OpenStreetMap
Let’s see. For Map Layers, there are
- Standard
- Cycle Map
- Transport Map
- Humanitarian
Well there needs to be an additional yuppie oriented map layer…
No:
- Old folks’ homes
- Boring plumbing supply shops, etc.
- Fussy political boundaries, national or even school district, and associated customs offices
Yup, not rendered a single bit.
Yes:
- Coffee, snack, holiday refreshment shops
Rendered extra big.
So, I had made this umap of field names done in Ireland using overpass-turbo (learning so much, it’s amazing!), and I noticed someone had done tremendous work in Bannow Bay, which is where the Normans first landed and there are some very interesting field names there. There is a Chapel Field and one was Roche’s Field, a common Norman name in Wexford. It just goes to show how much history is captured in those field names. And also The Blue Bell, how cute is that?
And I have actually been there and like many other mappers, I do go into OSM when I visit a place and might add a few things. So I knew for certain that these were recent additions. I much appreciate Sascha’s contribution. I wish him success in continuing his work there. Maybe I’ll get a chance to add some in Cullenstown, not too far from there.
I created this video last summer to show how I map a neighborhood.
And now I am seeing if I can create an “embedded style” link to it on my OSM diary using kramdown.
I’ve slightly revised my mapping and editing techniques since then but I think it is still a reasonable introduction or tutorial on using some Android tools and JOSM for mapping.
In my professional life I have been on radio a whole bunch of times, and on TV a couple of times. My mother used to say I had a face for radio ;) .. but I am experienced enough at this point to handle most media. For the first time ever I was involved in a podcast, and I was super glad that it was the new osm related podcast, “ways and nodes” which is done by Austin Bell who is known as itsamap! and maps a whole lot around South Carolina, in the USA.
The podcast is right here so listen and enjoy.
I learned a lot observing and listening to Austin. He hangs out beforehand and develops his questions by talking to you, and it was great that we mapped together beforehand looking at the same stuff on the map of Ireland. There was a bit of a theme about migration. By the end of the podcast he was determined to map based on his own family’s historical origins in Scotland.
You can get in touch with Austin by simply mailing him austin@nodesandways.com and look at this mapping account here I think it is important that osm has a regular podcast, and Austin gives up a lot of time he could use mapping to make these episodes.
Exciting, first entry: So, I’ve been interested in fieldnames in Ireland for a while. Maybe because it’s so exotic to me, because I’m not from a farming background and I’m not aware they exist in Germany. Maybe because it’s oral history and highly underrated by scholars and taken for granted by farmers, i.e. they don’t see the value in their personal heritage (“Sure, that’s just the name we use, like.”).
I’m also a member of Kilkenny Archaeological Society and always on the lookout for group projects that might bring new members into the society or just a bit more engagement with actual people rather than books or bones.
Anyway, being a newbie on FieldPapers, I thought I’d give it at try. I had got a glimps into FieldPapers during the talk Ciarán gave. I liked the idea that a group of people could work together, maybe even in a school project. Gotta get them mappers young!
The first video is about how to make the atlas, the second about how to use the png files in the iD editor. I thought JOSM was a bit too techical and scary for beginners. It’s also not terribly more useful for field names than the iD Editor is. I had made a tutorial before that of just using the iD editor.
I had sent links to a couple of historical and archaeological societies I found on Facebook, the ones that did reply (lockdown + expected demographic = non responsive) were throughout postitive about it and shared it on their page. I just picked some random ones where county names came to mind. I should send out a few more to the Wesht, before it’s too late.
Edit: new record 7209: Thursday, 14th May 2020
On Tuesday the 12th May 2020 there was a new record for daily users editing OSM when 6999 different users edited the map. (http://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=members&date=13-5-2020)
There has been a gradual ramp up for a while after a dip from know doubt the Covid lockdown shock.
The previous record was 6897 users from way back on 26th January 2017 when mobile game PokemonGO first started using OSM for its maps in South Korea. (http://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=members&date=27-1-2017)
The application period for the OSMF microgrants program finished a few days ago and i thought i’d share some interesting results from looking over the applications in terms of the raw numbers:
Regarding what the applicants want to use the money for i made a rough classification. There are often border cases of course so don’t take these as exact numbers. Alltogether the applications are asking for
Not all applications asking for financing paid work specify exact rates but where this is done the hourly rate varies between 7 Euro and 80 Euro. This range does not appear to be much related to differences in living costs, there is one application from the US asking for just slightly more than 8 Euro per hour for example while another from the US is asking for EUR 80 per hour.
