Im not a Python pro by any means but I’ll look into it tonight.

Help mapping (all in a browser) https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campaign=T%C3%BCrkiye%20Ear...

The tech for the task manager is at https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/issues

Well, the Haiti earthquake in 2010 marked the start of what HOTOSM do and since then they seem to steadily improve maps where disasters are likely to strike or where needed for current humanitarian efforts (e.g. there was a project on improving road coverage prior to distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in South Sudan a year ago or so). So I'd argue success is already there, just rather invisible for many people not directly involved.

I noticed yesterday that it's missing all the houses in my neighborhood (South Bend IN). A few blocks over it's complete, but I have some work to do on my block.

It's not new construction. This house is close to 100 years old. It's just never been mapped by the hard-working volunteers of OSM.

It has markedly better coverage in Nepal, Morocco, Central Asia, and quite frankly anywhere I have checked. It has been very useful when I travelled by motorcycle, and I've contributed a few hundred hotels and petrol stations in those places to return the favour.

HOT's Tasking Manager is a platform for coordinating the work of mappers. Only authorized organizations can create projects, but anybody can contribute.

In this case, Yer Cizenler (yercizenler.org) is coordinating with representatives of local organizations and consultants from IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) for the collection of road and building datasets.

The goal of this tasks is to complete missing data on the map, for example adding building and roads like in this case. Data is then available on OpenStreetMap for different uses. Some examples are:

* View the map on openstreetmap.org * View the map on OsmAnd or other similar software * Download spatial data using Overpass or HOT's Export Tool (https://export.hotosm.org) * etc, etc

The output of people doing those tasks can be seen querying the changes on the map. There's a tool that is currently unmaintained but you can use it to get some additional stats about the contributions:

https://galaxy.hotosm.org/mapathon-report/summary

If you put a date range like "6 February, 2023 12:00 AM" to "6 February, 2023 11:45 PM" and a Tasking Manager project's id (example: 14218) you'll see something like:

Total Unique Contributors: 507

Features Created:

- building: 48962 - source: 34317 - highway: 7770 - highway_km: 924 - surface: 508 - name: 474

Is this regarding "OpenStreetMap is in trouble – a critical take on Bing Map Builder" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34680958) discussion yesterday?

Microsoft is known to water down open source, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... was a phrase by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is more like a sister project to OpenStreetMap. Very open, shared technology, many volunteers work on both, same conferences. The focus is different, some of the funding comes from different sources.

Heaven knows what'll happen if we ever start succeeding!