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January 27, 2012

"OpenStreetMap.org User's Diaries"

Enero 27

Agregando algunos ejidos de matamoros coahuila, solo como observacion, en los ejidos y ranchos las calles normalmente no tienen nombre.

by Sergio_Nava at January 27, 2012 11:26 PM

ШТОСМ

They're coming for you!

Matthias Meißer предлагает собраться вечером во вторник, 7 февраля, и обклацывать бинг всю ночь напролёт, замаскировав это под крутую вечеринку. Предполагается, что кто-то найдёт помещение, туда придут как опытные осмеры, так и новички, все возьмут по малопривлекательному в обычное время куску бинговского снимка где-нибудь в сельской местности, и так проведут время до утра. И называться эти встречи диванных красноглазиков будут...

Ночь оживших карт

У нас есть два варианта. Первый — тот, что ожидается автором, — найти помещение с достаточным количеством кресел и розеток (владельцы трёхкомнатных квартир есть среди нас?) и собраться там, закупившись по дороге напитками и закусью. Подключить ноуты и обклацывать снимки, помогая новичкам, если они будут, следя за другими участниками «ночи» и попутно обсуждая вопросы вселенского масштаба под громкую музыку. Такое событие можно даже прорекламировать в офлайне: сообщить на радио, например, чтобы ночные диджеи знали, что этой ночью их будут слушать какие-то картографы. Давайте свои предложения на форуме!

Либо можно строить из себя социофобов, усевшись, как мы это обычно делаем, за компьютер и проведя «ночь» в онлайне, общаясь в чатике и координируясь через мапкрафт. Это тоже неплохой вариант: ни с кем не надо делиться плюшками, и самая лучшая музыка в наушниках. Правда, будет ли, о чём потом рассказать? «Вот, я тут нарисовал лес и три деревни за ночь, было круто!»

И если вы не заметили ссылку на сайт проекта, вот она снова.
mapping party

January 27, 2012 08:00 PM

Tom Chance

tomchance

Similar to Gail Ramster, I went along to the Friday afternoon part of UK GovCamp 2012 without really knowing why. I suspect most people would say the same thing. You go because… well, you never know which useful people you might bump into, and what interesting things you might hear about. Plus a colleague Janet Hughes was going, and I’d cleared my desk of essential work for the week.

Here are a few takeaway thoughts from my afternoon.

1. I barely knew anyone

It’s years since I was a fish in a geeky pool, active in the free culture movement, the KDE community, software patent activism and other odds and sods.

For the past five years or so I’ve moved onto land, or perhaps a coral reef, to be more involved with issues around the environment, housing and pay inequality. The past two or so have been working as a local government employee at the GLA, supporting Green Party Members of the London Assembly. They have pushed for open data, but it’s not exactly a hot topic in our weekly meetings. My only remaining connection has been OpenStreetMap, my one geeky obsession.

Still, it didn’t matter, go along even if you know no-one at all.

2. It was nice to reconnect with optimistic techies

The event reminded me of one of the things I most like about these crowds: they’re all optimistic about the future and enthusiastic about the common interest.

I’m glad I managed to quickly chat to a few people I did know, sort of… Gail via Twitter, and Giles Gibson from the Herne Hill Forum, but sadly I only said as much as “hello” to people like Emer Coleman and Chris Osborne. That’s what you get for arriving late and leaving early.

3. It’s more meaty than you’d think

That’s “meatspace” as in “the real physical world”, compared to “cyberspace” online. Compared to events a few years ago on open data and technology, most of the discussion I heard was about councils and companies working on staff structures and consultation processes, and then thinking about how technology and data could help.

I used to get frustrated with discussions that started with the assumption that open data and technology was going to revolutionise the world. That seemed upside down to me. So I was pleasantly surprised at this.

4. There’s a lot of “we”

Somebody pointed this out in one session – it’s very easy to apply “we” to the wider population when you really mean “we sort of people in this room”.

Often “we” are innovators or early adopters of ideas that become more mainstream, like using a smart phone to access services. Sometimes “we” are set to be a significant minority, like journalists, bloggers and politicians who use data to enhance their investigatory work. Just as often “we” are a world unto our own.

It’s fine, innocent mostly, typical of any event with like-minded people. It just grated on me when people talked about reconfiguring public services or management around their preferences, as though the rest of the world will thank them.

I might make a badge for myself if I go again, with the slogan “we’re not normal” or similar!

5. Theres a lot going on out there

Cocooned in City Hall, working on affordable housing or the pay gap, it’s hard to keep even a toe dipped in this pool. It was great hearing from so many people in so many walks of work and life doing so many useful things.

Sometimes when I map an area for OpenStreetMap, walking down a street noting house numbers, I feel a bit bewildered by all these people living here! London feels impossibly enormous. I left UKGovCamp feeling similarly bewildered by the enormity of work going on in this field, relative that is to my own small bits and pieces in my job and my free time.


