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07/04/2020-13/04/2020

Mapping

• Gareth L announced the mapping of general practice doctors (GP) and other health sites as the UK’s project for Q2 2020, for which a OSM wiki page has been created.
• Chris Beddow, of Mapillary, shared a webinar on YouTube on how to add hospital data to the map to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

Community

• Bleibtoffen is a version of Ça reste ouvert for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It launched on 12 April and is supported by FOSSGIS and Swiss OSM.
• Mapillary’s Edoardo Neerhut blogged about the importance of maps for capacity planning in the fight against COVID-19. He detailed the benefits of having better maps and pointed to MapRoulette tasks for adding data to hospitals in the US.
• There is some controversy (automatic translation) about the appropriateness of including non-open data from dokomaps in the Ça reste ouvert app, which we reported about last week.
• Russian user Artem Svetlov used QGIS 3 and OSM data to generate (automatic translation) about 40 diagrams of Russian railway lines for articles in Wikipedia (automatic translation).
• Issue # 6 of the US OSM newsletter is now online.

Imports

• Rafael Avila Coya posted the plan of UN Mappers to import 108,000 km of waterways in Somalia from the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) data, on the OSM Import mailing list.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• If all goes well, you can start applying for an OSMF Microgrant from 20 April 2020. The Microgrants Committee is working hard to make this possible. Joost Schouppe’s diary post already points the way to what kind of proposals the OSMF is looking for (hint: yours!). The page will be updated with all relevant information, in particular a link to the submission form and an extensive blog post.
• Lately there has been some criticism of OSM tile server performance. In a blog post, the Operations Working Group thanked the five recent donors of nodes for OSM’s tile cache CDN. We would also like to join the Operations Working Group and thank all the sponsors as outlined in the blog post about tile caches.

Humanitarian OSM

• Missing Maps reported about its activities in Canada, where it partners with the Canadian Red Cross Society. The blog post explains why such activities are needed in a developed country like Canada, with the incomplete map data in remote areas causing safety issues for the local population, often Indigenous communities.
• FOSM (Fundación OpenStreetMap Colombia) reported (automatic translation) that, thanks to the volunteers who participated, a consolidated map of the indigenous reservation of Guambia has been created. This mapping will assist in responding to the emergency of the Misak indigenous community in the reservation, located in the municipality of Silvia, Cauca, Colombia. Mainly derived from Task 158, where 3,755 buildings and 73 km of rivers and streams were added. The information captured by drones in the area is currently being processed to generate a new task for the area. The map and vector information has already been delivered to the authorities of the Indigenous Council of the Guambia Resguardo.

Maps

• Alexander Avtanski visualised the GPS tracks he collected during hiking, biking, kayaking and driving over the past 12 years in a YouTube video.
• [1] clementroux introduces a new service that visualises public transport data from OSM. The service, named JustGo, also provides downloads of public transport data.
• The map of security cameras installed by the Moscow (Russia) City Hall uses OSM as a background. The installation addresses are marked with dots on the map, and there may be even more cameras.

Open Data

• David Morais Ferreira (osm user dmlu) shows how to build shaded relief maps, using Luxembourg open data as an example.

Licences

• MapBox highlighted the creativity of many local projects helping in the COVID-19 response using MapBox products. Nuno Caldeira is watching to ensure the recognition of the OpenStreetMap community role in all these efforts.

Software

• An article on Medium explains how Google’s OR-Tools can be used to solve vehicle routing problems. Other tools directly based on OpenStreetMap are also mentioned, both for routing and optimisation.
• Hannah Judge, from Mapbox, likes that Sheet Mapper, a tool that creates live maps including an OSM attribution with POI data from a spreadsheet, is included on Mapbox’s new Impact Tools page.
• Mapzen, a start-up which failed early in 2018, created a lot of useful software in the OSM sphere. The Mapzen open-source, MIT licensed, mapping platform has moved to the Urban Computing Foundation (UCF), founded by the Linux Foundation as an umbrella for the mobility sector, which wants to restart the project.

Releases

• Joseph Eisenberg blogged about the improvements made in OpenStreetMap Carto release v5.1.0. As usual, it will take some days until you can see the changes in the default map on the OSM website.

Did you know …

• … how to quickly and easily set up your own tile server?
• …the OSM Ireland Tasking Manager, which was set up to complete all of Ireland’s buildings in OSM as part of the #osmIRL_buildings campaign.

Other “geo” things

• Guillaume Rischard tweets that the dismantled fortress under Luxembourg City can still be detected when using newly released LiDAR open data.
• Map enthusiasts are tweeting images of maps (and map-related objects) which they have at home. The hashtag is #mapsathome.
• Another battle in the ongoing dispute as to the world’s steepest street was resolved in favour of New Zealand, according to The Guardian. We’ve reported on earlier episodes.

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14/04/2020-20/04/2020

Actual Category

• The French service “Ça reste ouvert” has now also been launched in Finland, Ollaan auki was introduced on 17 April and it is supported by Gispo (automatic translation) and the Finnish OSM-community. (Info: OSM-user houtari)
• The app “Ca reste ouvert” now exists (automatic translation) in German and covers Germany (www.bleibtoffen.de), Switzerland (www.bleibtoffen.ch) and Austria (www.bleibtoffen.at).

Mapping

• Andrew Harvey has created a proposal for the tagging of mountain bike tracks with path=mtb with the incorporated feedback of the previous discussion and is looking for feedback.
• Voting for Joseph Eisenberg’s proposal to mark the location of a motorcycle taxi stand with amenity=motorcycle_taxi has started. In many countries, predominantly in Southeast Asia, but also elsewhere, motorcycles as taxis are very common and a major transport mode.
• Andrew Harvey informed the tagging mailing list that voting for the proposal on the key locked=* has started. The aim of the key is to store information if a feature such as a gate or barrier is usually or conditionally locked or accessible.
• Ty S brought the proposal for urgent_care=* to voting, but cancelled it later in favour of the existing tag walk-in=*.
• François Lacombe made a comprehensive description of the state of the French power network in OSM in his diary. In his round-up he includes the type and number of different features in France, the sources of data, a short description of the data and provides an outlook.
• Voting has started on the modified amenity=refugee_site proposal.
• Pixel8Earth reported on their experiments to use a GoPro camera for large scale 3D mapping, on medium.com. They include a lot of useful information such as the calibration or how odometry can help. The article ends with a promising conclusion.
• Multipolygons in OSM are a constant source of discussion topics. This time a user ‘fixed’ potential issues from the OSM-Inspector, here ‘touching inner rings’ for scrub, heath, bare_rock in surrounding woods. But the original creator did not agree with the fix and not all mappers in the discussion (automatic translation) on the German forum see touching inners as an issue.

Community

• If you missed the numbers for ‘last modifier’ in Pascal Neis’s ‘How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?’ statistics, we’d like to share Pascal’s tweet with you which says the numbers are back.
• OpenStreetMap Ireland organised a week long, online mapping campaign on its present #osmIRL_buildings task, which started on Monday 20 April and is running until the following Monday (27 April).
• eiskalt-glasklar wrote (automatic translation) a diary post where he laid out his thoughts and wishes for a new version of public transport tagging schema.
• Geomob, ‘a series of regular events in European cities for location based service creators and enthusiasts’ held for the first time an online geomob on 7 April. Ed Freyfogle of OpenCage, together with Steven Feldman of mappery.org, summarise this attempt in a podcast. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed as well as consequences from the experiences of this first online meeting. Ian Landsman also wrote an interesting blog post about hosting online conferences.
• Maggie Cawley and Jennings Anderson presented the results of an OpenStreetMap US community survey. Besides old but apparently true stereotypes of the typical OSM mapper being a 30 to 50 year old, white man, there are some interesting new findings. For example, 44% of respondents are using OSM professionally.
• Proposals for this year’s OSM Awards can still be submitted until 10 May 2020.
• Valeriy Trubin continues his series of interviews with OSMers from Russia. He spoke with Alexey Kalinin (automatic translation), who created a paper map of southern Urals using OSM data, and Alexandr Zeynalov (automatic translation), who is the keeper of the keys to the RU-OSM servers.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Chris Beddow, from the OSM Foundation’s Microgrants Committee, is calling for applications for the recently introduced program. All OSMF members can apply for the funds. Further details can be found on a dedicated wiki page.
• Allan Mustard, from the board of the OSM Foundation, summarised his impressions of the talks he has recently held with members of OSMF’s Board of Directors and of the OSMF Advisory Board, corporate OSMF members and local chapters. He identified OSM’s core infrastructure, communication to local chapters and communities, vector tiles, frustration with the OSMF board, diversity/inclusion as well as artificial intelligence/machine learning as important topics. Interestingly none of his important topics are about mapping, which is surprising in a mapping project. This is probably due to the people he talked to. If you speak with mappers you may get completely different answers such as questions about multipolygons or an area data type, public transport mapping, a ‘gold standard’ for tagging, the non-representative proposal process for new tags, poisoned or quasi non-existent relations between regionally divided communities and probably many, many more.
• Some OSMF working groups have published new minutes of their meetings. The topics discussed in them include:
  • Local Chapters and Communities Working Group meeting of 23 March (Local Chapters Survey, comparison of national OSMF websites)
  • Microgrant Committee meeting of 17 April (submission form, next steps)
  • Diversity and Inclusion Special Committee meeting of 9 April (revision of the Diversity Statement, current work)
  • Licensing Working Group meeting of 12 March (Brexit, Attribution Guideline, Change of Licence)

Events

• Students of the University of Delaware organised a mapathon for Earth Day on 22 April 2020. The participants were asked to improve the mapping of the African country Malawi. During the event the mappers completed 1,222 buildings and 50 km of roads.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT is launching Rapid Response Microgrants: COVID-19 which aims to bolster the mapping of unmapped areas with vulnerable communities, which are at risk of being forgotten without assistance with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maps

• Internet portal fontanka.ru has created a project to support local businesses in St. Petersburg. It is called ‘Buy from your own‘ (automatic translation). Due to the coronavirus local businesses in main cities are on the verge of shutting down. The businesses that need help are displayed on the map.
• Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group published an article about a visualisation of the completeness, in OSM, of health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa made with its OSM History Explorer ohsomeHEX.
• Sergey Myshlyakov (an OSM user from Russia) created a map (automatic translation) of the spread of Sosnowsky’s hogweed in the Moscow region. The information was obtained by automatic analysis of satellite images.

Open Data

• The Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany, changed the General Terms and Conditions for some of its geodata, which were already provided under a free and open licence but required attribution, in a way that allows OSM (automatic translation) to use the data. The attribution note does not necessarily have to be included in the direct visual context of a product made with OSM data, usually a map, if the data from this source represents only a minor share.

Software

• [1] Egor Smirnov, from ITMO University, (automatic translation) St. Petersburg, explains in his diary why he developed (automatic translation) YourMaps, a service to export data from OSM.

Programming

• Geofabrik’s blog provides a useful article for all of those whose tile server stopped updating recently. Frederik Ramm helps identify what the issue may be, as there may be more than one, provides some background information, and outlines solutions for the issues.

Releases

• Roland Olbricht introduced the new Overpass API version 0.7.56. The first update in over a year brings new functionality such as filtering ways by the angles of their inner vertices and the possibility of restricting a recursion to only some members of a set.
• CyclOSM v0.3.5 has been released with new features such as mountain bike difficulty scales, inner tube vending machines, and railways at low zooms… A short overview can be seen in the release twitter post and the full change log here.
• The HOT NGO has released Tasking Manager version 4. All improvements are detailed in the release notes. The new version is available in the source code repository and on 6 May, the new version will be launched on the HOT Tasking Manager.

Did you know …

• … that OSM can be embedded into Drupal CMS?
• … the sites sunders.uber.space and osmcamera.dihe.de, where you can view the surveillance cameras mapped in OSM? These sites are made using the code from the project osmcamera.
• … Pascal Neis’ updated webpage resultmaps featuring all the tools he offers for OSM?

OSM in the media

• softwareengineeringdaily.com published a podcast with Saurav Mohapatra and Jacob Wasserman, from Facebook, to talk about the tools which Facebook has built to deal with OSM data.

Other “geo” things

• The esri.com Africa GeoPortal has made available analysis-ready OpenStreetMap data for all of Africa on their platform.
• Yandex took panoramas (automatic translation) of the empty streets of Moscow.
• The Gigarama project took a bird’s-eye view of the construction of an antivirus centre in New Moscow.

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21/04/2020-27/04/2020

Mapping

• alexkemp blogged about his work in OSM on complex multi-site schools, specifically on the Heath Mount School in Hertford, England. In his blog he details the steps he made with JOSM to deal with the complex mapping task.
• CupIvan, an OSM user from Russia, has created a validator that shows post offices on a map. The orange colour indicates that the data in OSM is wrong or incomplete and the blue colour indicates that everything is OK. He invites (automatic translation) everyone to join his little mapathon and sort out all of the post offices in Russia.
• Andreea Banciu, from Telenav, has announced a project to improve navigation in Frankfurt and Rüsselsheim on the local OSM mailing list. The project targets street tagging, turn restrictions and the geometry of ways. She asked the OSM community for information about other local OSM communication channels and local data sources.

Community

• There are many communication channels for OSM enthusiasts. A reader informed us that the ‘OSM World’ discord channel just exceeded 1000 participants. If you are interested in joining, our reader provided an invite link.
• Rohubi analyses (automatic translation) in his user blog the differences between elevation profiles that different providers have determined from OSM route relations, but partly different elevation datasets. It is particularly noticeable that the profiles of Waymarked Trails are clearly smoothed, which is due to the use of the ASTER elevation data model, Version 2.
• ZKir published a video review of the Street Complete mobile app, which is used to edit OSM from a smartphone.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The agenda, the action items for the board members and parts of the minutes of the OSMF board meeting on 21 and 22 March 2020 have been made available. The minutes of the conversation with the sysadmins are also an interesting read.
• Meeting minutes of the OSMF working groups are available:
  • Operations Working Group on 10 April
  • Engineering Working Group on 16 April
• SunCobalt showed that the OSM project is accumulating more and more guidelines, terms of use and other regulations, the length of which are no longer reasonable for a reader.

Events

• The annual meeting of the in Austrian OSM association will take place (automatic translation) on 7 May 2020 online using Jitsi. Non-members are welcome to join the event.

Maps

• News from “Ca reste ouvert”, they now:
  • appear in 15 languages among others Catalán and Galego
  • offer a list view and allows the selection of subcategories;
  • have an app available for Android and iOS with English, French and German instructions, otherwise all 15 languages are supported;
  • and enable adding data about the availability of masks and hand sanitiser in pharmacies and other shops, however this data is not imported into OSM, because it is expected to change regularly; this feature is useful for countries where masks are obligatory..
• Eric Gundersen (CEO of Mapbox) published, on Medium, an article ‘Alternate care sites to expand bed capacity in Los Angeles mapped by UrbanFootprint’ talking about some maps created by UrbanFootprint to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Dhelfer announced on the Alsatian local list and twitter the availability of an OSM tile server with Alsatian rendering of names (name:gsw).
• The Austrian user gsa has created (automatic translation) a map, which displays pharmacies and whether and how often the website uses terms such as homoeopathy, Schuessler salts or Bach flowers (see Wikipedia), i.e. the German words Homöopathie, Schüsslersalze, Bachblüten, which he calls collectively ‘esoteric’.

switch2OSM

• The Ukrainian Minister of Interior Affairs Arsen Avakov published (automatic translation) a map of flights around fires in the Chernobyl nuclear power station exclusion zone. The map is based on OSM.
• Facebook has created a map of COVID-19 distribution in the US. OSM is used as a basemap.
• SpeedTest, an internet speed measurement service, has created a map of 5G network implementation around the world. OSM is used as a basemap.

Programming

• Ivan Begtin has developed a tool for processing data using the undatum command line. This tool allows you to convert, split, calculate frequency, statistics and check data in CSV, JSON and BSON files.
• Rory McCann blogged about software he has created to make heatmaps based on OSM data. In his post he demonstrates the functionality by making maps based on the sport=* tag.

Releases

• There is a fresh release of Maputnik 1.7.0. You can read about new features in the blog article.

Did you know …

• … the Procedural City Generator, which creates fictitious cities in the American grid-based style.
• …about MapCraft? MapCraft is a tool to use at mapping parties, or any other time you need to collaborate with others in OpenStreetMap.
• … UN Mappers? It is a newly created but growing community of mappers that contributes to the United Nations’ peace-building and humanitarian efforts (we reported) by editing OSM features in developing countries with the goal of producing better data and maps for daily UN operational activities. A large number of mapping projects are available on the Tasking Manager under ‘UN Mappers’.

OSM in the media

• Kylie Foy, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. reported on efforts to use an airborne Lidar platform, paired with artificial intelligence algorithms, for identifying the status of roads after a disaster to allow routing around impassable roads. The identified road network with recognised anomalies is merged with OpenStreetMap to create a useable network for route planning.

