03/08/2016-03/14/2016

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Mapping

Community

Commodoortje wonders whether it is appropriate to do indoor mapping of a house.

Joost Schouppe explores a few methods to find paved and unpaved roads in South America

In his series “Mapper in the Spotlight” user escada conducted an interview with Nick from the Netherlands.

SHTOSM (The Russian OSM News blog) reports about the mapping effort to put Grozny “on the map” (in Russian)

A video tutorial explaining how to use OpenStreetMap data in QGIS.

Imports

Events

An international conference on free software is being hosted in Havana, Cuba on the 25th-27th of April 2016, sponsored by Mapbox.

The dzone blog writes about how citizens of a city in Nicaragua helped map the best routes in the city to improve public transportation.

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente (Smart Citizen Foundation) celebrated Open Data Day Santiago: under the theme “Bringing an ‘Open’ Philosophy to the people”

Bestford Guri invites the OSM community to the “Open Source Conference Albania”, a conference in Tirana (Albania) on the 14th and 15th of May.

Iván Sánchez Ortega will be giving a talk about Leaflet at the event the future of leaflet, one of the most widely used web mapping frameworks. Ivan will talk about the library, with the imminent release of version 1.0 and some ideas for the future.

Humanitarian OSM

On Thursday, March 3rd 2016, a world-record humanitarian mapathon took place at Politecnico di Milano in northern Italy. Two-hundred and twelve 10-year old children from nine classes at six elementary schools in Milan province got together and mapped Swaziland to help eradicate malaria in the country.

The blog writes about how humanitarian open source mapping can make a big difference in emergencies, since detailed maps can help to deliver aid where needed.

Maps

A video tutorial shows the rendering options available in Oruxmap.

A virtual walk with smartphone through historic Berlin. The app features OSM as a comparison layer to the historic maps.

switch2OSM

Bahnhof.de (German Bahnhof = train station), a website of Deutsche Bahn, offering information for passengers, switched to OSM (example).

Open Data

Licences

A German journalist has to pay €1700 after receiving a cease and desist letter in 2012 for making a screenshot of an oblique aerial image of Bing Maps for comparison of old and new image material. The complainant was not from Microsoft but a company that created the images in the first place. (automatic translation)

Software

Programming

Jochen explains his renumbering command in osmium-tool to store ID numbers of OSM elements with less space needed than original OSM numbering.

Traccar, a tool used for reverse geocoding.

Releases

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Did you know …

OSM Flyers and posters…

Other “geo” things

A map showing the importance of tlds.

A monumental sculpture of the ‘blue Planet‘ in the ‘Gasometer Oberhausen’.

Mashable reports on an Irish startup called Access Earth which “wants to be a Google Maps for people with disabilities”. It is like Wheelmap but commercial and uses OSM data only for the background map. Therefore it has nearly no content (Wheelmap is six years older).

A kickstarter project on Vector maps for everyone.

Facebook is building it’s own maps using artificial intelligence.

The JavaScript based leaflet can also display things other than maps, for example the mainboard of the project Everykey.

The University of California – Riverside created a new method to solve the integer ambiguity when using phase shift GPS positioning. This allows for millimetre accuracy with low power consumption.

Google has renamed Skybox to Terra Bella. Skybox was bought by Google in 2014 and operates earth observation satellites. Terra Bella will extend its business activity on analysis of satellite imagery.

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