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I’ve been trying to continue implementing https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/110#issuecomment-377527922 , but I hit a wall with CartoCSS, and frankly, I don’t know where to ask questions about it. Do you think it makes sense to create a #cartocss channel in the OFTC network?

Traffic Islands update

Last time, most highways within Dasmariñas City are on split-segment due to existing traffic islands, and thanks to mappers who have fixed the problematic split-segment mapping scheme. Despite the Holy Week, parts of Salitran and DBB have recently constructed the traffic island for the betterment of road safety upon knowledge from DEAR PAUL 24, hence the emergency editing applies on most parts of the Congressional Road Network (including Transit Lane) and Salitran Road. The fix has been updated on MAPS.ME app.

Road Widening and Rehabilitation

Most road widening and rehabilitation happen at an unexpected time, including the Congressional Road Network-Mangubat Avenue segment where DLSUMC/DLSHSI property has to adjust their property line with the white line that indicates the right-of-way/government property and the private property. Some buildings are slated to be demolished due to encroachment/conflict with the widened right-of-way, and your kind understanding is highly appreciated.

Good News from DEAR PAUL 24: Building and Infrastructure Accessibility

Most buildings and infrastructures (like footbridges) are mapped for the presence of the wheelchair ramps and elevators where the said infrastructure/building must be compliant with BP 344/RA 7277/9442/9994/10366/10754 to aid with accessibility and mobility to Persons with Special Needs and Disabilities (including Senior Citizens due to their advanced age). Hopefully, more footbridges will retrofit/install in the near future for pedestrian safety considerations + new building construction with the wheelchair ramp(s) and the elevator(s). Mostly, building floor levels and evacuation center(s) are mapped for humanitarian considerations that in case of an emergency, responders will take their part in saving people’s lives.

Feedback

Any comments and suggestions are welcome here to improve further the map. Should any problems arise, don’t hesitate to contact DEAR PAUL 24 thru OSM or FB Page.

Visited this lovely area some time ago and found not much detail, with few recent additions. I do like to ‘paint’ an area with landuse detail, as well as investigating roads, signs, and paths. As a map follower (rather than a sat-nav servant), I do like “the path starts just north of the wood and runs along east of the hedge to pass on the west side of a house”. Yes, my additions do stand out in a rather basic-mapped area, but I do look to when most of the UK becomes more clearly mapped. I think I have not trodden on anyone’s toes, but feel free to comment or amend. I follow a rural mapping philosophy of “it’s woodland or farmland” unless there is aerial view evidence of ‘meadow’ eg horsiculture, or worn/irregular grass or hillside etc. Note, after advice, I map large grounds around large rural houses as private garden (not park).

Spanish language version here

Hi all. I want to introduce the new MapRoulette version and invite you to try it. It is currently in beta and feedback and ideas for improvements are very welcome. This information also appears in the wiki section of the MapRoulette GitHub repository. You are welcome to submit issues there. I am looking forward to your feedback!

MapRoulette is a micro-task web tool for OpenStreetMap. It gives you small Tasks you can complete in under a minute to improve OpenStreetMap. Anyone can create groups of tasks, called Challenges, that the community can complete together.

This is the third major version of MapRoulette. The website has been completely redesigned and contains a lot of new features compared to the last major release.

MapRoulette 2 and 3 side by side

Here are some of the most visible new features.

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The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Information and Communication Technology Service (DSWD-ICTMS) joined the celebration of Women’s Month with “MAPAbabae: OSM Workshop and Mapathon with Women and for Women” last March 22, 2018, Thursday, 1:30-5PM.

MAPAbabae aims to map women and child-friendly spaces/facilities (as well as other mapping priorities of women) in the country through a collaborative (OSM) and gender-inclusive (not limited to women partcipation!) approach.

The program started off with an Opening Remarks from Dir. Noy Castro, mentioning the importance of having an integrated georaphic information system (GIS) in the Department with emphasis on mapping locations of facilities and resources for vulnerable sectors i.e. women, children, PWDs and senior citizens. We had two (2) speakers, Mike Labrador and Jen Alconis-Ayco, who shared their mapping experiences with women and for women, and another two (2), Gellie Apolinario and Dianne Bencito, who discussed about and demonstrated OSM. This was followed by a mapathon and sharing of mapping experience by the participants, then closing remarks from Andi Tabinas, our OIC-Division chief (wooo!).

