• Over the course of June, I came out 🏳️‍⚧️. 😊😊 Everyone’s been really great about it. In OSM, we map things as they really are, regardless of how they were used in the past, or what the government assigned it at the start. But, you know how much work is involved in deprecating a previously used tagging scheme. You need to find all data users, and update them to the new scheme.

• CWG
  • Promotation Material Programme
  • posted envelope to DE, UK × 2, CA
• Debugged an issue why someone couldn’t post to the diversity-talk@ list (which I co-mod)
• OSMF Board
  • Possible relocation of OSMF from the UK
    • Ireland?
      • ½hr phone call with Irish lawyer about Irish legal structure
    • Advisory board
      • email AB to ask if can move to your country
      • emailed AB about what type of corporate structure would help them give us money.
  • Attribution Guidelines
    • Started community consultation: osmf-talk@ talk@, Fediverse/Mastodon Twitter
  • AOSMFBAAAoAAAA
    • email osmf-talk & board@ to tell them
  • Bank account
    • posted signed forms to again
  • Advisory Board Meeting
    • created doodle & emailed AB
  • trademark grant request (OpenSnowMap)
    • Recieved, but we probably need a board resolution

Previously:

2021: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May 2020: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Speaking of inclusion and participation, I do have an idea why nobody from rural Panama participates to OSM. Mind you, I’m not saying “almost nobody”, but “absolutely nobody” . . . the point is, as most Third World countries, Panama has a failing . . .

I hear voices calling to order, you say that calling Panama a “Third World country” is offensive? Oh, the very use of the concept? I should say “Developing Country”, right, nice, very politically correct. But calling it as you suggest, that’s not political correctness, it’s a lie, in my opinion it’s a lie needed when we don’t want to accept the fact, and to deal with it. So please let me insist:

. . . in this Third World economy, infrastructure suffers from low or absent public investment. We have here a long lasting rain season, from May to November, and in the rural area power fails generally a couple of days per week, may last a couple of hours, or more often until the next morning. In such condition, I still assumed I would be able to follow if not participate to the venueless SotM-2021, as I did last year from a hammock, on a 10 years old tablet, using solar power and a couple of batteries.

We are at this hotel, a beautiful place, in the middle of their own land recovery project, and because of the cloud cover their “high speed” link disappeared (one of the towers must have a power failure, not compensated by solar power), so we went to a different location within the recovery project, a higher located building where you put the phone on the roof, in a waterproof bag, and have “3.5G” from an antenna at 10km. With high humidity and low hanging clouds it may drop to 2.5G, “waiting for network” half of the time. This was less convenient than last year, mostly because I could not use my hammock.

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I rarely visit the forums these days. Between real-life issues, activism, studying and work, on the case when I have a few minutes to map I do exactly that. Silent mapping. Probably what many of us do.

Apparently, this was not meant to last.

Recent events with bans of Ukrainian users seem to clearly violate the Ban Policy, and from what I’ve seen, DWG can’t (or doesn’t want to) provide a reasonable explanation. It remains a “closed circle” with zero transparency. Usually I’m fine with that. I can’t fix all the things in the world, so it’s about priorities. However, this particular case seems serious enough to break my seclusion.

I could present it as bias or discrimination (as I probably should), but as the discussion about the issue in our Ukrainian community progresses, I came to understand it had more serious implications than merely suppressing people from a certain group.

From what it currently looks, DWG is currently trying to play thought police and persecute people for the content of their OSM profiles based on personal opinions of DWG members. In doing so, DWG is overstepping their borders and misusing their power.

We came to think that OSM is community driven, and all the overarching structures are in place for our convenience. However, if anyone can be expelled and permabanned (to be more precise, banned for 10 years) from the platform without clear ramifications and rules of dispensing these bans, it is the beginning of the end. This threatens the future of OSM project as a whole, a tangled community I am fond of.

I will try my best to spare time and go into details as we struggle with finding a reasonable solution that will benefit OSM and hopefully prevent any future issue of this kind from happening. I will also try to avoid calling names at this time as I’m still studying the situation. I am hesitant to point fingers unless having solid understanding first.

Introduction

Hi everyone! As the first evaluation period is closing in, I am writing this diary entry as an update on the progress of my GSoC project for OSM, the OpeningHoursEvaluator.