Other “geo” things

• Sidewalk (or pavement) infrastructure has a significant effect on how easy social distancing might be for users. Two initiatives this week map sidewalk widths in New York City and Paris. In many areas of both cities sidewalks are often too narrow for pedestrians to pass whilst allowing for the desired physical separation (1.5-2 metres or 6 feet). Historically, mapping widths of sidewalks has been a minority sport on OSM. Now is the time to collect this information.
• The cartographer Daniel Huffman blogged about his just finished project An Atlas of North American Rivers, an interestingly styled atlas of the major rivers in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
• Citylab asked people to draw maps of the worlds they can access under lockdown. They drew tight floor plans, ‘sanity’ walks, and the people they miss seeing.
• Roger Kain published, on Talking Humanities, an article ‘How we make maps and why’ talking about the history of cartography. He refers to the page History of Cartography Project where you can find links to books, from ‘Cartography in the Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval’ to ‘Cartography in the Twentieth Century’.
• [1] ‘The end is near’ is an often (mis)used phrase. This time Tobias Kauer used the term to label his map which visualises the final syllables of German town and village names. The source code is available on GitHub.
• On 20 April 2020 online protests (automatic translation) took place in a number of Russian cities. The citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the government’s policies by leaving messages with their demands in the Yandex.Navigator app. Messages were concentrated on the squares near the buildings where authorities are located.

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28/04/2020-04/05/2020

Mapping

• muramoto tweeted about a list of Mapillary related tools he has made available.
• Richard Fairhurst points to a curious reason for sticking with volunteer on-the-ground mapping. A local mapper added a highway=track to OSM, which Richard assumes to be correct. An Amazon Logistic mapper changed it to a service road and a Mapbox remote mapper raised a note complaining that a driver could not use this way.
• Joseph Eisenberg plans to drop the tag healthcare=pharmacy in favour of the 2006 approved and widely used amenity=pharmacy. According to the proposal, healthcare=pharmacy was unilaterally implemented as a preset in one editor two years ago.
• Valor Naram wants to replace the prefix contact:*= on all occurrences of contact keys such as phone=, email= and others. His last try failed five months ago with a high turnout of 45 in favour and 61 votes against. Hence the new venture wasn’t appreciated by the readers of the tagging mailing list.
• Martin Koppenhoefer started a proposal for ele:regional= and asks for comments. The new key should provide a space for elevation based on a ‘regionally common reference system’.
• DeBigC summarised his experience of the Irish #StayHomeAndMapIRL mapping sprint, which was held after everyone in Ireland was instructed to stay home.
• Chris Beddow, a Mapillary solutions engineer, hosted a webinar on how to improve the map in the fight against COVID-19.
• The voting for traffic_signals=crossing_only for traffic lights which control a pedestrian crossing, as opposed to an intersection, has started. It seems that the Request for Comment period was not used to discuss the proposal properly, but the discussions have started now, in the voting section and on the German forum (automatic translation).
• The latest Mapillary for JOSM release brings new features for the JOSM plugin: more flexible filters, enhanced changeset tagging, support for organisations, and more. In a blogpost Chris Beddow, from Mapillary, provides some background information.

Community

• OSM Ireland summarised the outcome of its recent #StayHomeAndMapIRL mapathon. 91 mappers added 39,208 buildings. There are still tasks to work on.
• The OSMF board member Rory McCann recaps his OSM activity in a blog post on OSM.org. The summary covers his board activities as well as his work for the Communication Working Group, hacking, mapping and socialising and a mystic puzzle titled ‘For later’.
• The minutes from the OpenStreetMap U.S. meetings on 3 February and 27 March are now available online.
• Maria Popova was looking (automatic translation) for a solution to map Sosnovsky’s Hogweed, an invasive plant species that causes burns when skin is exposed to sunlight after touching it. An even bigger problem is that without intervention, it continues spreading. On Yandex maps she was able to mark it as points, but her organisation ‘Antiboroshevik’ really needed the ability to draw polygons. She was pointed to uMap and the contributors of patches of Hogweed were pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail on the background map. We also previously reported on a Sosnovsky’s Hogweed map based on remote sensing.
• Valeriy Trubin continues his series of interviews with people in OSM. This time he spoke with one of those who use OSM in their eco-projects – Nikolai Petrov (automatic translation), the founder of the service OpenRecycleMap.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the meeting of the OSMF Microgrant Committee of 30 April 2020 have been made available.

Humanitarian OSM

• In their Missing Maps blog post, Jennifer Duong, David Luswata, and Tino Toupane describe mapping activities, both armchair and on-site, in Guinea.
• HOT mapped, with the support of the Response Innovation Lab in Uganda, all shops for energy-saving solutions in the refugee settlement of Bidibidi, in order to better understand the existing market, and to promote the improvement of the refugee population’s access to high-quality energy-saving products.
• In a blog entry HOT reported how the organisation has adapted to the current events caused by COVID-19.

Education

• Eduard Kazakov held an educational webinar about coordinate systems in GIS and their use in QGIS.

Maps

• [1] UtaArts created paper cut art using the OSM map and released the video of the creation process. In the Twitter timeline, you can view various artworks of cutout maps.

switch2OSM

• A new guide has been added to Switch2OSM covering setting up a tile server using Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa).

Licences

• Christoph Hormann has written a blog post about OpenStreetMap’s attribution. The text is also available on the wiki.

Software

• SharedStreets released Mashnet, a programming library for merging overlapping street networks without breaking existing important connections.
• Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group announced a feature upgrade to its maps client on maps.openrouteservice.org. The service now suggests alternative routes, can help with round trips and allows skip-segments parameters to be sent to the API by adding manual waypoints to ‘force openrouteservice to traverse areas of missing data or “unpassable” terrain’.
• westnordost has made a new version of his Android mapping tool StreetComplete available. According to the release notes on Github he has reworked the UI, added a profile screen and made some other fixes and enhancements.
• As we have noted before, OSM user Vascom has started assembling new maps for Maps.Me. Not so long ago he added (automatic translation) new countries: Czech Republic and Poland.

Programming

• The ten year old Stamen toner map style was ported as a vector style to MapTiler Cloud (Mapbox GL).
• Jochen Topf is working on cleaning up the code in Osm2pgsql. This software is used to import OSM data into a PostgreSQL database. Over time it has became bloated which makes it difficult to add new features. This is very important work and he is glad he found Andy Allan, of Thunderforest, and Frederik Ramm, of Geofabrik, prepared to help fund it.

Releases

• Quincy Morgan announced the upgrade of the OSM editor iD to version v2.17.3. In a post to the openstreetmap-website mailing list he details the changes in the new version. The most important change is the new function to allow flagging places which are open during coronavirus lockdowns, along with special opening hours.

Did you know …

• … there is a website (automatic translation) where you can download the latest OSM maps for CIS countries and all regions of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in PBF format? In addition, there are boundary polygons available and scripts that can be used to create such downloads.
• … about OpenDroneMap, an open source program that you can use to assemble orthophotomaps? Drone owners do not shoot orthophotomaps very often as the software for their assembly is quite expensive. This app is designed to change this situation. By the way, orthophotoplans themselves can be stored on the OpenAerialMap server, from which you can access them for mapping in OSM.
• … it is possible to show photos in a very nice way over an OSM background using Leaflet Javascript Library? Wjst will fix the lack of proper attribution as soon as possible.
• … about the Mapathoner, a plugin for JOSM, that allows you to draw objects quickly and easily?
• … about the nakarte.me website, where you can easily compare various online maps? You can also use it to plan and analyse tourist routes. Not so long ago, its developer posted (automatic translation) detailed documentation. Unfortunately, the website fails to provide an attribution or copyright notice for any of the provided maps.

Other “geo” things

• Massimo points to an animated gif from Jakub Nowosad which shows the distortion of the Mercator projection by zooming the objects from Mercator to the their true size.
• Another sidewalk (pavement) width map, this time of London. The researchers from the _Streets group at the Bartlett (UCL) used detailed Ordnance Survey data to map streets where the width of the sidewalks in total is greater than 6 m wide, defined as being suitable for social distancing.
• Daniel Sokolov explains (automatic translation) on heise.de how the USA initially used the positioning service GPS as a military tool and deliberately deteriorated its accuracy for civilian users over the years.
• The World Economic Forum presented five ways in which swarm intelligence can prevent the spread of the coronavirus in developing countries.
• The Washington Post uses dynamic maps to show how an interstate highway in the western United States cuts through wildlife migration routes that have existed for thousands of years. Due to climate change, more and more animals in the Rocky Mountains are migrating, making the road a hotspot for wildlife accidents.
• Reuters reported: Intel in talks to buy Israel’s Moovit public transit app for $1 billion. The issue is discussed on Hacker News as well. Note that their corporate edits haven’t always fitted in with the way we do things in OSM.

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05/05/2020-11/05/2020

Mapping

• _PG_ published (automatic translation) a list of techniques in his diary and tips for using JOSM that he has learned recently. Some things in the list may be new to even seasoned users of JOSM.
• Jan Michel proposed improving vehicle tagging by including electric_bicycle= and speed_pedelec= into the schema for access rights.
• Joseph Eisenberg wrote about how the proposal for amenity=motorcycle_taxi was not approved in a wiki vote. He makes a number of points, one which highlights how tag voting is dominated by people from first-world countries.
• OpenStreetMap contributor IsStatenIsland shows a commendable attention to detail in their account of making the boundary of New York State on Ellis Island more accurate.
• higa4 describes (automatic translation) how to analyse and manipulate OSM data tagging with OpenRefine.
• Micromapping does not stop at playgrounds. In the German forum a discussion started (automatic translation) about the tagging of a tree house in a playground.

Community

• The portal Ça reste ouvert is now active in Italy and the user interface has been translated into Italian. restiamoaperti.it allows users to visualise and update businesses’ availability and other specific information during the COVID-19 emergency. All of the data available in the map are based on OSM and are actively updated by the local OSM community. (automatic translation)
• Maggie Cawley and Alyssa Wright, from OSM US, are interviewed in Sustain Ep. 28, a podcast about sustainable FLOSS.
• User Silka123 summarised (automatic translation) a ‘Couchmapping’ project of the Russian community. 37 mappers helped to improve the data for Yegoryevsk, a town in the region of Moscow. This couchmapping was different than previous remote mapping activities as there was much more social interaction, not just conversations but also live streams during the mapping and a lot of knowledge transfer. Hence, it is not surprising that one commenter on Silka123’s blog post describes his personal, positive experience.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Tobias Knerr started a talk on the OSMF mailing list titled: ‘Framework for the foundation’s hiring practices’ and initiated an ongoing discussion.
• The announcement of the application by Geolibres to become a local chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation in Argentina prompted a discussion about the legal barriers to becoming a member that exist in the by-laws of local chapters. Craig Allan noted that only the local chapter in Iceland has unlimited open-door membership.
• The OSMF Data Working Group published activity reports for the first and second quarters of 2019. The reports disclose noteworthy events of vandalism and copyright violations and are an interesting read, particularly regarding a novel type of vandalism termed ‘Anti-Pokemon’.
• The minutes of the meeting of the OSMF Licensing Working Group on 9 April have been published.

Events

• The Programme for the online conference State of the Map 2020 (4 and 5 July) has been published.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT presented the new Tasking Manager. The improved frontend with integrated iD editor and mapping roles such as Validators, Mapper and Project Manager are intended to assist collaborative mapping.
• Sawan Shariar, from the OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Foundation, blogged about his background, HOT’s role in the humanitarian mapping world and his new role as Data Quality Intern for HOT. The hire of a ‘Legendary Mapper (Highly Active)’ in a position intended to care about data quality will hopefully lower the number of complaints about data quality issues.

Open Data

• Researchers from the University of Southampton have created the first global, open-access, harmonised spatial datasets of wind and solar installations. The data are based on power infrastructure objects in OpenStreetMap. They analysed global distribution and estimated output through a combination of techniques including other third-party external data. The datasets are available in a range of formats: geopackages, shapefiles, or comma-delimited text. Last but not least their data pipeline is documented and can be re-run anytime. It is worth checking in OpenInfraMap whether the power infrastructure around your area is mapped correctly.
• Mikel Maron, from Mapbox, described how mobility data and map data can be used to analyse the risks which arise from a ‘re-opening’, or the different types thereof, to help communities and policymakers.
• The OpenStreetMap Croatia team has processed and published two sets of data from the Zagreb City Office for the Strategic Planning and Development of the City, for which permission has been granted for use in OpenStreetMap. These are topographical data (automatic translation) and POI data (automatic translation) for the city.

Programming

• [1] GraphHopper needs feedback for a new feature where even people without programming or Java knowledge can influence the routes produced by GraphHopper.
• Jochen Topf continues his blog posts about osm2pgsql. Last month he wrote about the technical details and changes he made to reduce the ‘technical debt’ in the code. He now continues with a blog post about his work on adding ‘flex output’, an output option for osm2pgsql which allows the user to specify the handling, transformation and database storage options for each OSM object.

Releases

• Joseph Eisenberg announced the release of v5.2.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto style sheet, which is the style for OSM’s main map. The changes include adding rendering of man_made=goods_conveyor and waterway=canal with tunnel=flooded, removing rendering of residential, unclassified, cycleway, path, and track highway areas, and many more changes, which are as usual listed on GitHub.
• With v19 Tobias Zwick has released a large update for StreetComplete. The most important additions are statistics and achievements through which users are introduced to OpenStreetMap, its editors, community and related projects. In the release notes, he mentions that this will probably be the last big update for some time.

Did you know …

• … that Ed Pratt cycled around the world and used maps.me and OSM to navigate his way? The rest of his videos are enjoyable as well.
• … OSM Streak, the gamified web application that encourages you to do small tasks for OpenStreetMap every day? There is also a channel on Telegram named @osm_streak.

Other “geo” things

• Bloomberg’s CityLab features an article on how forms and functions of maps change during the coronavirus. The article also highlights the efforts of the Library of Congress to collect maps and visualisations of the coronavirus pandemic and includes an interview with John Hessler, from the Library of Congress.
• These maps reveal how COVID-19 has influenced our mobility patterns.

Upcoming Events

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12/05/2020-18/05/2020

Mapping

• Mapillary images have been used by the Ukrainian community to map over a thousand speed bumps in Kiev.
• muramoto tweeted screenshots of two tools. Street-level POI Viewer displays POIs from OSM and Wikipedia over Mapillary images. He also pointed to another tool that allows the calculation of angles and distances, also based on Mapillary and an OSM basemap. You can use the two values to determine heights with the online calculator provided. The project files are available on GitHub.
• Pascal Neis drew attention to the high share of paid mappers. He specifically mentioned India, where 8 of the top 10 mappers are working for Facebook.
• Ty S wants to mark areas that have dangerous dogs and has created a proposal for dog_warning=*.
• User SteveA wanted to use boundary=administrative for a range of local government entities in Connecticut. This led to long and involved discussions on both the talk-us and tagging mailing lists as to what qualifies as an administrative boundary.
• Bob Gambrel asked on the talk-us list for advice about mapping snowmobile trails.
• NetWormKido invites (automatic translation) everyone to join his initiative on drawing roads to villages in the Privolzhskiy Federal District of Russia, which are currently not connected in OSM to the rest of the world. Task on MapRoulette.
• User b-unicycling is interested in field names in Ireland. As part of a local archaeological society activity in Kilkenny they have been collecting field names using Field Papers. They have also published a umap showing all existing places in Ireland where the names of individual fields have been added to OSM.

Community

• fr1 (a user from Russia) conducted (automatic translation) an experiment. He simultaneously recorded GPS tracks with a regular smartphone and with one of the new generation which uses a two-frequency GPS receiver.
• The podcast Nodes and Ways published its 3^rd episode. This episode features Ciarán Staunton, who is speaking about mapping in Ireland, particularly the #osmIRL_buildings campaign.
• The COVID-19 pandemic has forced humanity to take a pause in its activities. The Côte d’Azur University, in collaboration with CartONG, invites (automatic translation) the inhabitants of the planet to add to a map of natural phenomena and solidarity actions that have arisen in this period. Contributors are asked to remember the best too. The project Open map of the global pause was born. Add a photo to it!
• Rovastar pointed out that daily mapper numbers reached a new peak of 6999 on 12 May. The 7000 barrier was broken two days later for another record high of 7209.
• Sergey Astahov reflected (automatic translation), in his diary on GPS receivers, on the movement of lithospheric plates and how this affects OSM.
• OSM Kosova, in collaboration with FLOSSK, posted on Facebook about a series of virtual workshops held during the past two months about OpenStreetMap and Wikidata with local high school students. They were introduced to the projects and taught how to edit them properly.
• Valeriy Trubin continues his series of interviews with OSMers. This time he spoke with Dmitry Lebedev (automatic translation) about using OSM for research and Darafei Praliaskouski (automatic translation) about the work of the OSM Foundation.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Christoph Hormann (imagico) provided a statistical overview of applications for the OSMF microgrants programme.

