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Hype Williams is directing a movie for Kanye West's Yeezus, which will chronicle his rant fueled tour that has been taking place over the last few months.
Kanye West sat in up at Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, giving a composed interview and performing a medley of hits from his catalog.
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Here is the wedding proposal episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Kanye opens up for 20 minutes during his New Jersey Yeezus tour for a new rant. In this statement, he speaks on Nike vs. Adidas, Drake's Rolling Stone comments, the media misquoting artists, The Grammy's, and why he's a genius, of course.
Ye remixes Beyonce's addictive new hit, just in time for V-Day, with new beats and rhymes.
During his Penn State performance last night, Kanye launched into an anti-radio interview, anti-paparazzi rant, calling out Sway and Charlemagne in the process. #ShutTheFuckUpRant In the second clip, check out a newly unearthed freestyle from Ye, recorded 12 years ago, brought to you by Complex.
Newly discovered footage of Kanye and Pharrell in the studio, during the original College Dropout recording sessions. Ye singing off key in the beginning. Pharrell approves….
For the 10th Anniversary of The College Dropout, Twista talks about making "Slow Jamz" with Kanye West.
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Kanye West's debut album, The College Dropout. He's released a statement, reflecting on the seminal release. "Ten years ago today we finally released what had been my life's work up to that point: The College Dropout. I say "finally" because it was a long road, a constant struggle, and [cont.]
33 1/3′s classic album series of books attempts to deconstruct each LP by talking to the parties involved in its creation. Following books based on DJ Shadow's Endtroducing and Nas' Illmatic, their next subjects will be J. Dilla's Donuts, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Danger Mouse's The Grey Album. Check out descriptions [cont.]
Dre Films directs this clip of Rick Ross' freestlye over Kanye's "Bound 2″.
Kanye recently sat down with DJ Pharris in Chicago on Power 92, where he answered questions from fans who called into the show to speak to the famed rapper. He spoke about his music, his adidas deal, adjusting to fame, and more. Kanye also speaks about famous people coming out of Chicago, including Oprah, Obama, [cont.]
Kanye West stopped by WGCI's Morning Riot while he was in Chicago for his Yeezus tour. He spoke on his new Adidas deal, becoming a billionaire by his mid 40′s, and addressed his recent, explosive interview with Sway.
Kanye West pays tribute to Michael Jordan at Chicago's United Center, it's called "We Should Have Never Ever Let Michael Jordan Play For The Wizards".
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Fif speaks with XXL about his upcoming project Animal Ambition, and his thoughts on Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West.
While Kanye West has been quite vocal about his plans to dominate the fashion world, two new reports have popped up in regards to his next album. Kanye revealed Wednesday night at Miami's Art Basel that he is working on the new album, and briefly discussed it. "I think my next album is going to [cont.]
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Preparedness Means Wearing PantsPosted byon January 22, 2013 at 4:16 AM EST
It's cold, colder than it's been in a while. This morning, every campus is experiencing temps in the teens, or colder, something that hasn't happened since the winter of 2010/11.Learn more about protecting:
The Next Alert Might Not Be From UsPosted byon January 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM EST
With each new communications technology, there are efforts to see how it can be used to warn people of danger. The town bell could be used to sound an alarm as well as toll the hour of the day, your tv could switch from showing you cartoons to giving you a weather alert, and IU-Notify can interrupt your dinner to let you know the campus may be about to experience something dangerous.Learn more about protecting:
Fight the Flu!Posted byon January 16, 2013 at 10:35 AM EST
It's baaaack!
According to The Associated Press, the flu is widespread in the Hoosier state, although it hasn't reached epidemic levels reported elsewhere. The state-by-state report said Indiana health officials are calling the 2012-13 flu season "moderately severe."
As of Jan. 14, 21 flu-related deaths were reported in Indiana.
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Convincing Scam E-mail Targets Faculty, Staff, and StudentsPosted byon January 14, 2013 at 12:28 PM EST
Attackers are targeting university faculty, staff, and students with a convincing but malicious e-mail message with the subject "Your Account May Have Been Compromised". If you receive this message or others like it, don't follow any of the links. Delete the message immediately.Learn more about protecting:
Posters for Promoting PrivacyPosted byon January 14, 2013 at 12:07 PM EST
You, too, can help promote privacy awareness during Data Privacy Month! Consider downloading, printing, and distributing these free posters. They are good examples of simple and attractive awareness material that helps promote privacy-aware (and secure) information handling practices.
Please feel free to print them out and post them in prominent locations, distribute them in mailboxes, or use in other creative ways!Learn more about protecting:
ERM is a process, not a barricadePosted byon January 10, 2013 at 2:10 PM EST
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is often looked at as a way to prevent risks from ever happening. In other words, when the threat occurs, a barricade is in place to prevent any damage from happening. By taking this approach, many strategists will be let down. And wrong.
January is Data Privacy Month!Posted byon January 3, 2013 at 8:36 AM EST
It's a new year - a perfect time to make some resolutions to better protect your privacy, and that of those whose personal information you collect, store, and use at work. January is Data Privacy Month, with January 28 being celebrated around the world as International Data Privacy Day!
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Campus Closure InformationPosted byon December 25, 2012 at 10:55 PM EST
At least one campus has been closed on Wednesday, December 26, 2012:
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UPDATE: IU Bloomington will resume normal operations at 5:00 PM Wednesday December 26, 2012 and will be open for normal operations on Thursday, December 27, 2012.
