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2012-02-10T01:24:11+00:00

bom mot hopparena, post i butikk, barnehage, museum og "meetpoint" på Tomter

Fringe 2011

2012-02-09T22:46:46+00:00

Last weekend I was up at the Edinburgh Fringe, and once again I managed to see quite a few shows, with a few gems amongst them. I tweeted reviews of most of them at the time (where wifi permitted!), but this is aiming to be a slightly more expanded set. Mostly to help with picking shows next year, it must be said, but there is a day or two of the fringe left for other people to use them!

Stupid People Will Be Offended - Free standup by Mikey Mileos at Dropkick Murphy's. We happened across this show when we got to The Vaults early, and nipped over the road for a drink. Only caught the first half of the show, but for free standup it was pretty good. I'd say probably half the jokes worked, which beats some paid-for fringe standup shows I've seen! Could be one to watch for next year, if he can improve over the year. 3*

Sherica - Shred Productions at Paradise in the Vault. Possibly summed up by the line early on: Sorry. Stop ... This isn’t me. I don’t visit prostitutes. For God’s sake – I read the Guardian!. This dark and thought-provoking piece follows the downward spiral after a teacher falls for a sex worker who turns out to be the sister of one of his pupils. Add in some blackmail, a new academy school struggling with the change, and it's a good piece. Not as good as Paper Birds were when they tackled a similar subject with In A Thousand Pieces, but good none the less. 4*

What You Will - Shrewsbury School at C. Their own musical telling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night worked out really well, with some good songs but still keeping the original a lot. Good lunchtime fun, 4*

Lethal Injection - Five One Productions at C ECA. A compelling, minimalist production about 4 men on death row, and their guard. As their time approaches, we learn of their crimes and how they ended there, all for very different reasons. 4*

Sanctuary - Little Room Productions at Paradise in the Vault. A new opera set just before the apocalypse, as a father and daughter hide. Then others try to seek sanctuary with them. Very very operatic, which sometimes worked, but often got in the way. 3*

Matt Kirshen at Underbelly. Self-deprecating stories from his life, with the odd bit of politics in there as well. Funny, smart and enjoyable comedy. 4*

Wasted Love - One Academy Productions at C. This musical tells the story of a relationship support group, which despite how it may sounds was excellent. Great singing, great storytelling, heartbreak into uplifting redemption then sometimes tumbling back down again. This is what new and different musicals at the fringe should be like, 5*

Principal Parts - Strip Theatre at C soco. Surrealist telling of a group trying to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, despite their incompetences. Good fun, 4*

Sunday in the Park with George - One Academy Productions again (twice in an afternoon!) at C. A full 2 hour production of Sondheim's musical about Georges Seurat's painting. A good (but not amazing) production of this good (but not amazing) musical. 4*

Sammy J and Randy: Ricketts Lane at Udderbelly Pasture. On top form again, this time Sammy J and his friend Randy (the foul mouthed purple puppet) are battling tax avoidance amidst their domestic misadventures. Silly tales, word plays, long running gags (can I get a pwappwa new guinea, pwappwa new guinea!), and generally very very very funny. 5*

Belt Up's Outland - Belt Up in C Soco once again. A smaller set of shows to last year, and in a small and intimate setting for this immersive theatre production. This time it's related to Lewis Carroll's worlds and life. Similar to last year's The Boy James, more static and less interactive than some of their have been. Generally good, but one or two bits felt a little too similar to some of their past shows. 4*

Isy Suttie at Pleasance was another funny, well done telling of the tale of her friend's relationship. Cheery comedy, with some good songs in it too, generally feel-good with laughs. 4*

Horne Section was late night music and banter in the Spiegel Tent. Quite a bit of live jazz, with some standup and silly games thrown in, not to mention the crazy but great Jazz/Morris Dancing Crossover version of a Beyonce song! Some good guests too the night we saw it. 4*

Street Dreams - Little Cauliflower at Underbelly. A puppetry show, but not really as you know it. Instead, an amazingly done piece of abstract storytelling, as an old man goes about his day pestered and chased by a variety of everyday objects. Sweet, funny, sad, brilliantly done and engaging. A little hard to describe, true, but an enchanting hour not to be missed! 5*

Which One's Fergal by Garrett Millerick at Just the Tonic at the Caves. A series of strong character sketches, satirical but well done, with a great mix of laughs and cringes. Garrett weaves his way between God's gift to Advertising Execs, a Traffic Warden, a failed motivational Hip-Hop singer and more. Biting but funny, a solid 4*

Flanders and Swan - Tim FitzHigham and Duncan Walsh Atkins at the Pleasance. An excellent hour of Flanders and Swan songs and tales, with just the right amount of sillyness (the music stand french horn anyone?). 4*

Seagull Effect - Idle Motion at Zoo Roxy. The Oxford based group were back again, after last year's great The Vanishing Horizon, this time with a tale of the 1987 hurricane. Once again they had a great mix of theatre, multimedia, and the odd bit of dance and physical theatre. The stories of different people interleave with archive footage and sound, with stories swirling together as the storm approaches. Great stuff, but not quite as good as last year. 4*

Belt Up's 20 minutes to 9 - back to C Soco for another Belt Up production. This one-woman immersive show takes us through recollections, stories and social observations of an aging apparently well-off woman. At times funny, others odd, almost always engaging, but you're never entirely sure quite what's going on, in that way that Belt Up can do well. Great stuff, but not quite as good as they have been before. 4*

Sammy J with Potentially at Underbelly is last but not least. Back again with stories, songs, and silly anecdotes that slowly stitch together to reveal the ridiculous but true linked narrative. Cruise Ships, Possums, a mystery man with a death wish in a red g-string, children's stories and a hell of a lot of laughs fill the hour. On top form again, 5*

Only 19 shows this year, in just over 3 days, but I'm sure we'll get the show count back up again next year!

