[OSM-talk] Fwd: Job posting - GIS Librarian

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Job posting - GIS Librarian
Data: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:23:18 +
Mittente: "Lyon, Colleen E"

Come join us in Austin!
Cheers-Colleen


GIS and Geospatial Data Coordinator - Librarian II
University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin
Salary is $55,000+ per year, negotiable depending on qualifications
First review of applicants is Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The UT Libraries (UTL) seeks to be a pre-eminent and active partner 
within the rich education and research ecosystem at UT through expansive 
collections and digital content, and with innovative services, programs, 
tools and partnerships. We help develop critical thinkers and global 
citizens who transform lives. The Academic Engagement Division supports 
these goals through its Research Support and Digital Initiatives, 
Teaching and Learning, and Scholarly Resources departments.


The Research Support and Digital Initiatives department is comprised of 
a combination of subject liaisons and domain experts who collaborate 
with UTL colleagues and other campus partners to grow, enhance, and 
manage a suite of tools and services that support the research 
lifecycle, promote digital scholarship and digital collections, and 
advance new and emerging modes of scholarship. This work involves 
contributing to the design and implementation of library workflows and 
technology infrastructure, and building a community of practice around 
digital scholarship at UT.


We also work with students, faculty, staff and UTL colleagues to advance 
their research, scholarship, and teaching, through a combination of 
resources, education, outreach, and personal consultation.
UTL librarians and domain experts are responsible for envisioning, 
designing, implementing, assessing and reporting on services and 
activities that support the goals and purpose of their specific 
positions. All are expected to function with a high degree of 
independence as well as in teams to ensure progress toward library and 
unit objectives. They are also expected to work in a collegial, 
collaborative, and professional fashion, and to engage in activities 
that contribute to the mission of both UTL and the University of Texas.


The GIS and Geospatial Data Coordinator will provide leadership for, 
develop and promote GIS and geospatial data services for faculty, staff, 
and students by providing tools and resources to facilitate the 
discovery, access, management, and analysis of geospatial data across 
all disciplines at UT. Additional duties are described in the posting. 
The position reports to the Data Management Coordinator and works 
together with her and the Research Support and Digital Initiatives 
department to support UT affiliate GIS needs.


To learn more about this position and to apply, please see posting 
https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/hr/jobs/nlogon/171214010086


First review of applicants is Tuesday, January 16, 2018.

UTL welcomes and respects all individuals and communities by valuing and 
consciously maintaining awareness of diverse perspectives and 
experiences. We believe inclusivity is critical to fostering excellence 
in all of our endeavors, and we promote diversity in our collections and 
the services that we provide as well as in our recruiting, hiring, and 
retention practices.




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Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia app v5.5.0 for iOS released to beta

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Joshua Minor, 08/06/2017 00:53:
The Places feature currently uses the iOS provided Apple MapKit library 
and Apple maps. This is not a decision the team made easily, but after 
much feedback and research, we believe this is the only option for now. 
A couple important notes:


 1. This is only used in the Places tab, as a means of search and
discovery. These maps are NOT used in the encyclopedia itself, and
do not replace, prevent or circumvent work by editors to add open
maps to articles on wikis.
 2. Our users' privacy is preserved. We don't share what articles you're
reading with Apple, and Apple has put significant technical and
legal oomph into preserving privacy for their built-in maps library.

If you have concerns or questions, please check out the page we wrote 
explaining the situation in much more detail[1]. We also welcome your 
addition to the Discussion either on wiki, on the task request to 
replace Apple Maps[3] or via email.


[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Maps_service 


[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157763


Thanks. I've replied there:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157763#3337113

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[OSM-talk] Fwd: Biggest Wikimedia Commons photos dataset in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC)

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Forwarding on request.

Photos are not geotagged yet, but Paolo Monti shot many of them as part 
as geographic surveys hence I expect many will be valuable depictions of 
some rare corners of the OSM map.


Soon we should have a list of (approximate) places (categories) in one 
of the Commons pages linked below.


Nemo-BEIC

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Oggetto: [cultural-partners] Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo 
Monti (BEIC)

Data: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:26:20 +0200
Mittente: marcok

Hi to all,
I’m the Wikipedian in residence at the digital library of Fondazione 
BEIC, Milan, Italy.


In the last days we at BEIC are uploading almost the entire photo 
archive of a notable Italian photographer, Paolo Monti, counting 15.000 
images.

