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Para celebrar el Open Data Day, se organizó por parte de TECHO, de la Universidad de San Buenaventura (seccional de de Cartagena) y con el apoyo de Humberto Yances, Miembro del Equipo Humanitario de OSM, un Mapping Party de Mapeo Humanitario de Isla de León.

El Taller de mapeo de Isla de León hace parte de las actividades del Proyecto Piloto MAP Cartagena (Proyecto Piloto de Mapeo de Asentamientos Precarios) que nace al interno de la ONG TECHO como un programa de desarrollo comunitario. Isla de León es un nuevo asentamiento de invasión localizado en una zona de inundación de alto riesgo, detrás del barrio El Pozón y colindante con la Ciénaga de la Virgen en la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

El taller empieza con Humberto explicando a los 15 participantes, entre voluntarios de la organización TECHO, de estudiantes de la universidad ey investigadores del tema, que es Open Street Map, como utilizarlo y casos de Mapeo Humanitario en Colombia.

A lo largo de la mañana explicó al grupo los elementos y las etiquetas que seríian trabajadas en el mapeo de Isla de León, y cómo se debería trabajar en JOSM.

Por la tarde, cada participante empezó a calcar la imagen del asentamiento informal separada en diferentes cuadros, localizando principalmente los caminos y las viviendas. El polígono total de Isla de León fue siendo completado a través del trabajo conjunto de los participantes, orientados por Humberto, que verificaba el trabajo de cada participante antes de subirlo al OSM.

Al final del día Isla de León estaba 100% calcada, en base a la foto aérea de BING del año 2012. ELl objetivo ahora del Proyecto Piloto MAP Cartagena es ir en campo generar fotos y datos actualizados durante una visita a campo.

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Humanitarian Mapping Workshop - Mapping Isla de León, Colombia

In celebration of Open Data Day, local Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team member Humberto Yances, together with TECHO.org and the University of San Buenaventura organized a mapping party event focused on mapping Isla de León, a slum area in Cartagena, Colombia.

The Isla de León mapping workshop was part of the “MAP Cartagena” effort, a pilot project for community development organized by the NGO techo.org to map slum areas. Isla de León is a new informal settlement (slum area) located in a high-risk flood zone area behind the Pozón neighborhood and adjacent to the "Ciénaga de la Virgen" a polluted marshy swamp in the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

The workshop began with Humberto presenting to our 15 participants, including volunteers from TECHO.org, local university students and interested researchers, what OpenStreetMap is, how OSM and open data can be used and examples of humanitarian mapping in Colombia.

Throughout the morning Humberto explained the objects to map and the data that would be entered for each object when mapping Isla de León. He also taught everyone the basics of mapping using JOSM, an open source OSM editing tool.

In the afternoon, each participant used aerial imagery to map the settlement. The HOT Tasking Manager was used to divide up the area into smaller units to coordinate the tracing. Mappers focused mainly on locating the roads and houses in the settlement. The entire area of Isla de León was mapped through the joint work of the participants, guided by Humberto, who verified the work of each participant before they uploaded it to the OpenStreetMap database.

At the end of the day Isla de León was 100% mapped using Microsofts’ Bing.com aerial imagery from 2012. The next objective for the MAP Cartagena Pilot Project is to generate field pictures, both street level and brand new aerial imagery with small UAVs and then update our mapping data.

If you are interested in the next phase, please contact us at [nati.dsa@gmail.comneed email address]. Future reports from the field will follow!

Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qLaEu9SWv7jMGqEDYrsOKbl14RUNkUvoUEogkFVdP3Y/edit?usp=sharing

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Editing of the roads we travelled during our trip from the Netherlands to South Africa and their environment has been completed.

Hi all contributors of Open Street Map project, this is how I draw, represent an amphitheatre in OSM

http://osm.org/go/0BO37Lnkg?m=

I specify, I never go over there, it's just an information of an other user, nevertheless I use Bing imagery for to represent it. An area in the middle and steps in several directions...

Enjoy yourself with your favourite editor.

Have a nice mapping.

P.S.: Remember this: "nobody want, like, to use a bad map... but everybody like to use a nice map very useful (who all persons can improve it)... We have "guide" in OSM for to help us, his name: "Wiki" (the last point, it's about several other thing in OSM...)...

I like this fable: "It's not enough that your run fleet, Start early, that the way to beat" Translation for French people: "Rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point".

