05/09/2017-11/09/2017

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Mapping

Joost asks in the tagging mailing list about an alternative barrier=cattle_grid for its electrical equivalent.

for its electrical equivalent. John Eldredge noticed on a user was adding the height of peaks in the name=* tag, and asks on the tagging mailing list for community feedback.

tag, and asks on the tagging mailing list for community feedback. Penegal announces his long-prepared proposal to refine the tagging of sinkholes.

dieterdreist criticized the preset to pedestrian crossings in the iD Editor, since it automatically adds the tag crossing=zebra , as this does not apply to all the crossings.

Community

User vtcraghead asks for contact to local mappers in the Dominican Republic as the talk-do mailing list is “pretty quiet”.

OpenStreetMapMx says “Thanks a lot to the digital volunteers mapping #Juchitan”. The southern part of the city is already 90% finished, but the north still needs your help: HOT Tasking Manager

After a feedback workshop for capacity building, both technical and organizational, held at the end of August, members from OpenStreetMap Benin later participated (last week) in the National conference of free software in Cotonou, where they promoted OpenStreetMap and free geodata.

User @cumberdumb noted on Twitter that the speed bumps he mapped in his area where mainly in low income areas. SK53 notes that in Nottingham there is only a weak correlation between low income and speed bumps.

Imports

OpenStreetMap Foundation

The license working group (LWG) added point 3.3.6 in the draft of a trademark policy. The LWG tried to dispel the feedback on the mailing list talk (we reported). Further feedback is welcome on the mailing list talk.

The next public OSMF board meeting will take place on September 21th. They will talk about changes to the Travel Policy.

Events

The Mali OpenStreetMap community – in collaboration with the University of Ségou – announces its 2nd Capacity Development Camp in Segou, from 11 to 15 September. Participation is for around 25 students from Geography and IT. This year, officers from Segou townhall will also be trained from 18 to 20 September

Violaine Doutreleau announced on the Talk-fr list that CartOng is organizing a Mapathon in collaboration with several OSM contributors from francophone African countries during OSMGeoWeek from November 12 to 18. The objective is to organize or support mapathons in France and in several countries of French-speaking Africa (Niger, Mali, Madagascar, Senegal, Burkina Faso).

The first weekend in September the Elbe-Labe-Meeting 2017 took place in

Germany. Read the report and watch the film.

Humanitarian OSM

Maps

OpenStreetBrowser now supports permalinks (as reported last week) which codes your current map position, opened categories and opened map objects. It is now easier to share data.

pnorman would like that ‘ place=* tags on admin-relations should be rendered so that errors in tagging are visible. In the discussion on Github, it is proposed that instead the corresponding border relations in the United States should be corrected.

switch2OSM

Nicolas Dumoulin informs the Talk-fr discussion group about discussions with the “Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme”. A Mapping party is planned and various POI should be added to the map.

Entur is a company owned by the Norwegian government tasked with building a multi-modal public transport planner for all of Norway. The travel planner uses OpenTripPlanner, which in turn uses OSM for foot routing.

Open Data

The @MFFP_Quebec, Canada, published for the first time dendrometrical maps under the License cc-by-4.0.

Releases

The JOSM stable release 12712 was published on the 17th of August. It adds Java 9 compatibility, and improves the dialogue for Overpass API download and search based on presets are special highlights. Bogdans Afonins worked on those 2 features as part of GSoC 2017. We want to thank the whole JOSM developer team for their continued efforts to provide us this great editing tool.

Did you know …

… the new overview to clean up errors on OSM provided by Mapbox?

Update … Windy.com, an OSM based live map which shows wind activities (clouds, temperature, cloud tops, cloud base, waves and much more besides) worldwide? Windy is also available as an application for mobile phones. (Apple, Android) – Windy.com uses OpenStreetMap data without proper attribution as required by the OpenStreetMap License. See it here on Lacking proper attribution. See the discussion on talk as well.

OSM in the media

Other “geo” things

A map showing Hurricane Irma translated to Europe may have exaggerated it’s size. SK53 corrected the projection onto Mercator corrected.

Glenn Bech shares a 3D print of his OpenStreetMap export from New York, you can also have one for yourself using ‘Thingireverse‘.

Map Stylizer, version 1 of a web app to create highly stylized (and not-so-useful) maps.

Paul Plowman explains how he discovered two adjacent houses on the same road with the same housenumber.

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