Tagged: Conference, Democracy, Free culture, Free data, Free software, GLA, Open access, Open standards, OpenStreetMap

by Tom Chance at January 27, 2012 05:54 PM

"OpenStreetMap.org User's Diaries"

Réseau routier du Tarn (session 4)

Extension du réseau routier secondaire essentiellement au nord-ouest de Gaillac.

by petrovsk at January 27, 2012 02:44 PM

EN walk

Walk over the back with Carol, mapping some of the tracks.

by chrisinthebus at January 27, 2012 01:22 PM

ШТОСМ

Видит око, да зуб неймёт

На форуме вновь спорят про лицензионный статус и авторское право. Во всех темах одно и то же: отдельные участники пытаются оправдать подглядывание в источниках, в которые не принято подглядывать, другие их убеждают, что этим они вредят проекту, а третьи просто троллят тех и других. Так, в теме про викимапию обсуждают заимствование фактических данных из разных баз и вечный вопрос «считается ли копирование воровством», а в другой, новогодней теме пытаются оправдать списывание названий из подложки Госгисцентра, используемой на сайте кадастровой карты.

Но даже те источники, которые разрешено использовать, на деле лежат нетронутые. Lenux заметил, что ни снимки Aster, открытые в начале июня, ни недавно выданный OrbView-3 до сих пор не могут быть загружены в редактор обычными мапперами, неискушёнными в QGIS, GDAL и MapServer.

Напомню и про другой источник, лежащий на виду, но всеми игнорируемый. У нас в стране есть государственный каталог географических названий — списки с координатами, как в GNS — который специально создан, чтобы во всех картографических и иных изданиях названия были единообразны. К сожалению, этот каталог не един, а разбит по регионам, и ещё не все регионы предоставили списки. Все данные хранятся, как у нас водится, в PDF, и для использования каталога потребуется программист. Что возвращает нас к теме, затронутой Lenux-ом.
источники

January 27, 2012 10:05 AM

January 26, 2012

"OpenStreetMap.org User's Diaries"

Addresses

I've been adding some addresses.

I've been using nodes for the entrances tagged with the addr:*=* tags and building=entrance.

The reason for this is because some buildings have multiple "bits" in them. I've seen others dividing the building into smaller sections instead.

I'd say the node way is better, but I just wonder if it's good practice.

by bruce89 at January 26, 2012 10:16 PM

Peter Reed

Shops that aren't

Sometimes OSM contributors mark a high street business as an "office" rather than a "shop". There is logic in this. Accountants, employment agencies, travel agents, and solicitors are delivering a service rather than offering goods for sale, and they are normally sat at desks rather than behind a counter or a till. But the boundaries between the two can become blurred.

For a number of professions both keys: "shop" and "office" are fairly widely used in the UK.

The chart shows the mix of "shop" and "office" for some of the more common professions on the high street. Each of the labels shows common variants (after the most widespread term).


There seems to be some consensus among contributors that most accountants, employment agents and travel agents work in offices, while most estate agents work in shops. Opinion is more evenly divided when it comes to solicitors and insurance brokers.

The mix of singular and plural forms (solicitor / solicitors) is a bit of a nuisance, but apart from that I've only got a couple of quibbles. To me, saying that a funeral director operates from a shop feels even more odd than saying that they operate from an office (I seem to be in a minority here). And in my understanding "financial services" covers very broad scope. Describing a financial adviser as offering financial services doesn't convey their role very precisely. Unfortunately that's how many of them characterise themselves. So dissent here is likely to prove fruitless.


Personally, I feel pretty comfortable with the other different combinations. For members of the legal profession who deal directly with the public I like to see the term "solicitor" rather than "lawyer" as it is in line with normal UK terminology. And using a mix of "shop" and "office" keys seems both reasonable and manageable.

by noreply@blogger.com (gom1) at January 26, 2012 09:30 PM

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Полезнейшая схема территориального планирования.

Давно эту схему видел, но почему-то только сейчас дошло, что её можно использовать при маппинге.
Помимо территорий и их назначения, наличествуют ЛЭП, газопроводы, объекты культурного наследия и масса другой информации. Ищите аналоги по своим муниципальным районам!

http://radm.gtn.ru/portal_gatchina/omsu_info/sxema.htm

by Ambush at January 26, 2012 08:27 PM

ШТОСМ

У нас печеньки!

А чтобы поток уходящих от гугля не ослабевал, группа осмеров из EWG и CWG сделала сайт Switch2OSM с красивыми картинками и простыми инструкциями. Даже если вы не держите крупный картосайт на проприетарном API, а новичок в этом всём и пытаетесь поднять локальный мапник, инструкции на switch2osm выглядят куда последовательнее, нежели соответствующие вики-страницы, за три года превратившиеся в лоскуты.
pr, учебник

January 26, 2012 03:36 PM

GPSies уже на лифлете

Как и обещали, большинство карт на сайте GPSies перевели на карты мапквеста. На гугловском движке осталось только рисование маршрута — но количество обращений к API снизилось с сотни до пяти тысяч в день, впятеро меньше бесплатного лимита.