Czas się zabrać za detale mojej dzielnicy, jako że dobrze znam moje okolice, postaram się wszystko dokładnie popoprawiać, oraz dodać detale.

In reply to Steven Feldman on Twitter why do i object to vector tile services, it will definitely take more than 140 characters to explain, and then only partially explain.

The statement that i find vector tiles objectionable was triggered by a positive reaction nonetheless to Mapzen's Vector Tile Service. I'm fascinated to see it serving up GeoJSON according to a tile-based URL scheme like that in use for raster, imagery tiles.

VectorMap District is an underrated Ordnance Survey Open Data project for mid-scale views of maps. You can get it from the OS open data download pages, selecting from a series of National Grid tiles from what may be a horribly familiar image:

The National Grid tiles that we download with clenched teeth today come from grids and scales designed to be read on paper maps.

Registers of Scotland are my employers and they are well known for being some distance from completing a full "cadastral map", registering the ownership of all land and property in Scotland. Their Geographic Information Systems were probably once pioneering early-adoption when originally designed. But the database systems weren't strong enough to handle data on more than a county basis, so that's how the data got distributed amongst systems. Each county stores a set of overlapping tiles of OS data. It's converted back from modern data format into an archival format the old systems can understand. There is quite a maintenance load involved in this process alone.

When the organisation systems really were paper maps, tiled and scaled to the National Grid, Registers stored its model of land in the form of "parcel books". Chunks of OS maps, cut up and pasted onto cloth, painstakingly annotated with land ownership where it was registered, with extra copies at different scales describing "Research Areas" where work was ongoing and more than usual was known. The parcel books are beautiful, and in many ways more appropriate to the shared tasks of land registration and research than the GIS systems that are worked with today.

What does this have to do with vector tiles? My point here is that you get artefacts of the limits of the delivery system taking over the delivery system, being unnecessarily preserved. In addition, real problems are being masked by overdelivery of data, with a lot of detail unnecessarily handed over, or a lack of subtlety about what is appropriate scale in a given area. Standards evolved for raster data are a long way distant from what is now possible given the browser capability and bandwidth available in many places today.

Consider the OpenStreetMap API which limits data download to a maximum area or 50000 objects, whichever occurs the sooner. It doesn't serve up neat square fragments, but sections of longer ways are spilling out the edges of the request. It's hardly subtle as a regulating mechanism, but it's effective enough. The query support in Overpass API is much more powerful, and an application of sufficient size is likely to want its own cached store of GeoJSON, not depend on a third-party service for fundamental mapping.

What I would prefer to see than vector tiles is a data generalisation service that would produce the equivalent of products like VectorMap District & Local from OpenStreetMap data, making it all easier to work with at different scales. Clear annotations about what data sources have been subjected to what algorithmic processes. I also want to see clearer integration with QGIS and other open-source desktop tools. And I think these things will make more difference to delivery and to re-use than vector tiles.

Ci sono alcune vie che presentano nomi errati che non hanno nulla a che vedere con la reale denominazione della strada; e questi errori si riscontrano anche su strade di rilevanza Nazionale, quali la Strada Statale Tirrena Inferiore, indicata come SS 18, e persino l'autostrada A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria e non Napoli-Reggio Calabria

L'avez-vous remarqué, OpenBeerMap a été refait à neuf depuis quelques semaines !

Refonte graphique et ergonomique, mais aussi refonte sous le capot : le code a été nettoyé et simplifié afin de faciliter la contribution et la réutilisation.

En contrepartie, la plupart des traductions sont à faire à nouveau : traducteurs, à vos claviers !

Ce travail est l’œuvre notamment de Maxime Corteel, qui n’en est pas à sa première application Firefox OS sur la bière, et que nous pouvons remercier chaleureusement.

N’hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos retours par mail(openbeermap[at]gmail.com) ou sur les réseaux sociaux (#OpenBeerMap)

本日からマッパーとして初参加しました。 よろしくお願いします。

地図を作ってみるととても奥が深いですね。 色々と試行錯誤して楽しみたいと思います。

Campamento base, ideal para aceder a los picos concavo, concavito, toti. pan de azucar, pulpito del diablo

What can we do? This drives us every day to support HOT's mandate and mission. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is a respected, global community within the larger OpenStreetMap family. For the past 2 years, I have proudly donated my time, network and skills to help HOT grow organizationally as your Board Member. I respectfully ask for a HOT nomination from the membership and community support to continue this mandate.

