Note: il y a une version française ici

From 2019, the cartographic style OpenArdenneMap is updated every 6 months. OpenArdenneMap is a cartographic style for topographic maps based on OSM data. Here are some notes for the last version.

OpenArdenneMap goes on QGIS

OpenArdenneMap was originally developed as a cartographic style with the imposm importer and a cartoCSS style derived from OSMBright. Later the osm2pgsqlimporter was used instead of the imposm. From 2023, the OpenArdenneMap is also available in QGIS, using the same osm2pgsqlimporter for building the map layers.

The tools used for making maps have some influence on the cartographic style itself. The aim of this QGIS support is to reproduce the same feeling than the maps produced with the Mapnik/cartoCSS style, even though the 2 solutions are not 100% equivalent.

Although it still requires a postGIS database, the QGIS style is much simpler to use for composing maps at various scales than the Mapnik/cartoCSS one. It was also much simpler to set up.

Here’s an extract with Mapnik

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The participation of women in activities has fairly increased over years but there are still some gaps that need to be filled and you find that women are missing or are not represented as much as they should. Then the question comes into being that what is preventing these women from participating even though there are opportunities available to them. Is it that they are just not interested or there are unseen / unheard stories that block them from participating?

In view of that I am conducting a survey on Women Participation in OpenStreetMap: Perspectives of all Genders and I will need your help in answering some survey questions.

The summary of the concept is it aims to examine the participation of women in OpenStreetMap from the perspectives of all genders, to identify the gaps that exist, and to determine how best to encourage those who identify as women to participate in OpenStreetMap. Hence a survey to source for the opinions of people. Happy to help answer these survey questions which will take less than 10mins of time :), kindly click the link here

The data gathered will be analyzed and a report will be written to inform the development of programs geared towards the participation of women in OpenStreetMap

However, a few studies have been conducted to analyze the gender distribution of OSM contributors, and the results suggest that women are underrepresented in the OSM community. Read more about the concept here

Thank you :)

About a year ago, we launched a mapping campaign at the request from Visit Flanders (Toerisme Vlaanderen). This mapping campaign is focussed on some touristical POI, such as charging stations for ebikes, benches, picnic tables, public toilets and playgrounds. FOr this, a custom mapcomplete theme was created. (For a full explanation, see the last paragraph)

A part of the campaign involved a guided import. The agency had many datasets lying around (e.g. about benches or picnic tables) which they wanted to have imported in OSM. As doing a data import is hard and the data was sometimes outdated, we opted for a crowdsourced approach: for every possible feature, a map note was created containing a friendly explanation, information links, the tags to create and instructions to open MapComplete. When opened in mapcomplete, the user would be prompted to import the point or to mark it as not found or duplicate. All of these actions close the note with a small message on what the chosen action was.

Most map notes are closed by now, but the central question in this analysis today is: should remaining map notes be closed in batch, or do we leave them open for longer? Note that input of the local community will be gathered as well - this article will mostly serve as a point to start the discussion.

The datasets

Various datasets were provided to upload - which were converted into notes. In the table below, you’ll find a breakdown by topic, the date when they were uploaded, the number of notes created and how much of those notes were already closed and the top contributors for the category.

In this table, I’m not including if the feature has been added to OpenStreetMap, has been marked as not existing anymore or marked as being a duplicate.

Most of those notes have been opened by a dedicated account, except for two imports which accidentally did not use this account (noted in the table below).

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Today, I spent the day working on my Open Street Mapping project. Specifically, I was focused on using Leaflet mapping for sports team transport management. This project is very important to me, as I believe that it will make a huge difference in the way that sports teams are able to travel to their various events.

First, I spent some time exploring the different features of Open Street Mapping, and learning how to use Leaflet to create interactive maps. I was amazed at how much data is available on Open Street Mapping - everything from street names to building outlines to points of interest.

Next, I began to work on my project in earnest. I started by creating a map of the area where the sports teams are located, and then began to add in the locations of all the different sports facilities and venues where they might need to travel to. I also added in information about the different modes of transportation that the teams might use - everything from buses to trains to airplanes.

As I worked, I was struck by how much easier this project was making things for the sports teams. With this interactive map, they will be able to quickly and easily see the best routes to take to their various events, and will be able to avoid traffic and other delays. They will also be able to see all of the different transportation options that are available to them, and will be able to choose the one that is most convenient and cost-effective.

Overall, I am very excited about this project and the potential impact that it could have. I am looking forward to continuing to work on it, and to seeing the ways in which it will make a difference in the lives of sports teams and their fans.

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In the UK and Ireland stone circles are amongst the oldest built structures. They are usually mapped with historic=archaeological site, archaelogical_site=megalith. megalith_type=stone_circle. However, mapping in Wales it is soon apparent that there are quite a few modern ones.

Most are Gorsedd Stones, relics of National Eisteddfodau. However there’s a small covey near the entrance of the show cave at Dan yr Ogof. Most are mapped as monuments or memorials, although I think when the Eisteddfod returns to a site they are used for their original purpose.

