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Mapping

A blog by Mapillary explains how crowd-sourced photography of cities can allow local 3D mapping which can be useful for local authorities and more up-to-date than sources like Google Streetview.

Matthijs Melissen created a proposal to deprecate tourism=gallery , which is still heavily discussed on the tagging mailing list.

, which is still heavily discussed on the tagging mailing list. David Marchal is wondering how wiki tagging votes have to be interpreted. He asks if they should be treated as MAYs, SHOULDs or MUSTs.

Community

Imports

Sander Deryckere started a discussion about bad imports and therefore created a new wiki page, that’s supposed to list and keep track of the state of such imports.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Paul Norman sums up in his email the draft of the MINUTES Board/Minutes/2016-01-08 and announced the draft of the AGENDA Board/Minutes/2016-02-09.

Wikimedia Italia is now official Chapter of OpenStreetMap. (via Twitter)

Events

Interested in Crowdsourcing Data and Quality Control – The Experience of OpenStreetMap, then you should click here on February 10, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. Please subscribe here.

Humanitarian OSM

A map of the HOT contributions

The German online news portal GOLEM reported on the presentation from Blake Girardot at Fosdem 2016 in Brussels. (automatic tranlation).

The Huffington Post reports about how digital humanitarians are closing the gaps in worldwide disaster response (HOT).

HOT is searching for a web-developer to build an OSM Data Quality Analysis Tool. Their budget comes from a grant from the knight foundation.

Maps

The indoor map Indoorvator by user ubahnverleih has won contest “The best apps using the Elevator API” of Deutsche Bahn (German National Railway) in the category “indoor”.

Aleszu Bajak has published on story bench a step by step guide for creating weather maps with cartodb.

[1] Derstefan announced a prerelease of OpenTopoMap 2.0. The innovations: worldwide coverage house numbers at Zoom level 16 and 17 Shading and contour lines with 30m resolution Bridges with abutments

evoked positive and constructive feedback.

transformap.co is a collection of Overpass-based maps as parks, eco-stores, alternative housing, community gardens etc.

The British Library has catalogued, conserved and digitised over 550 military intelligence maps.

Andy Mabbett asks about the potential.

Richard Fairhurst points to a solution.

Jez Nicholson starts a test.

switch2OSM

Then french Police uses OSM – printed and online. (Attention video!)

The German Railways uses OpenStreetMap on their info screens in the new IC2 (double-decker InterCity) and shows not only the route but the current location of the train and highlights of the station as well.

Have you ever seen an acustic city map, based on OSM?

Open Data

The new Swiss Portal Opendata.swiss went live on February 2.

Licences

Martin Koppenhoefer introduced a new wiki page, that is supposed to list the ODbL compatibility of common licenses.

Software

The App Location Privacy helps to protect your privacy on your Android smartphone if you click on a location link.

Maps.me released the night map styles on Android! The new style available in routing mode after the sunset.

The layout of nominatim.openstreetmap.org has been changed. The detail page especially, has been improved considerably!

Stephan Bösch Plepelits aka skunk proclaims in his blog that he stopped the OpenStreetbrowser service.

Programming

According to their blog the Opencage Geocoder now delivers results that contain an additional link to edit the mentioned OSM element directly, when available.

Pelican Mapping, a Open Source 3D Mapping software, has tested their new Buildings module with OpenStreetMap data of Paris.

Releases

Software Version Release Date Comment Maps.me 5.6 2016-01-12 Bug fixed GeoServer 2.8.2 2016-01-26 4 Extensions in Geofence UIFixed 24 bugs Locus Map Free 3.15.0 2016-01-27 Charged biking maps, better downloads, estimated time of travel Grass Gis 7.0.3 2016-01-28 64-bit support and 210 stability fixes Atlas 1.2.0 2016-01-30 POT search and info, better map and routing engines

Did you know …

Other “geo” things

Nosolosig, a Spanish-language “NotonlyGis”-magazine reported about a book with 476 antique maps, issued by the Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía. According Nosolosig it is one of the finest geographical books in Spanish. (automatic translation).

Mapbox on Amazon Web Services or … the migration from NoSQL to Amazon DynamoDB.

OSM Science Fiction: The DLR (the German Aviation Center) and computer scientists at the University of Würzburg are working on a navigation system for future missions on Mars. Using radio buoys and drones robotic vehicles can use the system to orient themselves.

User zvenzzon sent en email: Hey, look at this impressive work, not openstreetmap but cool. Zvenzzon was right!

Gozalo Prieto, has already published some atricles about maps. On geografiainfinita he has now published an article illustrated with beautiful old maps entitled “The development of the road map in Spain from the Roman times to the present day”. (automatic translation)

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