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Just learning how to use this program, having some difficulties. Wish me luck please!

So i like geography so for art class I learned the GPS sensor.

when i went on a road trip for spring break during spring break, I left my gps on and stored the values into sqlite database from the phone.

I then created a dataset of latitude, longitude, and time into 540,127 rows that I wish to use to create a visualization.

Today I worked on this project and borrowed a fast computer at the school, converted the rows from terminal sqlite query to (.txt and .html) form.

I am learning to program with Android for the course and so I found myself at the Google for fusion tables. About one hour ago I was able to figure out how to embed 100,000 (is limit on free acount?) onto the Google Map interface.

However, I want to do more and I hope Someone can offer me some advise or ideas.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story,

Ren

Open Data for Resilience Initiative - Disaster Risk Management - John Crowley @jcrowley jcrowley@worldbank.org

• Collective memory of deep history - recalling hazards of particular locations
• OSM as collective memory
• Geologic cycles can be quite long - thousands, millions or years
• Underlying nature of risk is changing - cities growing at 5%. Data describe a very dynamic reality
• Understanding dynamic risks requires better data
• Need for better data - smaller grid squares - beyond 10km grid down to building polygons
• Open Data for Resilience Initiative Field Guide
• Govt data often exists, but need to be collated and made open
  • Fractured over many ministries
  • Political barriers
  • Proprietary formats
  • Worse: PDF scans of "data"
• Collection on paper, then entering back to OSM using JOSM
  • Building survey form - standard form
  • Teaching community to build their own data, not outsiders
• Quality assurance
  • Teach people to improve data collection while they're doing it
• InaSafe - plugin for QGIS - visualize impact models
• gfdrr.org - OpenDRI Field Guide 1.0 CC-BY
• Performing analysis and getting it to village-level govt requires a lot of printing
• The map is a collective memory not only of what is or once was, but what might one day no longer be.
  • What could be, what could be built back stronger?

Building a Community - HOT in Indonesia - Kate Chapman

• Mapping for preparedness
• InaSafe - impact modeling software
• People are core to the community
• Train people -> those people train others
• Recruiting posters - new interns had geography background
• Technical literacy, technical problems (JOSM doesn't run, firewalls)
• People excited, but don't know how to get started -> train the trainers
• Train the trainers - little to do with mapping, more about how to teach, build adult engagement
• 50% of Scouts are in Indonesia
• learnOSM - step by step guides
• World Bank GFDRR
• Field Papers

Inside the Eye of a HOT Activation - Dale Kunce

• 10000 buildings mapped within 24hrs
• Coordination through Skype
• HOT creates maps where Red Cross/Red Crescent volunteers are going
• Using NGA imagery to create HOT tasks
• Imagery difficult to get while hurricane is in area (clouds)
• Use old (Bing) imagery to map what was there (pre-mapping)
• HOT Tasks http://tasks.hotosm.org
• Start JOSM - http://learnosm.org/en/beginner/start-josm/
• http://americanredcross.github.io/
• http://osmand.net/ - Android client, download osm file
• Need help documenting, tracing, software - Harare, Zimbabwe

MapGive - A coordinated campaign for action - Joshua S Campbell DOS

• Humanitarian Information Unit - research and analysis of humanitarian emergencies
• Maps are often taken for granted or assumed to exist, when more often they do not
• @mapgive mapgive.state.gov
• Connective power of internet has fundamentally changed economics of information creation
• Lower the bar for new mappers to join
• Crowdsourcing in government: build relationships with volunteer and technical community, build trust in communities - share imagery - engage local communities - enhance the data
• American Spaces - outreach centers around the world

OpenStreetMap as Infrastructure - Elizabeth McCartney, USGS; Mikel Maron, Crowd Cover

• National Map Corps - Volunteered Geographic Information at USGS (project suspended 2008)
  
• 2010 project revived
• Volunteers from 4H, Scouts, retired people
• Users are peer reviewers after editing 25 points
• Moabi - collaborative mapping project, DR Congo, forest monitoring
• Looking for open source mobile OSM editor