Using the test-driven development approach (which, by the way, works wonderfully with this project), suggested by one of my mentors, Simon Poole, my project OpeningHoursEvaluator, an evaluator for the opening hours tag defined by OSM, is progressing fairly well, with the evaluator supporting almost all the syntaxes defined by the specifications, ranging from something as small as time and a wider range such as year, except for certain syntax where the OpeningHoursParser have yet to cover, variable time (dawn, sunrise, sunset, dusk), and also country-specific public holidays and school holidays (PH, SH). This is something I intend to complete in the second period of GSoC.

Current project location

GitHub repository: https://github.com/goodudetheboy/OpeningHoursEvaluator

Timeline

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A continuación, expreso mi visión y experiencia con las notas. Este es un artículo que hace parte de una serie de artículos dedicados a notas de OpenStreetMap. Estos son los otros:

• Manipulación de notas.
• Análisis de notas.
• Tipos de notas.
• Técnicas de creación y resolución de notas.
• Finalización proyecto de cerrado de notas en Colombia.

Definición

Las notas son textos cortos georeferenciados que se incluyen en la plataforma OpenStreetMap-OSM, las cuales tienen un estado. Cuando digo corto, son textos que deberían tener un máximo de 100 palabras, siendo este valor bastante grande (realmente no conozco cuál es el máximo que permite). En cuanto a georeferrenciados quiero decir que están ubicados en algún lugar exacto del mapa. Y finalmente, un estado quiere decir si las notas están abiertas (nuevas) o cerradas (resueltas).

Objetivo

El objetivo de las notas es poder describir observaciones en terreno, de manera informal, para que cuando se esté mapeando desde el computador, esos datos observados se conviertan en características (features) sobre OpenStreetMap.

Tengo que aclarar que este objetivo es la conclusión de lo que he observado y cómo lo he usado hasta el momento, por lo que puede variar con respecto al objetivo inicial con que se haya definido esta funcionalidad.

Alcance

Las notas se han convertido en un mecanismo para proveer datos a OpenStreetMap de una manera fácil y rápida, ya que no se requiere conocer el proceso de mapeo. Esto puede ayudar a las personas a solicitar la inclusión de sus negocios en el mapa, lo cual les ofrecerá visibilidad en muchas herramientas. De manera similar, los habitantes pueden solicitar la corrección o adición de sus inmuebles, calles, parques y demás cosas de su entorno residencial. Un caso común es el sentido de las calles, ya que por diferentes motivos puede variar.

Texto

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О́строг (черног. Ostrog ) — действующий сербский православный монастырь в Черногории, расположенный в горах в 13 километрах от Никшича и в 15 километрах от Даниловграда, на высоте около 900 м над уровнем моря. Основан в XVII веке. В монастыре хранятся мощи его основателя — святого Василия Острожского, чудотворца, скончавшегося 29 апреля (9 мая) 1671 года. В настоящее время в обители живут 12 монахов.

Острог состоит из двух частей. Нижний монастырь был основан в середине XIX века, состоит он из келий и церкви Св. Троицы. В ней покоятся мощи св. новомученика Станко, 12-летнего мальчика, которому турки отсекли руки, в которых он держал святой Крест и не хотел его выпускать.

Верхний монастырь отделен от Нижнего дорогой длиной около 5 километров, проходящей через лес. Однако паломники, идущие пешком, обычно пользуются более короткой пешеходной дорогой, которую можно преодолеть за 20—25 минут. Верхняя часть встроена в скальную нишу на высоте 900 м над уровнем моря, она двухуровневая, и там находятся самые важные достопримечательности монастыря. Эта часть комплекса состоит из двух небольших церквей: Крестовоздвиженской (1665 год) и Введенской (XVII век).

Введенская церковь — это очень маленький храм, 3 на 3 метра, расположенный чуть выше Крестовоздвиженской церкви. Именно во Введенской церкви святой Василий провёл 15 лет в молитвах. На скале — изображение-икона святителя Василия Острожского. В реликварии Введенского храма хранится ковчег с чудотворными мощами святого Василия Острожского, а также молитвенная книга 1732 года и храмовые подсвечники, датируемые 1779 годом.

