The Meet Your Mappers talk is up now too!

Christopher – a few users have reported this and I have been unable to figure out what causes it. There’s a ticket open here: https://todo.sr.ht/~mvexel/tracker/1

I will be talking briefly about this project at the upcoming State Of The Map U.S. – if you can you should attend!

And thanks for writing up mappers.osm.lol! I think it’s useful to find active mappers in your area, I use it myself to write to active mappers and invite them to osmutah.org events.

yea that’s me :)

• 2008.osm.lol is https://git.sr.ht/~mvexel/osm-vintage-tiles but currently broken (it runs on an X220 laptop in my office and I think I just need to reboot it)
• way.osm.lol is something I made for my own use, it’s not very well written so I never publicized it but you’re welcome to use it. It gives you basic information about an OSM feature including its history. https://git.sr.ht/~mvexel/thisistheway
• first.osm.lol is something I talked about here - basically let an llm generate a positive message about someone’s first changeset that you can share on social media. I think there’s still some credits on it left, so you’re welcome to try it, for example https://first.osm.lol/?changeset=23423 I don’t think I published the source code but happy to share if you are interested.
• files.osm.lol / i.osm.lol have nothing to do with OSM, this is where I host images for my blog.

There’s some newer discussion on the mobile UX for MapRoulette in this Github ticket.

To add to Tobias’ point: Local knowledge is what OSM is uniquely positioned to bring to the table when it comes to POI maintenance. Anecdotally I have found it much easier to get people interested in contributing to OSM talking about POIs and businesses. This is something everyone can relate to and are easy to add to OSM.

There have been a number of successful MapRoulette challenges that deal with keeping POI up-to-date. We currently have one ongoing in the Salt Lake City area for cleaning up old POI. (Side note, these challenges are quite easy to “clone” for your local area.)

You could apply the same principle to Overture data. With a bit of pre-processing using Overture metadata, geographic distance and string similarity, you could pre-filter the Overture places and feed those into a MapRoulette challenge asking mappers to use their local knowledge and / or internet sleuthing to decide if and how to add the POI to OSM.

Ideally these tasks would be included into an existing tool for mobile mapping, like OSMAnd or GoMap!!. MapRoulette already has the API for it, so integration with those apps is not some remote possibility. OSMAnd has done some work on integrating MapRoulette tasks already. I would not want to add yet another mobile OSM editing app to the mix, but it would be entirely possible to adapt the MapRoulette web front end to support mobile use cases as well.

Great that you made it out there! I lived in The Netherlands for 37 years but never visited. It’s nice to see an illustrated write-up about it!

awesome micro-mapping! Congrats!

The location precision seems alright, but I would really only be able to tell when I’m moving faster. I’ll be sure to check once I start using the camera driving. Not sure how to safely mount the camera to the car yet. Do you have a good solution?

Interesting! For someone looking for a lightweight solution I still hope the bookmarklets are useful. For me personally, I’d rather have a 5 line JS bookmarklet in my bar than yet another extension.. Good to have options.

It looks like the maintainer of the OSM Smart Menu extension may need some help or perhaps it is unmaintained; most new issues don’t have comments and the last code commit is more than 1 year ago.

I have a rear camera also (not currently installed..) and it would be interesting to process both videos at the same time.

Follow up post about automation here

There used to be some states where having anything attached to your windshield that would obstruct a clear view for the driver was prohibited, which could include dashcams. I don’t know if that’s still the case. Regardless, I prefer to have it recording in case I need it to prove that I am not at fault if some idiot gets me into a situation. The Mapillary / Kartaview uploads are a bonus.

Concat’ing the video files and then extracting the GPX may indeed make more sense. as long as the concat doesn’t mangle the location data stream, but no reason to assume that would be the case. Thanks for the comments!

@traveleditor I’m thinking about having an integrated iD editor like Tasking Manager has, but I don’t know if iD supports adding features like that.

I’m open to other UX to accomplish this. If you want a quicker workflow specifically for buildings, Rapid is worth a look!

Not currently, no. If interest in this challenge type picks up, it’d be something to consider.

@SLMapper it is certainly possible to create a Challenge from an Overpass query. That does not work for the “Tag Fix” style challenges, because MapRoulette needs to know what tags to add / change / remove as part of the task information. That is why these special preparation steps are needed.

Airfall: Try out geom instead of ; (._;>;); out;.

See ‘Beware of recursions’ on this page in the docs.

Hope this helps!

Matheus – unfortunately I don’t know anything about the fate of Cygnus. You could try contacting someone at Grab, there’s probably some contact info on their OSM wiki page.