04/12/2016-04/18/2016

Mapping

Chethan Gowda explains how to solve edit conflicts with JOSM.

Aarthy Chandrasekhar explains how the two JOSM plugins that she wrote (The task configuration and the changesetID plugin) help her greatly in her daily work.

User Keder publishes a very detailed Proposal (Education 2.0) to rework the tagging scheme for educational facilities.

Christoph Hormann notes that ASTER imagery (known from DEM data) is _now_ (UPDATE) open to the public.

User PT-53 complains on the German forum that a mapper from Mapbox has mistakingly deleted a newly constructed roundabout which is not visible on Bing imagery.

Malcolm Herring again tries to define the tags tower and mast .

and . Jerome wrote a proposal to extend the tagging of Kneipp facilities, and did start the RFC (request for comments).

Tom Pfeifer points to his “mini vote” about adding new subvalues to the service tag.

Community

Oliver Ritter wrote in his blog post about Geopedia as an universal tool (automatic translation).

FredM points to a job offer in Nepal, asking for OpenStreetMap knowledge.

Bjørn Sandvik publishes his planning of a hiking trip in the Alps using OpenStreetMap data.

Gregory Marler wrote a review of Steve Coast’s OSM book.

The German project Wheelmap.org receives €825,000 from Google.org (via @GoogleDE)

Events

The call for proposals for State of the Map is up! You know your talk—so apply here.

Registration to this year’s FOSS4G conference is open and early bird registeration is possible.

Humanitarian OSM

Maps

Andrew Hill created a map using the 2014 USA census to show how many women live (in percent of the total population).

Meggsimum shows an interactive map of the German Wine Road and its villages in Palatinate (Germany).

Argentina en Python publishes weekly generated maps for Garmin devices for Ecuador and Peru.

Open Data

Miranda Katz produced a map to show which countries’ diplomats have the most unpaid parking tickets in New York city.

Software

The email client Thunderbird now also uses OSM (starting with version 45.0).

Programming

Like every year OSM will participate to the Google Summer of Code. Six students will have the opportunity to work on one of the proposed topics.

MapJam launched developer API with Open Source maps targeting Google Maps and Mapbox customers.

Nathanael Long released his bachelor thesis “pedestrian routing with OSM” (PDF) at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart (supervised by Geofabrik). In it there is a routing graph charged synthetic pavements and road crossings, although these are not recognized as separate footpaths in OSM.

Releases

Software Version Release Date Comment Traccar Server 3.5 2016-03-17 – OpenLayers 3.15.1 2016-04-07 Patch release that addresses a regression in the v3.15.0 release.

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

… the PHP program to visualize difference between versions of OSM objects?

… the earth quake map ogee with data from USGS?

… Mapnificent, which shows for some pre-selected cities the area which you can reach with public transport in a given time. A video explains the details.

… Florian Pigorschs Flopp’s map with some neat geographic functions, mostly to help geocachers.

… this is a multilingual map of India, with more than 100 languages belonging to four different language families which are spoken in India. A multilingual map of the world will be a challenge for OpenStreetMap.

Other “geo” things

Ivo is a sports addict and has created a site showing the weather in the world in a bit different style.

The Oxford Internet Institute shows some maps with different and quite interesting information, e.g. a map about Github users.

The recently opened David Rumsey Map Center library at Stanford University, among others preserved 10,000 antiquarian maps. See this video for more information.

Vexcel Holding GmbH in Graz (Austria) buys Microsoft’s ultracam department (the developer of a digital camera for aerial photography).

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