Eu sou Pedro Ricardo, mapeador voluntário para o OpenStreetMap desde 2021 e sou estudante de Meio Ambiente. Contribuo principalmente com o mapeamento de regiões próximas ao Curimataú paraibano.

Esse texto trata de uma sugestão de tags a serem usadas em vegetações do bioma Caatinga. Decidi fazê-lo porque não encontrei material suficiente que aconselhasse como caracterizar sua vegetação, tanto nos grupos do OSM quanto na Wiki.

O bioma Caatinga é endêmico do Brasil, ou seja, não existe em nenhum outro país e apresenta espécies únicas. Compreende a maior parte da região Nordeste brasileira e apresenta várias variações (fitofisionomias) tornando difícil a generalização e simplificação de suas características vegetais. As variações são tantas que estudiosos preferem trabalhar com o termo caatingas, no plural. Entretanto, com o objetivo de facilitar no mapeamento, tentei encontrar atributos já existentes no OpenStreetMap para destacar sua individualidade em relação aos outros biomas sem ferir tanto com suas peculiaridades. As justificativas para o uso são dadas ao longo do texto.

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Preparations

2023 01-25: Latitude 50.850347519055674 Longitude 4.375579829793424

Underway of preparing for the trip, and making sure I have everything and dealt with the commitments before leaving. I am looking forward, perhaps particularly to Bulgaria and Greece but also to Germany, Prague, Budapest, and Transylvania. We will see how long I travel. Maybe would be nice to continue somewhere and return in late April. Maybe the Nordics or Turkey and Georgia. We’ll see! I think I should maybe slow things down a little while sticking to the plan, not be overambitious, and enjoy.

Забацал саморекламу объявление об OpenLandcoverMap на английском языке: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/announcement-openlandcovermap/108392

Посмотрим, будет отклик или нет :)

А еще у меня теперь новый домен: OpenLandcoverMap.org

Может надо было OpenGeneralizedMap.org, ну да бог с ним.

Janvier 2024

Les randonnées sur la commune existent officiellement depuis juillet 2022, il était temps de les faire apparaître sur OSM. C’était également l’occasion de tester les relations, notamment via ID.

Cela a été finalement assez facile et intéressant, et l’occasion de compléter quelques cheminements piétons, des POI touristiques ou mémoriels (2nde GM, cartes postales, observatoire à animaux, …).

Il ne restera qu’à parcourir physiquement ces différentes randonnées avec Street Complete pour parfaire les informations !

Le résultat est accessible via ce lien

Note : Impossible de générer la carte interactive centrée sur le contenu à partir de cette requête (ajout d’icone sur les POI). D’ailleurs ça ne veut pas non plus prendre en compte des tags node[historic=memorial] ou node[information=map] pour y associer des icones différents. Un peu d’aide est souhaité ^^. Thanks for all your tools in comment. I’ll watch all this in details ASAP. :)

Overview

In December 2023, the Hanang District of the northern Manyara Region in Tanzania faced a catastrophic disaster. The heavy rainfall triggered flooding and landslides, causing widespread destruction in the areas around the towns of Katesh and Gendabi, as well as the steep slopes of Mount Hanang.

Mapping Initiative

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1. Mise à jour du cadastre Tréméven OK ___2 414 habitants
2. Mise à jour du cadastre Saint-Thurien OK________1 027 habitants

I’m new to mapping. I’m trying to map the neighborhood common areas.

I thought I’d start with OSM maps, but they’re not in good shape for describing the right property lines - literally not the right shape, yet. For example, when I look at my neighborhood, there’s a grey blob named “Residential Area” surrounding all the homes, but it doesn’t follow their property lines properly. The boundaries of the neighboring research refuge are also incorrect, extending into the private properties and common areas. And our neighborhood appears to be labeled with a point as opposed to a containing area.

Before I start trying to add or edit features for my neighborhood, I need to learn what I should be changing and what I should be leaving alone. Do I edit the “Residential Area” shape to match the external boundaries formed by private and common-area property lines? And then can I label it with our neighborhood name? Or do I add a new shape with that boundary and label? Or, more likely, follow some other established practice?

Une semaine plus tranquille avec assez peu de changements par rapport aux précédents updates. Ce n’est pas qu’il n’y ait rien à faire ou quoi bien sûr, mais l’absence d’une image satellite récente devient un petit peu limitante et je ne sais pas s’il y aura même un update 2023 du SPW (🤞). En attendant donc, j’ai décidé de faire un peu mumuse en dehors de ma zone habituelle, mais c’est fatalement plus limité vu que je connais moins ces endroits.

Pour ce qui est des vidéos, j’en ai de nouveau trois cette semaine :

Améliorons Flémalle (sur OpenStreetMap) - Épisode 6 (La chasse aux pins) - Version live de ce changeset où je dégage le plus possible de pins/noeuds d’adresse de Flémalle (et Seraing un peu)

Ce mappeur OpenStreetMap change quelques rues près de l’aéroport de Bierset - Version live de ce changeset où je corrige un certain nombre de rues près de Liège Airport. Le problème ici (et que j’ai remarqué après coup) est que je pense avoir remis certaines rues comme elles sont en temps normal, mais pas la situation actuelle apparemment (zone en travaux). Ça m’apprendra à ne pas lire les notes précédentes 😬

Améliorons Seraing (sur OpenStreetMap) - Épisode 26 (Opération passages piétons) - Version live de ce changeset où j’ajoute et mets à jour les passages piétons dans le Fond de Seraing. Une bonne partie de la vidéo est en vitesse rapide avec de la musique parce que c’est réellement juste ça

Pour être honnête, il est probable que je ne fasse que deux vidéos par semaine si je continue à ce rythme moins soutenu, parce que j’avoue que cette dernière vidéo a été faite un peu à l’arrache.

