weeklyOSM 401

20/03/2018-26/03/2018

Mapping

• Stéphane Péneau wishes

  

  to crowdfund the conception and production of a GNSS receiver that would be particularly suited for OSM contributions. The ongoing discussion should help to refine the specifications.

• In his diary, Martijn van Exel details the beta of Maproulette 3.0.

• Ilya Zverev (Zverik) posts his analysis of the impact of the new iD release: OSM-based routing engines need to correctly process the increasing number of intersections with “via” nodes and no-U-turn restrictions.

Community

• Mappers from OSM Benin community, in partnership with the French Research Institute for Development and Blolab, drove during the last two weeks the MapAndJerry mapping phase, alternating training and field collection. RFI made a video report

  

  of the event.

• In #400 we reported about “Who Maps the World?”, published on CityLab. In his presentation at FOSSGIS 2018, Frederik Ramm tries to analyse

  

  the gender-relevant facts neutrally and with the knowledge how OSM works and comes to surprising results.

• A thread on the Austrian subforum deals with the possible need of a moderator. In the end, emga and Nakaner were appointed as new moderators.

• User ImreSamu has created test instances of Taginfo and made them available online for testing and feedback.

• To improve the rendering of 3D models in OSM, user n42k created a repository in the last Google Summer of Code (https://3dmr.eu/) where the models are stored. He also wrote a diary entry.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the Membership Working Group meeting of March 20th is online. The main point on the agenda was the setup of an OSMF-owned survey engine.

Events

• From the 22nd till the 24th of June, the 4th OSM Summer Camp and the 10th FOSSGIS Hacking Event

  

  will take place at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.

• Jinal writes a diary post encouraging the OpenStreetMap community to participate in Wikimania 2018 that is happening in Cape Town from July 18th-22nd.

• The call for the venue for the State of the Map 2019 is now open.

Humanitarian OSM

• The HDX (PDF) Dakar Lab reports about last year’s successes. The open platform is responsible for the collection and dissemination of humanitarian data in West Africa. One of the biggest achievements was the automatic integration with the HOT data pool.

• Amelia Hunt reports on the HOT blog about improving access to health facilities in Dar es Salaam. Surveys were conducted among the population. A visualization shows problems and possible solutions. Especially in the field of obstetrics, mobile clinics could make life much easier for the female population in Tanzania.

• During the National Mapathon (translation) in Belgium, around 200 mappers added 1000 km (translation) of roads and 70,000 buildings to the map in Nigeria.

Maps

• kocio-pl prepared a pull request that makes OSM Carto display the name of large bays. The pull request got merged already.

• OpenStreetBrowser has a new view that displays gastronomy POIs, with a different marker according to their smoking policy.

switch2OSM

• The German national news service Tagesschau has created a news atlas on OpenStreetMap basis, which shows 24-hour news.

Releases

• The osm-carto team has published a new monthly release of this style (v4.9.0), with 2 times more changes than usual. Some of them are pretty important, like long-awaited towers and masts redesign, new rendering for gardens or rendering place=square labels.

Did you know …

• … the Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit, in short CyIPT? It’s a toolkit that identifies the best places to put new cycle infrastructure.

OSM in the media

• The OpenStreetMap community in Chile has tweeted that OSM data can now be seen daily in the official news and on their Facebook page.

• A magazine of the Italian public broadcaster (RAI) featured a segment on the open data world, featuring OpenStreetMap and an interview with Maurizio ‘napo’ Napolitano.

Other “geo” things

• After ‘fake news’ now fake destinations on road signs.

• The tree management software ImmoSpector tree lists

  

  OpenStreetMap among the possible map background layers. This software aims at monitoring tree cadasters with online tools.

• Geolounge published a review of Walter Goffart’s “Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870”, praising its high accuracy and readability.

• The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket produced circular shock waves in the ionosphere that could lead to GPS errors of about 1 metre.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-04-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-04-04
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-04-05
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-04-05
Solothurn	2018 SOSM AGM and mapping party	2018-04-07
Rennes	Cartographie des rivières	2018-04-08
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-04-09
Toronto	Mappy Hour	2018-04-09
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-04-10
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-04-10
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-04-10
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-04-10
Cologne	Köln Stammtisch	2018-04-11
Berlin	118. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-04-13
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第18回 本郷大横丁通り商店街	2018-04-14
Berlin	Berlin Hack Weekend April 2018	2018-04-14-2018-04-15
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)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

This weeklyOSM was produced by Anne Ghisla, Nakaner, Polyglot, rogehm, Spanholz, Spec80, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, sev_osm.
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