weeklyOSM 220

30/09/2014-06/10/2014

Mapping

• Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak is pondering how to map frontages in OSM when they have different colours at different heights.

Community

• In the OpenCageData blog you can read an interview with a mapper who speaks mainly about mapping in crisis areas.

• User jgruca suggests to use relations for sculptures with multiple pieces.

• This advertisement on the side of a tram in Toronto features a large map from OpenStreetMap!

• One of the oldest OSM Live Tracker is back.

• Call for papers: The CFP für die AAG 2015 (Association of American Geographers) is looking for OpenStreetMap Studies: Research Perspectives on a Decade of OSM.

• User Malenki returned from hiking with Mapillary and talks about the results and his experiences.

• Mapbox describes extensively how they identified areas that need better tracking in OpenStreetMap.

• User Dakon wrote a program to show fire hydrants, water tanks and emergency access points.

• A blogpost about the “Berlin, Berlin Bug”.

• Two MapRoulette challenges completed! (via Twitter)

• An OpenStreetMap community campaign to donate money to the Ada Initiative.

• Peter Richardson blogs about 3D buildings in OSM.

• User Tallguy talks about the Mapthon in London.

Humanitarian OSM

• A Presentation shows how OSM contributes to handling the Ebola-crisis and the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).

Maps

• [1] The city of Mülheim an der Ruhr shows open Wlan-Hotspots on an OSM map.

• Katy DeCorah replaced the boring markers by Emojis.

• mapcil is a new service for individual information-overlays, developed by Küstenschmiede GmbH, the producers of einsatzkarte.de

• Half of the mankind lives in this circle.

Software

• OSMfocus is a new Android app to show detailed data on OSM objects.

• Nominatim released the new version 2.3.

• OpenDroneMap is a free and open source software for post-processing from unreferenced overlapping photos to an unreferenced point cloud, dedicated to “civilian (and humanitarian?) UAS/UAV”.

Did you know that …

• … that Pocket Earth for iOS uses OSM-data (even offline ;-) ). (via@TheFive_osm)