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My experience at Pista ng Mapa 2023, from November 21-23, was an exhilarating adventure as eleven Viscan YouthMappers (VYM) and I delved into a three-day conference at the University of the Philippines Tacloban College. The event seamlessly blended intellectual engagement, skill-building workshops, and a celebration of our dedication to open mapping.

The Summit Hotel in Tacloban City hosted the kick-off, featuring plenary sessions with insightful presentations by Mr. Mikko Tamura of Open Mapping Hub – Asia Pacific and Dr. Alfredo Mahar Francisco Lagmay of UP Resilience Institute. The day concluded with parallel sessions, providing a diverse look into mapping’s facets. The highlight of my Day 1 was presenting our VYM project, ‘Mapping of Fire Hydrants as Baseline Data for Fire Emergency Response in Leyte Province, Philippines.’ This was very memorable for me as this transitioned me from a participant last year at PNM2022 to a speaker this year.

Day 2 immersed us in hands-on workshops led by industry experts, from Geoladies’ Ms. Leigh Lunas’ “When Women Maps” to Action for Economic Reform’s Mr. Mark Aimon Pangan’s insights on Digital Data Collection to BNHR’s Mr. Ben Hur Pintor sharing knowledge about beyond shapefiles and file-based data management and “Getting started with Developing Geospatial Applications” by Mr. Luiz Caezar Ian Panganiban of Ausome Maps. These sessions not only enhanced my mapping skills but also fueled my inspiration for geospatial applications.

Day 3 centered on community connections, with meet-ups led by Mr. Mikko Tamura for the OSM Philippines, Mr. Ben Hur Pintor for the OSGeo, and Ms. Feye Andal for the YouthMappers. The YouthMappers Meet-up allowed us in Viscan Youthmappers to reflect on our achievements, identify challenges, and envision our future aspirations. Moreover, the afternoon featured an immersive field trip through Tacloban City and Palo, Leyte, connecting us with local culture and history.

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Location: Brgy. 2, Downtown, Tacloban, Eastern Visayas, 6500, Philippines

来源:央视网 | 2023年12月11日 06:40:31 https://news.cctv.com/2023/12/11/ARTIB3qv37Q82yqumrrQpy9p231211.shtml

据国家安全部,当前,随着新一代信息技术加快发展,地理信息数据与数字经济的协同效应不断增强,为经济社会发展提供了可靠的数据要素保障。地理信息数据既是重要的战略性数据资源,又是新型生产要素,可广泛应用于精准农业、能源电力、智能网联汽车等行业领域及我们日常快递网购、外卖送餐、家政服务等生活场景。但一些别有用心的组织和人员,却利用地理信息系统软件,企图窃取涉密敏感地理信息数据,对我国家安全带来了威胁和隐患。

伸向地理信息数据的黑手

地理信息系统软件是具备地理信息数据采集、存储、分析、管理、共享等功能的专业软件。这些软件功能强大,能够将采集的各类地理信息标注在地图上,并根据需要进行分析和展示,坐标精度甚至能够达到厘米级。

然而,个别境外组织、机构和人员却盯上了地理信息数据这块“大蛋糕”,企图利用地理信息系统软件开展情报窃密活动。手段包括:在软件使用过程中自动连接境外服务器,无限制收集用户数据;蓄意在软件中预置“后门”,为网络攻击和数据窃取打开方便之门等。

另外,少部分用户的数据安全意识薄弱,将城市管网、军事目标、涉密单位的高精度地理位置坐标标注在地图上,产生严重失泄密风险隐患,可能会造成无法挽回的损失。

境外地理信息系统软件绘制的城市管网图

专项排查整治斩断黑手

地理信息数据属于高价值情报,是境外间谍情报机关情报窃密的重点。通过窃取我国高精度地理信息数据,可还原出我交通、能源、军事等重要领域特定区域的三维地貌图,为侦察监视、军事行动提供关键支持,将严重威胁我军事安全。

近期,国家安全机关工作发现,我国有关重要行业领域使用的境外地理信息系统软件存在搜集外传地理信息数据的情况,部分数据重要敏感,甚至涉及国家秘密,对我国家安全构成严重威胁。

针对上述情况,国家安全机关会同有关部门开展地理信息数据安全风险专项排查治理,指导、协助涉事单位开展清查整改,及时消除重大数据窃密、泄密等安全隐患。

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Posted by Brazil Singh on 12 December 2023 in English. Last updated on 26 January 2024.

