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OpenStreetMap in Realtime
- politelemon 6y agoI remember a similar site, or was it this one, also a 'live'-ish OSM showcase, where it showed the changesets being drawn, or appearing as they were submitted. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Edit: I found it! https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/ https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/ As is typical I couldn't find it until I said that I couldn't find it. There must be a term for this.
- yorwba 6y agoFascinating, thanks for the link. What I don't understand is how the duration each changeset is shown is determined. I got to spend a while watching someone circle individual yurts in Mongolia, but some other places disappeared so quickly that the satellite tiles in the background hadn't even started to show up yet.
- politelemon 6y agoThere's also a number, top left, which is counting down as each change occurs. It doesn't seem related to one place. I can't tell what it is.
- jorams 6y agoThe element ID for it is "queuesize". I think it just fetches a batch of recent changes then queues them up. When the queue gets empty enough it fetches a new batch, and the number still in the queue is what you see.
- jorams 6y agoI think the duration for each changeset just depends on the number of map elements it touches. Every map element gets 1.5 seconds. Every individual yurt is a map element so that changeset gets a lot of "airtime", but a changeset that just adds one building is only visible for 1.5 seconds.
- tmcw 6y agoI worked on this ages ago :). It's replaying the last minute's edits, and since all of the editing tools just file a changeset (like a commit) all at once, it has to reconstruct what it looked like to draw those features. That timing is just based on a fixed count of seconds it should take to draw a line, a point, etc. The code's here: https://github.com/osmlab/show-me-the-way/blob/gh-pages/js/site.js#L311 https://github.com/osmlab/show-me-the-way/blob/gh-pages/js/s...
- politelemon 6y agoHello there, nice work. I like how relaxing it is... Watching someone somewhere contributing. I'm going to leave this running on my 2nd monitor full screen.
- macintux 6y ago> As is typical I couldn't find it until I said that I couldn't find it. There must be a term for this. Rubber ducking?
- RHSeeger 6y agoThat is kind of fun to watch. Thanks for this. It might make an interesting screensaver.
- petespeed 6y agoCool. A derivative thought: If we observe the dots versus time of the day at that location, it might give us interesting patterns of engagement. For example, for few minutes I ran, I saw more contributions from Saturday evening locations compared to Saturday morning. Its fun to see causation of common life patterns via data.
- dubbel 6y agoIf you want to show up in there, too, contribute data back to open society or simply make your Sunday walks a bit more engaging, then i can highly recommend the "street complete" Android app [0]. It allows you to contribute by answering simple questions about your surroundings, like how many stories a building has or if a stairs has ramps for bikes or wheelchairs. And all that with great UX. [0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
- ryandrake 6y agoI used to edit OSM quite a bit. It's an odd community though. Some people can get very possessive about "their" regions. I remember once spending a few hours "unbraiding" the intersections on a few major dual carriageway avenues over 20 city blocks or so, which I understand is best practice[1]. Well a day later or so, someone sent me a message very upset and demanding that I revert the changeset that ruined "their" work. I did, and it kind of turned me off from editing. Like, OK fine I won't try to help anymore, jeez. EDIT: I don't want to dissuade anyone else from trying editing--it's fun. But, beware of the personalities, it can be like editing Wikipedia. 1: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/3194/intersecting-divided-roads-braids-or-four-corners https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/3194/intersecting-d...
- politelemon 6y agoDefinitely agree about the community, there's all sorts! I've also encountered some very helpful individuals with immense patience. I noticed during a large urban area mapping on HOTOSM, one person was going around teaching everyone how to map tall buildings, he'd track down each commit and comment there with feedback, it was very nicely done in a non aggressive way. I was quite happy to learn. It isn't obvious the first time you do it, for tall buildings you need to map the part of the building that intersects with the earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPiGntG6fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPiGntG6fs
- dheera 6y agoWhy did you revert? It would seem to me that they were in the wrong for being possessive, and assuming your efforts were in good faith, perhaps one could take delight in watching them running and squirming in anger. I would have probably just ignored the message and kept making contributions, but I understand the turn-off.
- UncleBen 6y agoAny reason why North America has such little activity compared to Europe?
- maxerickson 6y agoMostly just less contributors. Also time of day. Why there are less contributors is a harder question.
- ac29 6y agoI assume because Google Maps and Apple Maps are good enough in the US, and Americans have less of an objection to using products from big American tech companies.
- ce4 6y agoMaybe the early massive Tiger db drop into osm prevented the formation of a bigger community? I remember this being discussed years ago. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER
- pella 6y agocheck the osmstats : https://osmstats.neis-one.org/ https://osmstats.neis-one.org/ (by country): https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries
- tux1968 6y agoNoticed that too. I just signed up and added a few points of interest here in North America. Was surprised that I could create an account and see my updates appear on the realtime map moments later.
- Aachen 6y agoWelcome to the club! :D
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
- pcthrowaway 6y agoDamn, Canadians and Aussies are allergic to open data apparently.
- mtmail 6y ago10am in Vancouver, 5am in Syndey, I wouldn't read too much into that. Map of all OSM nodes, it's somewhat close to population density https://twitter.com/phil_osophie/status/1357728257316126722 https://twitter.com/phil_osophie/status/1357728257316126722
- pugworthy 6y agoAs someone who recently started one of those "Can I walk every street in my city?" endeavors, I've become much more aware of how OSM works, and have gained a lot of respect for it. This literally shows crowdsourcing of updates in action, and makes me want to contribute more where I can.
- dualthro 6y agoAny advice on apps that facilitate the "Walk Every Street in my city" thing? Ideally just something where I could mark that I've walked a street, or perhaps better can mark that I have walked it, or biked it, and so on.
- pugworthy 6y agoI use Strava to track walks, then import the data into the CityStrides website. They work well together. Route planning is tough, even with automated helpers like Every Street Challenge (http://www.everystreetchallenge.com/ http://www.everystreetchallenge.com/). Automated ones don't take into account things like being able to cut through a park as a short cut. Usually for route planning I pick a chunk of streets bound north and south, east and west by some primary streets, then print it out and hand-optimize the route.