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Ecolieu des Perrières

Работа дня

ДВФУ.Моделирование учебного процесса Минпромторг.ЦУПП.СТЗ.Моделирование процессов Empiry.Карты РЦМ.Empiry.Патенты Алеф-Куб.Интеграция Генезис знаний.Сотрудничество

不知道怎么测量两点距离，有没有教一下的 I don’t know how to measure the distance between two points. Have you taught me anything

I wrote a long-ish post on my personal blog about how I used osm2pgsql to set up and maintain the database that powers Resto-Bot, the silly bot that toots out an OSM restaurant feature that has not been updated in more than 5 years.

You can’t use the cistern because it is locked by key. You don’t reach the water .

A week ago, my colleague Can (who works at HOT and is part of Yer Çizenler) got a message from Dr Çevik, a Turkish surgeon treating people injured by the earthquake in Turkey.

It said: On the first day I went to Rehaniya, when Google Maps was not working, Organic Maps guided us. The importance of such tools is enormous. Good luck to you, Can. 🔥 organic maps 🔥

Can asked him to explain and he did… You can find the video here and the transcript below.

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The OpenStreetMap community in Tanzania hosts an annual conference called State of the Map Tanzania that brings together mappers, software developers, and other contributors to talk about and share information about OpenStreetMap. Presentations, workshops, and discussions on a variety of mapping-related topics, such as mapping methods, data gathering, data analysis, and software development, are frequently included in the conference. Participants can network with other OpenStreetMap contributors and get knowledge on the most recent advancements in the industry.

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This is a cross-post from my blog

I posted a couple of days ago about my first captures with the GoPro MAX camera I have on loan and uploading to Mapillary. This all went pretty smooth, so I wanted to capture while biking. I bike around town a fair amount and you can cover more ground in the same amount of time compared to walking, so I was eager to try it.

Years ago, I captured Mapillary imagery with my regular GoPro HERO 3+ camera mounted on my bike:

I remember from back then (2014) that the uploading process was not super straightforward, but Mapillary was only 1 year old then, so that was to be expected.

I still have some of the accessories from my HERO 3+, like a helmet attachment and a quick-release adapter. The accessory interface on the cameras hasn’t changed, so those things work even with the most recent GoPro cameras. Here’s the helmet attachment with quick-release shoe:

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English version below.

tl;dr: Probier doch mal die Overpassabfrage für Straßen mit veralteten Parkraumdaten in deiner Gegend aus oder für Straßen gänzlich ohne Parkrauminformationen, um zu sehen, ob es Handlungsbedarf gibt :)

Try the overpass queries for streets with deprecated parking data in your area or for streets without any parking information at all to see if there is a need for action :)

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Das Tagging von Parkplätzen entlang von Straßen hat vor kurzem ein großes Update erfahren: Das vorherige parking:lane-Schema wurde mit bestehenden OSM-Konventionen harmonisiert und durch ein einfacher und flexibler anwendbares Street-Parking-Taggingschema abgelöst. Existierende Daten nach dem alten Schema müssen nun also geprüft und in die neue Form überführt werden.

Für das Verständnis des neuen Parkraumschemas hilft dieser Schnelleinstieg. Aber auch, wer sich nicht tiefer mit diesem komplexen Schema beschäftigen möchte, kann dabei helfen, die Daten zu vervollständigen und zu aktualisieren. Dafür gibt es helfende Werkzeuge, in deren Benutzung ich hier einführen möchte.

Woran erkennt man alte Parkraum-Tags?

Alle Tags an Straßen, die mit parking:lane oder parking:condition anfangen, gehören zum alten Schema und sollten aktualisiert werden. Diese Overpass-Abfrage listet dir alle Straßen, die das alte Schema verwenden (oben links auf den grünen Knopf Ausführen klicken). Bleibt die Abfrage leer, sind entweder noch keine Parkraumdaten erfasst (siehe unten) oder sie sind bereits auf dem aktuellen Stand.

Die Tags des neuen Schemas beginnen nur noch mit parking:left|right|both, also ohne die Bestandteile lane und condition. Aktuelle Parkraumdaten lassen sich mit dieser Abfrage finden.

OSM Parking Lane Tag Updater

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Introduction

Introducing me, Dimas, the head of the UGM SpaceTime community. We are one of the teams that passed the funding from the 2022 Booster Grant program held by the Open Mapping Hub Asia-Pacific and the Indonesian OpenStreetMap Association (POI).

Activity

In this funding, we updated OSM data related to the Trans Jogja and Teman Bus routes and the location of bus stops in Yogyakarta City and its surroundings. In addition, the output of our activities is WebGIS which displays existing routes and stops.

About the Existing Data

It was found that the data in OSM related to routes was found to be inconsistent with the routes we had validated through field surveys. In addition, many routes were cut off in several segments and errors in tagging data. So we intend to update the data based on current conditions in the field.

Updating Data

We will completely change the Trans Jogja and Teman Bus routes in “Relations” in OSM. So maybe there will be many changes regarding routes and stops in Yogyakarta after I upload this diary.

