19.10.–25.10.2021

OSM CZ

• Možnosti Locus Map pro mapování OSM – zobrazení nebo založení nové poznámky OSM.
• Propojený vesmír pro chatování o českém OSM se nově rozrůstá i o Telegram.
• Máte v Česku tabule pro označování hranic národních parků? A mohl bych ji vidět?

OSM SK

• Další zpřístupněná území pro DRM 5.0 na Slovensku.
• Jak co nejrychleji a nejjednodušeji přidat do mapy jedinou studánku?
• Jak sjednotit mapování městských částí a adres v nich pro Bratislavu a Košice?
• Je vhodné celé plochy obory tagovat s pomocí landuse=farmyard?

Mapování

• Pascal Neis tweetuje o aktualizaci svého nástroje ‘Nezmapovaná místa OSM’. Letos bylo již identifikováno 331 000 míst, loni to pak bylo za stejný čas 339 000.
• Christian Rogel, který si nedávno koupil elektrickou tříkolku, navrhl > , že by mohl pomoct s radami ohledně tagování, které pomůže tricyklistům ve využívání existující cyklistické infrastruktury.
• DENelson83 začal upravovat individuálně pojmenované části vod na atlantickém pobřeží Kanady na relace. Vysvětlil svůj postoj, ale i tak sklidil i negativní zpětnou vazbu.
• Alec Schulze-Eckel informuje o úspěšném konci projektu 25. mapathonu, kde se zformovala malá ale silná skupina dobrovolníků z německého Červeného kříže.
• MKnight sdílí > svou zkušenost s mapováním svodidel.
• CzerwonyPazdzierz se na fóru ptá > na místa, která jsou v OSM zmapovaná nejlépe. Kromě individuálních návrhů v tomto vlákně je zde také mapa ukazující poměr objektů v OSM a hustoty populace.
• Byla podána žádost o připomínky k artwork_type=maypole, což je doplňkový tag k man_made=maypole pro umělecky hodnotné májky.

Komunita

• Čínská lokální komunita OpenStreetMap OSMChina spustila > svou webovou prezentaci > a nabízí dlaždicový server postavený na stylu OSM-Carto. Aktuálně server nabízí data jen pro kontinentální Čínu.
• Mateusz Konieczny se ptá na stav projektu HOT Tasking Manager, což vyvolalo další diskuzi ohledně kvality mapování a koordinace mapovacích projektů koordinovaných přes Tasking Manager. Arnalie Vicario z HOT reagovala informací o pracovních skupinách HOT pro kvalitu dat a zve jednotlivé přispěvatele k účasti na jejich příštím setkání 4. listopadu.
• Členka rady Nadace OSM Amanda McCann nabízí svůj pravidelný měsíční souhrn aktivit za měsíc září.
• BryDee informuje, že HOT Open Mapping Hub – Asia Pacific (OMH-AP) podepsal dohodu o společném záměru s kanceláří Asia Pacific Region (WSB/APR) Světové organizace skautského hnutí (World Organization of the Scout Movement, WOSM). Počáteční dohoda je na tři roky. BryDee vidí velký zájem ze strany skautů a co je důležitější také 30 milionů potenciálních mapperů OSM.
• GOwin informuje o dokončení úkolů OSMaPaaralan a za 2 roky a 22 dní bylo celkem zmapováno a zkontrolováno 39 129 škol.
• Někdo si na IRC kanálu #osm všiml, že když kdokoliv v komentáři k videu na YouTube zmíní ‘OpenStreetMap’, je příspěvek okamžitě smazán. Simon Poole o tom sdílí i tweet.
• Lejun hledá aplikaci pro mapování fasád domů. Popisuje svá zamýšlená kritéria a vyhodnocuje dostupné nástroje z pohledu vhodnosti pro daná účel.
• martien-vdg píše o svých představách, jak zlepšit kvalitu mapování nových mapperů.
• PlayzinhoAgro navrhuje změny stránky s uživatelským profilem OSM.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• Dorothea Kazazi oznámila, že byly uzavřeny nominace pro příští volby do rady Nadace OSM. Na čtyři volná křesla v radě je těchto šest kandidátů:
  • Guillaume Rischard, USA
  • Michal Migurski, USA
  • Amanda McCann, Německo
  • Mikel Maron, USA
  • Roland Olbricht, Německo
  • Bryan Housel, USA.

  Členové nadace mohou pokračovat v pokládání svých dotazů. Informace o kandidátech najdete na wiki stránce Candidate 2021. Informace o hlasování a další detaily najdete na wiki stránce Valné hromady 2021.

Události

• Nikdy jste nebyli v australském Perthu? Tak se tam vydejte v rámci konference FOSS4G SotM Oceania Perth Hub s workshopem na téma OSM v sobotu 13. listopadu.
• Konference State of the Map Africa 2021 se bude konat online v termínu 19. – 21. listopadu. Registrace je aktuálně otevřena a Geoffrey Kateregga zve žadatele o podporu pro internetová data pro umožnění vzdálené účasti pro ty, co to potřebují. Formulář pro podání žádosti je dostupný online.
• Pracovní skupina LCCWG rozšířila své pozvání pro vedoucí a členy lokálních komunit OpenStreetMap k účasti na konferenci 2021 Local Chapters and Communities Congress, který se koná virtuálně v sobotu 6. listopadu. Jsou vítáni i zástupci jiných uživatelských skupin OSM.

Výzkum OSM

• John Bryant z Overseas Development Institute zveřejnil pracovní verzi článku Digital mapping and inclusion in humanitarian response. Doplňuje, že mapy mohou přispět ke vzdálené podpoře a správě při reakci na katastrofy. Někteří humanitární pracovníci si také všimli, že mapa je často vnímána jako cílový produkt spíše než začátek další konverzace.
• Hao Li představil svůj článek, který navrhuje automatický postup mapování povrchových vod naučením neuronové sítě (deep residual neural network, ResNet) na datech OpenStreetMap data a multispektrálních datech satelitu Sentinel-2 s využitím algoritmu Simple Non-Iterative Clustering (SNIC) pro generování tréningových dat pro jednotlivé objekty. Součástí článku je i případová studie poskytující podrobný pohled na možnosti průzkumu synergie dobrovolně vytvářených geografických dat (volunteered geographic information, VGI) a strojového učení pro data z pozorování země v úkolu tak velkého rozsahu, jako je mapování vody.

Mapy

• Tým HeiGIT ohsome připravil extrakt plné historie dat OSM pro vulkanickou erupci sopky na španělském ostrově La Palma, který neustále roste. Cílem je pomoci udržet data OSM aktuální. Prozkoumejte časový rozvoj dat až na úroveň jednotlivých editací.
• Hans Hack, webový vývojář a umělec, vytvořil mapu, která ukazuje ‘válečné stopy v názvech berlínských ulic’ na podkladové OSM mapě. Barevně jsou vyznačeny historická území (Prusko, císařství) a vše lze filtrovat s pomocí různých pohledů.

Otevřená data

• Pascal Neis ukázal, jak lze zobrazovat užitečné živé informace s pomocí svobodných dat a svobodného software. Pro svou implementaci využití parkovacích garáží a dopravní situace v německém ‘Mainzu‘ , využívá také podkladovou mapu OSM.

Software

• Bryan Housel oznámil vydání verze 1.1.8 OSM editoru RapiD, která zahrnuje vylepšení výkonu i opravy chyb.
• Flatmap je nástroj pro generování vektorových dlaždic ve formátu Mapbox Vector Tiles pro zdroje geografických dat jako je OpenStreetMap. Vektorové dlaždice obsahují geometrie bodů, linií a polygonů, které pak využívají klienti jako MapLibre pro vykreslení uživatelsky definovaných map (demo).

Programování

• Overpass API nově zachází s uzavřenými cestami (ways) i jako s oblastmi.

Věděli jste …

• … o dostupnosti klíče winter_service=*? Lze jej použít pro mapování cest nebo oblastí, které nejsou v zimě udržovány, stejně jako explicitní označení těch, které jsou udržovány pravidelně.
• … o navigační aplikaci NUNAV Navigation? Ta kombinuje data OpenStreetMap s informacemi o aktuální dopravě pro Německo, Rakousko a Švýcarsko (aktuálně) a je dostupná v různých aplikačních obchodech v několika evropských zemích. Díky aktuálním informacím je tak možné neustále přepočítávat vaši trasu podle stavu dopravy. Aplikace neobsahuje reklamu ani sledování a lokační data z GPS jsou použita jen pro agregované informace o dopravě. Vyzkoušet si to můžete na webu kontrolního centra pro dopravu v Dolním Sasku.
• … že existuje seznam software pro uživatele OSM k využití doma nebo na cestách?

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• Firma Planet Labs, provozující satelitní snímkování Země, funguje již 10 let a v brzké době očekává vstup na burzu s evaluací asi 2,8 milionu dolarů. Ari Lewis nabízí přehled historie firmy ve vlákně na Twitteru.
• Carlo Ratti zjistil, že lidé (bez navigačního software) mají tendenci plánovat své trasy spíše podle intuice a zdaleka se neblíží nejefektivnějším možnostem. Pro studium tohoto vlivu bylo použito analýz dat z mobilních telefonů na MIT.
• Shaun McDonald zkoumal během instalace nového dálkového plynovodu přívětivost silniční sítě k cyklistům.
• TomTom popisuje, jak zlepšili kvalitu svého systému MapMetrics odstraněním chybných dat, například odfiltrováním GPS stop od lidí ve vlacích. Mapová data použitá při tomto procesu jsou postavená na OpenStreetMap.

Plánované události

kde	co	Online	kdy	země
Черкаси	Open Mapathon: Digital Cherkasy		24.10.–20.11.2021	ua
	OSM Uganda Mapathon: Strengthening the OSM community		30.10.2021
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland maandelijkse bijeenkomst (online)	✓	30.10.2021
Bogotá	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		30.10.2021
Prévessin-Moëns	Cartographie dans le Pays de Gex		31.10.2021
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		01.11.2021
	MapRoulette Community Meeting		02.11.2021
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation – Board of directors and advisory board public videomeeting		02.11.2021
Londýn	Missing Maps London Mapathon		02.11.2021
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	02.11.2021
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		02.11.2021
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (November)		04.11.2021
Bogotá	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		06.11.2021
	OSM Local Chapters & Communities Virtual Congress		06.11.2021
	Crowd2Map is 6! Join our party mapathon to learn more about our work..		07.11.2021
臺北市	OSM x Wikidata Taipei #34		08.11.2021
Hamburk	Hamburger Mappertreffen		09.11.2021
Curych	OSM-Treffen Zürich		11.11.2021
Berlín	161. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	11.11.2021
	FOSS4G State of the Map Oceania 2021		12.11.2021
	Missing Maps MonarchMappers Fall 2021 Mapathon		13.11.2021
Bogotá	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		13.11.2021
	Geography 2050 Symposium – Mapathon for an Equitable Future		13.11.2021
	Crowd2Map Tanzania GeoWeek Human Right’s Day FGM Mapathon		15.11.2021
Bonn	145. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		16.11.2021
Berlín	OSM-Verkehrswende #29 (Online)		16.11.2021
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		16.11.2021
	Missing Maps Arcadis Mapathon		17.11.2021
	Missing Maps WMU Mapathon		17.11.2021
Kolín n. Rýnem	OSM-Stammtisch Köln		17.11.2021
Chambéry	Missing Maps CartONG Tour de France des Mapathons – Chambéry		18.11.2021
	State of the Map Africa 2021		19.11.–21.11.2021

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Můžete nás kontaktovat e-mailem: weekly@openstreetmap.cz

26.10.–01.11.2021

OSM CZ

• Jak opravit překlad u TagInfo? Stačí se ozvat 🙂
• Mahdi posílá pravidelný souhrn stavu oprav mapování tříděného odpadu.

OSM SK

• Oznámení o třech nových oblastech s vrstevnicemi s vysokým rozlišením na Slovensku.
• Trasa přes soukromé pozemky – je řešením lepší tagování, právníci nebo něco jiného?

Mapovací kampaně

• Jinal Foflia zve přispěvatele k účasti na různých mapovacích výzvách v rámci Filipín a Malajsie. Navrhuje, aby noví i zkušení mappeři nasadili mapovací klobouky a pustili se do výzev na MapRoulette.
• Skončila mapovací soutěž pro zlepšení dat o silnicích v OSM v rámci Ruska (informovali jsme dříve). Výsledky a několik statistik je dostupných na této stránce .

Mapování

• Bylo znovu otevřeno jedno staré vlákno > pro tagování obydlených míst v Rakousku. Původní záměr z roku 2015 cílil na označení většiny míst v Salzbursku jako place=town. Vypadá to ale, že některé místa zůstala netknutá.
• Bylo uzavřeno hlasování pro následující návrhy na tagování:
  • historic=creamery pro průmyslové budovy, kde se z mléka vyrábělo máslo, zmrzlina nebo sýr byl schválen s 12 hlasy pro, 2 hlasy proti a 1 se zdržel.
  • currency:crypto:*=yes,no, rozšíření klíče pro měnu o podporu kryptoměn byl odmítnut s 22 hlasy pro, 34 hlasy proti a 2 se zdrželi. Odmítnutí návrhu proběhlo navzdory účasti fanoušků kryptoměn, kteří často neměli větší zkušenosti s OSM.
  • boundary=border_zone byl schválen s 16 hlasy pro, 0 hlasy proti a nikdo se nezdržel.
• Až do 11. listopadu bude probíhat hlasování o návrhu Françoise Lacombeho na nový tag outlet=*, pro mapování detailů místa kde vodní tok opouští propustky a trubky.
• SK53 analyzoval a vizualizoval použití tagu natural=heath v porovnání s rozsáhlou datovou sadou o osídlení pro celý britský Wales.