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It has been a few years since I last posted what I have been up to as far as my Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) membership involvement as well as my personal contributions to OpenStreetMap (OSM). This time I thought it would be easiest to just do a brief overview by category: ## The Homefront: Forest (and other) Mapping in Colorado My goal of getting Park County, Colorado mapped continues to fall off schedule 😊 – I did get more done, just was side-tracked when a few of us started making a real push to map the forested parts of our state. Most of 2017 was focused on humanitarian mapping, so there is much more work I would still like to do locally. However, although it has been delayed on several accounts, we are so very close to starting the Denver Planimetrics import. ## Disaster Response: Activation Coordination for HOT There were lots of disasters over the last couple of years. Some notables were: Floods in Sri Lanka and Peru, a string of Earthquakes in 2016 (Indonesia, Japan, Ecuador), Hurricane Matthew, a ‘smaller’ outbreak of Ebola in the DRC and lots more that just didn’t require or garner a formal response. Two, I will expand upon…

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Today, I (accidentally) found out that the Bing imagery layer in OSM editors has seen an update — the last ever update for my local area, IIRC, is from 2013-ish. Many, many years ago, when some areas (even my state capital) were still stuck with Landsat imagery. There are limited high res imageries too, but it’s quite outdated (some are from 2005, for example), for the rest of my country (Malaysia).

Mapbox decided to share their imagery too, roughly mid-2014; and last year DigitalGlobe and Esri chipped in as well. With the availability of more recent and higher resolution imageries, usually DG layers has become my staple for editing, since their debut from May last year.

Bing imagery - in the editors: iD and JOSM - is more or less, DigitalGlobe (DG) Premium layer, but with overzoom. The advantage is that new users might find that it is more bearable to edit in higher zoom levels. DG Premium would only display white tiles, when an editor is trying to go beyond zoom level 19.

Pretty thrilled to be honest, at least new editors will be able to benefit from this, as Bing imagery is the default imagery in the iD editor. Previously, I reckon these new editors (in my country) might find editing OSM so off-putting; seeing outdated imagery, or Landsat imagery where higher resolution imagery is not available.

So I checked Bing Maps, expecting changes. Who knows… Apparently, the satellite layer in their own website is not updated yet. Which baffled me a bit. Probably that will take some time?

P.S. Anyway thank you very much Microsoft for your imagery refresh.

Missing Maps Leaderboard Updates

When Missing Maps started, it was impossible to imagine what it would ultimately become. The goal was to simply make more open map data available before disasters and to help the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team build more local mapping communities.

Early on we realized we needed better ways to quantify and track the impact of Missing Maps to OSM. Nearly 4 years later, we are making great progress on both of those fronts. Our efforts eventually produced the Missing Maps leaderboards, which sought to track individual users and teams.

The Missing Maps leaderboard technology is a streaming, real-time look at who is supporting our work. Initially funded by the Cisco Foundation, the leaderboards became a major way to engage and reward mappers. We were blown away when 4,000 mappers helped out on Missing Maps projects during the first year. Four years later, 52,000 mappers contributed to 1,200 mapping Missing Maps projects, the vast majority of those mappers were making their very first edits to OSM. In 2017, 10% of all new OSM mappers made their first edits in support of Missing Maps. The scale of tracking all these new users created problems for our system.

Thanks to a generous grant from Microsoft Philanthropies, Pacific Atlas migrated the stack to Microsoft Azure, completed a full analysis backfill, and rewrote large chunks to enable things to scale better in the future without dropping edits. As always, all the code is open, including the leaderboard code and the osm-stats infrastructure. We are always looking for help to create new badges or suggest new ideas.

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• osm.org/note/1336184 - DONE
• osm.org/note/248728
• osm.org/note/248731
• osm.org/note/799358
• osm.org/note/1336212
• osm.org/note/952338
• osm.org/note/588156
• osm.org/note/401009

Update: Need to reactivate and complete these two, per GinaroZ

• osm.org/note/1160783 - DONE
• osm.org/note/1191105

Dear all,

Today, v4.9.0 of the openstreetmap-carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. Once changes are deployed on the openstreetmap.org it will take couple of days before all tiles show the new rendering.