Не содержит ГММ

2012-02-09T18:31:31+00:00

Bishop с гис-лаба перевёл небольшую статью про то, как в южных странах гугль не хочет добавлять полезные фичи или вообще включать MapMaker по политическим причинам, и жителям приходится рисовать карту в OpenStreetMap.

Те же, кто не знает альтернатив коммерческим картам, едят кактус иногда очень смешно:

gmm, блоги

Quartierstrassen und Hausnummern, Velowege ect

2012-02-09T12:52:54+00:00

Es fehlen diverse Quartierstrasse, Hausnummern,ect ich bin am üben um Einträge zu machen

Quartierstrassen und Hausnummern, Velowege ect

2012-02-09T12:52:51+00:00

Es fehlen diverse Quartierstrasse, Hausnummern,ect ich bin am üben um Einträge zu machen

Добавил новые треки

2012-02-09T11:58:40+00:00

Это круто...

Sankt Andreasberg

2012-02-09T10:46:07+00:00

Nach und nach habe ich Daten in und um Sankt Andreasberg gesammelt. Mittlerweile dürften nur noch kleinigkeiten fehlen. Leider scheint es in der Umgebung - abgesehen von mir - nicht viele Mapper zu geben daher bekomme ich leider kaum Feedback über mögliche Fehler die ich gemacht habe oder Hinweise auf Dinge die ich besser machen könnte.
Vor kurzem habe ich BestOfOSM entdeckt und auf deren Seite gelesen, dass sich deren Team über Hinweise auf gut gemappte Orte freuen. Leider habe ich auf keine der beiden Mails eine Antwort erhalten, daher gehe ich davon aus, dass hier noch einige unzulänglichkeiten vorhanden sind.

Was noch zu erledigen ist:
- einige Wege im Kurpark (lizenzproblematik)
- ein paar Gebäude fehlen noch (schlechte Qualität der Satellitenbilder)
- Wanderwege (GPS Tracks im Zulauf)

Wenn Jemand Lust hat, sich den Bereich mal anzusehen, freue ich mich über Kommentare.

LG,

Ogmios

Looking for a web developer for Ubisense myWorld

2012-02-09T00:30:00+00:00

My previous post was also about a job ... am definitely going to start doing more posts shortly on a variety of other topics including some of the cool new things we've been working on in terms of products at Ubisense! But anyway, we are looking for a senior developer and software architect to join the Ubisense myWorld product team. If you read this blog you're probably familiar with myWorld,

POIs setzen

2012-02-08T19:02:17+00:00

Simple Nodes reinsetzen, name und amenity oder so dazu, fertig - soweit kann ich das ohne Probleme. Nun gibt's da verschiedene Fragen, die ich einfach mal so in die Runde werfe und, wenn sie niemand beantwortet, selbst mal irgendwann rauskriegen werde (dann ist das hier quasi ein Notizzettel, leider nicht mit Tagging-Möglichkeit):

- Wenn man für einen "Punkt" mehrere Werte angeben möchte - also bspw. in einem Hochhaus mit 100 Stockwerken die darin enthaltenen 100 Läden - muss ich dann 100 einzelne Nodes anlegen, die sich alle "überlappen"? Klar, ich könnte die zu einer Relation zusammenfassen, macht es aber nicht gerade einfacher :)

- Gibt's einen nenneswerten Unterschied zwischen Nodes und Flächen, die mit Attributen ausgestattet sind? Also abgesehen von der Tatsache, dass das eine ne Fläche ist... Es gibt ja bspw. Kirchen, die als Punkt eingetragen sind, und Kirchen, die als Gebäude eingetragen sind. Ich vermute mal, dass man als Navi-Entwickler den POI einfach quasi in die Mitte des Gebäudes setzt... Ok, eigentlich ist das jetzt keine richtige Frage :)

- Nodes verschieben: Ich hab eine Haltestelle gefunden, die leider auf der falschen Seite einer Kreuzung liegt. Dummerweise ist diese Haltestelle aber nicht als eigener Punkt, sondern als Teil einer Straße angelegt - somit kann ich die nicht einfach auf die andere Seite der Kreuzung schieben. Gibt es da einen Weg, die schnell rüberzubringen, ohne das ganze Gefummel mit Werte rüberkopieren etc.? Zusätzlich ist die ja noch Teil mindestens einer Relation (Linie, ÖPNV-Netz etc.)

- Und, besonders wichtig: wer liest diese Blogeinträge überhaupt? Nachdem sich gestern schon ein Kommentator hier eingefunden hat (vielen Dank!), scheinen die ja wohl nicht ganz unterzugehen.