Komunita

• Mordechai23 ukazuje ve svém deníku sbírku gifů ilustrující proces, který on a jiní mappeři použili pro překreslení využití půdy, budov, cest a jiných objektů jak ve svém domovském městě Wroclavi, tak i jinde v Polsku.
• Open Mapping Hub Asia Pacific od HOT vytvořili svou skupinu na Facebooku.

Importy

• Kai Poppe navrhl na wiki postup automatické editace pro aktualizaci tagů mapillary, které jsou neaktuální díky aktualizaci software jak jsme informovali dříve. Cílem je upravit všechny výskyty tagů mapillary ze staré 22 znakové podoby na novou s numerickými identifikátory pro Mappilary API verze 4. Wiki stránka bude použita pro sledování statistik a další plánované akce. Existovala také výzva pro MapRoulette, která měla za cíl opravit všechny staré hodnoty, ale ta je již ukončena.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• Na žádost rady aktualizovala Data Working Group pravidla pro blokování. Byla přidána nová sekce ‘Blokování do doby, než bude provedena určitá akce’. Cílem je zdokumentovat běžně užívaný postup, který rada chtěla formalizovat i na papíře.

Novinky lokálních zastoupení

• Byl spuštěn stipendijní program pro účast na konferenci State of the Map US 2022 v arizonském Tucsonu, která proběhne na začátku dubna.

Události

• Humanitarian Open Mapping Community Working Group při HOT zve > španělsky mluvící organizátory lokálních komunit OSM stejně jako jejich členy (nové i stávající) na setkání pro sdílení tipů, triků a výzev spojených s vytvářením a udržováním lokálních komunit OSM. Akce se koná v pondělí 8. listopadu v 16:00 UTC. Pokud zvažujete účast, je potřeba se registrovat na Eventbrite.
• Téma letošního Janovského festivalu vědy v Itálii jsou ‘mapy’. Italské lokální zastoupení Nadace OSM se zapojilo > v rámci diskuze u kulatého stolu, kde čtyři členové komunity představili svou odbornou činnost týkající se OSM, a také pomocí divadelního představení, které vytvořil jeden z vítězů soutěže “Volné divadlo”. Další prezentace OSM proběhla ze strany týmu Lékařů bez hranic.

Mapy

• [1] Výzva mapuj 30 dní (#30DayMapChallenge), o které jsme informovali minulý měsíc, je nyní v plném proudu. Několik příkladů map postavených na datech OSM z prvních několika dní:
  • 1.den – body: zastávky autobusů v Bengaluru od uživatele IamThiyaku. Všechny adresy v okrsku Garland v americkém Arkansasu od Justina Myerse.
  • 2.den – linie: Heikko Vesantu připravil mapy Irska, které jsou velmi populární. Za pomoci algoritmu Douglas-Peucker mapu postupně zjednodušoval zmenšováním počtu linií.
• OpenStreetMap Uganda tweetuje mapy ukazující rozdíly v dostupnosti starších zdrojů pitné vody v porovnání s novými, které pro čerpání využívají solární energii. Na práci se podílela také organizace Water Compass.
• Mateusz Konieczny si všiml, že mapy Google obsahují data pro veřejnou dopravu pro polské hlavní město Varšavu. Mikołaj Kuranowski vysvětluje, že pro vytvoření takové mapy lze zkombinovat data od Varšavského dopravního úřadu a linky autobusů z OSM. Správná deklarace práv a majitele je k dispozici až úplně dole na panelu ukazujícím plánovanou trasu.
• Mateusz Fafinski zkoumá nedávnou mapu hradů v Evropě od Spatial_Overlay a speciálně si všímá regionálních odlišností při tagování v OSM.

Software

• Wille Marcel oznámil novou verzi nástroje OSMCha. Ta nabízí lepší uživatelskou zkušenost na chytrých telefonech a tabletech.
• Projekt Organic Maps hledá překladatele pro pomoc s lokalizací a správou jednotlivých jazykových verzí.
• Ilya Zverev popisuje > nový server pro Overpass provozovaný Nadací OSM, který je určen pro odpovědi na dotazy generované pomocí tlačítka ↖? (Průzkum prvků) na hlavním webu OSM.

Programování

• Digitální umělec JeongHo Park ukazuje na Twitteru experimentální vizualizaci dat OpenStreetMap.
• Brandon Liu, který se nedávno připojil k Engineering Working Group, shrnuje, proč není možné očekávat, že OSM ve všech případech používá Unicode.

Věděli jste …

• … že je možné bezplatně získat reklamní nálepky a bannery s tématikou OSM?

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• V magazínu Atomos se Ruth Hopkinsová zajímala o trend obnovy původních domorodých názvů pro topografické objekty v Severní Americe. Uldis Balodis na Twitteru poznamenal, že tento trend se projevuje i jinde, například v pobaltských zemích, kde se on sám podílí na sběru livonských názvů míst.
• Chronoscope World je web zaměřený na procházení historických map.
• Tento týden byly v Portugalsku hlášeny dva neobvyklé problémy s navigací. V jednom z nich řidič se svým autem uvízl > na schodech, poblíž Regional Legislative Assembly na Madeiře. Evidentně byl zmaten pokyny navigace ve svém autě, která ho vybízela, aby tudy projel.
• V druhém případě řidič přejel > most Ludvíka I. v portugalské Vila Nova de Gaia a dostal se tak do tunelu (TomTom) určeného pro provoz metra. 46letý řidič vozidla řekl, že v dané oblast nežije a navedla ho sem navigace v jeho autě. Navigační systém v obou těchto případech evidentně obsahoval navigaci od TomTomu, který je dodavatelem vozů značky Renault.

Plánované události

kde	co	Online	kdy	země
Черкаси	Open Mapathon: Digital Cherkasy		24.10.–20.11.2021	ua
Mauguio	HérOSM Mauguio : Cartopartie		06.11.2021
Paříž	Mairie de Paris Centre : Initiation OpenStreetMap		06.11.2021
Bogotá	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		06.11.2021
	OSM Local Chapters & Communities Virtual Congress		06.11.2021
	Crowd2Map Tanzania is 6! Join our party mapathon to learn more about our work..		07.11.2021
Cuiabá	Construcción de comunidad local en OSM: Consejos, trucos y desafíos		08.11.2021
臺北市	OSM x Wikidata Taipei #34		08.11.2021
	Toronto OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts Meeting		09.11.2021
	Missing Maps Artsen Zonder Grenzen Mapathon		09.11.2021
Hamburk	Hamburger Mappertreffen		09.11.2021
Curych	OSM-Treffen Zürich		11.11.2021
Berlín	161. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	11.11.2021
	FOSS4G State of the Map Oceania 2021		12.11.2021
	Missing Maps MonarchMappers Fall 2021 Mapathon		13.11.2021
Bogotá	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		13.11.2021
	Geography 2050 Symposium – Mapathon for an Equitable Future		13.11.2021
	Crowd2Map Tanzania GeoWeek Human Right’s Day FGM Mapathon		15.11.2021
	UP Tacloban YouthMappers: MAPA-Bulig, Guiding the Youth to Community Mapping		15.11.2021
Grenoble	OSM Grenoble Atelier OpenStreetMap		15.11.2021
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		15.11.2021
	Missing Maps PDX GIS Day Mapathon		16.11.2021
Lyon	Lyon : Réunion		16.11.2021
Bonn	145. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		16.11.2021
Berlín	OSM-Verkehrswende #29 (Online)		16.11.2021
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		16.11.2021
	Missing Maps Arcadis GIS Day Mapathon		17.11.2021
	Missing Maps WMU GIS Day Mapathon		17.11.2021
Kolín n. Rýnem	OSM-Stammtisch Köln		17.11.2021
Curych	Missing Maps Zürich November Mapathon		17.11.2021
Chambéry	Missing Maps CartONG Tour de France des Mapathons – Chambéry		18.11.2021
	MSF Global Mapathon		19.11.2021
	State of the Map Africa 2021		19.11.–21.11.2021
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		20.11.2021
	HOT Summit 2021		22.11.2021
Brémy	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	22.11.2021
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		23.11.2021
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		24.11.2021
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		26.11.2021
Brno	November Brno Missing maps mapathon at Department of Geography		26.11.2021
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland maandelijkse bijeenkomst (online)	✓	27.11.2021
	HOTOSM Training Webinar Series: Beginner JOSM		27.11.2021
長岡京市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第27回 元伊勢三社		27.11.2021

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02.11.–08.11.2021

OSM CZ

• OSM mapa na webu tridimolej.cz bez deklarace práv a majitele, ale zároveň i možný zdroj dat.
• Pozvánka na listopadový mapathon Missing Maps do Brna.
• Freemap.sk by rád vyřešil nesprávnou deklaraci práv a majitele na mapy.cz.
• Má smysl podpořit návrh “Podrobná turistická mapa brněnských lesů” v rámci participativního rozpočtu města Brna?
• Aleš zkouší dělat překlady pro editor iD v Transifexu, ale prý je psát nemá.
• Pro bankomaty Fio banky, které provozuje Pharro, má být operator první nebo druhý z nich?

OSM SK

• Prosba o kontrolu mapování části hospodářského lesa v Malých Karpatech.
• Mapovat nebo nemapovat historické kameny využívané jako první triangulační body?
• Nový návod pro přidání Freemap do OsmAndu na iOS.
• Podivné fungování vyhledávání adres ve slovenských Ludanicích.

Mapování

• Prosíme o komentáře a připomínky k následujícím návrhům na tagování:
  • motorroad=yes > pro formalizování definice motorroad pro Japonsko.
  • amenity=parcel lockers pro mapování výdejních boxů, které jsou určené pro uložení balíčků pro následné vyzvednutí zákazníkem.
  • ref:EU:bwid=* pro určení unikátního identifikátoru pro koupací místa.
  • bicycle_rental:type=docking_station pro určení, jaký typ půjčovny kol je definován tagem amenity=bicycle_rental.
• Hlasování pro návrh artwork_type=maypole pro tagování májek s uměleckým zpracováním je otevřeno do pondělí 22. listopadu.
• skfd popsal > ve svém deníku postup práce, který použil pro aktualizaci ulic nedávno přejmenovaných radnicí města Kyjeva.
• Do OpenStreetMap byla nahraná linie číslo 1 000 000 000.
• Ilya Zverev si také všímá > vložení miliardté linie do OSM spolu s 100 miliontou sadou změn a uzlem číslo 2³³ a zamýšlí se nad problémy a výhodami předpokládaného konečného číselného prostoru.

Komunita

• Public Lab Mongolia spustili seriál blogových příspěvků. První je: „Vytváření open source databáze pro zlepšení přístupu ke zdravotnickým službám s ohledem na pandemii COVID-19 v Mongolsku”.
• Belgická OpenStreetMap zvolila Mappera měsíce pro listopad. Je jím Dasrakel z Belgie.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• Michael Collinson jako facilitátor publikoval oficiální sadu otázek a instrukcí pro kandidáty do rady Nadace OSM. Ti by měli zaslat odpovědi a svůj manifest do nedělní půlnoci 14. listopadu.
• Amanda McCann informuje na mail listu osmf-talk, že program mikrograntů byl odložen, než rada vyřeší jeho rozpočet.
• Amanda McCann sdílí ve svém deníku, co dělala pro OpenStreetMap během října.
• Letošní valná hromada Nadace OSM má v bodech ke schválení zvláštní rezoluci pro změnu stanov nadace o započítávání doby členství potřebné pro kandidaturu do rady nadace.
• Byly publikovány instrukce pro hlasování při letošní valné hromadě.

Výzkum OSM

• Filip Krumpe obhájil na Univerzitě ve Stuttgartu svou dizertaci > na téma popisování interaktivních map. Jako základ geodat jsou použita data OSM. Celou práci lze stáhnout jako pdf (velikost souboru: 29.1 MB).
• Lukas Kruitwagen a jeho kolegové z Oxfordské univerzity publikovali (placeno) velkou celosvětovou datovou sadu předpokládaných lokalit solárních elektráren. Hlavní autor práce také sepsal volně dostupný souhrn. Práce využívá strojové učení postavené na trénovací sadě ze solárních farem zmapovaných v OpenStreetMap kolem roku 2017. Satelitní snímky z družic SPOT a Sentinel-2 byly použity jak pro počáteční trénování, tak i pro vytvoření predikovaných dat.

Humanitární OSM

• Každoroční summit HOT se letos koná v pondělí 22. listopadu jako čistě virtuální akce s tématem: „Evoluce lokálních ekosystémů humanitárního mapování: pochopení komunit, spolupráce a přispěvatelů“. Registrace se zavírá v pátek 19. listopadu.

