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24.02. – 02.03.2015

Mapping News

The Riviera Country Club Golf Course was measured with centimeter accuracy for OSM. This caused a certain amount of controversy…
MapBox visualised ten years of development on OSM with an animation, including registered users, active mapper/month, number of buildings and major roads. A brief report on CITYLAB can be found here.
Richard Weait is annoyed by spam sent as OSM personal messages.
If hacks make an emergency call point unusable, you can now “reconstruct” it, thanks to OSM data.
OSM Austria is now on facebook.
The French community has been working together to trace the 2 054 new cantons (formerly 4 035). Official decrees are currently being published… the challenge is to be ready before the nationwide poll on March 22 and 29.
An Open Data Camp election (English) was also held by the French Institute of Political Studies Sciences Po, the Interior Ministry and Etalab on February 23.

Richard Weait suggests to @sk53onosm that the SOTM working group could do with his help.
OpenStreetMap events in 2015 on blog.openstreetmap.org

At OpenBelgium Escada, Jorieke, Glen and Ben talked about OSM.
The ‘Call for Venues’ for SotM 2016 will be opening soon. Please start thinking about possible host cities, both big and small.
On April 25 in Brussels, Belgium, there will be a mapping party “aimed at beginner mappers, who can be helped by more advanced colleagues. The focus will be on improving the opencyclemap and wheelmap. Everyone is welcome.”

Heather Leson stands for re-election to the HOT board. She reflects what has been achieved over the past year and she talks about the future development of HOT.
You have until March 15th to propose a topic for discussion at the HOT Summit 2015 .
The OSM user zool writes again about her experiences with HOT-Mapathons in Edinburgh and continues to complain about “armchair mapping”. OSM user Malenki answers this on the blog, and qualifies her statement
HOT member Severin summarises the recent activities of the Malawi Flooding project and points out that there is still a high need for data.
OpenStreetMap maps (and others) are fighting Ebola:
- Ebola Cellular program (click OSM)
- Ebola Depot
- Global Ebola Response Monitoring and Mapping System
- WHO Roadmap
- Nethope visualisations (move down)
Cristiano Giovando sums up existing efforts to revive the OpenAerialMap project.
The DisasterMappers from Heidelberg organised a small mapathon in cooperation with the Open Data Rhein-Neckar-initiative (English, Français, Español, ???) at the International Open Data Day, and summarised the action in her blog.
Kristin Quinn writes extensively about the importance of OSM for the work against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

[1] OpenRouteService is not dead yet. Students from different countries (i. e. Romania and Portugal) still miss the translations they made years ago.
Go clubbing … and more … in Berlin.

The OpenDataCamp UK took place on 21-22nd February in Winchester. More information about this can be found in Gregory Marler’s Blog.
A digital topographic map of Nordrhein-Westfalen (English, Français, Español, ???, Galego) has been published.

Geometa-Lab optimises software for high-resolution maps of drone images. (hsr.ch). (English, Français, Español, ???)
Field Papers GitHub Repository.
Alminav is a new Android app for bikers. Maps can be used offline. Routing has been integrated.

… the website to find, record and/or correct fire hydrants? It is available in English, Polish French, Spanish, Ukranian and German.
… the overview about open/closed OSM notes from Pascal Neis?