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Disclaimer: Deze kaart laat zien waar alle fietspaden zijn. De fietsstroken (waarmee fietsers gescheiden zijn van de auto's op dezelfde weg) zijn niet op deze kaart te zien. Dit zijn puur de wegen/paden die bestemd zijn voor fietsers
EDIT: Het klopt dat sommige stukken kunnen ontbreken. Deze zijn nog niet in kaart gezet bij www.openstreetmap.org. Je kan zelf deze missende fietspaden zelf inzetten met behulp van de ingebouwde editor of (voor de echte geeks :P ) JOSM (https://josm.openstreetmap.de/). Je moet daarvoor wel een OpenStreetMap account maken. TIP: lees ook de wiki als je niet weet hoe alle tags werken https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page
EDIT2: Voel je vrij om dit bericht te X-posten naar andere subreddits. Ik heb deze kaart ook op r/mapporn gezet
EDIT 3: Als jullie nog suggesties hebben voor andere mogelijke kaarten (zoals reistijd naar de Efteling of een spoorkaart), dan hoor ik dat graag!
I'm using both KDE and Gnome and here are my biggest complaints with KDE:
Windows key as Meta - Gnome shows a nice application launcher/overview when hitting the Windows-key, KDE uses the Windows key as some obscure modifier key that isn't used pretty much anywhere except for some obscure KDE activity shortcuts.
Kickoff (the "Start Menu") is nearly useless. It's annoying to use and the categorization doesn't make sense. Is my e-mail application under Office? Or Internet? Who knows? Is my terminal under Utilities? Or System? No idea. In which category does an ebook reader fit? Why is josm categorized as learning software? Is System Settings under System or under Settings? The whole system is broken beyond repair.
If it at least opened when pressing the windows key, but first having to press Alt+F1 or some other obscure shortcut and then navigating the menu is 10 times more difficult than launching something using Alt+F2 or using the Gnome launcher.
Edit: Formatting and added a few categorization problems
Yep, definitely ok to improve the edge, and especially ok to improve others' work. That's what OSM's about.
Take a look at the ImproveWayAccuracy mode in JOSM to make your work easier.
Sure, you are welcome to contribute! To edit the OSM-Database you will need an account. Then you need an editor, I suggest JOSM. There is a editor in browser called "id", but for such a task you should avoid it at all, id is only suitable for quick changes on single elements. JOSM is the main editor, requires Java though.
You should take a look at the wiki here. Everything is explained there. What can you do? Well, choose a station and map it. Where are the platforms, the stairs, corridors and halls, turnstiles, ticket machines and so on. Of course you can do this in several iterations of detail, first basic layout of corridors and stairs, than detailing the mezzazines and platforms. For reference how to map that just look at the data behind Gare du Nord or Pigalle.
I would recommend starting with a non-transfer station. But if you would like to do Saint-Augustin-Saint-Lazare-Havre-Caumartin-Auber-Opera I won't stop you. ;)
I digged a bit through the internet several days ago and found this website, which describes every possible transfer in the system. Maybe this comes in handy to get a basic understanding of the layout before surveying.
If you have any questions left, I would recommend you switching over to PM, because this will get to off-topic for this sub.
I personally like using MapBox Studios and their API more now than Google, mostly because of Google's new pricing model. It's much easier to use Mapbox Studios and OpenStreetMaps data (or a tool like JOSM) to build my JSON data layers and visually see what they look like upon a style I made. Though Google will always be my second choice for a Map API, they've just been dropping the ball hard as of late. For instance I am able to build my own 3D building layers either using my own vectors and metadata or by pulling the data directly from OSM.
As for advice (no matter what tool you use), I would suggest making that filter not work with geocode requests, as that can be pricey. Keep it to an array filter, where the map just fly's to or does a distorted tv effect when transitioning to the the coordinates saved in the data array.
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
Wiki Entry: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM
I will do an post here in /r/TheSilphRoad about "How to contribute to OSM" in the future (if the mods will allow it).
No, there are no chunks as such. It's just that JOSM uploads your changes in a number of requests instead of one big request (still inside one changeset). ~~Such small requests seem to get through faster, but it may be a placebo as well :P~~
But this really only matters for very large changesets, like if you drew 1000 new buildings. You may not bother as well.
Edit: "official" info here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/Upload#Configuringthenumberandsizeofuploadrequests
The best, as in most effecient way to contribute to OpenStreetMap on the PC is and probably will always be JOSM.
It's a power tool but it is not that hard to use as some make it out to be.
What is not for beginners are relations (bus routes, hiking trails, turn lanes, ...) but that's hardly the fault of JOSM, it is just that JOSM is the only editor (I think) which actually supports editing those.