Mapy

• [1] Účastníci výzvy „30 Day Map Challenge“ pokračují na Twitteru v tvorbě map s využitím dat OpenStreetMap:
  • 3. den: polygony. Angela Teyvi ukazuje, jako moc detailů existuje pro některé budovy v ghanském hlavním městě Accra.
  • 4. den: šestiúhelníky. Propojení autobusových zastávek pro Accru také od Angely Teyvi. SIG UCA našla několik opravdových šestiúhelníků, které zmapovali – posluchárny v San Salvadoru.
  • 5. den: budovy v bolivijském Santa Cruz od Erica Armijo.
  • 6. den: červená. Znečištěná jezera ve Finsku od Sini Pöytäniemi.
  • 7. den: zelená. Shammilah zobrazila isochrony pro čas chůze do středisek zdravotní péče v ugandském okrsku Kisoro.
  • 8. den: modrá. Časté volby byly témata s vodou a místa s modrou v názvu. Jaroslav_sm zkombinoval dvě ukrajinská jezera nazvaná „Modré jezero“.
  • 9. den: jednobarevný. Heikki vytvořil zajímavý kvíz pro identifikaci irských měst a obcí na základě zobrazených budov (s cílem podpořit jejich mapování v Irsku).
• 5. den byl poněkud speciální, protože tématem bylo OpenStreetMap. Mnoho mapperů se rozhodlo prozkoumat specifické objekty: pobočky Sber banky v Moskvě (Дмитрий); restaurace v Mercedu (Derek Sollberger); smíšené zboží v Hongkongu (Brandon Qilin). Xavier Olive zkusil něco jiného a výsledkem je historie letiště v Curychu v OSM.

Software

• Hostingová firma Mythic Beats darovala projektu Organic Maps dva virtuální servery pro pomoc s distribucí map pro offline použití na mobilních zařízeních. Poznamenali také, že evidentně malá hodnota jejich daru (v porovnání s jinými poskytovateli cloudových služeb) je částečně způsobena faktem, že nemají vlastní vesmírný program.
• TrackExplorer je software pro nahrávání GPX stop a následnou vizualizaci vašeho výletu ve 3D. O J ve svém deníku nabízí několik příkladů a upozorňuje, že podkladová data pochází z OSM, takže čím lepší jsou v daném místě tato data, tím lepší je 3D prostředí, které se zobrazuje.

Programování

• Komadinovic Vanja nabízí rychlý úvod do používání OSM autentizační služby OAuth 2.
• Představuje se Martin Raifer (uživatel tyr_asd), nový vývojář editoru iD najatý Nadací OSM.

Nová vydání

• Sarah Hoffmannová představila verzi 4.0.0 služby Nominatim. Ta nyní nabízí flexibilnější možnosti pro vyhledávání nových míst.

Věděli jste …

• … o mapě Open Etymology Map? Zobrazuje a dovoluje i editovat odkazy na elementy Wikidat podle kterých jsou pojmenovány ulice.
• … o extraktoru polygonů od OSM France? Tento nástroj umožňuje stáhnout relace v OSM podle jejich identifikátoru ve formátu GeoJSON, jako obrázek a dalších formátech.

OSM v médiích

• Economist shrnuje (může být placeno) práci Kruitwagena a kolegů (viz výše), včetně role dat z projektu OpenStreetMap.

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• David Costa tweetuje odkaz na přibližitelnou verzi cyklistické turistické mapy Francie z roku 1897 ‘Les grandes routes vélocipédiques de France’.
• Niantic oznámil, že hra pro rozšířenou realitu „Harry Potter: Wizards Unite“ ukončí svůj provoz k 31. lednu 2022. Herní mapy a data používaná pro výpočty k objevování monster pochází z OpenStreetMap.
• Uživatelsky přidávaný obsah v Google Street View štve hráče GeoGuessr. Jak vysvětluje Andrew Deck, hráči této online hry hádají náhodně vybrané místa na základě uličních fotek a nemají rádi zrnitý, rozmazaný nebo jinak nekvalitní obsah, který jim ztěžuje rozhodování.
• grin píše o své zkušenosti se svou konfigurací pro real-time kinematic (RTK) při hledání co nejpřesnější pozice (s přesností na několik centimetrů).
• ARTE nabízí sérii ( s titulky) videí na téma „Mapování světa“. Ta prezentuje složitý svět geopolitiky rozdělený na desetiminutové kousky. Již nikdy nebudete při nědělním obědě vypadat, že nevíte o čem se ostatní baví :-).

Plánované události

kde	co	Online	kdy	země
Черкаси	Open Mapathon: Digital Cherkasy		24.10.–20.11.2021	ua
	Crowd2Map Tanzania GeoWeek FGM Mapathon		15.11.2021
	UP Tacloban YouthMappers: MAPA-Bulig, Guiding the Youth to Community Mapping		15.11.2021
Boloňa	Geomatics at DICAM Geo Week Mapathon		15.11.2021
Grenoble	OSM Grenoble Atelier OpenStreetMap		15.11.2021
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		15.11.2021
	Missing Maps PDX GIS Day Mapathon		16.11.2021
	UCB Brasil + CicloMapa: curso de mapeamento		16.11.–26.11.2021
Lyon	Lyon : Réunion		16.11.2021
Bonn	145. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		16.11.2021
Berlín	OSM-Verkehrswende #29 (Online)		16.11.2021
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		16.11.2021
	Missing Maps Arcadis GIS Day Mapathon		17.11.2021
Fort Collins	CSU Geospatial Centroid GIS Day Mapathon		18.11.2021
	Missing Maps WMU GIS Day Mapathon		17.11.2021
Kolín n. Rýnem	OSM-Stammtisch Köln		17.11.2021
Curych	Missing Maps Zürich November Mapathon		17.11.2021
Chambéry	Missing Maps CartONG Tour de France des Mapathons – Chambéry		18.11.2021
	MSF Geo Week Global Mapathon		19.11.2021
	State of the Map Africa 2021		19.11.–21.11.2021
	Maptime Baltimore Mappy Hour		20.11.2021
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		20.11.2021
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Departamento	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		20.11.2021
	HOT Summit 2021		22.11.2021
Brémy	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	22.11.2021
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	24.11.2021
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		23.11.2021
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy	Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy : Rencontre		24.11.2021
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		24.11.2021
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		26.11.2021
Brno	November Brno Missing Maps mapathon at Department of Geography		26.11.2021
長岡京市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第27回 元伊勢三社		27.11.2021
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Departamento	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		27.11.2021
泉大津市	オープンデータソン泉大津：町歩きとOpenStreetMap、Localwiki、ウィキペディアの編集		27.11.2021
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland maandelijkse bijeenkomst (online)	✓	27.11.2021
	HOTOSM Training Webinar Series: Beginner JOSM		27.11.2021
Biella	Incontro mensile degli OSMers BI-VC-CVL	✓	27.11.2021
Chamwino	How FAO uses different apps to measure Land Degradation	✓	29.11.2021
	OSM Uganda Mapathon		29.11.2021
	Missing Maps Artsen Zonder Grenzen Mapathon		02.12.2021
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Dezember)		02.12.2021

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09/11/2021-15/11/2021

About us

• Did you notice? Thanks to JackNUMBER we have now a high resolution title header for our website.

Mapping campaigns

• A team effort to map missing residential buildings in Germany was recently concluded. Contributor hfs explained how mappers worked together to add 360,000 buildings all over Germany.
• Some interesting challenges have been posted recently in MapRoulette:
  • Poland POI bez tagu głównego
  • Germany Missing lit tags in Dortmund (Round 2)
  • Brasil Street names in the city of Ji-Paraná, Rondonia, Brazil
  • Puerto Rico Add wikidata to towns – Puerto Rico
  • France clé name utilisée à la place de destination

Mapping

• LySioS compared > before and after mapping of a park, which was recommended to him for children’s activities.
• SK53 looked at some worldwide solar data (we reported last week) and compared it with OSM data for China.
• Polish mappers discussed > , on the forum, whether any special mapping is required for areas currently under emergency regulations on the border with Belarus.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • snow_chains to map where and when you need to use snow chains on your vehicle.
  • defensive_work=* to tag defensive structures in historic/pre-modern fortifications.
  • network:type=basic_network to distinguish nameless connections in the cycle/hiking route network from named routes and numbered node networks.
• The outlet=* proposal for tagging culvert or pipeline outlets with more details, was approved with 20 votes for, 0 votes against and 0 abstentions.

Community

• [1] Over more than 10 years, successive cohorts of students of the Colegio Salesiano in Duitama, Columbia under the guidance of Professor Leonardo Gutierrez have been continually mapping, refining, and expanding the public transport data available to the people of Duitama via the BusBoy app. Professor Leonardo Gutierrez is a long-time OSM contributor. In late 2014, he organised a live teaching session with his students and Humanitarian OSM contributors.
• Jaime Crespo provided >
  short notes from an informal online meeting of members of the Spanish community which have been added > to the wiki.
• Charlie Plett reports on his effort to map all Primary and Secondary schools in the Corozal District, Belize.
• Cyberjuan presents a thematic summary of what was discussed at the event Building Local Community in OSM: Tips, Tricks and Challenges, organised by the HOT Community Working Group on November 8th.
• Jennings Anderson revisited an old graphic exploring OpenStreetMap contributor life spans. The original work, published in 2018 (as we reported), used data up to 2014. The updated graphs cover the period to 2021.
• On Wednesday 1 December at 20:30 (UTC+1), Adrien, Donat and Florian will have their first Live mapping session on their new YouTube channel Tropicamap. Live mapping sessions will take place on the first Wednesday of each month and aim to reach a younger public. This first mapping session will be aimed at the French toy shop cooperative JouéClub.
• PlayzinhoAgro took > his second anniversary as an OSM contributor as an opportunity to report on his OSM activities over the past year.

Education

• During the UN Map Marathon 2021, which will take place from 22 to 26 November, UN Mappers are offering two online training sessions:
  • ‘Running with JOSM’, on Monday 22, aimed at those who want to approach the use of JOSM for the first time;
  • ‘From marathon to maps: how to use OSM data’, on Friday 26, focused on the use of OSM data with QGIS.

  The sessions will be held in English, French and Portuguese. Once registered, it will be possible to participate in the mapping competition. The best mapper of the map marathon will be announced on Friday.

OSM research

• Annett Bartsch was interviewed by Doug Johnson, from ArsTechnica, about the study she and her team published criticising the poor quality of mapping data above the Arctic Circle. The study claims to depict a more accurate representation of the local human footprint and its long-term impact.

Maps

• The #30DayMapChallenge, which we covered last week, and the week before, continues. Once again we have selected some of the maps using OpenStreetMap data:
  • Day 10: Raster – Not surprisingly, given that OSM is a vector dataset, entries were somewhat scarce. A 3-D jigsaw puzzle by D&G Placenames stood out.
  • Day 11: 3D – gonsta’s tactile map of Cherkasy (Ukraine).
  • Day 12: Population – OSM data were used to show where people live in the French commune of Orsay (Come_M_S).
  • Day 13: Natural Earth data – Federica Gaspari managed to include some OSM data as well as those of Natural Earth.
  • Day 14: New tool – Prettymaps (by Marcelo Prateles, reported earlier) was a popular choice for a new mapping tool (Bill Morris, Heikki Vesanto, University of Pretoria Youthmappers). Clare Powells’s 3-D visualisation of buildings of Dubai using Cesium also demonstrated OSM data nicely.
  • Day 15: Without using a computer – needless to say this was one challenge where OSM was not a lot of help, but Justin Roberts worked out a way, mapping a GPS trace of a route for later incorporation in OSM.
• Did you know it was possible to find all the maps published during the 30DayMapChallenge by searching on Twitter ‘30DayMapChallenge Day‘ followed by the day number?
• Cartographer John Nelson, of ESRI, provided some general advice as to when to add a north arrow to a map.

Open Data

• skunk has written > a small tool that helps to match open government datasets with Wikimedia (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata) and OpenStreetMap.

Software

• Rohner Solutions has > put up a doner kebab search tool using OSM data, but it requires you to enter or select a place name or to share your location to get a result.

Did you know …

• …that JOSM is used by less than 10% of the contributors, but since 2010 has provided the majority of the total of OSM edits? UN Mappers opened a poll, during GISDay, to explore the reasons and to propose free training sessions on this powerful editor. You can still participate this Sunday!
• … that you can deactivate all quests at once in the task selection settings of StreetComplete? Then you can activate the questions that interest you – for example, questions about incomplete addresses.
• … the European OpenGHGMap, by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and collaborators, show a city-level carbon dioxide emissions inventory for Europe?
• … the tool showing the content of relations with type=destination_sign, direction_* tags on guideposts, as well as destination tags on highways and guideposts?

OSM in the media

• Reddit user RawabuntuStation recognised the use of the OpenStreetMap Carto map style in the movie Kastanjemanden. Yet another appearance to be added to the list of films and movies that use OpenStreetMap.

