Mon Experience State of the Map Africa 2021

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La 3éme edition du state of the map Africa (SOTMA) c’est tenu du 19 au 21 Novembre 2021 durant trois jours j’ai pu assisté a plusieurs panel et discussion aussi j’ai présenté la communauté OSM RDC durant une session d’échange et aussi assisté claireHalleux sur la session pratique d’edition sur le wiki openstreetmap.

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Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas indoor=, je vous invite à consulter le billet d’introduction. En bref, c’est une carte qui affiche les espaces intérieurs d’OpenStreetmap avec un sélecteur de niveaux.

Indoor= a toujours eu pour but de faciliter le travail des contributrices et contributeurs en ayant des données le plus à jour possible avec la mise à jour horaire des données d’OpenStreetMap. Malgré cette fréquence, il était frustrant d’attendre le rendu plusieurs dizaines de minutes pour se rendre compte d’une erreur.

Pour éviter cette embuche et réduire le temps de retour sur son travail, vous pouvez désormais prévisualiser vos changements sur indoor= avant de les envoyer sur OpenStreetMap.

Le plus simple pour l’utiliser est d’utiliser JOSM. Vous enregistrez vos modifications au format GeoJSON, et vous les envoyez sur indoor=.

Démonstration

Voir la vidéo de démo

On le voit, une fois le fichier sélectionné, une interface spécifique apparait, et il est facile de choisir une nouvelle version pour permettre de corriger ou d’améliorer les modifications.

Précisions, le rendu GeoJSON est une prévisualisation, il ne sera pas le reflet parfait du rendu final:

• la gestion des caractères latins et non latin des POIs n’est pas géré

• les surfaces contiguës area/corridor ne sont pas fusionnées

• certains POIs ne sont pas correctement gérés

• les performances sont moins bonnes

• il n’est pas encore possible de cliquer sur les POIs

Essayez la prévisulation dès maintenant !

Si vous trouvez de grosses différences ou pour tout autre retour, n’hésitez pas à créé un ticket sur GitHub.

For those who have never heard of indoor=, you may want to read the introductory blog post. In short, it is a map that displays the indoor data of OpenStreetmap with a level selector.

Indoor= has always aimed to facilitate the work of contributors by having the most up-to-date data possible with the hourly update of OpenStreetMap data. Despite this frequency, it was frustrating to wait several tens of minutes for the rendering to realize an error.

To avoid this hassle and to reduce the time of feedback, you can now preview your changes on indoor= before sending them to OpenStreetMap.

The easiest way to use it is to use JOSM. You save your changes in GeoJSON format, and send them to indoor=.

Demo

View the demo video

As you can see, once the file is selected, a specific user interface appears, and it is easy to choose a new version to correct or improve the modifications.

Note that the GeoJSON rendering is a preview, it will not be a perfect reflection of the final rendering:

• the management of latin and non-latin characters of POIs is not managed

• contiguous area/corridor surfaces are not merged

• some POIs are not correctly managed

• the performances are less good

• it is not possible to click on POIs yet

Give it a try!

If you find big differences or for any other feedback, feel free to create a ticket on GitHub.

La 3e édition du sotma a pris fin ce dimanche 21 novembre 2021.

Durant 3 jours, j’ai pu suivre de nombreuses communications aussi diverses que variées.

C’est la première fois que j’assiste à ce genre d’événement OSM.

Cette conférence m’a permis de découvrir des initiatives venant des communautés. Il est très intéressant de souligner qu’il y en a que l’on peut répliquer chez soi. C’est d’ailleurs l’un des avantages avec le projet openstreetmap. Ces trois jours ont été également l’occasion de mapper et de voir le visage des personnes dont on entend parlé ou rencontre les noms.  J’ai aimé le programme et son contenu. Cependant, la majorité des présentations sont en anglais. Cela a été parfois un problème pour moi, des difficultés à interagir.  Je voudrais à cet effet, recommander qu’il y ait des interprètes pour traduire vers les autres langues au cours des prochaines éditions. Je remercie le comité d’organisation pour m’avoir permis d’assister à cette conférence en m’octroyant la bourse.

