most of this is coming from the street import
there is no way you will get in the top ten unless you import data.

here is an overview of the importer :

Person Complete Count
NONAME yes 19
bmog no 5
bmog yes 51
James Michael DuPont yes 3
malenki no 11
malenki yes 280
Mdeen yes 133
Michael_gd yes 79
rcr yes 24
telegnom no 28
telegnom yes 91
TODO: no 123
TODO: yes 5
Total Result 852

see the data here :
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tBtTuCD-PaS2eJ2FWC_IgHw&output=html

You can see there are ~114 files of 100 streets left to import:
osm.wiki/Kosovo_iMMAP_Import#50000-59900

I just got notice that giscorps is recruiting for the first time an effort to improve the OpenStreetMap. They have 1900 volunteers, 250 of them have OSM experience. http://giscorps.org/

""
This mission has been brought to GISCorps by a non profit organization that is looking for several volunteers for a project in a flood stricken area of Albania. More details about the project and required qualifications can be found in here: http://www.giscorps.org/documents/jd_flossk_final.pdf

Please note that if you are interested in applying for this project, we need to hear back from you by Friday February 19th.
""

Thank you giscorps!

I saw this thread, and you know I am following all mentions of OSM on the web.

http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s981-please_use_OpenStreetMap_instead_of_google_maps

Here are some points :
# OSM-people are full with work and probably won't contribute (but maybe help)
# Also for other software (i. e. Drupal) the OSM-plugins aren't as advance as Google's stuff

Anyone want to answer to them?

mike

Trains are great. Model trains are a great hobby.

I used to have a model train set from my Dad.
In fact, my uncle has a huge train set in Kansas.

OSM can be considered to be a big online model train set-

Maybe if we put some train simulations on there, people would use it more

like train time tables with different locomotives, that would be very popular.

People could add in all the train time tables,
and see where the train is at any given time
even mark them as being late.

On that note, what about playing http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/ with osm data?

mike

Dear OSM people,
I would like to suggest that we start working on a new application,
an global address database for all address data that is creative commons.
That database would be for staging into OSM. It would allow people to manage the connection to OSM , for example to find all the records by a criteria and then click on the map where they are.

This would be a great help, we could extend it to just have lists of cities, streets etc that are not there yet. Zipcodes as well. All types of tabular data that is georeferenced, but not in OSM yet.

mike

""If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the admirable OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), which is being updated even as I write by volunteers all over the world.""

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/04/mapping-open-source-victor-keegan

I would like to ask you all to help disect this article :

http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/02/can-a-crowd-get-me-from-a-to-b/

""So what does this leave us? Open-source mapmaking can’t exist without professional maps to build on. We can’t assume accuracy will emerge from the collective, an important point given the fact that accuracy is a bit more important in a map then in, say, a Wikipedia entry on the latest “Family Guy” episode""

Everybody is invited to help out with Kosovo and Albania.

I know that there are alot of new people working on Haiti,
and if that project is saturated and you are looking for something to do to help out, please help out the people in the balkans.

We have been getting a lot of raw data and there is so much work to do.

We have 10 million gps+ points that need to be traced (from Logistic Plus a delivery company)

http://www.archive.org/details/GpsDataFromKosovoDatapoints http://www.archive.org/details/GpsDataFromKosovoDatapoints2 http://www.archive.org/details/GpsDataFromKosovoDatapoints3

We have The entire Streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iMMAP, Information Management & Mine Action Programs iMMAP http://www.immap.org/index.php )

http://www.archive.org/details/Kosova_Road_Data_from_iMMAP http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-delivery-of-road-data-for-kosovo.html

We have Highres maps of Prishtina with every building , parcel and street on it from the town. http://www.archive.org/details/PrishtinaStreetsOSM

And we have lots of clean up to do, validation, removing of duplicates. We have also the problem of naming of the streets etc.

For Albania we also have the GNS names I have converted, We have the street network from DLR in vector format. I have imported only the Shkoder region.