Note de l’éditrice: Écrit à l’origine par Heather Lesson, Dinar Adiatma, et Can Ünen. Ceci est une traduction.

Disposer des données cartographiques les plus récentes et les plus précises est crucial pour les interventions d’urgence. La communauté OpenStreetMap et ses partenaires ont créé ceci pour soutenir les humanitaires. Les données OSM sont partagées sur la platforme Humanitarian Data Exchange et sont utilisées pour développer des produits de gestion de l’information pour les décideurs répondant aux urgences.

Cette courte note a pour but d’aider les nouveaux mappers à démarrer et d’encourager la qualité des données. La communauté turque locale, Yer Çizenler, et HOTOSM coordonnent cette activation. Pour la Syrie, la cartographie est plus complexe puisqu’il s’agit d’une zone de conflit. HOT travaille en étroite collaboration avec certains collègues et partenaires pour évaluer soigneusement toutes les tâches HOT en Syrie. Comme il s’agit d’une zone de conflit, nous collaborerons pour nous assurer que les contributions OSM du Gestionnaire de Tâches HOTOSM ne causent aucun dommage. Nous sommes là pour assister ceux et celles qui portent aide.

Nous savons que beaucoup veulent aider. Nous vous demandons de parler avec d’autres mappers pour apprendre et aider les intervenant.e.s tout en respectant les directives locales.

La qualité des données est importante dans OpenStreetMap (OSM) car elle affecte directement la précision et l’utilisation de la carte. Toutes les données doivent être adaptées à l’objectif, et pour qu’elles correspondent à l’objectif, il faut le moins de lacunes possibles. Une mauvaise qualité des données peut conduire à des informations incorrectes ou obsolètes, ce qui a un impact négatif sur les personnes qui comptent sur OSM pour la navigation, la planification et la prise de décision. En savoir plus ici.

Contacts - Les contacts des Coordinateur d’Activation de HOT peuvent être trouvés sur le wiki OSM

Nouveaux mappers

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Editör notu: Aslen Heather Lesson, Dinar Adiatma, ve Can Ünen tarafından yazılmıştır. Bu bir çeviridir.

En güncel ve en doğru harita verilerine sahip olmak, acil müdahale için çok önemlidir. OpenStreetMap topluluğu ve ortakları bunu insani yardım çalışanlarını desteklemek için yaratmıştır. OSM verileri Humanitarian Data Exchange üzerinden paylaşılır ve acil durumlara yanıt veren karar verenler için bilgi yönetimi ürünleri geliştirmek için kullanılır.

Bu kısa not, yeni haritacılara yardımcı olmak ve veri kalitesini teşvik etme amaçlıdır. Yerel Türk toplumu, Yer Çizenler, ve HOTOSM bu aktivasyonu koordine etmektedir.. Suriye çatışma bölgesi olduğu için, haritalama daha karışıktır. HOT, Suriye için olan HOT görevleri dikkatli bir şekilde değerlendirmek için OSM meslektaşları ve ortaklarıyla yakından çalışıyor. Bir çatışma bölgesi olduğundan, HOTOSM Tasking Manager’ın OSM katkılarının zarar vermemesini sağlamak için işbirliği içerisindeyiz. Yardım edenlere yardım etmek için buradayız. Birçoğunun yardım etmek istediğini biliyoruz. Hem yerel öğütlere saygılı olmak, hem müdahale eden ekiplere destek olmak için, diğer haritacılarla konuşup bilgi paylaşımı halinde olmanızı rica ediyoruz.

OpenStreetMap’ta (OSM) veri kalitesi önemlidir, çünkü haritanın doğruluğunu ve kullanışlılığını doğrudan etkiler. Tüm veriler amaca uygun olmalı ve amaca uygun hale getirmek için, eksiklikleri en aza indirmek gerekir. Düşük veri kalitesi, yanlış veya güncel olmayan bilgilere yol açabilir ve navigasyon, planlama ve karar verme için OSM’e güvenen kişileri olumsuz yönde etkiler. Buradan daha fazla bilgi edinin.

İletişim - HOT Aktivasyon Koordinatör iletişim bilgileri bu OSM wiki üzerinde buluabilir.

Yeni Haritacılar

OSM’de yeni misiniz? Bu karmaşık bir acil durumdur ve başlamanıza yardımcı olmaktan memnuniyet duyarız:

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نرغب بالمشاركة وادخال اماكن الى الخريطة

Ruben Martin and I discuss the recent activities and what’s coming up for the humanitarian open mapping community.

What’s covered this week in brief?

• Response to the earthquake in Syria and Turkey
• Milestone for URBE LATAM and the Preventório favela mappers in Brazil
• Sharebacks of the Mapping for Resilience Initiative in Hoima, Uganda
• OSM Community Spotlights at Community Working Group
• Events coming up
• Mappy quote of the week

What’s happened this week?

Over the past few weeks, the OpenStreetMap community has mobilised in response to the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. More than 7,500 mappers have contributed to the response so far, and 221 validators have validated over 5,870 tasks in Turkey alone — the contribution of this relatively small number of validators has been phenomenal, trying to ensure high data quality for the relief efforts.

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