06/28/2016-07/04/2016

Mapping

Lars-Erik Wessman would like to add a functionality to their taxi driver app, that would enable taxi drivers to provide missing house numbers along with GPS locations.

Zverik created a web frontend for his revert scripts. It allows to revert a maximum of 200 objects. No way/relation membership changes are possible though. On the plus side, it does allow a 3-way merge instead of just restoring older versions, so you won’t run into any conflicts.

The OSM wiki proposal for “extended Kneipp water cure” tagging has been approved.

Community

An analysis of tagging practices and patterns in urban areas in OpenStreetMap.

Jonathan Schleuss asked on talk-us mailing list about what we should do after the Erskine Wildfires.

Pergamino Municipality (near Buenos Aires, Argentina) contributes to OSM.

In Switzerland, Geometa Lab have started a project observing the places in OpenStreetMap that people are looking at (by counting actual tile views). There’s also an article in the Geoawesomeness blog about it.

Imports

Rafael Avila Coya wants to perform an import according to the rules of OSM. First he described the import details in the OSM-wiki, then he submitted his intention to the import mailing list asking for comments.

The Madrid City Council released the data of drinking water fountains in the city. Santiago Crespo who manages the import data of Madrid in a wiki table, already created a page for these imports .

Christian Ledermann proposed a semi-automatic import of school data from Ordnance Survey (UK).

Maning Sambale reports about the work and the tools developed for building imports in Los Angeles.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Paul Norman published the meeting minutes for the board meeting of June.

Christoph published a detailed summary of the public OSMF board meeting.

The OSMF will from now on be holding its board meetings on the 3rd Friday of each month at 6pm London time publicly on mumble.

Thomas Skowron tweets “I think I solved the financing problem of the OpenStreetMap Foundation”. For those who haven’t seen it, there have recently been a series of display-once-per-browser conference advertisements in that space (SOTM, SOTM-US and FOSSGIS).

Events

Humanitarian OSM

Tyler Redford published a blog from HOT which focusses on the role and the efforts made by HOT to achieve the UN goals for their 2030 Agenda: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in all states.

HOT Summit (22nd of September 2016) early bird registration ends on July 9.

Maps

Open Data

NOSOLOSIG explained the fastest way to view and download images from Landsat 8. (automatic translation)

Licences

People are still suggesting that we change the ODbL!

The Collective Database Guideline has been approved by the OSMF Board.

Software

Federico Mena Quintero has published Mapería. It is intended to “produce beautiful OSM maps for printing”. Mapería is available on github.

MAPS.ME now includes navigation for bicycle riders (beta).

Programming

[1] Polyglot published a blog article documenting how to use the new JOSM Plugin for Public Transport, that’s being built by Darya Golovko during this year’s Google Summer of Code.

Disastermappers Heidelberg created a tool in Python to monitor data as it is added to the OSM database. This means mappers at mapathons get feedback on their efforts during the event, which is cool and very motivating.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

… OpenFietsMap? (Dutch OpenCycleMap with many instructions for mapping in English)

… the video vector tiles from the site osm2vectortiles.org/?

Other “geo” things

Colin Marshall presented some historic transit maps in “Open Culture”.

The 3D Modeling Software Esri CityEngine 2016 now offers a simplified import of OSM data.

Gabriele Gargantini (Ilpost.it) blogs (very extensively) compellingly about the small village of Esino Lario in Lecco Province, which hosted Wikimania the most important event of Wikipedia for a few days . (automatic translation)

(very extensively) compellingly about the small village of Esino Lario in Lecco Province, which hosted Wikimania the most important event of Wikipedia for a few days . (automatic translation) Google Earth and Maps get sharper satellite imagery with new update.

Fernando Quadro reported in his blog about the fact that mappers work feverishly on OSM data in Rio de Janeiro in preparation for the Olympics. (automatic translation)

(automatic translation) The company Lichenecker presents a schematic map for the EM, that visualizes emotional tweets.

mAppiaM! will take place from 09th to 11th July in Rome along the “Via Appia”. Three groups will map Roman monuments in OSM and collect geoinformation for Wikipedia. (automatic translation)

will take place from 09th to 11th July in Rome along the “Via Appia”. Three groups will map Roman monuments in OSM and collect geoinformation for Wikipedia. (automatic translation) Chris Hormann described the “new Google Landsat mosaic”.

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