How does the FAO use the #opendata we generated? Check their presentation and updates from last month's Mappy Hour 
https://youtu.be/yLqTjataZFY
We are down to our last Project for this campaign!
Let us finish strong 
https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/23835
Stay tuned for more updates!
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UN Mappers x FAO mapping updates 
As of last week, we have completely mapped and validated FAO Project 3 
With your time and contributions, we have added: 
4,839 km of waterways and 
1,056 km² of farmland areas
A huge thank you to the 137 volunteers! A record of 848 tasks mapped in 2 weeks
Shoutout to our top mappers and validators
ZDNet: This digital graffiti project is making the internet fun again, pixel by pixel – see for yourself. “If you miss Reddit’s annual r/place experiment — part collaborative project, part social experiment — there’s good news: It’s back. At least a form of it is back on a website called Wplace. Like r/place, Wplace lets you color in pixels on a large canvas to create an image. Only this time […]
ProPublica: How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map. “After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.”
The Hindu: Why Hyderabad’s roads look worse on online maps than in real life. “Inside the Hyderabad Traffic Control Room, a wall of screens show vehicles moving steadily along a major corridor. Yet, on a mobile phone, Google Maps paints a different picture — the same stretch marked in deep red, signalling heavy congestion that doesn’t match the live feed in the control room. Such […]
Hey, who wants to go to the #cinema in #Hanover? If you think that sounds like a good idea, don’t use a #map app that automatically scrapes #Wikipedia for locations to find one – unless you’re fine with watching a film on #AppleTV instead. Because where once was the historic cinema Palast Theater is now an #AppleStore. 
(The cinema shut down before #OpenStreetMap even existed, so don’t blame them!)
Yonhap News Agency: S. Korea again postpones decision on Google’s map data transfer request amid U.S. pressure . ” The South Korean government on Friday delayed its decision on Google’s request to export high-precision map data overseas, the transport ministry said, amid pressure from Washington to resolve the issue, calling it a non-tariff barrier.”
I have a question about mapping tools that can help with local activism/organizing/campaigns.
I am currently using Google Maps to plot individuals at various addresses. (Easy to import data to the map, I can share this with others, etc.)
But there is a problem. If there are multiple individuals with the same address, Google Maps only puts one pin at a given address...and no additional symbology/color to show you that more than one pin is plotted...even if you hover over it or click on it...only the top pin is shown.
What other mapping tools (that I can easily share with others) can properly display multiple pins at a given address?
(This question also opens the door to other features...can field operatives make updates in real time and share to a central data source/server?...and more and more.)
As always, for grass-roots stuff...free is best, lowest cost is next best.
Feel free to boost.
Thanks in advance!
For #ValidationFriday, we are validating Project 4!
There are about 80 tasks ready to be validated! Help us keep the pace 
https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/23835
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@openstreetmap folks: I made a JOSM preset for entering direction/destination details on street and trail direction guideposts. I've made sure it also works in Vespucci 
Docs: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Presets/GuidepostDirectionsAndDestinations
Discussion: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/presets-for-josm-vespucci-guidepost-directions-destinations/133833
I seem remember a #Mapping (Software Development) related #Event in Austria. I believe it was an #OpenSpace. I missed it several years and now can't remember how it was called.
Can someone tell me the name?
Found: It's the @comocamp 
(thanks to @kober for the pointer)
out of 
projects completed in less than seven weeks
A BIG THANK YOU for giving your time and effort to map with us!
We are down to our last project for the #FAO mapping Southern Mauritania 
#23835 https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/23835
Deadline: 31 August
Community Partner: Nepal Geomatics Engineering Society
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Yonhap News Agency: Google offers to blur sensitive sites on its map amid Korea’s security concerns . “Google said Tuesday it will blur sensitive sites on its map and satellite image services to address Seoul’s national security concerns ahead of its decision this week on whether to allow overseas transfer of high-precision map data.”
A great new initiative. Electricity – like public transport – is a lifeline for equity and development. If you can’t see them, you can’t improve them.
via LinkedIn @open-energy-transition
Fast Four: How Does #GIS Help the Bottom Line? https://tinyurl.com/2vbbcsfu
#location #business #spatial #intelligence #geospatial #esri #arcgis #mapping #GISchat #mapstodon @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @BusinessInsider @business-bloomberg @Businessweek
More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/families-unite-at-site-of-massacre-something-spoke-through-me-ntwnfb
Colonial Frontier Massacres Map 1780-1930 (2024)
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php
Archived https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.26193/L0WEID
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