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02/28/2017-03/06/2017
Map of time zones in OSM 1 | © OpenStreetMap Contributors CC-BY-SA 2.0
About us
Dale Kunce accuses us of selective news coverage about HOT and points out the Validation Fridays. As barely 50% of the added data is validated till date, HOT hopes to have a quality gain and more feedback to the mappers, who are new mappers in many cases, through their initiative.
March 8 marks the International Women’s Day. WeeklyOSM extends congratulations to all women within our community!
Mapping
Tagging mailing list discusses the new tag
motorcycle_friendlyas the RFC and voting phases didn’t happen as expected.Tyndare reports on talk-fr about his use of the conflation plugin to work with French land registry data within JOSM. He provides documentation both on the wiki and in a video.
[1] Frederik Ramm initiates a discussion, on the Tagging list, about issues concerning the mapping of time zones as geometries. A long and detailed discussion follows.
A former modification of motorway exits by hsimpson triggers an extended discussion, in the Tagging mailing list, about where a way branches at motorway exits. There is a discussion in the German forum as well.
Users sabas88 and sbiribizio from the Italian community experimented with the "geography" of Wikidata and built a service to assist in matching the Wikidata element to the OpenStreetMap database.
Community
South Korea has its first forum thread. We wish to say: 오신 것을 환영합니다, 한국
Martijn van Exel has created a small survey on Maproulette tasks. Please participate in the survey so that Martijn gets a picture as complete as possible.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
The Data Working Group (DWG) publishes the minutes of the February 8th meeting and its activity reports for the year 2016.
On OWG’s issue tracker on GitHub, there is a discussion on the rules for a banner policy for advertising banners on osm.org in the future.
The Operations Working Group (OWG) publishes its activities report for February.
Gregory Marler summarizes his thoughts about the purpose of the UK local chapter.
Events
Do you want to learn how to create and publish interactive and personalized maps? Come and participate in the Mapbox Studio workshop. It will be held this March 25th at the Mapbox Peru Office. It will be addressed for an open group.
Framasoft, a group of FOSS enthusiasts, will provide technical support to the SotM France 2017 from June 02 to 04 in Avignon.
Humanitarian OSM
HOT aims to map buildings over an area of 500,000+ square kilometers by the end of April. The Malaria Elimination Campaign completed Guatemala and is currently validating Honduras and Botswana maps in Zambia. It is to begin soon in Zimbabwe, Cambodia and Laos.
Trudy Namitala describes in a HOT blog post why we need women and girls in mapping. Hint: Especially in Africa women often lack the information about help facilities for gender based violence, family planning or maternity services. Look at the list in the wiki.
Emir Hartato announces the completion of his Masters thesis on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Management. However, his full work may be published only after review.
Various people, including Simon Poole, have expressed surprise that HOT is advertising on Google. Are they running short of volunteers? Do they want more donations? Let’s not forget that the OSM Foundation’s donate link will still happily take any spare cash that you might have…
Maps
After ongoing discussions about debugging tiles infos (we reported earlier), Tom Hughes took the time to develop a new info box about a tile’s detail.
Todd Neumarker introduces new Trailfork cards for the Garmin Edge series. You can find more information here.
switch2OSM
The game 911 Operator uses OpenStreetMap data for a world wide coverage.
Open Data
On the occasion of the international Open Data Day on March 4, the Guardian reported Open Data projects in five countries around the world. OSM has, of course, featured as one of them with CARTEAU in Burkina Faso and the Open Source Flood Map in Indonesia being OSM based.
Programming
Paul Norman searched and found benefits in replacing string arrays with hstore in the previous representation of the tags in the slim tables of osm2pgsql databases.
The Engineering Working Group calls for mentors for the next round of Google Summer of Code 2017.
The next version of Overpass API is out. The release notes provide a summary of changes.
