Tygodnik OSM 743

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10/10/2024-16/10/2024

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Breaking news

  • Guillaume Rischard shared the OpenStreetMap Foundation 2024 chairperson’s report.
  • Craig Allan, Laura Mugeha, Maurizio Napolitano, and Héctor Ochoa Ortiz have been elected as new OpenStreetMap Foundation board members. A total of 740 ballots were cast out of 1,971 eligible voters in this election.

Mapping

  • There are several useful tutorials on iD editor and JOSM in Japanese. For example, Kisaragi’s tutorial on how to split an area on OpenStreetMap using the iD editor and Kohei Otsuka’s guide to splitting and joining OSM objects in JOSM.
  • Requests for comments have been made on these proposals:
    • brt=* for indicating if a route=bus is a bus rapid transit service.
    • to deprecate busway=* for bus lanes.
    • access_key=* to describe places that are accessible using a (centralised) key system.
    • public_transport=access_space for mapping areas within a stop place such as a concourse or booking hall, immigration hall, or security area that is accessible by passengers, but without direct access for vehicles.
  • Voting is underway on the proposal sac_scale=strolling, indicating a wide and smooth trail, until Tuesday 29 October.

Community

  • In 'It Started with a Road – Global South Version’ the Trufi Association imagines OSM and transportation justice transforming cities in the global South BEFORE car culture becomes endemic.
  • Justine shared her experience of participating in State of the Map 2024, held in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Raquel Dezidério presented a proposal for harmonisation between the variables in Brazil’s National Register of Addresses for Statistical Purposes and OpenStreetMap tagging, specifically for educational establishments. Raquel asked for comments on the OSM Community forum. On the forum there is also another request for comments on the standardisation of addresses in Brazil.
  • Valerie Norton has expressed frustration about people mapping remote areas by guesswork, perhaps prompted by the iD editor’s listing of 'issues’ in yellow.

Local chapter news

  • OpenStreetMap US launched the Community Project programme to support volunteer-run projects and technologies that benefit the OpenStreetMap community. OpenStreetMap Americana, a project inspired by the cartographic aesthetics of American paper maps, has been chosen as the first OSM US Community Project.

Events

  • With November approaching it’s time again for the #30DayMapChallenge, a chance to create maps based around different themes each day of November, posting using the hashtag #30DayMapChallenge. Stamen blogged some of their highlights from 2023 and 2022, if you would like to see samples of the work from previous years.
  • Oliver Rudzick and Katja Haferkorn shared a report from the 22nd FOSSGIS-OSM Community Meeting, held on 3 to 6 October in Essen, Germany.

Maps

  • Maeool tooted that Cartes, an OpenStreetMap-based online map, now supports a globe view feature when zoomed out, powered by the MapLibre GL v5 pre-release.

Software

  • HOT has added MVT and PMTiles as formats to their Export Tool, along with the option to include metadata elements such as timestamp and user information.

Programming

  • Tykayn has improved their Mapillary export script to be able to retrieve Mapillary sequences from multiple users and import them into Panoramax in bulk. They offered to do this for anyone who wanted it, and were able to rescue over 14 million photos. Tykayn gave a presentation > explaining the implications and methods used at the State of the Map France.
  • Edward Betts delivered a talk at GeoPython 2024 on using Python-based tools to help link Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

Releases

  • Christoph Hormann announced that v5.9.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. He says: 'Once changes are deployed on openstreetmap.org it will take couple of days before all tiles show the new rendering.’ So stay tuned.He outlined the new changes in his email:
    • Adding rendering of shop=hearing_aids with a dedicated symbol
    • Restoring rendering of name labels for natural=reef
    • Adding rendering of lines with barrier=jersey_barrier
    • Removing rendering of railway=preserved in favor of interpreting railway:preserved=yes on other railway=*
    • Removing rendering of shop=jewellery as synonym for shop=jewelry
    • Adding rendering of leisure=dance with a point symbol and label
    • Interpretation of transport mode specific access tags on roads/paths.
  • Christoph Hormann blogged about the new release of OSM Carto, where he explained that we have solutions for some very old problems now.

