09/27/2016-10/03/2016

SotM 2016

Geofabrik has published a blog entry about State of the Map in Brussels.

User Escada shares his experience of attending State of the Map conference in Brussels.

Mikel Maron reported on the “Local Chapter meeting” in Brussels and presented the notes.

About us

[1] OSM Foundation asks you to donate to help preserve OpenStreetMap’s continued independence as a project.

Happy to announce that weeklyOSM now appears in Italian language as well thanks to sabas88 and Martin Koppenhöfer. Both are still looking for collaborators.

Mapping

Community

Mapbox is looking for an English teacher to hire for their data team in Ayacucho, Peru. In return, he/she will learn how to map.

After a remark on the problems with addresses in Brussels by Sarah Hoffmann, Glenn Plas developed a tool to detect those problems, i.e. mismatch between addr:street and name due to the bilingual names of the streets

Walter (wambacher), is looking for a new server for the international project Boundaries Map FOSSGIS probably pays a rented server. He asked unsuccessfully for four months for donations. Restrictions per IP address and per user will be established.

The UK community ask for final comments on their proposed Articles of Association following review by pro bono lawyers.

Maning compared some cities in Asia with regard to their node count and made some observations in these graphs.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

In 2014, the OSMF approved a program for people who have difficulty paying the annual membership fee, to allow them to be members for free, but this has never been implemented. If you are interested in helping to define the rules of this program, please contact the Membership Working Group

Simon Poole announced the new privacy policy of the OSMF. In another post he gives a round up of future work of the License Working Group due to changes in EU-data privacy laws.

Following Simon Poole’s suggestion on the Osmf-talk mailing list to ‘spend some money’ to increase development activity on OpenStreetMap’s core website, there was a discussion on possible next steps.

Humanitarian OSM

HOT is going to activate and update map data in Haiti and Jamaica following Hurricane Matthew. Start mapping and spread the word about these high priority projects.

HOT is hiring a part-time Operations Coordinator. The deadline for applying is October 11th, 2016.

Maps

monochome.com is now selling pillows, skirts, and tablecloths with self-selectable map excerpts.

Open Data

Linda Poon (Atlantic-CITYLAB) reported about Mapbox’s new “mentor program” for American cities to integrate OpenData via OSM into appropriate urban platforms.

Software

User eis_kalt has released a first version of his 3D world model android app UtyMap.

Sebastian Kürten introduces a new open source desktop viewer: Jeography is Java GIS toolkit with a focus on OpenStreetMap data. The main GUI is for browsing the map and performing some geo data related tasks.

mmd presents a test instance of OverpassAPI previewing of some experimental material

Programming

On January 31st, 2017, Mapbox will end support for some of its products such as TileMill, Mapbox.com/editor and the v3 endpoint of the Mapbox GeoCoding API.

Ilya has offered a EUR 100 reward for the first person to implement a service to subscribe to OSM diary post comments. Mikel Maron and user Stereo added a EUR 100 each.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

… the Android library Lost by Mapzen? It is a free replacement for the proprietary Location APIs which are part of Google Play Services.

Other “geo” things

Thomas Skowron had a look at Apple Maps on iOS 10 from the point of view of an active OSM contributor.

The popular weather forecast application Dark Sky has re-launched its web version, previously known as forecast.io, with dynamic maps which are using OpenStreetMap data in the background.

How open is Mapillary? Richlv poses the question on the Mapillary forum.

Mapillary started to use semantic segmentation on its image dataset. This technology makes it possible to partition an image into different regions which get a label (e.g. road, sky, building, vehicle).

Pokemon Go players are using an overpass turbo link to collect information on where Pokemon creatures are likely to “spawn” locally. As reported previously there is some evidence Niantic may be using OSM data to decide on spawn points. (Originally from Reddit)

EE Times Automotive reported that navigation provider TomTom cooperates with graphics chip vendor NVIDIA to develop a third open cloud-based platform for autonomous driving.

Joost Schouppe explains how to use OSM data to improve government data.

Upcoming Events

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropiate..

This weekly was produced by Harry Wood, Laura Barroso, Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, RobJN, Rogehm, SrrReal, TheFive, YoViajo, derFred, escada, jinalfoflia, mgehling, muramototomoya, sabas88, seumas, wambacher.