JOSM comes equipped with a good tool to simplify ways.
Select the outline of your generated lake and press SHIFT-Y
If you feel that you lose too much detail you can decrease the error-threshold by activating expert-mode and going into settings to search for simplify-way.max-error
More infos: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/SimplifyWay
I used the Cimtographer mod to export an .osm file. I then used josm to open the .osm file and under View - > Map Paint Styles -> I used mapnik. Then I print it as a pdf after playing around with page size and margins.
Not quite a site, but...
JOSM can do this via filters. Add two rows:
type:way highway=*
type:node
tick the first two boxes for each, and I (invert) for the first.
When you upload the track, it gets added to the database of GPS recorded tracks. When I run JOSM for example, I start editing by downloading OSM data for the area I want to change and at that point, I can also download ALL the GPS tracks for that area that anybody ever recorded and uploaded. Back in the days(tm) before satellite imagery, that was the only way we could draw roads - local knowledge paired with our own and other people's tracks. Now, even with satellite imagery, tracks are still useful. I always use them to check whether the satellite images correlate with the GPS tracks in the area (sometime they are off a few meters, I correct that then using the tracks) and I also use them to continue tracks through the forest, e.g., that are hidden under foliage.
Here's an example how that looks in JOSM - the pink lines are the GPS tracks:
You can do this with UtilsPlugin2: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2
Replace Geometry - Ctrl+Shift+G: Replaces geometry of selected way with a new one
Select the node and the footprint than run this command
It sounds like you want the improve way tool, (shortcut key "w"). It combines clicks and keyboard modifiers to quickly add/move/remove points on a way:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy
Also note that your edit won't be approved by anyone, when you submit it, it goes live right away.
You might also try the simplify way command, but that tends to remove a lot of points if you don't adjust it.
You might have to turn on expert mode, bottom of the view menu, to get the tools in the UI.
If you are looking for even more advanced tools, have a look at the plugins section in the JOSM preferences menu. A starting place could be UtilsPlugin2 which offers some really helplful operations.
You can try JOSM, it's a bit more complex than iD but makes modifications easier on "large" data.
Short closure of roads (i.e. less than 1-2 weeks) shouldn't be tagged in OSM but on tools dedicated to real-time data such as OpenEventDatabase
Precise timetable also shouldn't be entered in OSM, it is not well suited for it. However I think seasonality can be useful, but I do not know how to enter it either.
Buildings are always good to fill an area if possible. I would say that Mapbox Satellite is the most recent and provides good imagery for that. Lots of buildings are missing and the already existing can be improved (geometry mainly). Also pitches and parking areas. Service ways also.
Some of the streets can also be split, but that might require to go through a bunch of route relations as far as I can see. Maybe a task for later.
Have you had a look at JOSM? (https://josm.openstreetmap.de/) Might make the task more easier as it's a more powerful tool than the iD editor.
Glad to be a little help, there are quite a few OSM tools for Android, and yes it can be a little confusing to begin with. I have to admit I tend to save offline then upload at a later date, (mainly with JOSM) so I don't have a huge amount of experience with Android editors.
The free software nerd in me says that you should use jOSM, go to https://openstreetmap.org/ and navigate to your building, then "open location" from the file menu and paste in the URL. Then add the different floors in as layers in jOSM, using the tagging guidelines for objects in the openstreetmap wiki.
Learning to edit maps for OpenStreetMap can be a pretty fun hobby, and you'll be able to get help about editing your offline map from the OSM community (/r/openstreetmap, their IRC channel, their wiki), and use their tools to render stuff.
If you're really tech savvy then you could even run your own private tile server and have it layered on top of the global map, and have it update in realtime as you publish edits in jOSM.
If you're not bothered about free software, open data, free culture and all that jazz then you could just use Google Earth and save the result to a KML file. You can draw shapes etc on those and group them in a folder type structure, not sure what the maximum zoom is though - it might not be good enough for internal maps.
Startup notes:
- Tag2Link plugin integrated in the JOSM core and improved
- Double click sliders to reset opacity/colorfulness/gamma/sharpness
- Smarter Split way function
Use touchscreenhelper plug-in (see https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Plugins)
> Provides helper buttons to allow working with single button mouse (stylus). Activate by holding T and slip map with left mouse button
A half measure would be to generate an appropriate preset file and add it to https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Presets#Createnewpresets
Then JOSM users could activate it and use the preset search to find ready made presets.
To correctly abuse the search function the names of the presets would have to be something like Fastfood: Chipotle. And maybe append keywords like mexican or whatever.
