weeklyOSM 675

20/06/2023-26/06/2023

Mapping

• EnumMapper has posted a diary with links to two videos that show tracing the process of highway and mountain woods with a drawing tablet.
• Mateusz Konieczny has documented, on the OSM Wiki, the shop=eggs tag, for a shop selling only or primarily this specific type of food.
• The line_arrangement=* proposal for mapping the arrangement of power lines is now open for voting until Wednesday 5 July.

Community

• Andrii Holovin has shared an implementation of multilanguage support for Switch2OSM that is ready to use. This implementation includes extra features like a day/night theme switcher, search functionality, and syntax highlighting. He has also set up a Transifex project for translations and is open to helping with integrating this work into the main repository.
• InfosReseaux wrote a blogpost to improve awareness about the importance of tagging. They explained how the tagging scheme is at least as valuable as the data in OpenStreetMap.
• Mikko Tamura shared the work of RainbOSM, MapBeks, and the HOT Open Mapping Hub Asia Pacific on ways to celebrate Pride Month on OpenStreetMap with LGBTQ+ themed tags and advice in making your mapathons LGBTQ+ friendlier.
• Rtnf reported that the ‘OSM Cultural Spheres Group’ was launched on Telegram. As a community for OSM contributors with limited English proficiency, everyone there is encouraged to speak their own native language.
• Tobias Jordans blogged about generating aerial imagery from 360° point clouds and compared it to using phone lidar technology.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Mateusz Konieczny is updating the list of OpenStreetMap map data users found to be in violation of the licence and is seeking help in reviewing the list.

Local chapter news

• Following an informal AGM held during SotM France ► on 10 June, the statutory AGM ► of the OSM France association was held online on Friday 30 June at 9 pm. A new 12-member Board of Directors was elected for a one-year term.

Events

• Video footage of the State of the Map France 2023 has been released. These videos are available on peertube .

Maps

• MapTiler noted that MapTiler Outdoor has long-distance trails visible on higher zoom levels to help you plan your summer bike trip.
• Steve Attewell is developing a place-finding AI chatbot using OpenStreetMap data. The app is still in development and has not yet been released to the public.

switch2OSM

• [1] User Diogo Baptista announced, on the Telegram channel of the OSMPortugal group, that MobiCascais ► is using OSM on its public transport network. MobiCascais is the integrated sustainable mobility management system of the Portuguese town of Cascais, based on an integrated platform of various public transport service operators (buses, taxis, bicycles, car parks, and charging stations for electric vehicles).

Programming

• Oliver Spies wrote an article about how to use OpenStreetMap data for self-hosted, self-styled, privacy-friendly interactive web maps using vector tiles. For many websites this approach may be an alternative to using Google Maps.

Releases

• The release of the OSM Element Vectorisation Tool (OEV) by GIScience Heidelberg (we reported earlier) was accompanied by a
  presentation of possible use cases and specific examples of what the OEV tool can do, as well as a video podcast discussing OSM, data quality, and using the tool. The OEV provides high-resolution data insights into the OSM database by creating a multi-layered view of the data.

Other “geo” things

• The Direção Regional do Ordenamento do Território of the Autonomous Region of Madeira in Portugal is capturing ► aerial imagery of Madeira, Porto Santo, and Desertas, enabling the maps of these Portuguese territories to be updated.
• Tomas Pueyo explained how maps distort our perception of the world.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Prizren	FOSS4G		2023-06-26 – 2023-07-02
中正區	TomTom x OpenStreeetMap Taiwan Mapping Meetup		2023-06-30
Gárdony	OSM Fonó marathon: Short editing introduction and remote help (online, live)		2023-06-30
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen		2023-06-30
烏日區	2023年7月 OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團		2023-07-02
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2023-07-04 – 2030-07-04
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2023-07-05
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #49	✓	2023-07-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen		2023-07-05
Rulles	OpenStreetMap Belgium – Réunion à Marbehan		2023-07-06
København	OSMmapperCPH		2023-07-09
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #54		2023-07-10
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2023-07-11
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2023-07-11
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2023-07-12
Berlin	181. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2023-07-13
Bochum	OpenStreetMap-Stammtisch Bochum		2023-07-13
Montrouge	Rencontre contributeurs Sud de Paris		2023-07-13

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