Other “geo” things

• Google’s flood forecasting system is now live in all of India and Bangladesh, and they are working to expand to countries in South Asia and South America.
• grin described the setup they have been using to collect real-time kinematic positioning data (we reported earlier).
• Our favorite #30DayMapChallenge: the Mapping Cube video from ArtisansCartographes. Have fun practising your mapping cubic dexterity.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Черкаси	Open Mapathon: Digital Cherkasy		2021-10-24 – 2021-11-20	ua
	Pista ng Mapa 2021		2021-11-13 – 2021-11-20
	UCB Brasil + CicloMapa: curso de mapeamento		2021-11-16 – 2021-11-26
	MSF Geo Week Global Mapathon		2021-11-19
	State of the Map Africa 2021		2021-11-19 – 2021-11-21
	Maptime Baltimore Mappy Hour		2021-11-20
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2021-11-20
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Municipio	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		2021-11-20
New York	New York City Meetup		2021-11-21
	UN Map Marathon		2021-11-22 – 2021-11-26
	HOT Summit 2021		2021-11-22
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2021-11-22
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2021-11-24
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		2021-11-23
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy	Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy : Rencontre		2021-11-24
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		2021-11-24
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2021-11-26
Brno	November Brno Missing Maps mapathon at Department of Geography		2021-11-26
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Municipio	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		2021-11-27
泉大津市	オープンデータソン泉大津：町歩きとOpenStreetMap、Localwiki、ウィキペディアの編集		2021-11-27
長岡京市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第27回 元伊勢三社		2021-11-27
	HOTOSM Training Webinar Series: Beginner JOSM		2021-11-27
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland maandelijkse bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2021-11-27
Biella	Incontro mensile degli OSMers BI-VC-CVL	✓	2021-11-27
	津山のＷＥＢ地図作り～ＯＳＭのはじめ方～		2021-11-28
Chamwino	How FAO uses different apps to measure Land Degradation	✓	2021-11-29
	OSM Uganda Mapathon		2021-11-29
Salt Lake City	OpenStreetMap Utah Map Night		2021-12-02
Paris	Live Youtube Tropicamap		2021-12-01 – 2021-12-03
	Missing Maps Artsen Zonder Grenzen Mapathon		2021-12-02
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Dezember)		2021-12-02
	MapRoulette Community Meeting		2021-12-07
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2021-12-08
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2021-12-07
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2021-12-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2021-12-07
	CASA talk: Ramya Ragupathy, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team		2021-12-08
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup	✓	2021-12-09
Großarl	3. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2021-12-09
Gaishorn am See	Dritter Österreichische Online OSM-Stammtisch		2021-12-09

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16/11/2021-22/11/2021

About us

• Kai Michael Poppe has extended his multi-purpose-bot to also inform the D-A-CH Telegram group when a new issue of weeklyOSM is published.
  • Kai invited other Telegram groups that are interested to make use of this service too, using a new bot.
  • We have created a spreadsheet in which we ask administrators to enter the Telegram group that they want to be served directly when a new weeklyOSM is published.

Mapping

• Managing imagery alignment has always been a problem; bdhurkett found a solution for Burnie (Tasmania) as suburb polygons are well aligned with fences and other property boundaries. They outline how they are incrementally adjusting OSM objects to match these alignments more consistently.
• SherbetS showed a setup for river mapping using a PlayStation controller and JOSM.
• SK53 continued his examination of how natural=heath is used in Wales with a detailed example of a small hilltop heathland which was previously unmapped.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • motorroad=yes > , to formalise a definition of motorroad for Japan, until Saturday 4 December.
  • ref:EU:bwid=*, to record the unique identifier of a bathing site, until Monday 6 December.

Community

• Canadian cartographers discussed, on the forum, the relevance of special mapping for flood disasters and landslides in various areas of British Columbia.
• The Local Chapters and Communities Working Group presented the ‘OpenStreetMap Welcome Tool’. The tool is designed to make it easy to welcome new mappers to your country or region.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• On the OSMF mailing list Heikki Vesanto suggested a ‘made with OSM logo’ along the lines of those of Natural Earth and QGIS. Note that this is subtly different from an OSM mark, an idea which was recently revived (as we reported earlier), in that it would be additional to, not a replacement for, existing attribution requirements.
• Michal Migurski, candidate for the OSMF Board, asked on MetaFilter about ‘organisations that form in spite of their grassroots counterparts’, and asked how ‘new members’ could ‘circumvent a community organisation to form something larger and more organised’.

Events

• Both State of the Map Africa and the HOT Summit occurred last weekend (20 and 22 November), a little too late for inclusion of highlights in this week’s weeklyOSM. One talk several people noted on Twitter, was by Alazar Tekle from AddisMap, one of the earliest OpenStreetMap startups anywhere in the world. No videos, at present, but you can view their, virtual, presentation at State of the Map 2010 on YouTube.

Education

• Pascal Neis left a message on the changeset of a Chinese newcomer to ask why they deleted lots of data. Another user in the comments pointed out that this was OSM mapping homework assigned to students by an instructor at Central South University. Other mappers from China also showed their disappointment > with these homework changesets. Should teachers be responsible for such improper behaviour of students? How should we deal with the teacher’s assignment of editing in OSM as homework?
• Videos of presentations by Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), given at the recent FOSS4G conference, are now available online. Subjects include: an OSM Confidence Index developed using the ohsome.org framework, and an introduction and update on MapSwipe .

OSM research

• Alexander Zipf’s group has received funding to start a new project related to climate change actions – ‘GeCO – Generating high-resolution CO2 maps by Machine Learning-based geodata fusion and atmospheric transport modelling’.

Maps

• Here are some selected OpenStreetMap-based maps from the penultimate week of the #30DayMapChallenge, which we have been following all month:
  • Day 17: Land: Steven Kay produced a rotating globe with only the largest islands visible.
  • Day 18 : Water: P*C chose an area of Florida with extensive waterways.
  • Day 19: Islands: Ross Island, Antarctica (Andrew Tyrell) and the islands of Abu Dhabi (leeolney3).
  • Day 20 : Movement: colourful isochrones of cycle times around Dumfries (D&G Placenames).
  • Day 21 : Elevation: Tbilisi (Lika Zhvania).
  • Day 22: Boundaries: Arctic boundaries with a polar projection (Andrew Zolnai), and a tiny pene-enclave on the Norway-Sweden border (Steven Kay).

Software

• The website Visionscarto announced > the launch of three tools built with OpenStreetMap and uMap to identify available agricultural lands and their uses by the association ‘Terre de liens’.
• Hauke Stieler created a web application called OSM Open to find POIs that are open at a selected point in time. The data can also be filtered by tags and the source code is available on GitHub. He has chosen to hide the OpenStreetMap attribution by default.

Did you know …

• … the existence of the xmas:feature key? While scarcely used (about 2000 items) and mainly in Germany, this ‘in use’ tag was introduced in 2009 and grows each year by a few hundred or so. Its use has been debated and a merging proposal with the temporary: namespace was made, but the proposal has been inactive since 2016.
• [1] … the Open Indoor Viewer called ‘OpenLevelUp‘?
• … there is a list of new keys recently created in OSM? Most of them involve typos or ignorance of established tagging principles. Comes with direct links to correct them.
• … OSM Streak, the gamified web application that encourages you to do small tasks in OpenStreetMap every day? There is also a Telegram account named @osm_streak_bot, which you can configure to remind you of your daily task.

OSM in the media

• The government of France has unveiled > its action plan for open source software and digital commons which, as its name suggests, aims to strengthen the use of open source and encourage the opening up of public data. A specific objective is to reference open source software and digital commons such as OpenStreetMap, a free and collaborative digital tool from which other tools such as transport.data.gouv.fr > are derived.

Other “geo” things

• Archival geodata are now available > as WMS layers from the Polish national geoportal.
• The general secretariat of the German Red Cross (GRC), based in Berlin, is looking for a ‘Manager Geoinformatics’. The position is responsible for the implementation of the project ‘Development of geoinformatics for the international humanitarian aid activities of the GRC – Strengthening the cooperation with the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology’. The person chosen will also help develop programmes and basic approaches for the use and support of OpenStreetMap.
• Reibert wrote > about the official state register [uk] > of permits to harvest timber in Ukraine.
• SkyNews reported that Mapbox’s route to a stock market listing, through a Softbank SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company), has run out of steam.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	UCB Brasil + CicloMapa: curso de mapeamento		2021-11-16 – 2021-11-26
	UN Map Marathon		2021-11-22 – 2021-11-26
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2021-11-26
Brno	November Brno Missing Maps mapathon at Department of Geography		2021-11-26
	HOTOSM Training Webinar Series: Beginner JOSM		2021-11-27
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland maandelijkse bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2021-11-27
長岡京市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第27回 元伊勢三社		2021-11-27
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Departamento	Resolvamos notas de Colombia creadas en OpenStreetMap		2021-11-27
泉大津市	オープンデータソン泉大津：町歩きとOpenStreetMap、Localwiki、ウィキペディアの編集		2021-11-27
Biella	Incontro mensile degli OSMers BI-VC-CVL	✓	2021-11-27
	津山のＷＥＢ地図作り～ＯＳＭのはじめ方～		2021-11-28
Chamwino	How FAO uses different apps to measure Land Degradation	✓	2021-11-29
	OSM Uganda Mapathon		2021-11-29
Salt Lake City	OpenStreetMap Utah Map Night		2021-12-02
Paris	Live Youtube Tropicamap		2021-12-01
	Missing Maps Artsen Zonder Grenzen Mapathon		2021-12-02
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Dezember)		2021-12-02
	MapRoulette Community Meeting		2021-12-07
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2021-12-08
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2021-12-07
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #30 (Online)		2021-12-07
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2021-12-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2021-12-07
	CASA talk: Ramya Ragupathy, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team		2021-12-08
London	London pub meet-up		2021-12-08
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup	✓	2021-12-09
Großarl	3. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2021-12-09
Berlin	162. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2021-12-10
	[Online] 15th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation		2021-12-11
Grenoble	OSM Grenoble Atelier OpenStreetMap		2021-12-13
臺北市	OSM x Wikidata Taipei #35		2021-12-13
	Toronto OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts Meeting		2021-12-14
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2021-12-15
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		2021-12-14
Helechosa de los Montes	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2021-12-14

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23/11/2021-29/11/2021

Mapping

• Enock4seth complained about changeset comments consisting solely of hashtags. These make it difficult to understand exactly what changes people are making in Ghana, so he is now asking new mappers to provide explanations as well.

Community

• LuxuryCoop was interviewed about OpenStreetMap in South Korea, as part of the Geomob podcast series.
• Contributor LySioS has illustrated the ’10 commandments for the OSM contributor’ as a short presentation slide deck . There is also a related discussion on the OSM-FR forum.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• What type of memberships are there in the OSM Foundation?You can apply for a free membership if you have mapped on 42 or more days in the past year. If you contribute to OpenStreetMap in ways other than mapping, but equivalent in effort to the mapping requirement, you may also qualify. Note that new members will not be eligible to vote at this year’s Annual General Meeting.
• Existing OSMF members have until Saturday 4 December 00:00 UTC (at midnight Friday/Saturday) to renew their membership via the Application form for active mapping contributor membership (i.e., 42 days or more of OSM mapping in the last year).
• Allan Mustard has published the 2021 Annual Chairperson’s Report and reminded the members of the OSMF that the Annual General Meeting is just around the corner (online in the IRC chat room #osmf-gm on the IRC network irc.oftc.net, starting Saturday 11 December at 16:00 UTC). Voting to elect four new members of the OSMF Board of Directors (six candidates) will begin Saturday 4 December and there is also a proposed amendment to the Articles of Association, to count time as an associate member for board candidacy requirements. Please be sure to vote!
• On the OSM-wiki one can find links to the answers from the 2021 OSMF Board election candidates and their manifestos.
• Did you know that the monthly board meetings of the OSMF are public and broadcast live on the web? The dates are published in an OSS calendar.

Events

• The State of the Map Africa 2021 took place online from 19 to 21 November. Here are a selection of some reflections on this event:
  • Erick Tamba STATE OF THE MAP AFRICA 2021: (SMCoSE YouthMappers)
  • Maria Nabuwembo Celebrating the open mapping culture and its impact across Africa
  • Vickystickz My Experience @ State of The Map 2021
  • Sheila Job Development of solutions using data.

Education

• stragu published their RStats and OpenStreetMap workshop which was presented both at State of the Map 2021 and ResBazQld (Research Bazaar Queensland).
• Taiwanese Mapper Supaplex pointed out the Organised Editing Guidelines to community members, suggesting that they could constrain obvious assignments appointed by school teachers, and register contact information and mapping purposes. As mapping requires state permission in China, it might not be a good idea to ask people from China to follow the Organised Editing Guidelines, which would require they register their contact information and mapping project purposes.

Maps

• Sundellviz showed ‘where to get a drink in Europe’, a map on which all the cafés, bars, pubs and beer gardens in Europe are displayed as different coloured dots. As argued in the comments section, the fact that each type of establishment is called by different terms in each country seems to be the cause of some inconsistencies on the map.
• Bristow explained > how to get aerial views in OSMAnd and in particular those of of the French National Geographic Institute.
• [1] Here are some selected OpenStreetMap-based maps from the final week of the #30DayMapChallenge:
  • Day 23: GHSL: the second challenge based on a non-OSM data source. Dror Bogin felt they had to add some OSM data to ‘make it interesting’ for Iceland.
  • Day 24: Historical map: Heikki Vesanto animated the ongoing effort by the OSM Irish community to map all of the buildings in Ireland.
  • Day 25: Interactive map: Zihan Song demonstrated the new clustering features in ArcGIS with an interactive a map of shop locations extracted from OSM.
  • Day 26: Choropleth map: Topi Tjukanov, who started the Challenge, divided Helsinki into segments based on the closest shop of each grocery retail chain.
  • Day 27: Heatmap: Hans van der Kwast pointed to the concentration of bicycle parking in South Holland, the Netherlands, mapped in OSM.
  • Day 28: The Earth is not flat: Fedir Gontsa depicted coverage for the biggest private postal and courier company in Ukraine using OSM data.
  • Day 29: Null: Ryan Hart found a Null Road in the OSM road network of North Carolina, USA.
  • Day 30: Metamapping: on the last day of the Challenge, while most people took a break, Marie Anna Baovola mapped buildings and roads in Kigali, Rwanda, obtained from OSM.

Open Data

• The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) launched > the Continuous Vector Cartographic Base of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil on 27 October. These IBGE data are freely available for use in OpenStreetMap.

Software

• Sarah Heidekorn blogged about the new ways to access the ohsome API, an application that allows non-programmers to analyse the rich data source of OpenStreetMap history. Tools to help analyse OpenStreetMap data are available in packages for Python, R, QGIS, and JavaScript.