Campus will be closed at the Bloomington Campus December 26th, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM due to severe winter weather.Learn more about protecting:
Let's be careful out therePosted byon December 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM EST
Many of us are traveling over the next few days and it appears as if the weather may be a little "iffy" throughout the Midwest. We may be looking at snow and high winds over much of the state and beyond starting this afternoon and going in...to Friday. We're sharing Indiana Department of Homeland Security information and advice. Before leaving home on your holiday rounds, check the statewide travel advisory map for possible travel restrictions. Be safe out there!
Sandy Hook Elementary School: McRobbie CommentsPosted byon December 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM EST
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FACTBOX - Weapons, nuclear power, roads and welfare: India's budget cuts
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Finance Minister P. Chidambaram is putting welfare, defence, atomic energy and road projects under the knife in a final attempt to hit a tough fiscal deficit target by March, risking short-term economic growth and angering cabinet colleagues.
The cuts will reduce spending by about 1.1 trillion Indian rupees in the current financial year, some 8 percent of budgeted outlay, or roughly 1 percent of estimated gross domestic product, two senior finance ministry officials and a senior government adviser told Reuters.
Here are some of the details of the cuts so far and where the axe is falling:
* The defence ministry -- the world's biggest arms importer in recent years -- faces a cut of $1.9 billion for weapons purchases, which a senior official said could delay deals to buy howitzer guns and Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States by at least few months.
* The rural development ministry, which runs a flagship rural employment scheme that is seen as a major vote winner, could have up to $4 billion slashed from its budget, a senior official at the ministry said.
* Government data for the April-November period, for which spending numbers are available, show a fall in disbursements to ministries -- and purse strings are tightening further in the traditionally high-spending last quarter of the fiscal year. A senior finance ministry official said ministries will not get more than a third of their allocated funds in the quarter to March.
* The atomic energy department was allocated only 13 billion rupees by November-end, out of 56 billion rupees approved in the budget for the whole year, a finance ministry official said.
* Just 35.7 billion rupees were released to the ministry of communications and information technology in the same period out of 86 billion rupees budgeted for the whole year, the official said.
* Overall in the April-November period, spending on more than 100 capital investment programmes stood at 2.43 trillion rupees, 47 percent of the target of 5.21 trillion rupees for the whole fiscal year, compared with 50 percent a year earlier.
* The roads ministry has so far awarded contracts for just 1,000 km (620 miles) of roads against a target of 9,000 km this fiscal year, partly due to budget constraints and the deteriorating economy, an official at the ministry said. The ministry has been told to look for funds from the National Highway Authority, partly funded by market borrowing.
* One reason the cuts are needed is a rising subsidy bill. The finance ministry expects the burden for providing cheaper fuel to jump by nearly 500 billion Indian rupees this year, above earlier estimates of 430 billion rupees.
* Another factor is low revenue collection - in the first eight months, collections were 47.6 percent of the annual target compared with 49.7 percent during the same period a year earlier, at a time Chidambaram is trying to substantially lower the deficit from last year's 5.8 percent of GDP.
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Argentina Money Advice - is this any good?Posted by mvexel on 4 November 2014 in English (English)
I am headed to Buenos Aires for SOTM 2014 tomorrow, and reading up on money and general travel tips. I found this page on bringing and exchanging money. Some of the tips in there:
- Bring cash, preferably in US$50 / US$100 bills
- Pay in US$ whenever you can.
- There is an unofficial 'blue dollar' rate that is much better than the official US$ / Peso rate.
I have never been to Argentina before, and I have no idea if these are good tips. Perhaps an Argentinean mapper can shed some light on this?
See you at SOTM!
New MapRoulette challenge: TIGER Mismatched WaysPosted by mvexel on 7 October 2014 in English (English)
I know, I've written about TIGER before...Quite a few times. I've pointed out problems from time to time, but I have also attempted to come up with solutions, like the Battle Grid.
Today is another being-part-of-the-solution kind of day. We (a few colleages at Telenav were involved in this) took the output of the Battle Grid comparison we use to generate the Battle Grid cells, divided them into more and less severe cases based on the road class and amount of difference between TIGER and OSM, and created a MapRoulette challenge out of the more interesting cases. This will make it easier for anyone to help fix antiquated, bad TIGER data anywhere.
This is what a typical case would look like in MapRoulette:
Loading this case in iD, it's plain to see that this road is mis-aligned pretty badly:
Easy to fix! Just drag the nodes that make up the misaligned way to match the aerial image:
To point out these errors, we compare TIGER 2014 against OSM data. This gets us mostly good results, but it's not perfect. In most cases where MapRoulette will point out a non-error, the TIGER data is still wrong. This is the case in Alaska more than anywhere else, it seems.
TIGER is wrong here, even though it's hard to see with the low resolution satellite imagery...
The number of non-errors is small enough to not be too annoying, I hope. If it is let me know, and I can see what more we can do to improve this challenge.
Not all at once
There are a lot of Mismatched Ways. A lot. Most of them, way more than 90%, are local and low speed roads, mapped to
residential in OSM when TIGER was imported. Of course, these all need to be fixed eventually, but let's focus on the more important roads first. Based on how it goes, I will gradually add more cases.
