ENT8R has developed a website called Notes Review. It enables you to perform a full text search of OSM Notes and view them quickly.
Following up his earlier message about mapping underrepresented features (reported earlier) Rory McCann has launched a survey via the Diversity mailing list to select suitable topics for quarterly challenges.
Robert C. Danziger (user RCD49) asks mappers not to use satellite imagery to map Larabanga, Ghana, as they are outdated. He has also prepared a wiki page with the current mapping workflow and tips on how/what to map remotely.
Pascal Neis updated his “Find Suspicious OpenStreetMap Changesets” with new indicators.
Vote on the public transport hail and rideproposal until April 24th.
Community
Pascal Neis mentions on Twitter that changeset 51820940 is the one that had the most comments (113). The issue is that Belarusian is the official language on the ground in Minsk, Belarus, but the local population speaks Russian there, so all the names were added in Russian in the name tags.
Dominique (@dominique_hoavo) presents on Twitter a review of the Girls Map for Togo initiative (#GirlsMap4Tg) that occurred April 11th to 13th.
User Escada interviewed Andrew Harvey from Australia for his Mapper of the Month series.
Jakub Klaučo explains how he created a high-resolution world map poster, using Python and TileMill. He is currently accepting suggestions on how to wrap around the 180th meridian.
Daniel Begin, Rodolphe Devillers and Stéphane Roche published a paper called The life cycle of contributors in collaborative online communities - the case of OpenStreetMap in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. The paper published in 2018 is based on a four-year old full history planet dump.
Imports
Cascafico Giovanni wants to import petrol stations in Italy from an official source.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
The Data Working Group has published its Activity Report for the last quarter of 2017.
OSM US has engaged Allen Gunn to help them find an executive director.
Events
The Call for Proposals and Call for Scholarships for State of the Map Asia, happening in Bengaluru this year on the 17th-18th of November, is out. You can submit your proposals by the 10th of June 2018 midnight UTC.
The call for venue for the State of the Map 2019 is open until May 6th. So far only Tunis has applied.
Humanitarian OSM
Fred Moine informsthat he conducted a training in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo) at the initiative of OSM-Kinshasa to develop a local community there. He thanks “Les Géographes libres” for the training material.
Blake Girardot rounds up a few tweets @hotosm over the last weekend.
switch2OSM
lib.reviews, a free, open and not-for-profit review platform, now extracts and synchronises map labels from the OSM database. A Reddit thread comments the news.
Open Data
The beta version of the Wheelmap now includes information about the operating status of elevators and escalators of Deutsche Bahn. (via Twitter)
Programming
In the previous issue we reported on Arne Johannessen’s thesis on the generalisation of roads. A small discussion about generalization in general has started on the osm-dev mailing list as a result.
Leaflet developers are considering to drop support for versions 8 to 10 of Internet Explorer.
Andy Allan posts about his work on refactoring the code of osm.org, so that it will be easier to add new features: This should help to attract new developers.
The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) released a new open source microservice for searching OSM points of interest (POI) through specifying feature-buffers, polygons or bounding box. It returns GeoJSON features or simple statistics of categories. Are there any Python developers interested in contributing?
Releases
Komoot’s open geocoder Photon reaches version 0.3.0, which includes major updates of software dependencies and a number of improvements on reverse geocoding, house number handling and location bias computing.
Other “geo” things
Jessica Sena posts the process behind the Streets of Women (#LasCallesDeLasMujeres), a project by GeoChicas using Mapbox and NamSor APIs.
Páraic and Pearse McGloughlin created “Arena”, a mesmerising film made with satellite imagery from Google Earth.
Despite Australia’s rather accurate mapping on OSM, some people insist on believing it doesn’t actually exist. This theory is only the last of many conspiracies or jokes that deny the existence of countries and cities around the world, listed in this article from The Guardian.
Mapillary announces a new, 15 million USD round of investment with BMW i Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and NavInfo joining in as investors.
Upcoming Events
Where
What
When
Country
Shizuoka
静岡！街歩かない！マッピングパーティ２
2018-04-22
Bremen
Bremer Mappertreffen
2018-04-23
Grenoble
Atelier Cartographie de terrain
2018-04-23
Nottingham
Pub Meetup
2018-04-24
Essen
Mappertreffen
2018-04-25
Dusseldorf
Stammtisch
2018-04-25
Departamento del Cauca
Popayán
2018-04-25
Lübeck
Lübecker Mappertreffen
2018-04-26
Graz
Grazer Linuxtage
2018-04-27-2018-04-28
Bochum
OSM Einführungsworkshop für Anfänger mit praktischer Umsetzung
2018-04-28
Rome
Incontro mensile
2018-04-30
Toulouse
Réunion mensuelle
2018-05-02
Montreal
Les Mercredis cartographie
2018-05-02
Stuttgart
Stuttgarter Stammtisch
2018-05-02
Bochum
Mappertreffen
2018-05-03
Dresden
Stammtisch Dresden
2018-05-03
Urspring
Stammtisch Ulmer Alb
2018-05-03
Grenoble
Missing Maps mapathon
2018-05-03
Dortmund
Mappertreffen
2018-05-06
Arlon
Réunion au Pays d’Arlon
2018-05-08
Munich
Münchner Stammtisch
2018-05-09
deutscher Mumble-Server
öffentliche Vorstandssitzung FOSSGIS e.V.
2018-05-09
Berlin
119. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch
2018-05-10
Shiki
東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第19回 出張編 小江戸と浅草の中継点「志木」
2018-05-12
Kyoto
幕末京都マッピングパーティ#04：薩摩藩士と寺田屋騒動
2018-05-12
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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