I presume it’s a breach of copyright if I use their satellite or map data? I’m not planning on doing so: I just saw the possibility to do so and I thought it would be a bad idea.

Furthermore, what happens if the data coincidentally happen to be the same? For example, if ‘Long Beach Reserve’ is the correct name, but also appears on Google Maps, is that some sort of breach (can they get you in trouble)?

One last thing: I plan on using data from my government for OSM to ensure accuracy. Here’s the website: https://mapshare.maps.vic.gov.au/vicplan/ Would this also be a breach?

Gotta kill time somehow, Immortal Boredom.

8287 - Missing Maps - Malawi- ChitipaNW

Missing Maps Requesting organization: Netherlands Red Cross The Missing Maps project aims to map the most vulnerable places in the world (affected by humanitarian crises: disease epidemics, conflict, natural disasters, poverty, environmental crises). Building on HOT’s disaster preparedness projects, the Missing Maps tasks facilitate pre-emptive mapping of priority countries to better facilitate disaster response, medical activities and resource allocation when crises occur.

Spent 2 hours mapping buildings, roads & waterways.

I finally got around to fixing the Greenbelt Bikeway in Heritage Park in Champaign. Notable edits:

• Cutting off the section that goes over Copper Slough to reconnect to the loop around Kaufmann Lake. This doesn’t actually exist as part of the trail, and is in fact a steep incline. I’m guessing so many people have been using it to go between the abandoned section of the Greenbelt Bikeway and the loop around Kaufmann Lake that to whoever was using satellite imagery it looked like a dirt path.

• Speaking of the abandoned section, added the way of the abandoned section of the Greenbelt Bikeway that went in the tunnel/culvert along with Copper Slough. Yes, the Champaign Parks District built a cycleway that shares a tunnel/culvert with a creek and then made cyclists forge the creek to continue on what was then the concrete cycleway. It should be no surprise that this section of the trail is completely unusable thanks to all the water damage over the years. I tagged it with abandoned:highway=cycleway so it won’t show up on the main map, but those of you editing will find it. There’s plenty of evidence for this existing for anyone who wants to survey the area.

• Added the section that goes around the west side of the pond in Heritage Park, just south of Bradley Avenue. This area is clearly newer than the rest of the Greenbelt Bikeway, so new in fact that it’s not even on satellite imagery yet. I used my own GPS traces to map this, so it may not be completely accurate and may need fixing.

• Added surface tags all around. This is especially important for the section that’s being used as a detour around the abandoned section that went through the tunnel/culvert as that section is a dirt path. Everything else on the Greenbelt Bikeway is either concrete or asphalt.

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The OSMF is opening applications for the Microgrants project today. The Microgrants Committee explains what’s happening on the OpenStreetMap official blog. Read all that before you head over to the wiki to start your application!

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The OSMF Microgrants project was set up by the OSMF Board and is run by the Microgrants Committee. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here or send them to microgrants (at) osmfoundation.org.

Dear all,

Today, v5.1.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. Once changes are deployed on openstreetmap.org it will take couple of days before all tiles show the new rendering.

Changes include:

• Remove way_area filtering for low zoom water (#4060)
• Move small amenities to z18 (#4044)
• Rework admin-boundaries to show admin_level=5/6/7 sooner but admin_level=10 later (#4100)
• Add rendering for addr:flats (#4082) - by @richlv
• Add rendering for man_made=pipeline ways (#4070)
• Add line rendering plus name labels for ridges and aretes (#3767)
• Add rendering for landuse=salt_pond (#4059)
• Remove power=sub_station/station rendering, add power=plant fill color (#4088)
• Remove icon for shop=ice_cream (#4093)
• Remove information=tactile_model rendering (#4086)
• Remove duplicate selection of natural = cave_entrance, peak, volcano, saddle (#4068)
• Move natural=spring back to amenity-points layer (#4069)
• Change quarry outline to 10% darkened quarry color (#4063)
• Change bridge-text way_pixels minimum and maximum (#4066)
• Update Dockerfile keyserver URL for osmadmins PPA (#4079) - by @volcan01010
• Code clean-ups (#4080, #4081, #4083, #4099)

Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including new 2 contributors: @richlv and @volcan01010

For a full list of commits, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v5.0.0…v5.1.0

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

– Joseph Eisenberg

i am glad i am the founder of Youthmappers, a biggest contributor to OSM in the university of education, winneba. We had our first meeting

Hi! I trust that you are resting well during this difficult time.

A few of us edited at track for State of the Map all about community engagement, diversity and inclusion. With SOTM making format changes, It seems that the best way forward is to host online discussions for our community based on the following. Stay tuned.

And, again, maps connect us, let’s find ways to support the community of global mappers. Thanks!

Community and Foundation Track - SOTM 2020

Summary This series of SOTM workshops will help us plan and coordinate in person followed by online sessions. These sessions work as a companion to each other building on the who, why and how methods of community building. We aim to be as inclusive as possible across OSM - developers, mappers, technologists, community organizers and more. We want to collaborate with the community to formulate documentation and measurable indicators out of these concurrent workshops.

Co-organizers - Heather and Trudy. Others most welcome.

Key words community, contributions, diversity, gender, leadership, coordination, collaboration, documentation, support, training, governance

community, contribution, collaboration, documentation, governance

Submitted 1800 CET Sunday Feb. 23

Session 1 - Collaborating across Contributors 1 hour

In this 1 hour session, we will discuss and map out the types of contributors to OSM. We will talk about values and spaces to support all the types of contributions to the OSM project.

