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weeklyOSM 433 - Swahili

Why on earth are you promoting a blog post for the 1st week of November in December?

weeklyOSM 433 - Swahili

First image is broken.

URL=osm.org/pristina-osmweekly.png%20=900x900 (gives 404 File not found)

Ad hominem

@Adamant1:–

Why would their standard be better that of DWGs (when its the DWGs map)?

It emphatically is not DWG’s map. I certainly hope that DWG do not have that attitude, and from my small exposure to them do not believe that they do. If ever that belief gets a hold in those that map for OSM then I would expect most to stop mapping.

Folks that map for OSM feel that in doing so that they have skin in the game. That is why they are so committed to mapping for OSM. That is (a part of) why the boundary disputes are so bitter.

Crimea dispute

Well, as someone that declares themselves to have fragile mental health, I think that your suggestion is the most sensible that I have seen so far.

Ad hominem
I feel really uneasy now

One possible reason for this is that at no point do you set out what the point of your Diary post is.

“Ad hominem” is defined as an attack on a person rather than their argument. If you only present the people that you are criticising, and never raise the argument that they are making, then you can only ever make an Ad hominem attack.

Well, if nothing else you now know why “OSMWeekly mentions my posts as “ad hominem””.

Retiring from OSM

Changeset 60090584

I’m obviously ignorant, but I cannot see from that url why (nor even if) it has been reverted.

Maps of Openstreetmap on T-Shirts

If you produce the map via your own code, and give attribution to OSM for the map, then as I understand it, what you do with that result is your business.

Survey Korean name of railway stations in Korean OSM Community.

Thank you GPIOIPG.

Survey Korean name of railway stations in Korean OSM Community.

영어: yeong-eo:
Your 2nd picture is broken (gives “code:7” as a result); at a guess, you need to be logged in to that site to see the picture. Anyway, whatever the reason, the image does not appear.

URL: https://s3.namuwikiusercontent.com/s/12ca98c21d02e005560d4b58b5928f0285b7006a8caf7f5cdadd1d40ec4e661852c25e96c41197c5c520fc2c62943d76d23e8829119ea09e6f0aced17aef68c79479a9b3763f8dcbfe3669e705c4cb367b49d27d677823bb60d1413de986b2d9

Korean:
두 번째 사진이 손상되었습니다 (결과로 “코드 : 7”제공). 추측 해 보면 사진을보기 위해 그 사이트에 로그인해야합니다. 어쨌든 이유가 무엇이든 그 이미지는 나타나지 않습니다. du beonjjae sajin-i sonsangdoeeossseubnida (gyeolgwalo “kodeu : 7”jegong). chucheug hae bomyeon sajin-eulbogi wihae geu saiteue logeu-inhaeyahabnida. eojjaessdeun iyuga mueos-ideun geu imijineun natanaji anhseubnida.

Podder Lane & Podder Farm

Start with the first incorrect statement on my part, and do not forget to state why it is incorrect. Then, move on to the next one. I say again, if I’ve got something wrong I’ll apologise & change it immediately.

Podder Lane & Podder Farm

Why not point out which statements are wrong? If I’ve got something wrong I’ll change it really quick.

However, what a stupid remark. 677 words, 3,800 chars, hours & hours of research on my part and you devote 10 secs to say “you don’t have any correct information”. I fully expect to never hear from you again.

Aula de campo Cartografia Escolar

However, Lucas Barros did not actually place anything on the map, so what was the point of going to the stone park in Vitoria?

Aula de campo Cartografia Escolar

Today Lucas Barros went to school mapping field class in the onion stone park in Vitoria. Just in case you had not already got that point.

New York Times Op-Ed, "Where the Streets Have No Names, the People Have No Vote"

Damn interesting article. However…

Typical of a USA newspaper to miss out the home of house-naming & -numbering, which is Britain, of course. The first record of a house number in London dates to 1708. There is full research within House Numbers & Street Names.

The obvious reason for how it came into use begins with a country’s Education Act. Originally, the mass of the public were innumerate & illiterate. Therefore, few could either recognise a house number nor read a street name. Only when that changed could street names & numbers become useful.

Der Weg zur SotM 2018

The phrase “This will be different at the SotM 2019 (although I’ll have a hard time because of the HOT Summit before or after the SotM).” is repeated 5 times. Other phrases are also repeated more than once.

Missing direction of photos and layer with signs in OSC

Hi pangoSE

Mapillary shows Direction only if the uploaded photos include Direction within the meta-data. None of my Mapillary photos have a Direction component.

I use OSMTracker. My early Android mobile did not have Direction available, so no photos could ever have that included. However, my current mobile does have a Direction component, but OSMTracker never picks it up and attaches it to the JPEGs.

So, the questions are:–

  1. Does your camera provide a GPS:Direction component?
  2. Does the Application in the camera attach that GPS component to the JPEG?
  3. Does the web-app make use of that component?

Here is how to check:–

Camera

This only became apparent for me when I got a camera with the hardware to provide Direction. When GPS was turned ON in the camera it showed in the OSMTracker screen.

Photos

install ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php), then use the identify tool that comes with ImageMagick. At the bottom of the -verbose screen are all the GPS components available within the JPEG (or TIFF) photo. Here is how to do it under Devuan/Debian/Ubuntu:–

:~$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
:~$ identify -verbose osmtracker/2017-03-26_11-15-14.jpg | fgrep GPS
exif:GPSAltitude: 101000/1000
exif:GPSAltitudeRef: 240/100
exif:GPSDateStamp: 2017:03:26
exif:GPSInfo: 686
exif:GPSLatitude: 52/1, 59/1, 149408/10000
exif:GPSLatitudeRef: N
exif:GPSLongitude: 1/1, 5/1, 138908/10000
exif:GPSLongitudeRef: W
exif:GPSProcessingMethod: ASCII
exif:GPSTimeStamp: 10/1, 15/1, 8/1

Looking within the 2012 EXIF reference PDF I find the following:

•GPSTrackRef: Reference for direction of movement
•GPSTrack: Direction of movement
•GPSImgDirectionRef: Reference for direction of image
•GPSImgDirection: Direction of image

I’m not certain which of those four is used to provide GPS:Direction, but it is a touch academic since none of them are stored within any JPEGs produced with OSMTracker.

Sharing from my first State of the Map – SotM 2018

(remove that last comment - and this one - please; hit the wrong button as I was experimenting)

Sharing from my first State of the Map – SotM 2018

some text

final line

Sharing from my first State of the Map – SotM 2018

Or, even better, this is the URL: test https://twitter.com/youthmappers/status/1023949602016378880?s=08

(using the Twitter favicon: https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/favicon.ico)

Sharing from my first State of the Map – SotM 2018

The 3rd one is under Twitter and, normally, you would have to get the embed url for the JPEG. However, the picture is a video rather than an image, and it is not possible to embed anything that requires script in these pages. So, put the link to Twitter as a URL link rather than an Image link.

This is the URL: > https://twitter.com/youthmappers/status/1023949602016378880?s=08

PS
Well done!