weeklyOSM 626

12/07/2022-18/07/2022

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OSMTagChallenge [1] © Jean-Louis Zimmermann | map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

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Mapping campaigns

  • User sahilister reported, in his blog, about his systematic mapping of schools in Chandigarh, North India.

Mapping

  • LuxuryCoop presented (ko) > en use cases for the place tag in Korea and suggestions for improvement.

Community

  • Hayden Clarkin discovered that using overpass turbo makes it easy to analyse parking space land use, and asked how to find other cool OSM tools.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Maps

  • European deputy Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg, made official (de) / (fr) > en the Bio.Vélo.Route., a cycle route from Stuttgart to Strasbourg celebrating the 60th anniversary of their town twinning. As shown on the website, the route made full use of OpenStreetMap data through Komoot and uMap. A route relation stub has been created and may benefit from contributions along it.
  • Tracestrack has released an Osm-Carto/OpenTopoMap hybrid map style. With a demo page using Mapbox Globe, it shows the OSM-Carto style enriched with colour relief, hill shades and contour lines from OpenTopoMap. As a background layer, various existing label layers can be overlaid.

Programming

  • Sarah Hoffmann described how type annotations have been added to Nominatim’s Python code in order to improve software maintainability, and also explained some lessons she learned in the process.
  • korobkov outlined a five-step workflow which allows you to quickly complete a series of similar MapRoulette tasks for OpenStreetMap using the keyboard only, with little to no manual intervention, in a matter of seconds per task via browser automation plug-ins using regular expressions.
  • PhysicsArmature suggested a design for a JOSM extension to map a large area of something that has distinct colour.

Did you know …

  • … there is a video on working with Mapillary and RapiD?
  • … all of the ways to join the OpenStreetMap Foundation?
  • [1] … OSMTagChallenge (fr) > en? OSMTagChallenge (by Jean-Marie Favreau of the University of Clermont-Ferrand) is a daily tagging challenge at noon UTC to collectively find the most appropriate tags for rare objects recorded in France. The code is available on GitHub.
  • … on UN Mappers’ Instagram stories you can find quick guides with helpful tips on how to map roads, buildings and waterways?

Other “geo” things

  • Qiusheng Wu presented a new feature of geemap: calling 3rd-party #EarthEngine JavaScript libraries from Python, built upon the Open Earth Engine Library (OEEL) from Mathieu Gravey. For example, running the JS grid module by Gennadii Donchyts.
  • OpenCage Geocoder shared their insights about commonly unknown geographical facts about France.
  • Christopher Beddow wrote about the possibilities unlocked by Visual Positioning Systems (VPS), citing the developer tools and latest features from Google ARCore and Niantic Lightship on his Worldbuilder blog.
  • In what is essentially an advertisement for the UK’s Ordnance Survey, the Guardian reported that three-quarters of UK adults can’t read a map and gave readers hints on how to get better at it.

Upcoming Events

Where What Online When Country
大阪市 ひがよどの街を世界にシェア #01 osmcalpic 2022-07-23 flag
京都市 京都!街歩き!マッピングパーティ:第32回 妙心寺 osmcalpic 2022-07-24 flag
Plano Piloto State of the Map Brasil 2022 (online) – Sessão 1 osmcalpic 2022-07-27 flag
Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen osmcalpic 2022-07-27 flag
[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting osmcalpic 2022-07-28
臺北市 COSCUP 2022 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 聯合議程軌 osmcalpic 2022-07-30 flag
iD for Beginner Training osmcalpic 2022-07-30
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires 4a reunión bimestral de OSM Latam (organiza OSM Argentina) osmcalpic 2022-07-30 flag
Ernakulam OSM Kerala Community Meetup 2022 osmcalpic 2022-07-31 flag
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting osmcalpic 2022-08-01
MapRoulette Monthly Community Meeting osmcalpic 2022-08-02
Stuttgart Stuttgarter Stammtisch osmcalpic 2022-08-02 flag
San Jose South Bay Map Night osmcalpic 2022-08-03 flag
London Missing Maps London Mapathon osmcalpic 2022-08-02 flag
Salt Lake City OSM Utah Monthly Meetup osmcalpic 2022-08-04 flag
OSM Africa August Mapathon: Map Rwanda osmcalpic 2022-08-06
新北市 OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團 #3 osmcalpic 2022-08-07 flag
Washington MappingDC Mappy Hour osmcalpic 2022-08-10 flag
Hamburg Hamburger Mappertreffen osmcalpic 2022-08-09 flag
Köln 25. Stammtisch Köln osmcalpic 2022-08-10 flag
München Münchner OSM-Treffen osmcalpic 2022-08-10 flag
Salt Lake City OSM Utah Monthly Meetup osmcalpic 2022-08-11 flag
Zürich 143. OSM-Stammtisch osmcalpic 2022-08-11 flag

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Nordpfeil, PierZen, SK53, SomeoneElse, Guillaume Rischard (Stereo), TheSwavu, derFred.