Antworten sind natürlich willkommen :)

imagen de muso por satelite

2012-02-08T16:45:18+00:00

quien la tega años 2010 en adelante
multiespetro

Contatta e Rimappa a Roma.Fatto???

2012-02-08T15:51:13+00:00

Scrivo ai mappatori di Roma e dintorni.

Grazie al sito http://cleanmap.poole.ch ho visto che a Roma ci sono diverse zone che verranno colpite in maniera abbastanza significativa dalle cancellazioni dei contributi degli utenti che non hanno accettato la nuova licenza.

Mi chiedevo se qualcuno ha già pensato a contattare gli indecisi (ne ho trovati più di uno grazie a quel sito).
Lo scrivo per evitare di disturbare chi è già stato contattato e magari per daer una mano a contattare chi non lo è ancora stato.

Come appunto anche personale ecco alcune info sul contattare gli utenti:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL#Italian_example_1
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/02/05/contact-and-remap/

Lista degli utenti già contattati, dove non ho trovato i "romani":
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Asking_users_to_accept_the_ODbL/Reponders

Evidenzio inoltre alcune zone dove la situazione è più seria:

Fregene: verrebbe tutta cancellata!!!
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=14&lat=41.85034&lon=12.20716&layers=00B

Ippodromo Tor di Valle e Depuratore Roma sud: verrebbero cancellati
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=15&lat=41.82155&lon=12.43183&layers=00B

Zona Frattocchie: sparirebbe, così come la ferrovia di Marino, stazione compresa
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=14&lat=41.75866&lon=12.61778&layers=00B

Quartieri Africano e Trieste: imaptto pesante, spariscono vie, giardini, palazzi, POI
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=15&lat=41.92301&lon=12.51556&layers=00B

Zona Flaminio e dintorni: sparirebbe villa Glori e il ponte flaminio
diverse vie, sia in zona che nei pressi di viale Parioli o Piazza Mazzini
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=15&lat=41.93115&lon=12.47041&layers=00B

Zona via delle Milizie: diverse vie e un bel pezzo di metro (tre o 4 fermate di lunghezza!), compresa stazione metro Cipro
http://cleanmap.poole.ch/?zoom=15&lat=41.91083&lon=12.45286&layers=00B

Saluti a tutti

Пракласцi маршрут сюды

2012-02-08T14:45:32+00:00

Оказалось, прокладка маршрутов на openstreetmap.by — не просто прикрученный чужой движок, а единственная ежедневно обновляющаяся база роутинга по странам СНГ (спасибо trolleway за подсказку). То есть, на осмоснимках ещё не успели отрисоваться улицы, добавленные этой ночью, а маршруты по ним уже кладутся. Если опыта работы с клаудмейдом нет, подскажу: жмите правую кнопку мыши на карте.

проекты

Let’s rid the web of comments like this.

2012-02-08T12:57:52+00:00

Please note that the Google map below shows Brooklands Museum in the wrong place! It is actually to the right, on the other side of the river, just beneath London Bus Museum’s logo, which is in the right place.

GIS

2012-02-08T09:53:28+00:00

Sitter på GIS-lektion.....

Uppgift

2012-02-08T09:44:35+00:00

Sitter och jobbar med GIS!

Lektion

2012-02-08T09:44:22+00:00

Just nu håller jag på med de övningar som vi har fått i uppgift att göra på denna sida.

hej.

2012-02-08T09:42:30+00:00

hej..

Min dag

2012-02-08T09:42:02+00:00

Jag har kul på lektionen. Snart är det mat.
Detta är kul som facebook ska här när jag inte har något att göra det blir kul:D
Hare bra MVH Hannes er polare

P.s House Ogge hälsar med sina hälsningar!

Kul

2012-02-08T09:41:36+00:00

Jag tycker detta är givande.
Kul att flera tycker likadant. Teamspirit

Viktigt TE09A!!

2012-02-08T09:40:31+00:00

Det finns en kleptoman i klassen så håll hårt i era nycklar...

Hej

2012-02-08T09:35:47+00:00

Hej, första inlägget.

Lektion

2012-02-08T09:35:02+00:00

Idag har jag lektion.

GIS

2012-02-08T09:35:02+00:00

Hej jagarbetar med GIS och ska nog på siesta

Övning 4

2012-02-08T09:34:47+00:00

Gutsigt

Svensexa

2012-02-08T09:34:43+00:00

Party här varje Lördag klockan 12

Uppgift_4

2012-02-08T09:32:01+00:00

Hej.

Uppgift_4

2012-02-08T09:32:01+00:00

Hej.

Onsdags gruppen

2012-02-08T09:25:55+00:00

Kommentera denna och skapa en egen dagbok som jag kan kommentera.

Sag' nun Gute Nacht

2012-02-08T08:39:15+00:00

So eine lange Nacht ist zu Ende und habe trotzdem weniger weiter gebracht als erwartet.

Zum Einen bin ich erst nach Mitternacht eingestiegen und zum Anderen hat mich heute Nacht mein mobiles Internet zeitweise im Stich gelassen. Trotzdem hat es Spass gemacht.

Österreichische User haben ja den Luxus auf georeferenzierte Luftaufnahmen vom Vater Staat zurückgreifen zu dürfen (geoimage.at). Dadurch kann man viele schöne Details erkennen und ohne grosse Probleme eintragen. Ich habe mich wie die letzte Zeit auf die Marktgemeinde Mondsee konzentriert und habe dort Häuser, Parkplätze, Wäldchen und Hecken eingetragen. 1/3 der Gemeindefläche (ohne See gerechnet) ist auf die Art einstweilen bearbeitet.