Here are the street data files from DLR:
http://www.archive.org/details/OpenstreetmapAlbaniaRoadDataFromDeutschenZentrumsFrLuft-Und

Here are the GNS Names from Albania :
http://www.archive.org/details/OpenstreetmapAlbania

and we have lots of high resolution photos that need to be traced.
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2010/Albania/181_en.html

I am posting links to them here, but all of these are documented in my diary somewhere, if you are are interested and cannot find them, let me know. Most of the data is posted on archive.org just look. Or just ask me.

… See full entry

It makes me sad to see the new slick opensource.com talking about google maps and not openstreetmap.

Just goes to show you why it is important to be wary about the corporate spin.

http://opensource.com/life/10/1/two-open-source-projects-help-haiti-quake-victims#comment-500

mike

There has been so much news about OSM in Haiti that I have not been reporting it,
but this little typo might be indicative of the brain matrixes of people who cannot cope with croudsourced projects :
"Wiki's OpenStreetMap" ?

"""GeoEye by Google offered free satellite imagery for humanitarian workers, while Wiki's OpenStreetMap and Crisis Commons offered on-the-ground navigation information and linked up partner organizations.""""
http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/01/25/it-changing-the-face-of-humanitarian-aid-during-haiti-disaster/

I think this is like "Google’s OpenStreetMap program",
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/09/monopoly-city-streets/

Mike

I have here a dxf file of Prishtina in high quality.
http://www.archive.org/details/PrishtinaStreets

I have been able to convert it to lat/lon like this
cs2cs +proj=utm  +zone=34T +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=m -f \"%.7f\"

Problem is that most of the points are in relative position, there is a grid.

I have pushed a version of two nickels that can process alot of this :
To git@github.com:h4ck3rm1k3/TwoNickels.git
  c8e4009..41f23f1  master -> master

It produces osm files with data in three groups :

1. points that are exact on the mark, (few)
2. points on the equator (0,0) relative to something
3. points that seem to be shifted over from utm34T

        720496.25, 506444.9375 -> 22.987450699423831679, 4.5791053696411907481

I have created averages of good points versus the shifted ones and
came up with these constant shifts:
       $n -= 187380;
       $e += 4228672;

They are still 15km off of prishtina..

So I would like one of you to please help with the autocad and
transform all coordinates into some single form so I can convert them.
Or please advice on these points.

thanks,
mike

I have imported a bunch of streets from the floodzone here
osm.org/browse/changeset/3693857

the osm data is online at archive.org here:
http://www.archive.org/details/OpenstreetmapAlbaniaRoadDataFromDeutschenZentrumsFrLuft-Und

You can all help in the merge process to make sure there are no duplicate nodes.
Also I have started the highres photo mapping of the floodzone,
the files are split into 1500x1500 chunks like this :
convert -crop 1500x1550 DLR_20100113_Albania_floods_formosat_north_high.jpg DLR_20100113_Albania_floods_formosat_north_high_tiles%d.jpg

Here is an example of the warped section, you can see the houses and all:
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/preview/1977

The highres can be downloaded with simple registration from the DLR

thanks again to the The Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR

mike

Hi,
thanks to the Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
We are allowed to use the sat maps,
I have done another warping of a higher res map.

osm.wiki/WikiProject_Shkoder#Sat_Images

So anyone who wants to help with the tracing of the images is welcome,
here is a short video on how to to that with ubuntu :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLei9i2gq44

here is the debian package
http://osm.komzpa.net/~mdupont/osm/pool/main/w/webkitimageqt/

you add to your /etc/apt/source.list

deb http://osm.komzpa.net/~mdupont/osm/ gjergi-osm main
deb-src http://osm.komzpa.net/~mdupont/osm/ gjergi-osm main

apt-get install webkitimageqt
should work.

if you want the source

apt-src install webkitimageqt

Linux Fund has expanded its partnership with the Gnash media player team to bring OpenStreetMap editing support to the open source Flash® player, Gnash. This work will also improve YouTube compatibility and joins Linux Fund's existing effort to bring the Real Time Messaging Protocol support to Gnash. OpenStreetMap. the free wiki world map, is an editable map of the whole world built by community contributions. To contribute and donate towards the Gnash OSM support see the Linux Fund website.
http://www.aviransplace.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3996

After all the help on osm going to haiti, we should also help the people in Albania!