Progreso en el etiquetado de direcciones postales de Málaga entre diciembre de 2009 y diciembre de 2021. Fuente: elaboración propia a partir de datos de colaboradores de OpenStreetMap.

Ya es posible buscar en OpenStreetMap por direcciones postales en los distritos municipales de Cruz de Humilladero, Ciudad Jardín, Teatinos-Universidad, Churriana y Carretera de Cádiz, así como en casi todo el distrito Centro, Este y Palma-Palmilla del municipio de Málaga.

Varios colaboradores han contribuido a esta mejora en el etiquetado de direcciones postales, entre otros, Antonio Clavero, Alan Grant, AlviNihon, MrPart, Diec, Leon, Carlos Cámara, Javier Sánchez y Jorge Sanz.

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Zawsze warto mieć zasady. Dla przypomnienia.

Dekalog edytora.

1. Projekt OSM to zbiór danych z których korzysta wiele osób i instytucji, między innymi na terenie Polski z sieci drogowej korzysta Straż Pożarna podczas działań ratowniczych. Uważaj więc na swoje działania. Edytowanie mapy nie jest zabawą!
2. Każdy obiekt istniejący w OSM ma swojego autora, szanuj cudzą pracę zastanów się zanim coś poprawisz lub usuniesz. Nigdy nie kasuj czegoś czego przeznaczenia nie jesteś pewien.
3. Jeśli zauważysz problem, a nie umiesz go rozwiązać skorzystaj z możliwości dodawania uwag, poproś o pomoc na forum, lub zapytaj na Discordzie.
4. Korzystaj z wiki.openstreetmap.org dodając tagi - nie zgaduj.
5. Edytuj wyłącznie na podstawie zweryfikowanych źródeł, które pozwalają na wprowadzenie ich danych do bazy na licencji ODbL (Listę najważniejszych znajdziesz w tym podręczniku,)
6. Do zmian jakie wysyłasz na serwer dodawaj komentarze oraz źródło z jakiego korzystasz podczas dokonywania edycji. Jeśli dokonujesz zmiany na terenie Polski komentarz może być po po polsku. Jeśli zmieniasz poza granicami lepiej pisać po angielsku.
7. Bądź dokładny! Wszyscy staramy się, by dane OSM były jak najwyższej jakości.
8. Każdy może popełnić błąd! Każdą zmianę można wycofać, jeśli coś zepsułeś daj znać pomożemy naprawić.
9. Zawsze korzystaj z Narzędzia poprawności (Walidatora) staraj się usuwać błędy i sam ich unikaj (Wyjątkiem są Relacje - tych nie dotykaj, jeśli dokładnie nie wiesz co robisz, najlepiej przed edycją to z kimś skonsultować)
10. Dopilnuj by twój adres e-mail na stronie openstreetmap.org był zawsze aktualny. Dzięki temu inni będą mogli się z Tobą skontaktować.

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Editor’s Decalogue.

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Neues Wohnhaus in der Sechzehner Straße (siehe Karte)

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My name is Choolwe Hamama, i am an OSM enthusiast based in Zambia. I had the opportunity of attending the 2021 OSM Africa state of the map Conference. This conference provided me with the opportunity to learn about various Open Street Map projects that have been implemented across Africa, as well as to gain new knowledge about Open Street Mapping technologies and to meet and connect with other mappers from across the continent.

The workshops were divided in sessions which helped me better understand various concepts and use of OSM in Africa ranging from different categories such as uses in Local Governments, schools, use of JOSM to Map, use in the Health sector as well as how to contribute to OSM using JOSM.