I've been thinking about putting such a file together, now that I see it could just live in the Name Suggestion Index repo and be linked from the wiki, I'll try to put together a generator and submit a pull request. May take me a while, feel free to take the idea and run with it.
JOSM download-java based OSM viewer and editor
only works with standard network types. traffic++ mod and networks extensions mod custom road and path types don't get exported and will not appear in the osm data. otherwise, it's a really neat way to look at your city in a more realistic way
Tool for showing what buildings and streets are associated:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/AddressValidator
It isn't using relations or spacial information though, just text matching (which works well enough for an editor view).
You raise the concern that buildings can have mistakes or nonsense in the addr:street field. associatedStreet relations can also have incorrect or nonsense members. In either case, accurate, well modeled data will make it straightforward to link things up correctly (admittedly, linking addr:street buildings to streets is an additional step).
I don't think I care about which gets used, but it isn't like associatedStreet relations are going to automatically fix bad data.
It is just as you say with addr:street, people do make mistakes and use their own abbreviations:
With associated street, a similar qa view would probably show a bunch of questionable memberships and buildings that had house numbers but were not part of any associatedStreet.
There are mixed messages there. It's accepted as a bug, but it has not been fixed. It sounds like they might have to make significant changes to improve the reindexing speed, so mostly it isn't a priority (Rather than it being strong resistance to associatedStreet).
Edit: As a practical matter, I guess that compression of the planet file mostly takes care of the tag bloat, and a major consumer anyway prefers to attach all the addressing data to each object. The 'better tooling' argument works equally well for tagging individual objects. This JOSM style paints street and addressed objects the same color, to help identify mismatches: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/AddressValidator
You can purge as others have suggested, but if you're looking to simplify the display it may be quicker to filter for the things you actually want to see.
There’s two questions here; an answer for the second: I assume you’re running Windows, did you download the “Windows installer” from https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ and double click on it? That should talke care of installing JOSM for you, as it comes bundled with everything it needs to run.
JOSM has a helper class <code>GBC</code> (extending GridBagContraints) which allows to write code like:
panel.add(new JLabel("First name"), GBC.std(/gridx/ 0, /gridy/ 0).insets(0, 0, 8, 8)); panel.add(new JTextField(), GBC.std(1, 0).insets(0, 0, 16, 8).fill(GBC.HORIZONTAL)); panel.add(new JLabel("Last name"), GBC.std(2, 0).insets(0, 0, 8, 8)); panel.add(new JTextField(), GBC.std(3, 0).insets(0, 0, 0, 8).fill(GBC.HORIZONTAL)); panel.add(new JLabel("Address"), GBC.std(0, 1).insets(0, 0, 8, 8)); panel.add(new JTextField(), GBC.std(1, 1).insets(0, 0, 8, 8).fill(GBC.HORIZONTAL));
You can select them by searching for "modified" (which highlights them, at least momentarily).
With a bit more work you can add a display style that changes the way they look:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Styles/MapCSSImplementation#PseudoClasses
You might also try a different workflow, if you can coax the trajectories into a GPX there's some tools for visualizing those built in.
Apart from the QA tools, there are also validation rules directly in the editors.
For JOSM check out https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Rules
About how to improve these rules concretely: You come up with a rule that can be applied universally to the data and code and add it to the JOSM wiki using the MapCSS language.
In my opinion there is no lack in data quality rules or tools, but rather a lack of manpower or motivation to address all these issues. Check out http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/ or run the JOSM validator on any populated area. There will be more than enough QA issues to improve.
If you want the fence to just be proportionally smaller or greater than the original area, you can select that area, press Shift+P, then drag the cursor to create a line that runs parallel to it.
It depends by region. If you scroll down this list of layers, you'll see the individual layers with a "view" link next to them. If you hit 'edit' on the openstreetmap.org website, you'll have a list of available layers to map from behind the layer button on the right in the editor.
Know any other layers we could freely use?
No. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ (uses Java, so it works on a huge range of devices) is the recommended program to open it.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QGIS#QGIS2_OpenStreetMap_Vectors is good too.
The website and editors have lots of outstanding things to work on. They aren't necessarily easy to get started with though (complex software where deciding what to do can be the bigger issue than implementation).
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
JOSM includes several map styles I believe the one closest to your style, in the OP, would be Mapnik.
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To be honest, I have just begun to learn to use JOSM and I'm not proficient in it by any means. I still haven't found a satisfactory rendering solution, either.
JOSM will certainly cache imagery (make sure you allocate enough space). See https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Preferences/Imagery
I don't know if there is a way to populate the cache for a specific area though... Let me read more.
Addresses are one of the big missing pieces.
