM users mapping Batangas City may increase from this update.

Started adding descriptions to buildings at Isola Albarella. Added Head Office location for now.

Nogales AZ to Philadelphia PA

This discussion might be truly endless, at least - while OSM has the same level of order enforcement as it currently has. I’m not claiming that I can say something new on this topic, but I just want to keep some arguments in one place.

There is a set of keys intended for language-specific names - name:<language_code>, such as name:en=*, name:fr=* and so on. OSM Wiki documentation explains its purpose quite clear: these tags should contain the existing commonly used names in corresponding languages (see Names article). It is not just a rule that comes out of nowhere. It originates from a core principle: OSM database should contain real factual information and nothing else.

If we take a look at Berlin, Germany with Overpass query, we’ll see that only about 750 nodes, lines, and areas have English names assigned. Usually, these are amenities, where name contains common nouns. Like:

• Botschaft der Republik Indonesien in Berlin (German),
• Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Berlin (English),
• Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia di Berlin (Indonesian).

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Here’s the latest from the MapRoulette world!

New version released

If you head to MapRoulette.org, you will see that we have a new release out, 2.0.3. This release addresses some annoyances with the keyboard shortcuts, adds a German translation (das freut mich! Thanks nebulon42!) and cleans up the interface in a few places.

A new section displaying keyboard hints

Mapping Activity

In the past 30 days, we fixed almost 18000 tasks in MapRoulette.

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Here’s the latest from the MapRoulette world!

New version released

If you head to MapRoulette.org, you will see that we have a new release out, 2.0.3. This release addresses some annoyances with the keyboard shortcuts, adds a German translation (das freut mich! Thanks nebulon42!) and cleans up the interface in a few places.

A new section displaying keyboard hints

Mapping Activity

In the past 30 days, we fixed almost 18000 tasks in MapRoulette.

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Radburn Design Housing is houses arranged so that each house (often terraces of houses) present their backs to everyone else, whilst the fronts of each house face each other. It is named after a Radburn, New Jersey estate built in 1929 and has become a byword for bad practice (an Australian architect said of his own housing estate designed on Radburn principles:– “Everything that could go wrong in a society went wrong … It became the centre of drugs, it became the centre of violence and, eventually, the police refused to go into it”). It seems that Nottingham got there first in c1860, but also in 1970 with the St Ann’s redevelopments.

Nottingham was one of the last places in England to enclose Common Land (Laxton village still has “Open Fields”) and, until the 1845 Enclosure Act (not fully enacted until the 1880s), the fields to north & south of the old city were open fields & Common Land, meaning that the main part of the population was restricted within the town walls. At this time the population was soaring. The practical combination of those two factors was foul living conditions & mass death, largely from water-borne diseases such as cholera (see St. Mary’s Rest Garden) (a poignant tombstone from that former churchyard, commemorating the deaths of Henry Davis (died June 21, 1846 aged 8) and sister Elizabeth Davis (died December 9, 1851 aged 16) is below). It therefore seems reasonable to call the expansion of the town-folk out into 1,068 acres (432 ha) of the Clay Field (the former name for St Ann’s) an “explosion”.

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Listed on the Map Features Wiki are 26 primary features that include highway, natural, building, etc. I ran a tile-reduce script looking for invalid capitalization in the 26 primary feature tags. Examples of invalid capitalization are:

• Highway instead of highway
• LANDUSE instead of landuse

I got back 3,186 features on OpenStreetMap with invalid capitalization in the primary feature tag. Ex: way/476771384

Such features are usually reported on QA tools like keepright and fixed by the community after some time, but a more constructive approach would be to automatically correct the issue and give the mapper feedback on what was fixed. This positive feedback cycle can help new mappers learn as well as reduce the burden of fixing trivial map issues on others.

Can we build a simple build a bot to do this:

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I would like to post on OSM’s blog today, March 8, International Women’s Day, a work coordinated by me using the OSM mapping methodology and tools.

The project was a pilot project was born in 2015 through the initiative of a group of volunteers of the NGO TECHO, in order to respond to the demand made by some of the people of León Island (a community that is in a situation of informality and subnormality. Due to the characteristics of informality and subnormality presented by the settlement, they were identified as the underlying problem entails the lack of all public services. Due to its informality, León Island does not appear in any urban planning system in the city of Cartagena, neither in the IGAC cadastre system nor in the MIDAS platform. Based on this previous analysis, it was decided to cover the issue that the community of León Island is not in any cartographic system. The pilot project thus emerges with the main objective of identifying, locating and geo-referencing; Not only the informal settlement of Leon Island as a whole, but also every street and housing present, conforming this component as an input to the phase of community development. Other objectives of the project were to involve community settlers as a participatory mechanism; Integrate housing (as spatial elements) with data from the Household Characterization Survey (ECH) within a Geographic Information System (GIS); Raise the profile of the community, including its history, describing access to public services and its infrastructure; And finally share the map, data and results generated with the same community and the general public through an online platform.

More about the pilot project you can find here: http://mapcartagena.wixsite.com/map-cartagena

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