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Events

• The 30-Day Map Challenge has been running since 1 November. Topi Tyukanov opens the challenge on Day 1 with windfarms. Unfortunately, we can only present a few, non-representative examples. A bot from Topi Tjukanov retweets every post marked with the hashtag “#30DayMapChallenge”.
  • Day 1: Points

  | samia @samiasab90 * Languages of London | @gontsa * Destroyed cultural heritage of Ukraine | にゃんこそばデータ可視化 @ShinagawaJP * Railwaystations in Japan 1872 – 2022 |

  • Day 2: Lines

  |Abdoul Madjid @issa_madjid * Every African airport connected to
  its 10 nearest neighbors | Eric Armijo @rcrmj * Rios en Bolivia | @nordaufnordost * Flights to Madagacar |

  • Day 3: Polygons

  |Marcel Reinmuth @GIScienceHD * isochrones (2h) by openrouteservice | D&G Place-Names
  @dgplacenames * Buildings in Dumfries | Nicolas Lambert @neocartocnrs * Countries and People in Africa |

  • Day 4: Colour Friday: Green

  | Xemartin Laborde @XemartinLaborde * green canopy global map | Stan McShinsky @smcshinsky * world moss map | ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs @pokateo_ * Greenland in ten different projections|

  • Day 5: Ukraine

  | Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins * Outgoing shipments under the Black Sea Initiative| Daniel B. @DOh_Bams * „Super sleek street map of Kiev (Kyiv)“| gontsa @gontsa * Forests of Ukraine|

  • Day 6: Network

  |Julian Hoffmann @Julian_H0ffmann * Gobal Submarine Cable Network | Wendy Shijia @ShijiaWendy * Shanghai Metro | Cécile @CecileMatusiak * Travel to work |

  • Day 7: Raster

  |Boris Mericskay @BorisMericskay * “cuisine”=”crepe” en France | D&G Place-Names
  @dgplacenames * NX96 100 Piece 3D Puzzle | Urban Analytics Lab @urbanalyticslab * Global Building Morphology Indicators |

• Digitalizing Informal Transport in the Global South, a webinar hosted by Trufi Association on as part of UN Habitat’s “Urban October” events (webinar recording).

Education

• Martijn van Exel shows in his recent tutorial how to tag parking=surface efficiently with MapRoulette.

OSM research

• On this week’s episode of Geomob Podcast Ed chats with Tobias Jordans about a parking data project in Berlin. It’s something you may not have thought about, but the data about parking spaces and their use can have a big impact on urban dynamics. Tobias explains how city planners, NGOs, and politicians pushing for positive changes can all benefit from accurate parking data. Using OpenStreetMap, Tobias and his colleagues are making it easier to record, retrieve, and update information about parking spaces in Berlin. Listen in to find out about the challenges, learnings, and how you can bring this project to your city.
• A Virtuous Cycle: How OSM/Trufi Volunteers Cultivate Better Transport Data & Service – A new academic paper

Maps

• JazMichaelKing maintains Mastodon Near Me, a directory of Mastodon and Pleroma instances aimed at regional users.

switch2OSM

• The TomTom location technology company announced its new mapping platform and ecosystem called the TomTom Maps Platform. The new map will be a pool of different databases, including OpenStreetMap, in order to become “the smartest map on the planet”. Public release is to be expected by summer 2023. A discussion in the community.openstreetmap Forum is already started.

Software

• Benjamin Tran Dinh worked on Chronotrains, an interactive map showing how far one could travel by train in under 5 hours. As shown in the Github repository, data comes from the Deutsche Bahn before being applied to a Mapbox basemap.
• GitHub – baremaps/baremaps: Create custom vector tiles from OpenStreetMap and other data s…
• Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez and Jesús Sánchez-Dávila published CityShadeMapper, a R package to create shade map from OpenStreetMap and LiDAR data. A demo is available for Sevilla.
• Stamen has begun work on improving MapLibre Native, an Open Source SDK for rendering maps, with funding from AWS.

Programming

• Project of redesign of osm.org to make the project more social centric
• Timothée Giraud released the version 4.0 of R software osrm package. This major release results from an improvement to the routing service based on OpenStreetMap data after it’s submission to the Journal of Open Source Software.
• Sarah Heidekorn reports that the oshdb (OpenStreetMap Historic Data Analysis) has reached an object count of over 10 billion.
• What’s new in PMTiles version 3 | Protomaps

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