weeklyOSM 226

11/11/2014-17/11/2014

Mapping

• [1] Martin Raifer produced a new tool:  Last Week in OSM. The tool shows the changes in a region during the previous week. The older the contribution, the darker the colour. (via @JLZIMMERMANN)

• The data of the US Forest Service is now a tile layer that can be integrated into ID, JOSM and Potlatch. The data contains metadata on surface type/quality and important points.

• User Zverik describes possible improvements to the walking papers tool, which he would like to see implemented.

• A nice result of SotM 2014 in Buenos Aires: On the mailing list talk-latam Latin Americans started to organize a better mapping of the Amazon region.

• OpenCage Data published an interview with David Overton, the man behind the company SplashMaps, which produces outdoor maps. (via Twitter)

Imports

• Christian Quest announced that the Dutch address import is done with the help of OSM quality assurance tool osmose. (via cq94)

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The request for a general meeting was sent to the OSMF board by Simon Poole

Events

• The British newspaper “The Guardian” reports on a programme of the Missing Maps Project, where 80 interested people mapped via armchair mapping in the city of Baraka in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (via Twitter)

Humanitarian OSM

• Andrew Buck reported on the HOT mailing list that the WHO has created a map with the same travel time (isochronous) to Ebola laboratories using OSM data.

Maps

• The previous “parking.openstreetmap.de” map is now available on parking.crite.net.

Open Data

• On 14.11.2014 in Rancho Electrónico (notice the nice presentation of Latin America in the logo of the Red Anillo Sur ;-) ) a hackerspace, a mapping party took place in Mexico City. The existing mining concessions have been mapped. The data were provided by the Mexican Ministry of Economy.

Programming

• Graphhopper, a routing library is now available for iOS.

• User Zverik published BigMap2 (please read carefully the possibilities offered by BigMap2  :-) ) the successor of BigMap. [directly to the map]

Other “geo” things

• MapQuest becomes a partner of Urgent.ly, a startup for “stranded drivers”. (via washingtonpost)

• The company behind the OSM-based app MAPS.ME  was taken over by Mail.Ru, one of the most important investors in the Russian and Eastern European Internet market.

• It seems that Apple has made an update with OSM data in the new iOS 8.

• Mapillary published OpenSfM (Open Structure from Motion), an application of photogrammetry to calculate 3D objects from 2D pictures. OpenSfM is based on OpenCV. (via Jan Erik Solem)