C’est tout pour cet update donc. On verra si je continue à cette cadence plus faible ou si je retrouve d’autres trucs à faire.

A+

Je suis en train d’essayer d’organiser une carto party dans le bas quercy (département 82). les détails sont sur la liste diffusion local de toulouse

Sweden Solar System

I just thought I’d update my diary and give a shout for my trusty GT-31. Every few years I revive it and take it out for some data logging. This year I took it around the new Waterbeach development near Cambridge, UK. It worked perfectly. This is an amazing piece of kit.

One slight let-down was discovering that GPSBabel seems to have dropped support for the GT-31’s native SBP format. I thought that might be the end of my OSM career, but then luckily I found that I can still run the old NaviSys software on Windows 11. I can’t connect to the GT-31 over USB any more (why not?) but I can load the SBP file from the SD card and convert it to GPX. I can then drop the GPX file straight into OSM’s iD editor. Such great software!

Objectives

Guests who show up during mapping activities don’t always have the same level of motivation, equipment, or goals for participating. Some may like to just learn and collect imagery, but are not keen to edit. Some may prefer to just edit, and not go out in the field.

Nobody is even sure if you’d see the same faces again in the next event, so investing too much time on specific (or “better”) tools are deferred, to focus on simpler tools that gets the job done.

A collage of sample photos taken with OpenCamera

The Toolset

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1. Copier = CTRL + C
2. Coller = CTRL + ALT + V

Mise à jour du cadastre de Quimperlé OK_______12 313 habitants

In addition to the previous diary post, I want to quickly show why I think that historic=pinfold should be deprecated.

When I started mapping historic pounds with historic=pound, it was pointed out to me that the value I should use was in fact “pinfold”. I had only ever seen “Pound” on old maps, so I presumed that that was the standard word used by cartographers, but I did my due diligence to find out.

Collins Dictionary differentiates by animal kept in the enclosure: “pound” for dogs and cats and “pinfold” for cattle and sheep. No room for pigs, geese, goats and donkeys. I had my suspicion that that was not a very precise definition.

I sent an email to Historic England, because they use both terms in their database; I’m still waiting for the verdict. (Edit 2024-01-29: Their reply email said that they were two words used for the same concept. I don’t find that very helpful. They sent a list of all their pounds and pinfolds, but I didn’t want to look into the copyright license issue, so I ignored that. If anyone is interested, I can forward the list.)

While I was waiting, I searched for “animal pound”, “village pound” and “pinfold” on Wikimedia and, after comparing the GPS provided there with what was visible on aerial imagery and sometimes streetview imagery (rarely, because they are mostly found in villages with no streetview coverage), added them using historic=pound for the ones where the file name and description contained “pound” and historic=pound + pound=pinfold to the ones that were called “pinfold” on Wikimedia. This enabled me to create a distribution map for both terms. (There were also “pounds” in Wales, but I left them out for this search.) The “pinfold” cases were mostly confirmed by the Historic England database which I consulted to add HE_ref to the ones already found on Wikimedia. Some Wikimedia entries also had the number already provided.

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꧂◤نطيح من عثرات الايام ونقوم وتزيدنا الطيحة شموخ وكرامة نواجه الدنيا بصملات وعـزوم ولا هزنا هرج الردي

Granice administracyjne Kościoła Rzymsko-Katolickiego

State of OpenStreetMap in Africa 2023

This article presents a comprehensive overview of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) landscape in Africa as outlined by Geoffrey Kateregga during the State of the Map Africa 2023 conference, held both in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and online. Serving as an update to the previous assessment conducted in 2020, the overview stems from a survey organized by OpenStreetMap Africa, a collaborative network of OSM Communities across the continent. The conference provided insights into the current state, challenges, and successes of OSM communities in Africa, encompassing responses from 50 out of the 54 countries, offering a nuanced understanding of the evolving OSM landscape on the continent.

Survey Methodology and Participants:

The survey, conducted by OSM Africa, engaged members from diverse communities, organizations, and individual contributors across the continent. With responses from 50 countries, the survey covered a substantial portion of Africa, there were no responses to the survey from Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles.

OpenStreetMap Africa Data Coverage 2023

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The Progress So Far, and What Next?!

Dear Diary,
It’s me again, Eden!

It’s the midpoint of everything! My journey at HOT, and all the challenges/growth opportunities that come with it. It’s even the midpoint of the month of January!😀

I’m proud of myself for the progress I have made so far, and the initiatives I have taken in an attempt to maximize my time with HOT.

The 4th of December 2023, began a journey in my tech career which I will forever be grateful for. I was successfully selected as an Outreachy intern candidate at HOTOSM, for a duration of 3 months. As an ambitious learner, I made a list of goals I intend to achieve, and topics I intend to learn more about, but only as much time will permit me.

I mean it’s only 3 months, it will be over before you squint.

That also ushered the thoughts that kept bugging my mind even before I started; How do I achieve this much in just 3 months? What projects would be valuable to HOT and to people? What does my mentor expect of me?

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Carte interactif des poubelles dans la commune de Libreville