Артём Светлов, тем временем, нашёл сайт, агрегирующий треки, в том числе, с GPSies.com. Первой мыслью было выдрать тайлы и вставить в JOSM, но там они векторные.
проекты

January 26, 2012 02:25 PM

Mappa Mercia (UK Midlands)

West Midlands Allotments

After a steep learning curve with Maperitive and OpenLayers there’s a map of allotments in the West Midlands available here. It’s still rough around the edges   but it forms the basis for further development (such as popups with more data). I only really cracked the techniques involved when I discovered Ed Loach’s wiki page. Thanks Ed! I hope people find it useful

The map is restricted to the West Midlands  because we wanted to work with a data set that was almost 100% complete. The data comes from web pages listing allotment sites published by the 7 local authorities in the West Midlands (Dudley,  Sandwell,  Walsall,  Wolverhampton,  Birmingham, Solihull,  Coventry).  We didn’t hit 100% as there were 14 allotment sites that either couldn’t be located or had other data quality issues. They are listed on a mappa-mercia wiki page and any help in resolving the issues listed would be welcome.  A word of praise here for Birmingham City Council who were able to answer a question about the location of a very small  3 plot redundant site which was at the back of some houses  within 2 minutes of contacting their call centre - very impressive.

It was interesting to see the diversity of how to present the information. The list of facilities available showed the most variation. Solihull was the most comprehensive : Site representative – Y/N; Car park – Y/N; Water – Y/N; Rubbish collection - Monthly from February to November; Green waste delivery - Yes at request of site representative; Security lock - Key (£10.00 deposit required). Solihull was also the only authority to have opened a new site and re-opened a semi-derelict one

Whilst editing the allotment sites, aerial imagery also showed up other sites which are privately-run and not run by a local Authority, so our map and underlying dataset shows a more accurate picture that what can be gained just from local authority listings. Even now we might not have located all the privately-owned and run sites - any help or information will be greatly appreciated.

Sadly we were not able to gather via this route the information we set out to obtain for the Allotment Data project which was waiting list data. Local Authorities do not generally hold this data:  this is maintained by each allotment site association. This will require either a concerted phone campaign or volunteered information  as and when (and if) people see value in this map.

As a result of this work, we discovered the work being done by the New Optimists Forum on food security, and inspired similar work to complete allotment data for Warwickshire. Keep going Andrew!

Mapping data on a themed basis like this opens up all kinds of interesting and linked information and also helps to make contacts and connections with owners and users of the data. Highly recommended for online community building!

by noreply@blogger.com (Mappa Mercia) at January 26, 2012 01:30 PM

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Mise à jour - Vinça (66)

Mise à jour du bâti et ajout des zones d'eau.

by petrovsk at January 26, 2012 12:34 PM

pasajes farmacias y bancoas

Estuve agregando algunos pasajes
los bancos y las farmacias que hay en Dock Sud

by ragnarok at January 26, 2012 03:45 AM

Enero 25

Hoy dia de mucho trabajo pero mañana empiezo a corregir lo de los caminos que se cruzan entre si, sin conectarse.

by Sergio_Nava at January 26, 2012 02:08 AM

January 25, 2012

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Строили-строили и наконец построили!

Наконец-то построили дом в Хлебниково, где мы с женой купили квартиру.
Соседи! Если Вы здесь обитаете (пока ни одного не нашёл, но вдруг) - стучитесь. Мои координаты найти можно на http://www.antmix.pp.ru/about/ а о семье моей можно узнать на http://www.antfam.ru/
Будем знакомы!
Т.к. в декабре заимел аппарат с gps на борту - летом надеюсь прорисовать райончик по gps на велике. Если есть желающие составить компанию - стучитесь. Пока рисую пешком + иногда на машине меня привозят.

by antmix at January 25, 2012 07:48 PM

Mise à jour - Saint-Affrique (12)

Mise à jour du bâti et ajout des zones d'eau après corrections, le tout à partir du cadastre.

by petrovsk at January 25, 2012 06:27 PM

Introducing Team Surrey

North-west Surrey was mapped early by a mapper who has not accepted the ODBL and contributor terms. As such, tagging doesn’t always reflect the latest ideas and it will go away in a few months’ time.

A few of us have been tackling this backlog. I’ve removed most of the non-compliant mapping from Weybridge so that mappers can work and most roads have been remapped. But there’s more work to do.

Team Surrey is a project to remap Surrey to the latest standards and to plug the ODBL deficit maintain the good mapping in the county.

by Wynndale at January 25, 2012 06:27 PM

ШТОСМ

Подложка

Команда MapBox работает над проектом базовой карты с минимумом цветов, которую удобно подкладывать под цветные статистические данные. На демонстрационном сайте весь мир отрендерен до 10 зума, отдельные города (из Европы попала только Москва) — до 18.

Подложка
картостили

January 25, 2012 03:04 PM

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Перевод сайта LearnOsm.org

Уважаемое сообщество, есть необходимость перевести на азербайджанский язык уроки для начинающих с сайта http://www.learnosm.org/
Там всего 8 уроков. Два первых уже переведены.

Если вы хорошо знаете английский и азербайджанский языки и можете помочь сообществу, пожалуйста отписывайте в комментариях и пересылайте ссылку на это обращение своим знакомым.

http://fattahov.com/tmp/LearnOSM_documents_az.zip (18 Mb)

by baxi at January 25, 2012 01:06 PM

LearnOsm.org tranlation

Respected community, there is a need to be translated into Azerbaijani language «Lessons for beginners» from the site http://www.learnosm.org/
There are only 8 lessona. The first two have already been translated.

