Es ist schon einige Zeit vergangen seit ich mit OSM und Mapping angefangen habe. Landnutzung war damals noch kein Thema, sehr viel von der Karte war einfach nur weiß. Ich zog los mit einem GPS-Empfänger und einer digitalen Kompaktkamera, um Straßenschilder zu fotografieren und habe Straßengerippe eingezeichnet, heute nennt man das Craftmapper. Fotos per timestamp zu korrelieren war in JOSM noch nicht eingebaut, dafür hat’s noch ein Plugin gebraucht.

Später war dann schon eine Menge da und ich hab nur noch sehr wenig gemacht, weil es sich gefühlt nicht mehr lohnte, ein paar Notizen mit nach Hause zu nehmen und mit JOSM zu pinseln.

Es ist noch nicht so lange her, dass ich im Fediverse einen Kurzeintrag las, der grob sagte, auf dem Bild seien mindestens 20 Punkte in StreetComplete enthalten. Dann hab ich mir das angeschaut und spiele es tatsächlich gelegentlich, weil man damit echt viel ergänzen kann, wenn man nebenan steht. Mehr oder minder gleichzeitig kam dann noch Vespucci mit aufs Telefon, denn damit kann man die ganzen Sitzbänke, Mülleimer, Hydranten, Bäume etc. einzeichnen, die noch nicht da sind, und all die Telefonzellen löschen, die die Betreiber mittlerweile abgebaut haben.

Die Auflösung der GPS-Empfänger ist im Kleinen eher so mittel, vor allem, wenn eine Zeile Häuser da rumsteht, die alle so unter 10 Meter breit sind und in den OSM-Daten oft nichtmal richtig eingeteilt sind, weil die Dächer zu ähnlich waren von oben. Für solche Dinge habe ich noch keine rechte Lösung.

Für den Schluss bleibt noch die Frage der Fragen: Wenn ich einen Mülleimer einzeichne, wo keiner ist, kommt dann die Stadt und stellt einen auf?

Я полностью прочитал ветку обсуждений над дворовыми проездами. Эта тема все еще имеет проблемы: она плохо объяснена на соответсвующей странице в вики, она плохо объяснена на других страницах, которые упоминают дороги. Как я понял: Жилые территории, обозначенные и не обозначенные знаком 5.21, то что мы называем дворовыми проездами и прилегающими территориями мы обозначаем так:

highway=service living_street=yes

Если во дворе есть более “главная” дорога (ее могут называть “стволовой”), то можно применить такую схему:

highway=unclassified living_street=yes и добавлять для второстепенных дорог во дворах (дороги, которые называют “нестволовыми” проездами): highway=service living_street=yes

В дурацком случае, когда жилая зона имеет название: highway=residential living_street=yes

Сейчас хочу изучить обозначение парковок вдоль дорог. Эта тема достаточно неочевидно рассказана, чтобы с поверхностного просмотра страницы в вики я не смог сразу взять и начать картографировать.

Пару месяцев назад мне пришла идея поместить в пост координаты того, что хочу пофиксить. Мне указали на ошибку и теперь все мои координаты - у меня в профиле.

Пару месяцев назад мне пришла идея поместить в пост координаты того, что хочу пофиксить. Мне указали на ошибку и теперь все мои координаты - у меня в профиле.

The best part of being an OSM editor is being able to write in my diary. I hope the feed picks this entry up.

My 214 Mapping Days of 2021

At the beginning of the year 2021, one of my targets was to upload a changeset at least every day until the end of the year. However, I have not managed to hit my target. Nevertheless, this year still emerges the year with my highest number of contribution days.

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The OpenStreetMap Community of South Sudan, was launched on 26th.Nov.2021, in an event that brought together Government agencies like the National communication Authority, Companies like East Africa GoGreen, Academia like The University of Juba and among other individuals, this launch event was the commence point of the upcoming programs of OSM South Sudan and it strives to achieve its goal of facilitating the creation, and use on OpenStreetMap data, this shall be made possible by the couple of partnerships OSM South Sudan is looking with the Government and other entities who shall either be data users or contributors, though the collaboration with other HOT and the Open Mapping hub, East and Southern Africa has come handy in building and pushing for success of the community. OSM South Sudan is now in the process of collaborating with the NCA to map and solve address issues in Juba.

