(English) weekly 252 — 12.05.–18.05.2015

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12.05.–18.05.2015

About us

• weeklyOSM is proud to announce a version in one more language: Bahasa Indonesia. Thanks to Adityo, Harry, Ranie, and Wulan who joined our weeklyOSM Team.
• A job offer: reviewer for the English version of  weeklyOSM
  • Requirements: Native speaker; good feeling for language, good grammar and punctuation
  • Our offer: You can read weeklyOSM a least one day before the public can read it. 😉

Mapping

• «10 years ago we used the Garmin eTrex to survey OpenStreetMap. Now it has built-in OSM mapping». Today OSM is THE map on the new eTrex 20x and eTrex 30x.
• The Geoknow project has, with the participation of the University of Leipzig, published a JOSM plugin OSMRec. OSMRec suggests possible established alternatives when using a new tag.
• Is it possible to use WMS services in iD using something like WhooTS? TMS in iD should work, and there always JOSM of course (via OSM Help).
• What is the best way to tag an estate agent? That’s a question that Paweł Marynowski asked the tagging list.
• OSM2World developers Tordanik proposes the tag building:wall=yes in order to tag differently colored (and inclined) walls.

Imports

• There are currently very heated discussions about the license situation for a planned import of administrative boundaries in Nepal. This has been moved to «Legal» but yet not «arrived».
• Soon will start the land use import in Slovenia.

Humanitarian OSM

• Impressive video of the earthquake in Nepal and HOT activities.
• Christian Quest has issued a similar map as MapBox for rescue forces in Nepal.
• Pierre Béland spread the news that he reads from the statistics by Pascal Neis: In the period from 25.04. to 16.05, in Nepal, there were more than 6500 active mappers.
• Landslide in Nepal — triggered by the earthquake on May 12.
• Where does the community map, before and after the first quake in Nepal?
• How has Nepal changed in OSM since 2012? (via Kangrex).  Thanks to FOSM for the «before» tiles.

Maps

• [1] With the update to OSM Carto 2.30.0 benches, litter bins, bicycle stands and many other things have new icons.
• Mateusz Konieczny made some suggestions for rendering «surface» in the standard map.
• Pascal Neis has improved his OSM Changeset filter — useful for Mapathons or even school projects.

#switch2OSM

• Public transport in Panama City relies on OpenStreetMap.
• Pablo Cecconi says on talk-ar that the city of Buenos Aires has issued an OSM map. In addition to current construction sites, official cycle paths and public transport, you can find a variety of public institutions — labour offices, police stations, free Wi-Fi, healthcare, education and culture, and last but not least tourism and gastronomy.

Open-Data

• Waltraud Deeg, the Minister for Information Technology in South Tyrol has published the spatial data sets Südtiroler Bürgernetz as OpenData under CC–0. (via Patrick Ohnewein) … (automatic translation)

Software

• Constantin Müller describes in his blog how he has removed the clouds from the True Marble images. (as reported in weeklyOSM # 251]). (automatic translation)

Did you know …

• … the latest book about OSM?
• … TRAVIC, the Transit Visualisation Client, realised by the University of Freiburg and geOps. The German online newsletter Golem talks about it as well. (automatic translation)

Other «geo» things

• Where the coverage of Google Street View ends,  Mapillary’s starts, 😉 for example: North Korea. (via @newscombinator)
• Apple has acquired high-precision GPS firm Coherent Navigation.