Events

• This year’s AGIT, an Austrian yearly conference and trade fair about geoinformation, will take place (automatic translation) virtually from 6 to 10 July 2020. It is still to be decided if OSM and OSGeo will be featured.
• The Transatlantic Council of Boy Scouts of America organised a five-day Virtual Mapathon Challenge, allowing Sea Scouts to complete community service requirements by completing tasks on the HOT Tasking Manager.
• Geomob events organised by OpenCage and Mappery have so far taken place in London, Munich and Barcelona. Since COVID-19 the talks, which always have a geographical background, have taken place on the Internet. Commercial and non-commercial, open and closed source speakers report on their work. The next online conference will take place on 10 June. All are welcome to attend, but places are limited to 100 people, on a first-come, first-served basis. Details of how to sign up, and other news, can be found in the monthly newsletter forthcoming in early June.

Maps

• Julien Minet introduced OpenArdenneMap a cartoCSS style optimised for several scales of topographic maps. The style is available on github.
• Jochen Topf’s recent release of the osm2pgsql flex backend has been discussed generally by Adrien Pavie, and very specifically by Styxman, who is interested in rendering bus routes.
• The University of Heidelberg has stopped operating its tile server Mapsurfer.NET due to organisational difficulties.

switch2OSM

• The tourist portal of the Republic of Mordovia (region in Russia) uses OSM as a basemap. Unfortunately, the site does not attribute OSM properly.
• A team of Russian urbanists has started a public GIS project on analysing public transport routes. So far in Moscow (automatic translation) only, but OSM is the basis of their project. At the moment they are also raising (automatic translation) funds for further development of the project.

Software

• [1] The French company Magellium announced (automatic translation) on talk-fr a new ‘Tracking changes’ web portal for the magOSM project. About twenty themes are available, covering metropolitan France for the past 30 days. On the database side it uses PGSQL triggers on osm2pgsql tables to detect and store changes before analysing them. The source code is published under a free licence.
• We have written earlier about the open source program OpenDroneMap that can be used to assemble orthophotomaps. This article (automatic translation) explains how to make the app work.

Programming

• In a blogpost Mikel Maron, Lead Mapbox Community team, co-founder of HOT and OSMF board member, published an interview with the Tasking Manager’s lead developer, Felix Delattre, on technical details and other background information of the new version of HOT’s widely used tool.
• In March, Paul Norman reported to the QGIS developers that a particular feature (XYZ tile backgrounds) consumes far more slippy map tiles than necessary. QGIS now represents 5% of all tile requests on the main OSM servers. QGIS developer elpaso has filed a pull request with a fix which should be included in the imminent release of QGIS 3.14. The fix also provides backport patches for two earlier versions: 3.10 and 3.12.
• OpenMapTiles provided an update on recent developments (with the slightly misleading title of ‘The Future of OpenMapTiles Project’) with their software stack. A significant change is moving away from using MapnikVT to a native PostGIS function, ST_AsMVT, which both simplifies the stack and improves performance. They now also run continuous integration tests on the tile output after each code change is integrated.

Releases

• Translators from Latin America produced a Spanish version of ‘Mapping routes‘, Trufi Association documentation on how to map informal bus routes.
• HeiGIT, the Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group, announced the release of version 1.0 of its API for the history analysis platform for OpenStreetMap called ohsome. The ohsome project aims to make OSM data from the full history of edits more easily accessible.
• Trail Router, a service which helps users to find new running routes, improved its feature to avoid hills. A blog post details changes that have been made to improve the sensitivity of the option to avoid hills, and a new feature to avoid hills when getting multiple suggestions.
• Martijn van Exel has fixed his map OSM Then And Now, which compares OSM in early October 2007 with today.

Did you know …

• … how to map permanent orienteering course markers? A Twitter conversation between Gregory Marler and Ollie O’Brien, orienteer and maintainer of OpenOrienteering Map, provides some useful hints.

OSM in the media

• The online newspaper New Indian Express reports on how over a thousand volunteer students have been adding to OpenStreetMap through the Mapathon Keralam initiative of the Kerala State IT Mission.

Other “geo” things

• In the small village of Quiliano (northern Italy) local police had to install (automatic translation) road signs to warn truckers not to follow route instructions from Google Maps, because trucks often get stuck or cause traffic congestion in narrower streets.
• Freedom of information requests have revealed the official terminology for many parts of bus stops in London. Tim Dunn summarises the key points visually on Twitter.
• Peter Rushforth informed us about the re-opened call for positions or presentations for the W3C – OGC online workshop on standardising maps. The event is planned for the week from 21 September to 2 October 2020 and will be held in a format that allows global participation.
• The website IanVisits features an article about a map of London street trees. The TreeTalk map helps you to answer the question ‘What kind of tree is that?’ It is not obvious from the map, but the data comes from the Greater London Datastore which published open data on street trees back in 2016.
• The Guardian interviewed the Slovakian graphic designer Martin Vargic, who has created nice fictional maps including among others: ‘Britannia Under the Waves‘, ‘Map of Literature‘, ‘Map of Festivals‘, and ‘Map of Common Foods‘.
• The Guardian presents five of the best online map apps.
• Ride with gps announced that Garmin developed Varia to create a safer cycling environment. Varia is a first-of-its-kind rearview bike radar and smart bike light system that warns cyclists of vehicles approaching from behind, while also alerting approaching vehicles of a cyclist ahead. Ride with gps users now have the ability to connect these Garmin units with their Ride with GPS mobile apps.
• Russian mobile operator Beeline has launched (automatic translation) a geoplatform ‘Save the bees‘ . With this platform they want to introduce landowners and bee keepers to each other so they can exchange information. This would help to prevent the death of bees from chemicals used in fields.
• More than three thousand new petrol (gas) stations were added (automatic translation) to Yandex.Zapravki, a service which allows you to pay for your fuel without leaving your car.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-05-27
Biella	Incontro mensile	2020-05-30
London	Missing Maps ONLINE London Mapathon	2020-06-02
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-06-03
Arlon	Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap	2020-06-03
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2020-06-08
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #17	2020-06-08
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle	2020-06-09
Munich	Münchner Treffen	2020-06-11
Zurich	117. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-06-11
Berlin	144. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-06-12
Cape Town	HOT Summit	2020-07-01-2020-07-02
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01	Sri Lanka

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19/05/2020-25/05/2020

Mapping

• Voting for François Lacombe’s line_management=* proposal has started. The key is meant to be used in conjunction with power=line, power=minor_line and power=cable for describing particular topologies at their supports or other important points.
• Also, Jan Michel’s proposal for the new access keys electric_bicycle=* and speed_pedelec=* has been opened for voting.
• Peter Elderson created a proposal to add specific roles for the members of recreational route relations, namely alternative, excursion, approach, connection and — probably the most used role — main. Comments are appreciated.
• Edits by Mateusz Konieczny, made with assistance of a script, removed over 1000 tracking parameters from links within the OSM database. See an example changeset.
• Pascal Neis has implemented an additional parameter to allow the retrieval of the oldest entries from his OSM Notes service, which passes OSM error reports as an XML feed. However, it should be noted that some OSM notes have been carried over from the predecessor OpenStreetBugs and are still open.

Community

• Our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying, according to Tobias Wrede.
• Stefan Keller, professor of information systems at HSR University for Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik), Rapperswil, prepares (automatic translation) people for the end of the lockdown with links to speciality maps of every kind of outdoor activity, from visiting caves and BBQ areas to a map of public art. Unfortunately, some of the maps are specific to Switzerland.
• OpenCage talked with Alexis Markwick, the man behind Bexhill-OSM, a service that uses OSM to help expose both tourist information and local history for Bexhill-on-Sea, England.

Imports

• The OSM community in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, plans to import building data provided by the local municipality and created a comprehensive page on the OSM wiki.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the OSMF board meeting on 17 April 2020 have been published.
• The Data Working Group (DWG) published its activity report for the 3^rd quarter 2019.
• The State of the Map Working Group invites you to submit your OSM-related artwork for the poster exhibition at the virtual State of the Map 2020. The deadline is 30 June.

Education

• Sergey Golubev recorded (automatic translation) a podcast in which he explains how to use OSM data.

Maps

• [1] A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo’s public transport system shows the progression of trains. This data visualisation was produced by Akihiko Kusanagi. The source code is available on GitHub.

switch2OSM

• Another example of using OSM for eco projects is in the forecasting of unpleasant smells from the landfill near the city of Klin (Russia).

Open Data

• The OpenSpeedcam website now allows (automatic translation) its data to be used in OSM.
• DELFI, a cooperation network of Federal States in Germany, the Federal Government and other partners, published (automatic translation) a dataset under the Lex OSM licence that aims to include all public transport stops in Germany.

Software

• The Trufi Association held its own TrufiAppHackathon on 14 and 15 May. In a blog post featuring a video they unveil what they have achieved so far.
• Egor Smirnov in his article (automatic translation), on Habr, described how his visual data loader for OSM, YourMaps, is designed and how it works.

Programming

• Paul Norman recommends shutting trac.openstreetmap.org down and directing users to project-specific trackers. He also noted that there is only one active project still using OSM’s trac instance. He suggests mothballing SVN, due to the connections between it and trac.
• Paul Norman has created a prototype of a client-side rendered map based on OSM’s main map style Carto and made the code available on GitHub.

Releases

• Version 1 of routing engine GraphHopper has been released.
• The developers announced the release of OsmAnd 3.7, available for Android devices. Among the most relevant changes: new offline slope maps, full style customisation of favourites and GPX waypoints, customisable context menu, and more options for the Wikipedia map layer.
• For iOS users the new release of OsmAnd 3.14 features beta functionality for public transport navigation, new offline slope maps, options to show lines and direction arrows to active markers, and a new option to switch between top bar and widget to show distances to markers.
• Mapbox blogged about updates made to its products during May 2020. The article highlights new gestures for mobile maps and the improved Vision SDK, and provides links to some interesting tutorials.

Did you know …

• … there is video of a talk by retired ambassador Allan Mustard titled ‘”I’m Tired of Getting Lost!” or How Open-Source Cartography Improved our Lives in Turkmenistan’, given at a North American Cartographic Information Society banquet?
• … uMap, a tool that lets you create a map with OpenStreetMap layers and embed it in your website? Check out its guide on the OSM Wiki.
• … that the Saint Petersburg public transport portal (automatic translation) uses OSM?
• … about the ‘City tree map‘? (automatic translation) This project allows residents and organisations to add trees to the map of the city; you can also add information about the trees and photos.

Other “geo” things

• ‘How the world became data-driven, And what’s next?’, an article in Forbes.
• Outdooractive, a German outdoor planning website using OSM, among other sources, acquired Viewranger and MountNpass.
• The New York Times carried a story by Alanna Mitchell on the ‘height modernisation’ being carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The programme will see the old NAVD 88 system replaced with one based on GPS and gravity observations, resulting in ‘elevations’ falling by up to a metre across the USA.
• Yandex has published (automatic translation) a study on how cities are coming out of isolation.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Biella	Incontro mensile	2020-05-30
London	Missing Maps ONLINE London Mapathon	2020-06-02
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-06-03
Arlon	Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap	2020-06-03
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2020-06-08
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #17	2020-06-08
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle	2020-06-09
Munich	Münchner Treffen	2020-06-11
Zurich	117. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-06-11
San José	Virtual Civic Hack Night & Map Night	2020-06-11
Berlin	144. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-06-12
Berlin	OSM Berlin Verkehrswende (Online)	2020-06-16
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-06-16
Cologne Bonn Airport	130. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch	2020-06-16
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark (cancelled)	2020-06-18
Cape Town	HOT Summit	2020-07-01-2020-07-02
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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26/05/2020-01/06/2020

Mapping

• Russ Garrett, of OpenInfraMap, tweeted an overview image of renewable power in Europe mapped on OSM.
• [1] Pascal Neis has implemented a function similar to Twitter Trends that shows trending countries, cities and topics on his statistics site osmstats.neis-one.org.
• Zkir shared (automatic translation) his observations after participating in the ‘How to get to the village?‘ (automatic translation) mapathon, which we reported two weeks ago (#513). He also live streamed his own contribution to this mapathon.

Community

• The local OSM chapter in the United States published the minutes of its board meeting on 29 April 2020.
• The Russian OSM community mapathon ‘How to get to the village‘ (automatic translation) continues. The initiative is for contributors to draw roads to those villages that are currently not connected to the rest of the world in OSM. Now they are mapping in the Southern Federal district (Russia). Previously, they finished work in the Privolzhskiy Federal district.
• SomeoneElse has created scripts which create ranked lists of topics for a given OSM mailing list. He used it to find the most popular subjects of the tagging mailing list in May 2020, of talk in May 2012 (in the middle of the licence change turmoil), and the top posters on talk in May 2007.
• Valeriy Trubin continues his series of interviews with OSMers. This time he spoke with Yevgeniy Katyshev (automatic translation) about how new tags are approved in OSM and Nikolay Paruhin (automatic translation) about translating tools for OSM into Russian.
• Ivan Kiryushkin explained (automatic translation) how he used OSM and QGIS to build isochrones of accessibility for Rosa Khutor and Alpika-Service ski resorts.
• As we reported earlier (#498), OSM user Vascom has started to assemble maps from Maps.Me on a weekly basis. Not so long ago, he added (automatic translation) 6 new countries: Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, he started making daily builds. However, these are for only two locations: Moscow and the West of the Moscow region.

Imports

• The Russian company NextGIS reported (automatic translation) that they have completed the import of all hypermarkets of the large Russian chain Lenta. As noted on the OSM forum, they used the OSM Conflator tool for the import. The process was documented on the OSM Wiki. The import was pre-approved by the Russian community on the forum and via Telegram chat.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Edoardo Neerhut blogged about the efforts to create a formal OSMF local chapter for the Oceania region. An application by OSGeo Oceania Ltd to be recognised as the legal body of the local chapter has already been submitted.
• OSMF and GraphHopper have published a joint press release announcing the release of version 1.0 of the open source GraphHopper routing engine after 7 years of development.

Humanitarian OSM

• Missing Maps is promoting the collection of open healthcare data and describes healthsites.io and their approach to designing the platform in a blogpost.
• HOT announced the first round of recipients of its COVID-19 Rapid Response Microgrant program.
• An interview with Wille Marcel focuses on his work helping to develop the new release (4.0) of the HOT Tasking Manager.
• Neglected and Unmapped is the title of an article at the online presence Pulitzer Center. It describes the fate of Makoko, a slum neighbourhood in Nigeria, as being quasi non-existent. HOT’s efforts to map the area and increase the visibility of people and the existing, or non-existing, infrastructure makes up large part of the interesting story.

Education

• Pavel Gavrilov has made two long video tutorials (1, 2) about working with multipolygons in JOSM. (Blog post 1 (automatic translation), 2 (automatic translation))

Maps

• Nikita Slavin in his article (automatic translation) on Habr tells how he created a map of the ages of houses in St. Petersburg (Russia).
• ‘Where to move‘ (automatic translation) is a map with stories from different countries. It is based mostly on the stories of people from Russia about their life in other countries and various cities of Russia. OSM is used as a base map. Unfortunately, it does not attribute OSM properly.
• A map of the locations of evacuated people during the Second World War hospitals in Kemerovo region (Russia).

switch2OSM

• Hokkaido Takushoku Bus announced the publication of their bus route map (automatic translation). The basemap is OSM.
• The Bavarian region Freising is using OSM for its tourism marketing (automatic translation) on its new web presence.
• An interactive map (automatic translation) of waste collection sites has been created in Minsk (Belarus). OSM is used as a basemap.
• It turns out that the famous Russian social network Vkontakte uses (automatic translation) data about POIs from OSM.

Open Data

• The Baltic Metallurgical Company shared (automatic translation) images of its industrial site with the RU-OSM community.
• The Posterstein castle in Germany is interested whether cooperation exists between OSM and Wikimedia in Germany, as they have learnt about the Swiss Castle map, made by Wikimedia CH and OSM CH. Stefan Keller pointed them to some contacts in Germany but without any response so far.
• Guillaume Rischard announced that new hillshades are now available to the OSM community in Luxembourg. The most recent hillshade was computed using LiDAR open data.
• Florian Lohoff is concerned (automatic translation) about OpenStreetCam. He is taking new images faster than he can upload them, as it takes several days to process new images on the server.
• The German city of Herrenberg has created (automatic translation) a local mobility platform called stadtnavi, using OSM data and free software, to support the move towards more environmentally friendly transport modes such as public transport, car sharing, cycling or simply walking.

Software

• OsmAnd announces the release of its ‘custom package’, a new way to customise the app beyond the usual routing profile dependent settings. It allows you to specify your own rendering files, fonts, routings, maps, and other data in a plugin.
• The browser extension OSM Smart Menu has returned to being in active development.

Programming

• Quincy Morgan, maintainer of the iD editor, is thinking about releasing iD as a mobile app.

OSM in the media

• Sarah Scoles writes in Popular Science about OSM in general, the Denver building import, archaeologists, relief organisations, deforestation, ‘Geoint Singularity’, and much more.