Releases
Dark POIs are mapped objects which have location data but no information on type. The new Overpass API blog provides details on how to query for such objects.
| Software | Version | Release date | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mapzen Lost | 2.2.0 | 2016-12-08 | Many changes, please read release info. |
| Mapillary iOS * | 4.6.8 | 2017-03-01 | Gui modifications, added image direction to the standard EXIF tags. |
| Magic Earth * | 7.1.17.9 | 2017-03-02 | Points-of-interest categories, improved pinch zooming, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Czech and Romanian, Bug fixes and more. |
| Maps.me Android * | var | 2017-03-02 | Bug fixed, actual map data. |
| Maps.me iOS * | 7.1.5 | 2017-03-02 | Updated map data. |
| OSM Contributor | 3.0.3 | 2017-03-02 | No infos. |
| OSRM Backend | 5.6.2 | 2017-03-03 | Some bugfixes. |
| Mapillary Android * | 3.31 | 2017-03-06 | New and performance-optimized camera implementation, share button in photo view. |
| Overpass Api | osm3s-v0.7.54 | 2017-03-06 | Some bugfixes. |
Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.
(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.
Other “geo” things
Christoph Hormann reports about the changes in Sentinel-2’s image format.
The company SIGRA asks whether OsmAnd could be adapted for autonomous driving.
Amazing Maps presents a map from the time of Charles the Great.
Upcoming Events
| Where | What | When | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemnitz | Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2017 | 03/11/2017-03/12/2017 |  |
| Rennes | Atelier de découverte | 03/12/2017 |  |
| Rennes | Réunion mensuelle | 03/13/2017 | |
| Passau | Mappertreffen | 03/13/2017 | |
| Lyon | Rencontre mensuelle libre | 03/14/2017 | |
| Nantes | Rencontres mensuelles | 03/14/2017 | |
| Karlsruhe | Stammtisch | 03/15/2017 | |
| Paris | Missing Maps Toulouse | 03/15/2017 | |
| Moscow | Schemotechnica 08 | 03/15/2017 |  |
| Heidelberg | Missing Maps Mapathon at Makerspace (DAI) | 03/16/2017 | |
| Mazzano Romano | Presentazione di OSM al MAVNA | 03/17/2017 |  |
| Tokyo | 東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第６回 愛宕神社 | 03/18/2017 |  |
| Bonn | Bonner Stammtisch | 03/21/2017 | |
| Scotland | Edinburgh | 03/21/2017 |  |
| Lüneburg | Mappertreffen Lüneburg | 03/21/2017 | |
| Nottingham | Nottingham Pub Meetup | 03/21/2017 | |
| Passau | FOSSGIS 2017 | 03/22/2017-03/25/2017 | |
| Lübeck | Lübecker Mappertreffen | 03/23/2017 | |
| Urspring | Stammtisch Ulmer Alb | 03/23/2017 | |
| Zaragoza | Mapeado Colaborativo | 03/24/2017 |  |
| Louvain-la-Neuve | Bar meeting | 03/24/2017 |  |
| Mazzano Romano | Workshop 1 | 03/24/2017 | |
| 8 locations in Belgium | National Mapathon | 03/25/2017 | |
| Bremen | Bremer Mappertreffen | 03/27/2017 | |
| Avignon | State of the Map France 2017 | 06/02/2017-06/04/2017 | |
| Kampala | State of the Map Africa 2017 | 07/08/2017-07/10/2017 |  |
| Curitiba | FOSS4G+SOTM Brasil 2017 | 07/27/2017-07/29/2017 |  |
| Aizu-wakamatsu Shi | State of the Map 2017 | 08/18/2017-08/20/2017 | |
| Buenos Aires | FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017 | 10/23/2017-10/28/2017 |  |
| Lima | State of the Map – LatAm 2017 | 11/29/2017-12/02/2017 |  |
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This weeklyOSM was produced by Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, Spec80, SrrReal, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, piligab, vsandre.