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I did It. Successfully Completed 20 th osm Birthday Celebration Srilanka.
Celebration Date : 11th August 2024
Thank you all Speakers, Presenters and participants for making this 20th osm birthday celebration success. and once again thank you accept my Invitation. #Taichi Furuhashi #Pawan #Janjan Villar Orano #Priscovia #Sangeetha BC #Dibikshiya #Ark Arjun
Thank You So much everyone……
It’s been over two weeks since the last progress report, and it’s time to update on the current status.
The core modules of the project have now been largely finalized, allowing us to enter the latter stage of development. The upcoming work will mainly involve adding new features within the existing framework.
Firstly, the rendering part has been set up, though there are still some details that need polishment, such as styles and elements controlling the rendering. These will be adjusted in sync with the subsequent feature development to ensure that the styling aligns with the editing logic.
I’ve developed an OSM API module that wraps some of OSM’s interfaces using Promises and parses the returned XML into a JavaScript object for easier manipulation within the program.
Following that is the editing module, which primarily includes the operation logic and global data management.
For the operation logic in map editing, I’ve introduced a state machine, which manages the current state of the editor by listening to mouse and keyboard events. The state machine, referred to as “stateMachine.js” in the code, handles state transitions and data maintenance based on the functions and state relationships provided in the state diagram. Depending on the current state, it determines which actions to trigger and the new state to transition into. The state machine provides hooks that allow other components, such as mouse events in Pixi.js, to track events. Editing operations are carried out during state transitions.
I was having a conversation with another mapper about the resolution of notes where the resolution of the note requires some local knowledge. These notes that require local knowledge may remain stale for a long period of time. You can read the full conversation here.
However, it is not uncommon that notes are resolved by people that are mainly interested in resolving notes. Anecdotally, based on the fact that I put in a lot of notes, there seems to be just a select few people that are going around resolving notes as their primary OpenStreetMap contribution, or at least a major part of it. I have all the respect in the world for these people. And to Danmer’s point, they don’t have enough help to get all their notes resolved, so leaving them unresolved, because notes only have two resolution options—they’re either open or they’re closed—can be challenging.
If the primary note resolution engine is people that most likely have no local knowledge, it is counterproductive to rely on that corps of people to address these notes that require local knowledge.
I think that we could probably classify notes into three categories:
After years of development, I am excited to introduce a proposed feature for OpenStreetMap called Communities. Formerly called Microcosms, this feature is designed to bring mappers together and facilitate collaboration. On the main OSM website, it will be located on the Communities page.
Communities are groups of mappers who share a common goal or interest. They can be formed around a specific geographic region, such as a city or neighborhood, or centered on a particular theme, like humanitarian mapping. The purpose of Communities is to provide a platform for mapping teams to connect with one another, work together as a team, and organize events.
I’ve only been here since june, but it has been a really good time. Everything works really well and the community is really nice and has helped when I asked. Crazy that it is so old, some of the data I have edited is older than me*. This is a really cool project, thank you to the devs for all the work making it.
*just checked and it was very slightly younger than me
In January 2024, I embarked on an exciting journey as part of the OM Guru Fellowship program under the Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific. As one of the 50 selected Guru Fellows, I had the opportunity to join the Training Track, focusing on conducting training sessions, webinars, and mapathons for community members. This fellowship aims to foster a sustainable OpenStreetMap (OSM) ecosystem in the Asia-Pacific region by building the capacity of new and experienced mappers alike.
The fellowship began with an orientation, where we learned about the scope of work, our expected roles, and the various activities we would undertake over the next five months. As a Training Track Fellow, I was excited to engage with diverse communities and contribute to the open mapping movement by sharing my knowledge and skills.
During the fellowship, I conducted two online webinars and one in-person training session. These sessions were designed to cater to both beginners and experienced mappers, covering a wide range of topics.
Development has quickly progressed through two weeks, and it’s time to write a bi-weekly report.
The project is still in its early development stage, so we are unable to provide a usable prototype at this time.However, our implementation of the rendering part has been basically determined.
After testing, points and paths can be rendered successfully.
Due to the ongoing development of the interfaces for other modules, some functions have not yet been implemented. For instance, highlighting segments of a path instead of selecting the entire path as in the default logic of the iD editor. Also, the rendering of polygons has not been implemented yet because it requires the interface of the editing module.
