[Osmf-talk] Death and evolution

[Pierre Béland]

Hi Oleksiy,

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. 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. 


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.


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.


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.


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.

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

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.  

regard
 
Pierre 



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 De : Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
À : Ilya Zverev <ilya at zverev.info>; osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org 
Envoyé le : Vendredi 26 septembre 2014 8h24
Objet : Re: [Osmf-talk] Death and evolution
 


By the way, the commercial maps are also trying to evolve, but in the direction of the OSM.

For example, Google introduced Map Maker. It does not work well yet,
    if at all (here is the article http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker-vs-openstreetmap-id-editor/ ).

I remember e-encyclopedias before Wikipedia. For example, Encarta. I read a book about how hard people worked on it, slept in offices, had a multi-million budget, deadlines, etc. ( I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier Hardcover, October 1, 1995, by Fred Moody). Still the Encarta is gone. The core principle was wrong. 

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: Wikipédia part à la recherche des femmes http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/Wikipedia-part-a-la-recherche-des-femmes/story/30826273 . 

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.

brgds
Oleksiy







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