The meeting went off without a hitch and was a huge success. However, some sessions were a bit long for a virtual conference considering some challenges that we face in Africa, such as load shading and Internet connectivity issues. As result of some of the technical challenges that I faced in my country, I was unable to attend all the sessions of the conference. Furthermore, the technical team has taken a bit long to upload all the recorded session on the YouTube channel, this has made it impossible for people who did not attend the conference because of reasons beyond their control to learn from the conference. It would be preferable for future virtual conferences to look into ways to shorten online meetings as well as to directly record sessions and promptly upload them on YouTube so that participants can review them even after the conference has ended.

Just checking. :))

Good news! I have added WRLD3D to the Android TrackExplorer app. You can now switch the view between Mapbox and WRLD3D. It works “only” with the Android app. Unfortunately it is not possible in the web browser version - WRLD3D does not offer this possibility. Anyway, this is how it looks in TrackExplorer:

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Listaxe do que levo feito por concellos:

-Engadidos censos de moitos concellos. Engadidos censos por aldeas e parroquias de Brión e Negreira. Engadidos censos por aldeas de Urdilde e Agrón.

AMES -Revisadas todas as aldeas das parroquias de Ames, Agrón, Covas, Bugallido, Piñeiro, Lens, Tapia e Trasmonte. Varias melloras en todo o territorio.

ARTEIXO -Engadida microtoponimia do Porto Exterior da Coruña.

BAIONA -Engadida microtoponimia da península de Monte Real e a contorna do Cabo Silleiro. Corrixidos erros.

A BAÑA -Engadidas todas as aldeas que faltaban. Engadido rueiro de San Vicenzo. Corrixidos varios erros.

BECERREÁ -Arranxada Igrexa de San Cristovo. -Corrixidas aldeas da parroquia de Penamaior.

BEGONTE -Engadidas aldeas que faltaban en Baamonde e San Martiño de Pacios. Corrixidos erros ortográficos e rueiro de Baamonde.

BOIRO -Engadidas aldeas que faltaban da parroquia de Macenda.

BOQUEIXÓN -Corrixidos algúns microtopónimos.

BRIÓN -Engadida toda a información posible das parroquias de Viceso, Ons, Luaña e Cornanda. Áreas forestais, aldeas, edificios e casas, áreas industriais, igrexas, capelas, pazos, patrimonio, estradas, camiños, microtoponimia completa, regueiros, árbores, taboleiros, sinais de tráfico, etc. Suavizadas estradas e camiños. -Engadida toda a microtoponimia de Boullón. Engadida igrexa de Boullón. -Engadida a microtoponimia da contorna de Saíme e do extremo dos Ánxeles con Boullón e Saíme. -Arranxada parte da microtoponimia que estaba mal do resto das parroquias. Correccións por todo o territorio. Engadidas parroquias. Engadidas rúas dos Ánxeles.

CARIÑO -Engadida microtoponimia e novos illotes do Cabo Ortegal.

CARNOTA -Engadidos microtopónimos e illotes da contorna de Quilmas, O Pindo e Caldebarcos. Correccións varias.

CERVO -Engadida microtoponimia dos Farallós e corrixidos erros.

A CORUÑA -Engadidos microtopónimos costeiros desde o límite con Arteixo até pasando a Torre de Hércules.

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OSM Serbia community is having its first “official” tasking manager task. We are mapping small city of Mladenovac:

https://tasks.osm-hr.org/project/21

Tasking manager instance was kindly borrowed by Croatian community. Why Mladenovac? Well, we took Mladenovac as it had worst ratio of population/building at disaster.ninja:) If this is succesful, we thought that people who contributed the most choose next city:)

This is great as this will be good reference of what we can pull together and how many local people we can attract! We already took some nice “before” pictures, so it should be nice comparasion once we are done:) Feel free to drop by or ping here if you want to help out! Everyone is welcome:)

More details in Serbian here: https://openstreetmap.rs/mapirajmo-mladenovac/

Good Morning dear fellow mappers ! It has been always a pleasure to share the exciting story from State of The Map Africa 2021 . in 2017 I attended in person conference in Kampala Uganda it was awesome and great we interacted , learned, shared experience, as well as connecting with different communities , and that is the only state I had in my mind.

