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Ohoh! OpenStreetMap is in danger...again and again...
Wow, what a great project. Back to basics how map's use to be made. I wish them, the greatest of success.
OpenStreetMap already often has awesome coverage of remote places in Africa where I would expect Google Maps to be spotty.
OpenStreetMap already often has awesome coverage of remote places in Africa where I would expect Google Maps to be spotty.
It's not new construction. This house is close to 100 years old. It's just never been mapped by the hard-working volunteers of OSM.
Does it designate fallen buildings, and unusable roads? If so how does one access this info. I spent about 10 minutes on hotosm and osm trying to find & interpret Turkey related data and did not succeed. Found the Turkey tasks, but couldn't make heads or tails of what those tasks were, how to view the output of people doing those tasks, or how to contribute.
I don't quite understand what this project does, for example, in the case of the earthquake in Turkey. Does it designate fallen buildings, and unusable roads? If so how does one access this info. I spent about 10 minutes on hotosm and osm trying to find & interpret Turkey related data and did not succeed. Found the Turkey tasks, but couldn't make heads or tails of what those tasks were, how to view the output of peop…
In this case, Yer Cizenler (yercizenler.org) is coordinating with representatives of local organizations and consultants from IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) for the collection of road and building datasets.
The goal of this tasks is to complete missing data on the map, for example adding building and roads like in this case. Data is then available on OpenStreetMap for different uses. Some examples are:
* View the map on openstreetmap.org * View the map on OsmAnd or other similar software * Download spatial data using Overpass or HOT's Export Tool (https://export.hotosm.org) * etc, etc
The output of people doing those tasks can be seen querying the changes on the map. There's a tool that is currently unmaintained but you can use it to get some additional stats about the contributions:
https://galaxy.hotosm.org/mapathon-report/summary
If you put a date range like "6 February, 2023 12:00 AM" to "6 February, 2023 11:45 PM" and a Tasking Manager project's id (example: 14218) you'll see something like:
Total Unique Contributors: 507
Features Created:
- building: 48962 - source: 34317 - highway: 7770 - highway_km: 924 - surface: 508 - name: 474
I don't quite understand what this project does, for example, in the case of the earthquake in Turkey. Does it designate fallen buildings, and unusable roads? If so how does one access this info. I spent about 10 minutes on hotosm and osm trying to find & interpret Turkey related data and did not succeed. Found the Turkey tasks, but couldn't make heads or tails of what those tasks were, how to view the output of peop…
HOT's Tasking Manager is a platform for coordinating the work of mappers. Only authorized organizations can create projects, but anybody can contribute. In this case, Yer Cizenler (yercizenler.org) is coordinating with representatives of local organizations and consultants from IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) for the collection of road and building datasets. The goal of thi…
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HOT's Tasking Manager is a platform for coordinating the work of mappers. Only authorized organizations can create projects, but anybody can contribute. In this case, Yer Cizenler (yercizenler.org) is coordinating with representatives of local organizations and consultants from IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) for the collection of road and building datasets. The goal of thi…
Would the state of those buildings or roads be expected to be there? Or is this simply completing the data so people can more easily refer to it in OSM if they want to?
OpenStreetMap already often has awesome coverage of remote places in Africa where I would expect Google Maps to be spotty.
I noticed yesterday that it's missing all the houses in my neighborhood (South Bend IN). A few blocks over it's complete, but I have some work to do on my block. It's not new construction. This house is close to 100 years old. It's just never been mapped by the hard-working volunteers of OSM.