Today I am super excited to announce Idly-Gl! It is an opensource Mapbox GL plugin which renders OpenStreetMap data.

What is Idly-Gl?

Idly-Gl is a small plugin which reads data from Openstreetmap’s API and renders it on any Mapbox GL map. Click here for a demo.

What is IDLY 🍚?

Idly is an Indian rice cake 🍚. I picked this name as it can be the little brother of iD editor.

Why did you create it?

I work with a lot of Mapbox-gl maps and I am very impressed with their speed and portability. I have also worked with iD editor and it has impressed me with the way it handles OSM data. The only problem is that these two don’t talk to each other well. To bridge the gap, we would have a button to open it in iD. This works well when you have to make an edit, but if a user just wants to inspect/visualize OSM data the only option is to open the OSM website.

What does it do?

• 😎 It renders live osm data on a mapbox-gl map, which makes it blazingly fast.

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As a part of our data transparency efforts at Mapbox. We created osm-edit-report which helps anyone visualize our teams contribution to OSM.

Just to give a measure, the data team added 0.3 Million objects, 0.2 Million tags, and 3 thousand changesets last week.

This is how the numbers look:

Since this data is so huge to grasp at one go, we also have filters which help trim down data and focus on a particular group.

• Filter by users.

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3 months have passed and GSoC is about to an end. This small diary post showcases my contributions uptill now and it also lays down my next actions.

Major Contributions

### Lane editor The lane editor is my primary objective of the GSoC for this summer. These diary posts (1, 2) can be referred to get updated with the work.

Currently, most of the functional code is ready with 81 test cases testing most if not all edge cases possible. This code parses the osm data and gives a nice JSON output, which should then be supplied to the rendering.

Making iD modular

The iD contributors felt the need to start using the new ES6 module system back in April. I helped in the phase 1 and phase 2 of this process.

OSM hackday

I was a part of organizing team of this small hackday at Mapbox Bengaluru. More info

Links

My pull requests

My commits

Next Steps

Well GSoC 2016 is approaching an end, but not my contributions. There are lot of things pending in my bucket list. The first thing I would like to finish in the coming months would be the lane editor’s UI and deploy it for the use of OSM community.

I am really proud to be one of the core contributors of iD and would really like to thank the community, my mentor Bryan Housel and Google for the awesome GSoC program.

An OpenStreetMap contributor, Kushan

Hey, I have made some major progress since I last talked about my work with iD. I am continuing my work with lane icons last time.

This is how the current lane selection looks like.

Also the iD is currently going through modularisation and we are tracking it here.

With the help of my mentors we decided to draw some awesome icons. You can track the update at this gitbub repo. These are some of the icons I recently created. Suggestions are welcomed.

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Hello OSM community, this would be my 2nd diary post for my Summer of code project. Do checkout my first blog post where I introduce myself and the project I will be working on.

This week would be the last week in the community bonding process. All the GSoC students would receive their first stipend at the end of this week. Hurray !!!!

I believe my community bonding is going well. This week I was mostly busy with adding mapillary-js to iD. Thanks to the awesome work by Peter Neubaur, we have a PR ready to implement this feature to iD.

If you use iD editor you will find that the mapillary images are static and don’t have navigation buttons.

To have this feature, we would need mapillary-js in iD’s source code. This library gives the developers powerful new ways to interact with mapillary ecosystem. But this was easier said than done. Peter helped us with setting up the basic work required for the inclusion of this library.

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Community Bonding

I got involved with OSM back in January. Now its been 4 months and I think its the right time to make an introductory post.

I started looking for interesting projects, and iD caught my attention. The first bug that I fixed was pretty simple, It required me to fix a faulty regex. D3 was new to me, as I come from the fancy React/Angular land which obscures most of the internal working. My mentor Bryan was more than happy to help me out. After my first week I discussed with him about the possibility of an OSM GSoC on #dev channel. Which brought up a lot of heated conversation regarding the pros and cons of GSoC for the organization. The channel did admit that overall GSoC 2015 was a success. Which got me pumped up to spend my summer working on iD.

While this was happening I also started going through OSM wiki/diaries to learn mapping. I planned on mapping my college. My college and its surrounding had a spotty coverage. Since, I was a newbie I tried to map things I was most confident with. In India we call dormitories hostels, so I started marking my college buildings with hostel tags. When I showed my work to Bryan he was to quick to point out that might not be the case everywhere. He suggested me to tag all the buildings with University Building tag.

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