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The UK government has been consulting on changing copyright rules to allow copying of creative works by AI companies.
We have responded to the consultation, arguing – like many – that creators’ rights must be respected.
Over the last year we have directly experienced the problems caused by AI bots.
Our Photomap contains almost 150,000 images, taken by local cyclists, providing an unparalleled resource of cycling/transport-related imagery, all geolocated and with rich metadata and categorisation.
These photos represent the hard work of our site users, who have uploaded them to demonstrate cycle/road infrastructure in areas they cycle – using this to demonstrate things that perhaps they would like to see fixed, or showing how good ideas could be transferred elsewhere.
As such, this material forms potential AI training material. That is the process of AI companies copying, or ‘scraping’ a website like ours to make a copy of the material, which they then use as raw material.
In the last 12 months, we have seen an explosion of illicit scraping activity. We have had to take increasingly extreme measures to protect the intellectual property of our users from this theft. We have seen sustained bot scraping with hundreds, even over 1,000, concurrent requests, aiming to copy our database.
This is the reality of AI scraping.
Our usage policy and our robots.txt file explicitly deny scraping for generative AI purposes, yet it is happening constantly from illicit operators. These bots almost always do not identify themselves, using vast numbers of randomised IP address from residential proxies, and using faked user-agents. As such, this is purely illicit activity. No legitimate AI company would act in this way (legitimate bots are broadly obeying our robots.txt).
These are companies copying our database without payment, creating costs which we have to bear, and in extremis denying access to legitimate visitors to our site.
These bots are not only copying our users’ images for use without attribution, they are also stealing our Database Right on an unlicensed basis. Database rights cover the overarching collection of objects in a database (in our case photographs) as distinct from the items themselves. Database rights recognise the extensive costs we (CycleStreets) have borne over many years to provide, host and facilitate, the ability to host photos.
Dealing with controlling this nuisance has also been a huge distraction from productive work, like the design changes and user-interface simplifications we are gradually rolling out around the site.
The current AI crawler bot theft situation has also highlighted the inadequacy of the robots.txt technical standard. We believe a next-generation standard to replace robots.txt is urgently needed, where allowance/denial of bot activity is determined by purpose rather than identity. We have no problem with traditional search engines. By contrast, unlicensed use by AI provides no benefit to our users or ourselves – it creates only costs.
Our response to the government consultation therefore expresses our view that:
We have signed the Statement on AI training, and encourage others to do so. Thanks to Ed Newton-Rex and others who have worked hard on this issue.
Please do contact your MP to raise these issues, and do kindly point them to this post.
Mary Magdalena’s skull.
Mary Magdalena’s skull.
I used to enjoy making edits on OSM, but now it is so cluttered with every little detail in some areas that you can’t even zoom in to see anything but symbols. I don’t know how to cancel my username. Sorry folks, but I am outta here!
I used to enjoy making edits on OSM, but now it is so cluttered with every little detail in some areas that you can’t even zoom in to see anything but symbols. I don’t know how to cancel my username. Sorry folks, but I am outta here!
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How to delete?
How to delete?
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[1] The geOrchestra/MapStore Cyclone Chido Map of the post disaster evaluation of the damage caused by 2024 Cyclone Chido. © Les Libres Géographes | Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors.
sensory_friendly=*
proposal, for tagging to indicate if a feature provides sensory accessibility for people with sensory processing sensitivity and if there are designated sensory friendly hours.practitioners=*
proposal was unsuccessful with 7 votes in favour, 8 against and 3 abstentions. The initial sensory_friendly=*
proposal was also unsuccessful with 9 votes in favour, 6 against and 0 abstentions.Note:
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Baru selesai mengerjakan Jalan Dewi Sartika (dibantu gsv), tinggal survey ke lokasi langsung untuk detailing later kalau sudah pulkam hehe..
Sekarang waktunya mengerjakan jalan sebrang sungai (Jl. nusa indah & cempaka)
Baru selesai mengerjakan Jalan Dewi Sartika (dibantu gsv), tinggal survey ke lokasi langsung untuk detailing later kalau sudah pulkam hehe..
