This is the day when I registered and did training…

Good experience.

I am still struggling to map the local bus routes where I live. It is difficult to reconcile reality with what people expect and with the OSM guidelines. The schema with which I have come up goes something like this:

map each variant of a bus route (route letter/number, direction, reverse-runs, self-crossings, short-runnings, telescoping, spoon routes, intermediate terminuses, ecs movements, letter/number ambiguity, same vehicles changing number) as a separate relation, as the guidelines say:

take, as my starting point, the block in most bus timetables where it says “.. and then at these minutes past each hour, until…”. Tag such routes with bobby444:direction=E, W, or whatever bobby444:variant=1, 2, etc

For any variations on these, outside this block, add higher variant numbers, with higher numbers corresponding to something like a ‘routing metric’, with higher numbers corresponding to less frequent, less likely, less useful, less regular variants. The variant numbers must obviously be unique, but I haven’t decided whether they should be contiguous or not.

For minor variations (the test for minor being ‘can I realistically walk from any point on this route to a suitable point on the parent route), the variants get a decimal number. Such variants might be not serving a shopping center after shopping hours, or not going into a housing estate at times when it would cause congestion. A variant can either ‘add’ or ‘take away’ ways and/or stops from a parent route.

The idea is that any simplistic route renderer will just take the routes as they are, and just overlay them so that they end up looking like a huge undifferentiated web (as now), but a more complex renderer will be able to ‘spot the difference’ and decide how to present a less popular route (dotted line, omit it altogether, show it all the time, add textual annotations, allow the user to filter it in/out based on day/time)

The namespace bobby444 won’t be suitable for long term use.

On January 16 of this year, the Peruvian company Guiacalles requested to delete private data that was added in OpenStreetMap without considering the copyright.

This copyright infringement was due to an import of data by TELCOM IP that was carried out in Peru 7 years ago. Since it was impossible to verify the original license of the imported data, the DWG did a redaction to delete the original data. This affected 28 cities of the country, removing everything from main streets to pedestrian streets, and loosing all the edits of the OSM community that were made on top of that data in the last 7 years.

Post redaction view - JOSM editor

Our workflow during and after the redaction

The #osmPe channel on telegram was the main communication channel for coordination of the whole redaction process, as well as tickets in the repository of osm-peru-redaction.

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Looking forward to attend: SOTM Asia 2018 this time! https://medium.com/state-of-the-map-asia

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”.

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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

1. Parking lots. We are mapping tracks on parking lots.
2. Turn restriction project. We are mapping turn restriction signs: No Left Turn, No Right Turn, No U Turn.

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

Technical overview

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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:

1. add or update the cargo= tag to indicated what the ferry carries, such as cars, pedestrians, etc.
2. Check each ferry terminal to see if they have routes that are missing
3. Verify that the route is actually routable.

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Reposting this again.

Done

All bus stops should be added.

• 95x Westerly 8256612

  8256605 IB

  8256611 OB

Probably fine

Still need bus stops and platforms.

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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.

Now back to my story

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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

for starters …

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.

the details …

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.