weeklyteam

01/08/2023-07/08/2023

Contraflow streets in the City of Sydney [¹] © Jake Coppinger | © MapTiler | map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Mapping

Константин Гам did a talk , in a YouTube video, about OpenStreetMap and recommended OSM editors that he likes.
A proposal awaits your comments: Solar Panel Trackers.

Community

dónal reported on their recent mapping activities in Ireland.
The UN Mapper of the month is Nnadozie Uzoma Onyeukwu, a Nigerian geospatial intelligence analyst with expertise in GIS. He recently organised a mapathon at the Institute for Geoinformatics (IFGI) in Münster to map the road network of Somalia.

Events

OSM turned 19 years old on 9 August 2023. weeklyOSM offers its warmest congratulations.
The presentations from the SotM 2023 France, held in Marseille, are online .

Maps

[1] Jake Coppinger has proposed several cyclist-only contraflow lanes in the City of Sydney using the results of his analysis of OpenStreetMap data.
Stephanie May and Alan McConchie reported that Stamen’s basemap service is moving to Stadia Maps.
Michael Barry has created a vector map to display the datasets released by the Overture Maps Foundation.

Software

The Mapscaping Podcast interviewed Ben Clark, from META, about their Rapid Editor, which facilitates the conflation of AI-generated data (buildings, roads, etc.) with
OSM data. Collaboration with partners such as Mapillary and HOT are also discussed.
TrickyFoxy highlighted some non-obvious features in the StreetComplete editor: adding notes with photos and GPS tracks, cutting roads, adding shops, moving POIs, and using quest presets.

Programming

Christopher Beddow showed how he used ChatGPT to extract tags from the Overture places of interest dataset.
Simon Willison shared his experiences of exploring Overture’s places of interest dataset.
Andy Townsend demonstrated how to analyse changeset data using his updated version of ChangesetMD (we reported earlier). You can count changesets by a user, display details of changesets, filter for changesets within an area, find changesets that use different imagery sources, or find changesets with certain comments.
TrickyFoxy explained how to get fresh Sentinel-2 satellite imagery into your OSM editor.

Did you know …

… that the UN Maps Learning Hub, the UN’s OSM self-learning platform available in six languages, offers quizzes in its OSM Basics course to test your knowledge of OSM fundamentals, the iD and JOSM editors, topographic imagery and rendering, the OSM Tasking Manager and the mapping of certain features (places, residential areas, road networks and hydrography)? Give it a try and no worries, the correct answers are provided at the end if you don’t know.
… that the opening hours map can be used to visualise the opening hours of places on OpenStreetMap? You can also filter results to show only items with errors in their opening hours tagging.

OSM in the media

Andrii Holovin explained ► the differences between OpenStreetMap and Google Maps in a simple way in a detailed article. He notes that OpenStreetMap is based on volunteer work and open data, while Google Maps is a commercial product. Also, OpenStreetMap uses open data sources, while Google Maps uses proprietary sources, which affects the relevance and reliability of the information on the map.

Other “geo” things

Hans Hack, a Berlin based data visualiser, mapmaker, and artist answered the question ‘Traffic, housing or green space – what takes up how much space in Berlin?’

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Chippewa Township	OpenStreetMap Michigan Meetup		2023-08-10
Montrouge	Rencontre contributeurs Sud de Paris		2023-08-10
Berlin	182. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2023-08-11
Budapest	#OSM19 birthday QGIS editing, drinks, party games		2023-08-11
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2023-08-11
	Recording milk churn stands for Ireland’s National Heritage Week 2023		2023-08-12 – 2023-08-20
Localidad Teusaquillo	Volvamos a cerrar notas de OSM en Colombia – Notathon		2023-08-12
Queens	Mapping Access on Austin Street		2023-08-12
no location	Freedom Fest 2023		2023-08-13
København	OSMmapperCPH		2023-08-13
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #55		2023-08-14
Ernakulam	OSM 19th Birthday Celebration Kochi,India		2023-08-15
	166. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2023-08-15
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2023-08-16
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2023-08-15
The Municipal District of Castlecomer	Recording milk churn stands for Ireland’s National Heritage Week 2023 (workshop)		2023-08-16
Köln	Stammtisch Köln		2023-08-16
Zürich	Missing Maps Zürich Mapathon		2023-08-16
Salt Lake City	OpenStreetMap Utah Birthday Map Night		2023-08-17
Singapore	OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia: Awesome Together!		2023-08-17	sg
Singapore	Giving Contexts to Places We Love – The Power of OpenStreetMap and Wikidata		2023-08-17	sg
Windsor	Every Door Mapping Party: Walkerville		2023-08-18
The Municipal District of Kilkenny City	Heritage Week Heritage Mapping Clinic		2023-08-17
Hannover	Maker Faire Hannover 2023		2023-08-19 – 2023-08-20
	2nd OSM Delhi Mapping Party		2023-08-20
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2023-08-23
Maricá	Mapathon – Maricá City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		2023-08-24 – 2023-09-24
Localidad Teusaquillo	Junta Bimensual OSM LATAM – Agosto August		2023-08-26