This interactive session will involve 3 parts and small group work: Small groups - we will learn about “why we contribute to OSM” - 10 minutes User journeys - we will divide into 3 - 4 groups to document the user journeys of the various types of contributions. - 30 minutes Discussing ways to document and make suggestions for improvements 20 minutes Report back and next steps.

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Since I have joined OSM I used to attend different summits and conference but the state of the map Africa 2019 was my first state of the map Africa that I attended, it was amazing for me because I got the opportunity present and share my experience on the use of OSM in Rwanda and the experience of OSM Rwanda in general, during this conference I had a talk where I presented the use of OSM in Urban Planning, this was in the part of understanding the risks talks. My presentation has surprised me due to the huge attendance I received which showed me that, people need OSM technology in their daily life, I was very happy as many people were interested and asking questions and due to limited time all the questions were not responded directly but the discussions and my explanations continued on my social media and emails as their requested to keep explaining after the session and the conference, I am happy that all the emails received on that presentation have replied and people understood the technology. I got the opportunity to attend different presentation where I learned additional skills in the mapping sector and OSM in general where I learned more on mapillary and the use of drones in Mapping I was lucky to meet for the first time the founder of OpenStreetMap Steve Coast. it was my dream that came true as I have been wishing to meet him and ask him a couple of questions that I needed. I had the opportunity to give him an exclusive interview that I shared on my YouTube channel (Erneste Ntakobangize) it is the nice conversation that can help young people like the inspiration of doing perfect things considering future generations. As a conclusion I thank the osm for supporting me in attending and participating in this conference, it helped me to learn and the experience gained is helping other new mappers in Rwanda and OSM Rwanda in general

yesterday was training on citizen science ,i was among the panelist so i made a presentation on a program called GLOBE AT NIGHT it deals with light pollution and the impact it has on us. its done by taking observations of the sky particularly in the evening periods, i also learnt about STALL CATCHERS and Fold IT. they are all games so take part in them all. fold it presentation was done by our National coordinator Sunday victor.

on 6th April( yesterday)I was trained on how to map with hot task manage, how to see the task that are available and the way to attend to it.A practical was done to show us how its been done

On 3rd April 2020 i was trained how to map a building using ID EDITOR. I was able to map a building , i found it exciting..

On march 29th 2020,i had orientation/unique mapper focus, the training was done using zoom app because of the on going covid19 going on we cant met in person so it has to be done that way,we had a run down on openstreetmap and the the tools are on OSM ,so that every body can be carried along…. Dr diary i forgot to say i was elected the the team leader of lion mappers Nsukka, am excited and i hope i would be able put in all my best, guess this is really exciting. so far i have been doing all my best and putting in all my efforts

I was so surprise at first to hear about the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN DAY 2020 and the term EACH FOR EQUAL, I asked my self if it could be possible at all to have such a program, the day came and i had to attend, i register students that attended and i also join the panel to discuss on each for equal,at the end of the day i received training from the national coordinator him self( Sunday victor) on how to sign in to openstreetmap, he discussed the icons that were there and the uses of the icons.i also learnt about MAP.ME,and we test run the ZOOM APP and how we would use the ZOOM APP.

Hello everyone I’m starting a OSM themed podcast called Nodes and Ways. I’ve got episode one out and episodes 2 and 3 are in the works now. It’s on YouTube and LBRY and you can get the RSS feed at nodesandways.com . It will be in more podcasty places like Apple podcast and Spotify in the future.

Ill be doing interviews news around mostly OSM. If you have any ideas leave them in the comments.

The audio on episode 1 is kinda rough but future episodes should be better.

today i have spent one hour learning all the different tools and basic shortcuts. I have watched a few tutorials on how to add buildings and how to select different area types.After i add a building i need to select what type of building it is but if i don’t know what type it is then i just select building. i started mapping some building for the task #8247 to help fund people who cant work due to covid-19.

8188 - Mapatón COVID-19 Medellín - Comuna 1

Mapatón COVID-19 Medellín aims to prepare information through open maps that allow us to adopt measures in cases of virus spread in the city of Medellín. Aiming to reduce vulnerability, making its structures visible and ensuring that the map is accurate; and to help better understand their degree of exposure and the determinants of vulnerability to environmental hazards.

Spent 1 hour mapping buildings.

My March 2020 in OSM has been a little weird. The ongoing Coronoavirus pandemic has distracted me. Don’t worry I’m fine. I’m getting used to staying inside.

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So a few months ago I created an interactive site for public transports around Paris (here; also check my last post, in french) with a custom map made on Mapbox, and using Navitia’s API for itineraries, next departures, etc. But I thought this map design could be useful on its own, so I changed it so that you can download the data of any city you want very easily and it will be displayed on the map. I guess it can be useful because I don’t see a lot of OSM-based transport maps dealing with coloured bus & train lines. The site for this map is here (without itineraries because they are limited to a few places, but you can click on the data on the map and see the tags of the objects). It uses the Overpass API as well as osmtogeojson.

I also put the files on GitHub. (note : it’s the first time I use it, so I may have made mistakes idk).

Enjoy !

Note : if the layer “trains” doesn’t load, consider unchecking “include regional trains”

A few screeshots :

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A short video of twelve years of GPS tracks from my Garmin:

https://youtu.be/VlgMSSGdtwM

In just over two months, I have finished my edits in North Arlington now, with every building mapped! This one was way quicker than the last OSM project I gave myself, Teaneck.

North Arlington is relatively small, which is partly why it didn’t take so long to map. It’s the southernmost location in Bergen County, and borders two other New Jersey counties: Essex and Hudson.

Next is Fort Lee. It has roughly the same land area as North Arlington (just 0.02 square miles less), but unlike North Arlington, it doesn’t have a large cemetery, so it may take a bit longer to map Fort Lee.

Click below to see North Arlington!