Ah, seronoknya perang tag. Hari ni tag begini, esok lusa tag begitu. Tak apalah, tunggu sekejap. Kalau pengguna ni dah mula tak sunting apa-apa, senyap-senyap kita balikkan keadaan asal (revert).

Didn’t realise earlier that I made it. Wahey!

And so I believed that I had put everything (that I managed to jot down) from the places I have been, across last year. Took two months to do so… whew. Feels like patting my own back!

I also spent considerably lots of time fiddling the wiki so that it would be helpful (hmm…) to Malaysian mappers.

So, here’s hoping 2016 would be fantastic, if not better than 2015.

Just checking the notes recently, to look for something useful to be added into the map.

Suddenly…

Quite a lot of notes… Let’s check it out!

Someone apparently put these on last week. Seeing this…

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English: Personal OSM lulz 2014

Di luar / Outdoors mapping survey

Satu jalan tiga nama! Memandangkan OSM ada tag yang sesuai maka letak jelah kesemuanya.

One single stretch of road but three different names! A good example where the different tags in OSM can be useful.

Rujukan / reference: Way 319918394

Di dalam / Indoors armchair mapping

Kan senang nak letak nama kalau semua macam ni…

Adding details is a piece of cake if and only if things are more like this…

Rujukan / reference: Way 319665300

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Sebab apa?

Memang skema tagging yang sungguh skema tapi yang penting tak buat tag main redah je.

Sekian bebel-bebel OSM hari ini.

So this week, there are suddenly a lot of notes popping up across the Malaysian North - South Expressway and also some other Malaysian expressways.

I usually consider anonymous note (sometimes) are good because the number of OSM mappers from Malaysia is not that big.

However, recently, I have came across a navigation application that posts a note (anonymously) where OSM database seems to contain incomplete or wrong information - most of the time it is just because OSM data is incomplete here, but also there is something wrong with the app itself e.g. speed limit in x5 km/h (the Malaysian speed limit do not use a speed limit in fives i.e. 35 km/h; usually an increment of tens i.e. 40 km/h, 70 km/h, 90 km/h, 110 km/h is in enforcement). Well, the developer already has took an action and hopefully this would improve the OSM database in a more convenient way.

Fast forward to this week, now, that weird notes. Probably in this coming few weeks, I would have to “resolve” that comments. They are really strange, because it appears that the anonymous note contributor(s?) is totally new to OSM, or, is using the OSM database on a third-party device or some unknown navigation (or map viewer) apps. I could handle probably few notes but there are, like, hundreds of them!

Why?

Some of the inputs are good (but they are not properly attributed - signs of someone new to OSM but this takes time and learning curve); furthermore, some of them is stating what is already obvious on the map. This makes me feel furious, as if, that user is copying from somewhere else (hopefully not from a proprietary, non-free database) - which leads to the assumption that the user itself is not familiar with OpenStreetMap at all! Worse, that user probably do not know about OSM - sigh.

Hopefully that user is not copying from the crowd-sourced Malfreemaps (or Malsingmaps) database as it contains proprietary data.

Mula-mula ingat bolehlah luangkan masa habis-habisan, terutamanya nak lengkapkan jalan-jalan pekan Alor Setar dan mungkin setakat apa-apa yang boleh ‘trace’ dari Mapbox dengan Strava.

Tapi ada perkara lain yang tak dijangka… nampaknya ‘sekatan jalan’lah.

Tunda lagi nampaknya nak hantar ‘request’ JUPEM. Harapnya bulan 9 nanti la kot. Projek masjid pun sama. Tapi ‘tracing’ pun dah tergendala. Banyak hari dah tak buat.

Oh ya. Sesiapa yang berminat untuk melengkapkan liputan sungai, Jabatan Pengairan & Saliran Kedah (akhirnya) letak senarai sungai bagi daerah Kota Setar dan Pendang (harapnya yang rasmi).

Bulan ke-11 dalam usaha giat memperelok data OpenStreetMap.

Baru kelmarin, Mapbox dengan baik hatinya, membawakan imej satelit Digital Globe dalam OSM. Takdelah imej terkini sangat tapi alhamdulillah, sekurang-kurangnya kawasan Malaysia yang tidak diliputi imej satelit Bing (ya, macam Alor Setar) kini dapat dipetakan dengan lebih terperinci.

Yeeeeeeeeyyyy!

Tapi macam mana pun, kena guna GPS dulu, mana tahu, ada tempat yang lari sikit kan.

Sebagai pemeta tak profesional yang hanya berharap dengan jejak GPS, sekurang-kurangnya lepas ni kurang sikit bebanan (hehehe) dan dengan gerek (basikal) buruk tu dapatlah pergi tempat lain sama kan.

Insya Allah, cuti sekejap. Rasanya bulan Jun aktif balik insya Allah.

Harapnya lepas bulan Jun nanti boleh hantar surat cinta kepada JUPEM.

Alhamdulillah, dapat juga tambah data dalam kawasan Alor Setar dan tempat-tempat sekeliling.

Setakat ini sudah muat naik beberapa jejak GPS. Kalau ikutkan nak saja muat naik kesemuanya tapi memandangkan pekan Alor Setar ni… boleh tahanlah banyak bangunannya. Memang ada sahaja signal yang kurang baik, terpesong sana-sini. Tak best, tak best. Jadi buat masa ni, cuba himpun banyak-banyak GPX dan baru buat trace (tekap).

Kalau nak ikut hati nak saja minta data sempadan negeri dengan daerah dari JUPEM. Tapi tengok dulu. Brader Kucai dah cuba (terima kasih!), tapi kalau tak berjaya, cuba tengok la pakai jabatan lain. Buat masa ni ikut hati nak sempadan Kedah dan daerah-daerah Kedah dulu, tapi kalau JUPEM baik hati sangat nak bagi semua, oh, terima kasih! Terima kasih! (LOL) “Fingers crossed”.

Nama jalan pun jadi masalah. Kadang-kadang tak ada papan tanda. Kena cabut jadi ‘besi buruk’ agaknya. Ish ish ish…

Jadi nak senang cerita, buat masa ni apa yang termampu, buat carian balikan (reverse lookup). Ingat titik pandang utama (POI), apa lagi, buat carian laman web yang berkaitan dengan POI tadi. Cari alamat penuh. Senang dan selamat (tak payah tiru-tiru peta lain) hehehe. Tapi masih kena letak sumbernya dari mana (tak ada masalah kot, bukannya tiru peta).

Musim monsun datang lagi. Mungkin lepas ni boleh tolong betulkan setakat yang mampu. Lebuhraya PLUS tu melingkar entah apa-apa. Tengoklah. Kalau pelan internet ni tanpa had, hehehe.

Edit 7.05pm: Eh, rekabentuk OSM baru? Tadi masuk macam biasa je?

Alhamdulillah. Bosan-bosan tu, sambil-sambil tu, ada la juga benda yang boleh dibuat: menambah baik data OpenStreetMap (OSM) kawasan sekeliling rumah.

Mula-mula guna app My Tracks. Macam okey je. Baca-baca forum, GPSLogger “lebih digemari” penyumbang-penyumbang OSM. Tapi belum lagi guna GPSLogger. Mungkin kalau pergi jauh sikit rasanya baru cuba tengok kot.

Apa-apapun dah guna data GPS dalam seminggu ni, kemas kini OSM kawasan Alor Setar dan dekat-dekat Alor Setar la. Cuma buat masa ni ingat kalau boleh nak kumpul banyak-banyak dulu data jejak GPS. Senang sikit. Lagi yakin.

Hehe.

InsyaAllah.