Open Street Map expansion project

ManAboutCouch

The hi-res stuff hasn't arrived on Bing maps yet, but it can be seen on OSM when you make an edit.

Alun

ManAboutCouch wrote: »

The hi-res stuff hasn't arrived on Bing maps yet, but it can be seen on OSM when you make an edit.

Ah, I see. Guess I'll have to wait then.

IrlJidel

You can see it in Bing Maps if you turn off labels

Alun

IrlJidel wrote: »

You can see it in Bing Maps if you turn off labels

Great stuff, thanks!!

Quick reminder for those interested, tomorrow there is an OpenStreetMap hackathon / meetup / get-together in Tog, Dublin

Further details here http://tiny.cc/7o06ax

This is open to all so if you have ever wanted to use maps in something you are doing (Hiking, cycling, web or app development etc) or are interested in participating in OpenStreetMap but don't know where to start or even if you are just curious about what we do or how its done, then come along.

PrzemoF

Interesting stats for map contributors: http://hdyc.neis-one.org/

I was actually surprised when I saw where I did some edits

ManAboutCouch

After the success of the first Irish OpenStreetMap Hack day in March we're thinking of running another. I've set up a doodle poll to help pick the date that suits most people.

If you're interested in coming along please indicate which date suits you best here: http://doodle.com/w4b53peshfqmv8nt

It looks like we will run it in TOG again.

Aard

What did yous do at the Hack Day? Did many people go?

ManAboutCouch

Aard wrote: »

What did yous do at the Hack Day? Did many people go?

We had a very good turn out last time, about 30 people on the day. There were several ad-hoc teams, some focussing on townland mapping, others discussing potential sources of out-of-copyright mapping and quite a lot of instructing those new to the project about how to make edits and how to consume the data, among other things.

PrzemoF

I'm honestly surprised!! I'd consider 5-6 to be a success!!

What mobile applications do you use to record data? I use mostly OSMTracker for android [1] or osmand [2] if I need the gpx track alone. Editing in JOSM (for big changes) or Potlatch2 (for minor tweaks).

[1] https://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/
[2] http://osmand.net/

Both applications are available on https://f-droid.org store and google play

PrzemoF

ManAboutCouch wrote: »

After the success of the first Irish OpenStreetMap Hack day in March we're thinking of running another. I've set up a doodle poll to help pick the date that suits most people.

If you're interested in coming along please indicate which date suits you best here: http://doodle.com/w4b53peshfqmv8nt

It looks like we will run it in TOG again.

The map link points to google maps :eek: and google maps tells "We could not find TOG, Chancery Lane"

ManAboutCouch

PrzemoF wrote: »

The map link points to google maps :eek: and google maps tells "We could not find TOG, Chancery Lane"

TOG is here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.34159/-6.26844 Alas, Doodle defaults to gmaps. I'll see if I can edit that..

Poll is closing very shortly btw. as we need to give TOG some notice.

ManAboutCouch

PrzemoF wrote: »

I'm honestly surprised!! I'd consider 5-6 to be a success!!

I think we were half expecting that many too. Great to see so many turning up.

PrzemoF wrote: »

What mobile applications do you use to record data?

I'm an iOS user myself, I use PushPin OSM mostly, when I'm out and about. It only supports adding POIs though. More feature complete is Go Map!! (itunes link) but I haven't used it too much.

ManAboutCouch

The date is now set for the 2nd OpenStreetMap Ireland Hack day: Sunday 25th May in TOG.

Its been a while since I posted one of these. here's a 90 day snapshot of mapping activity for Ireland in Openstreetmap



To give some info on what you are looking at, where there are major clusters of activity (Sligo, Leitrim, Galway, Fermanagh, Wexford) this is an indicator of townland mapping.

For info on where we are at in relation to townlands in Ireland, check out rorym's site here

On the east of the country, there is a large rectangle of activity covering Louth, Meath & Dublin. This reflects the last of the new imagery to go live for Ireland.

Just giving a zoomed in look at Dublin to show the big spurt in activity there since the new imagery went live.



There's also been a large amount of activity around Limerick in recent months, largely driven by a German contributor.



And finally, Cork, a city in need of a lot of love map-wise, has been given a lot of attention by Boards very own Victor, who has also done a lot in Waterford & Dublin since joining under 2 months ago.



Anyone interested in mapping in Openstreetmap, or using Openstreetmap maps/data are invited to come along to the 2nd Openstreetmap ireland meetup in Tog on Sunday 25th May. More details here

PrzemoF

Interesting interview about how the osm started.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/09/for-the-love-of-open-mapping-data/

Victor

Deleted User wrote: »

And finally, Cork, a city in need of a lot of love map-wise, has been given a lot of attention by Boards very own Victor, who has also done a lot in Waterford & Dublin since joining under 2 months ago.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/238517/307481.PNG

Where can these maps be seen?