I never new that an online virtual conference would be super great as this one we had this year after Pandemic slowing dawn , and of course because of the pandemic , a lot of challenges was there in some communities , some were no longer really active as before , in some local communities were no skills to be able to attend virtual meetings because of different reasons , for some of the Local community members it was not easy to cope with the virtual big conference Platform.

Nevertheless all the challenges , But also This conference opportunities included most of us , The fact that organizes could support everyone who showed interest to participate, as well as data reimbursement and most all , the way program were organized talks, Presentations, Testimonies as well as Mapping Marathon Increased our motive about OSM in general. This marks the social Interesting part of 2021 State of The Map Africa I would love to share with everyone. Have a good day.

Пещера сквозная

Cette page présente les différentes opérations pour intégrer un jeu de données open-data dans OpenStreetMap. Dans cet exemple il s’agit de rapprocher les données de l’open-data de la métropole de Lyon avec les données OSM.

La méthode présentée ici est manuelle. C’est donc d’une manipulation à usage unique qui sera à refaire en cas de mise à jour de la source de données.

Pour pérenniser le processus et pour prendre en compte automatiquement les mises à jour de la source, il serait possible d’automatiser avec le plugin Open Data, ce qui nécessite du code (Java) pour adapter le fichier source au format OSM. Il est également envisageable d’ajouter la source à Osmose, avec du code Python.

Remarque : il y a certainement d’autres manières de faire, aussi n’hésitez pas à commenter et à apporter vos suggestions d’amélioration.

Avant de commencer, il est conseillé de consulter la page du wiki sur les imports afin de se conformer aux règles.

Préparation des données externes

Cette étape consiste à préparer les données open-data pour les rendre compatibles avec le format OSM.

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So far state of Map Africa has always being the most exciting event, since I initially attended one in 2018.Great appreciations to all the organizers, you guys are really doing an amazing job.

I do believe we all know something but we all don’t know everything, thus worthy learning everyday. I just can’t ignore SOTMA for its contribution in my knowledge and skills on GIS and mapping a large, since it has always played a big part in highlighting me with new knowledge every time I get to attend the conference.

This year I was not so lucky to attend all the sessions in SOTMA but still for the sessions I managed to, it was worthy attending. Special thanks to all the speakers of the conference mostly especially OMDTZ, Laura, Tony John and Enock you guys highlighted me a lot.

خدمات طراحی سه بعدی و برش لیزری آینه دونی

CBA relocating at Taksony

I was privileged to attend the just concluded State of the map Africa 2021 held online on the 19th – 21th November 2021. I registered for the conference with the objectives of knowing more about the OSM community in Africa, see and learn more about how OSM data is used in Africa, and meet my fellow African mappers. I must say these objectives were achieved and more and I learnt a lot from various sessions in the conference.

I learnt about the OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows one to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software such as QGIS, GeoServer, JOSM, PostGIS, etc, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around in one of the first sessions titled Beyond mapping! Reusing OpenStreetMap Data and FOSS4G by Enock Seth Nyamador.

It was particularly interesting to hear how OSM data is used in Nigeria. One was about how OSM is used in mapping of flood vulnerable Building Footprints in Nigeria in a session titled The Emerging Flood Vulnerable Building footprint in OpenStreetMap Nigeria: Metrics by Victor N. Sunday. It was great to hear how far they have gone, the number of communities mapped (as I am also a contributor). Another was a session titled Community mapping to improve Flood preparedness in Nigeria by Taiwo Ogunwumi and Opeyemi Olatunde which shows how the Geohazard Risk Mapping Initiative (GRMI) which is a group of indigenous volunteers who contributes to the mapping buildings and other critical infrastructure of various flood-prone communities in Nigeria.

I also learnt about the GeOsm which is the first mapping data-based Social network. I learn many other thing from various sessions in the conference. It was really an interesting experience for me.