I Imported Chicago - Ian Dees @iandees

• Move to new city, new job -> found open data portal in Chicago -> discussed with local OSM community
• Still did it wrong - didn't talk to global OSM community
• License was not compatible - require user to take down data on request
• Convince open data people of Chicago to switch license to MIT
• 3 months to import, 1.5 years start to finish calendar time
• Easier for others to add data once building shapes imported (restaurants, businesses, etc.)
• Import using JOSM easier than scripting in this case

Open Data and Cities - R.E. Sieber @re_sieber

• www.geothink.ca
• What happens to participation when anyone can participate any place?
• Need grad students
• How can non-experts be empowered by technology
• Empowerment of marginalized people and democracy
• Open Data - data should be freely available for everyone to use, reuse and republish without restrictions
• Licensing challenges of accessing municipal data
• VGI - Volunteered Geographic Information is the widespread engagement of large numbers of participants involved in the digital creation of geographic information. Participants are usually non-experts and have little formal coordination with each other.
• How well do City Open Data and OSM play together? Not well, but getting better.
• Mapdust - bug tracker for OSM
• Accuracy is not the first objective. Accuracy is dependent on its use.
  • Credentials provide the accuracy - citizens cannot check every point
  • Eyeballs provide the accuracy - OSM contributors refine the data
• Neoliberalism - push in cities to deregulate and privatize
  • Govt has less money, VGI looks enticing
• Andrew Keen's warning - relying on amateurs/volunteers is a problems, govts shed employees and replace with volunteers, if volunteers don't collect enough data, there are no employees to fill gap.

After joining this community, making my first edit, and getting some nice welcome messages, I found that my password no longer worked for some reason. I got very busy at work and kept putting off coming back until today as I'm pretty much changing ALL of my passwords due to the Heartbleed bug.

Now that I'm back in, I've made several updates to Crestline, California and some of the surrounding communities. While most of these were entries for restaurants and other businesses, I did find one incorrect piece of mapping in the Valley of Enchantment where Log Lane was shown to stop short of meeting the town's main drag, Waters Drive (for any fans of "Star Trek: Enterprise," the "Carbon Creek" episode from the second season did some filming on Waters).

It looks like a lot of this area has not had a lot of contribution as far as businesses go so I am glad to get back in here and add a few things for everybody. It's a nice place to visit so I hope my additions will encourage people to come up here...and, bring money...our local businesses need it! ;-)

If you for chance read my previous diary entry, I registered on GiveIt100 and documented with a video a changeset made each day in a different country. I followed some basic criteria: each day in a different continent (counterclockwise order); if I missed a day I'd map in the same continent for two days; map in a country where I didn't map before.

So, straight from January 1st, I got to April 10th and in the last video I did a changeset in San Mateo, CA, where lives the developer of GiveIt100 (I previously mapped in USA, I know!).

The complete project is visible on https://giveit100.com/@sabas/ro277m

Having the NaturalEarth shapefile half filled, I should paint it green completely some time...

Someone with a planet file at hand could do a ladder of users ranked by how many countries has been visited (similar to the hydc user page)..

Thanks to Karen and Finbarr for their work!

I cannot help but share two images of a place I stumbled over today while mapping a little. A decaying house with a half collapsed outhouse at its side - but some flowers were well attended:

JOSM seems to get translated at transifex and launchpad, you can file bugs against JOSM at josm.openstreetmap.de and github, you can file bug against a lot of OSM things at trac.osm.org and github, too.