I look forward to hearing from you about this new challenge! I am pretty excited about it!
MapRoulette Challenges 'Ways Needing Smoothing' and 'Crossing Ways' CompletedPosted by mvexel on 3 October 2014 in English (English)
If you have logged in to MapRoulette today, you may have noticed that the Ways Needing Smoothing and Crossing Ways challenges are now gone. There is a simple reason: they are done!
Together, we resolved more than 100 thousand suspected 'sharp angle' errors in the Ways Needing Smoothing challenge, and just under 25 thousand crossing ways in the Crossing Ways challenge.
So at least for the United States, we now have much less of this:
.. and many less situations where two ways cross but should really have an intersection node. (Sorry, in this case an image does not say more than a thousand words..)
Not all suspected cases turned out to be real errors. For the crossing ways, about two thirds of the cases were eventually marked as 'fixed' by MapRoulette users:
For the Ways Needing Smoothing, the fixed rate was much lower, about 40%:
This low rate can be explained in part by MapRoulette users fixing more than they are asked to fix! What I heard a lot is that mappers would load a smoothing task in their browser, and ending up spending a lot of time cleaning up the area around the error - often resolving other MapRoulette tasks without even knowing it. So it's not as bad as it looks, and I received mostly really positive feedback about this challenge.
I have a new challenge in the pipeline that also has to do with TIGER fixup - a separate diary is forthcoming about that!
As always, if you have a good idea for a challenge, don't hesitate to get in touch with me so I can help you get started! Better still, subscribe to the MapRoulette mailing list and share your ideas with the MapRoulette community!
State Parks and National ParksPosted by mvexel on 23 August 2014 in English (English)
There is a well-established definition for tagging National Parks in OpenStreetMap.
Hooge Veluwe National Park Image credit: Wikipedia
The definition,
A national park is a relatively large area of land declared by a government (just as
boundary=administrativeare declared/recognised by governments), to be set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, animal and environmental protection
would also apply to the many State Parks in the United States, and perhaps provincial and state parks in other countries as well. However, the
boundary=national_park page does not give any specific guidance. I am about to map some state parks in my home state Utah, and I will tag them with
boundary=national_park for now because they fit the definition.
How do you map state or provincial parks in your area?
OpenStreetMap Sister TownsPosted by mvexel on 23 August 2014 in English (English)
Playing MapRoulette, you get dropped in all these random locations on earth. This really makes my mind wander sometimes.
Here is Cambridge, Ohio:
Image credit: Wikipedia
A nice enough town. Probably friendly people. BUT NOT VERY MANY MAPPERS AMONG THEM:
A fellow mapper suggested this simple & brilliant idea: OSM Sister Towns. Why don't we team up towns (and cities) in need of mapping help with towns elsewhere in the world that have mapping forces to spare? They could use the Tasking Manager, MapRoulette, or just iD / JOSM with aerial imagery to help out the town in need. I foresee face to face meet-ups at SOTM and new global bonds of mapping friendship!
Oh TIGER...Posted by mvexel on 22 August 2014 in English (English)
Sometimes I wonder if those TIGER surveyors were just having a grand old time making up things as they drove past and casually looked out of the window of their cars...
This whole area needs lots of work - if you want to help out, that would be great!
(I have no personal or other connection to the area, but got dropped there by the MapRoulette 'Ways Needing Smoothing' challenge - freshly cleaned up, so most cases you get should now be real things to fix!
Then and nowPosted by mvexel on 26 July 2014 in English (English)
I joined OpenStreetMap in June 2007. A lot has changed since then!
Silicon Valley
Aw, snap!Posted by mvexel on 24 July 2014 in English (English)
I'm seeing this all the time now when trying to use iD on my Mac!
What's up? There's a recent bug that seems related. If you're experiencing the same thing, see if you can weigh in there.
It looks like there's a more recent version of iD up here, give it a try if you get crashes as well.
New MapRoulette feature: Select your local area!Posted by mvexel on 22 July 2014 in English (English)
MapRoulette silently added a new feature a while ago: the ability to select an area you want to work in. This is one of the most requested features in MapRoulette and I am pretty excited to publicly announce it!
Here is how it works. Go to MapRoulette and select a new challenge. You will see this screen:
Notice the button at the top? It says what it does on the tin - it lets you select a work area that will be remembered until you cancel it. (I will show you how to do that later.) When you click the button, the challenge selection window disappears and you will get this notification:
It tells you to click on the map to set the center of your work area. It will then draw a circle that defines your work area. The initial radius of the circle is determined by the current map zoom, so if you want to define a large area, try zooming out first. Here, I zoomed out to the United States and clicked somewhere in Utah. This gives me a work area of about the size of the state:
Right now, only circular areas are supported.
You can change the radius using the + and - keys on your keyboard. You can click anywhere else on the map to set a new center for your area.
Once you're satisfied with the area you have set, click the notification in the top left to confirm your selection. The challenge selection window will re-appear, but will show only challenges that actually have work in your area, and tell you how much:
(Right now, there is an annoying little bug that will cause MapRoulette to first tell you that everything is done and you need to pick a different challenge. I hope to squish that really soon. Just click OK.)
