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Mapping

Community

Imports

Maning Sambale wrote an update on the LA County building import.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Here you can read the results of the HOT board elections 2016. Congratulations to all from the weeklyOSM team.

Events

The GeoIoT World will take place on 25th-26th May in Brussels. Roland Wagner and Axel Sommer talk about “indoor-mapping” on OSM basis and OpenStationMap.

The program of SotM France 2016 Clermont-Ferrand in the period from 20/05/2016-22/05/2016 is published. For more information about place one on the website. (automatic translation)

On May the 20th and the 21st the Italian OSM Confernenz OSMIT 2016 will take place in Milan. Simone Cortesi told us that during this event, there will be the inauguration of the OpenStreetMap Italy office (a shared space with the Wikimedia Italia office). Here is the location.

Last week, an event called “Wikimuseums” with around 120 attendees took place in the Museum Villa Pignatelli, in Naples, Italy. Simone Cortesi told weeklyOSM that the focus of the meeting has benn GLAM initiatives, Open Data and of course both involving OpenStreetMap as well as two four hour sessions on editing. See more pictures from the event.

Humanitarian OSM

The newpaper El Telégrafo reported about the ongoing mapping activities in Ecuador.

The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for International Development and the Pacific announced the “Winners of the Pacific Humanitarian Challenge”. One of the winners is HOT. The price of AU$ 2 million (about 1.3 Mio € or 1.5 Mio US$) will be shared between 5 organizations. weeklyOSM wishes to congratulate the HOT team.

Nick Bumbarger reported in developmentSEED’s blog about drone images from the disaster area in Ecuador, which are set available in OpenArerialMap.

Maps

Geocacher PicoKnirps published PicoMaps.

Chris Koerner opened a wikipage to talk together with the OSM Community about the use of interactive maps in Wikipedia. Feedback or ideas from our community are appreciated. The wikipage Help:Extension:Kartographer explains how to use the tags <mapframe> and <maplink>.

switch2OSM

Open Data

Nathaniel Slaughter announced on the Mapbox blog the open source Map Icon Set “Maki 3”.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

… the “School Edit Tracker from Harry Wood?

Other “geo” things

How is OSM different than Wikimapia? Read the answers on reddit.

Very interesting way to show statistics interactively along a bus-line in Zurich. Nicolas Kayser Bril called the presentation a “geo-line”.

Maps.me hires in Moscow. (automatic translation)

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