14.04.–27.04.2015

About us

Unfortunately, we have had to publish this version as a double issue #248/249, because we had a team meeting in Spain to map historical areas and talk about the translation of “weeklyosm” to Spanish. We are looking for help for our Spanish team. See here for an automatically-translated version of the thread.

… and … because of the terrible earthquake in Nepal, we have changed the sequence of some items.

Humanitarian OSM

Mapping

Community

Imports

Frederik Ramm proposes to the import list to delete an earlier import of explosion places of nuclear weapons because we map objects and not results. He gets much approval, but also rejection.

Vincent Frison wants to import building heights in Paris.

Events

The program of State of the Map US is online.

Maps

The site historic.place shows data for historical objects on a map.

Omniscale offers its WMS and tile services now under the new platform maps.omniscale.com. More in the blog.

#switch2OSM

Open-Data

Licences

Gary Gale writes on Geohipster.com why OSM is struggling in business and why he is in favor of a license without share-alike.

Software

Excessive abuse / use of Overpass API has meant that the block mechanisms in the future will work in a slightly different way.

Routing profile for wheelchair user in OpenRouteService.org goes into beta testing . Current coverage: Germany. Any data contributions regarding sidewalks, inclines and kerbs are highly appreciated.

OSMAnd now for iOS (OsmAnd Maps).

Peter Karich explains the use of elevation data in GraphHopper.

Graphhopper is relevant. 🙂 (via @graphhopper)

The American Red Cross provides an API to be able to give live access to OSM metadata.

Other “Geo” things