If you know English and Azerbaijani languages and can help the community, please write comments and send a link to this message to your friends.

http://fattahov.com/tmp/LearnOSM_documents_az.zip (18 Mb)

by baxi at January 25, 2012 01:06 PM

LearnOsm.org tərcüməsi

Hörmətli oxuyucular, http://www.learnosm.org/ saytında «OSM başlayanlar üçün» dərslərin Azərbaycan dilinə tərcüməyə ehtiyac var.
Dərslik 8 dərsdən ibarətdi və onun ikisi artıq tərcümə edilib.

Əgər siz İngilis və Azerbaycan dillərini mükəmməl bilirsinizsə və kömək etmək istəyirsinizsə sərh yazın və tanışlarınızla bu linklə paylaşın.

http://fattahov.com/tmp/LearnOSM_documents_az.zip (18 Mb)

by baxi at January 25, 2012 01:05 PM

switch2osm.org

Lots of you will have seen the interest recently in switching from proprietary mapping providers to OpenStreetMap - blog postings by Nestoria and StreetEasy, Wired's article, and so on. We started a Twitter hashtag, #switch2osm, and it's rather taken off.

So I'm delighted to announce the launch of a new site: http://switch2osm.org/ .

It's a one-stop shop for would-be switchers, showing them how to get started with using and generating OSM tiles; _why_ they might want to; and where to look for more information.

Huge thanks to Harry, Kai, and lots of other people who've helped with this (and especially Matt for the layout). We'll be continuing to refine the site in the forthcoming weeks, but we're happy that it's ready to launch now. So - OSM army, get to it and promote it :)

by Richard at January 25, 2012 11:58 AM

Zones d'eau - Prades (66)

Import des ruisseaux, canaux et piscines, après correction.

by petrovsk at January 25, 2012 10:22 AM

Есть на ОСМ

Новая переправа через Москву-Реку Андреевское - Лыткарино. Только в ОСМ: http://openptmap.org/?zoom=15&lat=55.56206&lon=37.92765&layers=B0000TFT
Карта переправы Андреевское - Лыткарино v4

Переправа на судах на воздушной подушке Хивус-10 заменила переход по воротам Андреевского шлюза. Через него проходили разнообразные велосипедные маршруты, а значит летом в том районе появится много тупящих велосипедистов. У нас в области это всего 3 регулярный водный маршрут, и вряд ли они появятся на картах Google или Яндекс.
Более подробно о обьекте: http://dr-kitaetsc.livejournal.com/130868.html

Подольск, мкр Кузнечики

Ещё одно место, по которому можно сделить за скоростью обновления картографических сервисов - новый район массовой застройки Кузнечики в Подольске. Заселение домов началось в конце 2011 года, всего запроектировано 48 жилых корпусов высотой от 17 до 22 этажей. Почти все уже построены, висят таблички с номерами. Можно приезжать на троллейбусе и маппить.
http://openstreetmap.ru/#layer=Mapnik&zoom=16&lat=55.41814&lon=37.48554

Сейчас вперёд вырвался 2GIS с 9 жилыми корпусами и изолированными улицами.
http://maps.2gis.ru/#/?history=project/moscow/center/37.48874%2C55.418592/zoom/16/state/index/sort/relevance
Сам район выглядит вот так: http://dr-kitaetsc.livejournal.com/128576.html

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The new hoovercraft ferry line on the Moscow River was opened in December 2011. It is visible only to OSM, and is unlikely to be drawn on the other map services, because such ferries in our region are unusual. It is important for cyclists, because earlier in that place was a passage through the dam.

Another place that allows you to monitor refresh rate of map services - the new large district "Kuznechiki" in Podolsk. The settlement began in December 2011. Now we have drawn less than the local mapping service - 2GIS.ru

by trolleway at January 25, 2012 09:44 AM

January 24, 2012

Nick Whitelegg/Freemap

kothic-js rendering and coastlines

A few small updates to Freemap 0.6, the new experimental version of Freemap using kothic-js rendering, since I last posted. Bridges and railways now appear, but the main feature is coastline. How was this done?

It was quite simple but thought I’d post it here anyway. Firstly, the standard processed_p.shp file used for Mapnik rendering was converted to SQL using the shp2pgsql tool (part of the PostGIS distribution, I believe). This was then imported into the PostGIS database. The server-side script which generates the GeoJSON data for kothic-js was then altered to return the ST_Intersection() of the current bounding box and any coastline polygons in the area. This then returns a square of land in inland areas, or a complex polygon of land in coastal areas.

As is done in Mapnik, the canvas background was set to light blue. The land polygons from the previous step were tagged – arbitrarily – server side with “natural=land”, and then a natural=land rule added to the MapCSS. So pretty straightforward really! The updated code is now in the SVN repository.

