We use the data from OpenStreetMap while hiking through Colombia, Panama and Peru. It is really solid and a big thanks you to all the contributors!

One thing always stands out though. Almost all of the local people have never heard of the name ‘OpenStreetMap’. However, whenever we get information about trails they ask if we use Maps.me or recommend using it. For those that don’t know, Maps.me is simply an app showing data from OpenSteetMap!

We’re not sure why Maps.me is such a popular recommendation, though the name may be easier to remember that OpenStreetMap. We think it may simply have been one of the first apps that was free and allowed you to easily download maps for offline use?

We use an app called Organic Maps ourselves and can recommend it to anyone that goes hiking in another country. It is a privacy-friendly app and we found out it even preloads data from Wikipedia (for instance on towns, soms highlights/attractions and mountain tops).

EVENTO - 14 e 15 de Novembro de 2023 - GISDAY AMAZÔNIA 2023 🌿🌍

Semana de Conscientização Geográfica

EVENT November 14th and 15th, 2023 - GISDAY AMAZÔNIA 2023 🌿🌍

Geographic Awareness Week

Participe deste evento incrível e explore o poder da geoinformação na Amazônia!

📆 DATA: 14/11/23 - Presencial na UEPA/NUPAD/LEGA 15/11/23 - Híbrido - Online

🕘 HORÁRIO: 09:00 às 18:00

🤝 ORGANIZAÇÃO: LEGA (Laboratório de Estudos e Pesquisas Geoambientais da Amazônia) - UEPA

🤝 PARCERIA: Meninas das Geotecnologias - IFPA

🌟 APOIO: Esri, UmbraOSM, Youthmappers

✅ INSCRIÇÕES ABERTAS em https://doity.com.br/gisday-amazonia-2023

Não perca! Este evento é uma oportunidade única para aprender, colaborar e descobrir como a tecnologia geoespacial está moldando o futuro da Amazônia. Junte-se a nós e seja parte dessa jornada rumo à conscientização geográfica! 🌎🌿 #GisDayAmazônia2023 #Geoinformação #PreservaçãoAmbiental

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Been putting some effort into expanding detail around Upper Mast Landing Rd. in Freeport, Maine.

The V Brazilian Cartographic Olympiad - OBRAC 2023 included OpenStreetMap as part of its second stage. The participating teams, integrated by teachers and students (aged between 14 and 18 years) from public and private schools, from all over the country, mapped environmental and socioeconomic aspects of selected areas of the Brazilian Amazon Region, using online editors and applications for mapping with OpenStreetMap.

Exposition Amazônia no Mapa

Dr. Raquel Dezidério Souto (IVIDES.org and UFRJ), who coordinated the technical part of the second stage of the 2023 edition, created a virtual exhibition Amazônia no Mapa, where anyone can visit the maps of the Brazilian Amazon Region, created by the teams of the OBRAC 2023.

Source: OBRAC 2023 Teams - Ref. 6298800859 (topo esq.); 6299051019 (topo dir.); 6116334695 (centro esq.); 6474822799 (centro dir.); 6169070179 (inf. dir.); 6191786719 (inf. esq.).

OBRAC

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Only two public bookcases identified today. I think the project could be wrapped up in around 10 more hours.

This project was featured on OpenStreetMap’s Instagram and Facebook pages - very flattering and validating considering I started editing OSM several months ago!

Intro

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Tampermonkey is web browser extension that allows adding JavaScript to any website in your browser and manipulate content of that website. It sounds scary and probably should, first you need to trust extension itself and then scripts that you install. Since extension itself has huge community and history, millions of installs across Chrome/Edge/Firefox extensions stores, 5 stars… Let’s assume we can trust it…

I wrote some time ago script that I want to share with everyone, it adds few buttons to OpenStreetMap.org website. Here is example how it looks like:

On example of New York above buttons would take you to following websites:

• PeWu nice and simple history view of changes on nodes, ways or relations
• DeepHistory another history viewer, but in tabular view
• Relation Analyzer helpful website for validating/analyzing relations
• Overpass Opens Overpass at same viewport as currently seen on OSM website

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A couple of million-dollar ideas

1. Do you like to write descriptions for edits? And review other people’s edits if there is an unclear comment? Autogeneration of descriptions like in MAPS.ME and EveryDoor is interesting. But why not make ChatGPT do it?

2. ChatGPT is already pretty good at recognising pictures. And we have thousands of open notes from StreetComplete with signs of establishments. It would be nice to add tags to the object in a couple of clicks that ChatGPT could recognize. Or build this function directly into some editor.

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What kind of work would you put AI to?

Greetings to all OSM contributors, I have finally found some time to share my mapping party report. I wrote it in English and French. This mapping party was held in France near Grenoble, in a village called Saint-Barthélemy-de-Séchilienne. There were 8 of us who participated in this mapping event.

For the report, I wrote some scripts: a bash script that uses the osmosis command to extract the following metrics like : number of roads, tracks, roads with names, alleys, shops, libraries, buildings, …, see the full list in the report.

The idea of this script was to download the data of the city/village before the mapping party and run the script on the resulting osm file. Then, do the same after the mapping party to see how many objects were added. Info about my script can be found here

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Bhagwal is a village in Tehsil Kharian District Gujrat Punjab Province Pakistan 🇵🇰

Trying to add detail to the areas around Lower Mast Landing Road, Upper Mast Landing Road, and Bow Street.