My previous election posts can be found on my personal blog. These were shared on the HOT mailing list with the wider community.

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Summary of Achievements in the 2014-2015 term

Board Secretary

• Managed and distributed Board Meeting Minutes for the year
• Assisted and Lead meetings

Organizational Development

• Executive Director support: reviewed, wrote and edited key strategic and organizational process documents.
• Board Retreat: Recruited Allen Gunn of Aspiration to facilitate the HOT Board Retreat. Curated the HOT Board Retreat Planning
• Board primer: to better define Board responsibilities, I created the Board Primer
• Actively participated in the HOT Strategy Planning
• Actively supported the Membership Chair on Elections

Community Support

• Supported the Community Working Sprint to better define the engagement opportunities
• Wrote and gained support for the HOT Resolution process to better help us manage HOT topics.
• Attended and co-lead a number of HOT Community Working Group meetings. These need some help to move forward.
• Blogged and shared communications on various HOT Projects and Events
• Hosted a HOT workshop at the IEEE Humanitarian Tech Conference (Canada) and OKFestival 2014 (Germany)
• Hosted a HOT Birds of a Feather event at State of the Map US 2014

Fundraising

• Wrote the HOT Terms of Reference for Fundraising
• Edited many grant applications
• Assisted in the community sprint for the Hewitt grant

Getting HOT to the next level

Every organization and especially open source organizations have an evolution. We aim to grow organically while building the healthy parts to support all the moving parts. HOT (the community and the organization) have made tremendous progress. In the coming year, it is key to keep up the momentum. The successful growth of the working groups and membership leadership gives way to a positive, sustainable future. HOT's Board counts on the organizational staff, Executive Director, consultants, membership and community. HOT is a well-established and sought after partner for projects. We have grown with staff and consultancies to support these amazing opportunities. Our funders continue to support HOT's evolution by funding strategic projects like OAM and Activation training. This, in turn, supports the whole HOT and OSM community.

This year I ask for your support to continue as your Board Member on the mandate of strategic planning, fundraising and organizational development.

As an active Digital Humanitarian and HFOSS leader, you can count on me to champion HOT as your Board Member and fellow community member. I will continue to advocate for HOT at events, online and for our community growth. You can learn more about me on my blog (TextonTechs) [http://textontechs.com/]

Be a HOT Board Member

To my fellow Hotties, HOT needs strong Board Members. I would encourage you to review the Board Primer, the HOT Strategy and all the Board Minutes. Please ask your current board and former Board Members for guidance. Together we can continue to support the amazing work of mappers, humanitarians and those citizens who want to learn.

I highly recommend that these skills be part of your personal toolkit to support HOT's future.

• Strong network, partnership relationships, fundraising capabilities
• Finance or legal background
• Strategic and management experience
• Language skills (Do you speak Arabic, Mandarin or another language?)

Thank you again for your support and here's to a great year.

I did something to my ankle last Christmas, and have been walking recently as part of recovery. Birkdale has many hidden little nice places; I'm continually impressed by the quality of the local council's parks and water diversions.

OpenBelgium 2015 took place in Namur on February 23.

Ben Abelshausen organized a session on OpenStreetMap and asked me to be co-presenter. I arrived early in Namur, because I wanted to avoid the traffic jams around Brussels. Hence I had plenty of time for a short walk in the town center. Although a lot of POIs are already mapped, I still took over 300 pictures and hope to find some missing features. And yes, so far I found a couple of missing memorials, statues and it turned out that some POIs could be updated as. Haven't finished this yet.

Back to the conference. The session on OpenStreetMap was titled "It's the community, stupid" to emphasize that this data is not coming from the public sector, unlike most other data discussed in the other sessions.

I had the honour to kick of the session and talked about the daily life of a crazy mapper. After me, Jorieke showed the audience that mappers do work together via a variety of tools and that mapping can be a social event as well. She also talked about collaboration with communities in developing countries through HOT.

Next, Ben talked about imports and how good imports can enrich the community. Finally, Glenn talked about using OpenStreetMap data and how consumers can be part of the community as well.

Afterwards we had to answer several questions on quality, possible collaborations with the government and how people could start using data. It seems that there will be follow-up meetings on the use of and the contribution to OpenStreetMap within the public sector as well.

