I would really love to just import and play with the data in the planet extract, or the data for Romania, and try to do some statistics, but it`s to impossible just to install and make the software work.

I i know a thing or 2 about linux, but it still to complicated.

I really believe we should try and have a more integrated way of exploring the data, with GUI Tools, not complicated as is now.

For the sake of simplicity, this for now can be accomplished by ready to go, VirtualBox or VMware image disk, where i should only put the extract that i get from geofabrik

https://github.com/MaZderMind/osm-history-renderer/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md

I was today on the field, to map this area http://mapcraft.nanodesu.ru/pie/407

The focus was on house-numbers. In total i added over 300 housenumbers, 18 pedestrian crossing, and 2 POI`s

Time spend :

2 Hours on the field, and 1 hour adding the data into JOSM

One of the roads was a oneway, that was not added on the map.

The final result can be seen here osm.org/#map=18/44.44068/26.14206

The mapping party will take place on the 17 and 18th of may

Fb Event https://www.facebook.com/events/560777397374381/

Just finished to import a city - before and after pictures

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In total we imported over 5000 buildings, 3000 postal adresses and 2500 properties

Full list of pictures with slider

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Just publish the first edition of state of the map Romania.

The infographic is in romanian languages, so i will highlight some of the key stats - State of the map Romania 2013

194,859 kilometers of road in total

73,207 kilometers added in 2013 12,986 bridge`s

16,331 different street names

231,991 - number of buildings,

47 % of them added in 2013

27,237 buildings with names

44,608 buildings with type of building defined

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If somebody is from Romania, i just want to let them know that i did a facebook page for OSM https://www.facebook.com/OsmRomania

And because i don`t know what to post when the local autorities are not so great at allowing us to import data into OSM (except Targu Frumos i started making stats about the evolution of OSM in Romania from 2008 until now.

POI evolution per year Link

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openstreetmap.org is and will remain a demonstration map, not a real website, an end user mapping tool, so this is why 90 % more people use and will comtinue to use google maps

And i want to change that.

So let`s build an openstreetmap.org on steroids.

What this website has to contain :

1. Clickable POI`s Simple and Straightforward . You see a place, you click on it, you find information about it. And you have the possibility to send a link to the place, etc.

2. Link to search results. This simple yet non-existing feature. I want to give a link to somebody to 120 Avenue Street . Or to the Museum. I don`t want to give him a permanent link that shows the map, i want to give him the exact location that we will find, without telling him, go to osm.org and search for 120 Avenue Street and you will find it. https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4408

3. Render all the shops. rigth now on mapnik more than half the POIs are not rendered, including dentist shops, amenity=veterinary ,shop=electronics , shop=kiosk Those 4 tags alone represent 35000 new POIs that could be shown on the map https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4403

4. Opening_hours filter. Opening_hours is a great tool, very usefull when you are in a new town, city, etc. Imagine yourself at 3 AM, wanting to find a non-stop shop to buy cigarettes. Or a beer, juice, etc.

The same example is useful for a tourist, in a foreign country, on a Sunday, and wants to see a museum. But at least in my country, more then half the museums are closed on sunday. And Some of them are open only 3 days a week. And only for 6 hours.

Sub task proposition : Alert me when a place opens. Mail alert when amenity X is Open.

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