The new talk I made (“Using OpenStreetMap to Aid My Weird Lifestyle”) seems to be doing well! 🙂

I presented it at Essentia.dev for Document Freedom Day in March, and yesterday at IIIT Lucknow for LucknowFOSS.

• It has a short and sweet runtime of around 20 minutes.
• It focuses on real-life uses of OSM for an individual (although I also sneak in other uses of OSM);
• Audiences have been coming up with similar use cases where OSM could help them - speed cameras, solar panels, benches, trash cans, nursing rooms, schools for children with special needs…

I’ve also been focusing on talking with energy, and avoiding pauses. (Lowkey trying to channel my theatre acting experience.)

I hope it inspires people to start using and improving OpenStreetMap…and to maybe also pick up those lifestyle choices, which may be unusual, but not as “weird” as my clickbait title claims 🤭

Here are the slides. It’s still a work in progress, though… https://codeberg.org/contrapunctus/osm-presentations/

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In about 15 minutes (22:15 IST/16:45 UTC) I’ll be mapping some stuff on OpenStreetMap. Feel free to observe, chat, or map along. https://meet.fsci.in/contramaps

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In a few minutes I’ll start mapping some stuff. Feel free to observe, chat, or map along. https://meet.fsci.in/contramaps

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RE: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3OSxXA8B5dzSg4UW8

Came back to Delhi to find that all my posters had been taken down. I didn’t even get any calls from them…

How do I get them to stick around? Or do I just keep putting them back up? 🤔

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Was talking to someone the other day about theatre. “I think of hosting mapping parties to be similar to doing a theatre production,” I said. But - rather thoughtlessly - I added, “Organizing mapping parties is easier. It doesn’t matter if one or two members of your team don’t turn up. In theatre, a single unavailable actor can jeopardize the whole show.”

On second thoughts, that’s not true at all. Organizing mapping parties is identical to doing theatre. I’ve been in parties where everyone was new and I was the only mentor, and I’ve been in parties where I had plenty of mentors to rely on. I get run ragged in the former - it’s a bit like doing a solo act, you never have a moment’s rest.

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Wish I could afford a trackball. I refuse to buy a unrepairable landfill fodder mouse…but mapping with a laptop trackpad is a special kind of hell.* (Also, mice aren’t as ergonomic, need a flat and even surface to work, and need more desk space.)

*That’s partly why I map with Vespucci so much…but there are times when JOSM is simply better. Like drawing rectangles, or drawing terraced buildings, or adding public transport routes.

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There was so much to map in Madurai that I eventually gave up on my usual standards of granular changesets and detailed changeset comments. 😅

Thank glob for @vespucci_editor ‘s autogenerated changeset tags, though!

Madurai - add POIs, railway station details, addresses, drive-by features

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RE: https://en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/116121472367451859

Each mapping party results in more tweaks to the teaching process. 🙂

https://codeberg.org/OpenStreetMap-Delhi/mapping-party-process/commit/587b20540c36d54ac35b077b8215c99d9ee2d972

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Put up a few posters yesterday, in what little time I had…

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