Balance between Expectation and Mappers' Attention: the OpenStreetMap Taiwan Community High and Low

<div style="display:flex; flex-direction:column;"> <div> ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Openstreetmap_logo.svg =200x)   ![](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/7/74/OSM-tw.svg =200x) </div> <div style="font-size:55%;padding:1px"> # Balance between Expectation and Mappers' Attention: the OpenStreetMap Taiwan Community High and Low </div>  <div style="font-size:16px;display:flex;background-color:rgb(157 195 145/0.5);padding:32px;justify-content:flex-end;"> <div style="flex-direction:column; text-align:left"> <div>slide: https://hackmd.io/@osm-tw/BJAnmxZfJl#/</div> <div>CC-BY-4.0 OpenStreetMap Taiwan Community</div> <div>OpenStreetMap Taiwan</div> <div>11/30</div> </div> </div> </div> Note: Ta̍k-ke hó, Hello everyone, This is Dennis Raylin Chen from Taiwan, I want to talk about Taiwan's experienc. My speech's title is "Balance between Expectation and Mappers' Attention: the OpenStreetMap Taiwan Community High and Low". I will focus on community's experience --- ## Who am I?  - [Supaplex](https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Supaplex) - [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org) :heart: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org) :heart: - [Wikimedia Taiwan](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/) :cat: Note: My online ID is Supaplex, one of the community member of OpenStreetMap Taiwan and Wikidata Taiwan, currently serving as a board of director of Wikimedia Taiwan --- ## [OpenStreetMap Taiwan(Q104641278)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104641278) & [Wikidata Taiwan(Q65555605)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65555605)  <div style="display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:2rem;"> <div style="flex:1;text-align:left;font-size:80%;left"> ![OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei Meetup 2024](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJ0TGzG71g.png =550x) </div> <div style="flex:1;text-align:left;font-size:80%;left"> * OSM Wiki localization * UI translation * Mapping Parties * Open Data Trend <div style="flex-direction:column; text-align:left"> </div> </div> </div> Note: I am one of the co-host of the monthly meetup in Taiwan, co-hosted with Wikidata Taiwan community. There are a hugh overlapped of community members between Wikidata and OpenStreetMap in Taiwan. The OpenStreetMap Taiwan community keep track of major development site, and sometimes discuss tagging scheme of mapping in Taiwan. --- ## A Whole Country as a Disputed Territories  [![圖片](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJ_Bp-GQye.png =800x)](https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-tw/2022-January/001501.html) Note: In 2022, SnapMap developer wants to add a new, which was discourage by local mappers in Taiwan. We invited him to pay a visit here to see if there is any China's control on the ground. But I don't think he even do so. --- ## Long Time ago  ![Longma](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Bk8PLNMQkg.png =500x) --- ## Visualization of Villages in Taiwan  [![](https://i.imgur.com/fs9Ds83.png =600x)](https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1kR3) Note: Here is the visualization of the whole near 8 thousand villages of Taiwan. --- ## 04/03 07:58:11 UTC+8 Hualien Earthquake  ![Hualien Earthquake 2024](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/04.03_%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E5%89%8D%E5%BE%80%E8%8A%B1%E8%93%AE%E7%9E%AD%E8%A7%A3%E7%81%BD%E5%AE%B3%E6%83%85%E5%BD%A2%E5%8F%8A%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%E9%80%B2%E5%BA%A6_-_53629407644_%28cropped%29.jpg/905px-04.03_%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E5%89%8D%E5%BE%80%E8%8A%B1%E8%93%AE%E7%9E%AD%E8%A7%A3%E7%81%BD%E5%AE%B3%E6%83%85%E5%BD%A2%E5%8F%8A%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%E9%80%B2%E5%BA%A6_-_53629407644_%28cropped%29.jpg =400x) <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:04.03_%E5%89%AF%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E5%89%8D%E5%BE%80%E8%8A%B1%E8%93%AE%E7%9E%AD%E8%A7%A3%E7%81%BD%E5%AE%B3%E6%83%85%E5%BD%A2%E5%8F%8A%E6%95%91%E6%8F%B4%E9%80%B2%E5%BA%A6_-_53629407644_(cropped).jpg">Presidental Office</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons Note: In April 3, 2024, a heavy earthquake hit eastern Taiwan coastal city Hualien. And we launched 3 HOT Tasking Mananger Tasks for the effected area. --- ## Community: the Beginning  <div style="display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:2rem;"> <div style="flex:1;text-align:left;font-size:80%;left"> * Linux