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Posted by imagico on 18 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 19 January 2021.

The OSMF board started a survey of the OSM community and in tradition from previous surveys i wanted to publish my answers here. However as the title indicates already i did not actually participate in the survey this time because in most of the eight main questions i did not feel like the form of the survey gave me the ability to accurately answer the question. And answering the questions is mandatory, i could not participate in the survey without answering them. Therefore i decided to refrain from submitting answers which would in the majority of the question not have correctly represented my view on the question.

I will explain why that is the case and what my answers actually are in the following.

Just to avoid any misunderstandings - just because i did not submit the survey does not mean i suggest to anyone else to not do so either. On the contrary, if you feel like you can articulate your view on the questions in the survey in a meaningful manner then you should do so.

For reference - the full survey in English can be read without registration on https://imagico.de/files/survey_osmfboard_2021.png

Question F1:

I already commented at length on the so called Diversity Statement issued by the OSMF board and the Committee created in that context. But the question is not about the Diversity Statement (which is not even mentioned in the notes for the question) but about the creation of the committee and about tasking the LCCWG with recommending a response to a recently published pamphlet critical of the OSM community.

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Posted by imagico on 18 January 2021 in German (Deutsch). Last updated on 19 January 2021.

Der FOSSGIS wird voraussichtlich im März seine Mitgliederversammlung veranstalten - dieses Jahr natürlich virtuell - was ich ungeachtet der oft durchaus netten Atmosphäre, die auf FOSSGIS-Versammlungen traditionell herrscht, für eine gute Entwicklung halte, da sie deutlich mehr Leuten, insbesondere auch aus der OSM-Community, die Chance gibt, daran teilzunehmen.

Für die Mitgliederversammlung möchte ich hiermit, diesmal aus Gründen, die ich erläutern werde, schon deutlich im voraus, meinen traditionellen Bericht als Vertreter des FOSSGIS im Advisory-Board der OSMF geben.

Dieser Bericht fällt dieses Jahr sehr knapp aus, denn wie schon im letzten Jahr erwähnt, ist das Advisory-Board der OSMF als Ganzes so gut wie tot. Der Vorstand konnte sich bis jetzt nicht dazu aufraffen, das Gremium tatsächlich offiziell zu schließen, aber seit der OSMF-Vorstand mit den Firmenvertretern im Advisory-Board regelmäßig nicht öffentliche Gespräche führt, hat im Advisory-Board als Ganzem nichts mehr von Substanz stattgefunden.

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Post d’origine osm.org/user/apm-wa/diary/395418 traduit vu le choix étrange de poster cela sur un journal au lieu de choisir un outil multilingue comme le wiki osmf

L’enquête 2021 de l’OSMF sur la communauté OSM a ouverte. Elle sera ouverte à la participation jusqu’au 14 février. Veuillez surfer sur les URL suivants pour vous inscrire à l’enquête. Vous recevrez en retour un courriel avec un jeton à usage unique qui vous permettra de participer à l’enquête.

Veuillez noter que les traductions en persan (farsi) et turc sont des traductions automatiques à 100%, via Microsoft Translator. Je m’excuse par avance pour toute erreur, car il s’agit de langues que je ne connais pas et je n’ai pas pu trouver de traducteurs bénévoles pour réviser et corriger les traductions automatiques. Il y aura des erreurs, mais j’espère qu’il ne s’agit pas de graves erreurs de traduction qui rendent l’enquête impossible à comprendre. Si vous pouvez m’aider à réviser les traductions en persan ou en turc, veuillez m’envoyer un message.

Veuillez amplifier ce message dans toute la communauté OSM - faites passer le mot ! Veuillez utiliser vos canaux de communication préférés pour encourager tous les membres de la communauté OSM à travers le monde à participer à cette enquête ! Je vous remercie d’avance pour cela.

Anglais (Langue de base) : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=en

Chinois (traditionnel ; Taiwan) : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=zh-Hant-TW

Français : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=fr

En allemand : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=de

En japonais : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=ja

En coréen : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=ko

Persan : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=fa

Polonais : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=pl

Portugais (brésilien) : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=pt-BR

En russe : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=ru

En espagnol : https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=es

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Le département de l’Allier a repassé, fin 2020, l’ensemble de ses routes départementales de 80 à 90 km/h.

Au fur et à mesure des modifications effectuées :

  • passage de maxspeed=80 à maxspeed=90 des routes départementales concernées et éligibles
  • ajout, pour raison historique, d’un deuxième attribut pour montrer que pendant la période allant du 1er juillet 2018 (entrée en vigueur sur toutes les routes à double sens sans séparateur central) au 10 décembre 2020 (veille de l’entrée en vigueur des 90 km/h sur les RD de l’Allier) qui est : maxspeed:2018-07-01–2020-12-10=80
  • si un seul sens, ajout de :forward ou :backward après maxspeed
Posted by c tito young on 17 January 2021 in English.

