OpenStreetMap
28th April, 2017
Well, this was a personal goal of mine to Map in every single country in the World with OpenStreetMap. Well, mapping in every country is easy so I took it upon myself to make at least 1000 changes in every country. So, today finally that goal is achieved.
I mapped in all 197 countries in the World and made at least 1000 changes (Except in Vatican City because that place is too well mapped).
Country list: https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/all-countries.html
https://www.state.gov/misc/list/
You can check it here: http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?mmahmud
Notes:
Palestine is shown as West Bank and Gaza Strip combined.
New Caledonia and Guadeloupe are states of France.
Western Sahara is part of Morocco.
Diskuse
Komentář od imagico z 28. 04. 2017 v 11:14
This is a fairly abstract exercise of course but you missed at least Greenland, Svalbard and Antarctica (assuming here of course you use the HDYC definition of ‘country’).
Komentář od Piskvor z 28. 04. 2017 v 11:28
Whoa, cool! How long did that take you, from start to finish?
Komentář od mmahmud z 28. 04. 2017 v 12:02
@imagico : Hi, yeah, it was just a personal goal and enjoyed doing it.
I followed the country list from here: https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/all-countries.html
Greenland is controlled by Denmark and is not listed as a country but thanks for pointing it out. I will make my contributions there as well. Svalbard is in Norway, not a country. Antarctica is not a country.
Check the country list here as well: https://www.state.gov/misc/list/
@Piskvor : Thanks. I am not really sure. I am mapping since September, 2015 however this goal came to mind fairly recently and by that time I already had covered around 50 countries though various projects through the HOT tasking manager. I will say maybe 6 months if you map regularly and cover a country a day.
Komentář od imagico z 28. 04. 2017 v 12:20
Well - customarily we in OSM do not give much about authoritative classifications - see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country and the ambiguities listed there. The HDYC country list is a fairly consistent list of territories (although some of the boundaries used are off leading to quite a bit of stuff being classified as unknown).
Komentář od Filipe Alexandre João z 28. 04. 2017 v 13:04
Amazing! Congratz. Well done..
Komentář od dieterdreist z 28. 04. 2017 v 17:31
Congratulations, that’s amazing, you are mapping only since 2015. Still you have been cheating: in Vatican State you only did 30 edits (I guess the other mappers hadn’t left anything to map that can be done remotely). Well, that’s nitpicking, great achievement!
Komentář od mmahmud z 28. 04. 2017 v 17:40
@Filipe Alexandre João : Thank you. @dieterdreist : Thanks. Hahaha. True. That place is so well mapped, I could not find anything at all that I can contribute to. Had to drew trees (I know, but had no options left). Maybe when I visit, I can do some field mapping there. ( :P )
Komentář od mmahmud z 28. 04. 2017 v 17:42
@Filipe Alexandre João : Thank you.
@dieterdreist : Thanks. Hahaha. True. That place is so well mapped, I could not find anything at all that I can contribute to. Had to drew trees (I know, but had no options left). Maybe when I visit, I can do some field mapping there. ( :P )
Komentář od Super-Map z 29. 04. 2017 v 07:10
Hi mmahmud ,
Nice goal! I have do a part only ‘-) , I work especially on projects like Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team & Missing Map… and some time I do other stuff and improvement. Thanks for all links
Komentář od mmahmud z 29. 04. 2017 v 15:25
@Super-Map : Hi, thanks. Yeah, I also work on those projects. This was a side project for myself.