Welcome! thanks for contributing. Great to hear GIS courses using OpenStreetMap for teaching.

Good work! it’s great to have the street info completed. And mapillary is is proving a useful tool. Especially now it detects traffic signs/speed limits etc (see the filter menu on the bottom left).

Happy mapping and hopefully catch you at the next meetup.

We need your help in the UK!

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.8498/-4.2819

:)

Keep up the good work.

Thanks for contributing to the map. And good luck with your research.

Thanks for the example. I’ve been thinking about this, but more focused on leisure=garden.

I see you use garden=rose_garden and garden:type=botanical.

On the wiki there is also garden=style.

I was trying to work out which ‘garden’ tags are the most appropriate - it doesn’t seem clear.

I was trying to tag a ‘community garden’ - mixture of allotment, garden, orchard. Any suggestions?

I would suggest adding a little more detail to this page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/flowerbed

And adding a note to the leisure=garden page.

Thanks, You’re welcome to propose it. This was one of my first attempts, I’m hoping to put together some images this weekend. So maybe have something more interesting to post in coming days.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Rough-edges.jpg

I think Wikipedia collaboration is really interesting use case and as you say most OSM contributors would support closer integration with wikipedia/wikimedia. Not convinced that requires a licence change but a very good (non-commercial use case) which we can all get behind and work out guidelines for. I think continued refining of the community guidelines is the best thing to concentrate on for now possibly keeping in mind how these guidelines would help or hinder wikipedia/wikimedia integration.

Great. thank you. Bookmarked!

‘The soul of India lives in its villages…’ beautiful.

Thanks, I think I understand now. In Overpass Turbo, I used this query:

[diff:”2014-06-23T00:00:00Z”];(node(55.877838662652906,-4.343075752258301,55.900317043029,-4.297800064086914);<;);out meta;

I still couldn’t load the result into JOSM. Instead, exported the result as geojson. So no need to install osmtogeojson as stated above.

So just use overpass turbo and export as geojson.

I think the overpass developers are busy updating some of the ‘attic’ data - in the video linked to above, they mention there’s been a problem with some of the older attic data but it’s working correctly for any data since last month but some older data/diffs aren’t quite working.

So I imagine they’ll fix the old attic data and then roll it out to the (more widely used?) overpass turbo system.

Thanks for the update.

Tim

I don’t think the ‘diff’ command is working in overpass turbo yet. But I’m sure it will be available soon. But yes, it’s possible to get geojson from overpass turbo. But let me know if I’m wrong on these points.

What’s the hurry? In 70 years or so it will all be public domain anyway (or at least the snapshot from this year will be).

Thanks for the response, good point about the diverse/free tagging scheme. I think you’re right in the fact OSM is flexible and open and avoids ‘the tyranny of the majority’ problem. Being open and free maybe isn’t quite enough, I think having the Foundation make a statement/policy about actively seeking the widest audience/membership/editors would be beneficial and positive step to thinking about ways to widen participation. Although, I think the foundation’s supporting role is good, I think this is the perfect subject/issue for them to lead on.

Anyway, as you say it’s a do-cracy. And I have mapping parties to organise… :-)

Yep, really good idea. Could try adding to iD github issues list as an enhancement idea:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues?state=closed

Ultimately, people hate reading instructions - people seek information from other people first (when possible). So live chat makes sense at a psychological/design level.

And some how implemeting https://togetherjs.com/ would be amazing too. List is on my long wish list of things to look into trying out but doubt will have time too.

Sounds much like my first meeting. Keep up the good work - sure you’ll be surprised by the number of people who turn up next time.

I messaged active uses in my area using http://www.itoworld.com/static/ito_tools.html ‘OSM Mapper’

Also contacted local hack lab and linux users group.

Anyway, nice presentation.

I’ve been told - ‘The command line is your friend’ - a distant, aloof friend, who never gives you any useful advice but has been around for so long you kinda just have to get on with each other.

Fantastic to see how fast the map reacts.

Great work!

I’ve started to add ‘desire line’ in the description= if it looks like an unofficial path. I would suggest aligning GPS with other peoples traces or several GPS tracks to get extract line. GPS can easily be 10-20 metres out. The surface= tag is also useful. With the current technology 5-10m precision is practical and most people reading the map will work out their location.

Happy mapping

Great edits! If you’re back in Scotland, feel free to drop by our meet-ups

Scotland meet ups