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Ma contribution à un cyclotourisme hydraté, ouvert et libre: rentré un nouveau point d’eau potable dans OpenStreetMaps, il était un peu planqué le long d’un mur à Domecy-sur-Cure

Je confirme rétroactivement qu’elle est potable!

PSA für #Oldenburg

Die beiden Holzbrücken vom Campus #Haarentor der #UniOldenburg über die Ofenerdieker Bäke in die Haarenniederung sind "bis auf weiteres" gesperrt. Das ist schade, weil sie täglich von sehr vielen Studis, Hochschulangehörigen und anderen Spaziergänger*innen überquert werden. Auch zwei ausgeschilderte Wanderwege laufen über die eine Brücke ( #EmsHunteWeg und #Jadeweg ). Aber Sicherheit geht natürlich vor.

Ich habe die Brücken provisorisch bei #OSM mit access=no als gesperrt eingetragen, wenn klar ist wie lange sie gesperrt bleiben könnten ergänze ich mit temporary-Tags. Es geht um diese beiden Brücken:
openstreetmap.org/way/22965931
openstreetmap.org/way/25600099

Frage an @UniOldenburg: Ist nun die Uni zuständig, die Stadt Oldenburg oder die Haaren-Wasseracht? Denn soweit ich weiß hat letztere auch schon seit langer Zeit versäumt die nicht mehr existente Brücke ein Stück weiter in Richtung Uhlhornsweg zu ersetzen. Ich hoffe, hier wird es schneller gehen!

Was ich nicht verstehe:
Wenn ich Apps nutze, die das Openstreetmap Kartenmaterial nutzen, braucht jede App eigene offline Kartendownloads.
Die sind dann mehrfach, je nach Anzahl der Apps, auf dem Mobiltelefon vorhanden.
Wäre es nicht besser, Optionen zu implementieren, dass diese einen gemeinsamen Ordner für die Basiskarten verwenden, der optional vom User festgelegt werden kann?
Spezielle Overlays können dann ja App-spezifisch festgelegt werden.

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At least one co-organizer has repeatedly expressed that they would prefer to say “mapping meetup” rather than “mapping party”…but “mapping meetup” has always sounded a little too “exclusive” and too socializing-focused to me…

Another option was “mapathon”. In the past I thought it would sound tiring or time-consuming, but perhaps it can express the thrill of sustained collective activity instead?

Also thought of some new terms - “MapWalk”, and “MapStroll”…the former was well-received, so we’ll try using “MapWalk” in the future.

We’re also toying with the idea of a bicycle-oriented event, and “MapWalk” could be changed to “MapCycle” for that.

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Even on the night before the party, we were agonizing over the perpetual question - what editor to teach to newcomers?

And after the workshop and the latest mapping party, I think I have a new and improved idea.

  1. We always introduce CoMaps (and earlier Organic Maps) to newcomers, focusing on it as a means of using OSM. But we avoid using its editor - offline data can be confusing and (in the presence of concurrent editors) can more easily lead to duplication.

But if we want people to recommend CoMaps to other, less technical people…they may want the latter to be able to add places without installing another app.

  1. I have long admired StreetComplete’s gamified interface, but always figured that it would cause issues in a mapping party.

But perhaps we can incorporate it after all? The people it is most likely to cause issues for are the Vespucci users, and they are experienced enough (and Vespucci’s tooling is good enough) to handle upload conflicts.

Another issue is that if a user adds some data using a StreetComplete layer, it takes time for quests to appear for it.

  1. MapComplete is good because it puts together the things people coming from Google Maps often expect from OSM - map data, photos, and ratings+reviews. The questions and the photo-taking may also add some variety and fun, and the photos also help other mappers verify the data and add details.

So here’s the new idea -

  1. We practice adding 1-3 POIs with CoMaps. There may be duplication, but that’s okay, we (the organizers) will clean it up later as we usually do.
  2. Then, we add 5-10 POIs with MapComplete.
  3. Finally, we try out StreetComplete to add more details to the streets and POIs. We will use team mode to divide quests between people on the same team.

I’ll test the viability of this process soon.

(Vespucci will go back to being an editor for regular participants.)

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So…I’m now inviting people to volunteer as facilitators of future mapping parties, on a per-event basis.

I think it’s high time I encouraged other people to play a more active role in actually conducting the event. Documenting the event process gives people the chance to prepare, but there won’t be much incentive to do so until someone actually gets to step into the role.

I’m also advising the regulars to familiarize themselves with the process document, so they can prompt and help the facilitator if they miss anything important.

I’ll try to have some preparatory online “rehearsals” for facilitators, so they aren’t just jumping straight into the “performance”.

Summary card of repository OpenStreetMap-Delhi/mapping-party-process
Codeberg.orgmapping-party-processOutline/structure of OSM mapping parties in Delhi

Some postmortem notes about our 19th mapping party…

https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/114933115184001431

On a positive note, I think this was a productive party. 8 out of 10 participants were experienced mappers, and I’m happy with the data we added to the market. 👍

On the other hand, there were hardly any people from Noida - clearly, the publicity needs more work 😐

One participant recommended posting on Luma, so I guess we’ll be trying that.

A selfie of the ten male participants, smiling as they stand in front of some shops.
OSM Town | Mapstodon for OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap India (@OSMIndia@en.osm.town)Attached: 3 images A big thanks to all 11 participants of the 18th #OpenStreetMap #Delhi Mapping Party! 🙂 We hope you will join us again to help make #OSM better. Each mapper matters! #OsmNcr #India #Noida

I was hoping OSM’s new vector tiles would let me design a biking-centric style without hosting tiles myself, but if I’m reading it correctly, shortbread has only limited tags and many of them exist only at certain zoom levels. Looks like I would need to roll my own tiles still anyway. #osm

Does anybody know why #JOSM refuses to apply correctly hiding filter when the editor is set to an indoor view, please ? I'd like to map the 2nd floor, and hide the lines of the 1st floor in order not to confuse myself 🙏 #OpenStreetMap #OSM

Уикипедия и информация за Габровския регион

След като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия, за да се вижда за селото. Другата цел беше да видим дали има неща, които можеше да бъдат опреснени. Така се случи, че научихме за двама човека допринесли супер много за България, но са забравени.

bogomil.info/6002
#wikipedia #gabrovo #osm

Читалището в село съботковци
Блога на Бого · Уикипедия и информация за Габровския регионСлед като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия…

Vom 19. – 21. September 2025 findet das nächste FOSSGIS-OSM-Communitytreffen @FOSSGISeV im @linuxhotel in Essen statt.

Wer teilnehmen möchte, trägt sich im Wiki ein
fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_OSM_Co oder liest die Einladungsmail auf der #FOSSGISTalk-Mailingliste dazu: lists.fossgis.de/pipermail/fos

Wer Fragen hat, fragt @hafi oder @rudzick

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Massachusetts Pirate Party supports a map that identifies the location of surveillance cameras and the area under surveillance.

Surveillance under Surveillance alternative, this site shutting down October 2025.

Anyone can update the map with camera locations around the world.

The map is based on OpenStreetMap but the data is not visualized on OpenStreetMap.org.

Website: cctv.masspirates.org
Mastodon: @masspirates