We plan to divide the project into different components to facilitate future development and maintenance.
Together with LibreLabs Albania and OpenStreetMap Albania, we decided to celebrate the 20th birthday with an Online Mapping Party. We decided to “Map the Balkans”, so we extracted 55 villages from 11 countries, and we will come together on the 10th at 19:00 to celebrate and map.
Blog post from LibreLabs - https://librelabs.cc/blog/openstreetmap-online-mapping-party/
OSMcal - https://osmcal.org/event/3041/
Wiki - osm.wiki/OpenStreetMap_20th_Anniversary_Birthday_party
Anybody who wishes to join is more than welcome!
Happy 20th birthday, OpenStreetMap!
Update on the progress for the last 5 days of mapping.
I have mapped the villages:
A special thank you again to perenniallylate for mapping Ujëmirë
“#100villagesin100days”
Our OpenMapping iniative for #Wayaland Last few days Our #opendatakerala team with #OSMKerala OpenStreetMap working with officials and National Disaster Response Force for the mapping needs in their field needs. Just Noticed a news came few days back. Thanks The New Indian Express
Started a discussion on difference between place_of_worship=mosque and place_of_worship=musalla
I know I put in a entry in the diary not to long ago but I want to let you know what I am up to now. I am putting the finishing touches on my eruv map with I hope looks good. I am getting help with it and thank you to the gentleman that is helping.
I am currently spending a lot of time on StreetComplete and MapComplete. They are really good for me. I am helping my local community by validating roads, building, hours of operation, what sidewalks are made of, if the road is asphalt or what ever. I am really having a lot of fun doing it and its a good feeling that hey I have no clue if this helps anyone but it helps knowing I am helping.
I am also interested in adding things to OSM. I am fascinated by what I have seen from others. It would be good to start with one thing like roads, building, etc. Still learning the types of things OSM maps. Then build from that point once I get relatively comfortable with whatever this is.
Eventually I would love to get down to one or two things and really get good mapping those. I do not know the full capabilities of OSM, its a lot I am sure. Just hope I can be more specific and get very comfortable doing that one or things.
I am super interested in sustainability and resiliency. I would love to start to map and get involved in this area at some point. I also want to find out if OSM has something like Esri Story Maps. I want to see if I can tell stories of people for resilience. Cultures and peoples have has a long history of successful resiliency initiatives. That is the Story Map type thing came from.
I am super happy I found OSM and you all are very kind and generous and always happy to answer question. Just want to say thank you!
OSM is a tremendously powerful tool that I would love to see how it is used day-to-day by different organizations.
Till next time!
My previous diary entry looked at the UK section of this OSM wiki page. A commenter there noticed that neither the wiki table nor my analysis covered highway=track (covered here) or highway=service (left for later).
We’ll use the same approach as before. Essentially, that’s this urban area (and this when looking at designation), and this rural area.
It’s useful to look at designation because that tells us what some of the access values should be, and also local authority data about public rights of way such such as visible in this overlay. We’ll therefore ignore ways in OSM with designation set but look to see if any of our examples “should” be designated as a public right of way.
Welcome to the sixteenth OpenStreetMap NextGen development diary.
This week, we continue focusing on feature parity and migration efforts.
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Before we get started with this week’s highlights, I want to highlight the continuous growth of the project in terms of popularity on GitHub. It’s amazing to see the community in action - thank you all! It keeps us all motivated! 🌠
Last week, we talked about the new geolocation icon design. This week, we have iterated on it and created a custom design that looks and feels just right. Check it out:
This is a diary about a recent drone mapping initiative that I participated in. I would like to give credits to the Open Mapping Hub - West and North Africa, OpenStreetMap Sierra Leone, Pete Masters and Ivan Gayton for all the support and knowledge given during the course of this initiative. I hope to learn more as we continue collaborating.
The use of satellite imagery from multiple sources has been a pivotal aspect of open mapping campaigns across the world. However, satellite imageries have some limitations, such as low resolutions and delayed visitation time. This affects the quality of the digitization of physical features that are to be mapped. In order to address these limitations in open mapping campaigns, the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems such as drones have been employed to capture images with high resolutions within desired timeframe.
