<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">H<font class="" style="" size="2"><font class="" style="" face="Arial">i </font></font></span><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">Oleksiy,</font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">I
react rapidly, quite busy on the Ebola activation. This is an example
of the notoriety of the OpenStreetMap community that you should not
forget. This is mostly driven by OSM volunteers. </font><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">Pascal
Neis just provided me a magic number : He estimates that Contributors
from 102 countries participated so far to the Ebola Activation. The
worlwide community as the feeling of contributing together to a
significant OSM project. <br style="" class="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">This
is a thematic among others but with very significant results and since
Haiti, a lot of media attention to these activities, giving to the
OpenStreetMap more and more credibility and bringing in more members.
The international community recognize that OSM is one of the more mature
and organized Volunteered community. Since WHO
declared an international emergency for the West Africa Ebola outbreak,
it has been recognized that OSM is the most advanced map. This is now
the defacto map for international actions such as for the Ebola
Outbreak.<br style="" class="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">I
had the opportunity last week at the GeONG conference in Chambery to
see how the international organizations know the OpenStreetMap in
detail, and show a great interest to collaborate more. There are
projects that should contribute to build a better ecosystem around the
OSM project. This open us the doors of many development countries,
giving us the
opportunity to progress.<br class="" style="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">I
also like JOSM and would like some development to see it even better
and more intuitive. This is a tool that can contribute to make mapping
interesting and retain more people. I think that it is possible with
some adaptations to facilitate the rapid access to the various functions
by the beginners. First, some plugins like the building one should
probably be integrated or installed automatically. Our experience with
activations such as for Ebola shows that contributors that use these
tools do trace with better
quality.<br class="" style="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">A
good brainstorming about how to facilitate usage by new contributors
and a few developments could make it a lot more intuitive for beginners,
let them progress more rapidly.</div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">Then,
there could be an option to show a side panel with a factsheet for the
various functionalities of JOSM. For
example, selecting the A or B shortcut I would see the factsheet
corresponding to this selecting a shortkey, a side panel withlike the
buildings</font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="" style="" clear="none"><font class="" style="" size="2" face="Arial">Some
developments on the OpenData Plugin would also facilitate the in and
outs of JOSM (formats such as geojson, csv, shapefile) could be
available both as input and output. And geojson should produce Polygons
features compatible with QGIS and uMap for example. <br class="" style="" clear="none"></font></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></div>regard<div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br style="" class=""></span><br style="" class=""></div> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <hr style="" class="" size="1"> <font style="" class="" size="2" face="Arial"> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b>
Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch><br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Ilya Zverev <ilya@zverev.info>; osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org <br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 26 septembre 2014 8h24<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Osmf-talk] Death and evolution<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv9853574479"><div style="" class="">
By the way, the commercial maps are also trying to evolve, but in
the direction of the OSM.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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For example, Google introduced Map Maker. It does not work well yet,
if at all (here is the article
<a style="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker-vs-openstreetmap-id-editor/">http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker-vs-openstreetmap-id-editor/</a>
).<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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I remember e-encyclopedias before Wikipedia. For example, <i style="" class="">Encarta</i>.
I read a book about how hard people worked on it, slept in offices,
had a multi-million budget, deadlines, etc. ( <i style="" class="">I Sing the Body
Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
Hardcover,</i> October 1, 1995, by Fred Moody). Still the Encarta
is gone. The core principle was wrong. <br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Now Wikipedia tries to go further with this principle, tries to
involve even more people into editing. This is the article in French
language about it from September 25, 2014: <i style="" class="">Wikipédia part à la
recherche des femmes</i> <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/Wikipedia-part-a-la-recherche-des-femmes/story/30826273">http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/Wikipedia-part-a-la-recherche-des-femmes/story/30826273</a>
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I, personally, like the JOSM editor. In my opinion, it is one of the
best programs in existence. As soon as one learns it, it is a
powerful tool for heavy mapping. I do not use browser editors at all
anymore. I hope it continues to evolve further.<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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