OpenStreetMap
Is it better to tag the complete fuel station area as amenity=fuel or is it better to tag only the roof with building=roof along with amenity=fuel.
Also, will it create any data duplication if I use amenity=fuel tag to the service road after adding the same tag to the area around fuel station?
Nobody adds bad data except me! And maybe the boy!
Started playing an geolocated game. my town barely had anything. did research. found it is based off this. got to work. chances are ill spend a week marking stuff then forget about this account forever
This is the code referred to in my previous entry. This is written for Matlab. It should work in Octave as well, but I haven’t tested it.
Edit: Updated the code to return arc segments split into two or four pieces, depending on deviation from a straight line. Also, code now supports many bearing delimiters for degrees, minutes, and seconds.
Well, really just metes…
Anyway, I had a description of the property, which can be hard to follow for most of us. Here’s an example description of part of Buttonbush Nature Area:
Commencing at the South ¼ corner of Section 10, T2S, R6E, City of Ann
Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan; thence N01°57’53”W 60.00 feet
along the North-South ¼ line of said Section 10 and along the East line of
Foxfire Condominium, Washtenaw County Condominium Subdivision Plan
No. 136 for a PLACE OF BEGINNING; thence continuing N01°57’53”W
2208.89 feet along said North-South ¼ line and along the East line of
Foxfire Condominium, Washtenaw County Condominium Subdivision Plan
No. 136 and along the East line of Fox Ridge Commons Condominium,
Washtenaw County Condominium Subdivision Plan No. 176; thence 96.56
feet along the arc of a 7442.41 foot radius circular curve to the right, chord
bearing N81°07’45”E 96.56 feet along the South right-of-way line of US-23
(variable width); thence S07°00’18”E 195.59 feet; thence S48°50’07”E
5.51 feet; thence S01°57’53”E 2022.40 feet; thence S88°16’54”W 117.07
feet along the proposed north right of way line of Dhu Varren Road (60
feet proposed half width) to the Place of Beginning, being a part of the
Southeast ¼ of said Section 10 and containing 5.90 acres of land, more or
less.
My eyes glazed over the first time I read that. But after looking at it for a while, I realized that i only needed a little bit of that to figure out the boundary. Most of it was just prose.
To get the data I needed, the first step was to eliminate all the prose, and put it in a standard form that could be more easily read in. I copied the text and just started deleting the extra words. This became:
I have finally bitten the bullet and acquired a GoPro Hero 5 Black as well as a windshield mount for it, and tomorrow will test it out for collection of Mapillary imagery. Until now I have used smartphones and the Mapillary app exclusively, but that only works if someone else is driving and I can restart the video when the app invariably either crashes or locks up at some point. Since retiring from the ambassadorship, I am now my own chauffeur and no longer enjoy the luxury of being a passenger who can serve as the photographer. Mrs. Mustard kindly granted permission to splurge on a dedicated camera for collecting ground-level imagery.
The OSMF Board decided in August to bite another bullet and resolved to finance a full-time developer of iD, the OSM default editor, plus a full-time system reliability engineer position to ensure maximum reliability of the hardware. The Potlatch maintainer also received a grant for porting Potlatch, since Flash is soon to be deprecated, and some mappers are still using Potlatch very heavily. The Board expressed a strong desire to maintain diversity in the editor ecosystem despite the dominance of JOSM and iD. JOSM maintainers were pinged but indicated that financial support for JOSM is not needed. These decisions were not taken lightly, were discussed with the community, debated within the Board itself, and in the end adopted unanimously because maintenance and support of core infrastructure are crucial to the OSM project, and demands on that infrastructure are only growing.
The North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail extends from, as you might guess, the mountains of North Carolina to the ocean. The last time I had looked at the MtS website I noted that the trail hadn’t been fully fleshed out yet. There were many partial sections but they weren’t all linked up. Now everything is linked up with a few proposed changes coming over the next few years.
Because OSM data reflected the partial trail, I’m working on verifying the data that is currently there as well as adding the missing data. I’m also breaking up the overall relations into segments, as per the MtS website. I’ve currently mapped (or confirmed the existing data) for Sections 15-18 (516 km!). I hope to have all of this finished within the next week or so.
I worked for some time to create Mapnik-based tileserver where names are internationalized. I managed to do it by pulling data from names from Wikidata and Wikipedia. Project is released at: https://gitlab.com/stalker314314/osm-wikinames
You can see showcases at: https://gitlab.com/stalker314314/osm-wikinames/-/blob/master/showcase.md
Idea is to create new columns in PostGIS which get populated from wikidata/wikipedia and then, use those columns in renderer.
Do check it out if you find this useful and submit issues if you see any bugs, or this doesn’t completely do the job for your case!
Changeset: 90655003 😆
Recently it came to my knowledge that it’s preferably to upload almost every change you do, instead of doing several changes and then uploading them, because this raises your amount of changesets, which is what other are looking into others. They don’t look how many changes you do in OpenStreetMap, but rather how many changesets you have.
