In OSM it is Good Practice to not map temporary features. In a highly volitile and changeable situation (like Russia’s unprompted invasion of Ukraine), it is bad OSM practice to start changing borders in this manner.

I’ve uploaded a simple GeoJSON for all gun shops to GitHub gist, which you can view simply on geojson.io.

I wonder if there’s a better way to share a simple CSV file like this, with simple styling or filtering?

Here’s the output of closer to the Vincent’s example

Oh some people can collect data & map later. I know I can’t! 😅😅😅

I’ve started using EveryDoor, and it’s fantastic. Like StreetComplete, it allows me to map way more things, way more quickly. OSM needs more PoIs. I’ve been adding loads of PoIs and updating them. It’s great.

I don’t think “later won’t work” is right framing. Some people work later, some work only in the moment. EveryDoor opens, and helps, different ways or mapping. I think there is a lot of “people not OSMing yet”. Tools like this help.

This probably shouldn’t be on openstreetmap.org the website (IMO). But a goal of OpenStreetMap the project is to make it easy for people to make maps, so other websites can show such events, and use OSM on their website,

As near as I can see, your only actionable suggestion is for osm-carto to join SRDP. I suggest you start by opening an issue on the carto repo about this, and talking to the SRDP to ask if they’re willing.

There is a proposal to add doxxing to the osm-carto CoC. There is a process to report CoC issues.

Other things you can do to help: Join OSMF, and talk to your friends to join. And then run for the board, or encourage others to.

(I’m an OSMF Board member. These are my personal views)

“When someone complained about getting doxxed … OSMF ignored it”🔗 Likewise, a comment on a github issue w/o a response you like doesn’t mean “the OSMF [membership? board? working group? committee?] ignored it” something.

“At this point there’s zero reason the style doesn’t render vector tiles except for pure complacency and laziness.” I mean, I would think “The software to run it can’t be installed any more” is a reason, but what would I know? 🙄🤣

“I don’t know … [just] get more money” lol. Let me get my magic wand…

I’ve ported osm carto to vector tiles. I’ve run lots of tile servers. Lots of people with lots of opinions here. Typing into the comment box is so easy…

The OSMF “supports, but does not control” the OSM project. This also means “we don’t tell people how to map”. I don’t think the OSMF should have the power to tell software projects like osm-carto, how to run themselves (unless they opt-in). If you would like to change this OSMF policy, I encourage you to join the OSMF. and either run for the OSMF Board, or start a membership resolution to change OSMF policy/actions.

One solution is be “better, not bitter”. 🙂 Make a new map style (fork one?). Suggest it as a new tile layer on osm.org. And so on. I’m a professional sysadmin at Geofabrik. Setting up a custom tile server is not impossible.

Rather than waiting for “someone else to do it”, you can do it yourself.

(I’m on the OSMF Board. This is my, not OSMF, opinions. The board hasn’t discussed this topic)

I know that a monthly book blog has helped me read more often. I don’t know how to borrow this idea without outright stealing. For now I can maybe post a quarterly update?

👋 🙂. Please, you can’t “steal” my monthly report format. If you copy the format exactly, then I don’t think that is “stealing”. Please, feel free to do it. 🙂 I think it would be great if more people posted updates like this (& like what I do).👍 Or do it quaterly. Or whatever. It’s all cool, with me. 🙂

In Ireland, we had similar experiences when mapping all our townlands. Like you discovered, there’s lots of exeptions.

I remember breaking a German OSMer by explaining how the admin hierachies work. “Y’see, part of that admin_level=5 is in a different country….”

@Eiim Whoops yes. Fixed.

Hi, I’m on the OSMF Board. 👋 I think Heather’s email filter is blocking some emails, because there’s been Updates! and News! since the Dec 2021 meeting. In Jan 2022, the Board sought follow up details on the proposed team. Subcommittee members acknolwedged receipt of that emails. Board & Subcommittee view this issue as waiting on those details from the Subcommittee. Board is also waiting on the proposed mod team CoI rules from the subcommitte (cf. July 2021). Happy to clarify anything that’s unclear. 🙂

You compare people using regular iD to Facebook’s RapiD tool, and found that experienced mappers map slower with iD, and with less accuracy, whereas beginner mappers map faster & with better quality with RapiD.

Any reason you didn’t compare JOSM to RapiD?

The planet osm.bz2 files? I don’t know… try it out and see?

@TheSwavu: IME one of the biggest time consuming tasks in decompressing the bz2 input file. I didn’t write it here, but I’m pretty sure you can get faster performance with cat whatever.osm.bz2 | pbzip2 -d -c - | … if you install pbzip2, which is obv. in debian etc.

I’m pretty sure there’s many ways anglosaxon could be sped up, I haven’t properly investigated speeding it up yet.

@Simon You’ve often mentions how “Vespucci can do that!”. Perhaps there is issues in informing (potential) users about these features. Have you considered making how-to videos?

Agreed about an easy & fast way to add PoIs when walking around a city. It’s something we’re lacking in. OSMAnd has a… clunky approach to do this. I think we “just” need the apps to do it, rather than changing the OSM data model to delete old data.

StreetComplete is awesome. Alas, it doesn’t support adding new PoIs. They have a good way of checking if data needs to be updated (that fits well within existing OSM conventions). I dunno why “android only” is a problem, Android is by far the most popular type of phone.

@Eiim D’oh! you’re right. Entry updated