weeklyOSM 239

Feb 20, 2015 · 4 min read · No Comments

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Mapping

A pull request from Richard Fairhurst (which has since been merged - hurrah!) should ensure that iD users don’t inadvertently cause problems with relations in the future. This was preceded by the usual complaints about iD on talk (and a response by the iD authors) because of the old bug which used to cause relation membership to disappear, unseen by the mapper.
iD 1.7.0 is online with new templates.
How should this road sign be tagged ?

Open Geo interviewed Daniel Kirstenpfad, the creator of Miataru.
Harry Wood sent the “Lolcat of awesomeness” that used to appear on the front page of the wiki (for special contributions to OSM) into retirement.

new Corporate Members
OpenStreetMap á Íslandi (English), a subset of Hliðskjálf, is the first official Local Chapter of OSMF.
josm.openstreetmap.de is now running on a new server, according to the site administrator Dirk Stöcker on the JOSM mailing list. In an other mail he talks about traffic and spam.

“Disastermappers Heidelberg” write about “Digital Jedi” Patrick Meier, who reported as a guest speaker on current trends in digital Humanitarians.
Technical Project Manager Cristiano Giovando calls for photos needed for the HOT Summit Website.
In order that HOT can participate in the global scholarship programme Google Summer of Code and the Outreach programme, ideas for HOT are being collected on Github.
The “HOT Summit” takes place from 30 April to 02 May in Washington DC. Read the full message here, and apply for scholarship here.
The HOT team has relaunched the OpenAerialMap project. Cristiano Giovando is recruiting to help with its implementation. Interested parties can send an email to apply@hotosm.org.
“11 ways to get involved with Humanitarian FOSS” from Heather Leson

[1] Danilo Bretschneider created a postbox map during the FOSSGIS Hacking Event (English) in January in Essen.
Routing has been implemented using three external routing engines on OpenStreetMap.org.
The editors of the French newspaper “La Voix du Nord” found a visible railway roadbed for a proposed testing facility on OSM. As the project is locally controversial and not approved (English) the journalist went in search of information and looked for a recent leak. The feature has been in fact been mapped incorrectly for more than a year and was promptly corrected from railway=construction to railway=proposed. The newspaper reported a day later (English) about the correction and the original mapper could even explain the issue. This is a great advertisement for the openness and reactivity of the OSM community.

The canton of Zurich published a digital elevation model (i.e. as GeoTIFF and laudably as a point cloud) under a CC-BY-style license. (via @swissOSM )
Open Data drives the digital economy - the German ministry of economy decided to change (English) the “Informationsweiterverwendungsgesetz” (information re-use law). (via: BMWi Bund)

waypointer.info is another webservice with OSM based POI search, including export functionality.
Osm2x3d is a new WebGL based renderer, mainly for buildings out of OSM data.
Do you remember the kickstarter project #QGIS layer effects? Check out the latest video for use of blur, shadows and more (via: Anita Graser).
Customization and support for arbitrary feature types in iD from Sajjad Anwar of Mapbox.
Imre Samu is “working on a new iD Editor translation QA tool for helping translators detecting translator bugs”.
OSG-Maps 1.2 released.

JOSM plugin developers beware! Have you already fixed your JOSM plugins? Since SVN revision 8024 a JOSM plugin can load at runtime (i.e., without restarting). But … your plugin has to be adjusted.
Four (!) years after the bug report on launchpad and two years after a corresponding ticket in JOSM’s bugtracker, JOSM and other large projects can be translated online. Finally.
Dennis (@DoctorD) published his routing backend on github.
A list of suggestions for OSM’s participation in Google’s Summer of Code can be found in the OSM wiki. This is separate from HOT’s participation (see above for that).
Should there be an “OSM Jobs” mailing list? asks Jo Walsh. (Continuation of the discussion)
Turf 1.4.0 release from Morgan Herlocker of Mapbox.
Stickshift from Tom MacWright, also of Mapbox.
ESRI learns about the “pain” of dealing with an Open Source project (via: Tom MacWright again).
An announcement: GME2CartoDB is a new tool for data migration from Google Maps Engine (GME) (via @CartoDB).

3D print of OSM-data.
Mapbox uses “probe data” a tool for semi-automated improvements to OpenStreetMap.
… you need woodcut data visualisation?

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