With support from the West and North Africa Hub through the Mwalai microgrant, OpenStreetMap Sierra Leone embarked on the collection and processing of drone imageries in three slums across Freetown as part of the Know Your City initiative. The imageries would be used to map buildings and critical infrastructure, test the fAIr model and Field Mapping Tasking Manager.
In order to have high resolution imagery, the team used a DJI Mavic 2 Zoom drone for the flights and Open Drone Map for the image processing. A smartphone-based flight planning and control application was used to conduct flights with specific elevation, overlap, and angle settings, allowing the operators to ensure consistent resolution, quality, and coverage across the areas of interest.
Flights were conducted above slums with dense buildings, therefore, flight settings with paths and gimbal angles that captured the top and sides of buildings and other infrastructure. The team used the following flight settings. 70% Frontal Overlap 80% Side Overlap -75 degrees Gimbal Angle
can’t find a suitable type of point for this - anyone have any advice please
many thanks, mark
Today I woke, cold and alone me. This day unlike any almost except I’m still alone, but today was different. Tonight I mean as 4 :55 ish in the morn , it was as if I had given birth to yesterdays sorrows and as if I’m lying in bed waiting for them to begin walking from a crawl as a toddler does when it first uses it’s feet to wind it’s legs up and run away. Today is now a new day as yesterdays sorrows have become real with their own love deform so it can take its sadness that makes it sorrow and simply , with its own life form simply walk away. Now the dark, like belt, place inside called sorrow simply became and ran away, so now only I have to face today and the sorrow is now lol Niger feeding of my light or life and today is Jacqueline still that it’s mine “just for today”.
The fieldwork of Anticipatory action mapping was conducted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2024 in the Western province of Rwanda, Ngororero district by the ecoMappers of OpenStreetMap Rwanda with the collaborative partnership of the administration of Ngororero district, and the volunteers who reside in this district. The fieldwork mainly aimed to acquire information from the leaders and community about the hotspots that had rainfall-induced landslides, and flooding, onboarding new volunteer members, and verifying the digitization status.
This fieldwork was a great opportunity that resulted in the onboarding of new volunteer members by matching the experienced mapper with the new one so that they could exchange skills and be aware of different tools that they can use while mapping, they learned the other different map features and how to use tags identifying those features.
From the ability to show the hotspot in google Earth to extracting the elevation , slope analysis and downloading the OSM data digitized around a particular hotspot.
During the field visit, the digitization status was verified using the mobile application Vespucci. On the field, the volunteers were briefed on how to download, install, and use the application. This enabled them to confirm the status of the digitization within the buffer of the hotspot.
After reading this forum topic and commenting that the United Kingdom part wasn’t great because it didn’t consider the different rules in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, I wondered “what should the defaults actually be for England and Wales?”.
Of that table, I think that the rows down to living_street are correct, and of the remaining rows the columns across to moped are also correct. I decided to pick a couple of areas I’m familiar with (one urban, one rural) and look for examples in those areas without explicit access tagging. Based on that it should be possible to suggest some sensible defaults.
The default of no for everything through to moped is correct, which leaves horse, bicycle and foot.
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4E
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4G
Mostly these ways are foot=permissive, and there’s no horse signage. In some of the parks horses might be tolerated; elsewhere likely not. This suggests horse=no here.
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4I
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4H
Mostly these ways are foot=permissive or =yes, and there’s no horse signage. In some of the parks horse access might be =permissive; in most cases not. This suggests horse=no for these as well.
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4J
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4K
Mostly these ways are foot=permissive. In a large number bicycle access is explicitly disallowed.
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4L
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4M
Mostly these ways are foot=permissive or =yes, and on some (but not as many as the urban ones) bicycle access is explicitly disallowed. However there are also some designated “public bridleways” which should be tagged bicycle=yes but are not, perhaps because bicycle access is legal but implausible
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1P4O
I am struggling to write a diary entry every day, but I am making up for it by mapping more in the surrounding areas of every village I map. During the past 5 days i have mapped the villages:
1 - Bubq
2 - Mengël
3 - Gjokaj
4 - Nangë
5 - Bicaj
6 - Ngraçan
7 - Bishqethem
A big thank you to ibanez for mapping Bllatë e Poshtme.
“#100villagesin100days”