As you see, there are only two challenges in my area that need work! Yay. If I select one of them, sure enough the next task I get is in Utah:
Resetting your work area is pretty much the same process. Instead of selecting an area like I described before, just click the notification without doing anything on the map, and you will be back to the old behavior where your work area is the entire world.
I hope you enjoy this new feature! Let me know if you have any questions.
Scout update: new data and signpost taggingPosted by mvexel on 22 July 2014 in English (English)
Let me update you on some of the goings on at Telenav related to OSM.
Scout OSM data update
First off, we released new OSM data for the US Scout app on July 15th. The OSM data is from July 3rd. No app update is required; just launch Scout and it will automatically use the latest data. We are currently updating the OSM data that drives Scout about every other week.
If you haven't tried Scout yet, you can download the latest version for Android here, for iOS here.
Note that the Scout International app (formerly the Skobbler GPS Navigation app) has its own data update regimen that is independent from the US version of Scout.
Signpost tagging
We continue to improve OSM data for the United States as well. We are focusing on signpost information right now (the information that you see on the freeway exit signs).
Image from AARoads
We are adopting the well-established
destination= convention instead of the US-specific, limited and poorly documented
exit_to convention. We are using AARoads as our primary source, for which they kindly gave permission. We are starting in Texas. Let me know if you have any questions about the editing work we are doing!
screenshot from the awesome achavi diff viewer
If you are interested in the background of
exit_to versus
destination, please see my previous diary entry about this topic.
Alright, that's it for now. I will write up updates like this one more often going forward!
Time for a 'Map Your Outdoors Adventure' party!Posted by mvexel on 21 July 2014 in English (English)
Opening HoursPosted by mvexel on 17 July 2014 in English (English)
Mapping opening hours correctly can be a pain; the format for the
opening_hours key can be hard to remember. I didn't use to do it much for that reason. Until I recently discovered that there's a JOSM plugin for that! It works really well, let me show you how I added hours of a local restaurant in seconds.
First, of course, make sure you have the plugin installed:
Then, select the thing you want to add opening hours for:
And select 'Edit Opening Hours' from the Data menu (or use the keyboard shortcut).
If the plugin detects an existing
opening_hours tag, it will offer to edit that, or you can create it. It will then offer a graphical interface for setting the hours:
You can move and drag blocks as you would expect. The plugin will parse it in the expected format. A nice little extra is that it supports the 'open end' hours in the format
17:00+ - useful for places that don't have a set closing hour but instead say 'open till late' or something similar.
Perhaps old news to y'all, but it made me happy :)
A Word Of Caution
Several people have pointed out (link is to the German forum) that the plugin is limited in what it can do. It will not cover most complex cases, like exceptions for public holidays and month to month variations) and does not seem to properly cover some of the simpler cases.
I still feel that it is good for a lot of basic opening hours tagging, but please review the opening_hours specification.
There is also a validator tool that I don't quite understand how to use, perhaps someone can explain in the comments?
Watching the WatchlistPosted by mvexel on 12 July 2014 in English (English)
I like the Watchlist on the wiki - it helps me keep track of changes to pages I care about. When you are logged in, you will see a link to your Watchlist in the top right corner:
If you click on it, you get an overview of changes to the pages you added to your watchlist:
You can filter the output in various ways to make the result less cluttered.
Adding pages to your watchlist is simple - just click the star at the top of a page:
The biggest drawback is that you actually have to go to the page. I would rather be notified of changes on my phone.
This is where the Atom feed comes in. On your Watchlist page, you will find it in the left margin:
The Atom link provides the latest items on your watchlist as a feed, meant for software to do something useful with. Much like RSS. Actually, if you use an RSS reader, you can probably add the Atom link to your reader.
I don't use RSS readers, but I do use IFTTT, or If This Than That. IFTTT is a very smart web site that you can feed all kinds of information from the internet, and perform actions on it based on triggers. For example, it can send you a text message whenever it is going to rain, based on weather data it gathers. IFTTT calls these things Recipes. People have come up with tons of useful recipes, and IFTTT is constantly adding interesting input options.
Let me show you how I created a simple IFTTT Recipe to get a notification on my phone every time someone updates an OSM wiki page I am watching.
First, if you don't have an account with IFTTT yet, create one.
Once you are logged in, you will be able to create new Recipes:
The first step in creating a Recipe is defining your 'this' or input:
Click 'this' and choose 'Feed' from the list:
You can choose to pull this trigger on each new Feed item or just one that matches a certain string.
Choose 'new feed item'. In the next step, you paste the Atom URL:
Then click to Create the Trigger.
This is the 'this' step that takes care of the input. IFTTT will monitor your Watchlist through the Atom feed and pull this Trigger every time it sees something new. I am not quite sure how often it goes and looks, but it's about every 10-15 minutes in my experience.
Next is the 'that' step, or what do you want to do when the Trigger is pulled?
There are a lot of options, most of which you will need to 'activate' by downloading an app for your phone, linking another account, or something similar so that IFTTT knows what to talk to on your end. IFTTT has native apps for iOS and Android that it can talk to to send you notifications. This is probably your easiest option if you want notifications on your phone.
You activate these 'Channels' by downloading the app from your app store and linking it to your IFTTT account. I use a third party notification app called Pushover myself, because it has an API that can receive notifications from elsewhere as well. If you don't care about that, go with the IFTTT apps or even the SMS Channel option. The example here assumes Pushover, but the steps are the same.
