The current category update for OpenStreetBrowser has been in the making for quite some time. The main changes are more detailed categories about buildings (type, age, height, …), an inclusion of map features with office tags in thematic maps and more detailed popups in the Culture categories.

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I just finished mapping Rochelle Park for 800 edits! This is a nice little milestone for me. I have mapped 10 incorporated places entirely in Bergen County so far, so I now have finished 1/7 of all places in Bergen County!

Rochelle Park is a neighbor of two places I have already mapped-Paramus and Maywood-and it looks pretty good to see these three next to each other completely mapped. Even better, Hackensack and River Edge are also bordering either Paramus or Maywood (Hackensack borders both), so it’s five cities/townships/boroughs completely mapped right next to each other!

At first, I thought Rochelle Park might be pretty time-consuming to map, but it turned out being quicker than Maywood. It’s only been 11 days since I started!

Anyway, next is Woodcliff Lake, and after that should be Oradell. I can’t wait to start Woodcliff Lake tomorrow!

Mapping Rochelle Park felt like a great way to start off my mapping in 2019, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year has for me!

Click below to see Rochelle Park!

Added twins, garages and sheds along the 500 block of Arthur and Solly Aves

This is an update to my previous piece on techniques how mappers who reject the concept of verifiability in OpenStreetMap (i have written more elaborately on that) can paint labels in the standard map style on openstreetmap.org.

Meanwhile some mappers have taken my suggestions to heart (irony is a tricky thing…) and started drawing labels more or less exactly the way i demonstrated. The most prominent label in the map, showing at z2 and above, is now based on a completely non-verifiable polygon geometry.

so far the pinnacle of abstract non-verifiable polygon drawing to paint labels - but there is still a lot more potential, no one aimed for membership in the zoom level zero club yet

But there are other good news for label painters.

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Still tracing buildings in Lake Tekapo town.

Not sure.

When you are hiking, cycling, skiing or do any other activity in mountain area, it is useful to have map that gives you overview about terrain. Clasic way how to provide this overview in 2D map is adding contour lines. For fast overview and good-looking map is great to add even hillshades.

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I recently discovered the mapbox feedback page and saw that they require you to classify the nature of your feedback. One click places the feedback on the map, and another click adds an instruction with your comment: * add a place (create a new feature with a list of tags) * fix a location (overwrite a feature with a list of tags) * rename a place (overwrite a feature with a name value) * fix satellite map (add a comment for satellite mappers) * remove a place (delete one feature with name value) * it’s something else (add a comment to OSM or something)

If users categorize their comments on OSM by type of instruction, AI could more easily interpret a comment string and learn to apply fixes by correlating human edits with comments.

Traced buildings in Lake Tekapo town. The imagery is not as clear as those in major cities like Christchurch, but it’s still good enough.

New to OSM however the local area doesn’t seem to have a lot of its features added since its recent renovation. Been very entertaining to add what is around, so will likely be traveling around to see what else is about in our area for mapping purposes.

My name is Miss Vyvian and 2018 ended well, I must say. The reason because OSM Community found me. I became part of this community on Monday 26th November 2018. In the bit of understanding the very sole purpose of this group, I attended several web conference and online lectures. I’m not new in mapping but this community have more to offer directly and indirectly. The list is endless but to mention few: *Improved digital mapping skills *knowledge of global trending mobile mapping tools *Access to and provision of geographic data *Professional and humanitarian networking with OSM Global community *Professional Mentoring *Opportunity for mapping competition *and lots more

I started off with the task mapping project https://tasks.teachosm.org/project/506 I was further added to another group Lion Mappers Team (LMT) Enugu on Friday 7th December 2018 by the coordinator for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

2019 is a new beginning for me to keep clicking and to keep mapping. Happy Clicking!!! Many more mapping for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Prosperous #letgirlsmap

Browsing through the major cities and towns of Aotearoa NZ. I panned through Christchurch, Invercargill, Dunedin, Queenstown, Wellington, and Auckland.

The data quality varies per settlement and type of feature. For example, it seems that most buildings in Wellington have been traced. Meanwhile, in Christchurch there’s still a lot of buildings to trace. Also, it looks like most of the cycleways and bus routes across the settlements have been mapped already.

From a certain scale, the map is good.

I say that in terms of data availability per se in comparison with what we have in the my home country, the Philippines.

But how about the smaller towns? And what about the place names and other attributes?

