Welcome to my fifth OpenStreetMap NextGen development diary.
This week has been mostly focused on GPS Traces 🛰.

🔖 You can read my other development diaries here:
osm.org/user/NorthCrab/diary/

🐙 This project is open-source and publicly available:
https://github.com/Zaczero/openstreetmap-ng

GPS Traces Demo

It’s best to experience the refreshed traces in a video form, so I prepared a short demo (no audio):
⏯️ https://files.monicz.dev/osm/traces-demo.mp4

For comparison, here’s how the same trace looks on the current website:
osm.org/user/bielebog/traces/11326871

You will quickly notice the super-fast upload speed and the new trace animations. If there’s something wrong with the file you attached, you will receive instant feedback on the upload page. One new feature is possibility to edit trace name. Previously, this feature has been hidden behind API 0.6.

One more planned feature is rendering the map behind the trace animation. Now that the system works on individual coordinates, it will be fairly easy to implement. Traces without a human-understandable point of reference are not as useful as they could be.

Unified Traces URLs

Let’s start with discussing the current URL routes.

• If you want to access a way, you visit /way/<ID>
• If you want to access a note, you visit /note/<ID>
• If you want to access a trace, you visit /user/<USER>/traces/<ID>

Which is not consistent. OpenStreetMap-NG unifies this experience by introducing a new URL route: /trace/<ID>. All existing URLs remain backwards compatible and are automatically redirected.

Short-Term Development Plan

There’s just a few things left before reaching the core feature parity with the existing website. Those are the things I want to finish before inviting new contributors ツ.

• Elements sidebar (50% work in progress)
• User Diaries
• User Profiles
• Applications (OAuth) settings

Contributor Benefits

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✔ Mini curso para a Defesa Civil (Brasil)

✔ Oficina sobre mapeamento de pontos de interesse (POI) com OpenStreetMap

✔ Special interview about Brazilian NSDI on the first anniversary of YouthMappers UFRJ

✔ Entrevista especial sobre a INDE no aniversário de 1 ano do YouthMappers UFRJ

✔ YouthMappers UFRJ receives the Women’s Participation Award!

✔ YouthMappers UFRJ recebe o Women’s Participation Award!

✔ Our participation in the Open Data Day YouthMappers at UFBA 2024

✔ Nossa participação no Open Data Day 2024 do YouthMappers at UFBA

✔ Web map do mapeamento colaborativo para redução de riscos e desastes (RRD)

✔ Web map of colaborative mapping for the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

✔ Mapear POI no OpenStreetMap e exibir dinamicamente com uMap

✔ Mapping POI in OpenStreetMap and displaying dynamically with uMap

✔ Resultados do GIS DAY 2023!

✔ V Olimpíada Brasileira de Cartografia incluiu o OpenStreetMap como parte de sua etapa prática

✔ V Brazilian Cartographic Olympiad included OpenStreetMap as part of its practical stage

✔ Geocodificação com OpenStreetMap

✔ Mapeamento humanitário e OpenStreetMap

✔ Nossa participação no State of the Map Brasil 2023

✔ Atualização dos dados populacionais dos municípios brasileiros no OpenStreetMap

IVIDES.org® realizou mini curso sobre mapeamento com OpenStreetMap voltado à redução de riscos de desastres

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No dia 11 de abril de 2024, o Instituto Virtual para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável - IVIDES.org, na pessoa de sua presidenta, Dra. Raquel Dezidério Souto, promoveu um mini curso sobre mapeamento colaborativo com OpenStreetMap e voltado à redução de riscos de desastres (RRD). O treinamento foi oferecido aos(às) servidores(as) de defesas civis de diversos estados do Brasil, como parte de um curso sobre logística para desastres.

Como parte dos documentos, foi incluída uma lista preliminar de feições relacionadas à RRD e as etiquetas correspondentes. Todos os arquivos da apresentação podem ser encontrados neste LINK.

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کافی نت ایفل

Having both GoPro Hero11 and Max360, I was curious whether there would be any use from running both cameras at the same time. While Max 360 captures all around, would Hero 11 possibly have better resolution, which could be useful for streetview platforms like Mapillary and Panoramax, thus also providing additional detail for OSM mapping?

Here’s the same object - a surveillance camera - from both action cameras. Hero11 is even a little bit further away.

Max360:

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My first diary entry in thirteen years, and so much has changed on OSM. The editing tools have come on so much, and there is now an incredible level of detail, even in the rural town I’m living in now. I think I need to go back to the documentation to refresh my memory and look at adding all the things missing in my neighbourhood.

Why is there no Arabic language on maps?لماذا لاتوجد اللغة العربية في الخرائط

It is for doing mapping so I can get better, so thank you guys! Google Maps is my main option but I am in Rank 149 of OpenStreetMap! Thank you for @DavidDean as he said he was in the top 50 in 2008! I specifically like you guys! Kind Regards, Brilloant

2024年4月3號花蓮外海發生規範 7.2 強烈地動，造成嚴重 ê 道路中斷 kah 人命傷亡。OpenStreetMap Taiwan 社群開設下跤三个專案，向望各界鍵盤圖客支援繪製花蓮 ê 建築、土地利用 kah 落勾 ê 道路 kah 溪流：

• 中橫公路東段：https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16508
• 蘇花公路：https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16507/
• 花東縱谷北段新城、秀林、花蓮、吉安、壽豐：https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16505

這馬佇咧參詳地動了後 ê 衛星影像捐贈 ē-tàng iōng tī 繪製新 ê 地貌，並且 tī 主要災後復原了後，期待直接 tī 在庄 ê 實體活動，幫助在庄 ê 人。

On April 3, 2024, an earthquake happened outside the coast of Hualien, which caused serious roadblocks and human casualties. OpenStreetMap Taiwan has opened 3 projects for mapping affected areas, requesting worldwide mappers to map buildings, landuses, missing roads or waterways in Hualien.

