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Mapping

Osmose was released in mid-December for Australia. Andrew Davidson notes that the most common mistake is “approximate waterway”.

Hakuch proposes to remove the tagging of name_1 and alt_name_1 from the wiki.

The Belgian-Dutch border might change this year. There is already a discussion on this change in this note.

Take part in the MapRoulette Challenge which is about checking if there’s a pedestrian street crossing (crosswalk) or not. This verification goes on until it’s all done.

This site evaluates the number of POI’s for a given city.

Votings on proposals:

topic link end date amenity=swimming_pool versus leisure=swimming_pool vote 2016-01-22 location:transition vote 2016-01-23 leisure=aquatics_centre vote 2016-01-22

Community

Bruno Veyckemans proposes to start Quarterly projects in Belgium.

Miguel Garcia from the Spanish blog Culturatorium, which deals with art, technology and culture in general, has portrayed Manuel Torío and his activities in OSM.

OpenCageData interviews Kokou Elolo Amegayibo (and others) about OpenStreetMap in Togo (West Africa)

Paul Norman identified the total number of currently active Mappers from 2007 to the end of 2015 and displays these as a graphic in his blog. One can clearly see a constant increase with seaonal fluctuations.

Andy Allan shares his thoughts about OpenStreetMap as a global infrastructure in the Gravitystorm blog.

As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. A video however is much better than a picture! OpenStreetMap in 3D Video!

Richard Fairhurst proposes to close the newbies mailing list, on which in the last three months nothing was posted.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Steve Coast resigned from his position as honorary Chairman of the OSMF.

Events

The call for locations for State of the Map US 2016 is open.

Humanitarian OSM

Santiago La Rotte published in the Colombian magazine “El Espectador” an article entitled “Discover what digital maps can serve.”He describes the situation after the avalanche of Salgar of 18 May 2015. (automatic translation)

Nice Video about how to host an OSM mapathon available also in the HOTOSM channel.

Maps

The OpenRailwayMap Blog reports that Austrian main semaphore signals and speed light signals have been rendered for a few weeks.

The developer of Luna Render (announced in one of the recent weeklyOSM reports) now presented a map style related to old Soviet military maps.

Alexander Matheisen reports at talk mailing list that OpenLinkMap will be shut down on January 27. A successor and maintainer is very welcome. The code is on github.

You can’t be everybody’s darling. Nevertheless Google tries it with GoogleMaps, if it comes to China.

switch2OSM

Carnaval is very important in Germany, especially in Cologne. The city of Cologne published a special/temporary map for the so called 5th season. 😉

On the OSM wiki: A collection of Dutch applications with OSM data or maps.

Falk, a former producer of printed maps launched Tiger Geo – an Outdoor GPS navigation device which uses OSM based maps.

Software

Programming

Dgoodayle published screenshots of his Unity3d test code. He generated from OpenStreetMap data City models to render in real time, which he wants to use for a game development.

Did you know …

[1] … geo.javawa.nl on-line tools for measurements on maps?

… Map.meurisse for measuring lengths of paths.

… OSM in the social news aggregator reddit.

Other “geo” things

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