highway=cyclist_waiting_aid, to map street furniture and devices for cyclists that are intended to make waiting more comfortable, until Tuesday 21 November.
historic=millstone, to map a large round stone used for grinding grain, until Wednesday 29 November.
The vote on highway=ladder has closed, with the proposal being approved with 20 votes for, 1 vote against, and 3 abstentions
Community
Binnette reported on a mapping party in the Saint-Barthélemy-de-Séchilienne region of France. This event was supported by OpenStreetMap France and the mayor Gilles Strappazzon as the local government representative. You can find the full report on this event with lots of ‘before and after’ pictures on GitHub.
dentonny was selected as OpenStreetMap Belgium’s Mapper of the Month.
Probelnijs wondered why maps.me is well known while no one seems to know OpenStreetMap.
Gladys Aguilar, a dedicated language teacher shaping urban mobility in Cochabamba, Bolivia, has been honored as the Trufi Association’s Volunteer of the Month.
Events
Ilya Zverev released live coverage of the State of the Map EU 2023 event on his Telegram channel. One of the topics he covered was the OpenStreetMap community’s response to OvertureMaps’ presentation.
Christian Quest, founding member of the French OpenStreetMap local chapter, introduced the Panoramax project during the State of the Map EU 2023 event. Panoramax is a decentralised and federated project to collect and share ground level imagery under open licences.
Education
Students participating in live UN Mappers courses can obtain a Certificate of Completion, which recognises the skills acquired. Each student receives personal feedback on the OSM edits, which verifies the quality of the mapping. Courses are announced on UN Mappers social media channels and the courses (Basics and Advanced) can be accessed on the UN Maps Learning Hub at any time (although certification is currently only available for live courses).
Maps
The 30DayMapChallenge 2023 on Mastodon, LinkedIn, X, and BlueSky continues.
It is not possible to adequately acknowledge the multitude of outstanding works. The selection we make is purely random and not an evaluation. Please take a look at the works yourself. The hashtag #30DayMapChallenge will help you.
Juan Jose Iglesias reported that the OpenStreetMap Analytics service (osm-analytics.org) will soon be shut down. Users are advised to switch to a similar alternative service managed by HeiGIT.
Bldrwnsch is a map by Simon Legner based on OpenStreetMap, which shows objects from the German Wikipedia with an image request. The objects themselves are not part of OSM. Bldrwnsch is open source and uses Typescript and Python code.
A free online course in English on public transport mapping has been launched by the Trufi Association and Mobility Hub.
Open Data
Vikki released a collection of the open data sources that she has used while participating in the #30DayMapChallenge.
Software
David Karlaš wrote about how to add additional buttons to the OpenStreetMap website using the Tampermonkey browser add-on.
Did you know …
…that you can access a map of surveillance camera locations (man_made=surveillance) using the Surveillance under Surveillance web app?
Other “geo” things
OpenCage has released a geo URI QR code generator. When the QR code is scanned the user’s default mapping application opens to the encoded coordinates.
The jigsaw puzzle of an OpenStreetMap map of the Belgian territory, featured at the State of the Map Europe 2023 event, has been successfully completed.
Upcoming Events
Where
What
Online
When
Country
Budapest
Budapest : 2023 November OSM meetup
2023-11-13 – 2023-11-20
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City Monthly Map Night
2023-11-16
Richmond
MapRVA Meetup
2023-11-16
แขวงพระบรมมหาราชวัง
SOTM Asia
2023-11-15 – 2023-11-17
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Bochum
Bochumer OpenStreetMap-Treffen
2023-11-16
종로1·2·3·4가동
2023 국경없는의사회 지오위크 매파톤
✓
2023-11-16
Rio de Janeiro
🙂 GIS DAY 2023 – IVIDES.org & HUB YouthMappers Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2023-11-17
Eti Osa
#MapNigeria GIS Day 2023: Mapping Lagos for Waste Management
2023-11-17
ng
Dom Aleixo
OSM Community Meet-Up and Official Launching
2023-11-18
tl
Bengaluru
Let’s Talk Spatial – OSM Workshop
2023-11-18
Pforzheim
ÖPNV-Mapathon beim Verkehrsverbund Pforzheim-Enzkreis
2023-11-18
Lyon
Réunion du groupe local de Lyon
2023-11-21
San Jose
South Bay Map Night
✓
2023-11-22
Bonn
169. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn
2023-11-21
Autelbas
Réunions des contributeurs
2023-11-21
Lüneburg
Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)
2023-11-21
Köln
OSM-Stammtisch Köln
2023-11-22
Lübeck
137. OSM-Stammtisch für Lübeck und Umgebung
2023-11-23
Essen
FOSSGIS-OSM-Communitytreffen 2023 Nummer 20
2023-11-24 – 2023-11-26
Biarritz
Rencontre festive Groupe local OSM Pays Basque Sud Landes
2023-11-24
Chambéry
Mapathon débutant saison 23/24 CartONG
2023-11-27
Bremen
Bremer Mappertreffen
2023-11-27
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting
2023-11-29
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen
2023-11-29
Mbankomo
State of the Map Africa 2023
2023-11-30 – 2023-12-02
Oakland
A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations between Eric Theise and Santomieri-Farhadian Duo
2023-12-02
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