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Posted by Cyberjuan on 5 April 2024 in Spanish (Español). Last updated on 10 April 2024.

 Es con gran emoción que les presentamos al Comité de Organización del SotM LATAM 2024 que tendrá lugar en Belén, Brasil, del 6 al 8 de diciembre de este año.

Este comité de voluntarios tiene entre otras las funciones que en los SotM global asume el Grupo de Trabajo del SotM, es decir principalmente:

  • Determinar la sede del evento,
  • Coordinar los patrocinios,
  • Aprobar la programación del evento,
  • Promover el evento
  • Dirigir el evento.

Este comité está conformado por quienes en el pasado AbreLatam 2023 en Montevideo, Uruguay, tuvieron la idea inicial de realizar el SotM Latam junto al FOSS4G 2024 que fue anunciado en dicho evento. A este grupo inicial se han ido sumando otros entusiastas que vienen aportando distintas visiones y perspectivas que estamos seguros enriquecerán el SOTM LATAM 2024.

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Location: La Banda, La Banda de Shilcayo, San Martín, 22202, Perú
Posted by mayanaut on 5 April 2024 in English.

I’ve gotten most, if not all of the sidewalks mapped out within Avalon Borough. As I’ve worked eastward from Ben Avon, I’ve encountered a few other sidewalks mapped separately, many of which do not specifically note pedestrian crossings, so I plan to comb over those to see what I can make more consistent. There is a section of ORB/PA-65 where there are many crossings that are not tagged correctly. As this section is chock-full of turning vehicles, this seems rather dangerous, so I’m going to go through that area to map and tag things with pedestrian safety and accessibility in mind.

I have proceeded across the border into Bellevue, as well, with many of the above concerns in mind while tracing aerial photography.

Location: Avalon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 15202, United States

Don’t worry, I won’t write a report every week!

So, the second week of capturing imagery with the GoPro Max granted by Meta is over. I’ve uploaded around 30,000 images since I started, but I’m not quite sure how many.

Here’s a little animation of my progress. It certainly helps me to stay motivated, if I can visualize my progress:

I still have only used it cycling and walking, but I had an ebike at my disposal on Easter Monday which was great for two reasons: The streets weren’t as busy because of the holiday, and I could obviously cover more ground. This was the only day so far that the camera battery ran out of energy before me. I might borrow it again to venture out further into the country.

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Posted by spwoodcock on 4 April 2024 in English. Last updated on 13 April 2024.

ODK

For those that don’t know, ODK is an incredible suite of tools for field data collection.

The Field Mapping Tasking Manager(FMTM) leverages two of their tools to coordinate field tagging of map data:

  • ODK Central as the centralised server to store survey data.
  • ODK Collect as the mobile app for survey-based data collection on mobile phones (working very nicely in offline contexts too).

Entities

  • ODK Entities were introduced to Central in September 2023, in order to more easily track the same feature over time.
  • As a result, we have a nice way to store a feature, with geometry and properties, in ODK Central.
    • This could quite easily map to the OSM ID, feature geometry, and feature tags.
  • The geometry can then be selected in ODK Collect survey questions.

select-from-map-polygon

How To Use Entities

Create an Entity List

Within ODK Central, a collection of Entities is called an Entity List (or dataset via the API).

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Location: Kalgodin, Ouagadougou, Kadiogo, Centre, Burkina Faso

Най-сетне дойде и времето да започна да картографирам района на любимото си село - Костенковци. Добавих почти всички сгради, за да мога като си отида лятото със StreetComplete да добавя повече подробности.

Добавих и паметника, който е там. Само остана да разбера как да добавя координатите към снимката му, за да излиза правилно в някои приложения.

Location: Костенковци, Лесичарка, Габрово, 5343, България
Posted by Marcelo Soares Souza on 3 April 2024 in English. Last updated on 18 April 2024.

We made the Agroecology Map data available in GeoJSON format so that you can use it in your analyses.

You can now export all data and use it under the Creative Commons 4.0 (BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

See how easy it is to use the Agroecology Map data in the QGIS tool

https://youtu.be/w418y-eivmY?si=9cB-D9x7bf-zXhza

Find out more about the Agroecology Map at https://agroecologymap.org

Location: Asa Norte, Brasília, Plano Piloto, Região Geográfica Intermediária do Distrito Federal, Federal District, Central-West Region, 70756-520, Brazil
Posted by Supaplex on 3 April 2024 in English. Last updated on 4 April 2024.

We must thank TomTom Taiwan Office for arranging a workshop through their colleague’s connection with the Department of Survay, NCKU. The OpenStreetMap Taiwan Community has applied for the HOT Tasking Manager’s admin role for creating its local project that suits local needs. It is quite a good fit for the NCKU Workshop: using Tasking Manager for local mapping projects and mapping local stuff.

Tasking Manager ▲ Tasking Manager project page. This project’s main goal is to map Xiejie District, Tainan City.