Once you have selected a 'that' Channel, you may need to choose between various output options. Pushover for example has two, normal and 'high priority'. In the app, you can have these two types trigger different alert types / sounds.
In the next step, you get to craft what your notification looks like:
The text with a grey background will be replaced by text from the feed when the notification gets sent out. There are some more of these placeholders available under the + button:
Unfortunately, there is no 'preview' available, so sometimes it takes a little guess work to see what the results will look like.
I ended up with this:
The final step is to create the Recipe.
Now, when someone edits a wiki page on the OSM wiki that is on your watchlist, you will know right away!
(Note that these notifications are not about editing wiki pages :) I did not take a screen shot of those yet. The notifications you see here show whenever someone edits OSM in your area - something I wrote about on my old blog a while ago.
Which camera for capturing 'Street View'?Posted by mvexel on 4 July 2014 in English (English)
I have been following Mapillary with a good deal of interest, because they provide an open 'street view' platform that is explicitly aimed at improving OpenStreetMap.
Here's an example of a Mapillary image and map context:
I have created an account and did some test shooting from my car, using the iPhone app Mapillary provides. This is OK, but I want better quality images. So I am looking at an action camera I can mount in my car and on my bike.
After doing some research, I narrowed the field down to two contenders: the Garmin VIRB / VIRB Elite and the GoPro Hero 3.
The Garmin VIRB (Elite edition shown):
The GoPro Hero3 (White shown):
Some observations:
- The VIRB seems to have better battery life (important! but could not find any side by side comparisons)
- The basic GoPro Hero3 is less expensive than the basic VIRB
- The Elite edition of the Garmin VIRB has lots of built in sensors: GPS, altimeter, accelerometer - nice, but I am already carrying a GPS wherever I go anyway.
- Both can do automatic time lapse photos at set intervals, which is crucial.
- The VIRB can do 16MP stills, the most expensive Hero3 can do 12MP. This does not necessarily mean better pictures, of course.
- The most expensive Hero3 comes with a remote, which can be convenient if you don't want to time-lapse. For example on long freeway drives where you just want to capture the signs. The VIRB can be remote controlled by certain Garmin devices like the Fenix 2 watch. Both come with smartphone apps that can control the camera as well. Convenience factor is much less though.
- The VIRB has a built in screen. Not sure if that is actually an advantage. What would you use it for?
- Both have wide angle lenses which is important to capture as much in one shot as possible. Specs are sketchy but it looks like the GoPros have a slightly wider angle.
- GoPro has been at this for a lot longer than Garmin.
Here's a comparison of the video side by side. I wouldn't use video mode as much so this is of limited value, but anyway:
iframe embedding does not seem to work - is there a way?)
From what I can see the GoPro wins out by a small margin: sharper and better colors.
What do you use? Any other cameras to consider?
Complex Intersections, or Why We Should Get Rid Of exit_toPosted by mvexel on 3 July 2014 in English (English)
Here in the U.S., we have been using the convention of tagging exit information on the
highway=junction node using the poorly documented
exit_to tag. The rest of the world has been using
destination=, and now that I start to think about this problem more, I can see why.
Let's take this example of the junction of I-70 and the Baltimore beltway I-695.
(Have you used Mapillary? It's pretty awesome and unlike Google Streetview, OpenStreetMap explicitly does have permission to map from the images. It's pretty easy and fun to contribute your own, too.)
How to tag this so that navigation and other software could make sense of it?
Currently, the only relevant tags on the junction node are
ref:left=91B and
ref:right=91A indicating the exit / junction numbers. There is nothing on the `_link' ways to indicate destination.
One way I have seen people map this information in the US is roughly
exit_to:left=I 695 N;New York;Towson and
exit_to:right=I 695 S;Baltimore;Glen Burnie. This is not great for a number of reasons:
- There is no way to distinguish the
refinformation (
I 695 Setc) from the names reliably.
- The US seems to be the only jurisdiction where
exit_toon the junction node is used, the rest of the world uses
destination=on the
If we were to adopt
destination= in the US like everywhere else, most of the signpost information would be on the
_link ways after the junction node. Here is the situation in OSM:
The (first part of the) top way is 11830056. The bottom way is 11830053.
According to the
destination documentation, the first way would get
destination=New York;Towson and the second way would get
destination=Baltimore;Glen Burnie.
So far so good. But there's a few pieces of information that are not captured yet:
1) The exit (junction) numbers 91A and 91B. Oh wait - these were already on the junction node as
ref:left=91B and
ref:right=91A. This works, but intuitively it would make more sense to have this information on the
_link ways as well. I am not sure how and the wiki does not give any guidance. (Actually it suggests using
ref on the junction node for exit numbers.)
2) The road numbers the exits connect to, in this case I-695 N/S, leading to I-95 N/S.
destination:ref seems to be used for that quite a bit. That would work for I-695 but I don't know how to capture the connection to I-95.
Following the documentation as best I can, this is what I come up with for the highlighted _link ways:
I think this system makes more sense than the
exit_to convention that is poorly documented, doesn't scale well to cover complex cases, and is used nowhere else in the world. The only good reason I can think of why people use it is because it's used much more (about 18,000 times) than
destination= in the U.S. Elsewhere, from what I can see in TagInfo,
destination= is more popular.
