18/02/2020-24/02/2020

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Mapping

Joseph Eisenberg is asking for comments on his proposal of amenity=motorcycle_taxi , a specific tag for a place where motorcycle taxis wait for passengers. (Nabble)

, a specific tag for a place where motorcycle taxis wait for passengers. (Nabble) Victor started a discussion asking if the presence or absence of signs for surveillance cameras should be tagged camera:signed=yes/no , as some countries require a notification if a public space is being filmed. (Nabble)

, as some countries require a notification if a public space is being filmed. (Nabble) Long time OSM contributor Nick Whitlegg announced that he is shutting down his England and Wales footpath mapping site FreeMap. The site started out in the very early days of OSM (or even slightly beforehand) and the announcement caused Richard Fairhurst to point out a fascinating old blog post on his own mapping work antecedent to the creation of OpenStreetMap (geowiki.com) and other aspects of OSM prehistory.

dktue created the page autobahnkilometer.tirol on 17 February 2020 showing highway milestones in Tyrol (Austria) on a map. On the day of publication no milestones had been mapped in OSM; now most of them have been mapped.

Thejesh GN wrote an introduction to mapping surveillance cameras in OSM, and how to map them with OSMAnd.

HOT has shared about its collaboration with Microsoft on the issues of creating detailed maps of Tanzania and Uganda via satellite mapping, machine learning and community mappers.

Knotenpunktsystem (literally ‘junction point system’) have been set up in a number of European countries to help people navigate their cycling networks by numbering the junctions and providing extensive signage between them. Robert Grübler reported (automatic translation) on the work undertaken to map the knotenpunktsystem of the cycle network in Murtal, Austria.

Community

If you know a person or a project who deserves to be awarded for their contribution to OSM you can submit a nomination for the OSM-Awards 2020. Ilya Zverev asks that nominations be made before 10 May 2020.

Fabien Delolmo will be holding (automatic translation) a technical workshop on programming a mobile app that uses and updates OpenStreetMap data. The workshop will be held on 6 March in Grenoble, France.

Google announced the open source projects and organisations which have been accepted for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. OSM is amongst the 200 accepted open source projects. GSoC will accept student applications from 16 to 31 March 2020.

SomeoneElse is experimenting with adding information to established icons. Amongst other things he explains in his blog post how an icon could be enriched with wheelmap accessibility information.

The Tobler Society is an up-and-coming YouthMappers Chapter at the University of Chicago. They tweeted about their Mapathon, held last week. Several times a year, they host mapathons through YouthMappers’ humanitarian projects and last year students started the first chapter of YouthMappers in Chicago.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Simon Poole announced a new version of the Attribution Guideline, which incorporates feedback from the public discussion in August last year. The draft will be forwarded to the OSMF board for formal approval.

Events

Ilya Zverev reminds us that State of the Map Baltics 2020 will take place on 6 March 2020 at the University of Latvia.

Lars Linger invites you to another OSM Hackweekend on 28 and 29 March 2020 in Berlin. The event, which has been running for at least 7 years, will be hosted at Wikimedia’s offices and is supported by the FOSSGIS, the local chapter of the OSMF.

Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of OpenCage, and Steven Feldman, of KnowWhere Consulting, have started a podcast series about geo-related themes.

Humanitarian OSM

HOT has tweeted that all six HOT Microgrants candidates from Sierra Leone, Iraq, South Sudan, the Philippines, Bolivia and Peru have been fully funded by the community.

Maps

Do you like drawing on maps? Are you sick of having to do it on a paper map with a crayon like some sort of caveman? Then Gribrouillon (automatic translation) by Adrien Pavie is for you. Use it to draw on an OSM basemap and share with friends.

Andrei Kashcha announced the update of his ‘obscure’ 2D WebGL renderer. In his tweet he shows a preview of the new 3D rendering feature.

The BBC dedicated an article to the misuse of a map to share misleading information on the global spread of coronavirus.

Some mappers expressed (automatic translation), in the German OSM forum, their disappointment about the poor rendering performance of OSM’s main map.

switch2OSM

Tempus is a transport company in the Südeifel region of Germany. With the community’s help, it has entered all of its bus lines into OpenStreetMap, and built individual maps on the line pages of its website using Leaflet and Overpass.

Open Data

OpenDataFrance has launched (automatic translation) the GeoDataMine extraction tool. It allows local authorities to quickly extract data relating to their territory from the OpenStreetMap database.

Software

OSMCha is switching its domain to https://osmcha.org. Users will be redirected from the previous domain to the new one, but developers that use the API need to change their applications to avoid problems. See more on https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wille/diary/392289.

