weeklyOSM 275
20/10/2015-26/10/2015
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Mapping
The British company PIE Mapping edited in OSM and the Data Working Group had to interfere via twitter since the mapper ignored comments on the changesets, tweets and emails as well.
Martijn van Exel at Telenav reports in his blog about results obtained during the Flash Map Mob. To visualize results, Martijn used an interesting Overpass Query.
Pratik Yadav writes his diary in light of the previous post by Planemad and MAPconcierge about major road realignment issues in Japan. OSM Japan community is now focusing on fixing roads in Tokyo and surrounding areas.
Arun Ganesh from Mapbox data team shows in his mapping wiki the mapping guides in English and Spanish languages. One can join any of the open mapping projects over the issue queue through this wiki.
Martijn van Exel writes about his first experiences with audio mapping and asks for experiences and advice.
Rory McCann [asks on OSM Help]: “How to tag genitive cases of place names?”
The tag aeroway=heliport was approved. However, no object is tagged as such yet. Danial Koć wonders how the wrongly tagged objects could be corrected.
User species talks about mapping directions on give_way and stop sign nodes
Community
A discussion on YCombinator on why OpenStreetMap is not used more in “public-service mapping projects”.
Mapbox Bengaluru, celebrated International Open Access Week, last week. The week was celebrated with Missing Maps event to collaboratively map parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Also, a data art gallery was organised where the collection of projects made by data activists from India were displayed.
An Interview from OpenCage Data Blog with Mark Iliffe und Geoffrey Kateregga about the State of OSM in Tanzania.
International Business Times interviews Maps.me’s Yury Melnichek
Mikel Maron writes in his blog about the importance of Open data, the enormous speed, to improve the data and about fundamental principals of the community.
Frederik Ramm [suggests strongly] (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-October/074582.html) that one should only post things on a list if the topic is thematically appropriate. WN/weeklyOSM says: “Cross posting is evil.”
“Urban Areas: a (meditation](http://sk53-osm.blogspot.de/2015/10/urban-areas-meditation-on-why-simple.html) on why simple global geographical datasets are so poor” by SK53.
Imports
Federico Cortese announced an import of buildings in Apulia/Süd-Ost-Italien.
Courtney Rieger asks on Imports mailing list if hydrological and hydraulic models could be imported into OSM. She gets no Yes as answer.
Øystein Bjørndal announces an import of daycare facilities for children in Norway. So far nobody contributed feedback on the mailing list. To manage the import, Øystein considers using the POI-Importer tool.
After the start of long-time prepared re-import of all administrative boundaries in Mexico, a lot of trouble occured with the outer border to the USA. Meanwhile the damage has been repaired. Outstanding changes of the boundaries with Guatemala and Belize will be watched carefully.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Ian Dees, Alex Barth, Alyssa Wright, Martijn van Exel und Drishtie Patel are the new boards of OSM-US.
Events
“Teach, Learn and Discover Geography With OpenStreetMap” during Geography Awareness Week, Nov 15-21. You, yes you in schools, colleges, universities, think about to participate. HOT and Missing Maps are aiming for (at least) 100 mapping parties, mapathons, mappy hours and mapternoons happening around the world.
Maps
Kristof Doffing edited antiquated maps from the University Library Darmstadt more specifically from the “tukart collection” so that they can be viewed with the current OSM map. Zoom worth! ;-)
On October 23 Marble announced shipment of the oldest existent historic Globe, the Behaim Globe created around 1492. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg kindly allowed to use the photo scan material under CC BY-SA 3.0.
The longtime extreme mountain biker Stefan “alpenzorro” Stuntz suspects that (regarding outdoor activities) “the time of paper map publisher dinosaurs is over. With OpenStreetMap no-one can compete.”
Benutzer ngyuenc presents a WebGL-based simple simulator using OSM.
Open Data
The historical maps of the US Geological Survey are now largely digitized and downloadable on the USGS site.
Licences
Software
The Marble Project is working on a client-side rendering of OSM data based on vector tiles. The function is currently still under development. There is a guide on how to compile Marble with vector tile support, a guide to produce vector tiles froma PBF file and an info page why one implements a vector tile support.
On October 23rd, 2015 QGIS version 2.12.0 Lyon was released.
Programming
Jean-Baptiste Holcroft announces a Python 3 program that makes it easier to understand what is going on in a changeset. (Example output)
osm2pgsql switched from autotools to cmake.
osm4jis a recently released leightweighted Java framework for working with OSM data.
Other “geo” things
Peter Richardson explains in Mapzen’s blog other than Mercator projections with some Tangram based animated graphics and maps.
MapQuest wants you to love it again. A blog post by NATE SWANNER at TNW News.
Uber (you remember the takeover of Bing Maps), now “starts rolling out its own mapmaking cars”, Edgar Alvares reported at engadget.
Why would you use OpenStreetMap if there is Google Maps? Aleks Buczkowski has very good answers to this question, up to the challenge to acquire the necessary knowledge with LearnOSM.
How wireless carriers are making money on selling your location? A blog post by Aleks Buczkowski explains how to do it.
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