So this one I think is very odd.. coincidental? But here it is, on a hillside. at least 10 figures, side by side, in plain view.. All ten have elongated heads which includes a mother with child. I tried to be as faithful as I could be simply tracing but when I got the the mother, I saw an etching, positively a bearing hand and a lower hand. There are at least two Sharman and an Alien. I am reviewing the site again, as I think there are at least three more hidden elongated heads tucked along side.

There are a few trails leading up to the side from the south. Ill be indicating those as well. .

{Text](osm.org/edit#map=18/-14.66903/-75.22582)

Location: Santa Elena, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru
Posted by apm-wa on 17 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 21 January 2021.

The 2021 OSMF Survey of the OSM community has been activated. It will be open for participation until February 14th. Please surf to the following URLs to register for the survey. You will receive an email in return with a single-use token that can be used to take the survey.

Please be aware that the Persian (Farsi) translation is 100% machine translation, via Microsoft Translator. I apologize in advance for any mistakes, since this is a language I do not know, and I could not find volunteer translators to edit and correct the machine translation. There will be errors, but I hope not serious mistranslations that make the survey impossible to understand. If you can help with editing the Persian translation, please message me.

Please amplify this message throughout the OSM community–spread the word! Please use your preferred communications channels to encourage everyone in the OSM community worldwide to participate in this survey! I thank you in advance for that.

English (Base language): https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=en

Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan): https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=zh-Hant-TW

French: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=fr

German: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=de

Japanese: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=ja

Korean: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=ko

Persian: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=fa

Polish: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=pl

Portuguese (Brazilian): https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=pt-BR

Russian: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=ru

Spanish: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=es

Turkish: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=tr

=== UPDATE ===

Indonesian (Bahasa) https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=id

Italian: https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=it

Ukrainian https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=uk

Vietnamese https://osmf.limequery.org/281662?lang=vi

Very best regards, and happy mapping!

Posted by c tito young on 17 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

So what do you do when you are carefully floating around the Nazca valleys, and you see a horse head, then the horse, and with much surprise an upside down rider is seemingly being thrown from it. After then drawing it, as remarkable as it might be, you then see a beak.. pointing north, connected to birds head and then a bird, with a claw.

Deep down you think its a coincidence, but then, is it? The shapes reflect that discovery you’ve been kind of watching for the last few months following these.

Geometric trapezoids near any area, some conspicuous others not so much. Not all have to be razor sharp, and even that might unlock yet another glyph.

osm.org/edit#map=17/-14.80695/-75.07324

Location: El Milagro, Nasca, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru
Posted by c tito young on 16 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 1 March 2021.

The location of the Lounging Cat is on a hill, graphically pinpointed by Nazca lines. On the eastern side of the hill lays a figure of a cat, semi incomplete and approximately 75M long by 30M high. The cat is positioned in a north / south orientation.

Due to much of this geoglyph being washed away, the shape of the lounging cat object was drawn in using framed in landmarks and then through interpolation worked in.

UNESCO has recently built a viewing platform which includes foot paths to parking areas.

Location: El Ingenio, Province of Nasca, Ica, 11350, Peru
Posted by VIPINDAS K on 16 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 7 June 2022.

Naksha 2021

"Real View of the World " 

OSM Wiki Page

Naksha 2021

Organized by: APJAKTU NSS Cell Programme Coordinator: Prof. Ratheesh S, Vipindas K

Number of OSM Contributors: 209, Number of Map Changes: 48116, Total number of Changesets: 4467, Displayed Changesets : 4467

Naksha 2021 - a national level Mapathon organized by the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University’s NSS Cell, is a one week mapping party that aims at the learning and understanding of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) among people and at creating a free editable map with data that all can access. Programme is organized by Government Engineering College Wayanad (Unit no: 168 & 263), Lal Bahadur Shastri College of Engineering Kasaragod (Unit no:179 & 683), College of Engineering and Management Punnapra (Unit no:558 & 630).

With open source maps providing access to map data, The Future of Maps is Open!

Date : 10 - 16 January 2021

Time : 7pm - 9pm

Place : Virtual - YouTube, Google Meet, Facebook Live

Hashtag : #Naksha2021

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Location: Thaira, Kasaragod, Kerala, 671545, India

EDIT: The app is now available on Github.

https://github.com/IpswichMapper/SwiftAddress/releases

You can find the APK under “assets”.


When I intended wanted to map housenumbers in my area, I found out about the app “Keypad-Mapper 3”. This seems like the most efficient way to map housenumbers, as it is designed for that purpose.

However, after downloading (from F-droid archive repository), I found out that it didn’t work. The app had not been updated in 7 years, so no wonder that was to case. Luckily however, online I found a fork of Keypad-Mapper 3 with hungarian translations which worked.