In other developments, I have updated Freemap’s PostGIS database with OSM data current as at last weekend. However – and this will impact upon the search facility on the main, current, Mapnik-based Freemap site (0.5) as well as 0.6 – *only* data from certain counties is included. I think I have finally found a way to make Freemap sustainable with kothic-js (so many, many thanks to the kothic team!) but only if I restrict coverage to certain parts of the UK. In Southern England this includes Hampshire, West Sussex, Surrey, Wiltshire and Somerset (but not those parts which used to be Avon); the whole of Wales is covered; and in Northern England, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. In this way, I have covered both my local patch and a significant proportion of the national parks and popular walking areas in the rest of England and Wales. I might experiment with adding further counties but I’d prefer to have a Freemap covering some of the UK only and working reasonably well, rather than unsustainably covering the whole country. Chrome still appears to give the best performance.

What of future plans? Freemap 0.5 (the Mapnik version) is now in feature-freeze so no new features will be added, I’m hoping to make 0.6 the default version by the spring.

by admin at January 24, 2012 11:08 PM

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Hola

Pues mi primer objetivo sera terminar la ciudad de matamoros coahuila, despues me pasare a torreon y luego otras ciudades de la comarca lagunera de coahuila. Espero no tener problemas

by Sergio_Nava at January 24, 2012 10:33 PM

Mise à jour du bâti - Prades (66)

Mise à jour du bâti d'après le cadastre, essentiellement pour remplacer les anciens blocs d'habitations dessinés à la main par les bâtisses individuelles.

by petrovsk at January 24, 2012 10:18 PM

Mikel Maron

A Week for the Record Books

That was a week where I really was truly and completely welcomed to DC. Some great things, some other things, and some things I can’t talk about yet.

Was invited to fill for Kate Chapman at the Mapping the World of Humanitarianism workshop (not the geo kind of mapping). Talked about the challenges with community centered social technologies, within the humanitarian system. Most difficult question “Do you consider yourself a humanitarian?”

Seda Muradyan invited me to present within a multi-day workshop with Armenia journalists. Was via Skype, with translation (the translator did an amazing job. Spoke about OpenStreetMap and how we’ve applied it within community-centered journalism projects. Just missed saying hi to Noha Atef who had been in Armenia for this. Still amazed that the Internet makes this kind of thing possible.

TC103, Tech Tools for Emergency Management is an online course led by TechChange. I’ve been moderating, and the quality of the discussion and participants is phenomenal. Rob Baker and I sat down for a chat in front of the camera, good fun … may be released at the end of the course.

World Bank and Google

* http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/opinion/empowering-citizen-cartographers.html?_r=2
* http://www.globalintegrity.org/blog/bank-responds-to-google-maps-deal
* http://irevolution.net/2012/01/20/google-inc-world-bank-empowering-citizen-cartographers/#comment-11284

How many beers, coffees and phone calls discussing this boggling move last week? I’m still thinking about how to respond and where to go from here.

OpenStreetMap and Google

Google contractors were caught vandalizing OpenStreetMap. Oy vey.

by mikel at January 24, 2012 01:09 PM

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Вандализм без вандализма

Редактор Потлач неявно поощряет новичков к вандализму. Люди заходят и начинают сдвигать все под снимок, ведь все эти сотни объектов очевидно не на месте!

Предложил бы костыль в виде расстановки точек с тэгами, в которых вбивается смещение, а Потлач неявно для пользователя читает их и сдвигает подложку как надо. Но такой костыль абсолютно точно никто не примет - ОСМ не база для смещений и т д и т п.
Будем продолжать "правки".

by Takuto at January 24, 2012 12:51 PM

New Blog for khtml.maplib

Hi all

I started a Wordpress page for the khtml.maplib.

http://maplib.khtml.org/wordpress/

Bernhard

by robotnic at January 24, 2012 10:19 AM

ШТОСМ

API устарел, зато нет ограничений по количеству просмотров

Неожиданно (хотя закономерно), народная яндекс.карта обогнала нас на нашем же поле: справочник «Весь Лабытнанги и Харп» использует карту, нарисованную няковцами. Для этого авторам справочника потребовалось лишь попросить разрешения у яндекса — и те снарядили дизайнеров и подготовили печатный вариант.

API справочник

К кому обращаться в нашем проекте, никто не знает до сих пор. Встречали ли вы карту OpenStreetMap в многотиражных изданиях?

Кстати: «А вот для поселка Харп (30 км от Лабытнанги) карты не нашлось: к сожалению, на Яндексе пока нет подробного снимка посёлка, что, естественно, отразилось на степени его отрисованности на Народной карте». А у нас есть бинг и россыпь треков — сделаем?
няк

January 24, 2012 10:15 AM

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Ende

Ich hab genug!
Ich werde nur noch Wanderwege mappen und an Gosau herummalen.

Die ewigen Diskussionen hab ich endgültig satt.

by gosausee at January 24, 2012 10:02 AM

Image of the Week

OSPScreenshot

OSPScreenshot.png

OpenStreetPad is a MapCSS based OpenStreetMap renderer for iPhone and the iPad.