New MapRoulette Challenge: Crossing WaysPosted by mvexel on 30 June 2014 in English (English)
We created a new MapRoulette challenge over at Telenav: Crossing Ways. As always with the Telenav-generated challenges, this one is US only, because we currently only process OpenStreetMap data for the United States. We are working on extending support for other regions.
TL;DR --> On to MapRoulette!!
The Crossing Ways challenge is pretty straightforward and should make for an easy challenge for novice mappers looking for something to fix. It detects ways that cross, but neither way is tagged as a bridge or tunnel. Here is an example:
If you open this up in iD or JOSM, you will be able to tell the required resolution from the aerial imagery:
In this case, the ways should be connected as there is clearly an intersection. Another possibility is that there actually should be a bridge or tunnel tag on either of the ways.
In this particular case, you can see that there actually is a node at the intersection, but it does not connect both ways. In JOSM, it displays as a 'skinny node':
In this case, you can use JOSM's 'Join' function (shortcut 'J') to connect both ways. In iD, a node connecting two ways will be grey, and a regular node will be white:
If you use iD, you can just drag an existing node to the intersection to snap the two ways together, or drag a virtual node to the intersection to create a new intersection node. (Virtual nodes appear between two existing nodes and allow you to quickly create a new node on a way, an example shown below.)
There are currently around 19,000 cases in the US alone, so let's get on fixing these annoying bugs in OSM!
Brave Mappers of Wherever You ArePosted by mvexel on 23 April 2014 in English (English)
From time to time someone will ask me: 'How do I find out who my fellow local mappers are?'
That can be a surprisingly hard question to answer. You can go to your user page and see a few people who have indicated their 'home location' to be near yours. That does not work so well for a variety of reasons:
- Not all people set their home locations. My guess is most people don't.
- People don't update their home locations when they move.
- The home location is not necessarily where that person is mapping.
You can also have a look at Pascal Neis's wonderful 'Overview of OpenStreetMap Contributors aka Who's around me?' map, which gives you a visual impression of mappers in your area based on actual mapping activity. This is much better! But it still does not always give you the complete picture. For example, if I navigate to Salt Lake City, where I have lived and mapped for three years now, I can't find myself on that map. I guess I am mapping too much in other places for Pascal's algorithm to detect me as a local mapper.
Dennis Zielstra's engaging talk 'Where Are The US Mappers At' at State Of The Map US 2014 made me revisit this problem (and dig up some old code, more on that in a bit). He presented an in-depth analysis on user engagement and community activity for top US cities. Following that talk, I had a few interesting discussions focusing on questions like
What to do about those cities that do not have an active local community?
How can we make it easier for people to start organizing their community locally?
If we're going to address these questions, we need a better way to identify who active mappers in our area are, and contact them.
For contacting, we will need the groups functionality on OSM.org that has been under development for a while. Being at SOTM US and catching up with lots of mappers from all over made me eager to get this project going again.
For identifying, I think I can contribute something. I wrote some code on top of osmjs a couple of years ago that I dusted off. It processes a full history planet file for an area and outputs stats for all users who have ever contributed in that area, things like:
- First and last edit
- Total number of edits
- Number of edits still visible in today's data
I ran it on Los Angeles county and this is what came out. As a list, it is already pretty insightful, but you can roll nice visualizations with it as well. Enter the Brave Mappers Of Wherever You Are project that was sitting under the same layer of dust. I ran it on the LA county output with this result.
Brave Mappers shows a timeline of mappers for your area based on historical OSM data. A long bar is a mapper who has been active for a long time, like techlady here:
The users are sorted by how long they have been active in this area. Scrolling down, there are some interesting outliers to be seen. Here is DaveHansenTiger, the original TIGER import account:
As expected, active for a short time right at the beginning of the timeline. The green color of their bar means that they mostly created things (rather than modifying or deleting). The transparency indicates most of their work is no longer in the current data. In this case that is probably a good thing!
Finally, clicking on a user's bar gives some more details on their contributions:
If you want a Brave Mappers page (or just the spreadsheet) for your area, that can be arranged! If you feel up to it, you can clone the OSMQualityMetrics repo and run
UserStats.js yourself on a full history planet for your area, then process it with the script in the bravemappers repo. Or you can send me an OSM POLY file and I will try and make some time to do it for you!
Another new MapRoulette challenge: Suspected Missing / Wrong One Way StreetsPosted by mvexel on 11 April 2014 in English (English)
Over at Telenav we have been busy comparing the GPS traces of drivers using our navigation apps against OSM data. This is fun work and sometimes leads to really useful results. One of our recent studies involved comparing what we think are one-way streets to the corresponding OSM ways. The process is quite simple: count how many traces following a given street go in one direction, and how many go in the other. If the number for one direction is close to zero, the street is probably one-way. The outcome depends on the confidence level you apply, but it turns out that there are more than 100 thousand OSM ways that probably should be marked with a oneway tag, but aren't.
One. Hundred. Thousand.
I don't know about you, but I think that would make for a really great MapRoulette challenge. So that's what I did, and here it is.
But how do you know if a street should be one-way without having eyes on the ground? It turns out the aerial imagery provides helpful hints. Let me show you what I look at to verify the one-way-ness of a street using just JOSM and the Bing layer.
