What I did in OpenStreetMap in January 2022
Posted by amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 on 5 March 2022 in English. Last updated on 6 March 2022.What I did in OpenStreetMap in January 2022
- I think Null Island should be in OSM. Initial post from someone asking to remove it, my opinion 🐘 on fediverse post 🐦 same on twitter
- Don’t copy from Google Street View, OSM might be stricter than Google 🐘 🐦.
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I took part in OSM Ireland Map & Chat event
- Hacking
- As part of work I’ve been fixing little things in Nominatim, like this typo
- Someone asked how to find OSM users who comment on changeset, but don’t edit OSM, so I wrote a simple programme (
anglosaxon
source on github, install via crates) to do it and wrote a diary entry. 🐘 🐦
- Interesting Discussions
- redsteakraw, in their diary, wrote about wanting a simple OSM editor, and there’s lots of discussion in the comments
- OSMF Board
- Trademarks
- Answer query about state of the great map
- HOT Trademark Grant, spoke briefly to a HOT person
- S2S 2022Q1
- checked with the facilitaro to ask about his availability
- MS want to give OSMF $10k. They emailed press@. I forwarded on to Treasurer 🐦 🐦
- Local Chapters
- OpenStreetMap Austria application
- As Secretary, I emailed them back to acknowledge their application
- I reviewed their AoA and it looks fine.
- Windsor HackForge
- I acknolwedged their application & asked (& got) some follow up details
- OpenStreetMap Austria application
- Board Meeting
- Jan 2022
- Choose the date via a poll. Since we’re a new board, we’re not sure what times are best for all
- Meeting
- I chaired because no-one else was free, which was fun for beuoracy
- Probably the longest meeting at 2¼hr
- Choose date for S2S
- Heard interesting presentation from https://opfistula.org/ about cleaning up OSM data, and the problem with routing islands in madagascar
- Board has some questions to ask the mod subctte about their propsal, i.e. for their resumés.
- talked about dorothea’s contract in private session
- Jan 2022
- Next Cloud for Polls
- Trademarks
- Membership Working Group
- Applied to join & signed the NDA myself
- Got accepted and got access to join.osmf website (I think)
- CWG
- Promotional Material Programme
- Posted Env to CH, LS, US, RW, UK, Posted package: NG, UG
- New groupto be able to charge OSMF easier
- Had to do a CWG poll, then try to get OTRS set up
- Cleaned up the wiki page clean up, moved the history to a sub page
- Twitter → Mastodon posting
- Emailed someone with access to follow up from Nov 2021 email with no response
- Emailed someone else to ask to set up masto posting (they don’t have access)
- OSM Instagram
- Emailed 2 people who I thought had access, and I got access and they don’t wanna do it anymore
- Started posting
- OpenStreetMap Pinterest
- Emailed someone who I knew had access, got access and started posting Pins
- Promotional Material Programme
2021: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
2020: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
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Discussion
Comment from Eiim on 5 March 2022 at 23:45
I’m guessing “I reI reI re” is some kind of typo/error?
Thanks for all the updates as always!
Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 on 6 March 2022 at 08:08
@Eiim Whoops yes. Fixed.