weekly 220– 30.09.-06.10.2014

30.09. – 06.10.2014

Talk, Forum, Wiki & Blog

In the OpenCageData blog you can read an interview with a mapper who speaks mainly about mapping in crisis areas.
User jgruca suggests to use relations for sculptures with multiple pieces.
This advertisement on the side of a tram in Toronto features a large map from OpenStreetMap!
One of the oldest OSM Live Tracker is back.
Call for papers: The CFP für die AAG 2015 (Association of American Geographers) is looking for OpenStreetMap Studies: Research Perspectives on a Decade of OSM.
User Malenki returned from hiking with Mapillary and talks about the results and his experiences.
Mapbox describes extensively how they identified areas that need better tracking in OpenStreetMap.
User Dakon wrote a program to show fire hydrants, water tanks and emergency access points.
A blogpost about the “Berlin, Berlin Bug”.
Two MapRoulette challenges completed! (via Twitter)
An OpenStreetMap community campaign to donate money to the Ada Initiative.
Peter Richardson blogs about 3D buildings in OSM.
User Tallguy talks about the Mapthon in London.

A Presentation shows how OSM contributes to handling the Ebola-crisis and the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).

[1] The city of Mülheim an der Ruhr shows open Wlan-Hotspots on an OSM map.
Katy DeCorah replaced the boring markers by Emojis.
mapcil is a new service for individual information-overlays, developed by Küstenschmiede GmbH, the producers of einsatzkarte.de
Half of the mankind lives in this circle.

Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak is pondering how to map frontages in OSM when they have different colours at different heights.

… that Pocket Earth for iOS uses OSM-data (even offline 😉 ). (via@TheFive_osm)

OSMfocus is a new Android app to show detailed data on OSM objects.
Nominatim released the new version 2.3.
OpenDroneMap is a free and open source software for post-processing from unreferenced overlapping photos to an unreferenced point cloud, dedicated to “civilian (and humanitarian?) UAS/UAV”.