Sekarang waktunya mengerjakan jalan sebrang sungai (Jl. nusa indah & cempaka)
Buenas tardes, soy Osvaldo y estoy buscando ayuda para colocar un mapa de ruta en el itinerario de viaje de mi agencia de viajes. la idea es por ejemplo:
DÍA 01 MÉXICO – LONDRES DÍA 02 - PARÍS DÍA 03 - ZURICH DÍA 04 - PARÍS DIA 05 - PARIS-MEXICO
Y DEBAJO UN MAPA QUE UNA CADA DESTINO CON UNA LINEA. el problema es que no estoy inmerso en este tema y deseo que me ayuden para lograrl
Buenas tardes, soy Osvaldo y estoy buscando ayuda para colocar un mapa de ruta en el itinerario de viaje de mi agencia de viajes. la idea es por ejemplo:
DÍA 01 MÉXICO – LONDRES DÍA 02 - PARÍS DÍA 03 - ZURICH DÍA 04 - PARÍS DIA 05 - PARIS-MEXICO
Y DEBAJO UN MAPA QUE UNA CADA DESTINO CON UNA LINEA. el problema es que no estoy inmerso en este tema y deseo que me ayuden para lograrlo. utilizo Worpress y el tema Hello Elementor. muchas gracias por su atención
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OSGEO Hokkaido team and SotM Japan team hosted the FOSS4G Hokkaido and State of the Map Japan 2024 in 15th February in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
The idea to organize two related conference was raised by Hokkosha in June 2024 and now is realized.
You can find the record at YouTube
Here is a link to the presentations.
OSGEO Hokkaido team and SotM Japan team hosted the FOSS4G Hokkaido and State of the Map Japan 2024 in 15th February in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
The idea to organize two related conference was raised by Hokkosha in June 2024 and now is realized.
You can find the record at YouTube
Here is a link to the presentations.
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[1] The Brandenburger Tor. © OSM go | Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors.
traffic_sign:id=*
to explicitly reference official traffic sign identifiers, improving data accuracy and interoperability with external databases.golf=out_of_bounds
, for mapping the area designated as being outside the boundaries of a golf hole, is open for voting until Saturday 22 February.Note:
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This weeklyOSM was produced by MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, Raquel Dezidério Souto, Strubbl, TheSwavu, barefootstache, derFred, jcr83, mcliquid.
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Hi
I am a absolute beginner in use the open street map tool.
I want to import publicly available data, postcode, address etc into an open street map. How do I do that?
Hi
I am a absolute beginner in use the open street map tool.
I want to import publicly available data, postcode, address etc into an open street map. How do I do that?
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nesse video vou mostrar como mapear nomes de Rua com uma camada de fundo com dados de nomes de Rua disponibilizada pelo IBGE.
Link do arquivo usado no video com os dados de nomes de Rua de algumas cidades brasileiras para o mapeamento de nomes de Ruas no Openstreetmap.
OBS: use esse arquiv
nesse video vou mostrar como mapear nomes de Rua com uma camada de fundo com dados de nomes de Rua disponibilizada pelo IBGE.
Link do arquivo usado no video com os dados de nomes de Rua de algumas cidades brasileiras para o mapeamento de nomes de Ruas no Openstreetmap.
OBS: use esse arquivo como camada de fundo.
https://projeto.softwarelivre.tec.br/s/3zxd54iSjr7YQZ4
Link do Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyHqiViMMw&t=118s
Baixar os aquivos da camada de face do Senso-2022;IBGE http://gpsutil.com/CNEFE-2022/
Fonte: IBGE; Senso-2022
UMBRAOSM - União dos Mapeadores Brasileiro do Openstreetmap
This is cross-linked from my blog, posted on 11 July 2023
I recently joined the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in modering their Community Working Group and Tech Working Group’s discussions on AI-Assisted Mapping.
This, in part, was a reminder that I (still!) haven’t published an OSM diary that summarises my MA research, and that publication is still process. But it was also a r
This is cross-linked from my blog, posted on 11 July 2023
I recently joined the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in modering their Community Working Group and Tech Working Group’s discussions on AI-Assisted Mapping.
