3. Micro Mapping Party Rapperswil 2014

23. May 2014, starting at 14:00h, Building 6 (entry hall/foyer 'Seegebäude', see OSM-Marker-Stele), HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil .

(Mappers pls. fill in your name at [1] (23. Mai only; man spricht auch Deutsch)).

Gallery

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  The sign to the mapping event

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  The crowd

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  Ready for barbecue!

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  The barbecue

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Organization

• What's the motto? "Mapping buildings and addresses in and around Rappi (and elsewhere)!"
• When does it start: 23. May 2014, 14:00h
• Where's the meeting point? Room/PC-Lab 6.004, Building 6, HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
• Who's the organizer? User:Stefan (Prof. Stefan Keller from Geometa Lab at IFS, HSR)
• Who participates? We expect a dozen people, mostly interns from Asia but also mappers from the surroundings.
• What to bring along? Your GPS and/or your mobile device with fully charged batteries (don't forget the power charger). Drink and food are offered by the HSR

Participant list:

1. Stefan Keller (organizing team from Geometa Lab at IFS, HSR) together with
   Rafael Krucker and
   Tobias Schmitz - Team Violet
2. Phan Cong Minh (Minh) - Team Green
3. Swarnima - Team Green
4. Swoo Wei Cheng (Wei) - Team Green
5. Chen Xianyao (Chen) - Team Red
6. Liu Guanqun (Oliver) - Team Red
7. Qi Zhang (Qi) - Team Red
8. Hao Feng (Hao) - Team Blue
9. Rolf Furrer, HSR - Team Blue
10. Rolf Hotz, Mapper - Team Yellow
11. Lukas Toggenburger - Mapper

• Marcel Amsler, HSR
• Daniel Kolb, HSR
• Wang Kailong
• Zhang Ruzhuang

Programm

Tentative Program:

• 14:00 : Arrival at Building 6, HSR Campus Rapperswil
• 14:10 : Instructions
• 14:55 : Mapping outdoor
• 16:30 : Work on PC (Edit)
• 18:30 : Barbecue at "Fäschtinsle" nearby!
• ...until 20:20 sunset or open end.

FAQ

What is OpenStreetMap?

See OpenStreetMap (OSM) Wiki. The statistics showing the continuous growth of OSM are just stunning.

What's a Mapping Party?

See [2] (Was ist eine Mapping Party? siehe Micro Mapping Party Rapperswil).

How to Map an Address?

• To be a contributor to OpenStreetMap, firstly register to be an OSM user [3]
• Addresses can be tagged with addr:housenumber=* and the other addr:* keys. Tags can be added to
  • isolated nodes
  • nodes that are parts of building polygons ( = entrance=*s )
  • building=* polygons
  • on polygons representing the perimeter of the site.
• Buildings with multiple house numbers - There is currently no consensus on this but here are some possibilities:
  • Create an address node for each housenumber and place each node somewhere on the building outline (or inside the building).
  • Separate the numbers by commas (e.g., "11,13,15").
  • Specify the range (e.g., "10-95"). This is the preferred method when such a range is officially used for the entire house. You may also use **addr:interpolation=* to describe whether that includes odd, even or all numbers.

See also

• Example for an address as tags on a node: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1355213688
• Example for an address as tags on a way: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/203407103
• Example for an address as tags on a building entry: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5838699187
• The original proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema

How to Map a Building?

• A single building outline can be created for each building complex or 'block', which may relate to a single detached property, or to a row of individual terraced houses or to some more complex arrangement of properties. It is however better to create a series of linked outlines which share some nodes at the boundary to identify each distinct part of the property.

• Buildings can simply be building=yes

• If the building has an interior courtyard the use a Multipolygon relation to ensure that the courtyard is not rendered as part of the building.
  • Please consider adding house numbers nodes to buildings with tags in addr:*=*-Namespace:

 entrance=yes (if you know where the entrance is)
 addr:street=*
 addr:housenumber=*
 addr:postcode=*

• See http://wiki.osm.org

Why "Micro"...?

Micro has two meanings in this context: First, it's about a small party (usually it's about a weekend) - and second, it's about micromapping i.e. capturing of small scale features.