The Discovery

Today was a big milestone for me as an OpenStreetMap (OSM) contributor—I submitted my first-ever bug report! 🎉

• While exploring the iD Editor, I stumbled upon something odd. When the “Quality Assurance” tab in the Help section is open, the “Keyboard Shortcuts” option becomes unclickable. Strange, right? What’s even more curious is that this doesn’t happen with any other Help tab—just this one. Naturally, I couldn’t let it go unnoticed.

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The Process

Here’s what I did step-by-step:

1. I opened the Help section and navigated through different tabs to test the behavior.

2. As expected, all the other tabs worked fine, but when “Quality Assurance” was active, the “Keyboard Shortcuts” button refused to work.

3. To make sure my findings were clear, I documented:

   • Steps to reproduce the issue.
   • What I expected to happen versus what actually happened.
   • Screenshots to visually explain the problem.

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The Submission

Feeling a little nervous, I finally submitted my findings as Issue #10573 on GitHub. To my surprise, within hours, one of the repository maintainer (@tyrasd) confirmed the issue!

Here’s the coolest twist: The issue behaves differently in other languages! For example, it doesn’t happen in the Italian locale. This insight gave me a new appreciation for the complexity of building tools that work seamlessly across different environments.

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The Reflection

This may seem like a small contribution, but to me, it feels huge. By reporting this bug, I’ve left my little mark on a platform I admire so much. It’s exciting to know that even small actions like this help improve the tools that people worldwide rely on every day.

The OSM community is incredibly welcoming, and this experience reminded me that even as a beginner, my efforts are valued.

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Final Thoughts

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Santarém To Belém - We Ran Out Of River

Daybreak on our last full day on the river could hardly have been more depressing. The sky I could see from my hammock was a grey-brown colour, and the smell of burning wood was stronger than ever. We were in the middle of the river and there was very little visibility. It hardly even makes It into the news headlines any more, our ability to adapt to the mess we have created means that relatively few people are aware of just how serious the situation is as Amazonía burns.

Fortunately we were not going to spend all of the last leg with the smog. Slowly the sky started to clear, and things seemed better again. The forest on either side even looked a bit more like It had in the upper part of the river.

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About 2 days ago, the map started to be darkened. This only occurs on Firefox and Chrome, and it appears to be caused by the browser’s light/dark settings. I am still not certain about the cause.

A VII Jornada de Geotecnologias do Estado do Rio de Janeiro acontece de 2 a 4 de dezembro, no Palácio da Fazenda, no Centro da Cidade.

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Palácio da Fazenda, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Contribuidores do OpenStreetMap.

A sétima edição da JGEOTEC é organizada pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e a Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas (ENCE-IBGE), em parceria com diversas universidades públicas, localizadas no estado do Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ, UERJ, UFF (Niterói), UFF (Cabo Frio), UERJ (Maracanã), UERJ-FFP (São Gonçalo), UERJ-FEBF (Duque de Caxias). O evento, realizado de 02 a 04 de dezembro de 2024, conta com a participação de estudantes do ensino superior e profissionais da ciência da geoinformação; e ainda, com cases comerciais, corrida de orientação e a estréia da Olimpíada de Geoinformação na Educação, conectando o evento com estudantes e professores do ensino básico.

O volume de anais foi preparado pela editora IVIDES e já está disponível

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Разговоры о том, чего не хватает в OSM, это уже давно моветон, темка склизская, и попахивающая прокрастинацией. И всё же, декабрь - месяц ожиданий, надежд, и загадывания желаний, так что надеюсь читатель простит мой сентимент.

Итак, начнем с расширения наименований.

В OSM принято вносить в name= имена собственные, и во многих случаях, мы же вынуждены нарушать это правило, внося и name что то вроде “Москва река”, “Собачий пруд”, “ Парк Дубки”, “Строительство дороги Москва - Петушки”, “Детский сад Умка”, или “ГБОУ Школа №1234”. Схема получается противоречивая, генерирующая довольно грязные данные. Было бы правильно, разделять описание сущности объекта, и его имя собственное. Разделять можно двумя способами.

1- Добавить отдельный атрибут для сущностной части. Получаем:

name:type=Детский сад name=Умка

2- Вводить всё в name, но разделяя специальными символами, например так name=[Детский сад]<Умка>

Мне могут возразить, что всё это уже есть, ведь leisure=park, или water=pond, и выполняет эту задачу, описывая сущность объекта. Но нет, наших схем тэгирования не всегда хватает для красивого и правильного составления названия. Может быть, было бы лучше расширить схему наименования, для того, что бы не зависеть от костных и ограниченных существующих схем.

Ассоциированные входы.

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On the first day of every month, I run a manual monthly statistics script to calculate which Wikipedia article is the most active.

Today, while analyzing this month’s statistics logs, I came across an interesting article.

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The Last Boat - Santarém To Belém

Another early start, the day had come for getting on our last boat, the one that would take us to Belém. It wasn’t a promising start, I opened the window in the hotel and the smell of wood smoke was stronger than on any other day here. With limited visibility over the river.