The whole archive was acquired by Fondazione BEIC in 2008.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Paolo_Monti

For what I know, this is the biggest donation of images in one shot ever 
made in Italy. It’s also the first time that a digital archive from a 
famous photographer is almost completely uploaded into Commons.


This notable result was possible thanks to the long-lasting 
collaboration between BEIC and Wikimedia Italia, started in 2014, and 
also thanks to the technical assistance of Federico Leva aka Nemo, the 
previous WiR at BEIC, now GLAM specialist at Wikimedia Italia.


The photos of the Paolo Monti archive represent a variety of subjects 
(art, events, architecture, people, portraits, nature, artistic nudes, 
experimental) and were shot since 1950s to 1980s. Many of them are B/W, 
but there are also many fascinating colourful artistic/experimental 
pictures.


We are now beginning to work on:
 * fixing categories (often translating the basic original italian 
keywords into english Commons categories) and providing a more detailed 
categorization
 * inserting useful images into Wikipedia articles (in italian, english 
and other languages)
 * selecting the best photos to candidate them as "featured pictures” 
in Wikimedia Commons (only those with 2 Megapixel or more).


Please help us, this is a huge work!
If you have any other ideas on how the images may be used, let us know!

Thank you,

Marco Chemello
Wikipedian in residence, Fondazione BEIC, Milan
(also Wikipedian in residence at the Science Museum, Milan)

See:
http://www.beic.it/en/articles/digital-library
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC (main project page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIC
http://www.beic.it/en/node/1969 (Fondo Paolo Monti - in Italian)


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Re: [OSM-talk] A big debate about OSM quality in Strava community

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

More on this topic: IMHO what the debate highlights is the obvious, i.e. 
that in some regions OSM is much weaker than in others. Two months 
later, do we have any indication that the 1+ million Strava users are 
helping fill the gap?
* How many visits to ?pk_campaign=mapbox-edit URLs openstreetmap.org has 
received?
* Are there some regions with a noticeable variation in number of active 
OSM users, or node edits?


Nemo

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[OSM-talk] Fwd: Maps on Wikimedia

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

From 
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-March/081243.html :
(You can login on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org with your Wikipedia 
account too, among others.)




Hi, just a quick note: as part of general search and discovery work, me and
Yuri are resurrecting the project to have OpenStreetMap in Wikimedia
starting in April. Because the initial part of this work will include
researching options which will influence precise goals and this is yet to
be done, we still can't commit to a precise timeline, but as a ballpark
estimate I personally want to aim for serving PNG tiles at a reasonable,
though not necessarily "dynamic maps on every WP page" scale by the end of
Q4. Vector/multilingual maps would be the next stage. We will be mostly
using Phabricator for planning,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/openstreetmap/ is my first pass on
the outline of things to be done.

Your comments and suggestions would be highly appreciated, please share
your thoughts, ideas of projects that might use these maps, or just
merciless critique! :D

--
Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

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[OSM-talk] sports-tracker.com switched to OSM

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

The Finnish spin-off of Nokia embraces OSM. I updated 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sports_Tracker , please check.


I left a comment at 
http://www.sports-tracker.com/blog/2014/10/04/new-sports-tracker-website/#comment-16131 
(currently in moderation) linking the copyright instructions because 
they make no mention of copyright or licenses in the attribution.


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Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Yes, the share feature at http://mapui.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org would 
be a big improvement. It's still a bit unfortunate that it would be the 
only way to centre the map even for those who don't want to "share" it, 
maybe the tab would need a new name.


Federico

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Re: [OSM-talk] Double-clicking on OSM map does not centre the map

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

I found the marker dragging feature mentioned by Peter Wendorff under 
"Add a note to the map" (currently last button on the right), but I 
can't use because I only need a private marker, I don't have anything to 
tell the mappers. I don't know if after confirming the note one gets a 
link to the marker or point.
The "Share" feature with double-click centring doesn't help because as 
said by others the centering is not precise nor intuitive.

To share a specific point on the map, ideally with a marker, I have to:
1) double click somewhere around the point in question,
2) take the long link in the "Share" view,
3) edit it to get the coordinates separated by a comma,
4) enter them in the search bar and confirm,
5) click the search result link to get the marker,
6) repeat 1-5 as many times as needed to actually get the point I'm 
interested in (I gave up after second attempt because it looked random).

All this in Google Maps requires:
A) right click, "centre the map".
So while it may be true that no other mapping websites use double click 
to centre the map what's important is that they do offer such a crucial 
feature like selecting and sharing a point on the map, and now OSM does 
not any longer, which makes it useless for a good proportion of the use 
cases I have for it.


Federico

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