Programming

• Colin Angus, VictimOfMaths, for some time now has been making available the R code for all plots he shows on Twitter. A side effect of his participation in the #30DayMapChallenge is that the code for his isochrone map is available on GitHub.

Did you know …

• … the Web to OSM Opening Hours converter? You can copy and paste website content, including tables, into a form field that will extract the textual content and try to convert this into values that conforms to the opening_hours key.

Other “geo” things

• In Australia, ABC News reported on the detailed Lidar analysis that has uncovered failures by the state logging company to abide by strict laws designed to protect valuable water catchments in Victoria.
• The Laotian Times reported that the government of Laos has introduced large fines for unauthorised mapping or use of unauthorised maps.
• BBC News profiled Geograph a website where contributors share geographically located photographs, grouped by 1 km grid squares. Geograph covers Great Britain and Ireland – there is also a German equivalent. Photographs are licensed CC-BY-SA.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	MapRoulette Community Meeting		2021-12-07
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2021-12-08
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2021-12-07
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #30 (Online)		2021-12-07
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2021-12-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2021-12-07
	CASA talk: Ramya Ragupathy, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team		2021-12-08
London	London pub meet-up		2021-12-08
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup	✓	2021-12-09
Bratislava	Missing Maps mapathon Slovakia online #5	✓	2021-12-09
Großarl	3. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2021-12-09
Berlin	162. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2021-12-10
	[Online] 15th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation		2021-12-11
Grenoble	OSM Grenoble Atelier OpenStreetMap		2021-12-13
臺北市	OSM x Wikidata Taipei #35		2021-12-13
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2021-12-13
	Toronto OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts Meeting		2021-12-14
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2021-12-15
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		2021-12-14
	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2021-12-14
京都市	幕末京都オープンデータソン#15：岩倉具視と岩倉村		2021-12-18
Bonn	146. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2021-12-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2021-12-21

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Nordpfeil, PierZen, Polyglot, SK53, SomeoneElse, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, derFred.

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30/11/2021-06/12/2021

Breaking news

• At the OSMF general meeting on 12 December, chair, Allan Mustard announced the results of the election to the board. Guillaume Rischard, Amanda McCann, and Mikel Maron were re-elected. Roland Olbricht joins them as a new member. 742 ballots were cast. The detailed results are available.

Mapping campaigns

• [1] The UN Mappers – IIEP UNESCO mapping campaign, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Madagascar, brought together almost 900 volunteers to advance education planning: 9845 km of roads were mapped around the Vakinankaratra region in Madagascar. 97% of schools are now connected to road network data, compared to just over half at the beginning of the project. The road network produced is processed using the IIIEP-UNESCO school catchment plugin to assess travel times children undertake every day from home to school, and to design better interventions.

Mapping

• darkonus gave instructions explaining how to install JOSM on a Mac with Apple Silicon.
• Forteller shared the adventure of surveying by bike and then mapping more than 100 parks in Oslo, which led to an opportunity to discover new places.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • amenity=library_dropoff for mapping a place where library patrons can return or drop-off books, other than the library itself.
  • ele=* to allow the use of any of the documented height units for tagging elevations.

Community

• OpenMapChile reported on their progress on the mapping of urban trees, specifically in the city of Valdivia, where they have achieved a total of 15,062 trees added.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium’s Mapper of the Month for December is d1sr4n from Russia.
• TechnicallyNotDeaf, a beginner contributor from Victoria, Australia, outlined what they have learnt from their first week of mapping.
• User pedr0faria was the winner of the second edition of the UN Map Marathon, the event organised by UN Mappers to contribute to UN projects through mapping in OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Michael Spreng, on behalf of the Membership Working Group, indicated that during the election season, which often leads to huge volumes of messages, contributors are limited to one message a day on talk-osmf.

OSM research

• A scientific article discussed > the contribution of cartography to the real and the virtual, including the case of mapathons that make it possible to make real the presence of people missing from maps other than OSM.

Maps

• Yves noted having added the remaining missing functionality of the OpenSnowMap website to the mobile-friendly version, it’s time to de-commission the older version. In case you feel lost, you can still find the old version (at least for a while) from the menu option ‘LEGACY OPENSNOWMAP.ORG’

Open Data

• Michael Cieslik demonstrated how open elevation profile data can be used to compare buildings heights with LOD2 style 3D renderings of OSM data. The discussion in Michael’s tweet focuses on the differences in the datasets and potential means of synchronisation.

Software

• While discussing the topic of software governance Roland Olbricht pointed out that the Overpass API has a low bus factor. mmd added > that the existence of their fork doesn’t necessarily increase the bus factor and things other than the number of developers can help a project survive in the long term.
• The development team behind the OSM Welcome Tool recently wrote instructions on how to use the tool (available on the tool’s wiki page) and are looking for feedback from new users.
• Robhubi explained > the workflow they use to import data from GIP to compare with OSM. The Graph Integration Platform (GIP) is Austria’s online system for collecting and sharing transport route information.
• The Russian internet company VK (the russian Facebook ex-MailRu Group) has deployed an overpass turbo website. They have also published > a tutorial on how to use it.

Other “geo” things

• Anonymaps informed us of an exciting opportunity to work for Google in return for no pay.
• The Bucharest court confirmed [ro] > the decision of a chief prosecutor of DIICOT (Direcţia de Investigare a Infracţiunilor de Criminalitate Organizată şi Terorism) to reopen the criminal investigation in a case in which the Romanian Patriarchate filed a criminal complaint after the location and name of the ‘Cathedral of the Salvation of the Nation‘ on Google Maps was changed to the ‘Cathedral of the Stupidity of the Nation’.
• The Department of Geoinformatics at Heidelberg University is seeking a part-time research assistant (m, f, d) as soon as possible to develop methods for generating spatially high-resolution CO2 emission inventories using methods from Spatial Data Science and Machine Learning (esp. Deep Learning) in the context of the GeCO project.
• Google Mexico has proposed a crowdsourced project for mapping all sorts of street stalls, which account for 50% of the businesses in the country. These businesses are not visible on the map, and Google Mexico took notice of the situation from custom maps prepared by a freelance data analyst.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
建设街道	长株潭区域作业绘图后续修正		2021-12-10 – 2021-12-15
Grenoble	OSM Grenoble Atelier OpenStreetMap		2021-12-13
臺北市	OSM x Wikidata Taipei #35		2021-12-13
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2021-12-13
	Toronto OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts Meeting		2021-12-14
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2021-12-15
20095	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2021-12-14
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		2021-12-14
	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2021-12-14
Decatur County	OSM US Mappy Hour		2021-12-16
京都市	幕末京都オープンデータソン#15：岩倉具視と岩倉村		2021-12-18
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2021-12-21
Bonn	146. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2021-12-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2021-12-21
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第28回 智積院		2021-12-25
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2021-12-27
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		2021-12-29

Note:
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This weeklyOSM was produced by PierZen, SK53, TheSwavu, cafeconleche, derFred, Can.

30/11/2021-06/12/2021

Breaking news

• At the OSMF general meeting on 12 December, chair, Allan Mustard announced the results of the election to the board. Guillaume Rischard, Amanda McCann, and Mikel Maron were re-elected. Roland Olbricht joins them as a new member. 742 ballots were cast. The detailed results are available.

Mapping campaigns

• [1] The UN Mappers – IIEP UNESCO mapping campaign, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Madagascar, brought together almost 900 volunteers to advance education planning: 9845 km of roads were mapped around the Vakinankaratra region in Madagascar. 97% of schools are now connected to road network data, compared to just over half at the beginning of the project. The road network produced is processed using the IIIEP-UNESCO school catchment plugin to assess travel times children undertake every day from home to school, and to design better interventions.

Mapping

• darkonus gave instructions explaining how to install JOSM on a Mac with Apple Silicon.
• Forteller shared the adventure of surveying by bike and then mapping more than 100 parks in Oslo, which led to an opportunity to discover new places.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • amenity=library_dropoff for mapping a place where library patrons can return or drop-off books, other than the library itself.
  • ele=* to allow the use of any of the documented height units for tagging elevations.

Community

• OpenMapChile reported on their progress on the mapping of urban trees, specifically in the city of Valdivia, where they have achieved a total of 15,062 trees added.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium’s Mapper of the Month for December is d1sr4n from Russia.
• TechnicallyNotDeaf, a beginner contributor from Victoria, Australia, outlined what they have learnt from their first week of mapping.
• User pedr0faria was the winner of the second edition of the UN Map Marathon, the event organised by UN Mappers to contribute to UN projects through mapping in OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Michael Spreng, on behalf of the Membership Working Group, indicated that during the election season, which often leads to huge volumes of messages, contributors are limited to one message a day on talk-osmf.

OSM research

• A scientific article discussed > the contribution of cartography to the real and the virtual, including the case of mapathons that make it possible to make real the presence of people missing from maps other than OSM.

Maps

• Yves noted having added the remaining missing functionality of the OpenSnowMap website to the mobile-friendly version, it’s time to de-commission the older version. In case you feel lost, you can still find the old version (at least for a while) from the menu option ‘LEGACY OPENSNOWMAP.ORG’

Open Data

• Michael Cieslik demonstrated how open elevation profile data can be used to compare buildings heights with LOD2 style 3D renderings of OSM data. The discussion in Michael’s tweet focuses on the differences in the datasets and potential means of synchronisation.

Software

• While discussing the topic of software governance Roland Olbricht pointed out that the Overpass API has a low bus factor. mmd added > that the existence of their fork doesn’t necessarily increase the bus factor and things other than the number of developers can help a project survive in the long term.
• The development team behind the OSM Welcome Tool recently wrote instructions on how to use the tool (available on the tool’s wiki page) and are looking for feedback from new users.
• Robhubi explained > the workflow they use to import data from GIP to compare with OSM. The Graph Integration Platform (GIP) is Austria’s online system for collecting and sharing transport route information.
• The Russian internet company VK (the russian Facebook ex-MailRu Group) has deployed an overpass turbo website. They have also published > a tutorial on how to use it.

Other “geo” things

• Anonymaps informed us of an exciting opportunity to work for Google in return for no pay.
• The Bucharest court confirmed [ro] > the decision of a chief prosecutor of DIICOT (Direcţia de Investigare a Infracţiunilor de Criminalitate Organizată şi Terorism) to reopen the criminal investigation in a case in which the Romanian Patriarchate filed a criminal complaint after the location and name of the ‘Cathedral of the Salvation of the Nation‘ on Google Maps was changed to the ‘Cathedral of the Stupidity of the Nation’.
• The Department of Geoinformatics at Heidelberg University is seeking a part-time research assistant (m, f, d) as soon as possible to develop methods for generating spatially high-resolution CO2 emission inventories using methods from Spatial Data Science and Machine Learning (esp. Deep Learning) in the context of the GeCO project.
• Google Mexico has proposed a crowdsourced project for mapping all sorts of street stalls, which account for 50% of the businesses in the country. These businesses are not visible on the map, and Google Mexico took notice of the situation from custom maps prepared by a freelance data analyst.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
建设街道	长株潭区域作业绘图后续修正		2021-12-10 – 2021-12-15
Grenoble	OSM Grenoble Atelier OpenStreetMap		2021-12-13
臺北市	OSM x Wikidata Taipei #35		2021-12-13
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2021-12-13
	Toronto OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts Meeting		2021-12-14
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2021-12-15
20095	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2021-12-14
Derby	East Midlands OSM Pub Meet-up : Derby		2021-12-14
	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2021-12-14
Decatur County	OSM US Mappy Hour		2021-12-16
京都市	幕末京都オープンデータソン#15：岩倉具視と岩倉村		2021-12-18
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2021-12-21
Bonn	146. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2021-12-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2021-12-21
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第28回 智積院		2021-12-25
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2021-12-27
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		2021-12-29

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07/12/2021-13/12/2021

Mapping

• TomTom has analysed OSM data in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. They have posted the areas identified for improvement on MapRoulette.
• indoor= updates their map data every hour. François2 described in his diary entry how map changes with respect to indoor tagging can be previewed without waiting for an hour.
• User TreeTracks (writing as LittleMaps) reviewed and analysed the high accuracy of OpenStreetMap’s road surface tags for sealed vs unsealed roads in Victoria, Australia.
• A tagging scheme has been proposed > to allow the passenger accessibility attributes from DELFI > to be translated into OSM mapping. The proposal has been developed by Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (NVBW > ), OPENER next > — an mFund project to promote public transport accessibility for people with reduced mobility, and Mentz — a public transport software and service provider.
• Mapper cytryn proposed > a unified tagging scheme for memorial benches in Poland.
• Florian Lainez has proposed > , on Talk-fr, creating a new ‘deprecated and unsupported’ status for tags and establishing a calendar to implement this deprecation. He also started to draft a proposal on the wiki.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • inlet=* for tagging the details of where the flow enters a culvert or pipeline, until Tuesday 28 December.
  • amenity=parcel_machine for mapping lockers that are used to store parcels awaiting self-service pick-up, until Wednesday 29 December.

Community

• ortho_is_hot, an Australian mapper, described their OSM process in 2021.

Imports

• Jacob (user safetygoggles) wants to import the buildings of Morris County, New Jersey, USA, from data provided by Morris County GIS, from whom he claims to have obtained permission for use in OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Heikki Vesanto has posted, on the OSM Foundation mailing list for discussion, suggestions for logos to use on the web map. This follows-up an earlier thread, as we reported earlier.
• The OSMF Board met Wednesday 15 December, by video conference, for the first time after the election. The topics discussed were:
  • Election of officers
  • Etiquette Guidelines
  • Screen-to-screen/face-to-face board meetings in 2022
  • Holiday circular blackout.

