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Mapping
- Anne-Karoline Distel is still ‘obsessing‘ about crannógs. She has published the first two of a planned five-part video series on how to map crannógs.
- watmildon outlined the technique they use to find and fix instances where
addr:housenumberhave been incorrectly tagged asname. - OSM user blkatbyhh shared a tutorial on how to semi-automatically map landuse features from satellite imagery by using Fiji, which is image recognition software.
- Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
office=power_utilityto replaceoffice=energy_supplierfor tagging the office of a power utility company.emergency=lifeboat_stationfor tagging the buildings and base areas of those groups that are dedicated to the rescue of vessels and sailors in distress.
- Voting is underway for
fountain:design=*, to specify what type of fountain anamenity=fountainis, until Monday 5 December.
Community
- The results of a OSMF member survey on membership prerequisites (we reported earlier) have been published.
- LySioS showed the increase in users of Mastodon. He also points out the instance administered by Amanda McCann. Amanda is looking for a logo for this instance.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- The Engineering Working Group has made a call for proposals for a project to add the ability to mute users on the openstreetmap.org website. This would let OSM contributors who receive unwanted messages in their openstreetmap.org message inbox to mute (ignore) private messages from another contributor. This subject was also discussed on GitHub.
- Eligible members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) should receive, on Saturday 3 December, instructions on how to vote to elect four new board members via their registered OSMF email. They can start voting on
Saturday 3 December after 16:00 UTC. Voting will end on Saturday 10 December at 16:00 UTC when the Annual General Meeting will start in the IRC chatroom #osmf-gm on the IRC network irc.oftc.net.As we reported last week, the OSM wiki has more information and it is also possible to read the candidates’ answers to official questions and their manifestos. - The ‘Risk of hostile takeover of the OpenStreetMap Foundation’ was the only discussion last week on osmf-talk for the current Board election (with four seats available this year and 11 candidates, some with corporate affiliations). OSMF is the legal owner of the OSM database and hardware. Brian Sperlongano started the discussion by asking Roland Olbricht to clarify a post on the talk-de discussion list where he perceived Roland to favour German over US candidates. Opinions varied widely, others focusing discussion on the risk of a hostile takeover.
- Christoph Hormann wrote, in his blog, about his observations on the past year regarding the OSMF. Among many other facts, he observes an increasing commercialisation of OSMF policy and the increasing dominance of lobbyists in OSMF policy advice.
Events
- The 30DayMapChallenge 2022 on Twitter and Mastodon continued. It is not possible to adequately acknowledge the multitude of outstanding works. The selection we make is purely random and not an evaluation. Please explore the works yourself. franceinfo reported
► on how this challenge, started by a Finnish geographer in 2019, has become a worldwide event.- Day 15: Food/drink | Vanessa Tebbitt
@vanessatebbitt * Meat Consumption and CO2 Emissions | Loore @loore_ko * Traffic lines of Estonian fishing vessels 2019 | Hans van der Kwast @hansakwast * Where to buy Dutch Cheese | bordoray @bordoray * cooked as E(ps)GG:221115 | - Day 16: Minimal | ThoNoi @noirothomas * lLe Haut, Le Bas et Le Doubs | MapServer Studio @mapserverstudio * WORLDLE | Peter Gorman @barelymaps * The bridges of Portland, Oregon | Nim – @bbecquet@mamot.fr @nimwendil * 64×64 pixel art Isle of Mull |
- Day 17: A map without a computer | suǝbbıɹɟ pıʌɐp @dakvid * A pizza in the shape of Australia | BKG @BKG@social.bund.de * Weihnachtsplätzchen/Bolachas de Natal | jcarlson@mapstodon.space Josh Carlson @jcarlson@mapstodon.space * Mapmaking With Children | Dolly Andriatsiferana @privatemajory * Geofiction |
- Day 18: Colour Friday: Blue | Michel Stuyts @michelstuyts@fosstodon.org * Flow accumulation around Deurne airport | Vikki :verified: @DataScienceNot2@tech.lgbt * Migration paths of some Bluefin Tuna | Xiao Wang @gisXiaoWang * When map meets blue and white porcelain | Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins@mapstodon.space * wait for it … |
- Day 19: Globe | LUC @LUCtweeting * Elemental Earth | Sam Keast @SouthCrossMaps * Population of Eurasian and African countries | Andrew DC 🌈 @andrewdc_nz * For All Moon Time | Andrew Tyrrell * Platonic Earth @SouthArrowMaps@mapstodon.space |
- Day 20: “My favourite …” | Doug G. @douggreenfield@mapstodon.space * Map of my Favorite Maps | ArtisansCartographes @Artisans_Cartos CrossMap Puzzle | Seán @Seaniesan * Geological Map of Ireland |
- Day 21: Data: Kontur Population Dataset | Benjamin Becquet @bbecquet@mamot.fr * Population of the Netherlands living below sea level | I.K.D @IKEDA_02 * Population Mogadishu, Somalia | Ahmad Zaenun Faiz @zaenun_faiz * Hexagon Penduluk Jawa Tengah |
- Day 15: Food/drink | Vanessa Tebbitt
- HOT shared a HOT unSummit mid-programme report, which has so far included seven event collaborations across six countries.
