There was also a membership drive a few months ago.

I am really interested in how close Joost was to being elected, and why he wasn’t.

Thanks everyone for comments. I plan to do the second take, much shorter, just for changes. After that I’ll copy this proposal to a new page for instructions.

Dieterdreist, from my point of view my proposed updates come from common practice and logics. And I’ve mapped dozens of metro networks to test it. Only in few cities some subway stations are mapped with polygons, and these are mostly a mess. Like in Brussels.

Regarding railway=station, note that I’m not against mapping overground stations with polygons. But drawing a correct polygon for an underground station is virtually impossible. Placing just a point would be more correct and easier for everyone. And, well, station=subway wiki page still has the “only nodes” template.

Andy, thanks a lot for that. I was delighted to see you join the maintainers. I follow your edits on github, and I look forward to your improvements to the website. In the post I was talking about my own pull requests, which were ready to be merged in the website, but because of politics generated a 100-comment discussions instead and resulted in nothing. OSM website needs more developers, but also it needs a better management, that would attract and lead people, create a developer community.

Deprecating? They have always been recommended to map stations as nodes, until your silent edit a year ago to one of the pages. Of course it’s safer to edit circumventing a proposal stage, since nobody could oppose the change. I just read the wiki and put what I found in the proposal.

Thanks for noticing this and taking action!

CLC = Corine Land Cover osm.wiki/w/index.php?search=CLC&title=Special:Search

Sorry you had to deal with that. In Russia we are lucky for not having such kind of open data.

Also, you can skip teaching tags if you teach people just a single shortcut: F3 (Fn+F3 on macbooks).

Installing JOSM is the one thing that often goes wrong. Some computers don’t have recent Java, some have trouble with displaying fonts, etc etc.

Also, ask everyone to bring a mouse: mapping with a touchpad is painful. Mac users don’t usually think of that.

If only OSM API has methods for changeset discussions and private message, so people with low engagement could participate.

Also, you should always sign your axes.

@SomeoneElse, the link is in the message footer, the one with “Vietnam” in it.

Hi Sidorela, it was nice seeing you at the conference! Doing a workshop at the first international conference you visit must be scary indeed. It was for me, and I started with a five-minute talk :)

And the same for the transport layer, which is rendered on the same system. Thanks for noticing!

MKnight, I think it’s obvious that Latin America, Africa and Asia are parts of the world. North America and Europe are well-represented in OSM, unlike the other three. Last time we had five of six winners from German-speaking countries, and with these categories I tried to fix that.

Simon, you can cast no votes in any of categories. As for the innovation award, to me these are nominees that done something new, which could insipre other people to do something better. Of course new things are built on existing technologies, we don’t expect somebody to do a great thing from scratch. All of the nominees in the innovation category had done something unexpected and inspiring, in different ways.

Pie Overview layer is just for the party organizer. It is not taken into account when preparing a printed atlas. I thought it would be useful to draw pie lines on it, so they are visible on printed sheets.

So all that my plugin does, it takes every feature from the Pie Sheets layer, rotates them so the scale is maximal, and adds to the atlas.

@Geonick,

Thanks, I agree that there is a misunderstanding coming from the absense of definition of a mapping party pie. It is merely a mapping area divided in parts, so each participant gets one part to walk around and map. A pie looks like this: osm.wiki/File:Pie-frunze-150711.png

You can draw pie and split it in pieces however you like. Sheets are parts of the pie that occupy the whole paper sheet, they are better to be rectangles.

Awesome trip, I’m slightly envious :) Have you mapped any of the quarries in the end?

I agree that the georeferencing feature is fun to have. But I don’t think it helps with entering the data: we have high-quality imagery for the most of the planet, and having the ability to look at both imagery and a walking paper simultaneously without clicking on a layer panel is a feature that comes free :) And as a bonus, you can rotate the sheet as you wish, when it is not digital.

Поздравляю, продолжай :)

Wow! Is this the first case of using OSM Preferences API for a popular service?