This, in part, was a reminder that I (still!) haven’t published an OSM diary that summarises my MA research, and that publication is still process. But it was also a reminder that I have yet to really summarise or bring together what I have shared so far.
Here’s a short summary:
В iD появилось поле “ID изображения в Panoramax”, которое отвечает за тег panoramax=*. Все, кто по моему совету заливал фото/панорамы на Panoramax теперь могут пометить POI (и не только) тегами с ID их фото на этом сервисе.
В iD появилось поле “ID изображения в Panoramax”, которое отвечает за тег panoramax=*. Все, кто по моему совету заливал фото/панорамы на Panoramax теперь могут пометить POI (и не только) тегами с ID их фото на этом сервисе.
Todo mapeador aficionado debería saber que todas las imágenes obtenidas de forma remota (por ejemplo, imágenes satelitales y fotografías aéreas) y otras fuentes, excepto las trazas GPS, suelen estar mal alineadas con respecto a la realidad. Como resultado, el cartógrafo debería poder alinear las imágenes en su editor preferido utilizando trazas GPS. El proceso lleva entr
Todo mapeador aficionado debería saber que todas las imágenes obtenidas de forma remota (por ejemplo, imágenes satelitales y fotografías aéreas) y otras fuentes, excepto las trazas GPS, suelen estar mal alineadas con respecto a la realidad. Como resultado, el cartógrafo debería poder alinear las imágenes en su editor preferido utilizando trazas GPS. El proceso lleva entre 5 y 10 minutos y, debido a la precisión del GPS, los resultados varían. No es tan malo si eres el único cartógrafo en cientos de kilómetros a lo largo de cientos de años, pero para la cartografía cooperativa, incluso una variación de un metro importa.
Un análisis del problema reveló dos posibles soluciones, ambas igualmente efectivas. La base de datos de desplazamientos y el complemento de desplazamientos implementan ambas; no se excluyen, sino que se complementan entre sí, lo que permite al mapeador verificar los desplazamientos no solo con trazas GPS, sino utilizando un método de alineación alternativo.
Cada objeto en la base de datos OSM tiene coordenadas (en grados en la proyección WGS84/EPSG:4326), una fecha de creación, un autor y una descripción, que ayudan a determinar la aplicabilidad y la cobertura de un desplazamiento.
Es una buena práctica utilizar esta base de datos en nuestro mapeo de cada área. Si te interesa aprender a usar este mecanismo puedes leer: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Imagery_Offset_Database
Some days ago, I searched online for a bus route that was supposed to be newly introduced to go from Kilkenny to New Ross. I didn’t find it, but I found another one which pleased me even more which goes from Kilkenny to Fiddown (ref=891
). The reason it pleases me is that the other route is already partly covered by another bus company and I don’t really need it, and the 891 covers a
Some days ago, I searched online for a bus route that was supposed to be newly introduced to go from Kilkenny to New Ross. I didn’t find it, but I found another one which pleased me even more which goes from Kilkenny to Fiddown (ref=891
). The reason it pleases me is that the other route is already partly covered by another bus company and I don’t really need it, and the 891 covers a route that goes past several historical sites and at least two hiking routes. Since I don’t drive, I will certainly avail of it myself. I don’t mind organizing myself lifts, and I enjoy the company of my “drivers”, but sometimes it’s good to be more independent. For context, the bus route started on January 20th 2025.
So I decided to track it, because I don’t really trust Transport for Ireland’s route maps, and I can’t be sure that they didn’t use proprietary map material to provide the routes online, even though their background map is OSM. But I have seen routes on their website which they seemed to have taken out of thin air which had nothing to do with the actual route the bus takes.
From the bus schedule, I had a fair idea of where the bus was going to go, and I had travelled most of the roads already and captured street-level-imagery, but I thought it would be no harm to do it again. Of course, that is a bit tricky on the bus, and I couldn’t ask the driver to leave the GoPro Max on the roof of the bus. I had brought the magnetic foot, but turns out, there is very little plane metal space on the bus. So the setup was a bit wobbly, but it worked. It only swayed in the bendier bends.