I suspect a JOSM edit.

As a Crowd2Map intern I had the opportunity to attend the conference #StateOfMap2021, it was a unique experience where for the first time I could see many experts from various areas related to data in one place, I did not know that the mapping area was too large.

Well, many sessions marked me but in particular those involving development of solutions using programming language, I hardly knew that with the knowledge I have in Python and database could do a lot of things with data, for me it was a wake-up call. It was from this awakening that I decided to explore further this area of development of solutions using data, research more about what I can do with the mapping data here in Mozambique to help in the development. With regard to networking it was possible to create networking, for an exchange of experience in the area, where it was possible to have a view also of what I can do mapping.

Congratulations to the whole team, for the beautiful organization, was all very well organized from the sessions until the presentations made, it was very good to know that there are so many people or a united group in the area of mapping and for the development of solutions for society. One of the recommendations that maybe could leave is that next time presentations are made all in English so that we can all watch all the sessions, or to the sessions in a language other than English could be put subtitles do not know if is possible or the slide could be translated into English and then sent to the participants.

Things I’ve figured out (possibly incorrectly) in my first week of mapping, since I discovered StreetComplete and got addicted… Don’t worry, in two or three weeks I’ll simmer down, LOL

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Зарылся в обрисовку Смоленщины на карте OSM.

Хотя мерзкий mapcraft поломался и не позволяет логиниться и резервировать на себя куски пирога (автор сайта пока молчит, но я ему написал и надеюсь, что он скоро починит проблему), это не мешает загрузить сетку с номерами ячеек и обрисовывать произвольно выбранную ячейку. При таком количестве ячеек и таком “изобилии” рисующих, вероятность попасть на уже взятый кем-то кусочек - исчезающе низкая. :) В общем, рисовать можно.

Очень интересно, сколько времени должна занять обрисовка одного гексагона диаметром 10км и как будет выглядеть результат. :) С одной стороны, при выборе такого диаметра сетки, гексагонов получилось сравнительно небольшое количество (около 400). С другой стороны, если взялся, твой гексагон не скоро тебя отпустит, работы там получается точно не на пару часов.

За три рисовальных дня насыпал, кажется, больше точек, чем за весь свой предыдущий мапинг. :) Больше пяти тысяч точек. Замаплена, по ощущению, примерно треть от гексагона, и хотя мапинг таких штук сильно затягивает, замапить всё за один раз (и даже за один день) - совершенно нереально.

Зрительная кора адски греется, примерно так же, как в игре mapswipe, где надо дрессировать нейросетку HOT OSM, отделяя квадратики, в которых есть искомые объекты (дороги или здания), от квадратиков, в которых их нет. Есть ощущение, что весь этот ихний мапсвайп с мапингом Ботсваны или Афганистана - это была просто тренировка в рамках подготовки к мапингу лесов Смоленщины. В мапсвайпе есть разные уровни сложности (хотя об этом никто до начала игры не говорит). Некоторые задачи решаются на изи. А некоторые задания уровня “завали босса”, с адски зашумлённой картинкой, на которой найти домики среди раскиданных камней или баобабов не проще, чем панду среди штурмовиков.

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I was part of the volunteers in the SOTM preparation for the virtual conferences, I have always preferred to reserve a particular space equipped enough to participate during the conference. I must say due to traveling and preparing for Africa GIS conference calls, I didn’t prepare such an environment to attend this conference but I used any of the opportunity I have to attend. In spite of all, I had quality time to join in at some scheduled talk sessions and networking sessions with participants from other parts of the world at large.

One of the amazing talk sessions I learned most was a talk on “Community mapping to improve flood preparation in Nigeria” which was facilitated by Sharmila because in some areas in Nigeria are facings water challenge and other areas are facing water scarcity. The talk exposed the different most flooded areas affecting communities and it also presented a solution by using mapped buildings, roads, and water areas edits on OpenStreetMap. The two areas stated earlier must solve both challenge simultaneously. The facilitator also recommended other solutions that could solve the flooding problems.