  Minutes of the Board meeting have been published on the wiki.

• At last month’s advisory board meeting, Microsoft gave a presentation about allowing people, who are already logged into a Microsoft account, to improve OSM without logging in again to OpenStreetMap.
• Guillaume Rischard published the 2021 OSMF Treasurer’s report on the wiki.
• At last week’s OSMF Annual General Meeting a special resolution was passed by 357 votes to 28. This resolution allows the time spent as an associate member to count towards the qualification period required to be a board member.The 2021 Annual General Meeting wiki page reports in detail about the election and the AGM.

Education

• Dominik Weckmüller wrote a tutorial on how to create 3D OSM city models with QGIS and Aerialod. As an example, he published the result of Trier, the oldest town in Germany.
• The newest video in HOT’s YouTube playlist ‘HOT Training Webinar Series’ is for mappers who want to begin editing with JOSM.
• Maya Lovo wrote in her article, ‘Instead of consuming maps, let’s produce maps!’, on TeachOSM, about how Celeste Reynolds uses OpenStreetMap in the classroom. If teachers are doing similar projects with their students, they should contact Maya Lovo.

Maps

• Harry Wood has blogged a collection of interesting OSM-related maps from the #30DayMapChallenge.
• Hauke Stieler has made a QGIS project for an outdoor map based on OpenStreetMap data.

Open Data

• Gonéo has published > a blog post explaining how to integrate an open data dataset with OpenStreetMap.

Software

• The OSM BTC system, initiated by OsmAnd, has been adapted in order to increase the distribution among more active participants. Instead of calculating payments by changes (changesets), now changed objects in changesets are counted. Minimum number will be 300 per month.
• OsmAnd version 4.1 has been released for Android and iOS. The Android update includes support for Android Auto, disables the Mapillary layer plugin by default, and adds app shortcuts – for example, to quickly start a recording to upload tracks to OSM. The iOS update includes improved loading of maps.
• Vladimir Agafonkin has published an article entitled ‘Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era’.

Did you know …

• [1] … multimap(a)s Compare Map by Javier Jiménez Shaw ? The layers panel offers a large inventory of cartographic layers from around the world assembled by country and allows you to upload your own layers with various formats. A ‘Story Style Tutorial’ describes the functionalities available through the various buttons.
• … the Map Design Guide, from the State of Minnesota Interagency Map Accessibility Workgroup, which presents a number of best practices to ensure accessibility and usability, including styles and colours?
• … Marble, the online globe for Linux, Mac, Windows and Android with OSM maps?

Other “geo” things

• With the completion of the Kunming–Singapore railway central route on 3 December, Epic Maps tweeted a map showing the train trip you can now take from Singapore to Lagos, Portugal. Mashable has an article with more details about the journey.
• Anders Sundell, a political scientist at University of Gothenburg tweeted a map with all the soccer (football) fields in Europe, according to OpenStreetMap. In his analysis he stated: ‘There are more fields in Germany than anywhere else, but per capita, Liechtenstein wins’.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
京都市	幕末京都オープンデータソン#15：岩倉具視と岩倉村		2021-12-18
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2021-12-21
Bonn	146. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2021-12-21
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2021-12-21
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第28回 智積院		2021-12-25
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2021-12-27
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		2021-12-29
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-01-04
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-01-04
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #31 (Online)		2022-01-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2022-01-04

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14/12/2021-20/12/2021

Mapping

• PoliMappers tweeted a suggestion to take your mapping skills to another level with JOSM.
• Bo Percival reported on the results of an experiment carried out by HOT to compare traditional mapping with AI-assisted mapping (we reported earlier). They learnt that AI can assist and amplify the efforts of mappers to produce more map data. However, this comes with a condition: AI assistance amplifies the speed of map data creation, but does not significantly improve data quality (nor does it worsen it).
• Gonéo continued > their discussion on the workflow they are using to import Lyon (France) bicycle parking information.
• Muluba, a contributor from Butembo, DRC, has published a diary entry about using the KoBo ToolBox to collect field data with a smartphone and transferring the data to OSM. He would like to discuss this subject with others.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • water=reservoir to deprecate landuse=reservoir and reservoir_type=*, and define reservoirs, lakes, and ponds.
  • parking:lane:* and parking:condition:*=* for improving the tagging of on-street parking conditions.

Community

• Amanda McCann reported what she did in OpenStreetMap in November 2021 both as a mapper, and as a member of the OSMF Advisory Board and the Communication Working Group.
• French professor Cyrille Borne wrote > about Simon Weckert’s Google Maps traffic hack back in 2020 (we reported earlier) and the relationship between data, ethics and the physical world.
• Christoph Hormann announced that he will no longer participate in OSMF-hosted communication channels, citing his dissatisfaction with the Board’s intentions for the moderation of mailing lists.
• The city government of Tijuana, Mexico is interested in importing their building polygon data > .
• UN Mappers organised last week in Valencia (Spain) the Unite Maps Conference, a meeting with 60 representatives from UN peacekeeping and special political missions from all over the world. During the conference, UN Mappers along with other UN entities (IIEP-UNESCO, UNHCR, and the World Bank), speakers from humanitarian actors (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, YouthMappers, Les Libres Géographes, and IFRC) and local communities (OSM Mali, OSM Somalia and OSM Democratic Republic of the Congo) presented the benefits of using OpenStreetMap in their activities and the positive impacts on communities.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Mateusz Konieczny answered his own question, from January 2021, by pointing to the wiki page which explains that the OSMF does not have any employees. A list of contractors hired by the OSMF is on their wiki.

Local chapter news

• OSGeo Oceania have published their annual report for 2020–2021. OSGeo Oceania’s OSM Special Interest Group is the Local Chapter of the OSMF in Oceania.

Events

• The call for speakers at the State of the Map US 2022 has been extended to Saturday 8 January.

Open Data

• What does > the rapid transit system of Karlsruhe (Germany) look like to wheelchair users? This is an updated visualisation, including new underground sections opened on 12 December, of the stops in Karlsruhe (and also the rest of the KVV transit authority area) that are accessible for wheelchair users. You can move the slider back and forth to compare.

Software

• Previously we reported that Marcelo Prates has developed Pretty Maps to render maps based on OSM data. A Chinese developer, Haoming Zhuang, was inspired by this tool and has developed pretty_gpd, which lets users of local geographic data draw similar style maps in a Python GeoDataFrame.

Did you know …

• … [1] MyOSMatic, an easy way to generate a map of a city (also with street index) from OSM data and download it in different data formats for free? Choose from 14 different menu language options after opening.

Other “geo” things

• Maxar shared satellite imagery of the Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois before and after the recent tornado.
• Despite it appearing to have been lifted straight from the SotM Heidelberg map book, Julien Coupey tweeted that he was unable to resist the Plans de Villes calendar.
• @KartForData tweeted that Kart is now available as a QGIS plugin. You can now work with version controlled data directly within your desktop GIS – see your data history, commit incremental changes and create and merge branches.
• Ilya Zverev noted > the release of Natural Earth v5.0.0; a public domain map dataset available at a scale of 1:10,000,000 (and smaller).

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2021-12-27
Budapest	OSM hour: summary of the year 2021 (online on BBB, Hungarian)	✓	2021-12-28
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OSM-Treffen (online)		2021-12-29
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-01-04
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #31 (Online)		2022-01-04
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-01-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2022-01-04
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #36		2022-01-10
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-01-10
Helechosa de los Montes	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2022-01-11
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-01-13
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Januar) ONLINE		2022-01-13
Berlin	163. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-01-13
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-01-15

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21/12/2021-27/12/2021

About us

• The weeklyOSM team thanks you for your interest and we wish you a Happy New Year.

Mapping

• Many people use navigation devices for their hiking trips and many navigation devices are based on OSM data. In OSM, however, official hiking trails are not distinguished from ‘unauthorised routes’. To help fix this problem OSM US has set up a Trails Working Group.
• Cristoffs, in his diary, described / OpenStreetMap Poland’s latest project to map AEDs (defibrillators) in Poland.

Imports

• Okada Tsuneo plans to import the bus stops around Hiroshima City, Japan. More information can be found on the wiki.
• The Spain OpenStreetMap community is carrying out an import project. The objective is to add buildings and addresses in parts of the country where they are not present, or to improve data if they already exist. They have recently started preparing a series of video tutorials explaining how to participate in the import. The first video is already available on YouTube ( subtitles available).

Education

• Courtney Clark (HOT Board Member) introduced OSM at a TEDx event.

Software

• HOT is inviting > the Latin American OSM community and surrounding open source communities to join the initial team at HOT’s Open Mapping Hub Latin America. A team with very diverse skills is sought. You are invited to apply, whether you have one or several competencies, and a little or a lot of availability.
• Stephan Bösch-Plepelits (user skunk) has added a new category to the OpenStreetBrowser. It now shows all listed heritage objects that are correctly tagged in OpenStreetMap. Stephan has also created > a web application that helps in tagging listed objects in Austria and Berlin, Germany.

Did you know …

• … everystreetchallenge, a service for calculating the shortest route to travel all of the streets in your area? It will help you plan how to Burb any area up to 3 km² in size.
• … you can search OpenStreetMap mail lists using The Mail Archive? See the FAQ for the search syntax.
• … Map Composer > , a graphical application in Java, for creating topographic maps from OpenStreetMap data?
• … rene78 has tweaked a version of Martin Raifer’s Latest Changes on OpenStreetMap? Rene’s version can be used on mobile devices.

Other “geo” things

• A Google Street View car got stuck > in the mud in the Carpathian foothills.
• How long would you have to wait for the fire brigade to arrive in Germany? This map of journey times > was created using OSM data.
• Alasdair Rae has used Copernicus elevation data to animate how Western Europe would flood with rising sea levels.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-01-04
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #31 (Online)		2022-01-04
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-01-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2022-01-04
Gárdony	Mapathon: mapping tobacco shops in Hungary based on Mapillary (online)		2022-01-05
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #36		2022-01-10
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-01-10
Helechosa de los Montes	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2022-01-11
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-01-13
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Januar) ONLINE		2022-01-13
Berlin	163. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-01-13
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-01-15
Hilversum	OSGeo.nl/OSM-NL/QGIS-NL Nieuwjaars Borrel		2022-01-16
	147.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-01-18

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28/12/2021-03/01/2022

Mapping campaigns

• Marjan, from TomTom, informed us of the project they have planned in the Dominican Republic (similar to those they have carried out in many other countries). They compared their data with the data in OSM and opened a MapRoulette Challenge to check the missing roads.

Mapping

• A Taiwan mapper 琉璃百合, mentioned > the traffic light tagging issue in the Talk-cn mailing list. She believes that some Chinese mappers incorrectly tag traffic lights at road intersections, and gave some proper examples.
• DeBigC had set targets for 2021, which he reviewed at the end of the year, and set his OSM targets for 2022. His summary is provided with interesting links.
• User Bxl-forever made the first changeset of 2022 (UTC) according to OSMCha.
• Martin Wieland, from the unsurv project, has set himself the task of compiling a database of already installed video cameras that is as up to date as possible. Tools for the largely automatic mapping of such electronic eyes are to help with this project.
• Jeremy G describes in his OSM Diary the process he used in adding the ‘industrial trail walk’ at l’Argentière-La Bessée in France as a relation.
• Johnwhelan detected a lot of mistakes after some completed projects in the HOT Tasking Manager which did not have appropiate validation and made some recomendations on how to clean up after completing a project in the tasking manager.
• The proposal amenity=small_vehicle_parking, to tag parking locations of any kind of small road vehicle, apart from bicycles, is waiting for your comments.Voting is open for defensive_works=*, to tag military constructions or buildings designed for the defence of territories in warfare, until Tuesday 18 January.

Community

• 48 contributors mapped every single day in 2021. Interested in more statistics? Just have a look at OSMStats by Pascal Neis.
• User AndreyGeograf wrote > about his experience with micro and nano mapping.
• Janet Chapman reported on her experience with six years of ‘Crowd2Map‘.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium’s Mapper of the Month for January is Koos Krijnders from The Netherlands.
• As a response to an article titled ‘Should you fix errors and contribute to Google Maps for free?’ Cj Malone wrote an article providing insights about contributing open data to OpenStreetMap for free.

Local chapter news

• Cartographers from the Digne area in France wrote > about naming and tagging practices for pedestrian trails and how different renderers show them.

Maps

• [1] Alex (user Supaplex030) continued to explore the boundaries of the level of detail that can be rendered based on OSM data with his public space map for Neukölln, Berlin. A blog post by Tobias Jordans shows many interesting details such as cycleways, turn lanes and junctions and explains how the data is processed to allow this rendering. One conclusion is that a collaboration on pre-processed OSM data for streets would be of huge benefit.
• Reddit user burgerking_foot shared a map showing places named Å from Katapult. Funnily enough, all of them are distributed in northern Europe.

Software

• The software Flatmap has been renamed to Planetiler. Working in a similar way to Tilemaker it allows production of OSM-based map files in Mapbox Vector Tile format (MVT).
• OpenMobilityIndicators has been extended > to the whole of France. The toolbox uses OpenStreetMap data to measure pedestrian accessibility in a given area.
• qeef wrote about the second year of ‘Divide and map. Now.‘, which, as an example, enabled a simultaneous mapathon of 200 mappers by dividing up an area.

Releases

• Dietmar Seifert has provided an analysis of how many addresses in Germany are already mapped in OpenStreetMap.