Brazil

HOT Community Meeting Recap

Hello community! Today I joined for the first time a meeting and shared my skills with the guests.

Host: Dara,

Attendees: Brazil, Mahjabin, Ralph, Pete, Arnalie, Nicole, Eden, Hawa, Daniel, Franco

Introduction:

The recent HOT community meeting brought together passionate individuals from various corners of the globe, united by a common goal - humanitarian open mapping. Led by Dara, the meeting featured insightful introductions, icebreaker moments, and shoutouts to commendable efforts within the community. As we reflect on the highlights, it becomes clear that the spirit of collaboration and dedication is alive and thriving in the HOT community.

Icebreaker Moments:

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Posted by Brazil Singh on 12 December 2023 in English. Last updated on 26 January 2024.

Brazil I am delighted to share that I have received the “State of the Map Asia 2023 Community Champion Awards” as a recognition for advocating the use of OpenStreetMap and community-building across different groups, spaces, and regions in the Asia-Pacific region and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusivity within the community. I am grateful to the SOTM Asia team, my colleagues, mentors, family and friends and everyone who has been part of this amazing journey.

Posted by Robhubi (inaktiv) on 11 December 2023 in German (Deutsch).

Unschön, mag ich gar nicht. Mach ich trotzdem manchmal.

Zum Editieren von Objekten einer Objektklasse muss ich sie identifizieren und unterscheiden können. In den meisten Fällen ist der Name dafür ausreichend. Aber nicht immer. Der Name könnte nicht existieren oder er existiert mehrfach im Editiergebiet. Einfachste Lösung: Namen erfinden bzw. auf Unterscheidbarkeit modifizieren.

Einfach ja, aber unsauber. Grundsätzlich ist hier das Wiki sehr klar: im name-Tag soll nur ein real existierender Eigenname stehen und nur der Eigenname [1].

Beispiele für suspekte Eigennamen

Meine konstruierten Namen

Viele Radrouten haben Alternativen, Zubringer und optionale Exkursionen. Nur bei kleinen und einfachen (ohne forward/backward) Routen verwende ich zur Benennung die Rolleneigenschaft [3]. Meist teile ich die Route aber in eine Hauptroute und in eine Alternative Route, mit allen Varianten, Zubringer und Exkursionen, auf. Oft unterteile ich auch die Hauptroute weiter in Etappen, um die Größe der Relationen unter 500 Mitgliedern zu halten.

Zur Unterscheidung der Teilrelationen ergänzte ich bisher die Namen:

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Posted by Branko Kokanovic on 11 December 2023 in English.

Hi,

My name is Branko from Microsoft. Microsoft’s involvement with OSM spans several impactful contributions:

  • Providing Bing imagery since 2010 for free use in OSM for whole world (and all the drama that comes with it)
  • Creating Map builder – intuitive editor for Bing users that want to edit OSM map (and all the drama that comes with it)
  • Maintaining iD in the interim period before Martin took over (sorry, no drama here, just plain good old maintainership)
  • Released world coverage of AI-mined building footprints and road data as open data

This list is not intended to be PR for Microsoft, and I know this sounds like a corporate cliché, but this list is hopefully showing that Microsoft is really committed to success of OSM. Stuff that we did previously, stuff in that list above, is stuff that we think will benefit the community and improve OSM contributions. And we hope it did! A lot of us recently visited SotM EU 2023 and I hope you saw us all around. That event allowed us to see stuff from a different perspective and to try to think out of the box. So, we thought, what if we pause trying to figure out what is the best way to improve OSM contributions on our own and instead - ask YOU how Microsoft can help!? Yes, YOU, the community, directly here in the diary😊. I know this may sound unconventional, but hey – OSM is also not the most conventional project out there, so we thought this might just be the proper way to gather interesting ideas.

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