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08/03/2022-14/03/2022

Barometer of cycle-friendly cities [¹] © FUB | map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Mapping campaigns

OSM Ghana tweeted statistics of their #28DaysMappingChallenge. In February OSM Ghana started a campaign to motivate people to make contributions to OSM on each day of the month. They garnered 598,386 edits from 69 contributors.
Becky Candy wrote about live validation during a mapathon.
Flanders Tourism launched a website to gather data on tourism POIs, such as: charging points for electric bikes, playgrounds, picnic tables and benches. This project, built upon MapComplete, entails a public campaign with a video presentation and a data import . The developer gave a quick overview in his diary.
raphaelmirc presents > MapSãoFrancisco, an initiative of Canoa de Tolda and InfoSãoFrancisco that aims to develop collaborative mapping projects throughout the São Francisco river basin (Brazil).
The new UMBRAOSM event will be held > on Saturday 2 April, from 00:00 to 23:59 (UTC-3). It will be a mapathon focusing on buildings, roads, POIs, and green areas.

Mapping

Christoph Hormann presented his ‘TagDoc Project’, which is intended to offer an alternative to the OSM Wiki with the focus on the de facto use of tags.
The following proposals await your comments:
- opening_hours:autism=* to facilitate people looking for autism friendly opening hours.
- artwork_subject=sheela-na-gig to tag ‘Sheela-na-gigs’, stone carvings depicting nude women exposing their genitals, found on churches, castles, other walls and in museums.

Community

The Korea OSM community has decided > to change Ukrainian OSM place names in Korean from Russian notation (e.g. 키예프 – as same ‘Kiev’, 하리코프 – as same ‘Kharkov’) to Ukrainian notation (e.g. 키이우 – as same ‘Kyiv’, 하르키우 – as same ‘Kharkiv’) and is currently editing OSM. The revision of the notation is based on the National Institute of Korean Language’s Ukrainian Geographical Names and Personal Information Collection (2022-03-11) .
The OpenStreetMap Ops Team tweeted that the new Discourse based Community Forum has launched. The community is invited to participate in the next steps.
The OSM community of Burgos, Spain, is planning several activities, including a mapathon and talks on 1 and 2 April. More information on the event is available on the wiki page.
OSM Fukushima members have released videos introducing weeklyOSM 603 and 604 . After introducing weeklyOSM, they interviewed Hokkosha, one of the most active mappers in Japan.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Paul Norman explained: the usage polices for Nominatim and OSM Map Tiles, automatic blocking, and how to fix too frequent requests.

Events

On Saturday 19 March, Maptime Bogota brought together > mappers virtually to update the representation of bike paths in OSM for the Colombian capital.
Thanks to C3VOC, video recordings from FOSSGIS 2022 are now available .
Save the date for Open Belgium 2022, which will be held on Friday 29 April at De Krook, in Ghent, as a real-life event. If you have an idea for a talk or workshop, submit it yourself or ask for advice on how to (deadline is Monday 21 March).

Education

raphaelmirc presented / the Drought Monitoring Map > for Brazil.

OSM research

Datenschatz has written a detailed tutorial on how one can systematically identify and visualise missing data points in OSM data with the help of Pandas and a bit of geo-datascience. The data he is using to compare are health departments in Germany.
Transport researchers are studying how open data (such as OSM) stimulates digital civic engagement. One of them has asked mappers to participate in a five minute survey.

Maps

K. Sakanoshita has developed an online map to show historic objects in Ukraine.
[1] The Fédération française des Usagers de la Bicyclette (French National Cyclists Association) has published > the results of the 2021, and third, edition of the ‘aromètre Parlons Vélo‘ which is a nationwide survey about bicycle usage. A general map shows > the multiple cities ranking, while a second one shows > locations perceived as problematic, improved or where a parking solution is needed.
Liveuamap has made an OSM based interactive map showing the latest news in Ukraine.

Open Data

On the occasion of the NYC Open Data Week, mapper jmapb gave a short introduction to the Building Information Search Tool of the NYC Department of Buildings.

Software

yuiseki has developed an online tool to assist in editing building address data. Currently, only Japanese addresses are supported, but he plans to support the entire world in the future. The source code is available on GitHub.
The Technical University of Darmstadt presented the ‘Intermodal Travel Information’ Motis-Project on media.ccc.de. A demonstration application and the sources are available.
RouteXL is a web appplication using OpenStreetMap data for road itinerary planning, with optimisation for multiple stops to save travel time and cost. It is free to use for routes of up to 20 stops. Various geocoders can be selected including Nominatim.
Strasbourg launched its mobile application StrasApp > , which provides a map view to users through OpenMapTiles. Unfortunately, as has been noted > , with a complete lack of attribution of either OpenMapTiles or OpenStreetMap as requested by the OpenMapTiler group.

Programming

Geofabrik presented ‘Shortbread‘, a basic, lean, general-purpose vector tile schema for OpenStreetMap data, CC0/FTWPL licensed.
Sarah Hoffmann pointed out > that OpenStreetMap is participating in the Google Summer of Code as an organisation and the first project ideas for it have been made.

Releases

Vespucci’s March 2022 maintenance release 17.04 is now available in the Play Store.

Did you know …

… BBBike Map Compare for comparing maps? You can use it find out if Waze uses OSM without attribution, for example.
… the new Twitter account OSMChangesets?

OSM in the media

Robert Goedl described > how to use Maperitive to edit OpenStreetMap maps on Linux.

Other “geo” things

In the era of phones and online navigation maps, the police emergency response to a shooting in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) showed that the police local units did not have a rapid and reliable backup system for road navigation and aerial images. They consulted an online map that provided road navigation results that seemed unreliable to people that knew the area.
contrapunctus asked on OSMIndia: ‘Does anyone know of any opportunities to be a full-time, professional OSM mapper?’. They received a number of accurate answers.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
臺北市	OpenStreetMap街景踏查團工作坊1		2022-03-19
Ciudad de Guatemala	Primer mapatón YouthMappers en Guatemala (remoto)		2022-03-19 – 2022-03-20	gt
City of Subiaco	Social Mapping Sunday: Shenton Park		2022-03-20
Habay-la-Neuve	Réunion des contributeurs OpenStreetMap, Habay-la-Neuve		2022-03-21
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-03-21
	Why Open Data Matters for Cycling: Visualizing a Cycling City		2022-03-22
Barcelona	Geomob Barcelona		2022-03-22
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-03-22
Decatur County	OSM US Mappy Hour		2022-03-24
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-03-24
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-03-26
06060	Reunión Bimestral OSM-LatAm		2022-03-26
Perth	Social Mapping Online	✓	2022-03-27
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2022-03-28
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-03-30
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	Virtual OpenStreetMap Belgium meeting	✓	2022-03-29
Tucson	State of the Map US		2022-04-01 – 2022-04-03
Burgos	Evento OpenStreetMap Burgos (Spain) 2022		2022-04-01 – 2022-04-03
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-04-05
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-04-05
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #34 (Online)	✓	2022-04-05