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Foto de Diego Rosselli, autorizada por el autor

Una crónica inspirada en la hazaña del Dr. Diego Rosselli y la potencia de OpenStreetMap

En las entrañas de la geografía colombiana, donde los mapas a menudo se revelan como bosquejos incompletos, este médico neurólogo emprendió una odisea sin precedentes. El Dr. Diego Rosselli, armado con su espíritu aventurero y sus dos Land Rover (El tinieblo y el caricare), se propuso recorrer cada municipio de Colombia. Durante 20 años, este incansable explorador recorrió 1.105 municipios, trazando una ruta que lo convirtió en el primero colombiano en lograrlo y convertirlo en un referente del turismo y la geografía nacional.

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Severe floods and landslides devastated Sukabumi Regency, West Java, after two days of intense rainfall, with over 100 mm of rain falling in a short period, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). On Wednesday, December 4, the overflow of the Cikaso and Cibening Rivers inundated numerous areas, displacing residents and severing access roads. The hardest-hit areas included Palabuhanratu, Sagaranten, and Pabuaran. Floodwaters reached heights of 80–90 cm, submerging homes and halting transportation.

In Sagaranten, neighborhoods like Kampung Rangcabungur faced dramatic rescue operations as narrow alleys flooded waist-deep. Rescue teams, battling strong currents, evacuated several infants and their mothers. “We successfully rescued two to three babies. It was a tense process, but thankfully, everyone was saved,” said the Head of the Sukabumi Police’s Samapta Unit.

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Posted by dcapillae on 5 December 2024 in Spanish (Español). Last updated on 2 January 2025.

Captura de pantalla de XMAS-Map Captura de pantalla de XMAS-Map mostrando las atracciones navideñas de Málaga en 2023, basado en datos de OpenStreetMap. Créditos: Colaboradores de OpenStreetMap y XMAS-Map.

El Ayuntamiento de Málaga está actualizando su página web con las actividades que se vienen desarrollando en el municipio con ocasión de las fiestas navideñas de 2024. También ha publicado ya la programación oficial de eventos (PDF 3.71 MB) y la guía de belenes (PDF 7.25 MB).

No tenía pensamiento este año de actualizar el mapa navideño de Málaga en OpenStreetMap, al menos no de la forma sistemática como lo hice el año pasado. No obstante, sí me gustaría animar a otros a colaborar en su actualización.

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Location: El Molinillo, Centro, Málaga, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Málaga, Andalucía, España

MapSwipe on the Web Experience

MapSwipe Session

Recently, I had the privilege of leading a MapSwipe training session for a corporate group, and it was an incredibly rewarding experience. While I’ve conducted online trainings before, this one felt particularly special. Despite my initial nerves, I was able to deliver a smooth and engaging training session.

Initially, I felt a bit nervous about taking on the role, especially since I was filling in for a colleague. “Corporate” to me also sounded really scary and extremely formal. However, with a bit of preparation and the support of a wonderful colleague, Nicole, I gained the confidence to deliver a successful training session. I focused on guiding participants through the web version of MapSwipe, a tool close to my heart.

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Posted by DeBigC on 4 December 2024 in English.

Backround

About 6 years ago now, the Ireland OSM community had a bunch of online and face-to-face discussions. There was a desire to have a common campaign, rather than everyone just paddling their own canoe, mapping old boundaries, addding 110KV monster pylons, plotting the holy stones of Clonrickert, or whatever you are having yourself.

Why Buildings?

And so #osmIRL_buildings was born. It took lots of months to pull together. There was a discussion document put out, and lots of decisions and guidance via videos, long conversations on Telegram, and frequent issues discussed on the mailing lists. The task was designed with a few things in mind. Firstly, the community recognized that compared to other territories, we had relatively small levels of completion of buildings. Secondly, a prominent academic had stated that the Irish Government knew more about the number and condition of cattle than it did about buildings. Thirdly, a lot of citizen science projects were trying to collate and capture where derelict and disused buildings were located in cities, with the hope that they might be repurposed for housing. Fourthly, there was a National Planning Framework launched in 2018 that concluded that the spaces for the next 1 million people to live in could not be sprawl outside of Ireland’s cities and towns. There were other reasons too, but those are the ones I recall, so apologies to all those other reasons and their proponents. Nevertheless, all of the ones I mention here could have been addressed by the creation of a fully open spatial dataset of the buildings on the island, and not what passes for open data by data.gov.ie.