Nun denn geruhet wohl!
feneks

An Inspirational Message

2012-02-08T07:11:55+00:00

Like many other potential users of OpenStreetMap data, we at Bing are keen on seeing the license change come through so that we can begin to use OpenStreetMap data without the uncertainties that CC-BY-SA brings.

I may have made a little mistake when I was hired. As you know, I've always had the greatest confidence in myself, and when asked how quickly I could push through the license change, I said, "trust me, it'll all be over before the end of 2011". Now that was coming right out of CloudMade where Nick and I were practically living on promises that nobody thought realistic. What I didn't know was that my new employer would turn every word I say into a bonus target!

So, my employment contract forbids me divulging details about my salary and related issues but I have made this little table for you which illustrates the gravity of the situation. I hope you get my message.

помогите нарисовать

2012-02-08T06:43:37+00:00

Помогите нарисовать г. Каргополь Архангельской области.

Erster Test...

2012-02-07T22:50:34+00:00

Ich dachte mir, das mit dem #notlm nehm ich einfach mal zum Anlass, JOSM zu installieren und wild rumzuklicken :)

More satellite imagery in Bing!

2012-02-07T17:54:54+00:00

At least in my country (Philippines) it seems that Bing Maps has added a whole lot of new/updated satellite imagery sometime within the last two days. The scale of the update is mind-boggling. It’s as if Microsoft went on a satellite image shopping spree! The added imagery seems to have more than tripled the area that is available for tracing. 2012 will certainly be a very busy year for OpenStreetMap in my country, and that’s not just because of the license change. ;-)

Can people in other countries confirm this development?

Captains' Heads and the Milky Way

2012-02-07T17:02:00+00:00

There was snow on the ground at home. Any trip out in the car would need to be on main roads. Any trip out on foot would need to be very local and any trip out on a bike would be horrible. We opted for a car ride which included a quick stop to grab photos of a couple of blue plaques in Hull.

The area close to the railway station in Hull has been rebuilt over recent years. Did I say railway station? I meant the Paragon Interchange of course. It used to be the Paragon station with the bus station next door, now they are all under one roof. Next door is a shopping centre called St Stephens. Not, you'll notice, the St Stephens commodity-cash interchange, but maybe that is coming. The roads to the west were changed or even removed as part of the process. St Stephens Square disappeared but gave its name to the shopping centre. The Spring Street theatre, which had the Hull Truck Theatre Company based there, has been replaced by a new theatre called the Hull Truck, presumably because it is not on Spring Street any more.

A short new road was added to give access to an area otherwise cut off by the development. This is called Milky Way. Far from being a galactic super highway, it is where Northern Dairies had a distribution depot before the redevelopment.

The two plaques were easy to find, one being a plaque for Hull College which has had a presence in Park Street since 1898 and one being for a Volunteer Fire Brigade. The fire station had some carvings around the doorways that were good to see. The building is in reasonable condition and the carvings looked recently painted, to the extent that the layers of paint may be obscuring some of the detail in the carvings. The carvings were of firemen and horses. Apparently the firemen were the captains of the brigade at the time.

The carvings of horses showed they were as important to the brigade as their captains; horse-drawn engines being all that was available in 1887.

Worth a journey out in the snow.

В Краснодаре через час #notlm

2012-02-07T15:12:34+00:00

Через два часа начнётся встреча в Саратове, а через три — в Петербурге. Ну а ленивых приглашаю провести ночь за монитором, обклацывая новоприбывшие снимки. Не работайте спустя рукава: вспомните Саранск, Геленджик, Абакан. Даже деревни нужно довести до такого состояния, чтобы обновления были лишь по мелочам. Оконтуривайте лес, рисуйте поля. Научитесь работать с плагином reltoolbox. И не превращайте увлечение в работу: выберите самый интересный кусок, но очень желательно, чтобы за пределами больших городов.

Самое главное — все комментарии к пакетам правок должны начинаться с #notlm, чтобы потом можно было отделить их от остальных, посчитать статистику и сделать видеоролик.

А в Японии уже начали. Ещё апдейт: Pascal Neis выдал онлайн-мониторинг наших ченджсетов!

mapping party

London Lanyrd Londium and License change-over

2012-02-07T13:56:29+00:00

I've been slow to get around to this, but the next London OpenStreetMap pub meet-up is all set up for this coming Thursday. You can sign-up using a twitter account on Lanyrd.

...and look! There's a little OpenStreetMap image showing where the event venue is. This came about as a rather awesomely speedily pro-active response by lanyrd to my cheeky tweet this week. It's not a big switch to OSM. In fact it's quite a minor switch, only showing OpenStreetMap in place of boring old google maps if the a topic of 'OpenStreetMap' is set on an event. But this is some kind of milestone. Of all the websites I've tried using to pimp OSM London events on over the years... we finally have one which doesn't show/link the wrong map alongside our event! (It's literally been annoying me for years)

So yes. We'll be at the Penderel's Oak on Thursday, and having said all that, the OpenStreetMap wiki page is still the best place for directions to find us at the pub, and read all about what the event is (it's not complicated) So link people to that if you know anyone who might like to come along on Thursday.

