Very cool!

Wonderful, looking forward to it! Congrats!

Nice! So you consider that NG is now equivalent to OSM in terms of features (no feature disparity)?

Wonderful news!

Wonderful job, congrats! It seems Best Korea is also the best Korea on OSM! :P

What a great streak! Take a rest, OSM should be fun!

This is great, congrats! What works for me is to just map a single type of object, at once, for example, just starting with building outlines. After that, go for addresses and then POIs. Focusing in just a single object makes my mapping much faster, and you can use appropriate tools for them (JOSM plugins, for example, or EveryDoor for addresses/POIs)…

Yep, the software part is not straightforward, especially for us focused on ground survey solely. GoPro MAX is really the clear winner here.

I still think the Insta360 has better images that the GoPro, but the improved resolution doesn’t justify the burden to use the camera (compared to the GoPro).

Your setup, from your blog post, is really interesting! I am still struggling with my setup, but I hope I’ll manage to create an easy way to capture 360 images!

It would be nice to see the result to: “can you tell how to tag this on OSM?” (something like that). Could it return valid tagging?

Yeah, I don’t think Kartacam is available to the public, but seems a good solution. I like to have a 360 camera because even in Mapillary is much easier to see the images, when compared to collect photos with many cameras.

Perhaps with a setup of 3-4 cameras would result in a much better resolution, but maybe you have to stitch the images before uploading them (if you want true 360 images)? Another process to take care of…

Uma pena para a comunidade, teu trabalho no OSM é exemplar!

Thanks, Martijn, I will contact Grab and update here to anyone still interested in Cygnus!

Martijn, not sure if you’re still responsible for Cygnus, but is still working? I can’t access the website for some good months already (years, maybe?). Or should I try contacting Grag? Thanks!

That is lovely, congrats for the hard work!

Good to know! We also have official imagery, so we correct the alignment of those buildings where we can, but it is important to alert other users. Thanks for the heads up!

Not sure which image you are using, but MS buildings were made based on Maxar imagery. Perhaps you could check if the buildings are aligned with Maxar (also maybe you cannot trust with any imagery, all of them could be misaligned).

OSM Carto has so many issues (and the many comments here are evidence of that). We know that any OpenSource project is subject to this kind of problem, but what I really dislike in the community is that whenever you bring a problem, the first reaction is:

“you can fork and do your own”

This phrase is wrong in so many ways, such as:

1. everybody contribute with what is possible. Not everyone is a dev (and using Github is already a pain for the majority of people)
2. which good would bring to the OSM that everyone had a style, an app, or even another OSM? I really can’t think of any benefit in forking anything and every time.
3. wouldn’t be easier to concentrate the efforts in a single place than having everything scattered? Having multiple options can lead to lower interest from community over time.

So the devs always say “don’t complain, please contribute”. Then you open an issue (legitimate) and it is never solved. Then you complain because that single issue that could be solved relatively fast by someone competent (say, 3 hours), is open for 4 months without solution. The answer is:

“Why don’t you open a PR then?”

Then you, that is not a dev, spend like 2 weeks trying to learn a bunch of stuff, instead of mapping, finally open a PR, and then the PR is never merged anyway!

So we come back to “you can fork and do your own” again.

Look for landuse=education or highway=busway, proposals that were discussed heavily for YEARS through the community, and then finally got accepted, but never made to Carto because God only knows (PRs opened and all stuff, never merged). But yeah, those tags are pet-tags too, just like all stuff that is not of interest to the main dev…

So what’s the point to having the repository open anyway? It is time to OSMF run things more professionally, having them more controlled for core stuff, just like the main render on OSM. I don’t know, hire some people exclusive for that, get more money to fund that, whatever it takes. This could be “Wikipedia of maps” as always referred on media, but we are very far from Wikimedia Foundation, unfortunately.

Something is not right… (and yeah, I know, I should stop complaining and join the OSMF board and be a dev and fix all issues on OSM and… instead of mapping-which I’m reasonably good at).

Excelente, Geomir! É incrível o trabalho que vocês de Jaraguá do Sul estão fazendo, tanto no SIG de vocês quanto no OSM.

Lembrando à comunidade que as ortofotos já estão disponíveis no JOSM e iD, não necessitando adicionar nenhuma URL!

Wow, so cool! Congrats on that!!!

Hi Martijn,

Sure, feel free to use this post wherever you wish!