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Posted by chybcorp on 14 May 2021 in Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia).

Mapper level upgrade Hi chybcorp,

Congratulations! You’re now an INTERMEDIATE mapper. Thank you very much for mapping with us!

As an INTERMEDIATE mapper you are now able to contribute in a wide range of projects.

Many thanks, HOT Mapping Team

Itulah notifikasi yang saya terima hari ini, ada rasa bangga bisa ikut menjadi kontributor, meskipun itu bukanlah hal yang bisa dibangga-banggakan atau bisa menjadi nilai plus dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, tapi ya sudahlah, memang tujuan untuk berkontribusi saat ini bukan untuk itu saja kog

Syukurlah, hari ini hampir semua wilayah Desa sudah terpetakan dengan lebih baik, tidak hanya nampak jalan saja, melainkan juga dengan bangunan rumah dan area pertanian

Location: Desa Patoloan, Sulawesi Selatan, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Posted by jcarlson on 13 May 2021 in English.

A random discussion on the OSM World Discord server yesterday led me to do two things I don’t do often:

  1. Edit the OSM Wiki
  2. Map outside my area

The question was posed, how to tag a coal heap, the kind used for storage, typically next to a coal-fired plant of some kind? There were several ideas, and you can find examples of them out in OSM.

  • landuse=landfill + resource=*

This, to me, feels like tagging for the renderer, but I can understand it. A lot of these heaps have a similar form to open-air landfills: bulldozers pushing and piling mounds of incoming material. But the function is quite different, and the landfill page is clear in that it stores waste.

In the case of coal heaps (and, as I thought about it, sand, salt, and gravel, too), there’s more or less a permanent “heap” site that grows and shrinks as the resource is used and replenished. Not all are permanent enough to warrant mapping, but the heaps near coal-fired power plants have their own infrastructure, so it feels mappable.

Interestingly, there are some examples in France of former coal mines that were filled in, and in those cases, the combination of those tags makes total sense. Otherwise, no.

  • landuse=landfill + material=*

Seems to have more use, existing usage appears to be coal heaps and similar. Again, landuse is not the right tag for what these are. And while the use of the material key isn’t quite as wrong, I think it could use some refining. If it’s like a coal heap, i.e., something being stored for later use, that feels like a resource, and for true landfills, there’s already landfill:waste.

  • man_made=spoil_heap + resource=*

To be clear, I didn’t actually see any uses of this that were the kinds of storage heaps I’m interested in. Most were legitimate former mines, the resource key referring to what the former mine was extracting, as opposed to the contents of the pile left over.

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Posted by 0235 on 11 May 2021 in English.

So, Dear Diary, 2021-05-11

I have decided to take on the task of tracing every building in the town where I live, population about 60,000. Currently the coverage of traced buildings are large retail, large industrial, or the hospital. Almost no houses are mapped, and most of the roads are bare minimum information with no cycleway or footway information.

This comes after my previous task, as I have just finished basic tracing and labelling of the local amusement park, which was almost barren (and due to the “roller coaster track” tag not rendering, it still look barren!).

I do plan on trying to get out a bit and visit some of the places, however the area is very sketchy. Since living here there have been a few drive by shootings, and many places are know as “The Stablands” with how much knife crime goes on…. I feel I will get chased out of some areas for wearing a surveying Hi-Vis, and arrested by the police if I don’t wear one!

I am massively impressed so far with the depth of the Wiki, the ease of use of the ID editor, the wide toolset JOSM has to offer, and the incredibly smooth function of StreetComplete (Quite how it hasn’t had 1mil+ downloads is beyond me!)

For now, the Armchair awaits, though mapping some of the clearly inaccurate foot “trails” around the area could be a nice break, and lower the risk of a shankin’

Location: Kettering, North Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Data Working Group поддерживает вандализм и удаление актуальных данных в проекте, mavl один из участников рабочей группы поддерживает активно вандализм в проекте, а в частности участника AnakinNN массовые вандальные действия данного участника и его “достойный вклад” (ссылки ниже) из-за которого мне был выставлен бан сначала на 3 дня, а после без объяснений причин продлен на 10 лет, за то что я не позволял данному участнику удалять данные.