The source code for blender-osm, an add-on to render OSM data in 3D with the free and open 3D creation software Blender, is back on Github as vvoovv announced on his user diary.

Programming

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the publication of reports documenting the work of the Open Routing API Pilot, including implementations developed and a prototype Routing API and Route Exchange Model to address location interoperability challenges with various tools available from many providers.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is considering adopting CityJSON as an official OGC Community Standard. A new work item justification to begin the Community Standard endorsement process is available for public comment.

Releases

The JOSM team has released stable version 20.02 (release 15915) of their OSM editor. The new version brings access to Maxar’s imagery back, add links to Geofabrik’s regional/national Taginfo instances, improves JOSM’s Autofilters and has many many more new features and improvements.

Did you know …

… the traffic_sign tag? It allows the location and type of traffic signs to be tagged. This is especially helpful if you are unsure about how to tag the effect of the sign and helps other mappers to make corrections if necessary.

Other “geo” things

Omar Rizwan tweets the personalised public transport map of Auckland, New Zealand which he made for his parents.

Dāvis Viļums five years ago set out to ride every street in Central London. Dāvis explains the why and how and presents a time-lapse video of the record of all his rides as they reveal London’s street grid.

Tom Forth (ODI Leeds) has a long twitter thread about using open data to map income disparities in the UK and France.

about using open data to map income disparities in the UK and France. Carlos Jurado Rivera was featured in an article (automatic translation) in La Voz de Almería. Carlos describes how he came to be interested in mapping the cycling infrastructure of Almería (Spain), why he chose OpenStreetMap, and his mapping style.

Cartographers have been known to occasionally sneak a personal joke into their work. Zoey Poll reports on how even Swisstopo has played host to a small cartographical joke or two.

Researchers from Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group have published a paper on the role of spatially structured scoring systems as a motivational element in location-based games. They found that players who are confronted with a spatially structured scoring system are more likely to have a longer playing time, walk longer distances, and be more willing to take detours than those facing a spatially random scoring system.

The kick-off meeting for LOKI (Airborne Observation of Critical Infrastructure) was hosted by Heidelberg University on 12 February. The aim of the LOKI project is to develop a system that enables fast and reliable airborne situation assessments following an earthquake.

The imagery provider Mapillary is now available in ArcGIS Urban, ESRI’s tool for smart city planning, providing imagery with street-level perspective.

Upcoming Events

Where What When Country Toulouse Contrib’atelier OpenStreetMap 2020-02-29 Budapest Budapest gathering 2020-03-02 London Missing Maps London 2020-03-03 Hanover OSM-Sprechstunde 2020-03-04 Stuttgart Stuttgarter Stammtisch 2020-03-04 Praha/Brno/Ostrava Kvartální pivo 2020-03-04 Arlon Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap 2020-03-04 Dortmund Mappertreffen 2020-03-06 Riga State of the Map Baltics 2020-03-06 Amagasaki GPSで絵を描いてみようじゃあ～りませんか 2020-03-07 Rennes Réunion mensuelle 2020-03-09 Grenoble Rencontre mensuelle 2020-03-09 Taipei OSM x Wikidata #14 2020-03-09 Toronto Toronto Mappy Hour 2020-03-09 Hamburg Hamburger Mappertreffen 2020-03-10 Lyon Rencontre mensuelle 2020-03-10 Zurich 115. OSM Meetup Zurich 2020-03-11 Hanover OSM-Sprechstunde 2020-03-11 Freiburg FOSSGIS-Konferenz 2020-03-11-2020-03-14 Nantes Rencontre mensuelle 2020-03-12 Berlin 141. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch 2020-03-12 Ulmer Alb Stammtisch Ulmer Alb 2020-03-12 Chemnitz Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2020-03-14-2020-03-15 Nottingham Nottingham pub meetup 2020-03-17 Lüneburg Lüneburger Mappertreffen 2020-03-17 Cologne Bonn Airport 127. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch 2020-03-17 Hanover OSM-Sprechstunde 2020-03-18 Hanover Stammtisch Hannover 2020-03-19 Munich Münchner Treffen 2020-03-19 San José Civic Hack & Map Night 2020-03-19 Valcea EuYoutH OSM Meeting 2020-04-27-2020-05-01 Guarda EuYoutH OSM Meeting 2020-06-24-2020-06-28 Cape Town HOT Summit 2020-07-01-2020-07-02 Cape Town State of the Map 2020 2020-07-03-2020-07-05

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