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Disclaimer: All the text you read below is based on an online research aimed at the Brazilian market. survey link

It isn’t news - or shouldn’t be - that OpenStreetMap has a great value in sharing local information. It is a social impact tool for minorities and humanitarian aid policies. Despite the big efforts thousands of mappers who dedicate themselves every day to improve the maps, added to the diligent efforts by the BigTechs to promote their own services, the OSM is far from being the most ppopular map in the world. Or, at least a reference as big as its sister, Wikipedia.

A Hidden Gold Mine

Out of a group of geotech enthusiasts, the OSM is totally unknown to the general public. As we could see in the survey, about 68% of the participants had never heard about OpenStreetMap. Although most likely having had previous experiences with one of the various contact points (Tesla, SnapMap, BigMaps, Apple Maps, Facebook, Strava, Mapbox), most people still didn’t know about OpenStreetMap.

If you’re concerned about whether people see or not your work on OpenStreetMap, the answer is simple as that: Of course they do. They just don’t know where it comes from!

The main reason for this omission is that companies often try to hide our contributions in the smallest and most obscure lines of terms of service while building their own proprietary database, giving grumbs to the community. No need to name names, right?

But this isn’t an exclusive practice of large corporations. How often do apps like Maps.me, OSMAnd, OrganicMaps stop to remind their users that the data they’re using came from OpenStreetMap?

Truth is, no one wants to tell you about their Goose that laid the Golden Eggs!

Not everyone wants to map

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Disclaimer: Todo o texto que você lerá abaixo é baseado em uma pesquisa feita online voltada ao mercado Brasileiro. link para um resumo da pesquisa feita

Não é novidade - ou não deveria ser - que o OpenStreetMap tem uma grande importância no compartilhamento de informação de um local. É uma ferramenta de impacto social para minorias e políticas de ajuda humanitária. Apesar dos grandes esforços dedicados por milhares de mapeadores que se dedicam a cada dia melhorar os mapas, somado ao esforço diligente das grandes BigTechs para promover seus próprios serviços, o OSM está longe de ser o mapa mais popular do mundo. Ou, pelo menos, uma referência tão grande quanto sua irmã Wikipédia.

Uma mina de ouro escondida

Fora um grupo de afissurados em geotecnologia, o OSM é totalmente desconhecido para o publico geral. Como pudemos observar na pesquisa feita, cerca de 68% dos participantes nunca tinha ouvido falar do OpenStreetMap. Apesar de muito provavelmente já terem tido experiências prévias com um dos vários pontos de contato (Tesla, SnapMap, BigMaps, Apple Maps, Facebook, Strava, Mapbox), mesmo assim a maioria das pessoas não conheciam o OpenStreetMap.

Se você se você se preocupa se as pessoas veem seu trabalho no OpenStreetMap, a resposta é simples assim: claro que sim! Elas só não sabe de onde vem!

O principal motivo para essa omissão é que empresas frequentemente tentam esconder nossas contribuições nas linhas mais pequenas e obscuras de termos de serviço enquanto constroem sua própria base dados proprietária dando migalhas para a comunidade. Não preciso citar nomes né?

Mas isso não é uma prática exclusiva das grandes corporações, quantas vezes aplicativos como Maps.me, OSMAnd, OrganicMaps param para lembrar seus usuários que os dados que estão usando veio do OpenStreetMap?

A verdade é que ninguém quer contar sobre sua galinha dos ovos de ouro!

Nem todo mundo quer mapear

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Завершил корректировки и дополнения в части западнее реки Славянки. Теперь карта вполне точно отражает текущее состояние парка на настоящий момент. Пройдусь по восточной части долины реки Славянки и вплотную приступлю к Дворцовому району. В целом там размечено все правильно, но надо навести красоту и аккуратность и кое-что исправить и дополнить.

In einem Posting unter https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=73680 ging es mir darum, wie taggt man durch die Flut zerstörte Flächen um diese entsprechend zu kennzeichnen.