Reservations

Of course there were detractors; some mappers worried about the threat of being inundated by the glibness of millions of “building”=”yes” objects. One man in Kilkenny was worried that the climate would have changed by the time the task would finish. He might yet be right.

Kick Off

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Session : 11

Topic : 𝑶𝑺𝑴 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓-𝒖𝒑: 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝑴𝒂𝒑

Offered by Open Mapping Guru Time: June 20, 2024.

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session :10

Open Mapping Guru gifted me for actively participating in the 𝙊𝙎𝙈 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧-𝙪𝙥: 𝙅𝙊𝙎𝙈 𝙋𝙡𝙪𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 training under the 🅾🅿🅴🅽 🅼🅰🅿🅿🅸🅽🅶 🅶🆄🆁🆄 Project last June 15,2024.

I learned in this platform about plugins which is related to Josm Map creator application 🙂 Powered by Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific & Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

I received the new achievement form in the platform of Open Mapping Guru for actively participating in the 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔 Training under the 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕘𝕦𝕣𝕦 Project last May 24, 2024. Thanks to Open Mapping Hub& Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) for creating a space for me to join and get some knowledge. Also thanks to the host Mikko Tamura.

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 08📯

𝐎𝐌 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐗 𝐇𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 “𝔸𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕍𝕚𝕤𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕄𝕒𝕡 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒” Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023 last April 12, 2024. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 07📯

𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝔹𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕔 ℚ𝔾𝕀𝕊 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕪𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤. held last April 19, 2024. Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 06📯

𝐎𝐌 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: “𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒 𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕆𝕊𝕄 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕆𝕧𝕖𝕣ℙ𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕋𝕦𝕣𝕓𝕠” held last April 27, 2024. under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023.

Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some wonderful person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 05📯

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑿 𝑯𝑶𝑻 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈:”𝕌𝕤𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 ℚ𝔾𝕀𝕊 - 𝔽𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘” held last April 26, 2024 under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023.

Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 03📯

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: “𝔹𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕣 𝕁𝕆𝕊𝕄 𝕍𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟” held last April 20, 2024 Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 02📯

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: “𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝔾𝕀𝕊 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℚ𝔾𝕀𝕊” held last April 20, 2024 Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023. Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

Session: 01🛜

𝑶𝑴 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑿 𝑯𝑶𝑻 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈: “2024 𝙋𝙖𝙥𝙪𝙖 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙖 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙣” It was special session on which project I worked with attention ❤️ Held last April 19, 2024. Under the Open Mapping Guru Project 2023.

Thanks to Mikko Tamura for giving a chance (in a suitable platform ) to join with some advanced person. YouthMappers 🤍 YouthMappers at Eastern University, Bangladesh 🆗 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 🥰

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

𝑰 am thrilled to share a major achievement in my journey as a dedicated mapper: passing the Open Mapping Guru 2024 Exam and earning my official certification! This recognition affirms my commitment and expertise in open mapping, marking a significant step in my mission to make a positive impact through mapping.

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Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧.” – 𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲

I am honored to have participated in the 2024 Climate Change Challenge as a member of “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒏 𝑫𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔”. This challenge, organized by the Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific from May 20 to June 20, 2024, brought together over 200 participants from 54 teams to address climate change through collaborative open mapping efforts. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute my mapping skills alongside so many passionate individuals, and I am proud to have received the Certificate of Participation. It’s inspiring to see how open mapping can make a real impact on global climate action. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 TomTom, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) & Open Mapping Guru , 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲.

ClimateAction #OpenMapping #MappingForChange#ThePinDroppers#OpenStreetMap#ClimateChallenge#openmappingguru

Location: Navy Co-operative Housing, Akran, Savar Subdistrict, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, 1345, Bangladesh