Last time we were at the Monkey Puzzle and had a couple of new faces, Andy and Tom, who sat next to Andy and Tom in the pub to create some kind of crazy alternating Andy Tom situation. One of them... either Andy or Tom I can't remember... was telling me about his site Londinium.com which is a London related website directory, and we chatted about how OpenStreetMap could be mixed in to this e.g. using our data on POIs with 'website' tags.

Great to have Paul The Archivist along too. I met him at WhereCampUK in Nottingham a while back.

Of course we also had the mighty Richard Fairhurst along. Creator of Potlatch, and currently serving on the OSM foundation board. He was in town for a canal-related event, and I pictured him clambering out of canal barge in Paddington basin after an scenic journey along the great Charlbury to London canal, before joining us in the pub, but I'm not sure if that's quite what happened.

Overall we had a pretty stonking turn-out, and had to do some amusing chair swapping so we could all have a turn at eating our meal at the table!

more photos by Alex

We had some pretty interesting discussions about organisational structure of the OSMF, and particularly job titles such as "chairman" within in the board.

We talked about Andy's little scheme to sell SD cards containing OpenCycleMap maps for garmin. Currently he has to faff around a lot with envelopes and physically posting them to people. It's just a fun little side-line for him at the moment, but I'd love to see these in every outdoor shop alongside the other maps and gadgets they always stock. We were talking about how he do some sort of distribution deal, or just find someone to help him with "retail packaging".

We talked about the remapping. In London the bad map is looking a lot more clear nowadays, particularly after Ed Avis accepted (although I was secretly looking forward to deleting a lot of his low quality contributions in my neighbourhood, but I suppose his acceptance is good news) But there is some important data such as tube stations which are very old, and so are tending to be contaminated with non-CT-accepter edits. We should probably make sure those don't disappear! Contact and re-map!

If all that map-chat sounds like fun, or if you'd like to have some other techie-talk conversations with OpenStreetMap folks, or if you'd like come along as a newbie and learn some basics about OpenStreetMap, the pub is a great place to do these things! See you in the Penderel's Oak Holborn on thursday!

Ложка к обеду

2012-02-07T13:11:17+00:00

Сегодня ZCC заметил новые снимки Bing на севере Ленинградской области. Новость я воспринял скептически, учитывая, что нас не радовали обновлениями уже больше года. Посмотрел на сайте — только ландсат, открыл страничку для вытаскивания дат — ничего. Но. Приблизил в последней Кузнечное ещё на несколько шагов, и увидел «апрель 2010». Загрузил район в JOSM — и вот они, очаровательные зимние снимки южной Карелии.

После нескольких часов обрисовывания новых контуров выяснилось, что покрытие Псковской и Новгородской областей не изменилось, зато Ленинградская отснята примерно на две трети. Также, цепочки снимков уходят далеко на север от Петрозаводска и на запад от Выборга. Даты обновления — апрель-июль 2010 и 2011 годов. В частности, весь Петербург в федеральных границах отснят в июле 2010. Очень много весенних снимков, когда вся область ещё покрыта снегом.

В чатике и на форуме сообщают об обновлениях и в других регионах. Похоже, дождались!

источники

The early evening of undead geo-information

2012-02-07T13:09:55+00:00

Hiermit sei noch mal kurzfristig zur Beteiligung an der “Nacht der lebenden Karten” aufgerufen.
Weltweit finden sich heute (Nacht) Mapper zusammen um unter Koffeineinfluss so lange Karten zu malen, bis sich ihr Hirn dem Zustand der Verwesung nähert.

Dabei soll vor allem der Datenbestand in ländlichen Gebieten verbessert werden, in dem Luftbilder nachgezeichnet und so grobe Strukturen ergänzt werden. Diesem ansonsten als ‘armchair mapping’ verpönten Editieren vom heimischen Sessel aus darf also höchst offiziell gefrönt werden. Natürlich mit den entsprechenden Sicherheitshinweisen.

Eigentlich spielt auch die soziale Komponente eine große Rolle. Geplant werden mapping parties mit Getränken und Verpflegung. Leider haben sich hier in Erfurt dafür nicht genügend Freiwillige gefunden. In Ilmenau treffen sich aber meines Wissens nach einige Aktive. Leider eignet sich die Veranstalltung nur wenig für Neulinge, da eben gerade das zombiehafte Luftbildmappen eher langweilig ist. Wer trotzdem Lust hat mitzumachen, soll sich einfach kurz bei mir melden und wir organisieren eine kurze Einweisung und ‘Fernschaltung’ zur virtuellen Party. Bei mir wird die ‘Nacht’ allerdings früh enden, man muss ja am nächsten Morgen auch wieder raus.

Verfolgen kann man die Aktion zudem im Netz, und zwar in den verschiedensten sozialen Netzwerken sowie per IRC:

OSM Forum

Taggt man seine Änderungen mit #notlm in den Changeset-Comments, dürfte es in den nächsten Tagen eine hübsche und hoffentlich beeindruckend umfassende Animation der geleisteten Fortschritte geben. Also, ran an die Karten… ~~BRAAAIIIINNNZZZ~~ .. ähh .. MAAAAAPPPPPZZZZZ!

