After seeing an article on The Verge - this one - about the launch of giveit100.com I wondered if there was something to do involving OSM. The mission of the social network is to try to make a resolution and stick to it for at least 100 days, filming a short 10 seconds video segment.

Well, I chose to make a small contribution in a different country each day, and today I did a changeset in Jamaica as my sixth country. Long way to go, but I’ll try (to make viewable the video I make circa 6 minutes of editing, so between 50 and 150 edits usually). Here’s how I work to do this:

• the global map is a shapefile from Natural Earth rendered with qgis (3 pictures each lasting 15-16 frames)

• I use recordmydesktop to do the recording (resulting in a ogv file)

• ffmpeg to convert from ogv to avi

• kdenlive to mix them up, the video is accelerated to fit 205 frames

Here’s my project link (which was also selected as featured) https://giveit100.com/@sabas/ro277m