Let's look at this case here:
Notice the arrowhead? That is the direction we found the vast majority of trips followed, so we think that is the one-way direction of this street. Let's look in JOSM:
In this case, there is really only one hint that this is in fact a one way street, but it's a pretty convincing one: The markings on the road. See the stop line? It goes all the way across, which it wouldn't if traffic were allowed to enter from the right. Also, it is a little blurry, but there is what appears to be a left arrow painted on the road as well. So all in all, I am convinced that this way should be marked oneway=yes.
Be careful though! OSM ways can be very long, and the one-way restriction may not apply to the entire way. So always be sure to check the entire length of the way before you tag and upload, and split the way as necessary! The Telenav detection works on smaller segments internally, so the suggested one-way-ness does not always apply to the entire OSM way.
Lets' look at another case.
Looks like a residential area. Let's load it up in JOSM:
In this case, it's really hard to see. There's no obvious stopping line that I could see, and there's too much shade to see if there are parked cars on the left side of the street that are parked facing west - which would be another good indication that it is a one-way street, because it is illegal in the United States to park in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic. So this one I would mark as 'Couldn't See'. Perhaps someone else sees something I don't? Here is the permalink to the task in MapRoulette. (Neat eh, permalinks - makes it easy to share a task you want to discuss or highlight. They remain valid even after a task is fixed or even deleted.)
Oh and yes, I am afraid this is another United States only challenge... We are working hard to get more international challenges in, and we already have some interest. I am sure I mentioned this before, but MapRoulette now has an API that lets 'third parties' submit their own challenges. On top of that, we're also making it really easy to deploy your own MapRoulette server. If you're interested in any of that, just let me know. I will be hosting a session on MapRoulette at State Of The Map US this weekend, and Serge and are also planning to run a BoF session for a deeper dive into MapRoulette challenge making. If you don't make it to SOTM US, don't feel left out - there will likely also be MapRoulette sessions at SOTM EU in June!
Happy Mapping!
New MapRoulette Challenge: Ways Needing SmoothingPosted by mvexel on 18 March 2014 in English (English)
Those first few MapRoulette challenges did not keep you busy very long: most tasks in the Zorro / Tangled / Wrong One Ways challenges were fixed within the first few days. Dang! We were not prepared for that and had to take MapRoulette down for a little while because there was nothing to do...
But now we're back! This time with Ways Needing Smoothing. We detect ways that have suspiciously sharp angles and ask you to smoothen them out. Here's a great example:
Opening this task up in JOSM reveals that there's more to fix than just the one sharp angle that was detected:
This is typical for the US TIGER data - poorly aligned ways that are either under- or overnoded. And there's still a lot of them! We detected over 100,000 cases, not all of which are loaded for this challenge yet.
This challenge is bound to have some more tasks than usual that are not 'real' errors - that is the nature of challenges of this type. Just skip over them and mark them as 'not an error'. They will not show up again.
Oh and finally - a cool new little feature is the permalink: you can now link to any task you encounter and want to discuss or share. The link for this one is http://maproulette.org/#t=ways_needing_smoothing/527470359108565095470769424325999623764196595999
Happy mapping :)
New MapRoulette about to be launched!Posted by mvexel on 11 March 2014 in English (English)
We are about to launch the new version of MapRoulette! Finally! The most obvious changes are that you now sign in using your OSM account - so you can track your and other mappers' progress, and multiple challenges being available to choose from! We will launch the day after tomorrow with four new challenges to start with: the familiar Zorro Ways, ways with overlapping parts, wrong one way ways (if you know a better name, let me know..) and tangled ways. More to come!
Behind the scenes much more has changed. There is now an API for challenge providers to post their own challenges (let me know if you want access), challenges can have an area associated with them so you will be able to choose a challenge that is local to you, and they also have difficulty levels. The entire application has also been rebuilt from the ground up to be more stable, scalable, and allow more flexibility for different types of challenges in the future. If you want to see how MapRoulette is built, check out MapRoulette on Github.
So, on March 12, head on over to maproulette.org and start fixing!


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31500 Beechwood Street,
Garden City, MI, 48135-0481
Garden City, MI, 48135-0481
Tel: (734)425-9771
St. Raphael is a parish school of the Archdiocese of Detroit and provides a Catholic Christian education for students in grades kindergarten to eight.
Founded in 1936 by St. Raphael Parish, we serve parish and non-parish families throughout western Wayne County.
Children of all faiths are welcome.
We are growing in friendship, knowledge and God's spirit.
St. Raphael students learn and grow in a peace-oriented, Catholic Christian environment that nurtures the kind of moral and spiritual foundation you want for your child.
School Overview
|School Membership(s)School Assoc.
|National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)
|Religious Affiliation
|Roman Catholic
|Grades Offered
|Grades Prekindergarten - 8
|Year Founded
Student Body
|Total Students
|199 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 15%
|Students by Grade
Academics and Faculty
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|15 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
National avg.: 13:1
Finances and Admission
|Admission Deadline
|None / Rolling
|Yearly Tuition Cost
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Today I find myself in something of a quandary. I have previously expressed my disappointment at the fact that Nails Inc think nothing of charging very high prices for nail varnish, yet constantly seem to be giving them away. Most odd. It just makes me wonder what the value of the polish actually is. I mean, something is always worth what someone is prepared to pay for it, but I know a number of bloggers who have commented that they would prefer less giveaways and better prices of Nails Inc products. I mean, let's face it, the colours in the promotions aren't usually the ones you'd want to buy, are they?