Other “geo” things

• Possibly the first abstract traffic network by Franz Raffelsperger, 1826.
• Wulfgar the Bard, best known for his satirical cartoons about Donaeld the Unready, actually works as an archaeologist. He provides a great Twitter thread on how aerial photos and LiDAR are used in his day job.
• Perhaps maps of Germany from 1989 are now particularly inexpensive.
• Meander is a procedural system for generating historical maps of the course of rivers that never existed.
• The tool ‘Widen My Path – CycleStreets’ allows anyone to annotate a map with places in the UK where cycle paths should be widened.
• The Russian state corporation Roscosmos has released a new issue of the scientific journal Remote sensing of Earth from space in Russia.
• Moscow authorities have published (automatic translation) a map of ‘immunity’ to coronavirus.
• From 1 June walks and outdoor sport activities are now permitted in Moscow. However, the authorities advise people to go out according to the special schedule made for each residential building in Moscow. You can find the schedule on the city administration’s website (automatic translation).

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2020-06-08
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #17	2020-06-08
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle	2020-06-09
Munich	Münchner Treffen	2020-06-11
Zurich	117. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-06-11
San José	Virtual Civic Hack Night & Map Night	2020-06-11
Berlin	144. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-06-12
Berlin	OSM Berlin Verkehrswende (Online)	2020-06-16
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-06-16
Cologne Bonn Airport	128. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch	2020-06-16
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark (cancelled)	2020-06-18
Sheffield	Sheffield pub meetup	2020-06-23
Guarda	EuYoutH OSM Meeting (cancelled)	2020-06-24-2020-06-28
Cape Town	HOT Summit	2020-07-01-2020-07-02
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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02/06/2020-08/06/2020

Mapping

• The question of whether objects that are not or no longer visible on the ground should be mapped once again arose on the Talk and Tagging mailing lists.
• Rafael Avila Coya shows three different possibilities of how ‘overlapping naturals’ can be mapped.
• Would you delete a place mapped as a bouldering wall (i.e. rock climbing) with sport=climbing if an OSM note pointed to a public appeal not to publish such places? This question has been discussed (automatic translation) in the German forum.
• Jan Michel’s proposal for tagging access for new types of electric mobility devices, such as scooters, pedelecs or electrical bicycles, has been approved.
• Another proposal that has recently been approved was drafted by Fanfouer. It aims to describe particular topologies of power lines with the introduction of the key line_management=*.
• Pelderson’s proposal for new role values, namely alternative, excursion, approach and connection for members of recreational route relations is now open for voting.

Community

• Ilya Zverev has cancelled the vote for the 2020 OSM Awards and at the same time announced a new format for the awards in 2021. weeklyOSM notes that all the nominees have done very valuable work for OpenStreetMap. You can find the list of nominees in the different categories here:
  • core
  • innovation
  • writing
  • mapping
  • community
  • team
  • Ulf Möller Memorial Award
• The YouTube account OpenStreetMap Deutschland has been revived (automatic translation) and is looking for help and content.
• Like the OSMF, the German local chapter FOSSGIS runs its own microgrant programme. The differences between the two programmes are that you don’t need to be a member of the OSMF or FOSSGIS to apply and the FOSSGIS programme (automatic translation) has been running for more than 10 years. Amongst the grants this year is the popular map for historic features Historic Place.
• Toshikazu Seto, Hiroshi Kanasugi and Yuichiro Nishimura have published a paper on quality verification using OSM notes. The paper is a further expansion of their SotM 2019 Academic Track presentation.
• Ilya Zverev registered with OSM 10 years ago. On this occasion, he posted (automatic translation) a short reflection in his Telegram channel. It looks like he’s less invested in OSM now in favour of his job and other hobbies, but that can turn at any moment, but it is also worth noting that it may not change

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Michael Reichert thinks that the OSMF shouldn’t grant rights for using its name in a particular manner, here ‘OSM Buildings’, as he wants to protect the business of 3DBuildings, which has existed since 2013, following the application of Cesium to use the name ‘Cesium OSM Buildings’. The difference between 3DBuildings, which already runs a website called osmbuildings.org, and Cesium is that the latter asked the OSMF to use the name and that the viewer of 3DBuildings is available on GitHub .
• Allan Mustard, chairman of the OSMF board, came up with a proposal to improve the relationship between parts of the community and the developers of iD. It cites the often criticised tagging decisions of the iD team but goes much further. The proposal was published as a blog post and as a mail to Talk and OSMF-Talk. Comments are explicitly requested. The proposal can also be applied to other developers and projects.
• The OSM Data Working Group has released the Activity Report for the 4th quarter of 2019. It includes a curious case of ‘node reuse’.
• The minutes of the sysadmin meetings of 4 May and 22 May are online.
• The OSMF Microgrants Committee, according to a message from Chris Beddow, has undertaken a review of proposals for the microgrants programme and is still finalising the results as well as confirming decisions with the OSMF board. Notification to recipients and announcement to the community will be made in the first half of June. The committee extends a heartfelt thanks to all who submitted their ideas for consideration. Craig Allan and Mike Collinson have been appointed as observers for the process.

Events

• The Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab will host a one-hour online introduction to OSM, including a guide on how to update OSM’s data, on 16 June 2020.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT welcomes 27 new voting members.
• The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and the Netherlands Red Cross/510 are initiating an experiment to measure the effects of AI-assisted mapping in order to compare it with conventional mapping in an evidence-based approach.

Education

• The Italian user Ferruccio Cantone has published (automatic translation) a tutorial giving hints and explaining in detail how to map with OsmAnd while riding a bike.
• Open Educational Resources is on everyone’s lips at the moment. Prof. Stefan Keller, from the HS für Technik Rapperswil, announced on Twitter his presentation on ‘OpenSchoolMaps materials on OpenStreetMap and on (geo)visualisation’. Among other things, the presentation refers to:
  • Teaching materials (worksheets): Open Educational Resource (OER), as PDFs
  • Everything available on the repository in original format
  • Structure of all teaching materials or worksheets (PDF)
    • Information for teachers, introduction and preparation
    • Worksheets with solutions.

Maps

• Swedish national broadcaster SVT made a travel map that visualises how far you get in two hours based on OSM. This is the maximum distance from home allowed under the current COVID-19 travel recommendations in Sweden.
• PBS, an American media company, created an OSM-based map which visualises Wireless Emergency Alerts, which are used in the United States to alert the public.

switch2OSM

• Michael Norelli used the QGIS MMGIS plugin to geocode 48,000 local addresses with Nominatim. This drastically reduced the number of addresses which he then geocoded using Google services. This demonstrates that even if not all addresses are mapped, an astute user can still make use of them. Users should mind the Nominatim Usage Policy.

Open Data

• In a comprehensive blog post user Robhubi describes (automatic translation) issues with getting elevation data from GPS and barometric sensors. In his article, he details many aspects that need to be considered before using the data.

Software

• GeoJSON and MapCSS support is now available in Guru Maps v4.5. Users can add layers with their data to the map.
  • Several GeoJSON files can be displayed on top of the map at the same time
  • The appearance of GeoJSON files can be customized with MapCSS
  • For changing GeoJSON and MapCSS files, you can set up an update by link
  • These features are free for all users.
• OsmAnd turned ten years old. The editors send congratulations on the anniversary.
• A service similar to the Tasking Manager, which breaks an area into smaller chunks that humans can map, is ‘Divide and map. Now’. In a diary post, user qeef writes about the experiences he had in setting up the service on an inexpensive VPS and testing it with 100 mappers.

Programming

• Ubipo released two JOSM plugins: Center Node to create a node at the centre of the selection and Shrinkwrap to create various types of hulls around the selection. Useful for landuse and other areas.

Releases

• New release of JOSM: The stable version #16538 comes with the addition of Icelandic and Persian Farsi languages and countless new features and improvements.
• Track Guru (automatic translation), a tool for analysing GPS tracks in GPX files, has a new release (automatic translation). A position correction function (the manual shifting of track points) has been added.

Did you know …

• … Ethermap by Chris Lamb? The source code is published on gitlab. Karlos, from OSMgo, has created a nice map based on Ethermap. He takes the event data, just like weeklyOSM, from the calendar.
• … the javascript library openglobus by user zemledelec? It allows you to display 3D maps. He asks for your opinion.
• … the website ‘Where is the market?’ by Tobias Preuß shows the weekly markets, vegetable markets and flea markets of different cities in Germany? The software for the website is free, open source under the MIT licence, and available on GitHub.

OSM in the media

• The Markgräflerland Environmental Protection Association provides a series of maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with environment-related information, including ‘New ideas and concepts for regional public transport’. A report has been published in the Badische Zeitung (automatic translation).

Other “geo” things

• The French Archaeological Mission of Kition published a story map which invites the visitor on a journey through the urban history of the ancient town of Kition, which was founded in the 13th century BC and is today covered by the contemporary city of Larnaca (Cyprus).
• In Alta, Norway a mudslide carried several houses into the sea. This dramatic event was caught on video. (Note, that the coastline in the area needs improvement on OSM.)
• We have already talked about a map visualising street names in Brussels by gender. Now, based on the same project, another city is on board: Belgrade, Serbia. The etymology of all street names in Belgrade are mapped and 11% of streets are named after women, almost double that of Brussels but nowhere near gender equality. The original project has been refactored to allow easy use in new cities. Which city will be next?
• GIScienceHD published a short blog post ‘Exploration of OpenStreetMap Missing Built-up Areas using Twitter Hierarchical Clustering and Deep Learning in Mozambique’ that refers to an article by Hao Li et al. on Science Direct.
• The blog Map of the Week writes about Mr Tornado, Tetsuya Fujita, who not only developed the F-scale for measuring tornado intensity but also drew interesting speciality maps.
• The blog Geoobserver (automatic translation) mentioned the sinking of the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in the course of the worldwide movement #BlackLivesMatter in Bristol. It remains to be seen if the user stadtvermesser has entered the place of the sinking correctly.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Munich	Münchner Treffen	2020-06-11
Zurich	117. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-06-11
San José	Virtual Civic Hack Night & Map Night	2020-06-11
Berlin	144. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch (Online)	2020-06-12
Berlin	OSM Berlin Verkehrswende (Online)	2020-06-16
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (Online)	2020-06-16
Cologne Bonn Airport	128. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch (Online)	2020-06-16
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark (cancelled)	2020-06-18
Sheffield	Sheffield pub meetup	2020-06-23
Guarda	EuYoutH OSM Meeting (cancelled)	2020-06-24-2020-06-28
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-06-26
Rennes	Atelier découverte	2020-06-28
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-07-01
Cape Town	HOT Summit	2020-07-01-2020-07-02
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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09/06/2020-15/06/2020

Breaking news

• Mapillary announced that they have been acquired by Facebook. We await the implications of this deal and, no doubt, will report in more detail over the coming weeks.

About us

• Since issue #512, we have resumed publishing in Italian. Last week the Russian language version was revived. We are very happy and hope that by reaching new readers we can communicate enthusiasm for OpenStreetMap.

Mapping

• Probably everyone has noticed changesets with huge bounding boxes that make locating the actual changes very hard. Frederik Ramm started a discussion about whether editors should prevent changesets with such large bounding boxes and received many responses.
• patata noted that the current tagging of charging stations with socket:type1 and socket:type2 does not mention whether a charging cable is present, or if the user needs to bring their own.
• Jack Armstrong asked if we map pedestrian crossings twice; that is, pedestrian crossing tags on ways in addition to the street connecting nodes. He was told, anecdotally, that there is a Slack group that made this tagging decision.
• Erkin Alp Güney updated his proposal to introduce a new scheme which aims to unify the tagging of educational institutions, from kindergartens to universities.
• Garry Keenor asks for comments on his proposal to tag railway tracks with electrification systems using third or fourth rails.
• Mike Thompson started a discussion about the difference between path and track. A lot of people responded and there was an interesting discussion.
• In his blog, SK53 looks at the way that terraced housing in the Welsh village of Llanfair PG was built, named and how the names have changed over the years — and, also how to map terrace names in OSM. The village is perhaps better known as ‘Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch‘, a contrived 19th century name.
• Nick Johnston found a nine-year-old error in OSM, which is also on Apple Maps, HERE and TomTom. He encountered this during mapping efforts to improve OSM’s address coverage and documented his journey to find the reason for the wrong data in his OSM user diary.

Community

• The city of Rostock is testing Mapillary on a small scale and asks for help (automatic translation) to create enough training data for object recognition. Street drains and gullies, benches, waste baskets and rubbish bins are the objects needing verification, but not various small manhole covers (e.g. fire hydrants).
• Valeriy Trubin continues his series of interviews with OSM participants. This time he spoke with Victor Sherb (automatic translation), the developer of the well-known mobile navigator OsmAnd, and Sergei Astakhov (automatic translation), an experienced programmer who took more than 150 orthophotomaps of the districts of St. Petersburg.
• Ilya Zverev wrote a post (automatic translation) about why calculating the width of pavements (sidewalks) is useless.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the OSMF board meeting on 21 and 22 March 2020, when hiring paid staff was discussed, have been released.
• The Local Chapters and Communities Working Group released minutes of their 18 May 2020 meeting.
• The OpenStreetMap Foundation has published minutes of a meeting on 25 May between members of the OSMF board and representatives from gold OSMF corporate members for advice on hiring people by the OSMF. The minutes, among other things, contain information on what positions the OSMF might want to hire people for.

Events

• Christine Karch provided an update on how the format of sessions at State of the Map 2020 will change now it is an online only event. She also asks for help from anyone with a Jitsi, Mumble or Big Blue Button server who can make it available for the conference.
• Manfred Stock informed the Swiss community on how lightning talks and self-organised sessions can be held during the virtual State of the Map 2020.
• An international conference ‘All (im)mobile, all cartographers?‘ (automatic translation) on cartographic approaches to mapping mobility, circulation, flows and displacement (methods, tools, representations, practices and uses) will take place from 2 to 4 November in Toulouse, France. Contributions can be submitted until 30 June. Although the conference is in French, contributions written in English and Spanish are also welcome.
• During the online 2020 INSPIRE Conference, Alessandro Sarretta and Marco Minghini gave a workshop on exploring the synergies between OpenStreetMap and INSPIRE, which is the framework to build spatial data infrastructure in the European Union. The workshop explored the similarities and differences between the two initiatives and showed an example of data integration between them using QGIS. The presentation and supporting material (datasets, code, etc.) are available here.

Humanitarian OSM

• Ismaila Seye, a founding member of OSM Senegal, wrote (automatic translation) to the French-language HOT mailing list, about a new collaborative platform being used to gather data about flooding in Dakar.
• HOT and iLAB Liberia have jointly investigated the feasibility of using data generated from both aerial and street-level images by machine learning to augment on-the-ground mapping by people. The study areas were in Monrovia: 5cm aerial imagery (OpenAerialMap) was captured by drones and covers 20 square kilometres; around 160 kilometres of street level imagery (Mapillary) was also obtained using a dashcam.
• Valeriy Trubin recorded a video review of the MapSwipe mobile app.

Education

• Zkir (Kirill Bondarenko) created a video tutorial on how to download three-dimensional buildings from OSM into Blender, the 3D modelling programme.

Maps

• [1] Christian Nüssli created a map of all the defibrillators recorded in Switzerland in OSM. He then received a lot of feedback with submissions regarding missing defibrillators, which he later mapped in OSM.
• The Russian branch of Greenpeace has created (automatic translation) a detailed map of spring landscape fires in Russia and calculated their total area. The ‘Greenpeace Forest Forum’ gives (automatic translation) details about how the map was created. In addition, an article (automatic translation) about this was published in Kommersant (a well-known newspaper in Russia).

switch2OSM

• Yenthe Van Ginneken tweeted about a project of the week from business systems supplier Odoo to integrate monitoring data from solar power installations provided by SolarEdge. Integration is based on a custom Python package. Odoo now visualises the data over an OpenStreetMap basemap.
• Interruptions to communal hot water supplies in the Moscow region are shown on a map (automatic translation) which uses OSM as a basemap.
• The public transport portal (automatic translation) of Perm (Russia) uses OSM as a basemap.

Software

• Now there is an extension to Locus, the mobile navigator, which allows you to add and edit POI in OSM via this app.
• Stéphane Péneau announced the release of version 2.0 of RTKBase, ‘an easy to use and easy to install web frontend with some bash scripts and services for a simple headless GNSS base station’. For the adepts of RTKLIB and centimetric geolocation.
• MapTiler announced a new QGIS plugin that allows you to load map styles and custom maps and use externally hosted geodata in QGIS. The plugin has been published under an open licence at GitHub.

Did you know …

• … that you can view (automatic translation) GPX tracks on terrain using Blender 3D and the blender-osm plugin? The plugin can be downloaded for free here. A small hint: you need to import terrain first, then satellite images, and only then GPX tracks.
• … the lightningmaps.org? This ‘thunderstorm map’ shows the current worldwide lightning situation on an OpenStreetMap basemap.

OSM in the media

• Several US and China military planes flew through the Taiwan Strait recently, making the area a hot zone. Many military observers and the media have shown screenshots of the flight tracks of these airplanes through the Taiwan Strait. The basemaps, which show the flight tracks, often use OpenStreetMap.

