Tag: Website
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Filtering OpenStreetMap Changesets by a Specific Comment
In my last blog post I showed that OpenStreetMap (OSM) changesets offer a great opportunity to visualize the latest changes to the OSM map or to compute some up to date descriptive statistics of a particular region (Typhoon Haiyan OSM Response Map). Oftentimes OSM contributors use tags, comments or hashtags in their changesets to provide…
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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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Introducing OpenStreetMap Contributor Activity Areas
One month ago I wrote a blog post about a new website which allows you to see other OpenStreetMap contributors in your area. Overall the feedback was very positive, thank you very much for that! However, now it is time for a new extension to the “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” (HDYC) webpage. As…
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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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I Like OpenStreetMap (OpenLayers Plugin)
A few months ago, Frederik Ramm posted an idea on the German OpenStreetMap mailing list about a new (stochastic) approach to OSM data quality assurance. His idea was to create a way to allow users to “like” or “dislike” a specific region on the OSM map …
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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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Where are the new OpenStreetMap Contributors?
Since past Friday the OpenStreetMap project has more than 600 000 registered members. As many of you may know, not every new registered member starts contributing to the project right away. Based on my “How did you contribute to OSM?” database I created a small (but neat) webpage …
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New OpenStreetMap Germany Webpage
The German OpenStreetMap project webpage has been online for three years now. During these years several small updates have been made to the page. But it is about time to create a complete new webpage …
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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 …