OpenStreetMap
I joined UMT in January, 2018. It has been an awesome experience. So far, I’ve enjoyed a lot of priviledges that ordinarily, I wouldn’t have had assess to. To my mentor, Mr. Victor Ndubuisi Sunday, keep up the good work sir.
Sometimes the naming of Lao places can be a real mess. A village where I used to live is called ສວນມອນ or “Souanmon” in the common French-derived romanization (AKA PCGN—it’s not a standard but as close to one as you get for Lao). On signs around the place you can find at least the variants “Sounmone”, “Suanmon”, “Suanmone” and “Saunmon”. Which is not a big problem if the Lao spelling is on the sign as well—adding the standard spelling as an alt_name at least makes both searchable.
But sometimes even the Lao has to be dug up from other sources. These days someone added a whole bunch of hydropower stations as simple name tags. name was consistently in Japanese and name:en had some romanization that was probably done from the Japanese. So demoting name to name:ja seemed obvious; name:en to name less so, but as the “English” spelling is far more common in Laos than the Japanese (even though some of these power plants seem to be Japanese aid projects) it seems reasonable. But what if the name is given as something that doesn’t exist in the common romanization such as Nam Nyon Hydropower Plant? I wanted to make it consistent at least with the naming of the river that the power plant obviously derives its name from. So the river was called name=ນຳ້ຍອນ and name:en=Nam Cnon. So the Lao isn’t strictly conforming Unicode (which is why some renderers put the tone mark on the ຍ while it should be on the ນ) but it would fit the “Nam Nyon” romanization. “Nam Cnon” seems to be a typo. Additionally, there was a relation joining the river and its reservoir under the name “Nam Nhon”.
GISua is a small team of GIS specialists from Ukraine. We are working on some projects for our customer - Mapbox company
We have two projects now
There is a list of GISua team members
Andreyhmk, Ludmila Gladkova, fluffy_unicorn, oksana_krinickay, Romashka1111, Bonya_23, marinatoporova, tanboychenko, Irina Karachevtseva, Vladimir Ovramenko, BogDan_Olegovich, julia, john_13, shpakudza, Constantinum, aleksgreben, Popova Alena, ArtemKravchenko, Ann Khroshun, Maria Guslyakova, ukrainian_falcon, Elizaveta Bugaichuk, InessaZavada, Lena Vitolberg, Gulchevskaya, Victoria1901, Demiar
For any questions about GISua team and projects please email to topol@postgis.info
I just made a account and learned hotosm mapping from Hackathon public event organized by Ger Community Mapping Center, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 30th March, 2018. Thank you GCMC team!
Энэ арга хэмжээнд оролцсон тухай тэмдэглэл-ээ блогтоо нийтэллээ.
… and there’s probably lots to come, maybe in the near future.
I’ve started work on a new client-side style for OpenStreetMap data, and feel it’s reached the point where I can release it to the public. My goal is to make a style that shows a rich selection of the data OSM has, and to make use of most of the colour space, rather than a style designed for overlaying other data on top of.
As a new style, I’ve been able to approach a lot from scratch, looking at avoiding mistakes of previous projects, and using best practices while building on existing work. All the components are open-source, and no assumptions are made about using closed-source software or particular commercial solutions.
You can get the code on GitHub
I’ve updated the Alaska Marine Highway. The southern most end is in Bellingham, Washingtonm just up the road from me. It didn’t appear to connect to either Valdez and Seward that the US Bike Routes indicated that it should. A number of ferry routes were missing or incomplete which was started me on the quest to fix the problem. It still doesn’t connect to Seward, the jumping off point for USBR 97 to Bellingham. As far as I can tell, Seward doesn’t have a ferry terminal. It does connect to USBR 95 in Valdez.
Work still needs to be done. If anyone wants to help, here is a list of items that need help with:
Reposting this again.
All bus stops should be added.
| 95x Westerly 8256612 | 8256605 IB | 8256611 OB |
Still need bus stops and platforms.
Hello,
(this is a shorter english version of my recent blog entry in german)
two weeks ago, at 15th of April, i got massive hardware problems on my regio-osm.de Server, where the OSM housenumber evaluations and streetlist evaluations were running.
Within a few hours after by emergency call on twitter at 15th of April, two OSM guys offered me their help.
Thank you very much, Gernot Hillier, for your fast and successful support!
I had to restore the databases for both evaluation with a timestamp from 25th of march, so the countrywide switzerland new housenumber evaluation is still not available. I want to reimport them in the next days.
The problems should be solved now completely, so i can now concentrate to make a documentation about the hole system to enable other people to install such an osm housenumber and/or streetlist evaluation system. And i hope, in a few weeks, i can add some new small features and enhance the usability of the existing system.
Greetings from Dietmar aka okilimu admin on regio-osm.de
Before I start my story of how I got to know of OSM and how the UniqueMappesTeam (UMT) got started, let me first of all say what OSM is and a little about what it does…….sit tight. OSM is an acronym for OpenStreetMap; it’s an online map of the world that’s created and contributed to by people like you and me (both young & old, male & female). Interestingly, it’s an open sourced which operates under an open license. Meaning it’s accessible to all Free-Of-Charge and anyone can contribute to it. ##What it does…. Since it’s a collaborative project to create free editable map of the world, it means that it allows anyone with a PC and internet access to trace both roads, buildings and rivers (where available) of anywhere in the world. And this data is made available to the Red Cross, local and international disaster response agencies and every other end-users of Geo-spatial data.
Hello, World!
Hello OSM community!!
I’m a final year undergrad at IIT Roorkee, India. I have been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2018. This summers I’ll be working on providing support for vector tiled data for iD editor. Here are more details about the project.