During the event, I networked with GUY a member of OpenStreetMap in. Cote d’Ivoire and the interesting part was that we meet at Africa GIS conference in person such an amazing network session to talk more and take pictures together. We discussed the SOTM conference, talk about his country shared our experience in contributing to OSM, and also exchanged contacts. At the Network break session, I also had a call with Becky Chandiru, who was one of the facilitators during the HOTOSM Data quality internship 2020. We made use of the period to connect well enough and shared some ideas with each other.

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As a Rwandan young woman a mother and a teacher it was an honor to attend STATE OF THE MAP Africa for the second time , it was a great experience to attend such huge platform online after pandemic loneliness. I was excited to see and to hear from other experienced OSM communities , it was fun! I was impressed to my fellow Rwandan community member joining for the first time and Youth Mappers as well, the Team is now hungry and willing to learn more about advanced mapping on OSM.

https://twitter.com/Crowd2Map/status/1463873169618522123?t=OfpGgqBXHmfbSxEHFtrHJg&s=19 Local communities especially in rural areas including marginalized groups need also to understand these open source tools which have proved to be cost effective and reliable in addressing challenges in several sectors. From the presentation from Janet chapman, these groups are called digital champions. As organizations and groups in OSM, we should cultivate many digital champions, and from this we invest our efforts to the right people

IBGE lança nova base cartográfica do Rio Grande do Sul / IBGE launches new cartographic base of Rio Grande do Sul

https://metadadosgeo.ibge.gov.br/geonetwork_ibge/srv/por/catalog.search#/metadata/59febe10-2da6-42c8-93c9-52db0a53385d

https://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/cartas_e_mapas/bases_cartograficas_continuas/bc100/rio_grande_do_sul/versao2021/

O Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) lançou no último dia 27 de outubro a Base Cartográfica Vetorial Contínua do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul na escala 1:100.000, na qual 1cm equivale a 1km no terreno. Esse é o quinto conjunto de dados geoespaciais vetoriais lançados pelo Projeto BC100, para mapeamento das 27 unidades da federação nessa escala. Além do Rio Grande do Sul, já estão totalmente mapeados os estados de Goiás, Espírito Santo, Sergipe e o Distrito Federal.

As principais aplicações dessa base envolvem programas de governo com enfoque territorial, análises que demandem uma visão de conjunto das Unidades da Federação, bem como subsídio para a representação de aspectos temáticos – sociais, econômicos e ambientais – do território. É um documento cartográfico básico para o planejamento setorial de obras de infraestrutura como energia, transporte, comunicações, entre outros.

A publicação da Base oferece à sociedade um mapeamento planimétrico digital, através de uma base cartográfica contínua e compatível com os requisitos de precisão do Sistema Cartográfico Nacional (SCN) e adequada aos padrões e normas da Infraestrutura Nacional de Dados Espaciais (INDE).

Reprodução da Base Cartográfica do Rio Grande do Sul O produto foi elaborado utilizando como insumo imagens de satélite cobrindo todo o território gaúcho, dados levantados por pesquisas do IBGE, a cartografia oficial do estado (Base Cartográfica do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul em escala 1:25.000, lançada pela Secretaria do Meio Ambiente e Infraestrutura), e informações de órgãos parceiros.

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank openstreetmap Africa for organinising this year`s state of the map Africa. Before I go further, let me introduce myself here https://mapuganda.org/morish.html.

During this three day conference, I learned allot. The interesting session for me was mappathon where I was able to contribute to the openstreetmap through mapping and I learned new advanced josm tricks which makes mapping easier.

Networking during the conference was amazing. connecting to fellow mappers around Africa was something unforgetable to me. though time was not enough.

The lession that I learned from the conference will help me to improve my mapping skills and I will apply some of the ideas that I got from SOTMA to my community for development purpose.

My challage during SOTMA was lack of enough data which made me not to attend all the sessions but I am hoping to watch them on youtube once they are uploaded. The amazing session was the least but not last one which was SOTMA after party where I learned new dance steps from enock, shamillah, geoffrey and sharon who were outstanding and thank to Dj Angela. The session was full of jokes and I believe it was a session with the highest number of chats.

Many thanks to all the 75 speakers and organisers for making SOTMA colorful.