Other “geo” things

• The voice assistant Alice (Yandex’s analog of Siri) has learned (automatic translation) how to draw pictures in response to user requests. OSM user Hind (the developer of MapCraft) asked Alice to draw OpenStreetMap. The result was rather amusing. Many users note that there is a resemblance.
• Due to the pandemic, the Life and Style section of The Observer, a British Sunday newspaper, has had some space for OpenStreetMap. The article mentions OpenStreetMap and describes how OpenStreetMap is amenable to mapping the newly walked paths that people are creating while socially distancing.
• Sberbank (a major pro-government bank in Russia) recently (automatic translation) bought the independent Russian map service 2GIS. Some observers regret this fact. 2GIS partially uses OSM data and correctly attributes this.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark (cancelled)	2020-06-18
Sheffield	Sheffield pub meetup	2020-06-23
Guarda	EuYoutH OSM Meeting (cancelled)	2020-06-24-2020-06-28
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-06-26
Rennes	Atelier découverte	2020-06-28
Prague	Pražský mapathon	2020-06-30
Montrouge	Réunion des contributeurs locaux	2020-07-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (online)	2020-07-01
Cape Town	HOT Summit	2020-07-01-2020-07-02
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #18	2020-07-06
London	Missing Maps London	2020-07-07
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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16/06/2020-22/06/2020

About us

• Since issue #516 we have been publishing in the Chinese language, more precisely Taiwanese Mandarin and Traditional Chinese as it is spoken and written in Taiwan. We are very happy and hope that by reaching new readers in Asia we can increase the enthusiasm for OpenStreetMap.

Mapping

• Chuck Sanders is seeking a consensus for suggestions on rail tagging, in particular how to use reporting_marks=* and operator=*.
• After the discussion of providing a pre-upload warning to users about edits with large bounding boxes, a ticket was created for JOSM. The idea was well-received on the Talk mailing list. The availability of the warning is scheduled for the next release of JOSM.
• Florian Lohoff has made (automatic translation) some interesting visualisations which show differences between OSM and public data in the Cologne area. He is showing not just missing buildings, but also differences in classification, such as garages or substations with just a building=yes tag.
• Voting on Garry Keenor’s proposal to tag railway tracks with electrification systems using third or fourth rails has started.
• Pelderson’s proposal for new roles in recreational route relations, namely alternative, excursion, approach and connection has been approved with 36 votes for, 1 vote against and 1 abstention.
• Joseph Eisenberg has updated the existing proposal for man_made=qanat, a type of underground aqueduct constructed by traditional methods, found predominantly in the Middle East, and asks for comments.
• Martijn van Exel found a TIGER import artifact and offered a live stream of him ‘trying to untangle this mess’. According to his blog post live mapping in JOSM with an audience was fun. In the end he found it was easier to delete the mess and start again.
• The German community has launched a wiki page for the ‘Focus of the week‘ (automatic translation). There, weekly changing tasks are listed and edited. In the past week, for example, the postal codes were checked. The group organises itself on Telegram.

Community

• Geomob Podcast published an interview with Harry Wood of OpenStreetMap London.
• OpenStreetMap US has implemented a code of conduct and defined a process for moderation for violations. The code of conduct applies to communication channels specific to OSM-US, such as Slack, OSM-US Github, the OSM-US Facebook group, and OSM-US events, but not to OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap’s worldwide and local communication channels in other regions.
• Various comments have been made about the acquisition of Mapillary by Facebook:
  • In an article on medium.com Joe Morrison asks why Facebook took over Mapillary. In his article he also sheds light on Mapillary’s products, which are not well known in the OSM community. Joe presents three reasons for the acquisition in the article.
  • Harry Wood compares the acquisition with Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub.
  • Ilya Zverev discusses (automatic translation) the consequences of the purchase for Mapillary’s future and sustainability. He guesses that Facebook might repeat the same ‘mistakes’ in Western countries as it did with AI-based tracing of satellite imagery in developing countries.
• Requests for features to be added to OSM’s main map are as regular as Groundhog Day. This time a user asked, on Reddit, why points of interests aren’t clickable.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSM’s Data Working Group has released its activity report for the first quarter of 2020.

Events

• OSGeo, FOSSGIS and OpenStreetMap will be present (automatic translation) at the virtual AGIT 2020, Austria’s largest yearly geoinformation conference and fair.
• This year’s SotM is looming and the State of the Map Working Group is looking for help. In a blog post the working group suggests ways volunteers can help with the online event, to be held on 4 and 5 July 2020.
• The Heidelberg University, in cooperation with Amnesty International Heidelberg, will host a mapping event ‘Mapping Human Rights’ on 30 June 2020.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Audacious Project has announced that it will support five projects as part of its programme, including HOT. HOT aims to map ‘a total of 1 billion people’ in 94 of the most vulnerable countries of the world over the next five years. On the Talk mailing list, Christoph Hormann reminded us that OSM does not map people but rather maps their environments. On the Mapbox blog, Mikel Maron looks back on the history of HOT, which he co-founded. A long FAQ, released by HOT, is worth a read as it includes some details about funding, HOT’s plans, and the impact on OSM.

Maps

• Well-known Taiwanese mapper Jidanni mentioned that an environmental NGO has made a map of illegal factories on farmland (automatic translation). They ask citizens who know of such factories to report these, as there is a serious problem of factories outside industrial areas in Taiwan, which violate zoning laws and regulations.

Open Data

• The UK Government’s Geospatial Commission launched its much-awaited national Geospatial Strategy on 16 June. Well-known commentators on geospatial open data were underwhelmed. Initial thoughts have come from: Jeni Tennison (head of ODI), Owen Boswarva, and Leigh Dodds. Richard Fairhurst wonders if the commission has ever heard of OpenStreetMap. At least Ordnance Survey OpenData continues.

Releases

• The API for the OpenStreetMap history analysis platform, which has been developed by Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group, has reached version 1.0.
• QGIS 3.14 and 3.10.7 LTR (long-term release) are now available for download.

Did you know …

• … that you could feast on crowdsourced sarcasm and focused nerd wrath by following @Anonymaps?
• [1] … the Mozilla (or Chrome) browser extension to help the OpenStreetMap community easily access different maps and tools to analyse OSM data?
• … Blender-OSM, an add-on that adds OSM and terrain data to the Blender?

OSM in the media

• John Stanworth wrote an introduction to OpenStreetMap for Now Then, a local arts and culture magazine in Sheffield (the magazine is being published through an app during the COVID-19 epidemic).
• OpenStreetMap India’s contributions have been well covered in this article.

Other “geo” things

• Tom MacWright, a familiar name to many in OSM, writes about ‘Ethics in Geo’ in his blog. As ever, there’s a discussion at hacker news, including the suggestion, from another prominent OSMer, that WTFPL licensing has the effect of dissuading ‘bad guys’ from using software licensed that way.
• Garmin has released details of its new Edge-series devices ‘Edge 1030 Plus’ and ‘Edge 130 Plus’. The new devices have received some feature updates but do no offer any groundbreaking new functions.
• meinGrün, a webapp for finding green spaces, launched (automatic translation) with two pilot areas, Dresden and Heidelberg, on 19 June.
• The BBC reported about efforts to map the seabed. The article assumes that crowdsourcing will also play a role in mapping the seafloor, which is still 81 percent unknown territory.
• High-definition (HD) map data is important for those interested in developing self-driving cars. Supported by the government of Taiwan, the National Cheng Kung University has founded (automatic translation) the High Definition Maps Research Center (HDMRC). The centre will help government and industry work on developing standards, processing map data, and verification of HD mapping in Taiwan.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Guarda	EuYoutH OSM Meeting (cancelled)	2020-06-24-2020-06-28
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-06-26
Rennes	Atelier découverte	2020-06-28
Prague	Pražský mapathon	2020-06-30
Montrouge	Réunion des contributeurs locaux	2020-07-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (online)	2020-07-01
Cape Town	HOT Summit (To Be Rescheduled)	2020-07-01-2020-07-02
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #18	2020-07-06
London	Missing Maps London	2020-07-07
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2020-07-07
Berlin	145. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch (Online)	2020-07-09
Nantes	Rencontre mensuelle	2020-07-09
San José	South Bay Virtual Hack Night & Map Night	2020-07-09
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2020-07-14
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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23/06/2020-29/06/2020

About us

• To strengthen our teams, we are urgently looking for volunteer native speakers to help us with proofreading.Okay, I want in. What do I have to do? Just:
  1. visit https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/ – then we already have your OSM nickname and an email address for the invitation to our MatterMost instance.
  2. then please write an email to theweekly[.]osm[at]gmail[.]com, so we know that you want to participate. Then we will send you a link to our internal wiki page where we try to explain how OSMBC works.

Mapping

• Bkil would like your help in improving the definition of a venue mostly serving artisanal desserts made in-house: a cukrászda. He would like some input from mappers in other Central European countries where they also have such amenities. An extensive discussion followed but we would recommend that you don’t read it if you are feeling peckish.
• Joseph Eisenberg asked the tagging list how boundaries of national parks and other protected areas are determined in people’s countries. This was a follow up to Joseph’s question about mapping national forest boundaries on the Talk-us mail list.
• German cities are redrawing road markings to create ‘pop-up’ cycle lanes for the duration of the COVID-19 lockdown, as cyclists demanded more space to physically distance on their commutes to work. Rogehm asked (automatic translation) the German forum for advice on how to map them.

Community

• Rory McCann reported on his OSM activities during the month of May, with much of the work on the OSMF Board of Directors.
• Unfortunately the State of the Map US Planning Committee has had to postpone their November conference. The Committee is currently exploring the possibility of holding a hybrid conference in 2021 with a live track and a virtual track, so that those who cannot attend in person are still able to participate, share their talks, and socialise with those in Tucson. In the meantime they invite you to join one of their many Mappy Hours or find a local event near you.
• Julien Minet writes in his user diary that he, despite having advertised for Mapillary in the past, will no longer contribute to Mapillary, now that it was sold to Facebook. He does not want to support a company earning money from neo-nazis.
• Bryan Housel, who had been working for Mapbox, now works for Kaart, a contractor of Apple and Facebook, on RapiD, a fork of iD which can import features automatically traced from satellite imagery into OSM.
• The Kerala (India) Government has made a documentary on Mapathon Keralam, an initiative to edit OpenStreetMap in the state.
• OSM India volunteer Arun Ganesh has given a demo of Indic map rendering (original tweet).
• User Supaplex030 analysed (automatic translation) the parking situation in Berlin’s Hermannstraße using existing OSM data and found interesting insights into the consumption of space by different transport modes.

Imports

• The Maine Address Import (#492) is finished! Alex Hennings added a Mistakes Were Made section to the import’s wiki page, so others might avoid the same traps. It took nearly a year and he wrote a brief reflection on his experience.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• FOSSGIS e.V. and FOSSGIS-OSMF-Stammtisch have released a position statement in response to the OpenStreetMap Foundation plans for hiring additional paid staff. The OSMF had explicitly asked for feedback from local chapters. They argue that both the general principles of personnel policy and the concrete creation of new jobs based on a job description should be subject to approval by OSMF members.
• OSMF has a new bank account, as Barclays Bank had terminated the business relationship.
• Joost Schouppe wrote about his life as an OSMF Board member and the reality has far surpassed his expectations. Joost notes that the Board, in his experience, is more productive than previous boards and puts a big part of this down to the new Chair, Allan Mustard.
• Since 1 July the standard style map tiles from OpenStreetMap have been licensed as an ODbL ‘Produced Work’ with no additional terms applied. Simon Poole explains the background and history of this change in the licence in a blog post.

Humanitarian OSM

• SIGenBici has been selected as the #map2020 project of the year. HOT revealed that the project from Medellín, Colombia had been chosen from the 28 groups that participated in #map2020. This project was led by Natalia Arruda and focused on mapping cycling infrastructure within the city. Rebecca Firth and Edoardo Neerhut give more details on the criteria used to select the project of the year and the other seven projects that were finalists.
• Are you a member of a mapping community that is looking for funding to expand your mapping activities? Do you have ideas about how to engage more people and train your community in how to use OpenStreetMap? If so, you can apply for a HOT Community Impact Microgrant.

Maps

• ÖPNVKarte, a map for public transport, will be available as a map layer on openstreetmap.org soon.

switch2OSM

• Proximity_13 reports on reddit that the K9 SAR (rescue dog) teams in the USA are now also using OSM-based maps. He also writes about Map attribution: ‘I was so happy to see that OSM contributors tag’, which should be self-evident, even for ‘big players’.

Open Data

• Since 1 July 2020 the INSPIRE spatial polygon dataset has been available under the Open Government Licence. This dataset maps more than 23 million property title extents across England, Wales and Scotland.

Software

• Sarah Hoffmann announced the release of osm2pgsql version 1.2.2. This is a bugfix release which updates the bundled libosmium only. It fixes an issue where osm2pgsql updates stalled on a large multipolygon relation.
• Release of Nominatim version 3.5.1 has bug fixes for two important issues with osm2pgsql (see osm2pgsql new release above):
  • osm2pgsql might get stuck during updates when running with Postgresql 12;
  • osm2pgsql might hang when processing extremely complex multipolygons.
• The Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group announced that documentation for version 1.0 of the ohsome API has been released.
• The new QGIS 3.14 version adds support for the native loading of vector tiles. Adam Laza’s blog post gives more details.

Programming

• Frédéric Rodrigo wrote (automatic translation) a detailed article on an approach for automatically reconstructing the geometry of polling station catchments. In France electors are required to vote at specific polling stations. If the catchment areas of these polling stations were known, then maps of electoral results could be produced.
• Alex Hennings made a tool to help with bulk tag modifications, expressing them as SQLite queries. Alex created it to help with translation while working on OSM imports and he hopes others find it useful.

Did you know …

• … that RapiD, Facebook’s iD fork to load automatically traced features into OSM, does not offer automatically traced features in Iran and North Korea because they are not allowed to do so under US sanctions?

OSM in the media

• Accenture estimates the value of OSM data at USD 1.67 billion.

Other “geo” things

• Marcel Reinmuth wrote about a method for comparing physical access to healthcare across Sub-Saharan Africa. HeiGIT used hospital locations and the ORS Isochrone service to calculate travel-time distances from hospital locations and the respective reached population per country.
• Steven Feldman reflected on the minor spat that broke out in the Twittersphere between Amber Bosse and Kenneth Field, over Kenneth’s ironic #cartofail decision tree.
• OSGeo:UK ran a one day online FOSS4G event on 17 June 2020. Videos of the presentations are available here.
• Michael Spencer has created a map of the density of public toilets across Scotland. The map is based on public toilet data from OpenStreetMap and the Ordnance Survey’s coastline data.
• Cartography is an extension of political power. China wants to counter the US military aircraft present in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, so publicises the tracks of US military aircraft. The SCS Probing Initiative, established by the Peking University Institute of Ocean Research, is monitoring the presence of US military aircraft. They recently showed US military plane activities on a map that complies with Chinese regulations, that is displaying the eleven-dash line, which also includes Taiwan.
• Dustin Carlino released the alpha version of A/B Street, a traffic simulation game built on Seattle OSM data. GeekWire carried a story about Dustin, his game, and what inspired him to build it.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #18	2020-07-06
London	Missing Maps London	2020-07-07
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2020-07-07
Berlin	145. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch (Online)	2020-07-09
San José	South Bay Virtual Hack Night & Map Night	2020-07-09
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2020-07-14
Nottingham	Nottingham pub meetup	2020-07-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-07-21
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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30/06/2020-06/07/2020

About us

• To strengthen our teams, we are urgently looking for volunteer native speakers to help us with proofreading.Okay, I want in. What do I have to do? Just:
  1. visit https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/ – then we already have your OSM nickname and an email address for the invitation to our MatterMost instance.
  2. then please write an email to theweekly[.]osm[at]gmail[.]com, so we know that you want to participate. Then we will send you a link to our internal wiki page where we try to explain how OSMBC works.

Mapping

• Tan is considering expanding their shop=bubble_tea proposal to cover all shops providing takeaway beverages.
• Garry Keenor’s proposal to tag railway tracks with electrification systems using third or fourth rails has been approved.

Community

• The OpenStreetMap Asia community has decided to have State of the Map Asia 2020 as an online event. To volunteer please login to Slack or GitHub.
• The record recently set for the number of daily mappers has attracted attention (we reported earlier). Andrew and other CWG members asked Pascal Neis if he could provide some insight. According to Pascal, the record week in May featured increased mapping in Peru, Botswana, Central African Republic and other countries. In particular, a large number of newly registered members started contributing to the Cusco region of Peru.
• Sarah Treanor and Katie Prescott wrote up a series of interviews that they had with people involved with HOT, for the BBC. The article highlights how the availability of good maps can be a matter of life and death and the lack of a commercial incentive to identify the nearest Starbucks leaves large parts of the world inadequately mapped.
• Volker Gringmuth, aka kreuzschnabel, known through countless very productive posts in the German forum and from his tutorial ‘Getting started with OpenStreetMap’ , declared (automatic translation) on his blog that he does not want to contribute to the OSM community any more and wants to give up mapping. Hopefully the numerous blog comments will encourage him to change his mind.
• Frederik Ramm’s talk ‘There might have been a misunderstanding…’ at SotM 2020 inspired a philosopical discussion (automatic translation) on the German forum. Skinfaxi started the conversation by asking ‘We have map in the name. Shouldn’t we then also convey a clear mission statement that the information we collect meets basic cartographic requirements?’.