After doing one giant survey with this app, however, I quickly realised how much of a pain it can become to try and clean up the raw data in JOSM. GPS data isn’t really the most accurate thing, and therefore the positions of housenumber nodes (which are based on your GPS position) collected from Keypad Mapper isn’t that accurate either.

This survey took me multiple weeks and multiple changesets to clean up. It was a mess.

I then started to look for alternatives: Streetcomplete seemed like the best option and I did a few surveys with it. However, mapping housenumbers wasn’t the most efficient thing on this app. So I opened a issue on Streetcomplete’s Github repository to try and improve the app. This lead to a increment button which adds/substracts one number from the previous housenumber you entered.

This was quite useful, but it doesn’t work for both sides of the road. Streetcomplete housenumber mapping also requires that you have drawn buildings first, which can be tedious (here is my diary entry explaining how to speed it up slightly).

Then, I heard about OSMpad. This is an old application which is no longer available. However, I liked the design. OSMpad starts up as a map: you then add a housenumber on the map when surveying.

This would obviously lead to cleaner and more accurate data compared to Keypad Mapper, and would not require adding building data.

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bom dia,

Tenho inserido nos ultimos dias nomes de Ruas em vilas que ainda não seus nomes de ruas inseridas, tenho notado que muitas vilas estão ainda com seus nomes de ruas em branco e por isso estou inserindo os nomes de ruas conforme a camada nomes de ruas.

atenciosamente,

Raphael de Assis.

Membro da UMBRAOSM

http://www.umbraosm.com.br

Recife/PE.

Inserting Street Names in Villages without Street Names in Brazilian States - Brazil.

In the last few days I have inserted street names in villages that have not yet entered their street names, I have noticed that many villages are still with their street names blank and therefore I am entering street names according to the street names layer.

Regards,

See Part 1/n here.

We are happy to share the draft OSM Philippines’ Code of Conduct (CoC) made for and written by the OSM Philippines community members. It is now available for review and comments!

Based from the response on the Miro Board Workshop during Pista ng Mapa 2020, we categorized the “Expected Behavior” into four:

  1. Be Respectful
  2. Be open and constructively critical
  3. Be Inclusive
  4. Put the community first, but still prioritize our health

Other topics and questions that we want to consult with the OSM PH community stands: - What should be the consequences of violating the OSM PH CoC? - How do we approve the CoC? - How do we ensure that it is enforced? (One thing that comes to mind is to have an open feedback mechanism/form for members to express criticisms or report violation which should be managed by a committed group of people) - And many more…

The OSM PH CoC is one of the agenda for tomorrow’s 2021 OSM PH Annual Planning Meeting. We hope you can join us! If not, please feel free to comment on the draft. :)

Also, please message me for the google calendar invite for tomorrow’s planning meeting.

Join the OSM LoCos Telegram Channel and subscribe to the talk-ph mailing list for more updates and info!

Maraming salamat/Thank you!

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Location: 14.644, 121.038

I’ve been working on normalizing opening hours values, to make them more standard for all parsers to understand them.

I’m using KOpeningHours in the Osmose plugin which detects invalid values. And then I’m using it again to fix the Osmose warnings, in OpeningHoursFixer. This tool shows me before/after values for every field being fixed, so I can manually verify that the change makes sense, before it gets submitted.

I just noticed messages about some issues with these changes, such as source=survey, which is a bug. I’ll fix that.

Boa Tarde,

Hoje Cheguei a marca de 7.000 edições no Openstreetmap, nos ultimos dias tenho feito melhorias e inclusão de nomes de Ruas em varias Cidades do Estado de Pernambuco e do Brasil.

Fiz correções em Numeros de Telefones para o Padrão Internacional.

venha participar da nossa comunidade no telegram instalando o Aplicativo. Comunidade Pernambucana no Telegram. https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@osm_pernambuco

um forte abraço a todos;

Raphael de Assis

Membro UMBRAOSM

MEMBRO FUNDAÇÃO OSM

CIDADE: Recife/PE. - BRASIL.

Membro do Coletivo União dos Mapeadores Brasileiros do OpenstreetMap.

www.umbraosm.com.br/

Good afternoon,

Today I reached the mark of 7,000 editions on Openstreetmap, in the last days I have made improvements and inclusion of street names in several cities in the state of Pernambuco and Brazil.

I made corrections in Telephone Numbers to the International Standard.

come join our community on the telegram by installing the Application. Pernambucana Community on Telegram.

A big hug to everyone;

Raphael de Assis

Member UMBRAOSM

OSM FOUNDATION MEMBER

CITY: Recife / PE. - BRAZIL.

Member of the Collective Union of Brazilian Mapmakers of OpenstreetMap.

www.umbraosm.com.br/