After comparing different 360° cameras, OSM user 2hu4ucame up with a fairly low-budget option for 360° street level imagery that has led to satisfying results for mapping.
Ilya Zverev commented on the proposal to change the OSM data model.
Community
MarcoR is amused about a case of pareidolia in OSM, where he identified a smiling farm in Tuscany, Italy. In the comments, other references are posted, for example a memorial looking like a bear.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
To be eligible to vote at this year’s OSMF annual general meeting you must be a member or associate member for the full 90 days prior to the date on which the meeting is held, that is, from Sunday 11 September.
Tobias Knerr reported about the Software Dispute Resolution Panel (SDRP), a mechanism for dispute resolution where developers, members of the community, or the OSMF board can take disputes to be resolved. There were no disputes taken to the panel over the past year and the OSMF Board would like to hear opinions from the community on how to evaluate the value of the SDRP.
The OSM Foundation (OSMF) has decided to only accept new applications for OSMF membership and associate membership from people who have previously contributed to OpenStreetMap. The Foundation additionally plans to perform a survey among the OSMF membership.
Local chapter news
OpenStreetMap Polska has signed ► another cooperation agreement, this time with the author of the Velomapa.pl ► portal.
Education
Craig Kochis wanted to know how vector maps work and taught himself by implementing one.
Altilunium published a tutorial on how to self-host an OSM tile server by using JOSM, NodeJS, Maptiler Desktop and Tileserver GL. It also covers how to design your own map style by leveraging OSM tag data.
Anne-Karoline Distel wrote a diary entry about aspects of tagging stiles before completing a video about how to map them.
Humanitarian OSM
HOT is offering data quality internships. They are full-time for 12 weeks and interns will be paid.
Maps
[1] Cristoffs blogged about the initiative to rewrite and extend the Polish map of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). The result is available at openaedmap.org. The project is looking for support with coding as well as translations.
OpenSnowMap reported that very high resolution relief (0.5–2 m resolution) shading is now available for Switzerland. The data are sourced from SwissTopo OpenData.
As one can read on Twitter, OpenMapTiles is taking steps towards open governance and considering moving to a CC0 licence, in order to become the official OpenStreetMap vector tiles. Tobias Jordans created an issue on GitHub to collect information about this announcement and hopefully get an official response.
switch2OSM
Sahil Dhiman wrote about his discovery of OSM data usage in many products during daily life and how it motivates him to contribute to the map.
Did you know …
… LibRedirect, a web browser extension redirecting to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends? It effectively redirects requests from the usual map providers to OpenStreetMap.
… that requests to the OpenStreetMap tile server for tile status and tile re-rendering have not possible since July? See the discussions on Reddit and the GitHub issue.
OSM in the media
Le Mondefeatured ► the local OpenStreetMap office in Mali. The group, initiated by Nathalie Sidibé, aims to contribute to the development of the territory by collecting and distributing data, starting with the capital, Bamako.
Upcoming Events
Where
What
Online
When
Country
Santa Terezinha de Goiás
2° Validatona da UMBRAOSM – Brasil.
2022-09-03
臺北市
OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #44
2022-09-05
Stuttgart
Stuttgarter Stammtisch
2022-09-06
London
Missing Maps London Mapathon
2022-09-06
Berlin
OSM-Verkehrswende #39 (Online)
✓
2022-09-06
Salt Lake City
OSM Utah Monthly Meetup
2022-09-08
Berlin
171. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch
2022-09-08
München
Münchner OSM-Treffen
2022-09-08
Morogoro
Field Mapping is the Future: A Tasking Manager Workflow for Open Data Kit (ODK)
2022-09-09
Claix
Cartopartie à Claix (Isère, France)
2022-09-10
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting
2022-09-12
San Jose
South Bay Map Night
✓
2022-09-14
Chippewa Township
Michigan Meetup
2022-09-15
Großarl
6. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich
2022-09-14
Ballerup Kommune
OSM DK Konference
2022-09-17
Dublin
OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM
2022-09-17
Pacé
Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »
2022-09-20
155. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn
2022-09-20
City of Nottingham
OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)
✓
2022-09-20
Lüneburg
Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)
2022-09-20
Roma
Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali
2022-09-21
Miniac-sous-Bécherel
Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »
2022-09-22
[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting
2022-09-22
Cisterna d’Asti
Incontro mapper astigiani
2022-09-24
Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.