Imports

• Claire Halleux asked for feedback on a proposed import of around 3.8 million building footprints in north-eastern DRC and 2.7 million building footprints in western Uganda.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF microgrants committee announced 12 successful applicants who will receive grants in the 2020 tranche. Projects range from mapping new cities in Uganda, to education (Pacific Islands, Albania, Kosovo), publicity material (UK), and software development (Street Complete and OSM Calendar).
• Allan Mustard, the chair of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, answered questions from participants of SotM 2020. The video of Allan’s talk is available here.

Events

• Poster presentations from the State of the Map 2020 have been uploaded here.
• One of the biggest and most important Open Source conferences in Taiwan, COSCUP, will be held on 1 and 2 August in Taipei, Taiwan. And of course the OpenStreetMap Taiwan community will be around, collaborating with the Wikidata Taiwan community, providing numerous lectures on the second day of COSCUP. Even with the threat of COVID-19, they are still having the COSCUP event in a physical venue, with some speakers’ talks in streaming format. In-person attendees need to follow the Guidelines for Prevention and Protection of COVID-19 and fill out the Personal Health Declaration Form before participating the event.
• Videos from SotM 2020 are now starting to be available from here. Session pads are also available for each session.
• Christoph Hormann reviewed the SotM 2020 artwork from a cartographic perspective and uses it to note some of the pitfalls of generalisation; it is hard to shrink the world to the size of a sticker. Bernelle Verster responded by explaining the realities of time constraints, available skills, and available contributors.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Missing Maps Group congratulated HOT on being selected as an Audacious Project.
• The HOT Tech Team has launched their new blog.
• The second round of rapid response micrograntees has been announced.

Education

• Researchers from the Ohio State University have studied access to green spaces in metro areas. They combined census-block-group demographics, OpenStreetMap data and socioeconomic data with satellite imagery to analyse access to green spaces and vegetation in two metropolitan areas: Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia.

Maps

• OpenAndroMaps reports that more and more boundaries are grouped in relations and thus cannot be reliably processed by the MapsForgeWriter.
• Andreas Schneider reported about his work on the adaptation of the OSM leisure map for the Garmin Fenix smartwatch.
• [1] Swedish company, Ground Zero Communications AB, are trying to rebuild Wambacher’s OSM-Boundaries map series. The new site is pre-alpha.

switch2OSM

• Pierre Béland thanks DJI for using an OpenStreetMap background for their Drones interactive rescue map and suggests that they should add the appropriate OSM attribution to recognise efforts of the community in supporting such projects.

Software

• Michal Migurski, of the Operations Working Group, reported on action to monitor the server used for the OSM Q&A site. It is hoped that greater instrumentation of the server will help identify the cause of sporadic faults in the UI which we reported earlier.
• Xiao Guoan has written a manual on setting up an OSM tile server for Debian Buster.
• ZeLonewolf wrote a guide how to install a ‘complete’ Overpass stack on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Programming

• Even Rouault, one of the main developers of the GDAL library, pointed out in an e-mail to the mailing lists GDAL-Dev and QGIS-Developer that Spatialite, with no new release for almost five years now, will soon no longer be compatible with current versions of the Proj library. The geospatial community has to decide whether to fork Spatialite or to remove spatial analysis functions from GDAL and QGIS.
• Write access to the OpenStreetMap Trac will be disabled at the end of July. The OpenStreetMap Subversion repository will follow in August.
• Mapbox took a further step out of the open source ecosystem. The release notes of the first alpha releases of Mapbox GL Native for iOS 5.10 and Mapbox GL Native for Android 9.3.0 mention that they have started depending on non-free dependencies released under Mapbox Terms of Service, not a free and open licence. Only Mapbox clients can access these binaries. (via @RichardF on Twitter).

Releases

• Changelog JOSM / 2020-07-02: Stable release 16731 (20.06).
• François has released a new version of indoor= that brings visual, interaction, and deployment enhancements. indoor= renders indoor data available in OpenStreetMap .

Did you know …

• … Prof. Alexander Zipf presents HeiGIT gGmbH, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology at Heidelberg University, which aims to improve knowledge and technology transfer from fundamental research in geoinformatics to practical applications.
• … the journaliststoolbox, a list of mapping and geocoding resources for journalists?
• … the OSM mailing list for science?

OSM in the media

• Listen to Jerry Brotton who navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping, from print to pixels, and asks what is being gained and lost.
• Julien Guillot searched (automatic translation) for an application that will find you the ideal cycling route. In their Libération article they note that both Google and Apple maps are indicative of the influence of car traffic in our societies, by their lack of cycling infrastructure information.
• On the website of the Ukrainian blog 0629.com.ua an article has appeared (automatic translation) in which the ‘on-the-ground’ rule is discussed in relation to the disputed parts of the Donbass region.

Other “geo” things

• Bosch announces a new Nyon on-board computer and Kiox software update that will greatly improve e-bike riders’ experience. Navigation is now fully integrated using ‘Open Street Map’.
• How smart bins are helping one city understand the impact of lockdown.
• ‘Israeli Military Launches Radical New Google Maps Alternative’ by Zak Doffmann in Forbes.
• ‘OpenStreetMap, a global map for worldwide insight’ by Mikel Maron, Lead Mapbox community team.
• What’s new in ArcGIS Online?

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2020-07-14
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen	2020-07-14
Nottingham	Nottingham pub meetup	2020-07-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-07-21
Berlin	13. OSM-Berlin-Verkehrswendetreffen (Online)	2020-07-21
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-07-29
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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07/07/2020-13/07/2020

Mapping

• Mateusz Konieczny wants to know whether there is a way of tagging to distinguish between company offices the public can walk into and those where if you tried, it would result in being escorted out by security.
• Michael Montani has requested comments on their proposal to introduce a natural=bare_soil tag for ‘an area covered by soil, without any vegetation’. (Nabble)
• Matthew Woehlke wants feedback on his junction=intersection proposal. The new tag would identify portions of a highway which are part of an intersection. (Nabble)
• Skyler Hawthorne asked the tagging list if there is an accepted way to tag terrace buildings that have names.
• Mike Thompson has noticed that network has different meanings and possible values depending on the type of route it is added to. They asked the tagging list why the network tag can’t have consistent meaning across all route types.
• Someone has made a site relation for the Aurelian city walls of Rome. Martin Koppenhoefer asks the readers of the tagging list if this makes sense.
• Speciality coffee is a term for the highest grade of coffee available. Jake Edmonds is seeking suggestions for how to tag cafes that serve speciality coffee.
• Martijn van Exel’s series of Tuesday evening JOSM streams continues. He is looking for suggestions of what he could cover in future sessions.
• Fabian Kowatsch introduced the new filter parameter available in the OpenStreetMap History Data Analytics Platform (ohsome).
• higa4 analysed (automatic translation) the change over time of the OSM map of Japan using ohsome.
• The Belgian Green Party launched a new tool (automatic translation) to help crowdsource information on nature reserves and forests. The tool uses and contributes to OpenStreetMap directly.

Community

• On the Talk-at mailing list, the contributor plepe presented (automatic translation) his ogd-wikimedia-osm-checker. It compares (automatic translation) the entries of different OGD datasets with Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and OpenStreetMap. The source code is also available.
• The OSM April Fool’s joke from 2017 (adaptations to plate tectonics) was not recognised as such by ScubbX and a discussion about it was started (automatic translation) on the Talk-at mailing list recently.
• OSMF Board member Rory McCann reported on his activities in June – both within and outside the Board.
• Harry Wood intends to end the decade-old tradition of weekly ‘featured images’, unless others are willing to step up and take over his role.
• Dara Carney-Nedelman blogged about their joy on discovering the OSM community. Dara also calls on all students young and old, if their summer plans may not be what they imagined, to learn a new skill: mapping.

Imports

• Homy is asking for feedback on a proposed import of public bicycle repair stations in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the non-public OSMF Board meeting on 11 June 2020 have been published. The agenda included the selection of Microgrant applicants, the membership application of a possible ODbL violator, and responses to the RFC on iD governance.
• The Data Working Group has published its activity report for the second quarter of 2020. Besides the number of tickets, it contains concise descriptions of some outstanding cases.
• The OSMF Board has amended its Rules of Procedure.
• The minutes of the Licensing Working Group meeting on 11 June have been published.
• John Whelan explained why he prefers TransferWise to PayPal when making payment or donating to the OSMF.
• The minutes of the OSM System Administrators Group meeting of 4 June have been published.

Events

• Videos of the State of the Map 2020, which took place online, continue to be uploaded to media.ccc.de.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT is looking for a Head of Community to manage HOT’s Community Team. Applications close 26 July 2020.
• HOT is supporting the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project to assist in the protection of communities from flooding.

Maps

• Martin Ždila announced that freemap.sk has been expanded to further (European) countries. The map menu is available in English, Slovak, Czech and Hungarian.
• [1] The public transport map ÖPNVKarte is now available as a map layer on OpenStreetMap.org. The OpenStreetMap Blog features an article on the new layer’s arrival.
• Are you planning an action and need an off-line map you can distribute? Using Aktionskarten such a map can be created in five minutes.
• A Dutch user of OsmAnd would like to display 1m contours, a not unreasonable request for a resident of the relatively flat landscape of the Netherlands.

Licences

• Reddit user brezherov asked if Google Maps is copying OSM. Their question arose when they noticed that after adding local businesses and buildings to OSM, within a couple of weeks Google Maps had significantly updated those same areas.

Software

• Sam Crawford explained how Trail Router works. Trail Router is a route planner whose routing algorithm favours greenery and nature, and biases against busy roads.
• Openbloc has created a new JavaScript library for the creation of 3D maps. A demo can be found here.

Programming

• SviMik has created a tool to synchronise your Mapillary and OpenStreetCam accounts. There is a discussion thread on the Mapillary forum.
• User K_Sakanoshita announced an update to ‘Town Walk Map Maker‘ . The update improves the map representation, POI information, and interface.

Did you know …

• … you have the opportunity to contribute a little bit to OSM every day? Ilya Zverev will give you a small daily task with his telegram bot ‘OSM Streak’.
• … MapRoulette? It gives you small and easy tasks you can complete in under a minute to improve OpenStreetMap.

Other “geo” things

• Harald Schernthanner distributed a funny map (automatic translation) via Twitter. It is supposed to show how a Viennese person imagines Austria appears on a map.
• The wealthier you are the more light pollution you create. Asmi Kumar explains how machine learning can estimate the wealth of an area by comparing daytime and night-time satellite images.
• The Long Beach Post reported on how they analysed a detailed data log of every person the Long Beach Police Department stopped or detained over the span of 2019. They used OpenRefine for data cleanup and the creation of n-gram fingerprints to reconcile incorrect street names against a canonical list they created using OpenStreetMap data of official street names and intersections in Long Beach.
• A Standardised Test of university entry of Taiwan, Advanced Subjects Test was held on 3 to 5 July. The geography (automatic translation) quiz had much more geographic technology related material compared to previous years’ tests. The mask map and determining where to buy masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 was one of the quiz topics which showed the concept of GIS.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Budapest	Auguszt patisserie test & drinks in La Piazza	2020-07-16
Cologne Bonn Airport	129. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch (Online)	2020-07-21
Nottingham	Nottingham pub meetup	2020-07-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-07-21
Berlin	13. OSM-Berlin-Verkehrswendetreffen (Online)	2020-07-21
Budapest	Cziniel patisserie test & hake on bank Római	2020-07-21
Ludwigshafen a.Rhein (Stadtbibliothek)	Mannheimer Mapathons e.V.	2020-07-23
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-07-29
London	London Missing Maps Mapathon (ONLINE)	2020-08-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-08-05
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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14/07/2020-20/07/2020

Mapping

• Michael Reichert would like to revert a series of surface and tracktype tags added without local knowledge by an armchair mapper. A discussion followed on the feasibility of mapping these tags only from imagery and whether reverting would be justified in all countries affected.
• Cycling infrastructure has been selected as the UK quarterly project for Q3 2020. The project’s wiki page lists details of the types of things that can be done as part of the project. Of particular note is the availability of large quantities of cycling-related data from Transport for London which needs merging with OSM.
• Adamant36’s request to add RapiD to the list of editors on the OSM map resulted in a robust discussion on GitHub.
• Supaplex030 describes (automatic translation) in his blog how measuring vibrations with a smartphone sensor gives excellent results to objectively classify the flatness of surfaces and map them with smoothness=*.
• The MITFAHR|DE|ZENTRALE has published a guide (automatic translation) on how to find railway stations without bike parking facilities.

Community

• Stephan Knauss asked what happened to the FOSSGIS affiliate link for Amazon.de. Frederik Ramm replied that the link still exists but the revenue is declining. The statistics have been updated for those who are interested.
• Andy Allan had a productive day working on the OpenStreetMap website.
• Deane Kensok blogged about a partnership between Esri and Facebook to provide data from the ArcGIS user community to OSM. These datasets are OSM-tagged, compatibly licensed, and available to use for building maps in RapID and JOSM (via a plugin).
• In Geomob Podcast #24 Ed Freyfogle interviews Peter Karich, co-founder of routing software maker Graphhopper. Graphhopper is a unique success story – they have built a thriving business on top of an open-source software project and OpenStreetMap data.
• In Geomob podcast #25 Ed chats with geo industry veteran Randy Meech, co-founder of StreetCred. Perviously Randy was CEO of Mapzen, and CTO of MapQuest.
• At the close of the State of the Map 2020 a live quiz with an OpenStreetMap theme was held, in which our team member ‘Nakaner’ took first place. A few days after the conference finished, Ilya Zverev published the quiz as a standalone game Test your knowledge of OpenStreetMap history and technology, or use the code to create your own quiz!
• Ed Neerhut wrote in Geospatial World about the importance of maps in a crisis.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• openstreetmap.org was offline for a short period of time. Due to a memory-leakage issue with creating planet dumps, the server (ironbelly) was running out of memory, which interfered with its other role as NFS (Network File System) server for the web site. In order to prevent this in future, user images will be moved to Amazon’s S3.
• The minutes of the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group meeting of 15 June have been published.
• OpenStreetMap US has applied to become an official OSMF local chapter. The supporting documentation is available on the OSMF wiki.
• The OpenStreetMap Ops Team tweeted a reminder that any Bitcoin donated to the OSMF would be used to build a stronger project.

Humanitarian OSM

• Nominations for this year’s Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors election have closed. The candidates have till 31 July to present their ideas and engage with the membership on how they would contribute to HOT in an elected role. You can find the list of candidates, the details of their nomination, and links to their candidate statements on the wiki page.
• HOT published in a blogpost what was achieved with the 2019 HOT Microgrants.
• Mikel Maron wrote a blogpost about what HOT needs to work on until 2025.

Maps

• The LandlordTech project has created a survey in order to collect and display data on new forms of housing injustice caused by surveillance, tracking, data accumulation, and algorithmic methods intruding into domestic and neighbourhood spaces.
• John Nelson wrote about firefly cartography and how these glowing maps attract feedback like no other type of map that he has made.
• Michal Migurski announced that Facebook is releasing an update to Daylight – a 56 gigabyte export of validated OSM data.
• A YouTube video about South Korea’s map service policy depicts Google’s fight for better map data, and the companies profiting from the situation.

Licences

• The minutes of the Licensing Working Group meeting on 9 July have been published. The Attribution Guideline, for which the Board of Directors would prefer a stricter version than the one LWG proposed, was given a lot of attention. Simon Poole also announced that he is stepping down from the LWG.

Software

• New features have been added to the browser extension OSM Smart Menu. Now users can create links using URL Templates [1], rename existing links [2] and access the link list from any website [3].
• John Vargas-Muñoz et al. have published a paper reviewing the use of machine learning to improve OSM data and machine learning based techniques that use OSM data for applications in other domains.

Programming

• hauke-stieler has developed a new task management tool, as an alternative to the HOT tasking manager or MapCraft, and called it Simple Task Manager (STM). On the mailing list Hauke explains (automatic translation) in detail what made him do it and how to work with the STM.
• [1] Victoria Crawford reports on Twitter about her map, which shows which roads in Hackney run toward the rising sun during the year, according to her, inspired by puntofisso, which in turn refers to Cédric Scherer’s (@CedScherer) 30DayMapChallenge. She has published her code on GitHub.
• Alexey Pechnikov reported (automatic translation) about his experiences with creating PostgreSQL / PgRouting routing systems using OpenStreetMap data.

Did you know …

• … that the OpenStreetMap wiki has an A to Z to help you figure out how to tag objects?
• … that you can view 19th century maps of Europe on Mapire?

Other “geo” things

• The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and Google Earth Engine (GEE) have announced that 32 projects, from 22 countries, will be awarded a total of US$3 million towards production licences and US$1 million in technical support from EO Data Science, to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges using open Earth data.
• Alexander Zipf reported on work done at Heidelberg University to develop a new routing algorithm for pedestrians. The algorithm minimises the exposure of pedestrians to traffic noise pollution while taking into account the route distance.
• The history of indigenous peoples and their political movements is an important issue in Taiwan. Researchers in east coast county Hualian have trained members of the Bunun people to use GPS devices, and in an expedition surveyed traces of the abandoned settlements where their ancestors lived. They found (automatic translation) 50 historic remains such as abandoned houses in the remote area.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Ludwigshafen a.Rhein (Stadtbibliothek)	Mannheimer Mapathons e.V.	2020-07-23
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-07-29
London	London Missing Maps Mapathon (ONLINE)	2020-08-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-08-05
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #19	2020-08-10
Zurich	120. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-08-11
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2020-08-12
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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21/07/2020-27/07/2020

Breaking news

• Dorothea reminds us to celebrate the 16th anniversary of OSM on 8 August. She provides some ideas on how that can be done!

