Dave Swarthout inquired on the Tagging mailing list whether scenic=yes could be an appropriate attribute for rivers in the United States with the status “National Wild and Scenic River”.
Mapbox released a dataset of 10,400 turn restrictions at 5,200 road junctions. Machine learning vision models were applied to Bing Streetside imagery to detect the turn restrictions. Mapbox has acquired the rights to contribute this data to OSM.
User Glassman tried to contact the company Milestone Inc. in Santa Clara (California) regarding low-quality OSM edits with the purpose of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). As the company didn’t answer, Glassman tweeted about the issue.
User Alexos set up a coordination page for the update of regional railway relations in Eastern France. The grouping of regional railway service under the new company “TER Grand Est” took place in September 2017.
Till Adams features the app StreetComplete on the Terrestris blog.
Community
Andrew Wiseman from Apple has written to some of the South American mailing lists including the one for Ecuador that his company is willing to help improving missing roads, road connections and classifications or GPS trackings in these countries. For this purpose he has opened a project on GitHub.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
The nomination period for candidates in the OSM US board elections was extended so that more candidates could come forward. There are now six candidates for five seats.
Events
The deadline for submission of proposals for talks, lightning talks and sessions for the State of the Map 2018 in Milan, Italy (28-30 July) is 18 February. Papers for the academic track have a separate, later, deadline.
The monthly mapping party of Brisbane, Australia will take place on February 10th in Beaudesert, one hour away from Brisbane.
OSM was present at FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels (Belgium) with a meeting organised by OSM-Belgium and several talks in the geospatial devroom, for which both slides and videos are available.
The Austrian communist-leaning blog “Unsere Zeitung” reported (translation) about the benefits of HOT and Missing Maps for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
switch2OSM
From version 4.2.4, the “DJI Go” app uses maps from Mapbox. There’s a discussion on the DJI forum about how they compare to previous ones (from HERE and Google).
Following on from the announcement of the shutdown of its services, Mapzen announces how long-term support will be handled for its maps, basemap designs, and the vector and terrain tile data. It also provides detailed instructions on how to update Mapzen-based projects with the new endpoints. The geocoding team is currently working on the successor to Mapzen’s Pelias, geocode.earth.
Paul Norman continues his series of diary reposts from his blog, by describing how to download and build a custom style (here OpenStreetMap Carto) for OSM data.
OSM in the media
La Prensa published (translation) an article about the updates on the Nicaraguan public transportation map created by Mapanica, the Nicaraguan OSM community.
Other “geo” things
Warren Davison shows in Esri’s official blog how he designed a map of his hometown to look like a “historical” map.
The Berlin Morgenpost newspaper lets you test your knowledgeabout the course of the Berlin Wall on a map created by means of Mapbox, OSM and Leaflet. An 1989 aerial photo of the Wall can be viewed afterwards.
Upcoming Events
Where
What
When
Country
Berlin
116. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch
2018-02-09
near Brisbane
Beaudesert Mapping Party
2018-02-10
Tokyo
東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第16回 赤坂氷川神社
2018-02-10
Rennes
Cartographie humanitaire
2018-02-11
Lyon
Rencontre libre mensuelle
2018-02-13
Nantes
Réunion mensuelle
2018-02-13
Munich
Münchner Stammtisch
2018-02-14
Toulouse
Réunion mensuelle
2018-02-14
Zurich
Stammtisch Zürich
2018-02-14
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe Hack Weekend February 2018
2018-02-17-2018-02-18
La Riche
Ubuntu Party #3
2018-02-17
Otaru
小樽マッピングパーティー
2018-02-17
Takatsuki
OpenStreetMap Frontier #01
2018-02-17
Rome
FOSS4G-IT 2018
2018-02-19-2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport
Bonner Stammtisch
2018-02-20
Derby
Pub Meetup
2018-02-20
Lüneburg
Lüneburger Mappertreffen
2018-02-20
Karlsruhe
Stammtisch
2018-02-21
Lübeck
Lübecker Mappertreffen
2018-02-22
Hasselt
OSMBE Meetup
2018-02-22
Moscow
Schemotechnika 14
2018-02-22
Urspring
Stammtisch Ulmer Alb
2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport
FOSSGIS 2018
2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin
MERGE-it
2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań
State of the Map Poland 2018
2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station
FOSS4G-fr 2018
2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux
State of the Map France 2018
2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan
State of the Map 2018 (international conference)
2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam
FOSS4G 2018
2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru
State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)
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