Did you know …

• … of the many ways to get in touch with the OSM community?
  

  Where can I get help, where can I find people to talk to?
  ###
  International – Multilingual Channels
  * International mailing lists
  * Forum from Android to Wiki team and from Albania to Venezuela
  * Discord
  * Mastodon
  * Matrix
  * Slack
  * Telegram
  * Twitter
  * IRC channels

OSM in the media

• Effective 1 January 2022, a total of 10 towns in Poland have been granted > city status. As happens every year, the required changes have been implemented promptly by Polish mappers.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	OSM Africa Monthly Mapathon: Map Mauritania		2022-01-08
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #36		2022-01-10
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-01-10
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-01-11
Helechosa de los Montes	Reunión mensual de la comunidad española		2022-01-11
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-01-13
Berlin	163. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-01-13
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Januar) ONLINE		2022-01-13
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-01-15
Hilversum	OSGeo.nl/OSM-NL/QGIS-NL Nieuwjaars Borrel		2022-01-16
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-01-19
	147.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-01-18
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2022-01-24
Hoeselt	Rode Kruis Mapathon – Hoeselt		2022-01-25
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (Online)		2022-01-26
	Missing Maps online Mapathon des DRK		2022-01-26

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04/01/2022-10/01/2022

About us

• The over 10-year success story of weeklyOSM, as well as our editorial team, continue to develop but are also subject to change.
  • With new support, weeklyOSM will therefore be available from issue 595 not only in ZH-TW (Chinese Traditional) but also in ZH-CN (Chinese Simplified).
  • However, issues will no longer be published in PT-BR, as we can no longer ensure quality due to a lack of native language support. We suggest that readers use the PT-PT edition until we find someone who wants to fill this gap in the editorial team.

Mapping campaigns

• qeef correctly stated in his blog post that ‘data quality matters’. Taking a cue from Johnwhelan’s cleanup suggestions, which we reported on in issue #598, qeef describes three steps that are useful for quality assurance to clean up the geometry of an area following a distributed mapping action when using the Divide and map. Now tasking manager.
• Christoffs presented > us with a new website showing all the defibrillator locations (menu and description only on ) in Poland mapped in OSM.
• Enock Seth Nyamador announced the start of an organised mapping activity in the Eastern Region of Ghana on the Talk-gh mailing list. The focus of this campaign is to add the smoothness tag to highways that have been surveyed as part of a research project in the area.
• Following the large oil spill in Peru, the Peruvian OSM community has established two mapping tasks with its Tasking Manager to facilitate medical care in the affected region:
  • #4 Mapping of buildings > in Wachapea, Pakun, Umukai and Nazareth communities affected by oil spills.
  • #7 Mapping of access roads > to Wachapea, Pakun, Umukai and Nazareth communities.
• UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena works and maps for the UN Mappers Project. In a blog post, Alessandro expressed frustration about the poor quality of buildings added by beginners from a HOT task manager project for an extremely dense area, causing ‘another chaos in Mogadishu’.

Mapping

• Ivan Ruggiero shared, on the Talk-africa mailing list, a problem with tagging he found in Cameroon. From an overpass query, he found more than 2000 nodes with 138 different invalid values for the place=* tag.
• Emmanuel Jolaiya started a conversation on how to tag ‘football viewing centres’ on the Talk-africa mailing list. He describes them as a type of public football viewing centres which do not fall under cinemas or pubs/bars with television. Responses to the thread show that they are present in other African countries.
• Mateusz Konieczny made a short summary of some interesting parts of the 2021 editor usage statistics.
• Minh Nguyen shared his insights on how to detail school classifications, which has long been a tricky subject in OSM.
• OSM now has over three million notes in the database. Unfortunately, note #3000000 > was closed as invalid.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • To deprecate embassy=embassy and promote embassy=yes instead.
  • New tag tourism=cabin for a small, single-unit, rentable building (or group of buildings) with few amenities designed to accommodate lodging.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • bicycle_rental=docking_station;key_dispensing_machine;dropoff_point;shop;... to clarify amenity=bicycle_rental tagging as to what type of bicycle rental it is, until Thursday 20 January.
  • parking:lane:*, parking:condition:*=* to introduce conditionals for parking lanes and deprecating the use of certain older tags, until Friday 21 January.
• The proposal for the new tag amenity=parcel_locker was adopted with 47 votes in favor, 12 against and 1 abstention.

Community

• Gigi Meikle described in her very detailed article the enormous importance of mapping small isolated communities and seasonally difficult-to-pass routes to them with OSM to help Operation Fistula (improving maternal health related to labour-related fistula formation and its treatment) succeed in Madagascar.
• OpenCage continued its interviews with members of the OSM community in 2022. In the 9 January issue, Ronald Lomora (aka Romeo from Juba South Sudan) answered OpenCage’s questions.
• Amanda’s OSM Activity Report for December 2021.
• MapSãoFrancisco has begun > its projects in the Velho Chico basin with collaborative mapping of lakes and marginal floodplains in the lower São Francisco in OSM. To select the project areas that can be mapped, access can be made either through MapSãoFrancisco or through the HOT Tasking Manager.
• Simon Poole has updated the contributor statistics reports on the wiki.
• Thomas Straupis shared his personal and very critical opinion of OSM and its governance for discussion against the background of his participation in the ‘International Cartographic Conference 2021’.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Microsoft donated $10,000 to OpenStreetMap in their latest FOSS Fund award round.

Events

• The programme > and list of speakers > for FOSSGIS 2022 > are now online.

Education

• b-unicycling has started a new video series on Youtube. As she reports in her blog post she will present the Derrynaflan Heritage Trail. In the first episode she maps the first buildings on the trail and shows how she created a route relation for the trail.

Software

• GraphHopper Maps for Android is a Capacitor-wrapper (Capacitor is an open source native runtime for building web apps) for the navi branch of GraphHopper Maps, which provides directions and (experimental) turn-by-turn navigation for car, bicycle and foot. There are many known limitations for the turn-by-turn navigation feature (which are also in the browser version).
• With his diary entry lubosb [sk] > addresses people who come to Slovakia for tourist reasons. He recommends freemap.sk as a planning tool and OsmAnd for on-road use.
• Manuel Reimer announced > a Firefox add-on called OSM Everywhere, which replaces maps by Google, Bing or Here with OpenStreetMap tiles on every website you visit.
• Victor Shcherb, the founder of OsmAnd, summed up the features added in 2021 and ventures a view of what’s planned for 2022.
• SomeoneElse presented his way of making a map-related prediction about flooded footpaths in relation to water levels measured at close upstream and downstream gauging stations.
• wowirleben.de (where we live) > is a web project that takes OSM data, and groups the data by ‘is it relevant to a specific road?’. The results are presented in list form with a map view and it puts a focus on web links. It may become an interesting tool for checking the accuracy of links around places you know. For now, it’s only available for Germany. The website uses Google Analytics and AdSense. It is also possible to propose an entry, which can get promoted with a payment.

Did you know …

• … that the Wikipage ‘3D Demo Areas‘ contains many links displaying 3D buildings on a large scale?
• … the Open Etymology Map, an interactive map that shows the origin of names of streets and points of interest based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata?

Other “geo” things

• Matthias Maurer took Russian Orthodox Christmas as an opportunity to show two wintry Russian river landscapes from a high altitude.
• Allan Mustard pointed out a highly interesting map of medieval Europe showing the situation in 1444 at the rise of the Ottomans. We also found a video showing the territorial development of Europe including the respective population figures from 400 BC to the year 2017.
• French confectioner Mr. Laurent has created a topographical chocolate of Pic du Midi d’Ossau using public data from the French National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN).

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-01-15
北京市	公共交通绘制问题集中交流会/Public Transport Mapping in China – Meetup1		2022-01-16 – 2022-01-17
Hilversum	OSGeo.nl/OSM-NL/QGIS-NL Nieuwjaars Borrel		2022-01-16
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-01-18
	147.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-01-18
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-01-19
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-01-18
Dublin	OpenStreetMap Ireland – Virtual Map and Chat	✓	2022-01-20
Grenoble	Rencontre mensuelle du groupe OSM Grenoble		2022-01-24
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2022-01-24
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-01-24
Hoeselt	Rode Kruis Mapathon – Hoeselt		2022-01-25
	OSM Utah Highway Classification Documentation Sprint		2022-01-27
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (Online)		2022-01-26
	Missing Maps online Mapathon des DRK		2022-01-26
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-01-27
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst (online)		2022-01-29
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Departamento	Reunión Trimestral OSM-LatAm		2022-01-29
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第29回 鹿王院		2022-01-30
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	Virtual OpenStreetMap Belgium meeting	✓	2022-01-31
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-02-01
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-02-02
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-02-01
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #33 (Online)		2022-02-01
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-02-05

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11/01/2022-17/01/2022

Breaking news

• Dorothea Kazazi has announced that the next OSMF board meeting will be on Thursday 27 January, at 13:00 UTC. The email contains a lot of useful information, including the agenda.

About us

• [1] This is number 600 of weeklyOSM!
  • For the cover image, inspired by Yousuke Ozawa’s SatelliteFonts, we scanned OpenStreetMap for the alphabet. Maybe you have a letter-recognising AI to extend the list?

Mapping campaigns

• Cristoffs reported > on a defibrillator (AED) mapping initiative. Mateusz Konieczny has created a wiki page about this.

Mapping

• Supaplex expressed, in his OSM diary, his opinion about the editing of NSI objects in Taiwanese Hokkien language (not Taiwanese Mandarin). He explains that some Chinese contributors’ changeset boundaries are so big that most QA tools can not visualise the changeset, which might raise suspicions about the changeset. Unfortunately, even though the whole article is composed of Chinese characters, most Chinese users are not familiar with the Hokkien variety, and could not read the article.
• redsteakraw presented three requests regarding the handling of POIs in OSM. His requests: 1. simple editor: 2. POIs with expiration dates: and 3. a temporary layer for POIs. These ideas stimulated a diverse discussion.
• Clifford Snow found that Nominatim’s QA tool is very good for cleaning up existing data in preparation for building and address imports.
• Mannivu illustrated > the creation of a custom link in JOSM.
• G1asshouse took advantage of the comments section of Mateusz Konieczny’s diary entry, on editor usage statistics (which we reported last week), to express his frustration with some underlying issues he claims to have noticed in the StreetComplete app.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • Extension of amenity=vending_machine to areas.
  • amenity=scooter_parking for mapping parking places for kick scooters.
  • area:highway=crossing to allow mapping of pedestrian crossings as areas.
  • window:shape=* for defining the basic shape of a window for 3D rendering and general mapping.
• Voting is underway on the proposal to deprecate embassy=embassy and promote embassy=yes instead, until Wednesday 2 February.

Community

• AngocA celebrated > that all open notes in Colombia have been successfully closed and explains how he formed a working group to achieve this.
• The OSM editor usage statistics for 2021 have been published.
• RATP, the transport provider for Île-de-France, France, opened two new metro stations, extending its network. Less than one hour after being officially open to the public, their data was already updated on OpenStreetMap.
• The Open Source Festival 2022 will be held as a hybrid event on 24 to 26 March in Nigeria. The call for papers closes on 26 January at 23:30 UTC. Among other things, the call explicitly applies to ‘Geospatial Technologies (OpenStreetMap, QGIS, Location Intelligence)’.
• TreeTracks answered the question of how far across the state of Victoria, Australia you can drive on gravel roads.

Local chapter news

• The OSM US local chapter will hold elections for its board of directors from 2 to 9 February. The deadline to become a member of OSM US to participate in the voting is 31 January. All information about the election process is on the wiki.

Events

• HOT hosted Neema Lugangia, founder of the Tanzanian non-profit Agri Thamani, for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ interview about her work using maps for advocacy for universal nutrition.
• The HOT Training working group is continuing an advanced JOSM training course. Those who want to attend should have JOSM installed.

OSM research

• Yair Grinberger, Marco Minghini, Godwin Yeboah, Levente Juhász, and Peter Mooney, from five different universities, examined the extent and nature of engagement between the academic research community and the larger communities in OSM. An analysis of OSM-related publications from 2016 to 2019 and seven interviews conducted with members of a research group engaged in OSM-related research are described.

Maps

• MyOSMatic officially crossed the 200,000 maps rendered threshold, having rendered the very first test request on 3 May 2016.

Open Data

• In GraphHopper’s GitHub repository open-traffic-collection there are URLs to traffic information portals containing open data. Maybe this is the beginning of OpenStreetMap based navigation with traffic jam avoidance?
• The National Library of Scotland is looking for volunteers to help transcribe place names and footpaths from 18th and 19th century maps. The results will be released as an open dataset.

Software

• call-me-matt has programmed a Telegram bot that can monitor the monthly number of OpenStreetMap changes made by mappers. The bot notifies you if your nominated mappers have reached a certain number of changes. If you have Telegram messenger you can try it out.
• Dutch mapper TauvicR wrote > about the BuurtKaart > project, which allows a neighbourhood map to be created collaboratively to help find potential neighbourhood improvements to be implemented via citizen referendums.

Programming

• Amanda has published, on GitHub, a Rust CLI (command line interface) programme anglosaxon, which is able to convert big XML files to other formats, e.g. CSV. It could be used to convert an OSM changeset dump file to CSV format. This is not possible with DOM based tools because the uncompressed dump file is too large for them to handle.

Releases

• Opensnowmap has implemented a new routing engine with PGrouting, which makes all piste:type relations routable; lifts and way directions are taken into account and access tags are evaluated.
• osm2pgsql 1.5.2 has been released.
• OrganicMaps 2022.01.15-3-android was released. The main improvements are updated maps, fixes in routing and search, and improved translations.

