I believe this captures the same sentiment generated by OSM for new contributors. Thank you for sharing.

If you’re keen to understand OSM better, try the osm.org/wiki/Beginners’_guide, or the any of the self-paced learning modules from https://learnosm.org. These can show you how to contribute data (add/edit/fix) to the map, if that’s your goal.

I wonder how you came about getting OsmAnd in the first place. It’s not one of the friendliest OSM data consumer map out there, but it’s a feature-full app if you can get beyond the steep learning curve.

If you’re looking for a more user-friendly app, give Organic Maps a whirl. The interface is superior to OsmAnd, but there are less features too – but it will probably meet the needs of general map users. I think it’s available on Apple, too. With an OSM account, you should be able to add/edit simple features, too.

Another one to try out is Mapy.CZ.

Kudos, Pieter! This simple editor is a great way of introducing new people to contribute to OSM.

@ 地図山彼方, no problem.

If data cost is a concern, do you know that you can take photos with geotags without any data connection necessary? Same thing with Mapillary or KartaView apps.

You can read more about photo-mapping here: osm.org/wiki/Photo_mapping

It might help (or would be more convenient) if you have a specific theme you want to map – because, otherwise, basically, you can map almost everything on the ground. :D

There are people who like analogs tools, and could use simple tools, like paper and pencil for mapping. If you want something more than that, check out http://www.fieldpapers.org/ for that purpose.

For apps on mobile, there are various OpenStreetMap editors (e.g. OsmAnd, StreetComplete, Vespucci) that can do the same thing.

You might want to collect street-level photos or images, for that checkout Mapillary or KartaView

P.S. Great drawing!

Interesting figure! It’s unfortunate that it’s not rendered in OSM.

@JesseAKARaccoon, do keep us posted how mapillary_tools on Android works out for you. :)

Thanks for sharing the links. Some of these post-capture processing you’re doing is hard on mobile, and thanks to mapillary_tools, a lot less hard on the desktop.

This is interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Do you mind sharing links to some of your sequences you took using OpenCamera?

Ngawit, maraming salamat sa’yong pagpapa-unlak na sagutin ang mga tanong na ‘to. Kasama ng marami nating kasamahang nag-a-ambasa sa OSM, nakakatuwang malaman ang mga dahilan ng iyong pag-mamapa.

Kung magkaroon ka pag ng pagkakataong i-rekord natin sa bidyo ang outline panayam na ‘to, padalhan mo lang ako ng DM, at hanapan natin ng oras.

Napansin ko din (at mas lalong ikinatuwa) na itong nakaraang buwan ng Nobyembre, isa ka sa may pinakamalaking ambag sa OSM sa Pilipinas, batay sa mga changeset numbers. Palagay ko nga ay malaki ang naging epekto ng mas mabilis na Internet sa’yong lugar.

Mabuhay ka!

Indoor tracking is a little more challenging, but not impossible. Check out some of what Stéphane adventures in street-level imagery collection in France: https://twitter.com/stfmani

I believe Kaart used to do some editing in Malaysia and Brunei, but not recently.

That looks like a great start. Kudos!

Siya nga pala, tuloy ang libreng 2020 Pista ng Mapa conference na gaganapin online next week.

More information, and free registration here: https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/

Maligayang pagbabalik! Maraming salamat, at sana ay patuloy ka pang makapag-ambag sa OpenStreetMap!

Karamihan pa din ng mga aerial imagery ay luma, pero kung papalarin, subukan mo ang OpenAerialMap at baka may mga drone enthusiasts na nag-ambag ng mga bagong imagery.

Kung interesado ka rin, puede kang kumuha at mag-ambang ng bagong streetscape imagery gamt ang Mapillary or OpenStreetCam.

Marami na ring mga contributors sa Norte, subukan mong makipagkwentuhan sa mga community channels nakalista dito: osm.org/wiki/ph

Tagging usernames (e.g. @username) doesn’t notify any user .

The only reason I get to read this is because I left an earlier comment in the thread, and that automatically subscribes you to it, if there are new comments added since.

To display the image below from Google drive

I used ![an image](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0Bx2ZEB1j3NXKLUgwckFaRG9XZkE)

It’s a different URL, don’t just copy and paste the link you got from Google Drive. Also, you need to replace the id value after the equal sign with the unique id for your file

Welcome to OpenStreetMap!

It’s great to hear you’ve realized the value you’ve been adding to the previous platform :wink: and decided that it’s better to contribute to an Open platform

Great notes! Thank you for sharing.

In Manila, we’re running weekly geo/map-py sessions called WeMap (a portmanteau of Wednesdays MapaTime) and most of us are pretty happen with how Jitsi performed in the last 2 sessions we’ve done, so we’re probably staying with that – plus the fact that it doesn’t require participants to register, and it’s Open Source, to boot.

The chat box is not the best, but it’s usable. Internally, our core team communicates in a Telegram channel but our public interaction through chat uses the built-in chat of Jitsi.

We mirror (and record) our sessions to YouTube, but in our case we have chat enabled – because otherwise we wouldn’t have a way to interact with people who opted out of the recorded session.

Most of the materials are done through real-time demonstrations, and we hope to build on reusable video clips for future sessions.

We are expressly targeting new contributors, so we’re not keen on promoting JOSM. From our mapathon experiences, iD is good enough, and the steep learning curve is not something we want to invest early on. Advanced mappers are still welcome in our sessions, and we don’t require them to use iD.

The local HOT-PH team shared their experience with us, and we’re capping sessions to a maximum of 120 minutes, so we keep our presentations simple and direct.

Our session usually follows this outline: * Intro to #WeMap - ~5 minutes * Intro to featured project/initiative ~7 minutes * On-boarding 40-60 minutes * MapaTime (aka mapathon proper) ~45 minutes * Summary/Q&A

Our expected participants are local, so everyone is expected to converse in the lingua franca but we’ve gotten non-local participants, so we also use English in the chat box.

A large crowd may seem like a nice thing to have, but I personally feel that it limits the opportunity to interact better with participants, and help them with concerns.

In the beginning, we considered splitting the session into two groups, one for beginners, and another for advanced users, hoping that we can accommodate their unique requirements better, but this got scratched out to keep things simple and basically we leave the advanced users to fend off for themselves after giving them the tasks we’re working on 😂.

We’re planning for separate advanced/technical sessions in the future, where we wouldn’t specifically cater to beginners.

I wrote some of my own notes here.

One of the things I’m still curious about our sessions is that very few people use their cameras (it’snot required, of course) and the chat box (thought very basic) is quite active:

What are yours like?

Hola.

Care to say more?

Welcome to OpenStreetMap, and thank you for your contributions. They’re awesome, and most are the kind of details that only locals can provide .

Indeed, OsmAnd is one of the popular mobile apps that consume OSM data. How did you discover OsmAnd?

You can manually add the layers, or update your version of JOSM.

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I tend to validate a user’s edit against the imagery they used (usually, tasking managers would indicate a preferred imagery, so one couldn’t blame contributors), then confirm other changes with the latest, when possible.