Started to trace buildings in Akaroa, NZ. The imagery from LINZ so very crisp and clear. I wish we had access to such image quality in the Philippines.

2018 saw 794 new users in Washington State, up just slightly from 787 in 2017.

Of those nearly 800 new contributors, a welcome message was sent to 693 users. I gave up at some point sending to obvious SEO editors since they never respond or for that matter bother read any OSM wiki articles on how to edit.

Of those that did receive a welcome message, 27 replied. This number is down considerably from previous years. However, they have been responding to changeset comments. 82 new users replied to a changeset comment that either I or someone else left. One feature I’d like to see added to the changeset comments is to be able to get notified when I don’t get a response. It usually means what I suggested fixed never got fixed.

The Welcome Message is relatively unchanged from previous years. I do think it’s time for a change. I’d like to add some hints on what and where to map. It’s on my todo list for 2019.

I want to thank Wille Marcel at Mapbox for OSMCHA. One of the latest improvement is to add users to a personal watch list. I recently started adding new users that have questionable first edits. Okay - the edits aren’t questionable, they are just bad. OSMCHA now allows watching for repeat vandalism.

If you are welcoming new users, I’d like to hear your experiences. Just drop a comment below.

Happy New Years, Clifford Snow

I added a residential area southwest of Marawi City. As far as I know, there are so many settlements around Lanao Lake. Maybe, students in the local state university can be asked to help complete their local map.

Just finished translating iD Walkthrough guide, some minutes ago. Although, personally, I don’t use iD editor much, but I cannot forget the iD editor as it was the gate that lead me to the world of OSM mapping.

Hope we see it live soon and new mappers be happy by seeing that!

I traced residential areas in Ligao City. I think that even if the imagery is not good enough to trace building footprints, it is still useful for tracing general land use categories. This can be very useful, if done for the whole Philippines.

The new key interval=* for adding the departure times interval of a public transport route was recently approved after two weeks of voting.
I have created a new wiki page to document this key:
osm.wiki/Key:interval

Full schedule information, however, is still impossible. I originally proposed using “timetable relations” to add full schedule information to routes. I have since realized that this system would quickly become an out-of-date mess.
I have now simplified the proposal to be easier to add and maintain, while still keeping most of the same information in the database.

The key departures=* is my solution to keeping timetables simple and easy to maintain.

osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Public_transport_schedules/Departures

I would really like people to give feedback to help make this proposal work for everyone. I know that for many bus routes, it would be very difficult to add and maintain full schedule information. Those routes should therefore only be given the tag interval=*. Others, however, including many ferry routes, would be very easy to add schedule information to.

Please use the talk page for giving feedback.

Thanks

It’s been quite a busy year for me, so hopefully it isn’t too tough to recall my mappy highlights for the year, but that could prove a challenge, given that I usually can’t remember if I’ve eaten on any given day.

Major Accomplishments

• In December of 2017 Dan Joseph and myself traveled to Canaan, Haiti to collect updated drone imagery on behalf of the American Red Cross to continue to update the map of the area. Since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, this community has grown exponentially, and updated maps are critical to the community there. In the first part of 2018, we shared the imagery on OpenAerialMap and our workflow is highlighted on the Missing Maps Blog. You can contribute to some of these projects using the imagery at the HOT Tasking Manager
• While at the American Red Cross, I brought together a team of volunteers to focus on data quality for our Missing Maps projects in the HOT Tasking Manager. I presented at the April GeoDC meeting, highlighting some of their work, and after only a few short months, they had already contributed over 100k edits to OSM!
• Perhaps the biggest accomplishment for me on a professional level was switching jobs! I left my position at the American Red Cross, and while I certainly miss working with all the fantastically dedicated people there, I traded in my passport for a new, more local adventure (I didn’t actually trade in my passport, that would be wildly irresponsible of me).
• As a voting member of HOT I spent more time involved in some of the working groups. I had the privilege of working with other members of the HOT community on formulating the membership feedback to the organization’s strategic plan. It was an eye-opening and new experience for me, but it makes me all the more proud to be a part of this community!

Little wins

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I intended to check areas of Biri group of islands, but I focused on the San Antonio barangay/village (in Tinau Island). Many buildings are not aligned. Imagery is poor, too, like for other settlements in the Philippines. I think that if in the foreseeable future we are not going to obtain clearer imagery, the volunteers can focus on residential area.

So for now, I adjusted the extent of residential area.