Браво Data Working Group даже не дала пояснений о моей блокировки. Ну как я и писал mavl = царь, не должен давать объяснений. Холопы этого не заслуживают. Блокировка участников с миллионными вкладами в проект выглядит с его точке зрения нормально, но не один вандал и не один участник не получил блокировку даже за использование и внесение чужих данных в проект, яркий пример тому участник osm.org/user/Nimfea, вносивший данные из 2GIS и массово удалял существующие данные.

Напоминаю как усердно данный участник пытался тут показать его достойный вклад читайте комментарии. osm.org/user/Sowa1980/diary/396347

osm.org/changeset/102932042 - массовое удаление дорожного инфраструктуры, в частности отношений и бордюров.

osm.org/changeset/102869641 - удаления памятника танка Мультти полигона плюс флагштоков. достойный подарок от данного участника нашим ветеранам ВОВ.

osm.org/changeset/102942351 - удаление кодов междугородней связи.

osm.org/changeset/102941820 - удаление контактной информации

osm.org/changeset/102941178 - удаление информации о подстанции.

osm.org/changeset/102941049 - удаление контактной информации

osm.org/changeset/102939485 - удаление емел адреса и названия.

osm.org/changeset/102941979 - удаление тегов. входов.

osm.org/changeset/102752077 - удаление контактной информации и прочее osm.org/changeset/102752647 - удаление контактной информации

osm.org/changeset/102939976 - удаление мультиполигонов и т.д.

Posted by Yakari (kleiner Indianer) on 10 May 2021 in Czech (Česky). Last updated on 18 July 2021.

Teď jsem aktuálně v úpravách v Klášterci nad Ohří a jsou tam špatně popsané plochy mimo budov, že je to už práce nad moje síly. Žádám všechny kdo by je chtěl opravit ať to dá do pořádku. Plochy zahrada by měly být slučovány s budovy a všechny další oblasti venkovních ploch které nemají zahrnovat budovy a jiné prvky.

Location: Horní Miřetice, Miřetice u Klášterce nad Ohří, Klášterec nad Ohří, okres Chomutov, Ústecký kraj, Severozápad, 431 51, Česko
Posted by CartoCrazy on 10 May 2021 in English.

Re.: (osm.org/edit#map=16/34.9460/-111.6368)

I feel that the area in and around Munds Park, AZ has been very terribly rendered, most especially on the roads (for example, instead of showing smooth curves where they exist on the ground, they appear as jagged angles, or they do not follow the actually road path), and this is most obvious when zooming in

It is things like this that very greatly annoy me about OpenStreetMap, as it seems like someone did not wish to take the time to do the job right the first time, and now another user will have to make the adjustments and corrections to clean up the mess left behind.

I don’t know if anyone else feels the way that I do, but I just wanted to express my opinion on what could have otherwise been done properly I apologize if I am stepping on feet on this one… just trying to make OpenStreetMap a beautiful project for all to use.

Posted by testooools on 9 May 2021 in English. Last updated on 10 May 2021.

Kira:

Dear testooools (Mapper), Regarding the Open-Street-Map Request, Congratulations! we have approved the usage on your behalf using our APIs only for open source usage, Can’t be used for commercial use or any kind of using else open-source projects Specifically Open-Street-Map.

Kira Team have the right to revoke your key at any time, But what have been used still valid and approved by us forever and ever, Thank you for contacting us! have a great day

Best Regards. Kira Team.

Me:

Hello, I have contacted open street map members and they said the license can’t be used because the osm data is used by everyone even for commercial use! So if I integrated Kira data on top of open street maps some commercial companies will use this as it is open source to everyone. Please can you explain if that’s a case considered in my permission or not and how?

Kira:

Hello, again testooools! Your concerns are in their place Actually, we are more than happy to confirm that: You can use your key for open street maps directly any effect follow this action will be (valid and approved by us forever and ever) as I mentioned earlier Open street maps are open source you can use our data on it and no worries about any outsider use. I’m sorry for not clarifying this earlier.

Thank you for contacting us! have a great day

Best Regards. Kira Team.

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Posted by RanJenner on 8 May 2021 in German (Deutsch).