Amazing Helicopter view of natural disaster in Albania :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVCkz5F-QwA

Macedonian Red Cross appeals for help for people affected by floods in Albania
Skopje. Macedonian Red Cross has made an appeal on citizens, organizations, firms and everyone who wants to help the people affected by the floods in Albania, Macedonian media announced.

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n206912

http://www.indiablooms.com/NriDetailsPage/nriDetails130110h.php
UN joins relief efforts for Albanian flood victims
India Blooms News Service
New York, Jan 13 (IBNS) The United Nations is helping Albania respond to flooding in the north of the Balkan country, where more than 4,000 people have already been evacuated from their homes, with up to 20,000 more threatened.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=01&dd=10&nav_id=64368

B92 News Region Region
Aid sent to flood victims in Albania
10 January 2010 | 12:25 | Source: B92
SKADAR -- European Union countries and Moldova have sent aid to the victims of extreme flooding in northwest Albania.

Floods have devastated a region of about 10,000 hectares. More than 2,400 homes were flooded.

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=129&sid=271122
Bacallek : Albanian army rescuers and villagers pass by a convoy of trucks pushed to the side of the road by flood water on the outskirts of Bacallek, near the city of Shkodra, 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of the Albanian capital, Tirana,

http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=44538
UN to provide $270,000 in aid for Albania flood victims
The funding comes from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (http://ochaonline.un.org/), the United Nations Development Programme (www.undp.org.al), and the United Nations Children's Fund (www.unicef.org/albania).

Cz article on openstreetmap with the new android phone:
http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/timberwolf/2010/1/openstreetmap-neo-freerunner-predvadeci-akce
Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abclinuxu.cz%2Fblog%2Ftimberwolf%2F2010%2F1%2Fopenstreetmap-neo-freerunner-predvadeci-akce&sl=auto&tl=en

Russian Article :
http://www.gisa.ru/59263.html

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gisa.ru%2F59263.html

According to PC Week live, the number of volunteers in non-profit GIS OpenStreetMap project has reached 200 thousand, 100 thousand of them joined the work from March 2009 if growth rates continue, the number of participants will reach 1 million by August 2010

Austrian Article on Haiti :
http://derstandard.at/1262209620357/Karten-OpenStreetMap-hilft-nach-schwerem-Beben-in-Haiti
German one :
http://www.golem.de/1001/72424.html

GeoVation Awards Programme ...
the judging panel, which includes Yahoo’s Gary Gale and Steve Coast of OpenStreetMap, and they will have the chance to win part of a £21,000 development fund at a ‘Dragons’ Den’ style event on 26 January at the Royal Geographical Society, London.
http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=42243

Google Earth Gets Haiti Earthquake Imagery ...
Fortius One, working with CrisisCommons and OpenStreetMap, has put together a news dashboard for aggregate data from volunteers and official sources.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222301030

Lucene OSm search
http://lwn.net/Articles/369624/

OSM in slovakian press
http://www.itnews.sk/spravy/internet/2010-01-14/c131254-projekt-openstreetmap-ma-uz-200-000-pouzivatelov

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/wcm-field-notes-give-open-source-a-chance-006369.php - Give open source a chance
A good example of an open data project is OpenStreetMap — a "a free editable map of the whole world". And the UK Government is planning to open up the UK Postcode data in 2010. Currently you have to pay to use this data. As more and more data becomes open, we'll see more clever and useful applications of it.

Here are the parts uploaded:
http://ia341314.us.archive.org/1/items/STREETDATA_Packages_Kosovo/

I have split the data into 500 street packages, just download one .

For example :
http://ia341314.us.archive.org/1/items/STREETDATA_Packages_Kosovo/ways_11000.osm.gz

I get that and open it with josm :

First you download the osm data into a new layer and compare the two.
Remove all streets from the new data that exist already

Then run the validator, fix all duplicate nodes, then start merging the ends of roads together, with m. use c to combine two ways.
use shift to select many streets. use 3 to zoom to the selected objects. use mouse wheel for zooming.

There is the video I made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5mytiz6Cw

Here is the changeset I made:
osm.org/browse/changeset/3610671

Please try this out!
mike