Damit das Ergebnis etwas bekannter ist verweise ich deshalb darauf.

Zusätzlich sollten folgende Attribute dann gesetzt werden:

damage:date=2021-07-14

damage:event=#flood0721

damage:type=flood

Jan

Kan je je vakantie beter plannen met Openstreetmap?

Een week op vakantie geweest in Zeeland en wel in Breskens. Met de auto er naar toe en daar een huis gehuurd. Een gewoon huis in het dorp. De uitdaging hoe vind je interessante dingen om in je vakantie te doen. Zoek eens op VVV Breskens, er is geen echte VVV website voor een kleine plaats als Breskens. Er zijn wel wat boekjes met tips maar dan moet je die eerst helemaal pagina voor pagina doorspitten. Apps en websites die vakantie bestemmingen tonen zijn ingericht voor promotie van de meest betalende deelnemer en niet op jouw persoonlijke voorkeur en wensen.

Gezocht een handig systeem waar je je vakantie mee kan plannen die rekening houd met jouw wensen

Ik ben recentelijk gestart met het bekijken van Openstreetmap een wereldwijd open kaart systeem dat door vrijwilligers word onderhouden. Zo kwam het idee op “Kan een open source kaart systeem onderhouden door vrijwilligers informatie bieden voor de tourist”

Een analyse

Als voorbeeld case neem ik even mijn eigen vakantie in Zeeland

Ik zoek dingen die mijn gezin leuk vinden op de vakantie:

• Strand (zoeken van schelpdieren, krabben, spelen in het zand)
• Kinderactiviteiten (zwemmen, leuke speeltuin, spannende attracties, geen saaie draaimolens, klein museum niet te langdurig)
• Eten (Italiaans pizza, Thais, Grill, Vis, Mosselen, Krab, Patat, Tomaten ketchup)

Mogelijkheden en Beperkingen:

• Ik heb een auto maar een dagje met een boot of de bus is wellicht ook leuk
• We zijn samen met vrienden, soms zijn we samen dan weer individueel
• We hebben een (kleine) hond en we houden niet van roken
• Als het regent wil ik ook wat doen maar dan droog

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The helpful webstats that are provided by Pascal Neis measure map contributions per sovereign territory. In Ireland we still have a relatively small community, and would seldom have over 400 mappers appearing in his ‘kinda random’ 60 day view of the mapping contributions. It would also be rare to have over 100 map changes recorded by more than 100 of those who make it on to the chart. The pascal records these excludes Northern Ireland, who are part of our community, and where our active mappers also map a good deal.

Anyway, a few weeks ago myself and my fellow Traveller, AK challenged each other to get to the 200K mark. AK has been to that summit before, and me never, though it wouldn’t be uncommon for me to have 100K map changes. I am so thankful to have her comradeship and support. It became less of a race, and more of us egging one another on to map every day for the 60 days, which we duely did, and here is the proof.

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Hola

کافه سنتی شبهای زاهدان

On my Facebook page OSMForHistoryBuffs, I’m following a group about holy wells in Ireland, because that is one of my peripheral interests when mapping. People post there about holy wells they have visited, often with a number of photographs. Sometimes people ask for an exact location and are given a googlemaps pin (ugh). When I feel like it, I try to find out where these holy wells are and add them to OSM, obviously I try to avoid the GoogleMaps pin. Often enough, the wells are on the British War Office layer and can be made out on Esri imagery anyway. Sometimes I do then post a link to OSM in that group saying “I’ve added it, look here”.

I’m not sure it is gonna make anyone start mapping, but at least OSM will be better than GoogleMaps as regards to holy wells.

Happy

Realizando testes

이게뭐야

Was lesen meine Augen in JOSM?

Für Anfänger*Innen.

Geht es denen noch gut?

Da bekommt man ja Augenkrebs von derartigen Ausdrücken.

Nett wäre es, wenn man zwischen gegendert und ungegendert bei Deutsch als Sprache wählen könnte. Kann man aber nicht. Statt dessen wird es einem aufgezwungen.