January 24, 2012 06:00 AM

ШТОСМ

January 23, 2012

"OpenStreetMap.org User's Diaries"

ШТОСМ

Частный сектор

Вдохновлённый прошедшим набегом на Абакан, Siberiano написал подробную инструкцию по рисованию частного сектора. Особенное внимание он уделяет команде address плагина CommandLine, вытаскивающей информацию о кадастровых кварталах из карты Росреестра.

Последняя, кстати, в пятницу приросла Ленинградской областью, Республикой Коми, Ханты-Мансийским и Ямало-Ненецким автономными округами. Финишная черта всё ближе, скоро будем следить не за количеством регионов, а за свежестью данных.
источники, учебник

January 23, 2012 03:47 PM

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Test

I want to test Diary on openstreetmap

by ALmon_LatE at January 23, 2012 02:41 PM

ШТОСМ

<member type='relation' ref='1370727' role='level_-1' />

Недавно в блоге OpenGeoData развёрнуто описывали очередное предложение по рисованию внутренностей зданий. Студент гейдельбергского университета без особого представления о схемах тегирования OSM, изучения других пропозалов и, видимо, программистского опыта сотворил способ рисования комнат и роутинговых рёбер внутри зданий. Первые делаются вложенными отношениями, вторые — через указание id точек. Осторожно, берегите глаза.

Вообще, интересная перспектива для студентов: нынче можно в качестве диссертации выдумывать схемы тегирования, оставляя их потом пылиться на задворках вики. Кто-нибудь в России уже пользовался OSM в научных целях?
пропозалы

January 23, 2012 01:47 PM

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OpenStreetMap Philippines: 2011 Year in Review

A wrote about my personal view of how 2011 went for the OpenStreetMap project in the Philippines.

“2011 was a pretty good year for the OpenStreetMap project in the Philippines. Aside from the usual Mapping Parties, the community has organized or participated in several other events, some of them outside the Philippines. 2011 also saw the release of a more improved and usable OSM Philippine Garmin map, and OSM contributors made 2011 the best year in terms of increase of data in the Philippines (thanks to Bing).”

Continue reading at my blog.

by seav at January 23, 2012 09:13 AM

Key 'Addr' in multiple languages

It is possible to name a "highway" in multiple languages using name:en, name:jp, etc.

Is it possible to tag the address of an object in multiple languages (addr:street)?

by PsJp at January 23, 2012 04:10 AM

January 22, 2012

OSMBlog (German)

Wochennotiz Nr. 79

15.1. – 21.1.2012

Mit dem Ballon Mapping Kit selber Luftbilder erstellen [1]

Talk, Forum, Wiki & Blog

  • [1] Auf Kickstarter gibt es in den nächsten 8 Tagen ein Ballon Mapping Kit, das zum Erstellen von Luftbildern geeignet ist. Die Nutzung wird auf der Mailingliste talk-de diskutiert.
  • Pascal zeigt eine Statistik über Straßen, die nach dem 1. April fehlen könnten.
  • Über “Indoor Maps” in OpenStreetMap schreiben Marcus Götz und Oliver Kühn in zwei Blogposts.[1][2]
  • User:Ludwich sucht Unterstützung für die Bereinigung von Place-Nodes und Place-Flächen mit gleichen Namen, organisiert in Aktion 14.
  • Auf der openstreetmap.de-Karte könnte eine Legende angezeigt werden. Wer erstellt eine?
  • Die Look&Listen Map wurde für den D-Elina Wettbewerb nominiert.
  • Ein Artikel über die Benutzung von R bzw. den Maptools statt von ArcMap.
  • Der Artikel auf derstandard.at fasst die Ereignisse mit der “Sabotage an OSM-Daten” gut zusammen.
  • Eine Zusammenfassung von Arbeiten, die Stamen in 2011 mit freien Daten erstellte.
  • Der Fokus von Artem Pavlenko, einem der Hauptentwickler von Mapnik, liegt nach dem Wechsel zu MapBox auf Mapnik 3.

openstreetmap.de

OpenStreetMap-Foundation

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Konferenzen

  • Am 25. und 26. Februar 2012 wird es in Karlsruhe ein Hacking Weekend geben.

Karten

#switch2osm

Kennst du schon …

  • Mit TileDrawer kann man in wenigen Minuten einen eigenen Kartenserver aufsetzen.

Programme

sonstiges

flattr this!

by Wochennotizteam at January 22, 2012 08:48 PM

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Started today!

Several edits made in different categories.

by StefanoX at January 22, 2012 08:27 PM

Chris Hill

Homogenised data? No thanks

I follow the changes made in the East Yorkshire area. Andy Ayre created a twitter feed for the area which generates tweets as osmeastriding. AndrewArm creates an RSS feed for the area too. Then there is the ITOWorld tool which is helps me look at the editors for a selected area.

Andy Ayre's twitter feed is based on a rectangle that encloses the county, so it also includes York, part of North Yorkshire and part of northern Lincolnshire too. It is very quick so edits appear only a few minutes after they were made and I check it every day. Andy's algorithm looks for changesets that fall within the rectangle, so big changesets that span the county are ignored whether objects in the county are edited or not.