Changes include

Major changes

• A bug where closed ways with natural=cliff or natural=tree_row were not rendering has been fixed. This required fixing a transform bug. The fix will apply to all objects when they are created in OSM, but there is no migration for existing databases. Deployments will have to decide if the effects are serious enough to require them to reload the database.

Changes

• Adding place=square name rendering
• Adding rendering for different types of towers and masts
• Making gardens to use grass color with plant nursery pattern
• Adding rendering for intermittent water bodies
• Give oceans outline and simplify shapefiles on z0-7
• Simplify (generalize) admin borders
• Move natural=grassland and landuse=meadow earlier
• Start rendering aerialway name
• Adding icons for amenity=bbq, amenity=shower, leisure=sauna and advertising=column
• Adding special icons for shop=dairy, shop=medical_supply and shop=music
• Move amenity=toilets to higher zoom levels
• Fixing some SVG icons artifacts
• Make military=danger_area font dark pink and slanted
• Changing rendering for construction=steps to distinguish it from roads
• Changing label colour of private parking
• Small documentation and code fixes

Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including james2432, Penegal and jragusa, new contributors.

For a full list of commits, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v4.8.0…v4.9.0

As always, we welcome any bug reports at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues

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Yesterday, a unit of the Social Welfare Department organized and hosted MapaBabae - an OpenStreetMap workshop for Women, with Women - in their central office in Quezon City, to mark Women’s Month, and to introduce OSM as a tool for mapping, and to promote the value of diversity and inclusiveness in any community.

Kudos to the organizers for a refreshing take of mapa-thons, and the interesting discussion about language, empowerment, the potentials of open data in their work.

Jen, draws inspiration from the local Geo Ladies first (and only?) meet-up from 2014

As with other mapping activities, they also learned and edited maps of their communities. However, I found the discussions, and questions, more interesting.

A notable query was: “what’s the tag for baby feeding rooms?” I did a quick search, and to my surprise (and dismay), there’s no accepted convention. And yet, a proposal for baby_care was made in 2015.

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Turn restrictions are pretty common to OSM, them being the second most popular relation type, after multipolygons. Usually a restriction is a relation with two highway ways, “from” and “to” and a “via” member connecting these. The value of “restriction” tag adds a meaning: which kind of turn is forbidden on this route. For example, “restriction=no_left_turn” (and any other no_* value) forbids going from “from” to “to” way using “via” intermediate objects. Alternatively there are “only_*” values, forbidding any routes from the “from” way except the one leading to “to”.

Usually “via” members are nodes, which makes them redundant for all types of restrictions except “no_u_turn” (which has the same way in “from” and “to” roles). Thus supporting them in a routing libraries has been easy. But — a “via” member can also be a way. For example, on a dual-carriageway, like the one pictured below. Supporting ways for “via” members is hard, but they constitute less than 3% of all restriction relations, so developers have often ignored these.

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I had not taken OSM seriously until I began to need info and wanted to correct current map information in my locality. But I only edit maps here whenever I am in the mood or when I have time. In the early part of my mapping on osm, a great part of that was dedicated to correcting info on places that I am very familiar with.

My being female of the species has not really concerned me until I read an article today regarding the small percentage of women among mappers. In the listed members of WikiProject Philippines, I could see that I am only 1 of about 4 female names among 49 contributors. This made me edit Preferences on my wikipage. I clicked on “She edits wiki pages” on the question, “How do you prefer to be described?”

Let me emphasize another fact.

I belong to an indigenous community.

I am a full-blooded indigenous person.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/who-maps-the-world/555272/

OSM SHANTOU PROJECT

## OSM 汕头市计划

Greeting to all OSM editors,

As (former) local citizen of Shantou city I’ve recently begun to edit the Shantou Area OSM (Wikipedia of Shantou: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantou). The project is not, however, limited to Shantou municipal area. Several modifications of mine were located in Jieyang and Chaozhou (the Chaoshan Intl. Airport and Chaoshan Railway Station as well as their proximity areas).