User Group in 2008 * Mailing List for online discuss * Initial Meetup discuss Tagging Scheme </div> <div style="flex:1;text-align:left;font-size:70%;left"> * OSM Wiki localization * UI translation * Mapping Parties * Open Data Trend <div style="flex-direction:column; text-align:left"> </div> </div> </div> Note: The OpenStreetMap Taian started in 2008, some early contributor participate in Linux User Group, and share OpenStreetMap during meetup. And then the discuss go on, online discuss happened on mailing list. Themic topic covered tagging scheme, OSM wiki localization, software UI translations, and even onsite mapping parties. Policy change like the open data movement in Taiwan which kind of help map data acumated --- ## Regular Meetups  <div style="display:inline-flex;align-items:left;"> <div left> ![OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei Mounthly Meetup](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/20200210_OSMTW_x_WikidataTW_Meetup_02.jpg/640px-20200210_OSMTW_x_WikidataTW_Meetup_02.jpg =500x) </div> <div style="font-size:85%;display:flex;background-color:rgb(127 195 100/0.7);padding:1px;justify-content:flex-end;"> <div style="flex-direction:column; text-align:left">   * Date: Monthly Meetup with Wikidata Community * Venue: Taipei MozSpace * Discuss Tagging Scheme </div> </div> </div> Note: Community events started from 2018 --- ## Events - State of the Map Taiwan  <div style="display:inline-flex;align-items:left;"> <div left> ![Talk](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJkkDNGQJg.png) </div> <div style="font-size:85%;display:flex;background-color:rgb(40 95 100/0.7);padding:1px;justify-content:flex-end;"> <div style="flex-direction:column; text-align:right"> * Hold in 2013、2015、2017 * Events Hosts by OpenStreetMap Taiwan Community * Biggest Community Event * Cross-displine Gathering </div> </div> </div> Note: Hold local State of the Map Taiwan events --- ## COSCUP  <div style="display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:2rem;"> <div style="flex:1;text-align:left;font-size:80%;left"> * One of the Biggest Open Source Community events in Taiwan * 2008~2024 * From Single Section to Community Track </div> <div style="flex:1;text-align:left;font-size:100%;left"> <div style="flex-direction:column; text-align:left"> ![COSCUP](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/COSCUP_OpenStreetMap_x_Wikidata_11.jpg/640px-COSCUP_OpenStreetMap_x_Wikidata_11.jpg) </div> </div> </div> Note: Particpate in COSCUP --- ## Corporation Particpate of OpenStreetMap  * Garmin * Mapbox * Facebook (Now Meta) * TomTom Note: Corporation action in Taiwan --- ## National Language of Taiwan(name field tagging)  * Place name in Taigi * Sinitic language: name:nan, name:hak, name:cdo * Austronesian languages(Formosan Languages): name:tay, name:ami, name:dru, name:pwn, name:pyu, name:xsy etc. --- ## Hobbist Attention  <div style="background-color: purple; color: white; padding: 10px; border: solid 3px #0F7391; margin: 10px;"> * Road asign * Railway and Road Constrctuion Plans * Bus Routes * National Languages revival </div> Note: AED, ETC Toll, Fire Hydrant, iBox. There are still power Cabin, street lamp and power pole under process --- ## Online Discuss Platfomrs  <div style="background-color: purple; color: white; padding: 10px; border: solid 3px #0F7391; margin: 10px;"> * Telegram Channel * (New) Community Forum * (Old) Mailinglist * Facebook Group </div> Note: AED, ETC Toll, Fire Hydrant, iBox. There are still power Cabin, street lamp and power pole under process --- ## Reflection  <div style="background-color: purple; color: white; padding: 10px; border: solid 5px #0F7391; margin: 5px;"> * Little Corporation Interaction * Post-COVID19 decline of Event Participants * Maintain Online Participants * Different Interests by Different Mappers </div> Note: AED, ETC Toll, Fire Hydrant, iBox. There are still power Cabin, street lamp and power pole under process --- ## Future  * More (online) events * Processing and Importing Open Data * Cross-countries collaboration --- ## [To-siā!](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A4%9A%E8%AC%9D#Chinese) [sṳ̀n-mùng-ǹ!](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%89%BF%E8%92%99%E4%BD%A0) Thank you!  - :sheep: [GitHub](https://github.com/Supaplextw/) - Supaplex: [Wikidata](https://wikidata.org/wiki/User:Supaplex)，[OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Supaplex) - Or [email](mailto:dennis@wikimedia.tw) - Facebook group [Wikidata Taiwan](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2212207218990971/)、[OpenStreetMap Taiwan](https://www.facebook.com/groups/OpenStreetMap.TW/) Note: Here is my contact information, To-siā, sṳ̀n-mùng-ǹ! Thank you!