AndrewArm's RSS feed is based on the polygon that describes the county and so it is more focussed. It is up to a day behind the edit. It does, however, show any edits in the county, including changesets that cover bigger areas than the county, so-called big edits.

ITOWorld's system will be familiar to many. It allows you to choose a rectangle to monitor and provides an RSS feed for changes in the selected area. This is a day or two behind the edits and the size of rectangle is limited and is much smaller than the size of East Yorkshire.

Monitoring an area reveals new mappers. Once they have made a few edits I usually send them a message saying 'Hi' and offering info or help. Newbies often want to check something or ask how to do something.

Monitoring also shows up vandalism. Speedy action means vandalism can be reverted without much risk. Reverting a vandal's edit means he may be dissuaded from doing it again, but at least the harm is limited.

Another thing that monitoring shows up are mass edits. Recently there seems to be a spate of them and some are harmful and annoying. When someone replaces a misspelt tag that is helpful. Changing Name=* to name=* or buildng=yes to building=yes would both benefit the object. However that is not what many mass edits are about. Some seem to be about homogenising the data, replacing the value part of tags with something generic. Sometimes a tag is removed and a replacement tag is added in its place.

I challenge the people who fire off these homogenising edits, which I dislike. The commonest excuse is that the wiki says the tag should be like this. This is infuriating. The wiki is full of controversy with edits chopping and changing the meaning of a tag back and forth. The open part of OpenStreetMap can be interpreted in many ways, and one way is that the tags that are used are open, that is any tag key and value is allowed. I also hear that TagInfo shows that value x is the most popular so every object must be changed to x. What TagInfo actually shows is that there are many uses of the key and that x is not the only way to use the tag, so why should they all be forced to be the same?

The second reason quoted is that how can the data be used if it is not consistent. Ontologies are mentioned. The odd thing is that people who say this are not the people who use the data for rendering, routing, analysis or whatever. The OSM data as derived from the API as XML (or pbf) needs to be processed to be used. That processing often loads the raw data into a database or processes it into a working file and that loading process can include catching a range of values that are useful for the render, analysis or whatever. If the variations of the key values are useful then they are used, but if some mass edit has flattened out the data into a monotonous grey, then those differences are not available. This processing will be a few lines of code, written once and used over and over without harming the detail at all. This is how landuse=cemetery and amenity=graveyard can be treated as the same thing or treated differently.

I know that a carefully chosen tag that gets splatted into some other meaning by a thoughtless mass edit is annoying. If that annoyance persuades a mapper to stop contributing to OSM that is a problem. Our most precious resource are our mappers and if a mass edit risks losing just one of them then that is a very serious indeed. 

I have been accused of not wanting objects I created being changed; of being too protective. I'm not and that misses the point: OSM is a wiki. The objects are all open to edit every day. I just want those edits to improve the quality not squash it out.

by noreply@blogger.com (Chris Hill) at January 22, 2012 07:59 PM

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Progress Note: Importing IBGE boundaries for Espírito Santo

Finally last municipality in Espírito Santo have been imported, though the dataset might need some cleaning around.

It will be some work doing the cleaning, and with the limited time and internet connection I don't see that I can do that now. I hope to look into adding place= tags on those admin levels corresponding to a place=, but that will also have to wait for an opertunity of cleaning. Another option is that somebody else can do a cleaning though.....

[0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10468411 Last changeset
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1843582 Espírito Santo Collection Relation

by Skippern at January 22, 2012 07:56 PM

[Карты OSM для СитиГИДа] Обновление пробочных карт

Обновились карты Москвы и МО, Петербурга и области, а также Калиниградской области c поддержкой пробочного сервиса.

Как обычно, их можно скачать здесь:
http://peirce.gis-lab.info/daily.php

Следующие пробочные сборки будут уже, очевидно, под Ситигид 7.0.

by Zkir at January 22, 2012 04:06 PM

Peter Reed

New GPS

I first got a GPS for the bike back in 2008. Astonishingly that was nearly four years ago. It was a Garmin Edge, and I used it to collect traces for Open Street Map, time my rides, and for occasional route finding. A couple of posts here about putting the OSM Cycle Map on a Garmin Edge have generated as much traffic as almost anything else I've written, and I had a bit of an exchange with Wired Magazine when they  illustrated an article on OSM cycle maps with one of my pictures, despite the license conditions.

So we have had some interesting journeys together, but my old Garmin Edge packed up towards the end of last year. I've been using various apps on a Smartphone since, but now I've been treated to a proper replacement - a new Garmin Edge 800.

Things have clearly moved on in the last four years, and this new GPS is lighter, easier to read, with a better mount. The touch screen is a big advantage, and unlike the smartphone, I can use that while wearing gloves.

It didn't come with anything other than a minimal base map, and I obviously wanted to take the OSM cycle map with me. I had generated a copy of this a year ago for the old Garmin. To get started quickly I transferred the memory card across, and found that it still worked up to a point, but minor roads were invisible.

I couldn't find an up-to-date, ready-made version of the OSM cycle map for a Garmin, so again I set out to build my own. The tools in this area have also moved on since I last did this. It has taken quite a bit of fiddling around to make a new version of the cycle map, and so far I have only partly succeeded. I'm still struggling with minor roads, and the sea is missing (which matters more round here than it did in Berkshire).