There are a total of 107 changesets, 29 from our staff, and 3 from community members for the NCKU workshop. The number of participants from NCKU is 22 students with a total of 75 changesets. During the whole workshop, there are 369 buildings mapped.

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Location: Daxue Village, East District, Sanfenzi, Tainan, 701, Taiwan

Who did it screenshot at Bajo Sinú área

I want to share my personal use of one tool I’m learning at #UNMappers Validation training guided by SeverinGeo

At Colombia OSM community there was some discussion a while back about best practices for users tracking changes in specific zones.

I know that you are tracking the areas you map. I have been doing that work with a particular area in which we have an organized mapping project, the Bajo Sinu River basin, Cordoba, Colombia.

I have been using a simple script from FeedForAll called rss2html, that helps me to publish RSS feeds in a .php by myself. I use it as source to make Humanitarian and Human Rights simple News dashboards for people not too related to tech stuff, but in need of information, working and living in field.

For example, with Rss2Feed I use a News feed for Arauca region in Colombia, one of the most affected areas by Human Rights violation and breaches of International Humanitarian Law events.

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Location: Lorica, Bajo Sínú, Córdoba, RAP Caribe, Colombia

¡Después de varios años sin realizar un State of the Map LATAM, este año tendremos nuevamente un encuentro de la comunidad OpenStreetMap latinoamericana de forma presencial en Brasil! Los días 7 y 8 de diciembre se llevará a cabo el SotM 2024 en la ciudad de Belén, una ciudad brasileña en la desembocadura del río Amazonas.

Como podrán suponer, este evento necesita contar con un elemento gráfico reconocible que represente tanto al espíritu de la ciudad de Belén como a la comunidad latinoamericana. El logo sirve además para definir el diseño y colores del sitio web oficial. También se usará para marketing y artículos promocionales del SotM (camisetas, calcomanías, etc.).

Así pues ¡necesitamos la ayuda de los creativos en diseño de la comunidad para contar con el nuevo logo del SotM 2024! Todos pueden participar en esta convocatoria, ¡Desde experimentados profesionales hasta novatos y entusiastas del diseño gráfico!

Bases del concurso

El diseño del logo debe:

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Location: 1 de Octubre, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Lima, 15101, Perú

Collaborative Mapping Workshop for Beginners promoted by Umbraosm, UFV and Brazilian Youtmappers

On April 1st we held a mapping workshop for beginners on OpenStreetMap as part of the Mapeia Belém Project initiative, which aims to update data on the limit of the Legal Amazon but also train new mappers to join collaborative mapping!

The federal university of Uberlandia UFU, mappers from the Brazilian Openstreetmap community and members of Youthmappers Brasil took part in this initiative. The workshop link can be seen on our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqiOr6RPmuU&t=396s

From now on I want to thank everyone who participated in our workshop on behalf of UMBRAOSM - the union of openstreetmap mappers

Location: Boa Vista, Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Region, Brazil

En Latinoamérica, el último sábado de abril es una fecha importante, porque se celebra el FLISoL. Este es un evento que comenzó hace 20 años, y los que lo apoyamos nos hace muy felices cumplir 2 décadas en esto. Pero ¿qué es realmente el FLISoL?

Comenzó como un evento de instalación de alguna distribución Linux en los computadores. Por eso sus siglas quieren decir: Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre, pero con el pasar de los años ha crecido de muchas formas.

Primero, ya no es solo instalaciones, también hay charlas y talleres. Las charlas son de todo lo relativo al mundo libre, ya sea algún programa de código abierto, una plataforma de datos abiertos, o comunidad libre. Por eso, como parte de los requerimientos para inscribir una charla, en ocasiones te piden qué licencia tiene de lo que vas a hablar. Los talleres son para practicar y aplicar lo que aprendes. Por ejemplo, a usar tu nuevo Linux instalado, usar alguna herramienta como Scratch, o crear algún artículo en Wikipedia.

Segundo, ha crecido también en ciudades y países. Comenzó como algo puntual en Bogotá, pero ahora está presente en muchas ciudades de Colombia, y ha llegado a más de 10 países, inclusive en España. Por lo tanto, es un evento que atrae a muchas personas que apoyan este movimiento libre, o que quieren comenzar a descubrir este mundo.

Del lado de OpenStreetMap tenemos una gran oportunidad ahí. Podemos dar charlas de experiencias con OpenStreetMap (casos en los que lo hemos usado sus datos, contribuido, proyectos, etc.) o talleres para invitarlos a usar los visores o lo que más nos interesa, que comiencen a contribuir y mejorar el mapa.

En Colombia, el año pasado hicimos unas guías que todos pueden usar, para que hacer su propio taller sea fácil. Las guías quedaron en TeachOSM (son las únicas en español, en 4 capítulos). Y consisten en darle la bienvenida a los usuarios para que comiencen con algo fácil, respondiendo preguntas en StreetComplete.