It is now cold out and also dark, which bodes poorly for finishing this project in a timely manner, because biking when it’s cold and dark isn’t fun. I was not able to achieve my goal of finishing this project by first snowfall (we got 1.8 in [4.6 cm] on Oct 31), but I’m not taking this to heart because a lot of my time the past several weeks has been spent with higher priority things.

Today I was able to finish two streets in about 30 minutes, which is great! These were some of the longer streets in Greater Longfellow, so the pace will be quicker from here on out, most likely due to there being less clutter obstructing my view.

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I’ve found it very enjoyable to record and upload GPS traces as I do various activities. These can help with assessing imagery offsets, route accessibility and popularity, adding brand new routes, and as a refresher after I get back from a walk, hike, bike ride, or drive. Here are some questions, issues, etc. I’ve been thinking about. Feel free to comment on any or all:

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I have been checking all Danish motorway,trunk,primary,secondary, and tertiary roads without a maxspeed tag using geotagged photos (Mapillary, Kartaview, Bing). The maxspeed status now is (distances in km):

Maxspeed stats

• motorway :: missing maxspeed: 0 , total: 2586 , pct with maxspeed: 100.0
• trunk :: missing maxspeed: 0 , total: 502 , pct with maxspeed: 100.0
• primary :: missing maxspeed: 0 , total: 2771 , pct with maxspeed: 100.0
• secondary :: missing maxspeed: 10 , total: 6531 , pct with maxspeed: 99.85
• tertiary :: missing maxspeed: 5421 , total: 23739 , pct with maxspeed: 77.16
• unclassified :: missing maxspeed: 24821 , total: 32060 , pct with maxspeed: 22.58
• residential :: missing maxspeed: 20866 , total: 27987 , pct with maxspeed: 25.45

I believe this is really good. Most routing decision will have almost optimal data. Even if the first or last part of potential routes are short residential or unclassified ways with unknown maxspeeds, it will in most cases not affect the result because there are no alternatives.

Motor-vehicle users of OpenStreetMap apps will most of the time be on roads with known max-speeds. I know this because it is getting quite difficult for me to get to ways without maxspeed to produce geotagged photos. I download a GPX file with ways without maxspeed to OsmAnd so that I can try to photograph them if it not too much out of the way.

Quality

Of course having maxspeed tagged on many roads is only valuable if the tagging is correct. I did find some incorrectly tagged max-speeds. This was mainly due to:

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as of November 2nd 2023 I have begun work on adding the forest areas in the town of Freeport, Maine 04032

Hey! Just testing out this diary feature.

I’m making a diary entry as I’ve just seen this feature, I assume this will be shown on my profile. I see we can also include a location to it! Should a diary entry be tied to a specific location? Writing this, I start to wonder…

1. Do people use this feature at all? If so, for what?
2. How do people find this? I’d assume it is not every mapper’s pastime to casually stalk other mappers’ profiles! Am I wrong?
3. Are there mechanisms that allow you to discover local users?
4. Do some people use the platform as a mean to meaningfully connect and perhaps extend connections to other projects or platforms?
5. Are relations rather equal between users, as in Facebook, where friends are friends with each other and where exchanges are expected to be mutual or is there power distance between users, like on Instagram, with followers and the followed?

Perhaps I’ll make a new diary entry when I’ve found out! :p

mapping workshop for beginners on Openstreetmap

Oficina de mapeamento para iniciantes no Openstreetmap

Inscrições Abertas! Inscrição na Oficina de Mapeamento

Inscrições Abertas!

Inscrição na Oficina de Mapeamento

The Mapping of the Marco Neighborhood, Belém - Pará - Brazil will be done by Beginners and Advanced Mappers and aims to Include Buildings, Points of Interest (General Commerce, Schools, Health Centers and Squares) thus improving data from the City of Belém.

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/15707

Workshop created by umbraosm

UMBRAOSM - Union of Brazilian Openstreetmap mappers www.umbraosm.com.br

project activated by UMBRAOSM 2023/2024 edition

##01/11/2023 - project activated by UMBRAOSM Union of Brazilian Openstreetmap mappers

BRASIL - BAIRRO MARCO - BELÉM- (PA) - EDIFÍCIOS, PONTOS DE INTERESSE E ÁREA VERDE.

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/15707

O Mapeamento do Bairro Marco, Belém - Pará - Brasil será feito por Mapeadores Iniciantes e Avançados e tem como objetivo Incluir Edifícios, Pontos de Interesse (Comercio em Geral, Escolas, Postos de Saúde e Praças) melhorando assim os dados da Cidade de Belém.

The Mapping of the Marco Neighborhood, Belém - Pará - Brazil will be done by Beginners and Advanced Mappers and aims to Include Buildings, Points of Interest (General Commerce, Schools, Health Centers and Squares) thus improving data from the City of Belém.

BRASIL - BAIRRO MARCO - BELÉM- (PA) - EDIFÍCIOS, PONTOS DE INTERESSE E ÁREA VERDE.

https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/15707

Link do Projeto: https://www.umbraosm.com.br/mapeia-belem.html

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Mapeia Project Belém - Pará - Brazil 2023/2024 Edition Promoted by UMBRAOSM and the Brazilian Openstreetmap community.

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