It doesn't matter when all resources are handled equally, but it is not so nice when you look at the wrong place…

(unedited except for formatting. hopefully these will mean something in the future)

Intro to OSM Morning Session

• www.switch2osm.org
• wiki.osm.org
• anything that stays the same is mapped
• started by people walking around with GPS devices, now large TIGER data imports
• local knowledge is most important - priority over tracing aerial imagery (Bing imagery)
• discussion is over mailing lists - http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
• taginfo.openstreetmap.us - which tags are most popular
• osm2pgsql -> postgis -> tilemill
• leafletjs.com - open source javascript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
• maptime.github.io - map tutorials
• itoworld.com - visualize osm changes
• osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/

Implementing Change in OSM - @jfire

• OSM community building
• Loss aversion
• Status quo bias
• Building compassionate communities in tech - watch
• Work in the open - build trust, get expertise
• Work incrementally
• Over communicate - clearly explain objectives and benefits - not the same as being verbose - simple explanations are better
• Perfect is the enemy of much better than what we have now
• Be patient

Engaging the OSM community: NYC Govt DOITT

• Addressing in NYC
  • No central authority
• Why not crowdsourcing
  • Problematic workflow
  • Limited staffing
  • Discrepancies between official record and reality
  • Another set of eyes, engaged community
  • Local Law 11 - put all city data in public domain by 2015
• Open data to wider audience, improve data, engage community
• Used by 311/911
• Lessons learned
  • Involve local community
  • Accuracy should prevail
  • Metadata can always be improved
  • Data model confusing
  • Constructive feedback is great
  • NYC addressing is a challenge

Meeting in Person - Kathleen Danielson

• Getting people into the same room to drink beer and do nerdy things
• Why does meeting in person matter? Diverse interests, mapping is solitary, help the project
• Community health
  • Mailing lists can be unhealthy/unconstructive discourse
  • Building real world connections can help
  • Bottom-up approach to global community building
• Find mappers, find something to do, find a way to keep it going
• ito OSM mapper
• Pascal OSM Contributor's map
• Meet your community where they are (IRC is not for non-tech people, use Meetup, Facebook, etc.)
• Reassess - what your community needed before may not be what they need now
• Social meetups - "Mappy Hour", Maptime, Editathons
• Connect with other groups - environmental, tech
• Do not try this alone - burn out
• Avoid burnout - co-organizer, ask for help, what kind of schedule can you support?, make sure it's fun, take a break if needed

OSM in the Classroom - Richard Hinton, Nuala Cowan

• DOS Humanitarian Information Unit
• Why is OSM in the classroom different?
  • Equitable work volume for each student
  • Track/grade
  • Prevent overlap (Tasking Manager)
  • How to grade?
• Instructor prep
  • identify area of interest
  • generate workable grid
  • decide workload for students
  • develop a rubric
  • track activity using Overpass Turbo
  • Mapathons
  • Show me the way visualizing
• TeachOSM.org

I'm presently targeting things that have inappropriate 'layer' entries in my area.e.g.

highway, layer -5 ... no tunnel/covered etc ...

park layer -2

I assume this way done for rendering issues. The areas look to be best served with multipolygons.

There do not appear to be tools to find these inappropriate layers, so I'm using a simple text editor to find them., then JOSM to do the editing.

Edited residential and houses in Dingle Iloilo, Philippines.

Problems with image resolution. Maybe some landuses are wrong, ask for criteria.

If you're going to #sotmus Be sure to wear some GPS Devices in your hand If you're going to #sotmus You're gonna meet some gentle HOT people there

For those who come to #sotmus Any Zulu time will be a lat-long-love-in there In the bbox of #sotmus Gentle HOT people with GPS Devices in their hands

All across the Mercator projection such a strange vibration Neo-cartographers in tagging motion There's a whole new neo-cartographers generation with a new mission Neo-cartographers in tagging motion Neo-cartographers in tagging motion

For those who come to #sotmus Be sure to wear some GPS Devices in your hand If you come to #sotmus Any Zulu time will be a lat-long-love-in there

If you come to #sotmus Any Zulu time will be a lat-long-love-in there

Scott McKenzie in 2014 version - Have great a great #sotmus everybody

Became a new member 4/11/14. Added track info for Windham Town Forest Trails

Could any Poland users help me with regard to this information: http://mac.gov.pl/aktualnosci/dostep-do-panstwowego-rejestru-granic-bedzie-powszechny-i-nieodplatny

http://www.codgik.gov.pl/pastwowy-rejestr-granic-i-powierzchni-jednostek-podziaow-terytorialnych-kraju.html

Thanks!