What I was doing till 2 days ago was pretty much 1 changeset = ~80-100 changes, mostly because the iD was going red after 100 changes. So, even though I’ve done a lot of changes, for example in my area, to another person it may not look enough to be considered.
Now I do 1 changeset = ~10 changes.
The reason I was doing that previously is because of my way of thinking for Wikimedia-related edits. Few and massive edits rather than several and changes of like a sentence at a time.
This is my first diary entry here on OSM. It’s a way for me to keep track of my own work here, but comments from others are welcome. I’ve been an OSM member for seven years plus but still consider myself a novice user. The number of edits I’ve made is fairly minuscule in comparison to some, although I have used OSM data to create maps in QGIS. My background is in geography and rural development and that is the focus of my interest in OSM. Urban areas seems to be pretty well mapped here but once you head outside the cities and towns there is a lot of blank space on the map. I’m aiming to map rural areas Ireland in as much detail and as systematically as I can. I’m particularly interested in things that are challenging to map, like smaller rivers and streams, small areas of woodland, farms, and old ruins and monuments. I also have an interest in placenames that are known and used locally but are not officially recorded. I’ve already mapped the extent of what I know from my own local knowledge of where I live (near Youghal, Co, Cork, Ireland) and where I’m from (Drom & Inch, Co. Tipperary, Ireland). So now I want to move on to systematic surveying of other rural areas through a combination of on the ground fieldwork and using aerial imagery. I’m also trying to switch from the in-browser editors to JOSM. Along the way I’ll update with challenges and problems as they arise. Tips from other users and invitations to collaborate are welcome.
See SymbolsTab for the standard map icons used within OSM. (I have made this diary entry so that the link may be more readily accessible to me. IMHO, this should be linked from the existing legend, but it isn’t yet).
This is probably not useful to anyone but myself.
List of buildings that are listed in the BAG as “bouwvergunning verleend” and that I’ve requested to be imported as building=construction. Check in due course whether construction is finished and update!
Buildings that I’ve marked as ruins:building=*. Check in due course if they can be deleted or if anything is rebuilt!
I joined OSM 11 years ago. My area was poorly mapped. I thought I’d get cracking on the streets, but didn’t.
eventually I returned and got into mapping of buildings and other features. I started on adding addresses to all the properties in Copmanthorpe. This entailed redrawing the vast majority of buildings, many of which had been draw as one building when in fact they were many.
I concentrated in the areas I was most familiar with. And when I was canvassing before elections, I’d return to the map and add the address of the streets I’d cover.
I’d complete halfish of the suburb.
Then I came across 3D buildings. Intrigued, I set about learning how to “draw” houses. Mainly woking on properties I’d previously mapped, I built-up skills and faster techniques.
I decided to map the all the main block of Copmanthorpe. Over 1500 properties. Improved the drawing off all, complete all the addresses and make the all 3D.
Today, 10 days later I completed it. It’s here on OSM Buildings
I also added a ton of other features along the way. Not being buildings, they don’t feature on OSM Buildings. They do appear on F4map
However, f4map doesn’t seem so keen on using the latest updates, so I get a random selection of old and new mapping. I guess that will improve with time.
The next stage is to revisit the area. There are a lot of garages that could still be added, and over 1000 gardens, if I can be bothered. I also want to improve my building with multi part buildings. I haven’t got my head around that yet. Working with small buildings appears to be the problem.
While I was collecting fieldnames in my area, my landlord gave me the name of one of his family’s fields as “Mile Bush”. Apart from thinking that it must be a mile from Kilkenny, I didn’t think much of it. Some weeks later, I got fieldnames from a different friend a bit to the east and my friend gave me locations named “Mile Bush”, both being bends in the road, and both being a mile from Kilkenny (1 and 2). It doesn’t actually matter whether it’s an Irish mile or a statute mile, both will bring you into Kilkenny. So I posted on Facebook, if anyone knew any other ones, and another one at the border between Kilkenny and Carlow was pointed out. That one is a mile to Old Leighlinbridge. I consulted O’Kelly’s “Placenames of County Kilkenny” and found another one near Rosbercon, which I had the fortune of visiting today (I don’t drive, but a friend drove me to New Ross to look for benchmarks and we took the scenic route back). This one does actually have a bush or rather a tree growing there with a sign saying “Mile Bush”, so I added that to the map today. There is a townsland in Clare (?) according to logainm.ie with Milebush in its name. These are the only ones I have found so far, but I’m convinced there must be more. People 200 and more years ago surely asked “Are we nearly there yet” as well. ;-)
Here’s some of the things I’ve been doing in OpenStreetMap in August 2020.
سوپر سعید انواع شوینده لبنیات و پرتئینی و سیگار
Last September 1, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released an episode of their documentary series Now Go Build which highlighted the work done by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in the Philippines, especially in mapping the town of Guagua, Pampanga.
Several members of the OSM-PH community however have observed that there are missing and problematic narratives in the video related to the story it tells of geospatial and humanitarian workers in the country.
Therefore, some of us have prepared and released the following statement: osm.wiki/w/images/a/aa/A_Call_to_Correct_Narratives_about_Geospatial_Work.pdf
