weeklyOSM 597

21/12/2021-27/12/2021

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About us

  • The weeklyOSM team thanks you for your interest and we wish you a Happy New Year.

Mapping

  • Many people use navigation devices for their hiking trips and many navigation devices are based on OSM data. In OSM, however, official hiking trails are not distinguished from ‘unauthorised routes’. To help fix this problem OSM US has set up a Trails Working Group.
  • Cristoffs, in his diary, described (pl) / (en) OpenStreetMap Poland’s latest project to map AEDs (defibrillators) in Poland.

Imports

  • Okada Tsuneo plans to import the bus stops around Hiroshima City, Japan. More information can be found on the wiki.
  • The Spain OpenStreetMap community is carrying out an import project. The objective is to add buildings and addresses in parts of the country where they are not present, or to improve data if they already exist. They have recently started preparing a series of video tutorials explaining how to participate in the import. The first video is already available on YouTube (es) ((en) subtitles available).

Education

Software

  • HOT is inviting (es) > en the Latin American OSM community and surrounding open source communities to join the initial team at HOT’s Open Mapping Hub Latin America. A team with very diverse skills is sought. You are invited to apply, whether you have one or several competencies, and a little or a lot of availability.
  • Stephan Bösch-Plepelits (user skunk) has added a new category to the OpenStreetBrowser. It now shows all listed heritage objects that are correctly tagged in OpenStreetMap. Stephan has also created (de) > en a web application that helps in tagging listed objects in Austria and Berlin, Germany.

Did you know …

  • everystreetchallenge, a service for calculating the shortest route to travel all of the streets in your area? It will help you plan how to Burb any area up to 3 km² in size.
  • … you can search OpenStreetMap mail lists using The Mail Archive? See the FAQ for the search syntax.
  • Map Composer (de) > en, a graphical application in Java, for creating topographic maps from OpenStreetMap data?
  • … rene78 has tweaked a version of Martin Raifer’s Latest Changes on OpenStreetMap? Rene’s version can be used on mobile devices.

Other “geo” things

  • A Google Street View car got stuck (pl) > en in the mud in the Carpathian foothills.
  • How long would you have to wait for the fire brigade to arrive in Germany? This map of journey times (de) > en was created using OSM data.
  • Alasdair Rae has used Copernicus elevation data to animate how Western Europe would flood with rising sea levels.

Upcoming Events

WhereWhatOnlineWhenCountry
LondonMissing Maps London Mapathon osmcalpic2022-01-04flag
BerlinOSM-Verkehrswende #31 (Online) osmcalpic2022-01-04flag
Landau an der IsarVirtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen osmcalpic2022-01-04flag
StuttgartStuttgarter Stammtisch (Online) osmcalpic2022-01-04flag
GárdonyMapathon: mapping tobacco shops in Hungary based on Mapillary (online) osmcalpic2022-01-05flag
臺北市OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #36 osmcalpic2022-01-10flag
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting osmcalpic2022-01-10
Helechosa de los MontesReunión mensual de la comunidad española osmcalpic2022-01-11flag
MichiganMichigan Meetup osmcalpic2022-01-13flag
BochumOSM-Treffen Bochum (Januar) ONLINE osmcalpic2022-01-13flag
Berlin163. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch osmcalpic2022-01-13flag
LyonEPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition osmcalpic2022-01-15flag
HilversumOSGeo.nl/OSM-NL/QGIS-NL Nieuwjaars Borrel osmcalpic2022-01-16flag
147.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn osmcalpic2022-01-18

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, Nordpfeil, PierZen, SK53, TheSwavu, YoViajo, conradoos, derFred.