Dank des Feedbacks der sehr aufmerksamen und lieben Community hier, habe ich nun einige Veränderungen an meiner umap zum Thema Bürgerentscheide in Bayern vorgenommen. Zuletzt hatte ich noch eine Gliederung nach erfolgreichem BE. Diese habe ich jedoch fürs Erste verworfen und mich auf die thematische Gliederung konzentriert. Diese gefällt mir deutlich besser! Ich bin auch schon recht fleißig dabei, BEs einzutragen. Habe jetzt die Jahre 2021 (bisher), 2020 und 2019 eingetragen. Hier ist die Karte zu finden: (https://umap.openstreetmap.de/de/map/burgerentscheide-in-bayern_11914#7/49.137/11.536) Darüber hinaus habe ich die Karte nun in die Website meines Vereins mit integriert und sie mit einem “Bürgerentscheids-Ticker” für anstehende BEs in Bayern eingebunden: (https://bayern.mehr-demokratie.de/buergerbegehren/buergerentscheids-ticker/)

Wie bereits gesagt, mir gefällt die neue thematische Gliederung der BEs in meiner Karte schon sehr gut. Nur würde ich mir wünschen, dass ein Pin (also ein BE) mehreren Ebenen zugerechnet werden könnte. Also als Beispiel würde ich gerne den BE “Für einen hauptamtlichen Bürgermeister” nicht nur der Ebene “Satzungsplan” sondern auch einer extra-Ebene “2019” hinzufügen. Geht so etwas?

LG Jan

For quite sometime,I have edited some road networks around the Rigo District and Abau especially in Kupiano and Moreguina Rubber plantation as well as Babauguina Rubber Plantation. I can recall of a Survey field party that we did in 2015 regarding the setup of GPS for control station coordination using TOPCON HiPER system for aero-triangulation.

Those road were full of dirt and often times we complained of the wild experience along the Magi Highway en-route to Abau District. We were preparing the way for LiDAR(Light Detection and Ranging) work to be undertaken by FUGRO Geospatial for Australia. Visiting these thick vegetated areas some times inhospitable made Surveyor work really tough. Hu ah!! we did it..When I map these features in OSM, it brings back vivid memories of my travel in the “Land of the Unexpected”,Papua New Guinea

Location: Moreguina, Abau District, Central, Southern Region, Papua New Guinea

Seeing a lot of features especially structures and roads)(esp logging roads) are not mapped an I have appended them form the Maxar imagery. Once these roads networks are mapped ,we can track where illegal logging sites are in Papua New Guinea. Those Mappers who are in PNG using OSM, please do assist as there are a lot of roads built into thick vegetation of the lowlands and they are not identifiable in Goggle Maps but through OSM we can map these linear infrastructures out.

Last January, I’ve just came upon several newbie users in the Philippines who have accumulated over a thousand edits within a few days, adding a thousand POIs, which I discovered by comparing coverage, are more or less copyright violations from Google Maps (with some POIs being at completely odd spots, someting usual with GMaps in some places). I’ve been able to clean up a bunch of their edits, particularly those from a user named JP Baje and another working for a new ride-hail service in the Philippines, and asked the user about their source, but they never replied, and with their activity continuing unabated despite concerns from other fellow mappers back home, I have asked the DWG to have one of them blocked until they have read a message from the DWG addressing concerns. The other one hasn’t been blocked, and has stopped editing, but I’m trying to clean up their edits within my favourite locations while I’m trying to focus with mapping in Canada.

I have no idea why these fly-by-night editors would spring out here with the sole purpose of filling areas of several cities with POIs without providing their source, adding them one by one that make it hard to revert them in one huge sweep and disappearing later when the damage is done, but I think long and strict lockdowns (such as those in the Philippines) are driving this kind of mapping because in such situation, you can’t just go out of home – even within your neighbourhood – without having to present some form of travel authorization from the local government, or you’re a member of a demographic that is likely to get infected with COVID-19 (which in the Philippines, includes those under 14, above 60, or having a serious health condition as of the May 2021 quarantine restrictions) and I assume these users involved are unlikely to have been in those locations, before or during the mass quarantines. Any thoughts?