Did you know …

  • mediawiki2latex? After the WikCon in Wiesbaden, Germany, the author Dirk Hünniger adapted this software, originally written for Wikipedia, to our OSM wiki so it can be used to create very good .pdf files.
  • … that Thunderforest offers ten different map tile set styles based on OpenStreetMap data?

Other “geo” things

  • France’s IGN offered us some excerpts from Maxime Blondeau’s soon to be published book Géoconscience, a work richly illustrated with surprising maps and immersive photographs, which reveal the vital and fascinating nature of our common habitat, the Earth.
  • Harel Dan tooted that there is an Easter egg in QGIS that allows you to play a 15 panel slider game, with your map, if you type 'bored’ into the coordinate box.
  • In response to Hurricane Helene’s devastating effects across multiple states, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has activated its landslide event team and collected images and data in the southern Appalachian Mountains. This information was shared across multiple state and federal agencies to inform, prioritise resources, and better predict future events. The data can be accessed by the public on a newly launched USGS Landslide Observations Dashboard Map.
  • TeleGeography maintains an interactive and regularly updated Submarine Cable Map. These submarine cables keep us connected, but they can also occasionally become sources of friction.
  • Jacquelyne Germain, from Smithsonian Magazine, reviewed Native-Land.ca, an interactive map that shows the location of Indigenous territories around the world.

Upcoming Events

WhereWhatOnlineWhenCountry
KarlsruheKarlsruhe Hack Weekend October 2024 2024-10-19 – 2024-10-20flag
Cabecera Municipal DuitamaEstado del Mapa – Duitama 2024 2024-10-19flag
Yelahanka talukuOSM Bengaluru Mapping Party 2024-10-19flag
NonnweilerCraftmapping Höckerlinie Otzenhausen 2024-10-19flag
Spatial Girls Network Webinar Launch 2024-10-19
Kalyani NagarOSM Mapping Party at TomTom 2024-10-19flag
ToulouseRencontre du groupe local de Toulouse 2024-10-19flag
[Online] 18th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation 2024-10-19
AmsterdamA Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Edward Schocker 2024-10-19flag
MumbaiMumbai Online Remote Mapping Pre-Party 2024-10-20flag
BerlinDRK & HeiGIT Online Beginner Mapathon 2024-10-22flag
BerlinOSM-Verkehrswende #63 2024-10-22flag
City of EdinburghOSM Edinburgh pub meetup 2024-10-22flag
FlensburgOK Lab Flensburg Community OSM Treffen 2024-10-23flag
Lübeck147. OSM-Stammtisch Lübeck und Umgebung 2024-10-24flag
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting 2024-10-25
BolognaOpenStreetMap al Linux Day di Bologna 2024-10-26flag
中正區台北城內商家mapping party暨慶賀MozTW 3.0喬遷之喜 2024-10-26flag
MumbaiMumbai Mapping Party 2024-10-26flag
City of South PerthSocial Mapping Sunday: Perth Zoo FREE TICKETS 2024-10-27flag
Bremer Mappertreffen 2024-10-28
Saint-ÉtienneRencontre Saint-Étienne et sud Loire 2024-10-28flag
San JoseSouth Bay Map Night 2024-10-30flag
Tentative: OSMF Affiliation Models brainstorming 2024-10-30
AmsterdamMaptime Amsterdam: Autumn mapping party 2024-10-30flag
Wien73. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch 2024-10-30flag
DüsseldorfDüsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) 2024-10-30flag
MoersCommunity-Hackday am 1. – 3. November 2024 im JuNo, Moers Repelen 2024-11-01 – 2024-11-03flag
BerlinOSM Hackweekend Berlin 11/2024 2024-11-02 – 2024-11-03flag

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