(above: using roundabouts to align imagery offsets)
My very first video(s) uploaded to YouTube. The first is very long, very slow. Hopefully, an easy entry-ramp for those considering using JOSM to map for OSM. Otherwise, 35 minutes of boredom.
(later videos are much shorter)
alldist universe for Debian/Devuan)With Android ARCore and iOS ARKit, you can add virtual objects to your real surroundings. Not only in your room but at any place on Earth because GPS is involved too. Next do native Apps, with the proposed WebXR you may do this in a Browser. Google Chrome (for Android) supports it experimental. And I just discovered the “WebXR Viewer” on iOS doing it too!
So with any Android and iOS device, Smartphone or Tablet you could do it, even with an Oculus Quest and soon other AR classes: Run around outside, viewing into/through your device, rotate or walk along, see the real world and added on top of it OSM-roads, street-signs etc. Even editing may be done this way some day.
I did implement this as a VR-feature in my www.OSMgo.org but lost it later. Now it could be done as AR.
Is anyone experimenting with something like this or would like to team up to start a proof of concept?
The future of OSM editing? 😉 Sci-Fi Short Film “World Builder”
(Noticed this for the 1st time)
Advanced search page at HE
(not honestly a great deal better, but more functional)
Ploughing through East Yorkshire schools, using a combo of mathmos.net & the government Schools Information Service to add full Address & Contact details to all HU schools, I’ve reached St George’s Primary School off Anlaby Road in Hull. Whilst checking that this was the correct school (very few EY schools — and how absolutely fantastic is it that the entire County has refused to accept the 1975 “Humberside” as their county & gone in their entirety back to “East Riding of Yorkshire”? yeah! — are properly mapped & registered, so it is necessary to check most carefully the mathmos.net correlation) I came across a photo showing on the front of the building that this was a “Board School”, and thus probably established in Victorian times (start_date=1881).
I spent a little time living not too far from this school and, after completing the main mapping, began to try to find when it was built. That brought me to the Hull Carnegie Heritage Centre, where I discovered that the road was started in the 1870s & the school was built in 1881 by the Newington School Board in the very classic Gothic style of that era. The page also states that it is “now a Grade II Listed building and one of Hull’s oldest surviving school buildings”. And here it is (list entry:1197690):–
English below
(message envoyé initialement à la liste de discussion de l’OSMF)
Il y a quatre ans, le board de l’OSMF, suite à de longues discussions (voir dans le lien précédent) lançait le recrutement d’un contrat à temps partiel dédié spécifiquement en soutien du board concernant différentes tâches administratives, de communication et d’organisation. Il demeurait néanmoins des réticences au sein des membres actifs de la communauté dans les activités de la Fondation de voir s’instaurer un premier cas de travail non bénévole au sein de l’OSMF.
Maintenant, le board communique sur la volonté de mettre en place un cadre de contractualisation, sans aucunement indiquer les besoins à remplir (seulement ceux que les volontaires n’accompliraient pas) ou les postes qui seraient créés, en indiquant quelques cadres et limites, parfois très vagues (moins de 20 employés en 5 ans). Mais surtout, la question posée à la communauté n’est plus SI cette approche est la bonne, mais COMMENT la mettre en place. Comment un tel changement d’approche a-t-il pu survenir en cinq ans ?
Certes, la seule expérience jusqu’ici de contractualisation de l’OSMF a donné entière satisfaction, mais cela tient sans doute autant aux tâches spécifiques de la fonction qu’à la personne qui a été engagée. Vouloir répliquer cette expérience en changeant cette fois complètement d’échelle aura nécessairement des répercussions, et je rejoins totalement Frederik dans son analyse sur les dangers inhérents à faire appel à de nombreux contractuels. Avec ses fonds actuels, l’OSMF aurait nettement plus intérêt à assurer sur le long terme le fonctionnement mince actuel avant que de s’engager sur une augmentation de ses dépenses qui ne fera que pérenniser un besoin croissant de fonds, d’autant plus au moment où le monde va entrer dans la crise économique la plus profonde et globale de son histoire.
Today I have had the chance to review my area and ensure everything is accurate. I plan to further review my family members areas as well since I am new to the Florida area.
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Mt. Elgon, located in Eastern Uganda, is reported to have the highest rates of landslides and floods in Uganda, often with devastating impacts on local communities. High annual rainfall, steep slopes, increasing population pressure, and cultivation on steep slopes following deforestation are the leading causal factors of landslides.