Exiting times and I hope this will increase the interest in OpenStreetMap.

It was also great to see Nicolas and Julien back, as well as meeting Marc Ducobu, who is doing the translations to French of our Mapper of the Month interviews.

The next event is a mapping party in Brussels with as main topics cycling and wheelchair access. The event will take place on April 25, for more info, see the wiki.

Hope to see you there.

запускаю онлайн iD редактор, а там все кнопки и описания стали на английском, кто знает как вернуть русский интерфейс iD редактора? В моих настройках стоит предпочитаемый язык ru-Ru.

He mapeado exhaustivamente durante mes y medio las vías de este municipio de 125 km² al norte de Verín, deberían estar todas las pistas, y muchos de los caminos. Evidentemente no he ido por cada vía, pero la configuración del terreno permite observar ampliamente la distribución de la orografía a grandes rasgos del entorno desde un punto dado en la mayoría de los sitios, tomar notas y sacar fotos; luego en el trabajo detallado ya intervienen las ortofotos.

Algunas consideraciones sobre el mapeo:

1. He iniciado el trabajo en la zona sureste, entre las aldeas de Monteveloso y Marbán, y he seguido en el sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj, teniendo como eje la carretera OU-114, que cruza el concello de sur a norte casi por la mitad.

2. Aunque al principio me planteé dibujar solo las pistas que "fueran a algún sitio", al final acabas mapeando todo camino viviente distinguible; de ahí que pueda haber vías perfectamente distinguibles en la zona este sin mapear, porque acaban en el huerto simplemente.

3. Casi todos los cortafuegos son transitables, al menos a pie, de ahí que la mayoría también tengan la etiqueta highway=path (o highway=track si es el caso). He dejado sin marcar de esta forma los cortafuegos antiguos, que ya están cubiertos por monte bajo; a lo mejor debería quitarles esa distinción, porque fuego cortarán poco, si se da el caso...

4. La población, al contrario que en la mayoría de los municipios gallegos, está concentrada, con lo que apenas he tocado los núcleos urbanos, que estaban además muy completos.

5. He seguido las vías que se salían de los límites del concello hasta que encontraba otra vía con que unirla, para que no quedara "suelta" (tal como hice con las Bardenas Reales). Me da un poco de rabia dejar tanta pista sin mapear cerca de la frontera, pero tenía que marcarme un límite, si no no acabas nunca.

6. Aparte de las vías, no he mapeado prácticamente nada, excepto un par de playas fluviales en el embalse de As Portas, el curso del río Camba hasta que sale de los límites, y las casas de una aldea en concreto ;-)).

7. He ajustado el curso de algunas vías ya existentes que se separaban mucho del trazado real, realmente había muy pocas, el trabajo previo es muy bueno.

Quedan algunos puntos menores por resolver, en cuando pueda me acercaré y comprobaré in situ las cosas, me llevaré como poco unas miradas de reojo, pero bueno... Además, espero que con la mejora de la integración de las notas en el ecosistema osm se pueda mejorar mucho más el mapa.

Es el quinto municipio que mapeo, después de As Neves, Salvaterra de Miño, A Peroxa y las Bardenas Reales (que municipio no es, pero tampoco pertenece a ninguno). El próximo proyecto en mente es mapear el concello de Monterroso, en Lugo. La motivación es que en todos ellos he vivido o tengo familia :-).

Un saludo.

The February release is delayed a few days until we clarify a certificate problem with OpenStreetMap Foundation.

What could help us: if you are a StartSSL customer (or know one), please ask them when they intend to be included in Java list of Root Certificate Authorities.

The goal is to be able to keep HTTPS access to the OSM API and website, for old and new versions of JOSM.

A month ago the busroutes changed for a the eveninglines (avondlijn). (90-98)

I am planning to dig in, who wants to help out?

Kind Regards,

PeeWeeke

Dear,

I have started to scroll through the websites of the big Belgian banks to locate the ATMs in Belgium.

My procedure is checking off, bank by bank, province per province.

I started with ING in West-Vlaanderen. If you pass through Alveringem, you'll see my first change.

This is a big task, so if you want to dig in ... go for it :) I started a task on Producteev to coordinate the effort. Sent me a private mail to be added as contributor.

Kind Regards,

Brecht (peeweeke)

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