Wilmer Osario wrote ► in his diary about re-drawing and improving 90 km of the Caracas-La Guaira Highway, by hand, from scratch, in JOSM. He explained in detail how he did it, adding an impressive number of screenshots to visualise every step. It is like an user manual for mappers who may be planning to do similar things.
Community
adreamy has made a Telegram sticker set. offering a more fun and comfortable way for OSM contributors to communicate. He noted that sticker images can be exchanged, so if you have a good image or idea, let him know and he’ll take it into consideration.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
Grant Slater, the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s Senior Site Reliability Engineer, reflected on the advancements made during his first year of work. Collaboration by Grant with the Operations Working Group has boosted OSM’s infrastructure documentation, reliability, and security. Also, a new Dev server was installed and the old forums migrated to Discourse.
Events
Pete Masters (Head of Community at HOT) blogged that the former HOT unSummit has been renamed HOT OpenSummit.
Education
Anne Schauß, from HeiGIT, held a training session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). She showcased the Sketch Map Tool (with functionality similar to Field Papers), that helps collect geolocated field data by tracing with pen and paper. Either OpenStreetMap (OSM) or an image is printed as the background.
Maps
#geoObserverreviewed►Shadowmap, an application that simulates the movement of shadows. The app can predict the direction of shadows at any given time and place using astronomical calculations of the sun’s movements combined with building data from OpenStreetMap.
Open Data
Arno Dagnelies highlighted the lack of a high-quality source of address data for the whole world and presented his OpenStreetData project. To achieve global coverage with high-quality, open-licensed data, the author extracts addresses from raw OpenStreetMap data, along with postcodes, street names, and administrative districts. Arno describes in detail the process of address processing and the difficulties he encountered.
Software
The GeoVisio team, which includes contributors from OSM-fr, has developed an open-source streetview platform.
yuiseki improved the performance of the Trident GeoAI, which is based on a large language model. You can enter your requirements, and then see the results in this futuristic interface map.
Programming
gislars, from the Traffic Flow and OpenStreetMap group, tooted a new analysis and map of parking spaces in Braunschweig as part of the project ‘Parking Analysis with OpenStreetMap’.
Did you know …
… that the WikiShootMe application can display the location of Wikidata items around you in the form of a map?
… how to use exiftool in order to get the GPS coordinates from an image’s Exif header, in a format which is recognised by OpenStreetMap’s search?
… how to set up OsmAnd quick actions to have your favourite features on the map for fast access?
Other “geo” things
Rémy Crassard and his colleagues have found several plans of desert kites (hunting or herding traps) carved into rocks in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Thought to have been made in the Neolithic era, these engravings are among the oldest scale plans found so far.
Ursula Petula Barzey explained the various indigenous names of some Caribbean Islands that were used prior to European colonisation.
Upcoming Events
Where
What
Online
When
Country
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Hasiru Aqua
24-Hour Mapathon
2023-05-26 – 2023-05-27
左營區
2023年5月 OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團
2023-05-27
Tiranë
Maproulette Challenge at Open Labs Albania
2023-05-27
Singapore
OG Training by HOTOSM AP-Hub
OSM ON THE GO: OSM MOBILE APPLICATIONS
2023-05-27
MapRoulette Nights
2023-05-28
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting
2023-05-31
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen
2023-05-31
Bologna
Alluvione dell’Emilia-Romagna: editathon e mapping party al Salaborsa Lab
2023-06-03
Mosquera
Mapea por Mosquera
2023-06-04
Mosquera
Resolución de notas en tiempo real – Real-time note resolution
2023-06-04
MapRoulette Nights
2023-06-04
MapRoulette Monthly Community Meeting
2023-06-06
Missing Maps London Mapathon
2023-06-06
San Jose
South Bay Map Night
✓
2023-06-07
OSM-Verkehrswende #48
2023-06-06
Stuttgart
Stuttgarter Stammtisch
2023-06-07
Richmond
State of the Map United States 2023
2023-06-08 – 2023-06-11
Rīga
State of the Map Baltics 2023
2023-06-08 – 2023-06-09
Windsor
MapRoulette-A-Thon
2023-06-09
München
Münchner OSM-Treffen
2023-06-08
Marseille
State of the Map France 2023
2023-06-09 – 2023-06-11
Berlin
180. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch – 15 Jahre – mit der Wikipedia-Community
2023-06-09
Zürich
OSM-Stammtisch
2023-06-10
Hannover
OSM-Stammtisch Hannover
2023-06-10
Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.
Some entries in the Upcoming Events table aren’t correctly formatted. In the first row, for example, the date is in the country column.
Thank you for your hint! It seems the pipe character from the title of the event screws up our markdown. That’s good to know!
With regard to Open-Data by Arno Dagnelies (to which I could not find a way to contact)
Hello Arnaud, I extracted the streets of Hannover (Germany). The house numbers of Steubenweg 2, 2A – 2F are missing. They are part of the individual buildings. The number 1, 1A – 1F and others are individual points in a block of buildings and can be found in the data. Kind regards Lutz
Some entries in the Upcoming Events table aren’t correctly formatted. In the first row, for example, the date is in the country column.
Thank you for your hint! It seems the pipe character from the title of the event screws up our markdown. That’s good to know!
With regard to Open-Data by Arno Dagnelies (to which I could not find a way to contact)
Hello Arnaud,
I extracted the streets of Hannover (Germany). The house numbers of Steubenweg 2, 2A – 2F are missing. They are part of the individual buildings. The number 1, 1A – 1F and others are individual points in a block of buildings and can be found in the data.
Kind regards
Lutz