Tag: User
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Ebola Response Map and OSM contributor analysis
For almost eight months the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community has been collecting geo information for the West Africa Ebola outbreak response now. The collective work of the crowd is somewhat managed by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) …
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The OSM Contributor Activity Report – Edition 2014
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project celebrated its 10th anniversary in August 2014. For almost 10 years it has increased its number of registered members. Even though some contributors stopped their contributions to the project, each day new mappers start collecting features for the free wiki world map (aka database) …
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It’s about time – OpenStreetMap Contributor Activity Report 2013
One and a half years ago (end of 2011), one of my open access publications (“Analyzing the Contributor Activity of a Volunteered Geographic Information Project — The Case of OpenStreetMap”) was published. I thought it was time to update this information with some new statistics. Between the end of 2011 and July 2013 the number…
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Add a Note in OSM … Stats & Personal Profiles
Since April 23th, 2013 each visitor, user or contributor of the OpenStreetMap project can “add a note” to the map in order to easily mark an error or missing object in the map data. You can find more information about this new feature in the OSM wiki. It is a great new way for people…
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The OpenStreetMap Contributors Map aka Who’s around me?
The wait is over! As I mentioned in December, I have been working on an interactive online map, which shows you all volunteers of the OpenStreetMap world on a map. The first three layers contain …
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OSM-Gravatar, Changeset changes & Way-Tags @ HDYC
After my latest updates to the “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” website, some users asked me if I could add the new OSM gravatar to it. Starting today, you can find your OSM-gravatar from …
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Overhauling “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?”
My last update about the HDYC website is a few months old now. For those readers who do not know what HDYC is: “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” is a webpage which shows you in detail how long, when, where a member of the OSM project contributed to the project and which tools she/he…
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New OSM Contributor Feed
The OpenStreetMap project keeps attracting more and more new members that register and start contributing their data to the project. In one of my last blog posts I presented a website which shows the location …
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TimeSlider for “Your OSM HeatMap”
During my really great vacation in Sweden I had some time to do some further adjustments to the well-known “Your OSM Heatmap”-webpage …
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“Your OSM Heat Map” (aka Where did you contribute?)
Based on my OSM changeset table of “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap ?” I created a slightly different webpage and used a different approach. I used the weekly OSM changeset files and I presented the results in an OpenStreetMap including zoom and drag functions. Your contributions are indicated by a “Heat-Map-Overlay” …