We walked down to the port to find that the boat was already there. The Amazon Star had come down quite full from Manaus and this time we weren’t going to be lucky with our choice of hammock position. It was more a question of finding any free position, which we managed somehow with hammock ropes almost crossing.

Despite the grand sounding name the Amazon Star is a fairly basic boat, we had been spoiled a bit with our boat to Santarem. But It had an open space upstairs and a well stocked bar. The only things that let us down were the views of the river, the smog caused by fires was to be with us for some time to come.

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Alter do Chão

So we found something to do with our extra day in Santarém. The Guardian published an article in 2009 on the 10 best beaches in Brazil and there at number 1 is Alter do Chão. This qualifies It as a ‘hidden gem’ which these days means that only 50 million people know about It.

The bus from Santarém to Alter do Chão takes about an hour, and dropped us off just a couple of minutes from the beach. White sands, sparkling river wáter, with forest in the background - It is a beautiful place although I’m not convinced It will be the most beautiful in all of Brazil.

It was quiet too, most of the bars and restaurants on the beach were closed. Clearly not peak season. But the one place that was operating still did good business serving drinks and food to tables that are placed in the water a couple of metres off the beach.

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خرائط_الكويت وأخبار الصحافة الكويتية عن برنامج التسريع العاالمي في وادي السيلكون والذي شاركت فيه الشركة خلال شهر نوفمبر 2024

خطوة للأمام مع أبرز رواد الاعمال الكويتيين لمستقبل الذكاء الصناعي في hashtag#الكويت

Setiap akhir tahun biasanya banyak diadakan kegiatan pemilihan putra putri/bujang gadis dari masing-masing kampus. Awal mula terbentuk Bujang Gadis Kesehatan PGRI berawal dari fenomena pandemi Covid-19 yang menjadi tantangan besar bagi warga Indonesia bahkan hingga di penghujung tahun 2020. Pada kesempatan kali ini, saya berkesempatan berkenalan dan belajar bersama 30 finalis Bujang Gadis Kesehatan PGRI Palembang. Para finalis berasal dari beberapa jurusan tidak hanya dari jurusan kesehatan, namun juga berasal dari teknik, manajemen, sosial dan lain sebagainya.

Peta sangat bermanfaat dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, peta dapat membantu kita menuju lokasi yang diinginkan. Peta memuat informasi seperti titik koordinat, menentukan arah, jarak, luas, bentuk permukaan bumi, fenomena alam, serta pola sebaran bahkan informasi untuk penelitian. Diawali dengan perkenalan terkait peta, openstreetmap, dan dilanjutkan dengan project kolaborasi apa saja yang biasa dilakukan, serta kesempatan di masa depa.

Aplikasi pemetaan yang paling familiar digunakan dalam kegiatan sehari-hari adalah Google Map. Google Map biasa kita gunakan untuk mengetahui lokasi dan arah dari suatu tempat. Selain itu, kita bisa menggunakan ArcGIS, QGIS atau Openstreetmap (OSM) untuk memproses informasi dalam peta. Aplikasi pemetaan dapat diakses secara gratis dan berbayar. Bagi mahasiswa, OSM memiliki berbagai keuntungan karena gratis, tidak rumit bagi pemula, dan open source.

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January 29, 2023

On running sudo apt update, users will get a notification similar to this, stating that several packages from the universe repository have security updates that require Ubuntu Pro:

The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled: imagemagick libopenexr25 libmagick++-6.q16-8 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libmagickwand-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6.q16 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6-common

February 10, 2023

Currently we run a combination of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS across our server estate.

Ubuntu 20.04 has recently moved away from the established 5 years of maintenance updates and now requires a paid Ubuntu Pro plan to receive some package security updates.

We’ve also had issues with Ubuntu not fully supporting the packages they source from Debian (e.g. : Apache2 which required us to backport a fixed version to workaround an issue affecting mpm event scaling).

Ubuntu has also caused us issue with some packages now only being distributed as snap packages (e.g. : Firefox).

February 20, 2023

Your Ubuntu LTS is still secured in exactly the same way it has always been, with five years of free security updates for the ‘main’ packages in the distribution, and best-effort security coverage for everything else. This has been the promise of Ubuntu since our first LTS in 2006, and remains exactly the same. In fact, thanks to our expanded security team, your LTS is better secured today than ever before, even without Ubuntu Pro.

Ubuntu Pro is an additional stream of security updates and packages that meet compliance requirements such as FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) or HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), on top of an Ubuntu LTS.

As part of our global mission to amplify the impact of free software, we offer a free personal subscription to Ubuntu Pro that covers up to 5 machines.

November 24, 2023

Servers fume and grisu are now running Debian 12.

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Santarém

My first impressions of Santarém were not very favourable. I had the idea of It being a smaller city, but It covers a wide área and our hostal was quite a distance from the centre. Three nights we had here, and It wasn’t clear what we could with that time.

