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Attended JPMC mapathon

(Maybe I misread this, I thought you were going to host it. If you were merely an attendee, then ignore my message)

Attended JPMC mapathon

Hi. Great to see more people mapping and helping out. Does JPMC mean “JP Morgan Chase”, the big bank? Can you please link to the wikipages about this mapathon, as the Organised Editing Guidelines require? I’m sure none of us want to make beginner mistakes. osm.wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

18 March 2019 - A Careful and Caring Cartography

Did you know there’s a (low traffic) mailing list for discussion of diversity issues in OSM ( https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/diversity-talk )? You might find it interesting. I co-mod it.

Destorying imperialism & white supremacy is definitely a good thing! Let’s do that. I have often wondered about making a map style without showing country borders, with OSM that is possible.

(BTW Emoijis are decided by the unicode consortium.)

500K Mapillary Images

Well done! Have you heard of pic4review ( osm.wiki/Pic4Review ), it allows you to quickly map things from mapillary/OSC/etc images.

HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

Comments on your script.

  • Have you considered setting a useragent when you make a request, be a better web citizen!
  • You compare the URL including with www, what if a http://www.example.com redirect to https://example.com (because they think www prefixes aren’t cool), am I right in thinking your script doesn’t handle that? Should it?
  • You’re only looking for websites which start with http://, what about website=www.example.com (i.e. no protocol defined). You could check if it answers on https, and add that protocol, so more people will default to the secure version.
HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

Upon closer reading, you are technically correct, the best kind of correct! I was influenced by the Organised Editing Guidelines which have more explicit rules. But that’s a different document. Perhaps the community should think on this.

Regardless, posting to mailing lists would be helpful.

HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

Do you want to edit the AECoC page to point out that discussions shouldn’t take place solely on “proprietary communication channels”?

I think the AECoC is relatively clear that you should at least always post to a mailing list?:

If you plan to make any automated edit, you should discuss and document your plans beforehand. Documentation should be placed on the wiki and the proposal should then be discussed on a suitable mailing lists: [list of mailing list options]

HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

As for HSTS, I wasn’t familiar with that, but did a little reading. I’m not sure how you think that could be incorporated into what I’m doing. Can you explain?

HSTS is where a website says “Always contact this website over HTTPS”. If an OSM object’s website tag URL returns that, then you can be much more confidence that you should change the OSM object, the RFC says that you should always use HTTPS from now on.

HTTPS All The Things (https_all_the_things)

Thanks for some of the details. Can you go into more detail. Can you include the script you’re using? What tags are you changing? How are you comparing the URLs? What are you doing to protocol-less domains (e.g. website=www.example.com)? Why not try it on the whole world, not just USA?

Are we still English?

Where are you seeing these terms? A lot of OSM should be able to “translate” from one to the other. Do you have a screenshot?

100 new mappers to influence the 2018 elections of the board

Why is the board sitting on this report for a month on such an important issue? Warum sitzt das Board bei einer so wichtigen Angelegenheit einen Monat lang auf diesem Bericht?

The Board got the report in 26 December, a public holiday in many places. I’m willing to give them 2 weeks of not working for the christmas break. Der Vorstand hat die Angelegenheit am 26. Dez gekreight, ein wichtig Urlaub. Ich glaube, dass zwei woche frei, ohne (freiwillige!) Arbeit ist gerecht.

#About me

Thanks @Gwantwa. That link is interesting, but it isn’t really what I mean. It talks, in vague terms, about HOT + FB’s work in Indonesia. The OSM community has adopted some Organised Editing Guidelines for groups to follow. I don’t see this on the list of activities. Those rules are there for everyone’s benefit and to make OpenStreetMap better and to help your group out, which I’m sure is everyone’s goals. Can you update the wiki please?

#About me

Sounds like you’ve done quite a lot of good things with OSM! It’s always get to see people doing on the ground surveys, and helping people. Can you tell us more about this Facebook Roads Import? Where can we read more? Where’s the wiki page about this?

First edit

Welcome to OpenStreetMap! 👋

Investigating the unusual coordinated member signups close to the OpenStreetMap foundation's election

Allow only verified active mappers to vote and run for the board

How should that be defined? It would be very easy to game and fix with a bot.

A new t-shirt to celebrate OpenStreetMap

Oh nice! I really like that slogan. “We made you a map. It’s called OpenStreetMap.” 👍

Creating a National Highway Wall Map for Turkmenistan

osmium is another tool that can be easier to filter files with. 😉

When you get the map(s), please take a photo and share it with us! 🙂

So how does the Facebook's AI Assisted Road Import Process work?

We actually open sourced an earlier version of our iD awhile ago if you would like to take a look. Our current version will be released shortly.

Oh my mistake, I missed that. That seems to be mostly written by Mapbox employees, I didn’t know Facebook & MB were so close!

Our current version will be released shortly.

😉

Testimony

I had a nice time with the OSM director through interactions with him

I’m not really sure what happened, or who you met, but there isn’t any “OSM Director”….

#CrimeaІsUkraine #DWG #CrimeaMap #КримЦеУкраїна #ИхТамНет

Its not like where I live in America isn’t being deeply effective by the BS of the Russian government

Ummm… I really think there is a big. big difference between the actions of the Russian government in the USA and Ukraine. Quantatively, and qualitiatively. “deeply” it is not. This sort of comparison is unhelpful to the discussion.