05/10/2016-05/16/2016

Mapping

The German forum started a large discussion about bi-lingual names in Sorben (Germany) (automatic translation).

Mapbox extends its geocoder by supporting of Wikidata information.

The planned server outage and the relocation of the OSM servers lead to slow upload speeds and downtimes of the wiki server. As of now, everything is expected to return to normal.

Community

The OpenCage Data blog interviews Laura Barroso (an active member of weeklyOSM and the woman in charge of the Spanish edition) about OSM in Cuba.

Presentation of the Importation Project: MGN (National Geostatistical Framework) of INEGI in Mexico by members of Telenav: Miriam Gonzalez and Andres Ortiz. Read more here.

In his series Mapper in the Spotlight, Escada interviewed Pete Masters from Scotland, a pioneer of Missing Maps.

Johnattan Rupire informed weeklyOSM about a professionally made video showing many aspects of OSM. Subtitles are availabe in French and English.

Imports

Andy Townsend published on the import mailing list a communication by Kate Learmonth (UNICEF Office of the Pacific Iceland Countries) with the DWG for imports after cyclone Winston on the Fiji Islands.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

The OpenStreetMap Foundation is hiring an administrative assistant. Applications can be sent in until June 3rd.

Events

SotM 2016 Brüssel – important date Saturday May 21st propose your session apply for scholarship buy “early bird” ticket

The SotM US program is online.

The 6th International Conference on Cartography & GIS will be held on 13th-17th of June 2016 in Albena, Bulgaria.

On 10th – 12th June 2016 the Geocaching GIGA-Event Project Glück Auf 2016 will be held at UNESCO’s World Heritage Zollverein. More than 10000 Geocachers are expected to join the event that features many workshops and guided tours.

A report to this year’s FOSS4G NA in Raleigh, NC, USA. Interesting is the communication on the Portable OSM (portable OSM server) for mobile-use in disaster areas. Read more here.

Humanitarian OSM

HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka. The first task is already up.

Blake Girardot compiles a list of suggestions for improvements to OSM web editor iD. The goal is to help satisfy the needs of the HOT and Missing Maps communities. He is asking for input from the community.

Missing Maps in London decided to put more focus on using JOSM.

Aline Rosset from the University of Central Asia reported, in a guest post, about “OSM workshops with teachers and high school children of 10 rural villages in Kyrgyzstan” to map the Tien Shan mountains.

Blake Girardot searches for an expert in admin boundaries and OSM relations for helping to synchronize data and possibly importing it to OSM.

Maps

MapContrib is a site similar to uMap that allows a simple generating of your own map. Example maps include fire hydrants, mail boxes andr bicycle parking.

Laura Barroso, the weeklyOSM correspondent in Cuba, built the app MapaDCuba for her employer (we reported here). The app is rated recently as the best Cuban map app by a blogger in Cuba, but read it yourself.

Open Data

Geolode is a catalog to collect open geodata around the world.

Licences

Programming

TrailBehind publishes DeepOSM, a deep learning net to use satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap data to learn classify and to detect features in imagery.

Mapzen’s routing software Valhalla now offers multi-modal public transport routing. A blog post introduces the product (for customers), a second blog post explains the technical background.

Tom MacWright explains why CartoCSS is defective and how it’s successor is much better for creating maps.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

… the fascination kinky Spaghetti Junction? Kristin Hohenadel presents the work of the artist Nicholas Rougeux. He converts OSM data (highways) into artworks.

… the USDA People’s Garden Initiative?

… the H2OpenMap which visualizes water wells on a map?

Other “geo” things

Google adds new features and detailed maps of the venues to Google Maps to catch up with OpenStreetMap for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Upcoming Events

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This weekly was produced by Hakuch, Laura Barroso, Peda, Rogehm, derFred, jinalfoflia, mgehling, wambacher, widedangel.