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Mapping Workshop for Beginners on Openstreetmap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqiOr6RPmuU

Umbraosm Union of Brazilian Mapeadores do Openstreetmap Offered a workshop for new mappers beginning in openstreetmap in a hybrid way. Members of Umbraosm, Students from the Federal University of Uberlândia UFA and members of Youthmappers Brasil participated in the Workshop.

The video of the new mappers workshop at Openstreetmap is now available on YouTube.

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Location: Boa Vista, Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Region, Brazil

Foreword

In ‘week 60 of 100’ wrote about an OpenStreetMap exploration session with the bike and from it I realized that a machete would help to traverse through the off-trail scrub portions. This fact I ignored, mainly due to the reasoning of being early in plant’s yearly life cycle, thus the green matter would not be as intense. This intention held true, though the hard matter still persisted and without hard duty gear, navigating through thorns one can become injury prone with scrapes and/or punctured clothing. Nonetheless since these obstacles are expected, the attitude attacking these are not as dire as when it is unexpected.

Route planning

(The red line is the planned route whereas the dark blue is the tracked one.)

The red line is the planned route whereas the dark blue is the tracked one within the OsmAnd app.

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Location: Hudovski Breg, Čeglje, Grad Jastrebarsko, Zagreb County, 47201, Croatia

Convocatoria para diseños del logo SotM LATAM 2024

¡Después de varios años sin realizar un State of the Map LATAM, este año tendremos nuevamente un encuentro de la comunidad OpenStreetMap latinoamericana de forma presencial en Brasil! Los días 7 y 8 de diciembre se llevará a cabo el SotM 2024 en la ciudad de Belén, una ciudad brasileña en la desembocadura del río Amazonas.

Como podrán suponer, este evento necesita contar con un elemento gráfico reconocible que represente tanto al espíritu de la ciudad de Belén como a la comunidad latinoamericana. El logo sirve además para definir el diseño y colores del sitio web oficial. También se usará para marketing y artículos promocionales del SotM (camisetas, calcomanías, etc.).

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Location: Marco, Belém, Região Geográfica Imediata de Belém, Região Geográfica Intermediária de Belém, Pará, North Region, Brazil

Chamada para designs do logotipo SotM LATAM 2024

Chamada para designs do logotipo SotM LATAM 2024 Depois de vários anos sem realizar um State of the Map LATAM, este ano teremos mais uma vez um encontro da comunidade OpenStreetMap latino-americana presencial no Brasil! Nos dias 7 e 8 de dezembro, o SotM 2024 acontecerá na cidade de Belém, cidade brasileira na foz do rio Amazonas. Como você pode imaginar, este evento precisa ter um elemento gráfico reconhecível que represente tanto o espírito da cidade de Belén quanto a comunidade latino-americana. O logotipo também serve para definir o design e as cores do site oficial. Também será utilizado para marketing SotM e itens promocionais (camisetas, adesivos, etc.).

Portanto, precisamos da ajuda dos criativos de design da comunidade para termos o novo logotipo do SotM 2024!

Todos podem participar desta convocatória, desde profissionais experientes até novatos e entusiastas do design gráfico!

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Location: -1.438, -48.461

Hi there,

I’ve just compiled my own maps for the first time ever, but I have some issues with address searching for certain countries, such as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and even Turkey.

Initially I didn’t use the –index parameter, but when I learned about it, it helped with some of the countries I’ve compiled. Now I added the bounds option as well, since I read it wouldn’t work properly without this information.

Still, I get the same issue despite of that. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

English version

На последней встрече совет OSMF дал добро на внедрение новой версии OSM API. Полную стенограмму можно найти на вики. Краткое содержание:

🧐️️️️️️Валидация

Правки ломающие геометрию или топологию будут отклонятся, для некритичных ошибок будет API будет возвращать HTTP-статус 267 Doubtful But Okay

🛣 Новая модель данных

Для упрощения модели данных решено отказаться от типа Way. Отношения уже используются для мультиполигонов и могут хранить списки точек, что делает Way бессмысленным.

Такой подход также позволит описывать нелинейные геометрии, что выводит картографирование на абсолютно новый уровень 🚀

📃 Новый формат данных

На смену моральноустаревшему формату XML придёт человекочитаемый YAML. Это позвозит удобно редактировать карту в любом текстовом редакторе и изучать пакеты правок с помощью таких инструментов таких как git diff. Поддержка формата JSON останется.

👮‍♂️Премодерация

Правки новичков будут попадать в очередь премодерации. Одобрять правки сможет любой картограф, мапивший 42 дня за последний год. Избежать очереди можно будет оплатив членство в OSMF.

💵 Премиум-функции

Помимо отключения премодерации, картографы, оплачившие членство в OSMF, получат приоритет при обращении к DWG и OSMF. Длительность блокировок для премиум-картографов будет уменьшена вдвое.

💎 Новый cgimap

Текущая реализация cgimap, написанная на C++, не отвечает требованиям безопасности, поэтому будет переписана на Rust Ruby, на котором уже написана большая часть сайта.