Technik & Tools

Short version: The chat can be reached at: https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=osm-at or https://app.element.io/#/room/#osm-at:matrix.org

Original announcement: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2021-January/011011.html

Mapper stefanct has set up an IRC chat room for the Austrian OSM community! This can be accessed with any IRC chat program at irc://irc.oftc.net/osm-at. You can also join directly via a web browser by simply entering a username: https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=osm-at

Mapper Negreheb has linked this IRC chat with the existing OSM Austria chat from Matrix, which can be accessed at https://matrix.to/#/#osm-at:matrix.org. This means that you can read and write via a web interface without having to install any software, using a Matrix web client (e.g. “Element”). The direct link for the “Element” interface is: https://app.element.io/#/room/#osm-at:matrix.org

(the short link to the OSM mailing list in forum style: https://www.openstreetmap.at/talk )

The oldest form of communication in OpenStreetMap is the mailing list. Put simply, mailing lists are email distribution lists that forward an email they receive to all others who have also subscribed to the mailing list. This means that everyone on the mailing list receives all emails addressed to that mailing list. This allows discussions to be held and each subscriber to the mailing list receives all messages as emails and can store them personally if desired.

Thomas Konrad has published his plugin ‘Austrian Address Helper’ for the Java OpenStreetMap Editor (JOSM). This allows address data from the database of the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying to be transferred to OpenStreetMap at the click of a mouse.

-> His original mailing list post can be found here.

-> Link to the plugin

-> Link to the GitHub repository