Something else that made me raise an eyebrow was the fact that at £11.00 for 10ml, that is nearly as expensive as Chanel, who charge £16.00 for 13ml. There's not a lot in it. Interesting, eh?
Back to the point though. This is actually a pretty fantastic polish. I do like it a lot. It is a hot, hot pink that is shot through with gold flecks. Very pretty indeed. It is slightly less flamboyant than the OPI Burlesques from last year, but it is still eyecatching and spangly.
This is actually a rather thick polish, which is positive in that it covers easily and quickly, but a negative in the fact that it just flakes off in big chunks after a couple of days. Irritating. It also needs a great big thick topcoat as it is like sandpaper due to the course nature of the glitter.
So, like I said, this gives me a dilemma. I adore the shade, and own nothing else like it. But it's ludicrously expensive and I'm not 100% convinced that it deserves the high price tag.
What do you think?
China Glaze Blk-Bila-Bong
This post has been a really long time in the making – about 18 months! I saw this polish on someone's blog ages ago and it was love at first sight. I'd wanted this for ages and the moment it popped up on a blogsale I snapped it up without hesitation.
In nail polish terms, this isn't exactly antique (hailing from 2007) but it is tricky to find. So if you see one, snap it up. You won't regret it.
Application was so-so. You can tell that it's an older polish as it is a lot thinner than China Glaze's more recent efforts.
The first coat was totally watery and thin and I was fearful. However, the second and third coats sorted this right out and left me with a perfectly opaque manicure.
Blk-Bila-Bong is a black jelly polish that is jam packed with blue shimmer. it's absolutely mesmerising. On the nail in natural light, it looks like a darkened teal. Under electric light, it looks phenomenal. The shimmer really comes into its own, looking like amazing blue flecks trapped under the surface.
Only one whinge. The wear is dreadful. I applied this super-carefully, painted round the free edge, used China Glaze topcoat and all the tricks of the trade as I really wanted this manicure to last a few days. Sadly not – chronic tipwear by the beginning of the second day. Waaah.
Because this is so hard to find, I won't be using it all too often. But it'll be nice for an occasional flashy treat. I can't think of a single dupe for this either, I'm afraid. Can any of you think of anything similar? OPI Midnight Blue Glitter, perhaps? I'm off to have a quiet weep at the fact that they always discontinue the best shades…
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Rupee falls to near one-week low
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee fell to its lowest in nearly a week on Monday on continued dollar demand from state-run banks, likely related to the government's defence purchases.
The fall in the currency comes on the back of Friday's weakness after the central bank disappointed markets with a hawkish tone at its annual monetary policy, despite delivering a widely expected 25-basis-point rate cut.
Dealers cited continued dollar buying, particularly by a large state-run bank, as the main trigger for the rupee's fall.
However, dealers are watching out for inflows related to some recent corporate deals which should provide some support for the rupee, particularly Qatar's $1.26 billion investment in Indian telecommunication company Bharti Airtel.
"I expect the rupee to move in a 53.60-54.80 band for now in the absence of any global developments or policy announcements. However, if the global dollar strength persists and 54.80 gets breached, the rupee may see a sharp downside," said Abhishek Goenka, chief executive at India Forex Advisors.
The partially convertible rupee closed at 54.175/185 per dollar, weaker than its close of 53.935/945 on Friday, its third successive session of falls. It fell to 54.2475 in session, a level last seen on May 1.
The euro was seen struggling against the dollar after surveys on Monday showed euro zone private sector activity faltered again in April, suggesting the region may fall deeper into recession this quarter.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards, the one-month contract was at 54.37 while the three-month was at 54.89.
In the currency futures market, the most-traded near-month dollar/rupee contracts on the National Stock Exchange, the MCX-SX and the United Stock Exchange all closed around 54.26 with a total traded volume of $4.2 billion.
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Rise in Cumbria's unemployment rate
Published at 10:31, Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Unemployment in Cumbria rose sharply in January, ending a run of five consecutive monthly falls.
Official figures show there were 8,982 people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, 544 more than in December.
The county's unemployment rate jumped from 2.7 per cent to 2.9.
Allerdale's jobless total increased by 131 to 2,032, giving the borough an unemployment rate of 3.4 per cent.
Carlisle's climbed 155 to 2,223 (3.2 per cent), Copeland's by 76 to 1,576 (3.5 per cent), Eden's by 30 to 408 (1.3 per cent), Barrow's by 82 to 1,843 (4.2 per cent) and South Lakeland's by 70 to 900 (1.4 per cent).
There is always a sharp rise in unemployment in January following a shake out of seasonal jobs in food production and retailing after Christmas.
Wages, meanwhile, continue to lag behind inflation.
Average earnings increased by 1.4 per cent in the year to December, well below CPI inflation at 2.7 per cent.
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1. Taylor Swift - "Shake It Off"
Taylor Swift released the first single off of her upcoming album 1989 and almost broke the Internet as a result. Swift's new song has an upbeat pop beat, catchy lyrics and has already taken over the radio airwaves and iTunes charts.
The only thing left to wonder is if Swift will ever return to country music or she is headed in the pop direction forever.