ManAboutCouch

Victor wrote: »

Where can these maps be seen?

They're from ITO, the full set of maps can be seen here: http://www.itoworld.com/map/main

The recent edits group are here: http://www.itoworld.com/map/group/20

ManAboutCouch

Speaking of ITO, they're the people behind the rather amazing 'Year of Edits' videos. A new one was released for the 10th Birthday last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sC83j6vzjo

Victor

ManAboutCouch wrote: »

They're from ITO, the full set of maps can be seen here: http://www.itoworld.com/map/main

The recent edits group are here: http://www.itoworld.com/map/group/20

Sorry, I mean per user.

Victor

Victor wrote: »

Sorry, I mean per user.

That's done inside the ITO site. You sign up for it, it's called OSM mapper. It's a handy tool

Another one is by some Russian guys at stat.latlon.org

I asked them to include Ireland, which they have done from today on.

Check out 10 years of OpenStreetMap growth for Ireland

https://www.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/#-9.168091/53.790917/7

Subpopulus

Amazing. Thanks for posting that. If you pause it around 2014 and look at a well-mapped area it starts looking really trippy and kaleidoscopic - like staring into outer space or looking at a cell structure under a microscope.

Wow is it really nearly a year since I last posted an update here, thats terrible

Anyway, below you can see a 90 activity snapshot for OSM in Ireland.

The large blobs of continous activity that you see are due to many people taking part in the Irish Townland Mapping Project where we are aiming to map all 60,000+ townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral districts in the country based off old, out-of-copyright maps which were donated by the Trinity and the Bodelian Libraries.

To see the current coverage check here

To see a county by county or province by province breakdown, check townlands.ie

If you, or someone you know, might like to help out, you will find everything you need on this OSM wiki page

Chris_5339762

Whos been losing the run of themselves with regards details?

Victor

What I dislike is roundabouts done as areas instead of lines - none of them have speed limits, as it isn't in the default detail of details for 'area' roads!

mackerski

Victor wrote: »

What I dislike is roundabouts done as areas instead of lines - none of them have speed limits, as it isn't in the default detail of details for 'area' roads!

Have you really seen that? Because, in as much as anybody can describe a way of mapping as "wrong", that's utterly wrong and can be expected to cause problems. I would change any such roundabouts back to "normal".

Victor

Its half of the roundabouts in west county Dublin. Walkinstown Roundabout (I rebuilt it), Ballyfermot Roundabout (lines overlaid on a multi-polygon) and the dozen roundabouts in Citywest come to mind.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=walkinstown%20roundabout#map=19/53.34226/-6.34902
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=ballyfermot%20Roundabout#map=19/53.34226/-6.34902#
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/128624482#map=19/53.29020/-6.41751
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4404511

I don't know how to do fancy bits - is it possible to change a multi-polygon to a line?

mackerski

Victor wrote: »

Its half of the roundabouts in west county Dublin. Walkinstown Roundabout (I rebuilt it), Ballyfermot Roundabout (lines overlaid on a multi-polygon) and the dozen roundabouts in Citywest come to mind.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=walkinstown%20roundabout#map=19/53.34226/-6.34902
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=ballyfermot%20Roundabout#map=19/53.34226/-6.34902#
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/128624482#map=19/53.29020/-6.41751
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4404511

I don't know how to do fancy bits - is it possible to change a multi-polygon to a line?

Thanks for these. Of the ones you posted, all but one are fine. But that one - my oh my...

The Ballyfermot Roundabout had been split into four portions. This is of itself OK, even though it's something I don't like doing to roundabouts. Some people like to do this if a certain bus route, say, travels over only some of the roundabout. In that case you could split it and add only that bit to the route relation. Me, I just include the whole roundabout, it's just as clear. In this case, the reason was a bit more compelling, in that Electoral districts were being mapped which presumably actually coincide with a portion of the roundabout roadway.

But in addition to splitting the roundabout, we had the following:

• The junction=roundabout tag was gone
• All four roundabout portions had been included in two identical untagged multipolygons.
• They had also been included in a further multipolygon that was tagged with a copious number of tags relating to the roundabout (including horse=yes)

In short, it was a bit bollixed. There's no one true way to recover from a situation like this - in this instance, because of the boundaries, it was important not to join up the sections again. So I just deleted all three multipolygons and reinstated the junction=roundabout tag (and the roundabout name) to all 4 sections.

So are there any more?

Chris_5339762

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4404511#map=19/53.28210/-6.29705

That one is even more bollixed, its gone altogether.