I’ll be posting most of the updates on the project work here. I am looking forward to making it a great learning experience so I would highly appreciate your suggestions.
Cheers!!
The Unique Mappers, Port Harcourt, contributed in task #580 Westwood Middle School- Ondangwa, Africa, mapping over 50 buildings and over 45buildings for #hotosm-task-606 #BHOOT #Missing maps. Buildings were also mapped in Rivers State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Nothing eternaly
Howdy OSM community! I’m a 3rd year GIScience PhD student living in Santa Barbara, CA. When I’m stuck at school, I’m researching GIS conceptual fundamentals, geographic information retrieval, and spatial cognition. When I’m not on campus, I’m rebuilding a pool table, rejuvinating a quadcopter, home brewing, and climbing around the Santa Inez mountains.
My 2018 summer will be dedicated to integrating notes (and maybe a few other things) into the iD editor. Here is a project overview. This’ll allow editors to more easily see and create notes while live editing. To start, I’ll make sure that a notes API is set up and that note details are queried for a given viewport. Next, I’ll be adding note icons, a toggle to turn notes on and off, and several other UI components. Finally, I will add remaining interactions including closing notes, commenting, etc.
This task, albeit humble, should be a challenge for me since I’m not a native developer. However, I hope to complete this task before the end of the program and move on to some other iD tasks. For more details on my project schedule, check back in a week for my next post.
Cheers, -Thomas
p.s. I’m glad that OSM allows me to indicate my location with spurious precision ;)
Today was full of activities with the unique mappers, Port Harcourt. We had a small celebration in respect to the Metrics Award. We took some pictures with these respectable person's who have contributed to the growth of the Unique Mappers Team, making visible the Youth Mappers' banner and the certificate of Award.
Professor Umeudeji, Professor Mmom, Prof Emenike, Dr Vincent Weli, Dr. Wizor, all in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Port Harcourt, were recognized. The Unique Mappers were also with the Director of The Information and Communication Center, UNIPORT. We had a fun time. The team finished off with Presentations by select members. Research and compilation put together, I was able to prepare power point presentations on the topics “HOT tasks for Vulnerable Communities in Nigeria”, “Citizen Science “ and “OSM Analytics” all of which were sent to the unique mappers team email address. I was actually able to present the work on “HOT tasks for Vulnerable Communities in Nigeria”. My presentation was before the Unique Mappers and present were the team coordinator, Mr Sunday Victor, the Team President, Chuwudubem, and the team secretary general, Blessing.
iD, JOSM, demo.f4map.com, osmbuildings.org - I’m calling out a few use cases for OSM today because I’d like to point out the difference in the quality of OSM data rendering.
Of course, OSM is more than just data: it’s a community! But it is also software. And that community must respond quickly to the demand for better quality maps (i.e. 3d, textured, or even animated). Every user uses OSM map data for different use cases.
iD is a great tool for mappers and is easily accessible through the web browser unlike JOSM, which also provides many other features (probably). Potlatch is a flash-based tool like iD that also allows dragging edges of nodes and viewing uploaded GPS traces. But neither tool will render the buildings or other topology.
This is where osmbuildings.org and especially demo.f4map.com become necessary tools to verify the 3D appearance of vector data when mapping. These tools possess the ability to modify our vector world from a perspective street view and bird’s eye view rather than solely from orthogonally projected satellite imagery.
Yet it is possible to adapt OSM to any structure on, in, or around earth in one continuum of data. It is possible to create orbital relations to other planets, each with its own spherical geographical coordinates to vector data. But the demand for OSM data awaits a community generous and flexible enough to provide the software that allows rendering and mapping it.
There are new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), sometimes coined the “Eu Data Protection Regulations,” come into effect on May 25, 2018. All organizations, companies, and entities operating in the EU will be required to adhere or, at minimum, have preparedness plans. The GDPR is considered a “gold standard” which other countries outside the EU may adopt. The OSMF License Working Group prepared a detailed white paper about GDPR. This post is a compilation of resources to support the ongoing OSMF conversation.
This 2 -page checklist explains some of the considerations.
Responsible Data Forum: top 5 considerations: 1. Responsibility and rights are foundational to the GDPR 2. The scope of the GDPR is broad, going beyond Europe 3. The GDPR broadens the definition of ‘personal data’ 4. Prepare for data audits now 5. The GDPR strengthens the rights of data subjects 6. For organisations, this is operational
Digital Impact (Stanford) Digital Impact is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). Their summary of key articles:
Access Now has a great article:
Are you tracking:
The FutureLearn GDPR Online course suggests:
Thank you OSM for powering Indic maps on Wikimedia.
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indic_Maps
A lot of name tags to be added now in OSM for better language maps.
ImproveOSM is my employer Telenav’s effort to process billions of GPS points from our users and partners into actionable tasks for mappers. We currently detect missing turn restrictions, missing or wrong one-ways and missing roads. The easiest way to work on these tasks thus far was to install the JOSM plugin.
Now that we have a new version of MapRoulette, I thought it would be nice to make some of these tasks available through MapRoulette as well. This makes it a bit more manageable, because we have 80.000 missing or wrong one-ways, almost 300.000 missing turn restrictions, and almost 1.6 million missing road tiles.. To break that down, let’s start with a country-by country effort to add missing roads. I created a challenge for Colombia that you can find here. Let me take you through the process of solving a missing roads task. I use JOSM for my example. You can use iD as well, but then you can skip the steps that involve the JOSM plugins.
If using JOSM, open the plugin preferences and search for ImproveOSM. Install it and restart JOSM. This will give you three map layers for the different types of tasks. I set the opacity for the missing roads layer lower, because the tiles can make it hard to see the imagery.