• Central Cross-island Highway eastern section: https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16508
• Suhua Highway: https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16507/
• Hua-Dong Valley northern part, Sincheng, Siulin, Hualien, Ji’an, Shoufong: https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16505

We are talking if there is a possibility to donate the newest satellite image after the earthquake to map the after-earthquake situations. And the possibility of hosting mapping events on-site after the affected area returns to normal, helping locals by mapping the newest map data.

Zawsze można spotkać się

2024年4月3日花蓮外海發生規範7.2強烈地震，造成嚴重的道路中斷與人命傷亡。OpenStreetMap Taiwan 社群開設以下三個專案，企盼各地鍵盤圖客支援繪製花蓮的建築、土地利用與遺漏的道路與溪流：

• 中橫公路東段：https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16508
• 蘇花公路：https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16507/
• 花東縱谷北段新城、秀林、花蓮、吉安、壽豐：https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/16505

目前在洽談震災後的衛星影像捐贈用來繪製新的地貌，並且在主要災後之後，期待直接在當地的實體活動，幫助在地民眾。

That’s the name of the workshops I facilitated last week, with the goal of introducing/promoting OpenStreetMap, along with introducing tools like FieldPaper, OpenAerialMap, Sketch-Map Tool and Umap, to meet the objectives of local DRR practitioners’ upcoming mapping initiative.

Last Friday I had conducted two workshop in Iloilo, one (unplanned) for Iloilo’s Provincial DRRMO (disaster agency), and another for Iloilo City own DRRMO. In the Philippines, city charters may provide them autonomy from the geographic province they’re part of. These Disaster Risk Reduction Management Offices (a tongue-full, I know) are the government agencies responsible for mitigating localized disaster risks, and planning for disaster prevention for their respective territories.

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While commercial map providers like Google, provide map data in local Indian languages, the local language labels are usually transliterated from English, resulting in errors. OSM, Wikidata and Wikipedia platforms provide a way to improve the local language maps leveraging multilingual labels through Wikidata identifiers on OSM, through semi automated updates. For good quality maps on Wikipedia and OSM, the Wikidata location needs to be accurate and Wikidata identifier should be uniquely mapped to the actual OSM geometry. I worked on removing the mismatches for villages of a district in Andhra Pradesh. I have documented my experience as clearly as possible, so that even users with less programming and tools skills can contribute to the work. As an example, identifying and fixing errors in Wikidata location is given below.

Identifying and fixing error in locations on Wikidata pages

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As we announced in a previous post, we continue to inform the OpenStreetMap LATAM community about the SOTM LATAM 2024 committees, and now we present the Programming Committee.

The main functions of this committee are:

• Propose the activity program during the days of the SOTM
• Design protocol activities
• Design the event Tracks
• Design parallel activities
• Design recreation activities
• Coordinate with the speakers what is necessary for their participations
• Evaluate the carrying out of recognition of mappers in the region

The committee members are:

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Tal como anunciamos en anterior post, seguimos informando a la comunidad OpenStreetMap LATAM sobre los comités del SOTM LATAM 2024, ahora les presentamos al Comité de Programación.

Este comité tiene como principales funciones:

• Proponer la programación de actividades durante los días del SOTM
• Diseñar las Actividades protocolares
• Diseñar los Tracks del evento
• Diseñar las Actividades paralelas
• Diseñar las Actividades de recreación
• Coordinar con los ponentes lo necesario para sus participaciones
• Evaluar la realización de reconocimientos a los mapeadores de la región

Los miembros del comité son:

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Well did that alone

As we announced in the previous post, we continue to inform the OpenStreetMap LATAM community about the SOTM LATAM 2024 committees, and now we present the Academic Program Committee.

The main functions of this committee are:

• Evaluate the presentation proposals received
• Evaluate scholarship applications received
• Management of travel and accommodation scholarships

As additional information for those interested in presenting a talk or presentation, the topics may be (but are not limited to):

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Tal como anunciamos en el anterior post, seguimos informando a la comunidad OpenStreetMap LATAM sobre los comités del SOTM LATAM 2024, ahora les presentamos al Comité de Programa Académico.

Este comité tiene como principales funciones:

• Evaluar las propuestas de ponencias recibidas
• Evaluar las solicitudes de becas recibidas
• Gestión de becas de viajes y alojamiento.

Como información adicional para quienes estén interesados en presentar una charla o ponencia, los temas de estas pueden ser (pero no están limitadas a):

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So I thought surveys meant that I go out and ask people… conduct a survey, but apparently it means that you have been there personally to check it… so… that means I didn’t tag any of my entries where it would apply with this… lol