From me :)

Using HOT’s Task manager, a few days ago i set up the first task to be done, Maseru City and suburbs, or rather the first part of it (its a big city). If you are interested in assisting with this effort, please take a task at here. The main items to be mapped are buildings & highways (tracks, walkways etc)

This weekend, I will set up the additional tasks for the other areas listed above and post a separate diary entry on those. I have held back from sending out a general call for assistance due to the Ebola mapping effort going on at the moment.

I’ve also started putting together the beginnings of information on the Lesotho wiki page available here

That should say Josm, damn auto-correct

You SFSU folks should take a look at some of the existing apps available for doing OSM surveys

On Android there’s OSMTracker, KeypadMapper, OSMTracker, Vespucci etc

For ios there is PushPin and others

Using these can really speed up your data gathering with the added benefit of data going directly into OSM (PushPin & Vespucci) or allowing you to load your gathered data directly into Jose (OSMTracker & OSMpad)

Btw, I’m loving the work you folks are doing, the campus is looking better by the day

Unfortunately, as I stated above, I do not have the necessary skills to implement something like this. My background is not one of a programmer unfortunately

My hopes with the above post were that it would inspire someone with the necessary skills :)

.3 - I doubt it. There are many pre-existing maps covering the UK and a large contingent of mappers already on the ground there. HOT’s work is primarily where there is no good geo data to begin with

I’m open to correction on all of the above though :)

Posted to github

god I hate markdown, apologies about that being a mess to read as I can’t edit my comment

Excellent, love it, cant wait to see what else you are going to do with this

Some comments: - When I select different options and new markers are being loaded there is nothing to show the user that a query is in progress, instead it just looks like nothing is happening. Maybe add something to show a query is being processed or alternatively speed up the process - I’m using chrome (Version 31.0.1650.57 m) and twice it locked up the browser. Noticed it happening when I zoomed into level 14 and tried to zoom back out again - “Set”, what does this do? - Its great that you can add notes for existing features, however it would be good to be able to add notes for features that don’t show up - Under the “Add Missing Data” window, I would suggest wording it something like:

Option 1 - Add the data yourself, its easy, click here to go to the openstreetmap website and sign up. It only takes a few mins and the new information will appear within minutes. You will also likely have the option to use satellite imagery which will allow you place your information more accurately.

Option 2 - Add a note for other mappers which they can use to add the missing data. Be clear in what you want added. The more detail and the clearer your message, the more likely it will get added to the map. Be aware, you may have to wait several days before you see your information added to the map.

• Where the user decides to go to OSM and sign up, the link to OSM should bring them to the same map view to save the user having to pan and scan to get back to the same location again.
• Permalink / share link options would be good

nods I know, I have tracks going back several months which I still have to make use of.

The initial purpose is to answer a lot of the legal questions that have come up from various sectors with regards to local chapters e.g. use of the openstreetmap logo as one example.

Once these questions are answered, it will possibly switch to looking at creating the right framework and tools for local chapters to be created.

Something to remember, there is nothing to stop you setting up a mailing list, irc channel, forum etc for Kenyan members right now. Its what we have done for Ireland and it has worked well for several years so if you think there is a gap and it needs to be filled and would be of benefit to Kenyan members, then you should go right ahead with it.

Folding all those things into an offical local chapter can always happen at a later date

By the looks of it you have done great work so far in Kenya.

The local chapters working group has started back up again with a view to getting the local chapters question answered once and for all.

The main issues are legal ones, which i won’t go into here, there is plenty on the wiki giving more details than I can, however once these main legal issues are sorted, the major road block for local chapters is then removed.

At that point, I think we can then start looking at infrastructure in terms of communication / websites / forums etc.

westis, There are no locations where I am surveying which does not have imagery

I use a variety of methods when surveying, depending on the circumstances e.g. if I’m solely surveying in the car on the move I only use OSMTracker to collect details. I add that info later thought JOSM

Walking around, I use OSMpad for addresses or vespucci for POI additions.

I have keypadmapper on my phone, but havent gotten to using it yet. I missed Markus’ presentation at SOTM on it, as I’ve heard its quite good.

This is excellent, nice work

(love that you picked my home city too :) )

Firstly, as far as I am aware, the deal will not be “done” for a while yet, there are still anti-trust/anti-competition hurdles that have to be sorted first for Google but others more knowledgeable can correct me on that if I am wrong.

Secondly, as well as this move denying competitors an opportunity, and removing another player from the field, I see this move by Google as achieving one main benefit for them and that is, they get an established and proven technology and more importantly they gain a user base with skills in mapping which will eventually feed into map maker edits even if they still leave Waze as a standalone entity.

This allows them to increase the volume of user-generated data they have which only they have rights to and gradually allows them to remove data sources not owned by Google

Long-term, I think you can expect to see Mapmaker, Google maps and Waze functionality all tied into a single app for your phone. What this will mean for OSM, who knows, likely very little. People who want open, will come to us, people who don’t know any better or don’t care will use the Google option because it will be better known

Dropped Olivier Verscheure a mail to see if I can get a larger version of the image for use as a weekly featured image, nice spot

Simon,

I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to show the % of building’s with Vs without address information. I’m thinking some kind of graph would be best, something along the lines of a pie chart or simple line graph if historical information is available i.e. the growth of building ways and another line on the qty of buildings with address info. Not sure on the specifics, but I think something like that would be very useful

ha, love it!

using the layer switcher on the right and melding the images of the golf course together is a great way to show what can be done with the same set of data in terms of rendering whats important to specific groups e.g. a golf website could use that type of rendering when including slippy maps showing the locations of golf courses.

Very nicely done

osmisto,

I am planning on tidying up the instruction above and also writting instruction for Mapcraft job owners on how best to setup and manage a job using that tool.

By all means, feel free to translate it when Im done :)

Nice work Simon, this will be very useful

Nice one, can’t wait!