What I did in OpenStreetMap in January 2022

Posted by amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍⚧️ on 5 მარტი 2022 in English. Last updated on 6 მარტი 2022.

What I did in OpenStreetMap in January 2022

I think Null Island should be in OSM. Initial post from someone asking to remove it, my opinion 🐘 on fediverse post 🐦 same on twitter
Don’t copy from Google Street View, OSM might be stricter than Google 🐘 🐦.
I took part in OSM Ireland Map & Chat event
Hacking
- As part of work I’ve been fixing little things in Nominatim, like this typo
- Someone asked how to find OSM users who comment on changeset, but don’t edit OSM, so I wrote a simple programme (anglosaxon source on github, install via crates) to do it and wrote a diary entry. 🐘 🐦
Interesting Discussions
- redsteakraw, in their diary, wrote about wanting a simple OSM editor, and there’s lots of discussion in the comments
OSMF Board
- Trademarks
  - Answer query about state of the great map
- HOT Trademark Grant, spoke briefly to a HOT person
- S2S 2022Q1
  - checked with the facilitaro to ask about his availability
- MS want to give OSMF $10k. They emailed press@. I forwarded on to Treasurer 🐦 🐦
- Local Chapters
  - OpenStreetMap Austria application
    - As Secretary, I emailed them back to acknowledge their application
    - I reviewed their AoA and it looks fine.
  - Windsor HackForge
    - I acknolwedged their application & asked (& got) some follow up details
- Board Meeting
  - Jan 2022
    - Choose the date via a poll. Since we’re a new board, we’re not sure what times are best for all
    - Meeting
      - I chaired because no-one else was free, which was fun for beuoracy
      - Probably the longest meeting at 2¼hr
      - Choose date for S2S
      - Heard interesting presentation from https://opfistula.org/ about cleaning up OSM data, and the problem with routing islands in madagascar
      - Board has some questions to ask the mod subctte about their propsal, i.e. for their resumés.
      - talked about dorothea’s contract in private session
- Next Cloud for Polls
  - Loomio have upped their prices from $10 per year to $199. We investigated NextCloud Polls
  - Started a Board CR to change BRoO for using NextCloud Polls. passed
Membership Working Group
- Applied to join & signed the NDA myself
- Got accepted and got access to join.osmf website (I think)
CWG
- Promotional Material Programme
  - Posted Env to CH, LS, US, RW, UK, Posted package: NG, UG
  - New groupto be able to charge OSMF easier
    - Had to do a CWG poll, then try to get OTRS set up
  - Cleaned up the wiki page clean up, moved the history to a sub page
- Twitter → Mastodon posting
  - Emailed someone with access to follow up from Nov 2021 email with no response
  - Emailed someone else to ask to set up masto posting (they don’t have access)
- OSM Instagram
  - Emailed 2 people who I thought had access, and I got access and they don’t wanna do it anymore
  - Started posting
- OpenStreetMap Pinterest
  - Emailed someone who I knew had access, got access and started posting Pins