- OSM contributor Rashid86 reported ► that InDrive.Tech launched a mapping campaign to map small settlements in Kazakhstan from 16 to 23 November, coinciding with the International Geographic Information System Days.
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►Maps
- yvecai celebrated the mapping of over 100,000 km of Nordic ski piste.
Releases
- Nominatim 4.1.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release, which resolves some issues around the updating of databases and search.
Did you know …
- [1] … MapSCII is a Braille and ASCII world map renderer for your console?
- … OpenLayers, a JavaScript library for interactive maps, had their Twitter account locked? Searching for it on Twitter returned ‘This account doesn’t exist’. Twitter requires users to be at least 13 years old and the team has put the date of their first release, which was in 2006, as their birthday. We can confirm the rebirth of @openlayers on Twitter but not their age!
Upcoming Events
| Where | What | Online | When | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bremen | Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)  | 2022-11-28 |  | |
| Natal | Mapeamento de Comunidades no Brasil / Mapping Communities in Brazil. | 2022-11-29 – 2022-11-30 |  | |
| Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta | OSMGeoWeek Indonesia 2022 | 2022-11-30 |  | |
| Łódź | UN Mappers and OSM Poland Mapaton | 2022-11-30 |  | |
| Düsseldorf | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen | ✓ | 2022-11-30 | |
| Budapest | OSM Weaving: Remote help, Corvin Mall preparation, Mapvent of December (online) | 2022-12-01 |  | |
| Cojata | Reunatón Latam | 2022-12-03 |  | |
| 加古川市 | State of the Map Japan 2022 in Kakogawa | 2022-12-03 |  | |
| 京都市 | 京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第34回 渉成園 | 2022-12-04 | | |
| 臺北市 | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #47 | 2022-12-05 |  | |
| OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | 2022-12-05 | |||
| Monthly MapRoulette Community Meeting | 2022-12-06 | |||
| City of Westminster | Missing Maps London Mapathon | 2022-12-06 |  | |
| San Jose | South Bay Map Night | ✓ | 2022-12-07 |  |
| Berlin | OSM-Verkehrswende #42 (Online) | ✓ | 2022-12-06 | |
| HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up | 2022-12-07 | |||
| Brest | Mapathon en partenariat avec Infini | 2022-12-07 |  | |
| Rio de Janeiro | Workshop Mapeamento Participativo e Cartografia Social 2022 / Participatory Mapping and Social Cartography Workshop 2022 | 2022-12-07 – 2022-12-08 | | |
| Stuttgart | Stuttgarter Stammtisch | 2022-12-07 | | |
| München | Mapping Party: Christmas Edition | 2022-12-08 | | |
| München | Münchner OSM-Treffen | 2022-12-08 | | |
| Budapest | Corvin Mall in-person survey, Grund: NextCloud Maps, StreetComplete, Snap, IPv6 | 2022-12-09 | | |
| Zürich | OSM-Stammtisch | 2022-12-09 |  | |
| Berlin | 174. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch (hybrid – Test für FOSSGIS 2023) | 2022-12-09 | | |
| [Online] 16th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation | 2022-12-10 | |||
| København | OSMmapperCPH | 2022-12-11 |  | |
| City of Nottingham | OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online) | ✓ | 2022-12-13 | |
| Rio de Janeiro | Workshop Mapeamento Participativo e Cartografia Social 2022 / Participatory Mapping and Social Cartography Workshop 2022 | 2022-12-14 – 2022-12-15 | | |
| Salt Lake City | OSM Utah Monthly Meetup | 2022-12-15 | | |
| Michigan Meetup | 2022-12-15 | |||
| Stainach-Pürgg | 7. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich | 2022-12-14 |  | |
| Toulouse | Réunion du groupe local | 2022-12-17 | |
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