11/01/2016-11/07/2016

Mapping

The key lockers is seldom used in OSM. Thejesh GN asks, in the talk-in mailing list, whether the singular ( locker ) or the plural ( lockers ) should be used.

is seldom used in OSM. Thejesh GN asks, in the talk-in mailing list, whether the singular ( ) or the plural ( ) should be used. The project “pedestrian crossings in Switzerland” (as we reported earlier) was created by OSMDeepOD. The publication on weeklyOSM shows a significant impact on their analysis and evaluation website.It looks like the tasks are not always visible on MapRoulette, so we published the direct links to them here: Uri: http://maproulette.org/map/988/889410 Geneva: http://maproulette.org/map/337/874464 Ostschweiz: http://maproulette.org/map/987/888632 Südschweiz: http://maproulette.org/map/976/871529 Genf: http://maproulette.org/map/337/872867 Schaffhausen: http://maproulette.org/map/981/885613 Glarus: http://maproulette.org/map/982/885828 Ostschweiz: http://maproulette.org/map/987/888561 Nidwalden: http://maproulette.org/map/1410/1212819 Luzern: http://maproulette.org/map/1412/1222218

GFDRR is a World Bank-managed organization that tries to help developing countries better understand and reduce their vulnerabilities to natural hazards and adapt to climate change. It has been running the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) since 2011. Humberto Yances reports that in October 2016, OpenDRI, hosted a day-long event during JICA’s flood mapping workshop for the National Unit of Disaster Risk Management in Colombia (UNGRD).

In Berlin the tagging of the incredibly detailed mapping of the holocaust monument continues to be discussed. The question is if using the building tag is correct, or is this mapping for the renderer. The monument consists of over 2000 different-height blocks such as this one.

tag is correct, or is this mapping for the renderer. The monument consists of over 2000 different-height blocks such as this one. Tobias Zwick aka westnordost presents the tool OSMAGENT, which can be used by an Android user without tagging knowledge to complete OSM data. The tool uses a “map of quests”, an approach that is already used by MapRoulette. Feedback is very welcome.

In the HOT mailing list,

Keith Darby a masters Candidate in GIS Technologies proposed to map potential helicopter landing sites in disaster-prone areas in OSM.

Keith Darby a masters Candidate in GIS Technologies proposed to map potential helicopter landing sites in disaster-prone areas in OSM. Simon Poole warns against using the Amenity Editor , which does not support 64bit IDs for nodes. Please do not use the editor, as it systematically destroys OSM data.

, which does not support 64bit IDs for nodes. Please do not use the editor, as it systematically destroys OSM data. User Wille proposed in the talk-tagging to integrate the “service” tag on shop=car and shop=car_repair items in the iD editor.

and items in the iD editor. Gregory Marler aka livingwithdragons, writes to the talk-GB about mapping Key:xmas:features, especially since they are not only in the “official” XmasMap, but also on OsmAnd.

Community

Imports

Santiago Crespo from the Spanish community announced the start of a manual import of “places of worship“ in Madrid. They imported data from the City of Madrid. See more info on the wikipage. Among others, some former imports: Drinking Water Fountains or Pharmacies. (automatic translation)

OpenStreetMap Foundation

The 10th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation will be held online in the IRC chat room #osmf-gm on the IRC network irc.oftc.net, at 16:00 UTC on Saturday, 10 December 2016. The agenda can be viewed here: http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/16

Frederik explains how the confidentiality of donors to OSMF currently works and asks whether this rule should be limited in the sense of transparency.

Janet Chapman suggests on the OSMF-talk mailing list, not only to feed newcomers with a single email, but a “welcome pack to new members with a bit more background information about the foundation, its working groups, how you can get more involved, etc..”. weeklyOSM says: “Damn good idea!”.

Events

The program of the SotM LatAM is published. SotM LatAM is happening on the 25th to 27th of November.

Humanitarian OSM

EchoScience Grenoble reported about a Missing Maps Mapathon that is going to be held on November 24th by MaptimeAlpes in Grenoble. (automatic translation)

(automatic translation) Pierre Béland wrote to the HOT mailing list about the situation in Haiti, saying that this major crisis is simply forgotten. Part of the problem is the poor quality of the initial response, due to “Hit and Run” mapathons. Pierre documented this problem in his earlier presentation, which he made with data from the earthquake in Nepal.

Maps

On github there is a discussion about switching from http to https for openstreetmap.org by default.

Romainbou, an OSM novice from Avignon, France writes about his first experiences with overpass-turbo.eu. He analyzes the use of the name “Boulevard” in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. (automatic translation)

Software

Remster presents his new long distance bicycle route planner named Zikes and asks for feedback.

Bryan Housel is asking for support in testing and translation of iD v2.0.

Programming

Mapillary has released the v2 of its JavaScript viewer, which comes with faster photo loading and decreased amount of data downloaded.

Simple Opening Hours is a JavaScript class to parse opening hours and according to its author, it only supports the human readable parts of the opening hours syntax.

The size of the OSM-Database is now 6.1 TB. Tom Hughes has published a detailed list of index and table sizes.

User Zecke is asking for help on the Overpass mailing list. He would like to install a local Overpass instance. It looks like, that while solving his issue, the documentation has been updated.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

Other “geo” things

Laura Bliss of Citylab in New York reported on the campaign involving 2300 volunteers to catalogue more than 685,000 inner-city trees with many details within a year. These open data, which is valuable to all citizens, have been summarized and visualized on an interactive map.

Juc Cerovic wrote a guest post for Human Transit Blog differentiating good or bad urban bus maps.

Quartz Africa reports on about how projects such as Missing Maps can fill in the gaps on African maps using crowdsourcing, and make the results available to all OpenStreetMap users.

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