thefive wrote a dedicated content managment system especially designed for the needs of Wochennotiz and weeklyOSM. This ensures that the English version of weeklyOSM may appear immediately after the German Wochennotiz.
Mapping
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GPS to be jammed in Scotland during Nato war games. Please be careful with the tracks from this period, and please do not upload them to osm.org without exact examination!
User naoliv has used the Mapbox Distance API for quality assurance. With this approach he has seen that Parintins was isolated from the rest of the world.
jorgemendozatorres asks. the Mexican community to start mapping the “monumental flags”.
Martijn van Exel presents a JOSM plugin to find “missingRoads” based on aggregated, processed GPS data points. Some first comments on the data can be found on the American mailing list.
Ten years ago, on September 30 2005, Immanuel Scholz informed the talk mailing list that he is working on a “standalone Java editor”. A few days later, on October 4, 2005, he published the first beta version of the editor, called JOSM. We congratulate the developers of the only OSM editing software which has been maintained for ten years.
A first brief report of the meeting of the Dutch community with the governamental providers of open data sets. The conclusion is that the BGT (basisregistratie topografie - base registration topography) could be used to as actual, detailed reference source for mappers, while the OSM community could help with feedback to the BGT.
Stefan Keller from the Hochschule Raperswil pursues with the project “Zebrastreifen-Safari” [(pedestrian crossing safari)] several objectives: On one hand computer science interns from the Geometa Lab have to develop a web application (still in progress!). This includes, among others security aspects which they capture internally, as well as publicly available statistics on the state of the captured data in OSM. On the other hand this project tries to encourage the community to collect such data which is useful for routing among others.
Imports
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OpenStreetMap Foundation
OpenStreetMap US board elections are coming up October 12th - 18th. The current board hosted a questions and answers session for aspiring board members - you can watch a recording on Youtube.
Kate Chapman published a presentation “The OSMFoundation and you”. She calls for joining the Foundation, talks about fundraising and you should “run for the board”. ;-)
On 17. and 18. October there will be an OSM hackweekend at Geofabrik in Karlsruhe, Germany. More information and registration can be found at OSM wiki.
Humanitarian OSM
Free aerial imagery collected with satellites, aircraft and drones, is crucial for humanitarian organizations.Therefore HOT created OpenAerialMap to faciltate mapping after a disaster. See the video
Real estate portal Trulia made maps of the noisiest neighborhoods in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City using Stamen tiles, OSM data and CartoDB. (via Geekwire)
The Belgian artist Hans Hack makes art based on building outlines found in OpenStreetMap.
The German city of Kolbermoor uses for the route map of the city buses an OSM map.
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Open Data
Pieter Colpaert of Open Knowledge Belgium informs the Belgian mailing list, that the GRB will become open data in January 2016. He asks how it can be used in OpenStreetMap, but is also interested to learn in the difficulties to integrate this data.The data contains all information about buildings, parcels, roads and road infrastructure, road networks, as well as railroads and waterways.(discussion partly in English and Dutch)
The Northern Ireland Ordnance Survey (OSNI) published the “OSNI Large Scale Boundaries - Town Country dataset”, exactly 15 days after the Mapper Stephen_Co_Antrim has mapped with Syunshin the last townland in Northern Ireland.
On September 30th, 2015 GeoServer version 2.8 was released.
The Directions API of GraphHopper now supports motorcycles, mountain bikes and road bikes. The well-known Web application Graph Hopper Maps benefits from that. The carried out performance optimizations with Graph Hopper 0.5 have reduced the hardware claims such that more profiles can be offered with the same server hardware of GraphHopper Directions API.
Apparently, most OsmAnd maps are updated only once a month instead of as hitherto approximately three times per month. Torsten Bronger supposed it in OsmAnd-Google Group. We recommend to produce your maps with OsmAndMapCreator by your own.
A new navigation app for Android systems: Pocket Maps based on Mapsforge (offline vector maps) and GraphHopper (routing). Attention: in PlayStore there are two apps with the same name.
The source code of MAPS.MEhas been published under Apache License at Github. The Russian OSM blog reports about it. MAPS.ME is an offline map application based on Qt5 framwork for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux. Teams of Wochennotiz and weeklyOSM are looking for someone who wants to blog at our blog about a hands-on of MAPS.ME and comparison with other OSM-bases offline map applications. Some users at the OsmAnd Google Group think that the rendering engine of MAPS.ME is superior to the OsmAnd rendering engine.
… the JOSM map styles and object templates for Finnish traffic signs? The Dutch community has created its own version.
Other “geo” things
Eric Gundersen, CEO and Tom MacWright are talking for MapBox in an #AMA (Ask Me Anything) the questions of the community. Tom expresses the future of the old MapBox Studio (Classic). We’ll barely spend time in this tool, but will ensure that it will run on new versions of OS X.
Remember kids, Google Maps is better than OpenStreetMap because any prankster can edit OpenStreetMap. ;-)
Beijing is already surrounded by six ring roads, [… ] but the seventh will be 940 kilometers long. How many are 940 km for example along a circle, as the Circular Highway of Milan?) The blog shows how blogger can create web maps to represent their “articles”.
Mapillary is blogging about a big update of their iOS App.
You are looking where Google Maps has an map error? Why don’t you search for “Fehlerbereich” (German for “area with an error”)? You will get to the city center of Dresden, Germany. Do you want to go to Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales? Don’t trust Google! According to BBC, you’ll get to London.
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Can you identify these world cities from their street plans alone?
“NOSOLOSIG” is a free monthly magazin (PDF format) which reports from the field of geographic information technology. Here, the main focus is on reports about free software, events, tutorials in the geographic area.
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