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Mapping

Community

There is a discussion in the Austrian mailing-list about the indoor mapping of the west train station done by Mentz workers.

Ian Dees requests for feedback regarding his project Show Me The Way, one way to do this is by filing Github issues.

BushmanK suggests that one would need an issue tracker (he named Github) for tagging discussions. The opinions of the commentators are ambivalent.

OpenStreetMap Ireland reports about the collaboration with Blueprint Reprographics to scan out-of-copyright maps to update OSM data.

St. Lucia News Online reports about a mapathon which took place on 19. January on St. Lucia.

Mapbox developed a tool called OSM Comments. It is powered by an API that helps one search the changeset discussions and notes. It is open source, the source code and the documentation are available on github.

Imports

Events

The organizing team of FOSSGIS reminds about the upcoming deadline of abstracts submission for this years edition and explains why everyone is welcome to present a talk.

Humanitarian OSM

Washington D.C. group wants to bring digital mapping to the people.

Blake Girardot will talk at FOSDEM in Brussels about the technical possibilities, the tools used and the success of the HOT-Missing Maps projects.

Lisa Nikolau talks about the Missing Maps Project. A map shows the work that still needs to be done in the world.

Maps

Valle published a video tutorial for advanced users on how to use BaseCamp to make a route for off-road biker fans.

User MaKa announced that the WordPress OpenStreetMap Plugin is available in Spanish.

switch2OSM

Software

[1] OSMLint an open source suite of validators to understand the quality of OpenStreetMap data, and to identify common geometry and metadata problems at scale. The repository is here and this is the blog referring it. The developers are still adding more validator to detect other kind of errors in OpenStreetMap. Test it.

Dmytro Ovdiienko has released a program that is collecting data from the OSM wiki about all documented software and gives an output of an OSM Software Catalog.

Releases

Software Version Release Date Comment OpenJUMP 1.9.0 2016-01-18 First new release since december 2014 OpenLayers 3.13.0 2016-01-20 68 changes and fixes OSRM Backend 4.9.1 2016-01-20 4 bugs fixed SQLite 3.10.2 2016-01-20 Bug fixes

Programming

By releasing version 1.7.5-idio.intel.lawyers, iD Editor has changed its license from WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want Public License) to ISC license (similar to BSD license). iD developers integrated code from Intel but Intel lawyers did not want to publish the code unter WTFPL.

Iván Sánchez Ortega describes all of what annoys him as the maintainer of Leaflet.

Users Malenki compares the memory requirements of different file formats for OSM data using Bulgaria as an example.

Did you know …

Other “geo” things

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