About us

• Happy Birthday OSM-Wochennotiz! It was ten years ago this week that the first issue (automatic translation) of the Wochennotiz was published.

Mapping

• Matthew Woehlke has proposed the new tag sport=four_square for a sport called Four square.
• Michael Montani’s proposal to introduce a natural=bare_soil tag for ‘an area covered by soil, without any vegetation’ is currently open for voting until 7 August.
• Following the British Geospatial Commission’s announcement that unique identifiers for addresses and streets would become available as open data (we reported earlier), proposals have been produced for ref:GB:uprn (unique property reference number) and ref:GB:usrn (unique street reference number). Discussion has taken place on the Talk-GB and Tagging mailing lists.
• JesseFW provided us with an explanation as to why the coastlines on Carto hadn’t been updated since January 2020. It seems that the coastline update was another victim of the Río de la Plata edit war (which we reported on earlier).
• User mahdi1234 published a guide for beginners on visualising changes in OSM over time. He shows in detail how to create a time lapse with OSM data.

Community

• Christoph Hormann objects to the framing of craft mappers in OpenStreetMap as conservatives opposed to change. He feels that this is part of a new narrative being communicated in OSMF politics; that is, the need for change in OpenStreetMap, and craft mappers’ opposition to change.
• On the Geomob podcast Steven Feldman chats with recent FOSS4GUK keynote speaker María Arias de Reyna, a senior software engineer at Red Hat and former President of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The episode deals with María’s current work, and her recent talk at FOSS4GUK, but also imposter syndrome, and science fiction.
• Øukasz recounts their experience of two recent interactions with CartONG, one with developing a tagging schema for refugee camps and the other with importing a UNHCR refugee camp dataset. Léonie Miège, from CartONG, responded in a blog comment.
• Richard Fairhurst has written a new guide for data owners wishing to contribute to OSM. It is an output of cooperation with two local councils in the UK, which were recently funded by the Open Data Institute to investigate using and contributing to crowdsourced open map data such as OSM.
• OpenStreetMap US has published its July 2020 newsletter.
• Igor Eliezer has made a video showing how the 3D modelling of the Museu Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil) was re-worked in OpenStreetMap using the JOSM editor. The 3D preview at the beginning and end of the video is from the F4Map website and, during modelling, in Kendzi3D within the JOSM editor.

Imports

• Alex Hennings has reviewed Facebook and ESRI’s proposed ‘not-an-import’ imports (we reported earlier) of ArcGIS datasets through RapiD or JOSM MapWithAI plugin and found them wanting. Of particular concern was the lack of solicited community review on the imports-us mail list.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF board would like to consult the community on its hiring plans for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. This is the first position based on the hiring framework which osmf-talk discussed a few days ago.

Events

• Proceedings of the Academic Track at the State of the Map 2020 have been published.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT is conducting an online survey of people who have used RapiD to find out what their experience was. The data will be used to understand how RapiD could be made more accessible and usable for a variety of users.

Maps

• Nuno Caldeira congratulated, through Twitter, the Portuguese National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority for using OpenStreetMap data, and correct attribution, in a tweet about a large forest fire that occurred last week in Portugal.
• Taiwan, a nation in the Far East with special political status, has lots of outlying islands. Dadan Island in Kinmen is one of the most remote. MG, the Italian mapper, shares the Kinmen information website he created, The Kinmen Rising Project on the OSM Taiwan Telegram channel, showing photos from his journey with OSM as the base map, and of course he mapped a lot of POIs on the island.

Software

• A research paper analyses the growing amount of freely available spatio-temporal information (such as aerial imagery) to support and guide mappers in their work. Artificial neural networks identify regions of interest where OSM is likely to require updating.
• Venkanna Babu Guthula has released Label-Pixels, a tool for semantic segmentation of remote sensing images using fully convolutional networks (FCNs), designed for extracting road networks from remote sensing imagery.

Releases

• Sarah Hoffmann announced release 1.3.0 of osm2pgsql with the addition of the (still experimental) new flex output. Jochen Topf, the main contributor for this release, explained how this gives more flexibility when exporting data from OSM to PostgreSQL.
• The iD editor was updated and now has touch support, so it can be used on tablets (smartphone sized screens aren’t fully supported yet). Other highlights are integrated quality checks and multi-selection editing.
• With the release of the latest version of iD, the ‘locator overlay’, a semi-transparent overlay when zoomed out, has been rebuilt. Via the OpenStreetMap editor-layer-index, the new overlay is now available on OpenStreetMap.org, and soon on the HOT Tasking Manager and other instances of iD.

Did you know …

• … Finde.cash displays banks and ATMs with the respective ATM networks on a map? It also offers route planning by foot, bicycle or public transport, and four background options including OpenCycleMap. Missing ATMs can be inserted directly. The map is worldwide but the menu is only available in German.
• … MyOSMatic, the free of charge web service to generate city maps using OSM Data, which are available in PNG, PDF and SVG ready to print? Menus are available in 25 languages.
• … the ‘OSM Quality Ranking’ (Beta) assesses and ranks 51 US cities by OSM data quality, checking geometry and tagging for streets, roads, and relations?

Other “geo” things

• Brooklyn Historical Society’s map collection includes over 1,500 digitised historical maps spanning the seventeenth century to the present.
• Nathanael Peterlini examined (automatic translation) difficulties cartographers face when trying to please all of their users’ political views. They look at the cases of Kosovo and Palestine and how they are treated by Apple, Google, and OSM.
• Garmin has been the victim of a ransomware attack. As a result, many of their online services were interrupted or are still down.
• An update to Google Maps has allowed docked bike share riders in cities such as Chicago, Montreal and London to see end-to-end walking and cycling directions for their journey integrated with bike and dock availability. Cities Today gave some background to the new service.
• Tagesspiegel interviewed 21,000 people about what scares them on the street and what Berlin’s bike paths should look like in the future. The results are explained (automatic translation) with a series of graphics.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
London	London Missing Maps Mapathon (ONLINE)	2020-08-04
Mannheimn	Mannheimer Mapathons – Treffen im Luisenpark	2020-08-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-08-05
San José	Civic Hack & Map Night (online)	2020-08-06
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #19	2020-08-10
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen	2020-08-11
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2020-08-12
Berlin	146. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-08-14
Zurich	120. Mapping-Party/OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-08-15
Cologne Bonn Airport	130. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch (Online)	2020-08-18
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-08-18
Cologne	Köln Stammtisch ggf. ONLINE	2020-08-19
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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28/07/2020-03/08/2020

Mapping

• A blog post on The Strava Club reminded users that they can help improve the quality of suggested routes by contributing to OpenStreetMap.
• The members of OpenStreetMap Italia community have created su.openstreetmap.it, a website where you can add businesses in Italy to OSM without having an account. They have recently added a written and video tutorial with a step by step explanation. The news has been covered (automatic translation) by Wikimedia Italia with a short article. The source code of the website is available on GitHub.
• Skunk published in his blog post a entry titled ‘Mapping artwork and memorials with Wikimedia integration’.
• Jake Coppinger reviewed a number of bicycle routing apps and ranked them in rough order of which he would use for commuter cycling in Sydney.

Community

• User mariotomo writes (automatic translation) about his ‘reflections on the margins of the SotM-2020 virtual conference’, in particular from the perspective of being on a low bandwidth connection.
• OpenStreetMap US has been awarded a Geospatial Data Analytics Services Grant for the Azavea Summer of Maps programme. Eugene Chong will be using OpenStreetMap to track (and map) progress made on UN Sustainable Development Goals in several American cities.
• On System Administrator Appreciation Day Dorothea thanked our sysadmins for the awesome work that they are doing.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Mikel Maron wrote an email about ‘coordinated funding to support continued maintenance and development of the iD editor’.
• Guillaume Rischard announced, on talk, the funding of three infrastructure projects: Nominatim, osm2pgsql and Potlatch 2 by the OSMF Board. Technical issues were discussed among others by Sören Reinecke, Richard Fairhurst and mmd.
• The OSMF Board is considering splitting the Advisory Board in two and is seeking input on this move.
• The minutes of the OSMF Board meeting on 30 July have been published.
• Imagico ponders in his blog post about ‘the how and where of the OSMF starting to hand out money in the OSM community’.

Humanitarian OSM

• Médecins Sans Frontières held a missing maps mapathon on 1 August with volunteers from all over Southeast Asia. The mapathon is part of the organisation’s plan to map out Nigeria this year.
• Despite movement restrictions in the country, HOT Philippines has been able to continue training volunteers by identifying their needs and shifting training efforts online.
• YouthMappers, CommonSensing and other members of the humanitarian mapping world were covered in an article by Gareth Willmer on Devex.

Maps

• Three students created a website gathering all kinds of data related to cycling. The first version of the tool is online. The mapathon to collect data, and create a complete website to document the entire making process, was organised by Open Knowledge Belgium. They are asking for feedback.
• Peter Corless discusses how Stadia Maps improved their end-to-end latency by switching from CockroachDB to Scylla.
• After Taiwan passed the National Language Law, the Hokkien Language, mixed with Austronesian and Japanese terms, known as Taiwanese or Taiwanese Hokkien, gained official language status in Taiwan. Brandon Liu will talk about the Taiwan Taigi Map in COSCUP, one of the most important open source conferences in Taiwan. The Taiwan Taigi Map lets people explore name:nan tags which record local Hokkien names.

switch2OSM

• For some time the City of Karlsruhe has been using the API of Openrouteservice (ORS), developed by HeiGIT, to prove a routing service for pedestrians, bicycles and cars for their online city map and citizen GIS app (for citizens and visitors to Karlsruhe). You can try it here:
  • https://geoportal.karlsruhe.de/stadtplan
  • https://geoportal.karlsruhe.de/buergergis

  The client developed by the Liegenschaftsamt (land management department), city of Karlsruhe is based on the ArcGIS for Javascript API and built as a widget for the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder.

Software

• Can Yang has written a tutorial on map matching using their fast map matching library and OpenStreetMap data.
• Misiones Provincial Routes (automatic translation) is a tool built with institutional and collaborative contributions, such as OpenStreetMap, Mapillary, Wikipedia, and Openrouteservice. Developed by the Dirección de Modernización de la Gestión y Gobierno Electrónico de la Provincia de Misiones, Argentina, it is an interactive map to virtually travel provincial routes and roads. Carlos Brys, one of the developers, gives (automatic translation) more details in a Primera Edicion article.
• Ilya Zverev explained (automatic translation) how a combination of ancient anonymous edits and a new JSON output option for the OSM API caused problems for iD.

Programming

• GIScience Heidelberg open-sourced the ohsome2label tool, which offers a flexible framework for labelling customised geospatial objects using historical OSM data allowing more effective and efficient deep learning. Based on the ohsome API developed by HeiGIT gGmbH, ohsome2label aims to mitigate the lack of abundant high-quality training samples in geospatial deep learning by automatically extracting customised OSM historical features, and providing intrinsic OSM data quality measurements.
• Fabian, from HeiGIT, explained the new function in the ohsome (OSM history Analytics) API for checking query parameters. The API now uses a fuzzy string matcher to suggest which parameter you meant to pass when it encounters one it doesn’t recognise in your query.
• [1] Stina Flodström has produced a pipeline importing OpenStreetMap data into Unity, using Houdini (here is the free version for testing), to generate real time environments based on real cities. You must see the video!

Releases

• Stable release 20.07 of JOSM has been released.

Did you know …

• … that you can draw a bounding box on a map and Norbert Renner’s bbox tool will return its coordinates in a number of different OSM formats?
• … there is a wiki page listing websites that are using OSM data without correct attribution? The page also describes the steps to follow if you discover another example of missing attribution.
• … that OpenHistoricalMap is built by a community of mappers and historians that contribute and maintain data about the history of the world?
• … that Public Transport Network Analysis (PTNA) provides a daily analysis of public transport lines mapped in OSM?

Other “geo” things

• Bored Panda showed us their favourite maps from Terrible Maps.
• It’s been hot enough recently to prompt Alexander Zipf to remind us that a shady route feature is available for Heidelberg and Dresden in the meinGrün app (automatic translation).
• Burb (ˈbərb) v. the act of cycling every street of a suburb in a single ride, a variant of the Chinese postman problem. Matt and Andy competed with Jim’s optimiser to find the shortest route to burb Bellfield.
• Microsoft’s latest release of Flight Simulator is more of a vast, gamified take on Google Earth than it is a simulation of flight. Keith Stuart describes how the game presents a near-photorealistic depiction of the entire planet, featuring cities procedurally generated by AI, based data from OpenStreetMap.
• Antony Barja is excited about North Road’s new SLYR ArcMap to QGIS compatibility suite. The new tool automatically converts ArcMap MXD, MXT and PMF documents to QGIS projects, Esri LYR files to their QGIS equivalents, and Esri .style databases.
• Laura Bliss writes on Bloomberg CityLab about the pandemic-era appeal of getting lost in a labyrinth, and links to the world wide labyrinth locator. On OpenStreetMap, the attraction=maze tag is used about 800 times.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Michigan	Michigan Online Meetup	2020-08-08	USA
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #19	2020-08-10
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen	2020-08-11
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2020-08-12
Berlin	146. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-08-14
Zurich	120. Mapping-Party/OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-08-15
Cologne Bonn Airport	130. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch (Online)	2020-08-18
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-08-18
Berlin	14. OSM-Berlin-Verkehrswendetreffen (Online)	2020-08-18
Cologne	Köln Stammtisch ggf. ONLINE	2020-08-19
Derby	Derby pub meetup	2020-08-25
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-08-26
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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04/08/2020-10/08/2020

Mapping

• Matthew Woehlke has written a proposal on parking_space=*.
• Mike Thompson asked how to solve ‘apparent conflicting/redundant access tags’.
• Frederik Ramm expressed his amazement at the comment ‘any opposition vote without reason or suggestion will not be counted in the voting process’ made in the ‘bare_soil’ proposal.
• Andy Townsend answered a question that arose out of a ‘how to tag’ argument on public_transport=stop_position.
• David Dean is interested in proposing and/or documenting existing tagging approaches to ensure that all highway=service ways can have a service=* associated tag. (Nabble)
• The Rio de la Plata edit war continues in a long-lasting discussion on the tagging list.
• b-jazz reports in his diary on an ‘analysis of bounding box sizes over the last eight years’.
• Martijn van Exel writes about ‘MapRoulette News for August 2020’.
• The OSM API no longer supports TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Users of old Android devices (up to Android 4.4) should have a look at Simon Poole’s user blog to find out how to continue mapping with Vespucci on these devices.

Community

• pangoSE proposes creating a roadmap for deprecating the storing and updating of names in OSM for objects with a Wikidata tag.
• Ed Freyfogle interviewed the OSMF chair Allan Mustard.
• The District Court of Magdeburg has sentenced > three men who are responsible for the death of the former OSM activist and OSMF board member Ulf Möller near Dessau-Roßlau, Germany in January 2012 for ten to thirteen years in prison. Two previous judgements by the District Court of Dessau-Roßlau have been ruled invalid by the Federal Court of Justice (we reported about it in issues 386, 287, 282, 204 and 95).

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Mikel Maron is asking for feedback about the funding of iD development and maintenance. Many people have expressed their opinions.
• OSGeo Oceania has sent their local chapter application to the OSMF.
• Allan Mustard and Guillaume Rischard listed the OSMF board activities of the last seven months.
• Christoph Hormann’s diary entry (we reported) is still being discussed by Andy Allan, Simon Poole, mmd, SomeoneElse and others. It is worth reading all the arguments of the contributors as they are discussing essential parts of the OSM infrastructure.
• Would you like to join the OSMF? It only takes five minutes. 😉
• Allan Mustard wrote a blog post about a ‘Software Dispute Resolution Panel (“Panel”) consisting of five members’.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s (HOT) support of national and international COVID-19 responses is ongoing. Over 10,000 mappers, performing map edits in 15 countries, have made this the largest disaster response by HOT ever. To join in the effort, see HOT’s COVID-19 response page.
• HOT is seeking intermediate and advanced mappers to support Red Cross by mapping the surroundings of Beirut. For further HOT projects, including those for newbies, explore the project list.
• Rebecca Firth listed the publications planned for August on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of HOT.
• HOT’s vision is to map areas home to people living in poverty, and at high risk of disasters, by engaging mappers around the world to increase the number of local edits to the map. To kickstart planning, HOT’s Community Team hosted a series of workshops to understand community perspectives.

