Manfred Reiter

25.11. – 01.12.2014

Mapping

[1] The 27 millionth OpenStreetMap changeset contains changes for Guatemala. (via @neogeografen)
User Elliott Plack blogs about his experiences with Mapillary.
Mappers paid by Mapbox collided once more. SomeoneElse was forced to revert. (Note: SomeoneElse is a member of the Data Working Group)
User tmcw would like to store worldwide coffee prices in the OSM database. User Nakaner explains in a comment that commodity prices are not geographic data and therefore OSM is not the place to do it. Nakaner asks why tmcw doesn’t simply create OpenPriceDB?
A new version of the Kendzi 3D plugin for the editor JOSM has been released.
OpenStreetMap Blog describes the new query feature (the question mark icon on osm.org).
The designs from Diamond00774 and Felis Pimeja are in the final of the JOSM logo competition.

Nick Bearman is looking for a mapping task for about 200 students (Planning and/or Geography students) at the University of Liverpool.
Tom Morris finds that OSM is too bureaucratic. He also suggests possibilities for change.

User ubahnverleih tweets an image that shows the consequences of imports in Georgia (USA).
In Passau an import of stores is planned.

OSM Cochabamba tweets on the progress on the detection of bus routes on the public transport map (ÖPNV) in the Bolivian highlands.

Christian Quest gives an interview on the planned French “Open National Address Database”.
Jordi Inglada blogs about „free global land cover mapping” in OSM.

MapBox published a tutorial on the use of Overpass Turbo and MapBox Studio. The guide shows how to extract data using Overpass Turbo and use them in MapBox Studio (via @Mapbox).
OSM IQ is now available for Windows Phone (previously only Windows x86 and Windows RT).
Martijn Exel has been working on a Python Overpass API wrapper and would appreciate help. (via @mvexel)

Ed Freyfogle interviews Steven Feldman, a geo-expert for many years.
User vgeorge summarises the progress of the Portuguese / Brazilian localisation of various portals with a relation to OSM. Examples to follow. 😉
Rachel Binx launches a website that offers OSM maps on textiles. (via @rachelbinx). Very nice idea, but „nice” prices as well.
Steve Coast is looking on Kickstarter for people who are willing to back his book project „The Book of OpenStreetMap”.
Serge Wroclawski reports on the project 596acres, which wants to make the „community gardens” in New York City more visible.
DigitalGlobe and Crowdsourcing. Video – 50 minutes!
The city of Erlangen (Germany) switched to OSM.