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article of Humanitarian Open Street Map Team was deleted and redirected to Open Street Map. But Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) is different from OSM.
Currently it seems that HOT does not have the relevance in Wikipedia for an own article or due to missing peer-reviewed journals. Which is ok! May be there was something else wrong with the added article about HOT (replaced again with the Redirect). A bit worries me, that alterations were even cleared from history of the HOT redirect page. Good to know that "view history" is not like a history in a Version Control System, roll-back of inappropriate edits are ok anyway and common good practice in Wikipedia and Wikiversity, but who decides if good-faith edits are removed even from the history of the page? previous decisions of curators might also help or support new users to understand about decision about a not letting a separate HOT article evolve by the community - see HOT relevance in Wikipedia! -- Bert Niehaus ( talk) 15:26, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Suggested sources for updating the section on Humanitarian Mapping/Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team I am the Communications Associate for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Due to my association with the organization, I will not edit the section directly, but I do want to provide the following independent sources for unaffiliated editors to make updates and additions to that section at their discretion:
General Updates on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team:
Mapping using of tools produced by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in responding to specific crises or needs (the mapping itself general done by partner organizations and/or volunteers): Covid-19:
Humanitarian responses:
Development and Community Support:
Use of AI for mapping on OSM:
Updates on OpenStreetMap & Humanitarian Mapping (not Humanitarian OpenStreetMap specifically):
-- Climate Ben ( talk) 20:04, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
What if OpenStreetMap is used by a commercial company what makes profit from using OSM? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hopelessless ( talk • contribs) 21:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
How can comercial satellite data and yahoo maps be used if this is meant to be an open content project? 71.5.113.131 2007-05-11T02:19:58
The use of Yahoo! imagery is not the result of a "special agreement", from what I read a Yahoo representative confirmed that using the imagery as a backdrop/overlay for hand editing was within the standard terms of use for the image data. I would be pleased if someone could adjust the article accordingly, I don't have time right now! (Here's a source for my comment from the OSM wiki) — tedp ( talk) 13:46, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
The 'website' infobox seems all wrong to me. The infobox should refer to the project and to the idea itself, not to the website or the foundation (important as they are). Is there a better infobox for a project? Can we have a line for the number of contributors? PeterIto ( talk) 07:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Maybe openstreetmap scout could be added to the rendering engines/ OSM visualising tool? [2] (although it uses mapnik engine?) -> well it is not a complete renderer, it only adds detail on top of a existing map
I think the "Commercial data sources" section is (partly) redundant. It is more like a history section. There is already a section called "History". (Or conversely: some of the History section is redundant.)
What do you think?
-- Mortense ( talk) 13:31, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
In section "Map data": what is the meaning of these 3 lines?:
OpenStreetMap osm
CloudMade osm, garmin
Geofabrik osm, esri
It does not make sense to me.
And should osm be OSM? And garmin be Garmin? And esri be ESRI? (the company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESRI ?)
Isn't "OpenStreetMap osm" redundant? (OpenStreetMap 2 times.)
What do you think?
