My November 2020 in OSM

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My November 2020 in OSM

Here’s some of the things I’ve been doing in OpenStreetMap in November 2020. (Yes I know I’m posting this in late January, I’m sorry for being late. Hence some parts of this document will appear out of date)

Mapping
- Have you heard the good news about StreetComplete?. Currently about 14% of all my edits are from SC, and rising.
- The coronavirus year of hell continues, and Europe is deep in a second wave. Germany closed all pubs & restaurants, and I’ve been working from home for weeks now. As I said on twitter StreetComplete gives me a target of going outside for a walk every day.
- I’ve been adding footpaths in various places from aerial imagery, Galway, Southampton
Videos
- For some reason I did a lot of video stuff this month.
- After a toot on mastodon, I got a Peer Tube account on peertube.openstreetmap.fr: @rory.mccann@peertube.openstreetmap.fr
- OSM Ireland interviewed my collegue & chair of the OSMF Board, Allan Mustard. I attended and towards the end we talked a little about current OSMF issues video mirrored on PeerTube
  - original video on YouTube, OSMIrl announcement tweet
  - I submitted it to WeeklyOSM № 539
- I published my first screencast, how to use JOSM’s EasyPresets to create one click tag presets (also on YouTube)
- I gave another talk about imagery offsets & advanced building mapping for OSM Ireland. The video has not yet been processed & published.
CWG
- OSM Promotional Material Programme
  - Posted 2 envelopes of stickers to Germany & USA
  - Posted a 600 conference pack to sticker exchange programme for rC3: Remote Chaos Experience, the replacement for the Chaos Communications Congress
- Blog posts
  - There’s some new members to the CWG lately, expect more activity.
  - I worked on some new blog posts which could cover mapping historical things in OSM.
- Talked to someone on the OSMF FOSS Policy Committee about the en.osm.town fediverse/mastodon instance and possible moving that to the OSMF.
Community Stuff
- This is the start of an intersting twitter thread about diversity in OSM, which I took part in.
OSMF Board
- Preperation for the AGM
  - Started board votes to recommend a Yes vote for the resolutions
  - Posted in several places encouraging people to run for the board
    - RainbOSM telegram group, LGBTQ in Tech Slack, r/openstreetmap Reddit, OpenStreetMap Facebook group, OSM US FB, OSM PH FB
- Local Chapters
  - Reviewed the amended consitution for MapUganda, looks good.
  - I attended the online signing ceremony for the Local Chapters Congress where some signatures were signed
  - India
    - There was some query & discussion about what sort of legal body is needed here. All very preliminary.
  - LCCWG
    - A member asked about using Loomio for this WG and how the board could help make that happen. We’ll have to look into that.
- The Reddit OSMF Board AMA (Ask Me Anything) was very successful. 435 comments. There was a lot of interest, and we all spent a long time answering questions.
- Brexit
  - The UK government gave several webinars to help organisations prepare for Brexit. I attended the ones on Data Proection & Copyright which are relevant for OSMF. Nothing terrible surprising
- I answers a handful of random emails to board@osmfoundation.org
- We had asked the DWG about the Software Dispute Panel, and we’ll take this to next stage.
- Voted on a few applications for Active Contributor Membership.
- Further discussion on