We walked to the centre and found nice places to be by the river, and a restaurant serving regional dishes, including one (Maniçoba) where they have to cook the manioc leaves for days to remove the toxins. I’m still here to tell the story so they must have done It right.

The first full day we dedicated to exploring the centre and looking for another hotel not so far from the port for our final night. There was, naturally, some mapping to be done as we walked around. Outside of the centre there were areas with few amenities mapped.

The haze from the fires comes and goes in the city, with the wind. But at times the smell of smoke is very strong, and the pollution gets to your eyes and throat. Glad I don’t live here, Madrid ‘s traffic pollution is seriously unhealthy but not as bad as this.

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Manaus To Santarém

Another early morning start as we walked down to the port at dawn to catch the Santarém boat. This time there was none of the queuing and complication that we had in Tabatinga - we showed our ticket and went straight on to the boat.

The early bird catches the best hammock position, and the first impressions of the Madame Crys were positive. It seemed to be a more modern boat than for Tabatinga to Manaus. It didn’t fill up completely but was busy and we did the right thing getting there early.

As we left Manaus It was clear that this was a more powerful, but less noisy, boat. We were up front looking for the meeting of the waters as the appropriately named Río Negro joins the Amazon a short distance out from Manaus For kilometres the two rivers run with little mixing and very different colours, and our boat steered very close to the visible dividing line.

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Contexte

Contributeur depuis quelques temps sur les infrastructures électriques et utilisateur convaincu de StreetComplete, il m’arrive assez régulièrement d’ajouter le tag material sur des poteaux électriques directement depuis mon téléphone.

Il y a environ deux ans, suite à des contributions de terrain sur les réseaux haute tension d’Enedis dans les Vosges. Durant un échange avec un autre contributeur, nous avons eu l’idée de proposer une nouvelle quête sur StreetComplete pour mapper le tag line_attachment.

En effet, ce tag permet de décrire la façon dont la ligne électrique est fixée aux supports (poteaux ou pylônes). Cette information n’est pas forcément visible depuis les vues aériennes notamment due à la présence de végétation, la qualité des orthophotos ou encore les installations trop récentes pour être visibles. Mais l’arrivée progressive du PCRS en France nous permet déjà de renseigner ce tag dans beaucoup de situations sans sortir de chez soi.

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Wir nutzen OSM zur Ergänzung und Verbesserung unser ÖPNV-Auskunftssysteme.

Fragen und Anmerkungen kannst du uns direkt unter appteam@vrs.de zukommen lassen.

Informationen zu den von uns bereitgestellten OpenData-Services findest du auf unserer Website

Debrief conducted by Sam Colchester (HOT) partner engagement lead for this activation.

Relevant statistics

In total 171 contributors made over 125,000 edits to OSM including mapping over 96,000 buildings as part of this campaign. (See ohsomeNow Stats page for tracking overall contributions)

Nigeria Floods 2024 daily contributors

Narrative summary

Shortly after the severe flood event in Nigeria on Tuesday 10 September 2024 the director of the Open Mapping Hub - West and Northern Africa requested support from HOT’s central team to respond.

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我的定义: 补全基础的居民楼和商用楼, 以及主要道路, 小区, 学校. 有几个不写: 1, 军事和政府机构, 因为敏感; 2, 棚户区, 如果之后拆迁的话等于无用功了; 3, 小道路, 害怕出错; 4, 拆迁区, 只有我实地到过的地方我才进行删减.

第一阶段: 胶济铁路南, 经十路-玉函路-二环南路以北, 凤凰路以西区域

• 历城区

1. 山大路街道 (24/11/19)
2. 洪家楼街道 (24/11/20)
3. 东风街道 (24/12/3)

• 市中区

1. 大观园街道
2. 杆石桥街道

• 历下区

1. 姚家街道 (24/11/30) 姚家街道基本完成, 很多小区和发电厂看着有, 但是将来可能面临拆迁. 得等3年后济南CBD片区尘埃落定了再补充.
2. 龙洞街道 (24/12/1)
3. 甸柳街道 (24/12/5)
4. 智远街道 (24/12/7)
5. 舜华路街道 (24/12/13)
6. 汉峪片区 (25/1/5)

进入了气象学上的冬天

• 阳光
• 气温
• 风

Manaus

I had very mixed feelings about returning to Manaus, 36 years after my first failed attempt at an Amazon boat ride to Belém. I hadn”t expected ever to return, had it not been for the FOSS4G announcement of Belém as the 2024 location. I hadn’t liked the city much the first time, although this had a lot to do with the local climate. Maybe I’m a bit more used to this now, after living so many years in Spain, but Manaus still felt like the hottest place I had been on the journey.

We got a new member of the team here, my partner Silvia flew in from Madrid just a few hours after the Tabatinga boat had docked. When she booked her flight back in August we had very little idea of when I was going to arrive in Manaus, in the end it worked out very well.

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