Over at Telenav we have been busy comparing the GPS traces of drivers using our navigation apps against OSM data. This is fun work and sometimes leads to really useful results. One of our recent studies involved comparing what we think are one-way streets to the corresponding OSM ways. The process is quite simple: count how many traces following a given street go in one direction, and how many go in the other. If the number for one direction is close to zero, the street is probably one-way. The outcome depends on the confidence level you apply, but it turns out that there are more than 100 thousand OSM ways that probably should be marked with a oneway tag, but aren't.

One. Hundred. Thousand.

I don't know about you, but I think that would make for a really great MapRoulette challenge. So that's what I did, and here it is.

But how do you know if a street should be one-way without having eyes on the ground? It turns out the aerial imagery provides helpful hints. Let me show you what I look at to verify the one-way-ness of a street using just JOSM and the Bing layer.

Let's look at this case here:

Notice the arrowhead? That is the direction we found the vast majority of trips followed, so we think that is the one-way direction of this street. Let's look in JOSM:

In this case, there is really only one hint that this is in fact a one way street, but it's a pretty convincing one: The markings on the road. See the stop line? It goes all the way across, which it wouldn't if traffic were allowed to enter from the right. Also, it is a little blurry, but there is what appears to be a left arrow painted on the road as well. So all in all, I am convinced that this way should be marked oneway=yes.

Be careful though! OSM ways can be very long, and the one-way restriction may not apply to the entire way. So always be sure to check the entire length of the way before you tag and upload, and split the way as necessary! The Telenav detection works on smaller segments internally, so the suggested one-way-ness does not always apply to the entire OSM way.

Lets' look at another case.

Looks like a residential area. Let's load it up in JOSM:

In this case, it's really hard to see. There's no obvious stopping line that I could see, and there's too much shade to see if there are parked cars on the left side of the street that are parked facing west - which would be another good indication that it is a one-way street, because it is illegal in the United States to park in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic. So this one I would mark as 'Couldn't See'. Perhaps someone else sees something I don't? Here is the permalink to the task in MapRoulette. (Neat eh, permalinks - makes it easy to share a task you want to discuss or highlight. They remain valid even after a task is fixed or even deleted.)

Oh and yes, I am afraid this is another United States only challenge... We are working hard to get more international challenges in, and we already have some interest. I am sure I mentioned this before, but MapRoulette now has an API that lets 'third parties' submit their own challenges. On top of that, we're also making it really easy to deploy your own MapRoulette server. If you're interested in any of that, just let me know. I will be hosting a session on MapRoulette at State Of The Map US this weekend, and Serge and are also planning to run a BoF session for a deeper dive into MapRoulette challenge making. If you don't make it to SOTM US, don't feel left out - there will likely also be MapRoulette sessions at SOTM EU in June!

Happy Mapping!

Hal Hudson from New Scientist wrote a great article on how OpenStreetMap helps Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) fight Ebola in Guinea:

Online army helps map Guinea's Ebola outbreak

He reports:

WHEN doctors working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) arrived in the West African nation of Guinea last month to combat an outbreak of the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever, they found themselves working in an information vacuum.

MSF enlisted the help of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team (HOT) and within a few days, a huge number of mappers flocked to OpenStreetMap, putting the affected areas on the map. Where existing Bing imagery was not sufficient, Astrium and DigitalGlobe provided fresh takes.

Few days into the crisis Pierre Béland from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team shared numbers of this effort on the mailing list:

Even if this crisis is not in all the medias, the contribution from the OSM contributors is fantastic. In 8.5 days, 302 contributors, 1.2 million objects, 114,000 buildings, 5,000 places and 6,100 landuse polygons.