So far I’ve completed some blocks of the center city area of Shantou, particularly those around big commercial center, schools and some hospitals. The airport and railway stations are also completed from my point of view.

Since I’ve lived in the center city, the local knowledge serves well.

Generally there are already some works done at Shantou area: most of the main streets and highways, the coastline. I believe that there were some OSM editors who had already made some contributions (probably students of Shantou University since there is a well structured STU area on OSM now).

The project consists rougly of:

1. The center of the Shantou City (Jinping* and Longhu Districts): buildings, neighbourhoods, local streets and alleys, etc. which is relatively easy for me to complete.
2. The rural area (Chenhai, Haojiang, Chaoyang, Chaonan Districts, of which I don’t possess enough local knowledge for these areas).
3. The island Nao’ao County: I’ve made some modifications about the landscapes and added some buildings but it’s far from done.

The project can be expanded to a Grand Chaoshan Area Project if local editors of Chaozhou and Jieyang City join in.

• It would be very interesting if the historical area of Jinping District (老市区), especially the area of Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Pavilion (小公园纪念亭) be completed by marking all historical buildings. It would be useful for the memorial protection work (actually some NGO in Shantou has done some remarkable works, ex. 汕头山水社).

Premium DigitalGlobe imagery

With Premium DigitalGlobe imagery at 100m you can see buildings and it is not comfortable to edit them at this zoom level being too small but the height when you zoom out 50m the buildings disappear. As I use JOSM frequently, I tried ID editor and it’s the same thing. That’s weird. photo 1 zoom at 100 m photo 2 zoom at 50 m

It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of the 3D Model Repository, available at https://3dmr.eu!

The main aim of the project is to enable a better 3D rendering of OSM data, placing 3D models at everything from landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, to benches on the street.

Starting off from my Google Summer of Code project, over the past few months, along with my mentors, Jan and Tobias, I have been working hard on setting up the infrastructure required for the launch, namely a web server and the domain, which have been warmly provided by FOSSGIS. Along with this, some new features and bugfixes were added to the repository, including a PR by dkiselev. Finally, the last few miscellaneous issues before the launch have been resolved, and a few sample models were added to the repository.

On the renderer side, -karlos- has been making great progress with OSM go, having provided us with an easy way to show off the features of the repository. An example rendering can be seen here or in the picture below.

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I am testing “taginfo” instances:

• “Taginfo is a system for finding and aggregating information about OSM tags and making it browsable and searchable. It was created by Jochen Topf.” link

You can reach my testing site here for the next 2 weeks( after I will shut down )

• web: http://taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/

Status:

• Africa: every country - daily refresh
• Central-America: every country - daily refresh
• Antarctica: daily refresh
• other (Asia ,Antartica and Oceania, Europe, North-America, South-America, Russia )
  • just some examples … - no refresh .

feedback/problems: https://github.com/taginfo/dockerized-taginfo

About ~ 120 testing areas, some examples:

• Berlin: http://eu-de-be.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• California: http://na-us-ca.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Istanbul http://eu-tr-34.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Burkina Faso : http://af-bf.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Costa Rica : http://ca-cr.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Cuba: http://ca-cu.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Haiti: http://ca-ht.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Kenya: http://af-ke.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Madagascar: http://af-mg.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Mali : http://af-ml.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Nicaragua : http://ca-ni.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Sri Lanka : http://as-lk.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• Tanzania: http://af-tz.taginfo-dev.opengeodata.hu/
• ….

I am also looking hosting/dev sponsors - if it is useful.

After 2 weeks - you can reach the latest info in the source code repo : https://github.com/taginfo/dockerized-taginfo

Wikimania 2018 is happening in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18-22, 2018, it’s the annual international conference that celebrates Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects.

The previous year, Montréal, Canada, was the host of this conference. The OSM community in Montréal had set up a booth and did an amazing work of introducing people to the OSM project. It also became a great place for answering questions related to OSM as well as explore more ways to collaborate with different Wiki projects.

Group photo - Wikimania 2017

There were some interesting sessions related to OpenStreetMap in the previous Wikimania:

• Workshop - Mapathon! Contribute and connect OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia using Wikidata
• OpenStreetMap project and how to get involved
• OpenStreetMap loves Wikipedia

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