-- Mortense ( talk) 17:44, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject OpenStreetMap was recently marked as inactive. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Boy, is this article complicated! I can understand only a fraction of it. Yours in puzzlement, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:05, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
The scale on the usage map goes from 10 million to 2 million. Someone who knows if it's supposed to be 20 million or if the colors are wrong should fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.124.115.34 ( talk) 15:13, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
The OpenStreeMap wiki contains a page set devoted to news about OSM ( OpenStreetMap in the media), another for books ( Books) and a third for scientific research ( Research). Content of these three pages could be used to enhance the OSM article and/or articles about cartography and open source information movements. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 15:50, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
It may improve the article to clarify the relationship between online map service Mapquest (wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL) and OSM. It's difficult to comprehend the 'OpenStreetMap' MQ is supporting [3] and the nature of the relationship. [4] In particular, what does this mean: 'MapQuest earmarked $1 million in resources to help improve the OSM data in the United States with the stated intention of possibly using OSM data for their maps of the U.S. in the future'?? (The article makes no mention of MapQuest.) Twang ( talk) 08:55, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I do think it would be worth expanding on what mapquest does because if you go on openstreetmap, one of the options in the corner (along with standard, cyclemap, and transport map) is 'mapquest open'. It's not clear to me what this does, or how it is different from the standard data/view? Iamsorandom ( talk) 17:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
In the nice-to-have category: I think financials should be listed. Specifically, links to IRS.gov, not osm.org. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.18.173.102 ( talk) 16:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Found it in "Map rendering and presentation"/Desktop - do they really use OSM? Richiez ( talk) 20:13, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Just checked on my N900, the maps are all copyright OVI, Navteq, Nav2/NavInfo, no mention of OSM.-- Efa ( talk) 11:33, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
hi, as this is a collaborative project like Wikipedia, we should add a section "Map data editing" with some elements and software to edit the map data. At least list Potlatch2, Merkaartor and JOSM. This is much important as Merkaartor and JOSM article are link to this page, where now no informations are given on map editing. In noone has something against, I will add-- Efa ( talk) 11:33, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
I realise that 'data' is plural, but saying "these data are" sounds as silly as saying "these furniture are". While it may be technically correct (as some dictionaries claim), it's extremely rare to see it written like this and it just seems awkward. Anyone care to change it?
I added these at the see also section:
apprearantly, Google maps is very bad for downloading the maps for offline use, OSM apps seem to be better but are mostly only for use on Android. See http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/591/how-to-use-gps-maps-without-an-internet-connection http://pocketnow.com/2013/07/22/google-maps-offline
I was wondering: perhaps its useful to make an article called Comparison of off-line GPS software. All programs (using different maps -google maps, OSM, ...-) can be mentioned herein, aswell as the OS on which these apps run. KVDP ( talk) 07:55, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
also mention these:
KVDP ( talk) 08:25, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
References
As requested by an unregistered user last year, I've gone through and changed "data" from plural to singular throughout. IMHO "Data was" sounds much better than "Data were". Rojomoke ( talk) 17:02, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
I think the article is in great need of a proper structure. I propose the following structure:
I hope this would bring some sanity to the randomness. -- 80.200.190.158 ( talk) 13:41, 28 December 2015 (UTC) (sorry, this was me) -- Sanderd17 ( talk) 13:42, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
A recent edit added a reference to GNOME Maps as an editing solution, while not wrong, it clearly was a non-NPOV addition, stats on actually used and popular editors can be found here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats (there are no full year 2015 stats, but there is no reason to believe that the popular tools have changed). I would make the edit myself but I'm involved in the developement of one of the more popular OSM editors. SimonPoole ( talk) 14:18, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Would the section "State of the Map" be better titled "State of the Map conference"? I visited the page and from the TOC I though the section would be about the current coverage and quality of the global map. I was going to be bold, but thought I'd mention it here first, as I don't know if it will mess up any links to sections. Mcstove ( talk) 09:46, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
A long term contributor Serge Wroclawski criticised that progress of OpenStreetMap is being hindered by poor technical and political decisions. Some of them include providing just a database when map is needed, unclear usage policies, lack of moderation/review. Wroclawski, Serge (February 16, 2018). "Why OpenStreetMap is in trouble?". Emacsen's Blog. Archived from the original on April 29, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
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OpenHistoricalMap currently redirects to this article, which contains only a brief mention of that sister project. I've started a draft of a more complete article about OpenHistoricalMap. I invite those familiar with the project to help to make it more well-rounded and rigorously sourced. Minh Nguyễn 💬 22:04, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
The redirect Emerillon (software) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 16 § Emerillon (software) until a consensus is reached. Utopes ( talk / cont) 06:45, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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It is very difficult to understand why this article contains essentially C&P marketing material from a competing organisation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=OpenStreetMap&diff=1127733186&oldid=1127621353). While linking to an appropriate source in a section on similar and competing organisations could be appropriate, surely using this article to promote the OMF isn't. SimonPoole ( talk) 08:29, 29 October 2023 (UTC)