Logo by Ken Vermette http://kver.ca

Upcoming Conferences

2012-02-06T19:43:51+00:00

For anyone who doesn't hawkishly follow my Lanyrd upcoming events page, here's a quick round-up of some of the conferences I'm speaking at / helping with in the near future.

Coming up in just under a fortnight (mental note - must finish my talk...) is Transfer Summit, 7-8 September. Handily located in Keble, so no need to leave Oxford, this conference is back for it's 2nd year covering open source, open development, innovation and collaboration. Last year featured loads of very interesting talks, and this year's looking promising too. If you're interested in open source, open development, academic to business transitions for software, or just a fun conference in Oxford, come join us!

The weekend following Transfer Summit we have BarCampApacheOxford, once again being held in the University Club. This year we're on Sunday 11th September, with a meal the night before. As usual, we'll have a wide range of sessions, including (but not limited to!) ones on the Apache Software Foundation and it's projects. We'll also likely have things on mapping, Django, Arduino, OpenOffice, Paper Aeroplanes and listening to Satellites, so it should be a great mix! If you want to come, sign up on the wiki ASAP, so you can ensure you get one of the spots that includes a free lunch :)

A month later, I'm off to Amsterdam for a few days. On Thursday 13th and Friday 14th October I'll be at GotoCon Amsterdam, mostly going to the great sessions on offer, but also talking as well. There's a good mix of sessions across lots of different areas of software development, and we've an Apache track on there too on the Friday. If you are thinking of coming, you can use the code burc200 for 20% off the registration price.

On Saturday 15th, the day after GotoCon, we're also doing an Apache Hackathon + mini BarCamp in Amsterdam. Hippo are kindly hosting us, and should be a fun chance to get Apache types from Europe together for a chat, some coding, and hopefully also share some knowledge amongst ourselves. It's open to not only Apache committers, but also anyone who contributes code or documentation to Apache (basically anyone on a dev list), sign up on the wiki and come along if you're in Amsterdam that weekend!

Next up is the Alfresco DevCon 2011 USA in San Diego. Not sure yet what I'm speaking on (though I think I'm down for a few sessions...). It's a chance to learn about developing solutions with and on top of Alfresco, in the lovely surroundings of San Diego, so who wouldn't want to go :)

Finally (for now, but possibly not for this year...) is ApacheCon NA 2011 in Vancouver, 7-11 November (plus hopefully a BarCamp on the 12th). We've an amazing set of speakers and talks lined up as usual, and it's looking promising for a great conference. Early bird rates end soon, so sign up!

Участие

2012-02-06T17:41:44+00:00

Чувствую, кирдык пришел моим правкам.

Ночь оживших карт в Петербурге

2012-02-06T15:26:44+00:00

Завтра вечером, с 22 часов, картографы во всем мире проведут несколько часов (а то и всю ночь) за рисованием карты. Петербуржцы нашли помещение, чтобы собраться для этого вместе, недалеко от метро «площадь Александра Невского». Всё про встречу написано в заметке: http://shtosm.ru/2012/02/06/1/

Приглашаем новичков! Если вам интересно рисовать со снимков, это один из очень немногих моментов, когда такое не только приветствуется, но даже поощряется. Опытные участники всё покажут и расскажут, от установки правильного редактора до различения типов растительности. Мы будем рады познакомиться с новыми осмерами из нашего города (а также с туристами, кому нечем ночь занять :)

Подходите на Старорусскую, 5 к 22 часам завтра, 7 февраля. Если сможете, запишитесь заранее (см. ссылку выше). От входа нужно позвонить GaM-у, +7 921 426-74-00, чтобы он поднял попу со стула и провёл вас в конференц-зал. Возьмите с собой ноутбук, мышку и какую-нибудь вкусность.

До встречи!

Rheinfelden Herten

2012-02-06T15:23:30+00:00

Waiting for some information from Geoportal.lv-blw.de

Петербург завтра не спит

2012-02-06T14:58:52+00:00

Похоже, никто в России больше не организовывает Ночь так же масштабно, как в Петербурге. Участники из последнего собираются в 22 часа (можно чуть раньше) в институте на Старорусской, 5 (недалеко от станции метро «площадь Александра Невского»). Очень желательно заранее записаться сюда, или смской на +7 921 426-74-00. Устроимся в конференц-зале, места минимум на 12 человек, розетки, wi-fi и чай. Температура порядка 17°, есть шанс не уснуть.

Чем будем заниматься? Во-первых, будем рады новичкам: конференц-зал даёт шанс научить и ответить на все вопросы. Большую часть времени будем обклацывать снимки Ленинградской области — какие именно, решим на месте. В обязательных перерывах обсудим Вечные Проблемы Русского OSM. Ну и просто познакомимся.

С собой обязательно возьмите ноутбук, мышку и какую-нибудь вкусняшку. Для проникновения потребуется позвонить на номер вверху. Расходиться начнём около трёх (будет несколько автомобилистов). Все вопросы, если остались, задавайте на форуме — и пиарьте встречу, приглашайте новичков!

Апдейт: краснодарцы тоже собираются у Котельникова на квартире.
Апдейт 2: любители ночной картографии из Саратова, записывайтесь сюда (и читайте комментарии).

mapping party

GPS course for hillwalkers

2012-02-06T13:40:54+00:00

Last week I presented some slides on using a Garmin GPS. It is geared towards non-techie hillwalkers, but it has a few pointers to OSM, not the least of which is "how to put an OSM map on your Garmin".