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At Facebook, we’ve been releasing our Daylight Map to the public since March of last year. Daylight is a version of OSM that has been quality checked and validated to ensure that the resulting map is safe and of high quality. It is the map data that is used on Facebook maps. Our goal is to make OSM easier and safer to use which will then expand the use of OSM.

When building Daylight, we employ automated validation processes to find bad data. That bad data is then either deleted from the map or corrected in the OSM database. This diary will go over the map validation efforts we’ve made to the map to make Daylight safe to use.

The map validation efforts includes three parts: vandalism and profanity cleanup, relation repair, and Atlas Checks fixes.

Vandalism and Profanity Cleanup

In the last couple years, our engineering team has spent a lot resources to research how we can identify vandalism and profanity more systematically and more accurately. With these improvements to our detection tools, we were able to fix over 360 examples of vandalism and 16 instances of profanity on feature names all over the world.

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1.Каждый Человек рисует как умеет 2. Каждый Человек достоин уважения на то , что он изобразил на Карте 3. Нельзя объять необъятное -невозможно всё отобразить на Карте

A number of areas in the UK (and the world) have painted crossings in LGBT+ pride rainbow colours to support LGBT+ rights.

In the UK at least, these are often referred to as ‘rainbow crossings’. They don’t always look the same, with some using different colours/pride flags.

Image of rainbow crossing by Matt Brown used under Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0 license.

Here’s a recent example from Bristol, a city in the South West of England: https://www.bristol247.com/lgbtq/news-lgbtq/bristol-gets-its-first-rainbow-crossing/ .

Here’s two in a London borough: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/first_rainbow_crossings_unveiled

and another: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51446121

one at Surrey University: https://my.surrey.ac.uk/news/introducing-our-new-rainbow-crossing

And here’s one in New Zealand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Street_rainbow_crossing

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Wenn ich mit der Kamera am Fahrrad unterwegs bin, um Bildsequenzen für Mapillary aufzunehmen, ist es oft hilfreich zu wissen, für welche Straßenabschnitte schon aktuelle Bilder auf Mapillary vorhanden sind. Ich kann dann die Fahrtstrecke so anpassen, dass ich bevorzugt Straßen und Wege abfahre, für die noch keine aktuellen Aufnahmen existieren. Dafür nutze ich eine Overlay-Karte auf meinem Garmin Etrex 30s, auf der alle Mapillary-Sequenzen als grüne Linie angezeigt werden, die ab einem bestimmten Datum erzeugt wurden. Abgesehen davon, dass dabei die Aufnahmewinkel nicht angezeigt werden, hat sich dieses Overlay in der Praxis gut bewährt. Mit QMapShak kann ich das Overlay auch für die Planung am PC nutzen. Nachfolgend beschreibe ich, wie ich das Overlay erstelle.

Die Karte wird für ein geografisches Rechteck (Bounding Box, BBox) erzeugt, das durch die Koordinaten (in Dezimalgrad) der linken unteren und der rechten oberen Ecke definiert ist. Verwendet werden Kommandozeilen-Tools unter Linux/Bash. Die Karte wird in drei Schritten erstellt:

• Herunterladen der Bildsequenzen von mapillary.com
• Erzeugen einer OSM-XML-Datei
• Erstellen der Garmin-Karte

Herunterladen der Bildsequenzen

Seit der Umstellung auf die API-Version V4 können die Daten der Bildsequenzen als Vektorkacheln im Mapbox Vector Tile Format herunter geladen werden. Die hier verwendeten Coverage Tiles enthalten eine Ebene image mit den einzelnen Bildpunkten und deren Daten und eine Ebene sequence mit den Bildsequenzen als Polygonzüge. Diese Ebene wird im Folgenden verwendet, um die Sequenzen als Linien über einer Grundkarte darzustellen.

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Seale-Hayne is a former university located in Devon, UK. It was one of the first purpose-built agriculture colleges in the country, the foundation stone was laid back in 1914 and the construction finished in 1918 when the site was lent for the army to treat shell shock victims from the first world war and in 1920 it would finally receive it’s first agriculture student. The university functioned until 2005 when it was closed and the site was sold. Today it functions as a business centre, hosting different business and charities offices, artists studios, a well-being centre with a pool and a café. It still has a active alumina community which maintains a Heritage Room with objects from the university’s time.