If I forget about special styling for the the cycle stuff, and just opt for the standard map format, then things are a bit easier. I can generate a nice basic map with a considerable amount of detail, and lots of POIs. As best I can tell, route finding has improved, though it's difficult to know whether to credit the map or the device for that. With the standard format I get to see the sea, as well as minor roads. 



That will do me for the time being, but this is an itch that needs to be scratched. I can see that I'm in for a bit of fiddling with mkgmap styles over the next few days (unless anyone has a better suggestion).

by noreply@blogger.com (gom1) at January 22, 2012 02:16 PM

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Бой в болоте

Этот бой в болоте диком
На втором году войны
Не за город шел великий,
Что один у всей страны;

Не за гордую твердыню,
Что у матушки-реки,
А за некий, скажем ныне,
Населенный пункт Борки

by Batareikin at January 22, 2012 01:44 PM

Großdingharting

So jetzt hab ich schnell ein paar Fehler in der Map bei Dorf Großdingharting näe München korrigiert und noch ein paar POI hinzugefügt.

by hoermaenn at January 22, 2012 10:56 AM

маршрут на лето

Создать маршрут на тёплое время, для начала Коркинское озеро

by Pum-ba at January 22, 2012 06:30 AM

JOSM hacking: Upgrading nodes to ways with Replace Geometry

For anyone who's used JOSM for a significant amount of time, it's likely they've been using utilsplugin2, which provides several useful functions. One of these is Replace Geometry, which replaces an existing but poor quality way with a freshly drawn one, preserving history in the process by transferring existing nodes to the new way. The usefulness of this function has somewhat lessened thanks to the ImproveWayAccuracy plugin, but I still find myself using it often.

I've recently enhanced this command to support replacing a node with a way (see this ticket for details). This is very useful and timesaving in a number of cases. One is if you come across features that are represented by both a node and a way (a violation of the one feature one object rule). Another is if you wish to upgrade a feature that exists as a node, such as by drawing the building outline of a restaurant. In either case, simply select the node and way, then run the command, which will transfer tags from the node to the way, and either delete or move the node, whichever allows keeping the most history.

Before, but especially after adding this functionality, I've seen the need to prompt the user to resolve tag conflicts like the Merge nodes tool rather than just blindly copying the tags. Please read this ticket and comment if you think this is a good idea. Also, I've seen some other situations which might lead to information loss or corrupt data. Please read and comment on this ticket.

If you'd like to try this new functionality, just update your plugins in the preferences dialog!

by JoshD at January 22, 2012 03:33 AM

OpenStreetMap Scottish events 2012

After an amazing 2011 of OSM activity in Scotland including State of the Map Scotland huge amounts of mapping, networking, talks and cake eating - what's happening this year?

SOTM - Scotland 2011
Enjoying a few beers at the end of another great day of talks.

Here's the plans so far

Social meet-ups:

Thursday 16 Feb 2012 Stirling
Tuesday 21 Feb 2012 Glasgow
Tuesday 20 Mar 2012 Edinburgh

Mapping Party:

New Lanark Mapping Party

Workshop:

Mapping Workshop

Hope you can make it along

by Hawkeye at January 22, 2012 12:21 AM

January 21, 2012

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Московские автобусы

Недавно заметил, что в таком большом городе, как Москва, не отрисовано довольно много автобусных маршрутов:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0/%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%81#.D0.A2.D0.B0.D0.B1.D0.BB.D0.B8.D1.86.D0.B0_.D0.BF.D0.BE_.D0.BF.D0.B0.D1.80.D0.BA.D0.B0.D0.BC

В "моём" 15-м парке из почти трёх десятков маршрутов был отрисован только один.

"Каждый сам кузнец своего счастья", - вспомнил я и добавил маршрут с красивым номером 100:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1968886

Приятно разгядывать его на http://openbusmap.org :)

by vit at January 21, 2012 10:32 PM

so, ein paar Fehler beseitigt und Gebäude hinzugefügt

Macht Spaß!

Aber ich muss für die Kreuzung B68 und B51 doch tatsächlich noch an die frische Luft. ich fahre da jeden Tag lang. So, wie es bei OSM eingezeichnet ist, ist es definiv nicht mehr, aber wie die Verkehrsführung von der anderen Seite ist, muss ich nachsehen. Da fahre ich doch nie von der B51 ab...

by rallek_gmh at January 21, 2012 10:26 PM

Удивило

Читая Змееда Суворова заинтересовало где же находится Ярославль. Полез на осм... http://www.openstreetmap.ru/?lat=57.6331&lon=39.8783&zoom=14&layers=M
Приятно удивила довольно подробная прорисовка объектов, большое кол-во подписаны. молодцы :-) и землепользовнаие указали...

и область прорисована...

а сегодня больше читаю и немножко подправил свои огрехи вчерашние огрехи, отношение указал незамкнутую область вот на карте лес и пропал :( поправил. http://osm.org/go/0jdupLPb--

by Alexey Furashev at January 21, 2012 08:44 PM