weeklyOSM 242

03/03/2015-09/03/2015

Mapping

• Historic development of unique keys,  on the occasion of the Taginfo-Challenge. Follow the thread.

• Improving the OSM map – Why don’t we? (Part 1)

Community

• Pierre Parmentier is the mapper of the month in Belgium.

• OpenCage Data Blog interview: Regional Profile - the State of OpenStreetMap in Mercia. (OSM in the West Midlands)

• OSM with 2 million accounts.

• OSM at 5th Adventure Days in Glauchau.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Russian tile server has a new SSD and is a lot quicker now.

Events

• The French SotM-FR takes place from Mai 29 until 31 in Brest, Brittany. (Via OSM France)

• The Call for Proposals for SotM US is open until March 22.

Humanitarian OSM

• Workshop “Mapeo Humanitario” -  Isla de León, Colombia

• Birth of a New E-Mail List - HOT Announcements Only

• The candidates for the HOT board elections present their ideas.

Maps

• Omniscale writes about the open regional city map of the German state Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (ORKa.MV), which combines OSM with official cadastral data and which was updated at the beginning of this year.

• A historical map with a “new” background for Germany - made with historical maps.

• Chicago crime data with Turf.

Software

• 3D-mapland a new 3D renderer.

• OpenStreetMap to production-ready map in minutes with QGIS.

• GraphHopper release version 0.4. Read about the highlights.

Programming

• JavaScript: A Mapper’s Introduction.

• Test coverage of the Rails code on osm.org is now a very impressing 93%!

• Mysterious: Invisible ways in JOSM

• OSMBuildings WebGL source code released

• QGIS stylesheets (QML) for use with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in ESRI Shapefile format

Did you know that …

• … the secret wishes of OSRM developers?

• … OsmHydrant in English, Spanish and French?

Other “geo” things

• Uber acquires deCarta

• Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard To Build?