Knowledge sharing has a great power to change our communities and perspectives we have on different issues that affect us day by day. The State of the Map Africa virtual conference was just what we needed Malawi and Africa at large. Sometimes we may have helpful knowledge and skills, but sharing is far more important.

During the conference, Christine Mhone showed us how the knowledge and skills in mapping is very important in health, environment and risk and disaster management. Considering the state of Malawi’s health care and out vulnerability to climate change related disasters, indeed mapping can help in relief, search and rescue as well as post disaster activities such as tracking household affected and relief items delivery, through among others monitoring conditions of roads in the affected areas.

Innovations are also more important and encouraged in mapping. I took inspiration from the developer of Maproitette. This is making a visible difference to the communities we live and the world at large and I’ve been inspired a lot during the conference.

There is a great need to make people aware of the impotence of mapping as well as knowledge sharing as vulnerability of one location affects us all in one way or another.

We all have different stories and reasons to do open street mapping and the talk by Willy Franck on how OSM changed his life, we all can learn a lot from his experience and this should help us make positive impacts in our communities.

The speech by Monica Nthiga on technological development and improvements within the OSM communities was insightful and learnt a lot from her.

A big thank you have to go the organisers and moderators, all participants and all who spoke during the conference. I have gained more knowledge through attending the conference and I am looking forward to more of the same in the near future. Thank you all.

In preparation for Online conferences, I have always preferred to reserve a particular space equipped enough to participate during the conference. I must say due to lectures and other academic calls, I didn’t prepare such an environment to attend this conference. In spite of all, I had quality time to join in at some scheduled talk sessions and networking sessions with participants from other parts of the world.

One of the talk sessions I learned most was a talk on “Community mapping to improve flood preparation in Nigeria” which was facilitated by Shamilah. The talk exposed the different most flooded areas affecting communities and it also presented a solution by using mapped buildings, roads, and water areas edits on Open Street Map. The facilitator also recommended other solutions that could solve the flooding problems.

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Joining into the State Of The Map Africa was a great privilege for me as I was able to listen to great minds, scholars, experts, innovative & inspiring individuals. I started by listening to the lessons learned from a building footprints import. This opened my mind and I got exposed to things I didn’t imagine like the mention of AI generated buildings. I loved this and hoped to also learn how it’s done. The sessions were colorful as Laura Mugeha, the moderator was jolly and cheerful. The keynote Speech by Monica Nthiga in Room I was an insightful one as she mentioned of the Technological developments & improvements within the OSM communities. I got informed about how data has been collected by Crowd Sourced Data Gathering, this was new to me, I only new the Hot Tasking Manager, she managed to address the gaps & challenges. Brought up the point of not everyone is online so people don’t understand how OSM works. I learnt about the detailed data life Cycle steps that are categorized as preprocessing, Exploration and Maintenance. I am glad the I participated and also contributed to Map Ghana. Through this Mapathon, I was able to interact, learn from others as well as guide new beginners on the use of the editors specifically JOSM. I was able to network and collaborate while contributing data to OSM. Thanks to the organizers for the mind blowing event

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This year State of The Map Africa Conference(virtual) was a unique one. The Talks, Sessions Presentations were all inspiring. The Talks that wept me off my feet was that of which Willy Franck presented. Titled”How OSM Changed My Life”. He has developed an app/software so to say that could place everyone on the map. With it, be it a carpenter, the hairstylist etc will be on the map ( locations & attributes are very important In mapping) Indeed, his work is really without leaving anyone behind.

This is not new, a lot have been said too - https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2021-April/086458.html

Yes, several ##hashtags for Changest comments is very bad and not helping human.

Looking around Ghana and seeing especially new mappers whose first point of contact to OpenStreetMap is via some kind HOTOSM Tasking Manager instance activity / project, carry on this hashtag way of changeset comments to their individual contributions IMHO is not a good sign of building a good project, community and future.

It could be that some of them are not aware of it or think it’s cool to use ONLY hashtags as a changeset comment. Please, if you don’t know, It doesn’t tell anything useful.

This is why I now leave comments on such changesets in Ghana to draw mappers attention, I hope this little efforts convinces someone.

I recommend you read: osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments and always use a descriptive text that can help yourself and everyone tell what actually happened in a changeset in the future.

If you are a trainer, catch them young!

Happy mapping!

Bye!