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OpenStreetMap Workshop in Bogo, Cebu

Good job @feyeandal!

Starting to find my way

That’s great! I’ve tried this app in the past, but found the user experience with OsmAnd better (including its plethora of features). Check it out from your favorite app store.

And, welcome to OpenStreetMap! :)

Mapathon at the American Embassy

@mmd. Definitely convenient. ;) Thanks!

Mapathon at the American Embassy

Yep! I hope we can run a junior mapping activity over the summer. :)

The Asia Foundation OpenStreetMap Workshop :: Butuan City, Caraga, Mindanao, PH

Thank you, Clifford. I’ll make sure to remember that.

I don’t have an iOS device myself but the reason we also recommend OsmAnd, is because it shares many of the features of the Android version. I think their goal is to eventually have both platforms share the same features.

I’ll definitely have to ask someone to try this out. Thanks!

10 years

Congratulations, Maning! Cheers, and we look forward to anther decade of mapping.

A preview of upcoming work on mapathon attendee engagement...

Looking forward to reading the full work, soon. :)

Batangas City: Big changes

Awesome job, TagaSanPedro!

Portable OSM

That’s great news! We hope we could test them out soon. Let me try to get some local organizations to try this out in the Philippines.

Non-searchable = Non-existent

Well, this isn’t straight-forward, but it’s no secret either. If you search using Google, search as follows, with the special “site:” option

Millennium Oakwood site:OpenStreetMap.org

which returns the same object you mentioned earlier.

My other favorite search engine, Duck Duck Go offers the special bang, “!osm” to search specifically using OSM,

Millennium Oakwood !osm

So, there exists several ways to find objects in OSM databases via web search. My personal style is to add OSM a search engine in my browser so I can search direct from the address bar.

Let's see.

You can do lots.

Reach out to fellow mappers around your area, you’re likely to get a lot of tips from them.

Welcome to OpenStreetMap.

Idea: trading service for maps

a beer for your neighbourhood, a case of beer for you village. How about that? :D)))

Profile

Your address is searchable, but not your business name.

Should we teach JOSM to first-time mapathon attendees?

@dekstop, I’m curious to know why you have separate tables for iD and JOSM editors. :) Also, it would be interesting what those users use outside of mapathon events.

Everyone will likely agree that iD editor is an easy-to-use, convenient editor. I personally still use iD for quick and simple edits, if I don’t have a running JOSM instance (because that’s quicker than JOSM’s startup time).

I think the progression from iD to JOSM is an indicator of a user’s sincere interest in contributing data. Learning JOSM is an investment in time and effort, and with first-time participants in mapping events, the steeper learning curve of JOSM vs iD is a possible turn-off, and we don’t want to turn people off based on their first impression.

What we’ve discovered about iD is that it’s seems to be a bandwidth hog, compared to JOSM. And bandwidth is always a challenge for many of the events we’re in to, which only adds to our frustration.

Should we teach JOSM to first-time mapathon attendees?

Very interesting data @Desktop. What does your data say about ID editors who move to other editors (JOSM?), and vice versa? My theory is that if new mappers are really interested in mapping in the long her, they’d learn about JOSM eventually, and likely on their own.

Our experience in the Philippines is to teach with iD for mapathons or introductory workshop/mind-seeding events, but promote JOSM during hands-on work to demonstrate how much easier it is for certain tasks. Internally, our community continue to debate on this approach.

Hello, from me here

Welcome! Mapping with OSM could be fun, serious, or both at the same time. 😁

Mapping Party in Tagbilaran, Bohol

Good job, Maning!

Yey for OsmAnd!

24 December 2019

Wow! A post from the future? »>”2019”

:P

Cheers,

OSMaPaaralan

P.S.

After displaying the general area indicated by coordinates, the user will utilize Bing imagery to trace, tag, the feature(s).

OSMaPaaralan

+1

Assuming we are importing the coordinates as they are, this may be a useful reference for the discussion on coordinates: Is it acceptable to use coordinates from Google Maps and/or Earth on Wikipedia?

Takeaway: It’s okay as long as the geographic coordinates are not from Google’s geocoding service.

Option 2, appears to be the prudent way to go. Do not fold the coordinates into OSM, use them instead to identify the general area to work (identify, trace, tag) on.