02/16/2016-02/22/2016

Mapping

Imports

Frederik Ramm asks at German OSM forum how to deal with potential data donations (vector data, no WMS) by suveying authorities. Should everything be imported or not? How quick should an import be performed? The majority of the responses opposes imports. (Note that at the time Frederik asked that question people thought that Saxony’s surveying authority was willing to allow OSM to import the data)

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Alyssa Wright published on the osm.us blog about the Law clinic with Harvard and Cardozo. “More information (including how to join our super-hip law-clinic Slack channel) can be found on the Law Clinic wiki page.”, she said.

It looks like that an anonymous (without specifying the real name) associated OSMF member is no longer feasable. Our team member Christoph (TheFive) who do not want to reveal his real name for obvious reasons, is not able to renew his OSMF membership.

Humanitarian OSM

User Gowin writes a dairy about the Bogo OpenStreetMap Workshop which focussed on improving and updating the free and open geospatial data sets in Northern Cebu for humanitarian response.

Dar Ramani Huria is a community-based mapping project in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. In their blog they explain the HOT Export-Tool.

MapGive, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Humanitarian Information Unit, makes it easy for new volunteers to learn to map and get involved in online tasks. MapGive explained to teacher “why they should map”.

Courtney Clark reported on the problems and difficulties of women who would like to participate in OSM and the HOT communities. A plea, on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, to promote and support women in the HOT workgroups.

Paris. February 11th 2016: 60 Mappers from different countries meet in an hotel. Greeting, meeting and Mapathon. After 3 hours, 4,000 buildings and 170 Kilometre of roads in Uganda are mapped.Pierre-Louis Caron describes and visualizes in a VICE-NEWS article the work for Missing Maps.

Maps

Create 3D OpenStreetMap maps via NASA’s WebWorldWind. (via twitter)

Mapping different types of smell as colours on the OpenStreetMap road network. Smelly Maps lets you choose a City from Barcelona via London to Seattle and smells from emissions via food to waste.

switch2OSM

Finnlines using OSM for live-view on their ships.

Open Data

Licences

The US Law Clinic about the OSM license raised controversal discussions on different mailing lists. Some examples: Alyssa Wright (USA) at talk-us Christian Quest (FR) at talk Henk Hoff (NL) at osmf-talk Frederik Ramm (DE) at osmf-talk Simone Cortesi (IT) at osmf-talk



Software

baditaflorin is blogging about a “New Osm Postgis Script” to find duplicated nodes.

Programming

Florian Pigorsch has published go-staticmaps as a go (golang) library and command line tool to render static map images using OpenStreetMap tiles.

Developers of the navigation app Maps.me are looking for beta testers via Twitter.

Releases

Did you know …

Other “geo” things

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