weeklyOSM 228

25/11/2014-01/12/2014

Mapping

• [1] The 27 millionth OpenStreetMap changeset contains changes for Guatemala. (via @neogeografen)

• User Elliott Plack blogs about his experiences with Mapillary.

• Mappers paid by Mapbox collided once more. SomeoneElse was forced to revert. (Note: SomeoneElse is a member of the Data Working Group)

• User tmcw  would like to store worldwide coffee prices in the OSM database. User Nakaner explains in a comment that commodity prices are not geographic data and therefore OSM is not the place to do it. Nakaner asks why tmcw doesn’t simply create OpenPriceDB?

• A new version of the Kendzi 3D plugin for the editor JOSM has been released.

• OpenStreetMap Blog describes the new query feature (the question mark icon on osm.org).

• The designs from Diamond00774 and Felis Pimeja are in the final of the JOSM logo competition.

Community

• Nick Bearman is looking for a mapping task for about 200 students (Planning and/or Geography students) at the University of Liverpool.

• Tom Morris finds that OSM is too bureaucratic. He also suggests possibilities for change.

Imports

• User ubahnverleih tweets an image that shows the consequences of imports in Georgia (USA).

• In Passau an import of stores is planned.

Events

• Mike Dupont from the Kansas Linux Fest in Lawrence, Kansas, is looking for people talking about OSM.

Maps

• OSM Cochabamba tweets on the progress on the detection of bus routes on the public transport map (ÖPNV) in the Bolivian highlands.

Open Data

• Christian Quest gives an interview on the planned French “Open National Address Database”.

• Jordi Inglada blogs about “free global land cover mapping” in OSM.

Software

• MapBox published a tutorial on the use of Overpass Turbo and MapBox Studio. The guide shows how to extract data using Overpass Turbo and use them in MapBox Studio (via @Mapbox).

• OSM IQ is now available for Windows Phone (previously only Windows x86 and Windows RT).

Programming

• Martijn Exel has been working on a Python Overpass API wrapper and would appreciate help. (via @mvexel)

Other “geo” things

• Ed Freyfogle interviews Steven Feldman, a geo-expert for many years.

• User vgeorge summarises the progress of the Portuguese / Brazilian localisation of various portals with a relation to OSM. Examples to follow. ;-)

• Rachel Binx launches a website that offers OSM maps on textiles. (via @rachelbinx). Very nice idea, but “nice” prices as well.

• Steve Coast is looking on Kickstarter for people who are willing to back his book project “The Book of OpenStreetMap”.

• Serge Wroclawski reports on the project 596acres, which wants to make  the “community gardens” in New York City more visible.

• The city of Erlangen (Germany) switched to OSM.

• DigitalGlobe and Crowdsourcing. Video - 50 minutes!