The slides are at http://megarezo.org/~moltonel/Tyndall%20GPS%20course.pdf for anyone interested. I can make the original odp file available on request, and put an explicit PD/CC licence on the file if necessary.

Enjoy.

Помогите найти программу для телефона

2012-02-06T13:34:22+00:00

Телефон Nokia 5530 XpressMusik OC: Symbian OS 9.4 , платф: S60 5th Edition

Не могу найти нормальную программу, которая бы рендерила ОСМ.
Уважаемые помогите файликами или ссылкой

markiliffe

2012-02-06T12:26:04+00:00

A hackathon is a wonderful thing for any project, be it a community driven project like Taarifa or something that ships ‘professionally’. The idea behind it is simple, get hackers in a room, ply them with food, drink and ideas and 48 hours later reap the rewards of their work. The problem is it’s not often where a project continues after the hackathon. Taarifa in many ways broke that trend, by its developers continuously communicating, adding code, patching bugs and the such like.

We were joined by new developers, some who were corralled into the project by the original developers, other brought in by friends of friends. Taarifa as a project is getting bigger! Assembling for the first hackathon since the first we sought to address problems caused by new bugs and already existing ones. One of the mistakes of many coding projects (especially ‘hacks’) is that the developer is in the mindset of putting in new functionality before fixing known bugs. Bugs are always going to be found, but you’ll be building upon shifting sands if you don’t fix what you already know. Simply because when you go back and fix old problems, they’ll often break newer code down the line.

Part of this is about making it easier to develop and the code base ‘better’. At the original hackathon we took the Ushahidi code base because of the functionality which was included out of the box. We hacked it to make something that looked like it was working. However we now realise that this wasn’t the best strategy for sustainability. Though what we had done worked, it was not ready to be deployed and put into release. The opinion of the developers on Ushahidi’s code base, using the Kohana framework wasn’t good. Finding something as simple as a HTML header took two developers a few hours to resolve with more complicated issues requiring a ‘strong investigative ability…’

While this bellies the importance of documentation, sometimes this isn’t enough. Making code simpler and easier to use isn’t just good for new people joining a project, it’s good for your existing development team as well. In the context of a hackathon this is really important because time is also a consideration. In Taarifa practically all the ‘significant’ code base has been written in these two day sprints, and we’ve only had two events. To engage more developers and contributors in the project we now need to work on communications and other non-code matters. Now we’ve a bigger and more engaged community than before. We have contributors from many countries around the world, an active mailing list, github repository and live demo and development sites. To coin a ’90s phrase: the future’s bright. The future’s Taarifa.

Written and submitted from the Isle of Dogs, London, UK (51.487291,-0.0183036)

February mappa-mercia Meetup

2012-02-06T11:42:00+00:00

Our February meetup took place in a new venue – the Crown Inn on Newton Street opposite the Crown Court. The beer and the food are cheaper (especially the BOGOF* on desserts) and no less good and there’s more room. The only drawback is there’s no wifi. It’s also closer to the main rail stations. So it’s our new permanent venue until we go visiting around the region again from May onwards to take advantage of the light evenings and surveying time.

We had a good turnout of seven: Steve and Ian from Worcesterhire; Pete from Warwickshire and the old regulars Mike, Brian, Andy and Andrew.

What most exercised us was the remapping effort, with our region being particularly troubled by one local contributor who had been a keen mapper and i unlikely to agree to the new CTs. Coventry and the Malverns were two particularly hard hit areas. Another was Kingswinford, where there had been no response from the mapper involved. We felt we would be in good shape by April 1^st as most of the motorways, trunk , primary and secondary roads were now clean.

We will pay special attention to Warwickshire where Pete informed us about the plans the County Council has to use OpenStreet Map. More about that when it’s fully live and public. Pete was keen to see if there was a means by which map features generated in OpenLayers could be edited into OSM automatically.

There were different opinions about the sprouting of a continuous stream of “HS2” text strings along the route of the proposed HS2 London-Birmingham High Speed Train route on the main Mapnik render. It was a good indicator of where the route went without examining the layer which had the detailed layout of the proposed route; but it was not good cartographic style to have the name of a proposed feature which is still at least 15 years away from completion cluttering up today’s map. This raised a more general point with Mapnik rendering names of all kinds of features not present on the ground which clutter up the map (e.g. Parish and Ward boundaries in urban areas).

We all decided to participate, even if it was only for a few hours, in the Night of the living Maps on February 7th. Those of you who couldn't attend at the Crown Inn are encouraged to join in. Hope we don't get too many editing clashes

Andrew wanted people to know about a grant initiative for the developing world, details of which can be found here http://api.ids.ac.uk/about/grants.shtml Andrew had found it on the open data development mailing list which gives all the background. Deadline 13th February, but they have said there will more grants like this in future.

