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Mapping

Joost Schouppe would like to revive the proposal for hollow ways, but some English native speakers have never heard this term and prefer sunken lane.

User tyr_asd posts about their Latest changes tool: the new version displays deleted features as light outlines on the map. This visualisation is based on Overpass’ augmented diff queries.

Community

Imports

The Brandify company inquired about the import of RetroFitness locations, but got reminded about a previous import of theirs (Walmart locations), which still needs fixing.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

The draft of the minutes of the meeting of the License Working Group held on February 8th is online. The discussion focused on the restrictions on the publication of OSM metadata in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force at the end of May. A position paper of the LWG on this topic is also available.

The minutes of the public OSM Foundation’s Board meeting are online.

The Engineering Working Group (EWG) held a meeting on February 12th to discuss OSM’s participation in GSoC, project ideas and top priority tasks. Detailed minutes can be found here.

Events

The State of the Map Latam 2018 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The dates are yet to be finalized and more details will be published soon.

The HOT Summit 2018 will be hosted at FOSS4G’s location, from August 27th to September 2nd in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).

The Japan community, with their experience of hosting an international SotM, will hold the State of the Map Japan 2018 in Tokyo on August 11th.

Humanitarian OSM

Rory McCann criticizes the organisers of the HOT Summit at FOSS4G in Tanzania over the inconsistency of having a Code of Conduct, which prohibits discrimination on basis of sexual orientation, for a conference taking place in a country where homosexuality is banned.

According to the minutes of the board meeting of HOT on February 9th, they are thinking about changing the membership model. Currently, new “voting members” have to be elected by a two-thirds majority of the existing voting members.

Tino Raphaël Toupane reports in the official HOT blog about the use of smartphones for mapping at Lansana-Conte de Sonfonia University in Conakry (Guinea). The equipment was financed by the NGO Nethope.

Education

Wikimedia Italia, the italian OSMF chapter, organised (automatic translation) a 60 hours work-related learning project at the technical school IIS Avogadro (Turin, Italy) introducing some students to the OSM ecosystem and allowing them to remotely map buildings in the Ivrea area.

Maps

Ilya Zverev imported the planet dump from 20th February 2008 into a PostGIS database and rendered it with Mapnik with the current version of OSM-Carto. He shared more details about it on the Talk mailing list.

Matthijs Melissen is working on a redesign of the low zoom levels of OSM Carto. Test rendering can be found on Github.

Open Data

The Canton of Thurgau allowed to use an orthophoto layer with a ground resolution of 10 cm for the OSM community.

Software

A message on the JOSM’s homepage praising Elon Musk’s commitment to space has been criticized by some of it’s users to which the JOSM developers put forward their point of view.

Programming

In light of the data protection laws that will come into effect in EU, Michael Reichert tested how some of the OSM tools would behave with OSM data that has less or no metadata. This sparked a long discussion on the OSM-dev mailing list about the upcoming data protection law and the changes that might be required in OSM in order to ensure compliance.

OpenStreetMap has, once more, been accepted as a participating organisation for Google’s Summer of Code 2018. Ideas for projects are being collected on the OSM Wiki.

Martin Raifer works on adding WMS support for iD editor—currently limited to WMS which support Web Mercator (EPSG:3857).

help.openstreetmap.org currently uses QSQA, but needs to be ported to Askbot, as QSQA is not maintained anymore. A volunteer is needed for performing this task.

The OSMF tile servers answer requests to port 80 now with a forwarding to port 443.

Releases

The Boundaries Map has been released in version 4.3. Author Wambacher is happy about getting some feedback.

The recent stable release of JOSM includes support for XZ compressed files and fixing memory leaks related to image mapping among others. The complete list of changes can be found here.

Did you know …

… Mapbox has invited the registered map developers to tweet their ideas and generated maps under the hashtag #1millionexploring ? A look is worthwhile.

… OpenStationMap, the indoor map of railway stations?

Other “geo” things

Vox video “Europe’s most fortified border is in Africa”, used OpenStreetMap data through Stamen to show Melilla in North Africa. Sadly no attribution during the video or in the end credits. If only the one million viewers would know the source of the map.

Heise.de reported that the new code of conduct of the operating system FreeBSD goes too far in the eyes of some, and so is causing controversy. (automatic translation)

that the new code of conduct of the operating system FreeBSD goes too far in the eyes of some, and so is causing controversy. (automatic translation) RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) would like to record the locations of important network infrastructure and recently launched the OpenIPMap project, similar to OpenStreetMap but distinct and with unique features.

Mapbox now provides three new Chinese map styles via Mapbox.cn.

Upcoming Events

Where What When Country Bremen Bremer Mappertreffen 2018-02-26 Essen Mappertreffen 2018-02-26 Graz Stammtisch Graz 2018-02-26 Brussels Road Completion Workshop 2018-02-27 Viersen OSM Stammtisch Viersen 2018-02-27 Dusseldorf Stammtisch 2018-02-28 Osaka もくもくマッピング！ #14 2018-02-28 Minsk byGIS #6 2018-02-28 Dresden Stammtisch Dresden 2018-03-01 Lannion 3ème concours de contributions OpenStreetMap 2018-03-01-2018-03-23 San Juan Open (geo)Data Day 2018 2018-03-03 Hachiohji 高尾山薬王院マッピングパーティ IODD2018 Code for Hachioji 2018-03-03 Helsinki Open Data Day mapathons 2018-03-03 Biella Incontro mensile mapper di Biellese 2018-03-03 Brisbane Missing Maps mapathon 2018-03-04 Montreal Les Mercredis cartographie 2018-03-07 Stuttgart Stuttgarter Stammtisch 2018-03-07 Praha/Brno/Ostrava Kvartální pivo 2018-03-07 London OpenStreetMap Q&A London 2018-03-07 Berlin 117. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch 2018-03-08 Munich Münchner Stammtisch 2018-03-08 Brussels OSMBE Official Meeting & Meetup 2018-03-09 Buenos Aires Geobirras 2018-03-09 Kyoto 幕末京都マッピングパーティ#02：月の明かりと大獄と 2018-03-10 Tokyo 東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第17回特別編 旧東海道品川宿 2018-03-11 Cologne Bonn Airport FOSSGIS 2018 2018-03-21-2018-03-24 Turin MERGE-it 2018 2018-03-23-2018-03-24 Poznań State of the Map Poland 2018 2018-04-13-2018-04-14 Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station FOSS4G-fr 2018 2018-05-15-2018-05-17 Bordeaux State of the Map France 2018 2018-06-01-2018-06-03 Milan State of the Map 2018 (international conference) 2018-07-28-2018-07-30 Dar es Salaam FOSS4G 2018 2018-08-29-2018-08-31 Bengaluru State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm) 2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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