The New Scientist article explains how OpenStreetMap helps fight the virus:

Mathieu Soupart, who leads technical support for MSF operations, says his organisation started using the maps right away to pinpoint where infected people were coming from and work out how the virus, which had killed 95 people in Guinea when New Scientist went to press, is spreading. "Having very detailed maps with most of the buildings is very important, especially when working door to door, house by house," he says. The maps also let MSF chase down rumours of infection in surrounding hamlets, allowing them to find their way through unfamiliar terrain.

Since the response to the Haiti earthquake we are now seeing time and again how OpenStreetMap is facilitating incredibly mapping of badly needed geo data, helping first line emergency responders do their work.

You can't do this with any other map but OpenStreetMap.

This type of massive mapping effort is only possible because of OpenStreetMap allowing direct editing of data to anyone and the availability of OpenStreetMap as raw and open data. The former allows anyone to get involved in helping respond to a crisis, the latter gives full power to responding parties over how exactly maps should look like or access to raw data for analysis. No other map offers this level of openness at a global scale.

Join the effort mapping Guinea on the HOT tasking manager or by support MSF in responding to the crisis.

Cross posted to talk list

Effective immediately the Mapbox Satellite option in iD and JOSM is 100% open for tracing in OpenStreetMap, including all our high resolution DigitalGlobe imagery. This is full coverage down to zoom level 19 imagery in the US + Western Europe and world wide to zoom level 17.

To use this imagery select "Mapbox Satellite" from the imagery menu in iD on the web or in JOSM. Mapbox Satellite is open for tracing in OpenStreetMap in general and not tied to a specific editor, so if you would like to add Mapbox Satellite to another OpenStreetMap editor you are welcome to do so.

This is a big affirmation of DigitalGlobe's commitment to provide imagery for OpenStreetMap (also Bing imagery contains to a very large degree DigitalGlobe material). Props to Kevin Bullock and our friends at DigitalGlobe - it's fantastic working with good people who see wins of working with OpenStreetMap.

Digital Globe announcement

Editing in Washington DC with the Mapbox Satellite layer

PS - on an existing installation of JOSM you'll have to refresh your imagery menu like so: http://cl.ly/image/383O2L0t431s

Hi there,

I'm interested in helping OSM to start towards some kind of street view like service, which seems eminantly doable now that Androids standard camera app, allows for super easy taking of panoramic, full spherical style images.

Just having some trouble figuring out the most effective place to upload these?

• Theres opentrailmap.org, but then they only seem to want off road paths, parks etc.
• There's openlinkmap, but they only seem to be looking at adding this functionality at some time and even then they don't seem to have anywhere to upload the images
• there's openstreetview.org which looks promising, but as though it's been dead for years. Really this is the kind of thing I'm looking for, but is there anything more active?
• Then there seems to be some discussion about adding to OSM directly with the tags image=File:example.jpg and image:panorama=yes where example.jpg is your file uploaded to wikimediacommons. This looks like the most logical and promising, but will anywhere actually display these? the image tag is also marked as controversial, so will it stick around?

So where would you think to add street level, "Street View" style images into OSM so they're most likely to be useful?

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I'm still having grief with bus routes again. I'm beginning to doubt whether it's worth doing at all. Where I live, there are several related bus routes with lots of commonality but also lots of exceptions. They run over each other's partial routes and self-cross all the time.

Doing one such bus route is bad enough, but trying to maintain a load of related ones is a nightmare.

I naively thought that I could take one route, copy/paste it as another relation and just change the different bits. Copy/paste doesn't work really well in JOSM. I only seem to be able to reliably copy/paste to a "new" relation, which means that the relation-id of a route effectively keeps changing.

I'm now trying to download the XML, make changes manually and re-upload them. However, downloading a relation contains all sorts of other crap, such as "author","timestamp","revision", which I can't sensibly copy into a new relation.

Nobody really supports super-relations, so the only sane way is to keep dependent routes in sync manually. How do other people do this?