Maps

• Daniel Huffman has created a map of the rivers of North America as a follow up to their atlas (we covered earlier). The abstract representation reminds us of a subway map.
• Alister Miller shows how the Mapbox layer is improved by aerial imagery data.
• What is within 5 km of your Melbourne home? Find out where you can go under stage 4 coronavirus restrictions with this interactive map.
• Philip Mallis created a map of supermarkets in Melbourne in order to show which parts of the city have one within a 5 km range.
• The Taiwan government wants to unleash the control of entry to mountain areas, and let people have more access > . If something unfortunate happens while someone is climbing a mountain, the authorities won’t be blamed as access is at your own risk. Rudy map > is an electronic map made using OpenStreetMap data and DEM data released by the Ministry of Interior Affairs, combined and transformed into Mapsforge filetype, which can be loaded not only onto GPS devices like Garmin, but also into mobile map apps. When you are out of range of cell phone service, Rudy map is still available on your cell phone, and with the GPS chip in your phone, it is very easy to get location information about your surrounding area.

switch2OSM

• The Soest district police authority publishes > OSM maps showing attempted and successful domestic burglaries, under the heading ‘Reports on OpenStreetMap’.
• The Green Party in Germany is using its own Android app for its election campaign. This app relies on OSM and requires a membership login for the local chapter to use.

Software

• [1] Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group’s birthday gift (OSM 16) is a new open source, OpenRouteService mobile friendly, map client. The source code of the new client is available on their GitHub repository.
• MapTiler highlighted their collaboration with the Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo.

Did you know …

• … the Android app Fogos.pt ? It allows access to real-time information about fires in Portugal. The basemap is OpenStreetMap. Menu only in Portuguese.
• … how to easily use open source software technologies to face COVID-19 in your region?
• … OpenWhateverMap? Click on any tile to get more information.
• … the LGBT Safe Spaces Map?

Other “geo” things

• The US Air Force, concerned that adversaries might target its fleet of GPS satellites, is looking to the Earth’s magnetic field as an alternative, according to Defense One. Accurate and extremely difficult to jam, the magnetic field could be used as a means of navigation for ground troops, ships at sea, and even aircraft.
• The new Garmin Montana 700 series appeared > on the market with a 13 cm (5″) display.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	146. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-08-14
Zurich	120. Mapping-Party/OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-08-15
Cologne Bonn Airport	130. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch (Online)	2020-08-18
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-08-18
Berlin	14. OSM-Berlin-Verkehrswendetreffen (Online)	2020-08-18
Cologne	Köln Stammtisch ggf. ONLINE	2020-08-19
Derby	Derby pub meetup	2020-08-25
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-08-26
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon	2020-09-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-09-02
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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11/08/2020-17/08/2020

Mapping

• A green alley proposal from 2013 is revived: alley=official_green_alley. A green alley is a service alley that residents embellish with vegetation, such as trees, vines and flowers.
• Stefan Tauner wonders > whether seasonal businesses should be mapped with two nodes. This concerns, for example, bicycle shops that become ski shops, or ice cream shops that are rented out to other businesses in winter.
• Martin Koppenhoefer has drafted a new wiki page for tree_lined, a tag for indicating that a feature is tree lined. The tag was discussed > on the German forum.
• As part of Ireland’s 2020 Heritage Week, Anne-Karoline Distel created a video showing how to make your own heritage map for historical and heritage societies.
• The proposed tag leisure=drawing_surface would identify walls designated for graffiti.
• Woodpeck writes in his blog about why he is now mapping trees in OpenStreetMap and how he is doing that.

Community

• Kwame Odame, a doctoral researcher at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, shared his experience working as a YouthMappers Regional Ambassador in Ghana. He gave a brief overview of YouthMappers in Ghana and talked about the trips he’s made, giving insights into students’ interaction and the impact he’s made in his role.
• Geoffrey Kateregga wrote in his diary about ‘The State of OpenStreetMap in Africa’, analysing among other things buildings in OSM, buildings per 1000 people, and communication channels.
• The Times of India reports that the OSM Kerala volunteer Manoj Karingamadathil has mapped Kochi Corporation wards at the request of the Ernakulam sub-district collector. News covered by media has raised the need for more open data in India.
• [1] Adrien Pavie is working with a small team to develop ProjetDuMois > (project of the month) in France, to encourage thematic contributions to OpenStreetMap during a month. The website will offer the community a dashboard with contribution statistics, a web map for efficient mapping, and badges for gamification. Adrien also wrote about his experiences working with full-history OSM files to share his journey with us, hoping to make it easier for others to work with these files.

Imports

• n76 blogged on the issues he faced while carrying out an import of buildings and addresses in Orange County, California.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• An OSMF and Cesium joint press release: OpenStreetMap, a map of buildings!
• OSM Buildings.org tweeted that the number of its users confused by ‘Cesium OSM Buildings‘ is rising and complains that the OSMF has not responded to their concerns.

Events

• Mappers and members of emergency organisations > from Switzerland and Austria met online > on 12 August and decided to form a core group > , with its own mailing list, to discuss topics specific to the field of public safety and develop solutions. Existing or implemented solutions include: Defikarte.ch , Notfallkarten , and Feuerwehreinsatzkarten mit OSM .
• The OSM Geography Awareness Week is taking place from 15 to 21 November. A global coalition of partners are hosting mapping events at colleges, community centres and other institutions to map places around the globe. If you are organising an event, or even just thinking about it, get in touch.

Humanitarian OSM

• In recognition of their 10 year anniversary, HOT hosted a webinar on 21 August with members of four OSM communities from around the world to discuss how microgrants have aided their work and growth.
• At the 2020 HOT Voting Members Annual Meeting on Wednesday 12 August, the members confirmed the re-election of Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Hope Namitala, from Zambia, and the election of Felix Delattre, from Germany, as a new Board member. Other candidates in the election were Celina Agaton, Maning Sambale, Matseliso Thobei Letsie, Dale Kunce and Willy Franck Sob. Questions to the candidates and detailed results are presented on the Board Election 2020 wiki page. Matthew Gibb was re-elected as chairperson.With the principle of rotating seat elections, two Board seats were up for election this year, while next year the election will cover the other five Board seats.
• Openstreetmap India has been active in HOTOSM. A small team has formed to create and manage HOTOSM tasks.
• Rebecca Firth, of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), gave a TED Talk about how HOT is going to work over the next five years to support the humanitarian mapping community, with the goal of mapping an area home to one billion people.

Education

• The International Journal of Geoinformation (ISPRS), published by MDPI, Switzerland, invites people to submit research papers for an ‘OpenStreetMap as a multi-disciplinary nexus: Perspectives, Practices and Procedures’ issue. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 November 2020.

Maps

• Supaplex explained why there is a blank area located south-east of Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport on most of the commercial maps available in Taiwan. There is a former military base in this blank area, the former Taoyuan Airbase of ROC Air Force and ROC Navy. The former military airport was once the home base of the Black Cat Squadron, which flew U-2 surveillance planes to investigate nuclear weapon infrastructure and capacity in China, and is mapped in very high detail on OpenStreetMap.
• Mapbox has partnered with Zenrin to provide indoor maps for major metro stations and underground buildings in Japan.
• Visualisations of operational sites and tactical conditions are becoming increasingly important. The fire brigade of Gossau ZH decided > to use OpenStreetMap for the creation of an emergency map. The project started with hydrants, with the intention to able to show the nearest one to firefighters as soon as possible. However, the project was quickly expanded to include additional, mission-relevant data.
• Tatsuo Mitsuchi has created a map in which the colours are painted according to the direction of the road. The distribution of colours seems to reflect > the topography and history of the city. You can try it out on your favourite city on a test server. This system is based on city-roads.

switch2OSM

• Microsoft’s new flight simulator uses OpenStreetMap data to procedurally generate cities (we covered earlier). A combination of an ill-conceived university assignment, a bored student, and a typo created a 212 storey house in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. The ‘Melbourne Monolisk’ has been attracting attention, including those who have taken the opportunity to land on it before it disappears forever.

Licences

• Nuno Caldeira alerted Mapbox, via Twitter, that their client NOAA is using OSM maps without correct attribution.

Software

• Recently openrouteservice has been updated to version 6.2 by HeiGIT, which has brought some pretty useful features to OSM-based routing. One of the ‘new’ features is the re-introduction of the maximum_speed parameter so users can set the maximum speed their vehicle can travel at.
• Dirk Stöcker announced that the OpenStreetMap Subversion repository is now read-only (we covered earlier). The JOSM and JMapViewer parts have been moved to the JOSM SVN server. For more detail see the source code and developing plugins wiki pages.

Did you know …

• … Anonymaps, the crowdsourced sarcasm on Twitter?
• … the real-time LightningMaps is based on OSM? Also available as App. Lightning is displayed within two seconds!
• … the Android app ‘RADARES of Portugal’ ? It is available for Android devices and provides real-time information on speed radars (fixed or mobile) installed on Portuguese roads. The basemap is OSM.

Other “geo” things

• Frederik Ramm asked > on talk-de what the state of the art is for fixed-wing drones and received many hints. [1], [2], [3]
• Manfred Handschuher discussed > the new motorcycle navigation system Garmin Zumo XT.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Derby	Derby pub meetup	2020-08-25
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch	2020-08-26
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon	2020-09-01
Salt Lake City / Virtual	OpenStreetMap Utah Map Night	2020-09-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-09-02
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #20	2020-09-07
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle	2020-09-08
Berlin	147. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-09-10
Munich	Münchner Treffen	2020-09-10
Zurich	121. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-09-11
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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Mapping

• Following on from erroneous tagging on a building in Melbourne (Australia) that then appeared in Microsoft Flight Simulator, here is another example from Portugal: The Statue of Christ the King in Almada, Portugal, was mapped as a modern residential building with many floors! ‘It’s the old bad habit of classifying statues, fountains, piers, etc., as building=yes‘, says Luis Forte.
• Vollis proposed the new tag amenity=funeral_hall to enable proper mapping of (or parts of) buildings dedicated to funeral services, that may or may not be religious, often within a cemetery or linked to one.
• Supaplex030 is proposing the tag kerb=regular to explicitly distinguish kerbs (curbs) with ‘normal’ standard height from kerb=raised. The voting is open until 3 September.

Community

• Nirab Pudasaini created a lot of graphics analysing his own OSM twitter dataset containing over 45,000 tweets containing “OpenStreetMap”. Cluster analysis reveals some sub-communities such as osm.fr, OSM enterprises with Mapbox and Mapillary, the OSM community from the Americas, the sub community from Africa, clusters focused on teaching and learning about OSM, clusters around map based data viz centred around @qgis, and many more.
• User Arjun has written a blog post about ‘Downloading Vector Data for Highways, National Parks and Other Common Features from OpenStreetMap for Geospatial Analysis’.
• Regional Ambassadors Chomba Chishala and Yusuf Suleiman wrote about how YouthMappers are contributing to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
• Christopher Beddow started a poll on Twitter about how people contribute to OSM, specifically if they use mobile phones as their primary or only method. Many users commented in response about editing OSM on mobiles as compared to on a computer.
• The OpenStreetMap Ops team has now enabled a new secondary database server, which once fully tested will likely become the primary server.
• The August newsletter of OpenStreetMap US has been published.
• María Fernanda Peña Valencia shared her experience being part of YouthMappers and encourages other students to join the network.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• What type of memberships are there in the OSM Foundation? Apply for a free membership if you have mapped on 42 or more days in the past year.
• Didn’t reach the 42-day mapping goal, but contributed to the success of OpenStreetMap? Then you too can become a voting member of the OSMF for free. Here is the form where you can specify these activities.
• While keeping up activities on proprietary social media platforms to be visible in those spaces, OSMF board member Tobias Knerr assures us that all effective participation in the OSM community will remain possible through free channels (free means accessible through open-source software and open protocols, and not requiring an account at a third-party service to access).
• OpenStreetMap US has made an application to become an official local group of the OSMF (we covered earlier). Joost Schouppe asked, on behalf of the OSMF Board, for people to express their opinions on the wiki page by 5 September.
• OSM Kosovo, or Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) submitted an application to the OSMF to become an official local group. Mikel Maron, on behalf of the OSMF, asked for expressions of opinion by 7 September.
• OSM Buildings has existed since 2012. Cesium has applied for the right to use the name ‘Cesium OSM Buildings’ and has been approved by the OSMF Board. According to the project OSM Buildings had expressed concerns and asked for the opportunity to clarify the situation. OSMF and Cesium published on the product ‘Cesium OSM Buildings’ (we covered earlier). It was also announced that Cesium is now a silver sponsor of OSMF. OSM Buildings now fears that the use of the project name by Cesium will affect the continued existence of the project.

Events

• The call for venues for State of the Map Africa 2021 is open! Find all the details on what is required and how to submit your proposal on the wiki page. The deadline for proposals is 20 October. The winner will be announced on 31 October.
• FOSS4G Tokyo/KANSAI/Tokai (regional events in Japan) have announced > their joint online event FOSS4G 2020 Online, and invited event sponsors and session participants.
• FOSS4G Hokkaido > , one of the regional events in Japan, will be held online on 26 September. Applications for sessions have started.
• Nakaner has been invited to present OpenStreetMap at the Eurobike 2020 expo, as almost all apps and devices for cyclists nowadays include OSM data. The (free of charge) expo will take place online on 3 September. The conference language is English.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT and the GAL School of Peru have been working together to support the Peruvian and local governments in their COVID-19 response, by mapping the Cusco region and providing analytical tools and expertise to make use of the data.

Education

• Have you always wanted to learn QGIS? Ujaval Ghandhi has made his QGIS and Python courses, including full material and data packages, available for free for self-study. More QGIS Tutorials and Tips are available from Ujaval Ghandhi.

Maps

• The French geography blog decryptageo > featured Tatsuo Mitsuchi’s > fork of anvaka’s website. Tatsuo Mitsuchi created a website where the orientation of a city’s road network is represented by different colours.
• Elana Levin Schtulberg creates beautiful drawings by colouring regions of city maps in a ‘painting-by-numbers’ style.
• Thomas Froitzheim presented PhoneMaps > , an easy-to-use smartphone app with Europe-wide free OSM offline vector maps and improved routing on bicycle and hiking trails as well as on mountain bike tracks.
• Supaplex continued writing about the history of mapping in Taiwan. In the metropolitan area of Hsinzhu, there was an almost empty space compared to other areas of Taiwan on OpenStreetMap. Unfortunately there used to be only low-resolution Bing imagery available. Now better data is available most of the ponds on the tableland have been mapped.

Open Data

• Mapillary has announced that computer vision extracted data is now available globally on OSM. Previously only traffic signs were available in JOSM, and other data was available by request in iD. Now data including pedestrian crossings (crosswalks), traffic lights, bicycle parking, and many other classes are available globally, thanks to image contributions from Mapillary users.
• OpenAQ aggregates environmental sensor data from all around the world. Sensor.Community published a guide to building your own similar measuring station.

Software

• The tool used in ‘Generation Streets‘, a game available on Steam, to generate 3D worlds based on OpenStreetMap has been open sourced. Rvtgen3d is the command line tool and is part of the rsgeotools toolset, now available on Github.

Did you know …

• … city-roads?

OSM in the media

• [1] The typo heard around the world’ (we covered earlier) continues to garner press coverage in English, French, Russian, Italian, Taiwanese Mandarin, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and German (we won’t insult your intelligence by providing auto-translate links but do have a read of Ilya Zverev’s take on the issue). In other news, some scientists believe there may be areas in the upper Amazon basin where the news of Nathan Wright’s typo has not yet spread.
• Rebecca Firth explained > (video in English) how the OpenStreetMap humanitarian team (HOT) is using open source software to put one billion people on the map over the next five years.
• Antônio Heleno Caldas Laranjeira wrote > about territories hidden by Google Maps.

Other “geo” things

• The Cloud GIS Market Status and Forecast report lists OpenStreetMap among the most significant players.
• Google has updated their map style with more details and colour.
• David Pollack wrote about ‘GPS and The Future of Indoor Navigation’.
• Matt Parker published a YouTube video about his attempt to determine if the effect of terrain is included in estimates of country sizes and whether this would affect the rankings of mountainous countries.
• Peter Van Geit had planned to spend six months this year fast hiking 5,000 km and exploring new passes across the Indian Himalaya. After the pandemic hit, foiling his plans, he started a new project — creating detailed hiking maps of the area.
• What happens in our brain when we look at a map? Do grid lines help us to orientate? The team led by Prof. Dr. Frank Dickmann, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has investigated > these questions.
• Robert Murrah investigates why maps are important for our response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon	2020-09-01
Salt Lake City / Virtual	OpenStreetMap Utah Map Night	2020-09-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2020-09-02
San José	South Bay Civic Hack & Map Night	2020-09-03
Taipei	OSM x Wikidata #20	2020-09-07
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle	2020-09-08
Berlin	147. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2020-09-10
Munich	Münchner Treffen	2020-09-10
Zurich	121. OSM Meetup Zurich	2020-09-11
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	2020-09-12
Ashurst	Trek View New Forest Pano Party	2020-09-13
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2020-09-15
Salt Lake City / Virtual	OpenStreetMap Utah Map Night	2020-09-15
Kandy	2020 State of the Map Asia	2020-10-31-2020-11-01

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