I spent last months slowly mapping the place, adding buildings, names, paths and a few of the business. With the help of StreetComplete I could add a lot of detailed info such as number of steps, building floors, surfaces, etc.

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I’m about to begin working on mapping out every building, Business, and missing information to Wood River and Bethalto.

Currently I’m going to switch between working on Wood River, and Bethalto, mostly focusing my efforts on getting zoning areas and buildings in place. Thus I will follow those by adding the smaller details, like shop names, addresses, and trees.

My May 2021 in OSM

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(original post in Portuguese here)

Introduction

In the last weeks I focused my efforts on adding vaccination facilities in Fortaleza/Brazil. At the moment of writing, there are in Fortaleza exactly 113 vaccination sites, being (if I’m not mistaken) 100 clinics and 13 other places (such as shopping malls and huge infrastructures like a stadium and convention center).

The method I used for this was to use the open data of the Fortaleza City Council (don’t worry, dear warrior of licenses, we have explicit permission for this) for the locations and details of the clinics, along with the other 13 locations that have been manually updated.

Methodology

Preliminary Step

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I started today to validate one of the 3 tasks created by OSM Brazil members on the HOT Organization website.

MAPEIAMA - GOOD PASTE

Tasks to be Valid; https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10977, https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10921, https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10980

tasks created by OSM Brazil members in the HOT Organization.

Website of the OSM Brazil Organization. https://tasks.hotosm.org/organisations/osm-brasil

I invite all Brazilian Mappers to validate the tasks mentioned above that are created in the organization of HOT.

Website of the OSM Brazil Organization. https://tasks.hotosm.org/organisations/osm-brasil

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Comecei hoje a validar uma das 3 tarefas criadas pelos membros da OSM Australia no site da HOT Organization.

MAPEIAMA - PASTOS BONS

Tarefas a serem válidas; https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10977, https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10921, https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10980

tarefas criadas por membros da OSM Brazil na Organização HOT.

Site da Organização OSM Brasil. https://tasks.hotosm.org/organisations/osm-brasil

Convido todos os Mapeadores Brasileiros a validar as tarefas mencionadas acima que são criadas na organização do HOT.

Raphaelmirc - Recife/PE. - Brasil.

Membro da UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiro do Openstreetmap.

Member of UMBRAOSM - Union of Brazilian Mapmakers of Openstreetmap.

www.umbraosm.com.br

My April 2021 in OSM

• Kept on mapping of course. Usual day to day mapping.
• Saw a new project to map public toilets in Ireland (Pee.ie), and tweeted at them @pee_ie, to explain OSM (no reply yet)
• Attended a meeting with some Irish OSMers & other Irish Open Data activists about possible new Irish Open Data policy
• Reported a bug in Nominatim, where it depending on certain software that it didn’t claim to depend on
• OSMF Board
  • Discussed with the board, and proposed a AOSMFBAAAoAAAA session at State of the Map 2021.
  • Trademarks
    • OpenSnowMap
      • [3] email recv, open ticket, DMed Simon & Packi
  • Take over protection
    • emailed all 27 corp members to seek advice, nothing too detailed.
  • Local Chapters
    • emailed about AB reps: Oceania, DRC, AR
    • emailed FOSSGIS new contract & resigned for mistake
  • Board chat about Attribution Guidelines
  • Renewed the OSMF’s BigBlueButton server with Cloud68
  • email an OSMer to follow up about AoA change ideas.

(Sorry for the delay, I’ll try to catch up, which might result in less detail for this month)

Previously:

2021: Jan. Feb. Mar.

2020: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Mostly active on Wikimedia project. Start to learn how to contribute also on OSM.

Interest:

• surveillance camera
• data center

Introdução

Nas últimas semanas concentrei meus esforços em adicionar os postos de vacinação em Fortaleza/CE. No momento em que escrevo este texto são exatamente 113 locais de vacinação, sendo (salvo engano) 100 postos de saúde e 13 outros locais (tais como shopping centers e infraestruturas enormes como estádio e centro de convenções).

O método que utilizei para isso foi utilizar os dados abertos da Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza (não se preocupe, santo protetor das licenças, que temos permissão expressa para tal) para obter as localizações e detalhes das clínicas, juntamente com os outros 13 locais que foram atualizados de maneira manual.

Metodologia

Etapa Preliminar

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