It’s partly held in place by my bag:
I was sure it was gonna crash at some point, especially with some of the bumpier rural roads, but it didn’t.
This is the sequence where I had least coverage before.
The battery lasted just about long enough.
As usual, I uploaded to Mapillary first and then to Panoramax. I might have forgotten to change the viewpoint angle on the Mapillary imagery… At least on Panoramax, I could go in and change it later.
A project I’m working on at the moment is adding maxspeed
to the rural roads. On February 7th 2025, a directive from the Department for Transport lowered the speed limit on the “local rural roads” (the ones where the reference number starts with L and those without any reference number, I presume - I’m still waiting for a reply from the Department for Transport) from 80 km/h to 60km/h. If you’ve ever driven on one of those, you’ll wonder how anyone in their right state of mind would even attempt to go at 80 km/h, but that was the law. We’re (OSM) still missing a lot of the L numbers nationwide, because of course, the government is not able to provide them as open data, that would be too easy. So, that was one of the things I looked out for - missing L numbers. It would have saved me a lot of frustration, if they were displayed closer to the junction in OSMAnd, but I had to long-click on everyone of them where it wasn’t displayed to see whether it was already mapped or not. I also added notes for missing speed limit signs, even where they wrongly still displayed 80 km/h. I mapped those on the desktop PC without the wrong speed limit, just to know where the traffic signs are for later reference and to be able to split the highway
at the correct location. I’m also not quite sure how to map speed limit signs which have different speed limits on the front and back, bc I can’t use direction
then.
I used OSMAnd for tracking the routes, adding notes and adding the odd POI (post boxes, defibs, wayside shrine etc).
When I got on the bus, I asked the bus driver to point out where the new bus stops are, because I did not expect bus stop signs for most of them. #Ireland #experience He said I was right, because it was “a new bus route”. Sure, that makes sense. We wouldn’t want people to know where the bus stops are to promote the route and establish sustainable routines, would we?
Anyways, some locations are therefore also only estimates, because he didn’t slow down, and just told me the name of the place in passing. Someone will have to re-survey in about a year, when there is a slightly better chance of bus stop signs, but I have my doubts that they will ever come. As a Canadian friend put it, “oral tradition is still very strong in Ireland”.
The “highlight” of the trip was an unscheduled excursion into the bus depot, because the heating on the bus wasn’t working, and the gaggle of bus drivers (four at some point on the bus) thought it would help to add water somewhere. It didn’t. So, four hours at about 8°C. The sacrifices we make for the general good. But the bus depot is mapped now which one would not locate from the street.
Here’s the route, if anyone is interested.
construction
I also spotted a couple newly built or under construction houses for which I also left notes. Most of them are not visible on the outdated aerial imagery yet, so I drew estimates and left fixme
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I think I spotted one house number and three house names which I added to the map. Because, unlike in other countries like Lithuania or the Netherlands, the government also doesn’t publish open address data. Do I sound frustrated? That’s because I am.
I think in total, I left 7 pages of notes: Notes by b-unicycling.
All in all, I’m glad to report that I was not the only passenger on the bus; there was a bus driver in training and for most of the journey, there were one to four other people with me. The word has spread already, it seems.
To follow along with this tutorial, please setup and configure a Oracle Cloud instance for mapillary tools. Please refer to this guide for instructions on how to accomplish this.
Uploading a 360 video to Mapillary on Oracle Cloud instance from ARM computerTo follow along with this tutorial, please setup and configure a Oracle Cloud instance for mapillary tools. Please refer to this guide for instructions on how to accomplish this.
ssh -i ~/.ssh/oracle_mapillary_keys/[your private key (not .pub)] opc@[IP Address copied from Oracle]
scp -i ~/.ssh/oracle_mapillary_keys/[your private key (not .pub)] [/path/to/local/360/file] opc@[IP Address copied from Oracle]:~/mapillary
mapillary_tools process_and_upload ~/mapillary/*.360
rm ~/mapillary/*.360 && exit