In October 2018 landslides and debris flows occurred in Bududa District , causing 60 fatalities and displacing thousand of families. GFDRR is supporting the Government of Uganda in assessing landslide and other hydrophysical risks in the wider Mt Elgon area. Detailed location of buildings and roads are needed to study the potential impact on population and infrastructure.
Spent 1 hour mapping buildings.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is the dedicated team to take humanitarian action and develop the community through Open Mapping. It is the active team of OpenStreetMap data for disasters and preparedness mapping. I really appreciate the value of open data and the way that HOT has created for the people around the world to contribute in a meaningful way.
I am S M Sawan Shariar, deputy volunteer coordinators for OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Foundation (OSMBDF), as well as deputy coordinators & validation lead of Bangladesh Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Operational Team; known to all as BHOOT. Recently chosen as Data Quality Intern for HOT. Currently supervising the Map Your City project commenced by team BHOOT to bring the whole Bangladesh into the map. It is noteworthy to mention that, I am listed as the top contributor on MissingMaps Global Leaderboard.
I have been involved with HOT activities over 5 years, which starts with the Data4Action project initiated by American Red Cross in 2015. Since then I have been an active contributor to OpenStreetMap, HOT & MissingMaps mapping activities through remote tracing, field mapping & validation both in Bangladesh & other parts of the world.
I have also been involved with YouthMappers network since 2016 and was the founder president of YouthMappers Dhaka College Chapter, one of the vibrant chapters in the global YouthMappers network. Currently advising and providing support to the beloved Dhaka College chapter and as well as all the local chapters in Bangladesh.
I have joined all HOT initiatives, campaigns, and activations and spread HOT motives and code of conduct by arranging seminars, parties, training, and open discussion in the local community.
CGP Grey made a video about this issue.
Ellis Island (and Liberty Island, formerly called “Bedloe’s island”) sits on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. New York was quite territorial over the river, claiming the entire river as New York territory, such that New York claimed that even New Jersey’s piers belonged in New York’s jurisdiction. New York and New Jersey agreed to a compact in 1834, which set the proper boundary, as one might expect, down the center of the river and bay. The compact also set the other interstate boundaries around Staten Island and into Raritan Bay.
This is the southernmost portion of New York City, which is also the southernmost part of New York City. The New Jersey border is highlighted:
Dear all,
Today, v5.2.0 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.
Thanks to all the contributors for this release, including @owahltinez (Oscar Wahltinez), a new contributor.
For a full list of commits, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v5.1.0…v5.2.0
As always, we welcome any bug reports at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues
Just to show how forward-reaching & intelligent the Irish are! You will find the OSM map in use at the extreme bottom of this Contact page for Hazelwood College, Newtownabbey, County Antrim:
It is a remarkably complicated set of <div>s which, at it’s heart, makes use of 4 x .png images to draw the map. It looks very professional (well done NI mappers!).
…and this map at the bottom of Hazelwood Primary School Contact page (just like buses, huh?):
**10 May update:
Having moved on to the HU (East Riding of Yorkshire) postcode, the 5th school I map shows an OSM map at the bottom of the page; hoorah!:
5 or more occasions each day currently I go hunting through JOSM imagery looking for road roundabouts. I’m not completely mad; they are the best way (short of making GPS tracks whilst personally surveying) to correct the Imagery offsets for Bing & Esri satellite photos.
The above has happened so frequently lately during this Lockdown period (not being able to go out & survey) that I’ve become utterly obsessed with them, spending half the day, on one occasion, hunting out grass-filled roundabouts to map.
I’m currently mapping schools in Northern Ireland, and the Irish have just a bare fraction of the number & variety of road roundabouts that we English have. However, what I have observed them to have is large road-enclosed circles within their fields. Don’t believe me? Well, I’ve observed more than one. Here is the latest, which I mapped (due south of Downpatrick):
What on earth is that about?
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has launched the latest software version 4 of Tasking Manager. It comes with a number of enhancements that will improve users’ experience of collaborative mapping in OpenStreetMap. You can check it out now on the HOT Tasking Manager or watch this video to see it in action and what has changed.
Tasking Manager has evolved: technically and visually. Guided by our community of users, who participated in our user experience discovery, and the HOT tech team listened. We have redesigned and enhanced our user interface using state of the art programming libraries.
What is Tasking Manager?
The Tasking Manager is the most popular application to coordinate mapping in OpenStreetMap. It enables anyone, anywhere in the world to team up with others and contribute to the map. The Software is being built by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) together with a vibrant Free Software community.