Ich habe die Spracheinstellung daraufhin in JOSM auf Englisch umgestellt.

Good tidings!

My effort to add the natural features to Nancy Lake is finished. osm.org/#map=12/61.6291/-150.0966

What was the point of adding these natural features to a wilderness?

Well, besides being one of my favorite spots in Alaska, mostly I’d say it was just another project like mapping Anchorage where I could incrementally improve and feel some accomplishment at the end. At the end of the day, I hope these edits provided value but it’s my goal to be driven by the small neurochemical treat-reward cycle of editing OSM instead of doing nothing which would be less valuable than something.

！！！

Reading DeBigC’s diary entry on Triskaidekaphobia in Dublin reminded me that I had also looked at the same thing in the USA. The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has a National Address Database containing about 60.5 million addresses from which we can plot the frequency of street numbers in the range of 1 to 19:

Aurangabad, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmednagar, Nashik, Dhule, Nandurbar, Shirur, Akole, Bhandardara, Sangamner, Shrirampur, Nevase, Bodhegaon, Shevgaon, Balamtakli, Beed, Ambajogai, Latur, Ghargaon, Badgavhan, Chaklamba, Mungi, Chapadgaon, Nilanga, Udgir, Chikhali, Nanded, Makni, Dhanora, Tulajapur, Chakan, Phopade, Khori, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Ellora, Ajanta, Devgad, Satane, Chakur, Chakan, Satara, Loni, Gangapur, Vaijapur, Kasoda, Ambelohol, Bhalgaon, Chitegaon, Dhorkin, Beedkin, Ichalkaranji, Paithan

En Colombia, los ríos tenían diferentes palabras para la palabra Río que hace parte del nombre. Sin embargo, hacer esta modificación de cada way no era viable, por lo que lo hice de una forma masiva. Aquí muestro los pasos para replicarlo:

• Buscar el nombre de departamento o región a analizar, para no hacerlo masivo sino por partes.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Colombia/Divisi%C3%B3n_Pol%C3%ADtica#Departamentos

• Correr query en Overpass Turbo por departamento.

[out:xml]/*fixed by auto repair*//*fixed by auto repair*/[timeout:25]; area[name="Colombia"][admin_level=2][boundary=administrative]->.searchColombia; area[name="Amazonas"][admin_level=4][boundary=administrative]->.searchDpto; ( way["waterway"="river"] ["name"~"^(Rio|rio) "] (area.searchDpto)(area.searchColombia); ); (._;>;); out meta;/*fixed by auto repair*/

• Revisar que los ríos quedan dentro de Colombia, ya que si son fronterizos no queremos hacer cambios fuera de la jurisdicción. Para esto se ven los resultados de overpass turbo en el mapa.
• Si quedan fuera de Colombia, editar los ways individualmente para que solo tome lo de Colombia partiéndolos justo en la frontera.
• Exportar los resultados del query de Overpass Turbo a JOSM.
• Una vez en JOSM, seleccionar todo, Ctrl A.
• Abrir el filtro para solo seleccionar los ways Ctrl F.
• Indicar en la ventana:

selected type:way

• Adicionar una etiqueta para que modifique todos los ways. En mi caso puse esta:

andres=gomez

• Guardar los datos como rios.osm
• Borrar la capa modificada.
• Desde una terminal que tenga sed (Linux, Max, cygwin, mobaxterm en Windows) hacer el cambio masivo por medio del comando Sed.

sed "s/tag k='name' v='Rio /tag k='name' v='Río /g" rios.osm | sed "s/tag k='name' v='rio /tag k='name' v='Río /g" | sed "s/tag k='name' v='río /tag k='name' v='Río /g" > riosmodif.osm

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• A közvetítés a megszokottól eltérő helyen lesz, további információk a Wiki oldalon lesznek olvashatók:

• wiki.osm.org/wiki/Hungary/20210826

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