weeklyOSM 633

30/08/2022-05/09/2022

About us

• We are pleased to be able to offer two more languages from issue #632 onwards: Bahasa Indonesia and Russian. weeklyOSM now informs local OSM communities about the happenings in the OSM world in a total of 15 languages.

Mapping

• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • pedagogy=* to denote the educational theory (or pedagogy) of an element, especially schools or kindergartens.
  • man_made=graduation_tower for mapping the structures used in the production of salt which remove water from a saline solution by evaporation, increasing its concentration of mineral salts.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • to deprecate departures_board=realtime and promote instead passenger_information_display=yes, until Friday 16 September.
  • crossing:markings=*, for mapping the existence and style of pedestrian crossing markings, until Saturday 17 September.
• CasGroenigen created the 10 billionth node (10,000,000,000) in OSM on 4 September. The node is part of a house in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. Interestingly, this node caused problems with some of the Geofabrik’s free shapefiles. This is because the Geofabrik .dbf file limits the ID length to 10 digits, while this node has an ID length of 11 digits.
• An IDN Times journalist has produced a podcast about OSM mapping for Situ/lake conservation in Jabodetabekpunjur, Indonesia.
• rtnf published his opinion regarding localised styles and vector tiles.
• Jochen Topf presented his proposal for changes to the OSM data model at the State of the Map 2022. If you would like to participate in the discussion of the new OSM data model, you can do so in the GitHub discussion forum.
• Christoph Hormann explained his thoughts on the planned changes to OpenStreetMap’s data model.
• After a long discussion that has stalled several times since 2009, Belarusian OpenStreetMap contributors have again proposed ► using Belarusian as the official language of the Belarusian OSM, replacing Russian. A mass editing bot has been set up to perform this migration. They are currently waiting for community member voting results before running the bot.
• Amanda McCann has created a data visualisation of the growth of the building tag in Ireland from 2007 to the present.

Community

• Following a debate regarding the definition of service=driveway, as we reported earlier, an OSM user has proposed a new alternative tagging scheme: driveway2 for better routing. Others have proposed instead a mass deletion of the service=driveaway2 tag in OSM.
• Two personalities who have helped shape the OpenStreetMap ecosystem, while working for business partners in recent years, each share some personal thoughts: Randy Meech and Mikel Maron.
• The Geomob London Meetup will take place on Wednesday 28 September at the Ordnance Survey Geovation Hub. As usual, the meeting will feature several talks about innovations in the geospatial field. If you are planning to attend this event, please complete the registration form. Those unable to attend the conference can receive a summary of the conference by joining the Geomob mailing list.
• Bartosz Racławski ► , from Poland, is the UN Mapper of the Month for September.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The development team of osm2pgsql, a command line tool for converting OSM data into the PostgreSQL/PostGIS format, received a test server grant from FOSSGIS e.V., the German local chapter of the OSMF.
• The OpenStreetMap tile server address has changed to https://tile.openstreetmap.org. The new tile server supports HTTP/2 + HTTP/3 and has a higher cache hit ratio than the previous tile server. Applications still using the old OSM tile server url ((a|b|c).tile.openstreetmap.org / (a|b|c|).tile.osm.org) should switch to the new format immediately, as the old urls may be deactivated at any time.
• FOSSGIS and the German OpenStreetMap community were invited ► by the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to participate in the Citizens’ Festival at Bellevue Palace. This event was held to honour citizens who actively participate in various voluntary activities.

Local chapter news

• The August newsletter of OpenStreetMap US has been published.

Events

• Some OpenStreetMap users have shared their personal experiences of the SotM 2022, held in Florence, Italy.

Education

• Anne-Karoline Distel explained how to map blacksmith workshops on OpenStreetMap. In the video she explained that there are many forges in Ireland that now have the status of historic buildings. In the old days, there were forges along main roads in Ireland that were used to repair broken horseshoes.

switch2OSM

• The French government provides information on the net about fuel prices at petrol stations in France. It uses OSM for this and even uses the © reference correctly. Recommended for imitation.
• In his latest video, Luke Smith, a well-known privacy advocate, gave his opinion about smartphones vs privacy. At the end of the video (16:00 min), he said that ‘the only Google software that is better than the free and open source variety is Google Maps’, as opposed to OpenStreetMap which he deemed to be lacking in its search features.
• IT security blogger SwiftOnSecurity recommended checking OpenStreetMap data if deliveries or people have trouble finding your home. The reason is that OSM powers many routing engines.

Software

• The August release of Organic Maps is available for iOS and Android. Routing performance was improved for long routes and total ascent and descent is now displayed for the route. New icons were added for different sport POIs. Information about OpenStreetMap as a map source was added to the splash screen.
• BRouter was featured on the HackerNews front page.
• As a work in progress, jmsbert listed the JOSM plugins that they consider useful.
• woheller69 has published LavSeeker on F-Droid. The application lists the toilets nearest to you that are mapped in OpenStreetMap.
• Samuel Manu, perhaps better known in OSM as sammyhawkrad, tweeted about new updates to the OsmoseStats tool he built. You can now see the number of OSM issues per country/region and also view the list of individual issues with hyperlinks on the charts.
• Altilunium has released OSM Pantau, an OpenStreetMap recent change monitoring system. See the live demo here, click the blue button to refresh. Find out how it works here.

Other “geo” things

• The French government is using ► satellite data to locate illegal swimming pools.
• Achim Sawall reported how he was misled by Google Maps on a bike tour from Berlin to Lübbenau.
• Chloé Woitier, from LeFigaro newspaper, reported ► on the launch by Google of its fuel-saving itinerary function, based on automatic learning from data including those collected by the map application itself.
• The Wall Street Journal has published a video explaining the technology used by Google Maps.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-09-12
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	Afterwork meetup OSM + OSgeo		2022-09-13
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2022-09-13
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-14
Kortrijk	DigiPinguïns: OpenStreetMap		2022-09-13
Großarl	6. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2022-09-14
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup		2022-09-15
Bologna	Wikiaperitivo del buon rientro a Bologna (per OSMer e wikimediani)		2022-09-15
Град Кикинда	OpenStreetMap x Pionir #1		2022-09-17
Ballerup Kommune	OSM DK Konference		2022-09-17
Dublin	OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM		2022-09-17
Peyruis	Cartopartie à Peyruis		2022-09-17
臺北市	第四次 OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團工作坊		2022-09-18
Pacé	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-20
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-09-20
	155. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-09-20
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-09-20
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-09-20
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali		2022-09-21
Miniac-sous-Bécherel	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-09-22
La Virgen	5ta reunión bimestral de OSM Latinoamérica		2022-09-24
Cisterna d’Asti	Incontro mapper astigiani		2022-09-24
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend		2022-09-24 – 2022-09-25
Gent	OpenTechTalks: OpenStreetMap		2022-09-26
Arlon	Réunion des contributeurs OpenStreetMap, Arlon (Belgium)		2022-09-26
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-28
Derby	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup		2022-09-27
London	Geomob London		2022-09-28
Vern-sur-Seiche	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-29
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-09-30
Bengaluru	Hacktoberfest 2022	✓	2022-09-30 – 2022-10-31
Villa de Cos	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de México		2022-10-01

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, SK53, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, derFred, rtnf.
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