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Mapping and Community Tools Links from SOTM Africa 2017 Talk
Andrew Wiseman edited this page Jan 6, 2020
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At State of the Map Africa 2017, Apple presented a talk called "Advanced editing, validation and community building with JOSM and other cool tools," below are some links and descriptions for useful tools the community could use when mapping in Africa (or anywhere!)
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Community tools: | ||
OSM Wiki | OSM Country home pages, with local users QA tools, current events, and links to communications forums | |
OSM Talk Lists | OSM email lists, also visible from the web, for various countries and topics. A great resource for discussions. | |
Who's Mapping Around Me? | A way to find who has been mapping in an area, and if they are new or more experienced | |
Changeset Discussion Tool | All the current changeset discussions in an area | |
Tasking Manager Videos | Embed videos into Tasking Manager tasks with this code: 
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HOT Tutorial Videos | A series of short tutorial videos for OSM: logging in, mapping buildings and roads, organizing a mapathon and more | |
Imagery resources: | ||
JOSM Imagery menu | Many imagery resources available -- new Digital Globe imagery, plus country specific, regional and also GPS traces: OSM GPS Traces, Skobbler, and Strava | |
Pic4Carto | Shows where there might be street-level images which you can use to edit and confirm OSM data | |
JOSM Plugins: | Search terms in JOSM Plugins window: | |
ImproveOSM Missing Roads | Find where there are GPS traces but no mapped roads is OSM | improveosm |
Mapillary | See street-level imagery from Mapillary directly in JOSM | mapillary |
Buildings Tool | Map buildings with 90-degree corners, and parallel buildings, very quickly | buildings_tools |
Way Accuracy | Quickly fix way accuracy and road alignment | ImproveWay |
JOSM Validation Tool | Identify and fix a number of potential errors | JOSM Windows menu, select Validation Results |
Overpass Queries: | ||
Overpass-Turbo | Query OSM data to download or inspect | |
Overpass API | Read about all things Overpass | |
Overpass API Wiki | OSM Wiki on Overpass API Use | |
Overpass Language Guide | A guide to writing Overpass queries | |
Overpass Query Examples | Example Overpass Queries | |
Overpass in JOSM | Overpass Support in JOSM | |
JOSM Paint Styles: | ||
MapCSS | A brief intro to the language behind JOSM paint styles | |
MapCSS 0.2 | Guide to the most recent version of MapCSS | |
Overpass-Turbo & MapCSS | How to style queries | |
MapCSS Examples | Examples of MapCSS statements | |
MapCSS Tutorial | Tutorials on using MapCSS | |
MapCSS in JOSM | Guide to using MapCSS in JOSM | |
MapCSS Style Repository | The JOSM stylesheet web page | |
MapCSS Eval Statements | Guide to eval statements, which let you do more in-depth queries of map data | |
MapCSS 0.1 | Guide to the initial version of MapCSS | |
Apple's Validation Paint Style | A paint style created by Apple that you can use to find errors in OSM data quickly | |
Road Networks: | ||
OSM Highway Tag Guide | OSM Highway tag usage and guidelines | |
Africa Highway Tag Wiki | Highway tags as particular to Africa | |
East African Highway Guidelines | East Africa highway tag guidelines | |
WikiProject Uganda | OSM uganda project page |