What I did in OpenStreetMap in December 2021

• I got a mappy jewellery box 🐦 🐘.
• rC3 NOWHERE
  • I posted on twitter about missing out on rC3 tickets, someone kindly sent me on, so I was able to find the OSM village.
• I found a kids puzzle book with a map page, which uses OSM, and makes sure to tell people about OSM. 🐦 🐘
• Mapping
  • Danube
    • As part of river modernization process, I was working on the Danube. I saw that a stretch was marked as an “intermittant river” (intermittant=yes), with the surface marked as “gravel”. and I thought it was a tagging mistake, so I “fixed” it. But, that part of the Danube is actually intermittant! There’s a stretch (the Danube Sinkhole) where the river sometimes sinks into the riverbed and goes underground.
      • I should know not to doubt “weird tags” in OSM in Germany.
      • 🐘 masto/fedi 🐦 twitter
• Hacking
  • I’ve found JOSM’s Download Along feature useful for the river modernization project. I submitted a path (also made a github pull request) to make this easier to use
• OSMF Board
  • AGM
    • I was honoured to be re-elected to the OSMF Board of Directors. ☺
  • December board meeting
    • We organised a short board meeting after the annual general meeting to elect board officers
    • Alas, Allan decided not to re-run for the board, so we needed a new chair. I’m glad Guillaume stepped up. Our new board member Roland agreed to be Treasurer. I volunteered to be Secretary again.
    • EG passed, but depends on board affirming the mods. I voted in favour.
    • I don’t think “edit count” should be included up there with racism etc. That amendment failed.
    • I didn’t have enough time to read Guillaume’s longer amendment, so I (& no-one else) seconded it.
    • We also voted for a “board circular break” over the Christmas/New Year period. It’s been nice to be able to ignore things.
  • Advisory Board
    • A Microsoft repo told us they used OSM in Bing Maps in Australia. But someone else noticed places of difference (e.g. OSM, Bing)
    • I asked about this, and was told MS uses OSM for Bing base map (roads, buildings, etc), but the PoIs come form a local team and a separate layer and is aggregated from many sources.
    • That sort of approach to OSM usage is unfortunately common. Eventually OSM will have the best PoI coverage.
• CWG
  • Stickers
    • Posted envelopes to 3 × UK, SE, 3 × ES, 3 × US, 3 × DE, PL
    • I got a sheet of stickers to print onto. I want to stream line & optimize this more.

2021: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov.

2020: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

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