For dividing the buildings, I expect some of the tools in JOSM are going to be the better method. Day to day, I use split object a fair bit:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Plugin/UtilsPlugin2#MoreTools
I don't have any experience with it, but I expect when the data is suitable, the terracer plugin is going to be quite useful:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/Terracer
The building tools plugin might be useful for setting the initial outline:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools
Oh, now I get it. The easiest way (I can think of) is installing JOSM, downloading the region you want and download the 'Raw GPS data', too (as seen here in this Screenshot: https://cl.ly/8813af).
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, has initiated a global COVID response. Their entry-level mapping is super accessible and uses an in-browser editor, however if you have a GIS background I'd recommend aiming for the more advanced stuff and using JOSM to edit.
It is definitely possible to revert changesets. The JOSM editor can do it. And there are some perl scripts that can be used for more complicated changes as well.
However I would encourage you to start off by making a comment on the changeset. Don't be accusatory but point out that their edits are based on outdated imagery. The user in question appears to be part of an organized editing effort which means that they should be on the lookout for feedback on their edits from other OSM uses. And either they or someone on their team can probably perform the revert.
If you can't sort things out with the other user and aren't comfortable reverting a changeset yourself, a last resort is to contact the Data Working Group. The DWG can issue blocks on users who are not responsive to feedback from the community and of course can also revert changesets.
Most probably it was assigned randomly, or by a hash of the country name (which is a clever way to visualize clusters of similar data, but this is an example why it breaks down sometimes).
You can download the area in JOSM, make the changes and save to a file to a shared place. Then anyone from your family can open the file, make the changes and save again. Just don't upload :) (if you don't fill in the credentials, you can't anyway).
I believe most of the advanced contributors use JOSM. It is faster and has a lot of plugins available.
It is a bit more difficult to learn than ID, but if you want to continue mapping, it's IMO worth it.
>it doesn't seem to work on Ubuntu
It does. You have to install it via a PPA. Here are the details: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Download#Ubuntu
Please let me know if you still have difficulties.
I use the extrude functionality instead of overlapping rectangles that has to be merged: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/Extrude
-Djosm.home. I use a command like java -Djosm.home=.josm-bulk -jar /usr/share/java/josm/josm.jar to run my second profile.
I'm not sure it is documented anywhere other than https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2710
If you're using a high resolution display (especially on Linux) JOSM might be guessing your display scaling incorrectly. Under Linux you can help by prefixing the invocation like this:
> GDK_SCALE=2 java -jar josm.jar
There are other scaling tips here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/HiDPISupport
JOSM also has the concept of Styles. Styles can completely redefine how OSM data is represented. There are styles that affect node size. See here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles
There is an HiDPI Support style on that page that might be of particular help.
De tl;dr is op 'Edit' klikken bovenaan, en dan een account aanmaken.
Wil je meer mogelijkheden en vindt je het niet prettig om vanuit een webbrowser te werken, dan kun je ook JOSM downloaden.
If you are productive using iD I wouldn't worry about it.
For this particular situation, the ability to use the search to select all of the mistakes in the area and delete the wrong tags once was a nice advantage, but that isn't the sort of thing that comes up often and it ended up that there were only 8 of them, so it wouldn't have been too much of chore anyway.
After that, the difference shows up more for doing things like http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2014/02/workflow-for-fixing-county-borders.html (wide scale edits without loading all the data) and things like adding custom validation rules or presets . The validation rules are great for some types of mapping projects, because they can be set up to trigger on upload, checking that the data being saved actually meets the goals of the project (say the project is to add a certain secondary tag to as many instances of a feature type as possible, the validator can flag the items lacking the tag).
Here's an example of such validator rules, checking airports and runways for identifiers: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/15107
I often use the Improve way accuracy tool to unglue ways from roads:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/ImproveWayAccuracy
Click moves the node closest to the pointer.
control+click creates a new node
alt+click removes the node closest to the pointer from the way.
So select the area, alt+click near one of the roads, control+click to start establishing the new boundary.
I guess for areas that are completely glued to roads the replace geometry command from the utilsplugin2 would be the easiest; draw the new geometry, select old+new, activate replace geometry.
Ah, cool - that should be easy to verify in OSM editors. The online editor iD (in the website) might work for some cases, for others you'd have to go with the more advanced option of JOSM (https://josm.openstreetmap.de/).
That's a bit offtopic, though - if you have OSM-specific questions, those are always welcome on the OSM IRC channel :)
I use the Cimtographer mod to export an .osm file of the city and open it with JOSM then save as .pdf after playing around with paper orientation and margins.
You can follow instructions here and make a portable JOSM installation with preferences and plugins. And just transfer it between your computers. As far as I know there is no official way to pre-package any plugins into a josm jar file.