weeklyOSM 246

31/03/2015-06/04/2015

Mapping

• John Willis proposes a tagging for separate student and teacher entrances in Japanese schools. He would like to introduce additional values for entrances = *.

• The second British “quarterly exercise” has started and deals with “all things delivery-related”.

Community

• Thomas Schwotzer reports on the current status of Open Historical Data Map. (translation / traducción)

• User bdiscoe reported a strange coastlines course in South Africa.

• User zeromap reported how the MapBox team handles anonymous reports on their new feedback function.

• “Epic Mapper” - Heinz_V created changeset 30,000,000.

• User Brittag finds out how Nominatim allocates geographical areas (district / …)

• This month there are two “Belgian Mappers of the Month”.

• Harald Hartmann released an OSM survey platform. (translation / traducción)

Imports

• A land use Import in Slovenia is waiting in the wings.

• User edvac wants to import another 520 Health Centres in the Nigerian state of Borno.

• The automatic building and addresses Import in Baltimore has begun.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The adfinis SyGroup is now donating free hosting to the Swiss OSM community (translation).

• The OSMF board meeting minutes from 10th March 2015 have been published.

• On March 21, the second meeting of OpenStreetMap Ecuador took place. A report in the user Diary of lomejordejr sums up the main points. (translation / traducción)

Humanitarian OSM

• Mikel Maron calls for mapping to continue in Vanuatu.

Maps

• Konrad Lischka explains in his blog how to get the necessary district polygons from OSM at the district level for open data visualizations. (translation / traducción)

OSM in action

• SWITCH2OSM - why switch?

Open Data

• The City of Bonn starts a pilot project “Social Open Data”. (translation / traducción)

Software

• On 16/03/2015 Locus 3.7.1 was released.

Programming

• The page turfjs.party provides a kind of playground to test the functionality of the framework Turf. The Javascript library supports GIS functionality for Web-based maps.

Did you know that …

• … who is who on twitter?

Other “geo” things

• LibreOffice and Leaflet - maybe.