My March 2021 in OSM

Posted by amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍⚧️ on 17 June 2021 in English. Last updated on 22 June 2021.

My March 2021 in OSM

sorry for the delay

Mapping
- I dunno, I just kept mapping, like one should. Mostly StreetComplete and part of OSM Ireland’s building mapping project.
Tagging
- The topic of unisex tag on public toilets (amentity=toilets) (osm wiki), on the StreetComplete issue tracker. (fedi/masto post - birdsite/tweet)
  - I have found, I think some problematic retagging, which as of May 2021 I haven’t investigated yet.
Communication Working Group
- I posted an envelope of stickers to someone in France as part of the Promotional Material Programme
- I was at March CWG meeting (minutes)
  - I mentioned the swag
  - I’m going to start a “good beginner tasks” doc for CWG, and posted to the CWG gitlab
OSMF Board
- Mid-Month Chat
  - (can’t remember right now what was discussed)
- Advisory Board
  - Organised the date & time for another meeting of the OSMF Board & OSMF Advisory Board
- GeOSM
  - This new project from Cameroon, and they want an agreement to use the “OSM” trademark, so I had to review that.
  - The contract was signed and one of the OSMF board members (Jean-Marc Liotier) was in Cameroon to sign it in person (photos on twitter)
- Local Chapters
  - Stowarzyszenia OpenStreetMap Polska application for Poland
    - Prepped all the docs, and at the March 2021 board meeting, we voted to approve them.
    - I had to sign the docs & send them to them to get a copy
  - 一般社団法人オープンストリートマップ・ファウンデーション・ジャパン (OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan) application for Japan.
    - Prepped all the docs, and at the March 2021 board meeting, we voted to approve them.
    - I had to sign the docs & send them to them to get a copy
  - FreeMap Slovakia
    - They were accepted as a Local Chapter in the Jan 2021 Board Meeting, but it was only in March that all the paperwork has been sorted out, and AB rep appointed.
  - OpenStreetMap DRC
    - Finally got photo of signed doc, but still waiting on AB rep.
  - MapUganda application for Uganda
    - Continued to research this application, including talking to other community members.
  - Geolibres, our Local Chapter in Argentina
    - I contacted them about appointing a representative to the Advisory Board.
  - Local Chapter Application Template
    - I made a slight tweak to the Local Chapter Application (§10), to make it slightly easier to change & cancel
    - Needed a board circular resoltion to change the template, and another to empower me to offer this to existing LCs.
    - I printed and scanned many versions and started sending to LCs
  - emailed AB & LCCWG about apr presentation
- Licensing Working Group
  - emailed to tell them our pro-bono counsel was still off sick
- Local Chapters and Communities Working Group mod subcttee
  - Review the form to collect data, replied with some little bits
    - Pointed out difference between English dialects
    - Simple understanding of “non-binary” corrected.
- HOT Trademark
  - Board talked to a LWG member about ths current draft
- 2021 OSMF Community Survey
  - I attended the 3 presentation Allan hosted to explain the survey results
- QGis & Nom.
  - QGis wants to use the OSMF hosted nominatim servers. The OWG
  - I was unable to vote on this because I have a conflict of interest due to my job
- Attribution Guidelines
  - The Board emailed a lawyer to ask for advice on the current draft
- Takeover protection
  - At the last AGM, the membership told the board to investigate paid votes.
  - We spoke to an OSMer who had done some research on this, who gave us a presentation.
  - It was nothing one couldn’t think of before, but still interesting
- user suspension