weeklyOSM 623

21/06/2022-27/06/2022

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Enock Seth Nyamador raised some concerns about the quality of YouthMappers’ edits in Ghana.
SK53 noted that in a number of countries Bing imagery in the iD editor is very out-of-date (5 years old or more). This appears to be the result of a recent change in iD’s code, and is discussed on GitHub.
Tobias Zwick wrote about another small project he will be working on over the next few months. It is made possible by an NLNet NGI Zero Discovery grant. Topic: how to improve and complete maxspeed=* data in OSM, including inferring default speed limits.
Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
- amenity=monastery for mapping monasteries and tagging subtypes.
- mtb:scale:aMTB=* to tag the difficulty of a trail for adaptive mountain bike cyclists.
- *:note=* to prefer using note as a suffix, rather than a prefix.
- Namespaces for key prefixes and suffixes to create Template:KeyPrefixDescription and Template:KeySuffixDescription templates for use on the wiki.
Voting on amenity=library_dropoff, for mapping a place where library patrons can return or drop off books, other than the library itself, is open until Friday 8 July.
The proposal for the improved tagging of neighbourhood places (place=*) in Japan was approved with 14 votes for, 1 vote against, and 1 abstention.

The OSM Tech Twitter account conducted a poll on whether OpenStreetMap should consider publishing a quarterly electronic newsletter. Although, at present, the poll is favourable, the thread highlights that there are a number of obstacles in producing such a newsletter.

The deadline for submitting a poster for this year’s State of the Map conference is Sunday 31 July.

Lilly Tinzmann reported that there have been features added to the Ohsome Quality Analyst, a data quality analysis tool for OSM accessible via a web interface. The new features include the ability to retrieve HTML snippets with a visual representation of the indicator results and expanded data input options.
Sarah Hoffmann blogged about the current status of postcodes in OpenStreetMap, explaining their usefulness and offering a QA layer for incorrectly formatted postcodes.
Visit Sights offers suggestions for self-guided sightseeing tours by foot around the world – based on OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. For each city there is also an overview with individual sights including a map.

[1] … Qwant-Maps? We last reported on Qwant-Maps in July 2019. The map has been developed further since then. It draws on Tripadvisor for hotels and restaurants, and also links to Wikipedia, thus providing significant added value.
… Martijn van Exel has a bash script to create a vintage OpenStreetMap tile server?
… that Jason Davies, one of the contributors to the D3 graphics package, created a webpage demonstrating several dozen map projections of the Earth with smooth transitions between each?

Ariel Kadouri saw that a road in Google Maps was renamed incorrectly. Something that is said to be a problem of an open system like OSM, not a closed system like Google Maps, which is not true evidently. Noel Hidalgo said he had a friend who filed a ticket at Google, which solved the issue after about 36 hours.
User F-5 System made a pilgrimage to a chapel at the reputed source of the Lena River in Northern Russia. It turns out that, as with many large rivers, the source is a contentious issue.

Where	What	Online	When
Washington	A Synesthete’s Atlas (Washington, DC)		2022-07-01
Essen	17. OSM-FOSSGIS-Communitytreffen		2022-07-01 – 2022-07-03
	OSM Africa July Mapathon: Map Liberia		2022-07-01
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-07-04
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #42		2022-07-04
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-07-06
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-07-05
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #37 (Online)	✓	2022-07-05
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-07-07
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali		2022-07-06
Fremantle	Social Mapping Sunday: Fremantle		2022-07-10
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-07-12
Berlin	Missing Maps – GRC Online Mapathon		2022-07-12
20095	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2022-07-12
London	London pub meet-up		2022-07-12
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-07-12
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-07-14
	153. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-07-19
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-07-19
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-07-19