Andrew is still travelling around Warwickshire mapping and cataloguing allotments so we can build on the West Midlands data set which is mapped (roughly!) here as part of our collaboration with http://allotmentdata.org/

Steve had been busy mapping the Parishes in Worcestershire and has kindly provided the data in a useable form for us to complete the West Midlands. We shall get cracking in earnest on this once the remapping is under control, although we’re a little hesitant about “name clutter” – see above

We discussed what to do with the FOI request which had revealed the Marketing Birmingham ( a public organisation) had spent over £80,000 drawing a map from aerial imagery, whre with a little collaboration with us, would have cost a mere fraction of that.

We still haven’t had a reply from Centro about the City Centre reconfiguration of bus stops and road direction changes to make way for the proposed Metro extension. Work has started already on the ground reconfiguring Moor Street Queensway. Andy said he would add the proposed Metro route extension to the map.

We went through our change register to see what needed updating. We also discussed how to improve it to make it more useable, by having links to the map for each change; and by eventually having every piece of brownfield land logged.

We didn’t get round to discussing the Jewellery Quarter tourist walking route which Andy M had pointed out was missing by email and for which there was some dispute as to whether it’s actually waymarked on the ground. Even though several of us have surveyed the area no-one could remember distinctly seeing waymarks but then we probably weren’t looking for them! Sorry Andy!

We now have an up to date list of all the taxi ranks from Birmingham City Council which will be a great aid in future surveys and also to jog some memories about past surveys. Expect to see more taxi ranks soon on the map

We looked nostalgically at the paper map Andy produced in December 2009 to celebrate what we thought was a complete map of the area inside the M6-M5-M42 motorway ring. Complete? How wrong we were! But as we looked at the map on the table and reminisced that all the roads (except the motorways) had been surveyed by bicycle or foot with GPS devices with no aerial imagery to help us, we realised what a great achievement it was. So .... we thought what a great idea it would be to produce another paper map for December 2012 if we could raise enough funds, particularly as we think we might have every building mapped within the Birmingham City Council bordersmapped by then. If anyone wants, for historical purposes, a copyof the 2009 map, contact Blackadder

*for non-UK readers BOGOF Buy One Get One Free

YO!

2012-02-06T11:31:15+00:00

Detta verkar väldigt intressant! :D

Nu vet jag vart jag bor

2012-02-06T10:00:56+00:00

Nu finns jag på kartan , fyfan va coolt.

Klart

2012-02-06T09:51:13+00:00

Då var detta klart

hej

2012-02-06T09:50:38+00:00

idag är jag glad

hej

2012-02-06T09:50:29+00:00

idag är jag glad

hej

2012-02-06T09:50:28+00:00

idag är jag glad

övning4

2012-02-06T09:47:16+00:00

första dagboksinlägg.

övning 4

2012-02-06T09:46:51+00:00

då har man lärt sig hur man gör detta.

Test av dagbok

2012-02-06T09:28:17+00:00

Hej
Här i kan ni som skall kommentera göra det.
Det räcker i stort med ett hej...

Vatican 2012-01 mapquest

2012-02-06T06:00:34+00:00

Detail of Vatican City

Re-editando según trazas de GPS en Pto Madryn (Chubut - Argentina)

2012-02-06T03:55:18+00:00

Las imagenes satelitales de Bing son viejas y no están bien ubicadas, tienen un desplazamiento considerable.

El asunto que no se si uno y varios empiezan a corregir trazas hechas según registros de GPS y lo hacen según las imagenes satelitales de Bing e incluso hay ciertos accesos e interconexiones que han tenido obras mayores y ya no se asemejan para nada a dicha foto satelital.

Por lo tanto en día de hoy estuve actulizando las trazas en el mapa según los registro de GPS que tengo.

Espero para la proxima tener mejor suerte y esten hechando a perder mucho trabajo volcado a OSM como el mio y el de muchos otros más.

Saludos.

Contact and Remap

2012-02-05T22:12:46+00:00

A message from Michael Collinson and the Licensing Working Group

“Hi everyone,

We ask OSM mappers to check their local mapping areas, try and contact anyone who has not decided about re-licensing and then do as much remapping as you can. Please do this in good faith and not just copy things created by contributors who have declined or undecided! You can use information contributed by continuing mappers, resources like Bing imagery and your own knowledge. If you are mapping in Poland or the Czech Republic, please also note that we are aware of special issues that makes this difficult for you right now.

We would like to switch over licenses in two months time. In order to do that, un-relicensable data has to be removed from the active database, though it will remain in publicly available archives. The latest indications are that 1.9% of ways will likely not survive the license change and a further 0.6% may have to be reverted back to an earlier state.

We would like to decrease that still further.

Your mapping area may be much worse or much better. You can use the license change view on OSMinspector and zoom into your area (Information on this tool). You can then click on Potlatch or JOSM icons to find out more and to do remapping. More info

We ask that you look at your areas and contact undecided mappers via the OpenStreetMap messaging system or directly if you know them. So that they do not get bothered too many times, please log who you contacted on this wiki page

This page also has example messages in different languages. Ask undecided mappers to please log into their account and accept even if they no longer wish to continue mapping as their previous contribution is important to you. Contact from someone mapping in the same area is very useful.”

The text of this posting can also be found at Remapping/Contact And Remap Campaign. Please feel to simplify it to help non-native English speakers and to translate it into other languages.

Original mailing list post

Rando à Bedero Valcuvia

2012-02-05T21:57:45+00:00

Aujourd'hui randonnée dans la neige à Bedero Valcuvia