(English) weeklyOSM 534

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06/10/2020-12/10/2020

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Visualization public transport traffic flow (VBZ), Zurich, Switzerland 1 | © Stadt Zürich Open Data – map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Mapping

  • GIScience Heidelberg and HeiGIT have created a new land use map, initially for all the EU member states, by combining satellite images from Sentinel with OpenStreetMap using machine learning. It is available on OSMlanduse.org. The quality of the new version of OSMlanduse is being validated in an online campaign. You can participate in the Landsense Mapathon. There are different topics, such as nature, urban, agriculture and expert. The validation campaign is supported within the framework of the EU regions week.
  • The UK quarterly project for Q4 has been selected as defibrillators.
  • Sarah Hoffmann (aka lonvia) informs us, in her blog post, how Nominatim can be used to search for addresses and how Nominatim also now uses the addr:* tags recorded in OSM to determine addresses precisely.
  • Diego Cruz proposed the new tag landuse=dehesa to describe a type of man-made land use that has existed for centuries in the Southwestern quarter of the Iberian Peninsula and which is a sparsely-treed forest (Quercus species) in which the ground is cultivated or used as pasture for grazing animals.
  • Voting started on 12 October on Andrew Harvey’s proposed tag shelter_type=rock_shelter to mark the difference between the already existing natural=cave_entrance and a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff, which may be used to shelter from the weather.

Community

  • k_zoar is a Japanese mapper and lets us take part in reviewing his 10 years of contributing to OSM. For years, he was one of only two mappers to publish the Japanese version of weeklyOSM.
  • Thomas Skowron has submitted an interim report for his OSMF Microgrants project focused on the OpenStreetMap Calendar, documenting his progress at the halfway mark.
  • Richard Fairhurst complained about an undercover change of the Mapbox GL licence.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Local chapter news

  • Minh Nguyen wrote about OpenStreetMap US becoming a local chapter of the OSMF.

Events

Humanitarian OSM

  • In collaboration with the Deltares institute and with funding from German International Cooperation Agency, OpenMap Development Tanzania was able to collect accurate and precise river cross-section surveys using an innovative, low-cost technique. This information will help in improving existing flood risk models and prevention.

Maps

  • Hartmut Holzgräfe was happy to report that his MapOSMatic instance has rendered 130,000 maps and also announced email conversion and style upgrades.
  • Curvature is a programme that analyses the geometry of OSM roads and generates a map of the most twisty roads, colour-coded by how many curves they have.
  • Bloomberg described a building resembling Taiwan’s Presidential Office found in the military training base of Zurohe, which is in Inner Mongolia, China. Supaplex writes that you could compare the outline of both buildings on OpenStreetMap.

Open Data

Licences

  • Nuno Caldeira complained about the incorrect attribution of OpenStreetMap by Mapbox.

Software

  • CyclOSM has released its new 0.3.7 version, including many rendering improvements.
  • 15 years ago, Immanuel Scholz proudly announced a beta for JOSM, his Java OpenStreetMap Editor. At that time, the software was only capable of reading and saving a local GPX-file, but already had a homepage, wiki and bugtracker!
  • A new version of MapComplete has been released by Pietervdvn. This simple editor now has an easy-to-use opening hours selection and a richer selection of background options. In order to celebrate this, an editable map with shops was created through which you can send opening hours directly to OSM. Furthermore, we remind everyone that anyone can easily make their own custom preset (or theme). Yopaseopor figured out how to and has already created ten such themes, which can be found on his wiki.

Did you know …

  • … that the website 'Map of the Week’ recently featured the best map-related manhole covers?
  • … the twitch channel of Martijn van Exel as the curious mapper? Martijn is a former member of the OSM US and OSMF Board of Directors and the author of MapRoulette.

OSM in the media

  • The Daily Star featured female mappers from YouthMappers Dhaka University Chapter and YouthMappers Regional Ambassador Maliha Mohiuddin to recognise inclusive mapping on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child.
  • The Information reported on an antitrust battle against Google. 'Credit for that goes to Mapbox’ and further 'A congressional report on Tuesday, which made antitrust claims against four major tech companies, included a little-noticed allegation that Google Maps abused its market power and harmed its customers’ by not allowing apps using Google’s location data and other providers’ maps or geographical services at the same time.

Other “geo” things

Upcoming Events

WhereWhatWhenCountry
Cobb Virtual AcademyOSMUK AGM plus presentations2020-10-17united kingdom
Cologne Bonn Airport132. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch (Online)2020-10-20germany
LüneburgLüneburger Mappertreffen2020-10-20germany
BerlinOSM-Verkehrswende #16 (Online)2020-10-20germany
NottinghamNottingham pub meetup2020-10-20united kingdom
LyonRencontre mensuelle pour tous2020-10-20france
ŽilinaMissing Maps Mapathon Žilina #9 (Online)2020-10-22slovakia
BremenBremer Stammtisch2020-10-26germany
ArlonRéunion des contributeurs OpenStreetMap2020-10-26belgium
Salt Lake City / VirtualOpenStreetMap Utah Map Night2020-10-27united states
DüsseldorfDüsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch2020-10-28germany
Salt Lake City / VirtualOpenStreetMap Utah Map Night2020-10-29united states
LondonMissing Maps London Mapathon2020-11-03united kingdom
StuttgartStuttgarter Stammtisch (online)2020-11-04germany
DresdenDresdner OSM-Stammtisch2020-11-05germany
Online2020 Pista ng Mapa2020-11-13-2020-11-27philippines
OnlineFOSS4G SotM Oceania 20202020-11-20oceania

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This weeklyOSM was produced by AnisKoutsi, Lejun, MatthiasMatthias, Nordpfeil, NunoMASAzevedo, Polyglot, Rogehm, Guillaume Rischard (Stereo), TheSwavu, YoViajo, alesarrett, derFred, k_zoar, osmapman, richter_fn.