Did you know …

• … Sarah Heidekorn wrote part 11 of the ‘How to become ohsome’-blog series? With the introduction of new contribution endpoints the user is now able to track the creation of, changes in the geometry or the tagging of, or deletion of objects in OpenStreetMap.
• … the Historic Place, an open map of the world? In 12 languages and with special maps!
• … the Open Brewery Map, which shows a brewery map of the world? The map was made by the still very active Sven Geggus and was featured > in the very first issue of the Wochennotiz, the German edition of weeklyOSM, on 23 July 2010.
• … Leigh Dodds’s guide to Overpass queries? A great help in learning some of the more powerful features of Overpass.
• …the traffic sign tool > , which can be used to compile tags for some German traffic signs?

Other “geo” things

• Several mappers tried to display the size of the ash cloud from the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano by comparing it with France, Czechia and Bolivia.
• HeiGIT gGmbH, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, is looking for a full-time senior spatial data science expert (m,f,d). Core tasks include the cross-departmental establishment and development of the increased use of advanced Machine Learning and Data Science methods in all groups and subject matters of HeiGIT.
• HeiGIT gGmbH, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, is looking > for a full-time senior science manager for research and innovation management (m,f,d). Core tasks include the cross-departmental development, initiation, and implementation of new research projects and activities of HeiGIT.
• HeiGIT gGmbH, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, is looking for a full-time international public relations manager (m,f,d). Core tasks include science communication and international outreach.
• Even Google Maps does not always get its address nodes right. However, in Munich, at Ständlerstraße/A8, there are some addresses that do not belong there.
• Pentagon – Hexagon – Octagon – Oregon

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Grenoble	Rencontre mensuelle du groupe OSM Grenoble		2022-01-24
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2022-01-24
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-01-24
Hoeselt	Rode Kruis Mapathon – Hoeselt		2022-01-25
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-01-25
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (Online)		2022-01-26
	OSM Utah Highway Classification Documentation Sprint		2022-01-27
	Missing Maps online Mapathon des DRK		2022-01-26
Decatur County	OSM US Mappy Hour	✓	2022-01-27
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-01-27
	HOT Training Webinar Series: Advanced JOSM editor		2022-01-29
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst (online)		2022-01-29
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Municipio	Reunión Trimestral OSM-LatAm		2022-01-29
Town of Claremont	Social Mapping: Claremont		2022-01-30
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第29回 鹿王院		2022-01-30
Milano	Mappy Birthday OpenStreetMap Italia!		2022-01-30
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	Virtual OpenStreetMap Belgium meeting	✓	2022-01-31
Greater London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-02-01
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-02-02
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-02-01
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #33 (Online)		2022-02-01
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-02-05
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-02-09
	OSM Utah monthly meetup		2022-02-10
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-02-10
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Februar) ONLINE		2022-02-10

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18/01/2022-24/01/2022

Mapping campaigns

• Organic Maps presented the results of their Subway Validator. This is a regularly updated status overview of all known networks. Networks with errors might be fixed directly in OSM with the help of the metro mapping guide.

Mapping

• roptat described > the different methods and apps for mapping by foot and car. He concluded that for him it is most efficient to collect as much information as possible and map later on a computer.
• Florian Lainez pointed out that there is no need to update the coastlines dramatically changed by the Honga Tonga volcanic eruption. They have already been revised in OpenStreetMap using 30 cm PléiadesNeo imagery.
• AngocA continued his series of articles about OSM notes. In one article > he described the different types of notes one may encounter, while in another > he lists several useful techniques for resolving them.
• Littltebtc shared his thoughts about the new section of National Freeway 4 and Section of Provincial Expressway No. 74, opened just before the Lunar New Year Holiday in Taiwan. He said the Taiwan community’s mapping might not be perfect due to the newest satellite images not being available, resulting in some map mistakes after the National Freeway was opened to the public. He observed that the initial mappers of new highways might not check road connections to see if they are correct, warning there might be some risk if you solely depend on OpenStreetMap data for navigation purposes.
• kubahahaha described >
  how he was updating bus stops in the GZM metro area (Poland) from a very old style of mapping the stops as nodes on the road.
• Should private areas used for personal leisure activities be mapped using landuse=recreation_ground? This question >
  was asked on the German forum and provoked a lot of discussion.
• The following proposals are waiting for your comment:
  • aeroway=airside_crossing to tag a controlled point of a highway or railway where people or traffic pass through the normally restricted airside area of an aerodrome.
  • postal_service:<service>=* for the postal_service:*-namespace to mark unified tagging for postal services.
  • to define more clearly the reasons why a tag is deprecated.
• Voting has been completed for the following proposals:
  • defensive_works=* to tag military constructions or buildings designed for the defence of territories in warfare was approved with 18 votes for, 2 votes against and 3 abstentions.
  • parking:lane:*, parking:condition:*=* to tag conditionals for parking lanes and deprecating the use of certain older tags was approved with 29 votes for, 0 votes against and 1 abstention.
  • bicycle_rental=docking_station; key_dispensing_machine; dropoff_point; shop; ... to tag on amenity=bicycle_rental what type of bicycle rental it is, was approved with 19 votes for, 4 votes against and 2 abstentions.

Community

• Taichi Furuhashi claims that Niantic is free-riding on the OSM community and should show its flag .
• Daniel Akor, a final year undergraduate student in the Geography Department, University of Nigeria Nsukka, reported on how his quest and passion for mapping got him into the LionMappersTeam-Nsukka.
• Joshua Kwame Bensah-Ziwu, who helped found the Survey School Mappers and acts as its president, shared his insight about the impact of COVID-19 on a New YouthMappers Chapter.
• OSM Fukushima members have released a video introducing weeklyOSM 588.

Local chapter news

• OpenStreetMap US summed up the year 2021.

Events

• State of the Map US will not require vaccination against COVID-19 to attend.

Education

• Aman Sandhu has started a series of introductory videos for OsmAnd. While the first video introduces the app, the second explains how to plan a day trip.

OSM research

• Moritz Schott presented a guide on how to filter OSM data down to only the data you need before starting any analyses or visualisations.

Maps

• The Hidden Cities project will reveal overlooked or obscured histories of selected cities. At the moment it provides five primary case studies: Exeter, Valencia, Hamburg, Deventer and Trento.

Open Data

• Microsoft has released new and updated building footprints for the United States of America, Nigeria, Kenya, South America, Uganda, Tanzania, Canada and Australia, which are licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

Software

• [1] After the recently accepted proposal for amenity=parcel_locker (we reported earlier), OpenStreetBrowser now includes parcel lockers.
• OsmAnd gave away 20 of the ‘All World Maps’ promo codes for iOS and 20 promo codes of OsmAnd Maps+ for Android. Follow this link to join the next OsmAnd giveaway.
• The HOT team has created ‘a new model for Tasking Manager that aspires to get the Tasking Manager back to its community software roots’. Now, they are offering a volunteer position ‘Tasking Manager Collective Guide’.
• After introducing a new routing engine (we reported earlier), OpenSnowMap now renders icons where something is tagged as piste:type=fatbike, aerialway=t-bar, aerialway=j-bar, aerialway=platter or aerialway=rope_tow.
• Hoerli has > written instructions on how to display Google traffic information in OsmAnd.

Programming

• Amanda described, in her OSM Diary, how to find OSM users who comment on changesets but don’t contribute by editing the OSM database. She used her anglosaxon tool, about which we reported earlier.
• osm2pgsql release 1.6.0 has been published, which is a bugfix release only.

Releases

• Martin Raifer released an update of iD’s tagging presets: Version 3.2.0 includes a lot of improvements, new presets and fields, as well as bug fixes and translation updates. Notable changes are the update of the parcel lockers preset to the new amenity=parcel_locker tag, and the addition of a preset for crossing=traffic_signals. See the changelog for the full list of changes.
• Pieter Vander Vennet reported that MapComplete 0.14 has been deployed. Apart from lots of bug fixes and performance improvements, a new theme showing OpenStreetMap notes has landed. The filter function should come in handy. And of course, there are plenty of (new) themes, such as the street lighting theme (thanks Robin!) or the postboxes and -offices map (by nicolelaine).

Did you know …

• … there is a website that provides basic JOSM installation steps and troubleshooting information?

Other “geo” things

• Sameera Khan showed a couple of European maps filled in by Americans. Could you do better with a map of Africa? Or the Americas?
• Edward Snowden revealed that the CIA station he worked at had a large world map to teach new arrivals the location of countries.
• Yannick Brouwer tweeted a marvellous animated map showing railway passenger traffic in the Netherlands over a 24 hour period.
• Reddit has a post showing a comparison of the 1820 map of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, superimposed on the current city map, showing land reclamation done over the years that has contributed to the expansion of the city.
• Jeff Foust reported on ESA’s consideration of moving up the launching of a new radar satellite after the Sentinel-1B malfunction.
• Bartosz Ciechanowski wrote an in-depth explanation about how the Global Positioning System works, with a superb animation of the globe and the GPS satellite trajectories around it.
• Steve Coast showed us TomTom’s latest project named ‘RoadRunner’. It is used to automatically create maps based on vast amounts of GNSS traces. One-way streets and road classes are detected automatically. OpenStreetMap is used to provide street names. RoadRunner can be explored via their web application or you can download a PBF.
• An article in The Guardian discussed the use of maps to illustrate literary works. Apparently James Joyce was adamant that no maps should be included in editions of Ulysses: perhaps he was worried people would try and draw routes avoiding pubs.
• Only 11 days separate these 3 satellite images! The images are of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai island, on which a volcanic eruption occurred two weeks ago. According to an article published by BBC News, NASA believes that the eruption was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II (the eruption is estimated have been equivalent to somewhere between 4 and 18 megatonnes of TNT).

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	HOT Training Webinar Series: Advanced JOSM editor		2022-01-29
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Municipio	Reunión Trimestral OSM-LatAm		2022-01-29
Amsterdam	OSM Nederland nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst (online)		2022-01-29
Town of Claremont	Social Mapping Sunday: Claremont		2022-01-30
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第29回 鹿王院		2022-01-30
Milano	Mappy Birthday OpenStreetMap Italia!		2022-01-30
Bruxelles – Brussel	Virtual OpenStreetMap Belgium meeting	✓	2022-01-31
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-02-01
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-02-02
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #33 (Online)		2022-02-01
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-02-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2022-02-01
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-02-05
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-02-09
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2022-02-08
	OSM Utah monthly meetup		2022-02-10
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-02-10
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Februar) ONLINE		2022-02-10
Berlin	164. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-02-11
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #37		2022-02-14
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-02-16
	148.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-02-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-02-15
Köln	Stammtisch Köln		2022-02-16
	MSF online validation mapathon		2022-02-17

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25/01/2022-31/01/2022

About us

• Pete Masters, Head of the Community Team at HOT, promoted weeklyOSM on Twitter and colleagues from OpenStreetMap Spain joined in. Actions recommended for imitation

Mapping campaigns

• In response to the recent enormous explosion at Apiatse near Bogoso, which leveled the entire town, OSM Ghana has created a project on the HOT Tasking Manager to help map the area.
• Cristoffs wrote > about the project to systematically record all defibrillators (emergency=defibrillator) in Poland. The findings have also been used to expand the Polish Wiki page > .

Mapping

• Christoffs recommended > , in his blog post, ‘JOSM settings useful for editing data in Poland’.
• On the German forum there is a discussion > about a massive retagging of churches. The goal of the retagging was to ‘adapt’ OSM to a flight simulator. Streckenkundler did the revert > of the rule breaking automatic/mechanical edits. Frederik Ramm clarified > the OSM position on the flight simulator users’ forum.
• Starting out to systematic map solar modules, SK53 ended up with outdoor automatic rotary milking parlours.
• Alexander Marx described > how he started contributing to OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete.
• ‘Are maps only made by tough men in wooden ships or can you do it too?’ is > the provocative question of TauvicR, who also wants to encourage you > , to contribute by mapping your surroundings in a spirit of neighbourhood help.
• TauvicR writes > about his neighbourhood outreach activities and the need for passable sidewalks from fit to handicapped pedestrians to wheelchair users. His question at the end is ‘Does OpenStreetMap see a role in providing information about well-maintained footpaths?’
• YouthCheese explained how he started mapping because there were too many white spots on the map in his area of interest in Australia.
• Ilya Zverev analysed > micromapping, in particular examples by Alex Seidel (Supaplex030), and concludes that ‘Supaplex030’s work shows that well-placed tags replace micromapping and complex geometries’.
• miroslavuzice87 compared the before and after micromapping of Uzice, a medieval town in Serbia, and reflected on the pros and cons of micromapping.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • boundary=forest a tagging scheme for forest boundaries. This is a follow up to an earlier proposal.
  • isced:2011:programme=* to update isced:level tagging to the 2011 version of the International Standard Classification of Education.
  • water_crossing_level:foot=* for mapping the typical difficulty of a river crossing.
  • office=diplomatic to harmonise the use of name=* and official_name=* on the facilities of diplomatic missions.

Community

• [1] OSM Fukushima members have released a video introducing weeklyOSM 597. They also evaluated the newly proposed cartography of the official Japanese national map.
• Episode 113 of the Geomob podcast is an interview with Dustin Carlino about OSM-based transport planning service A/B Street.
• Mateusz Konieczny opened a discussion in his OSM diary by affirming that having deprecated or duplicate tagging schemes in use is not a critical issue to OpenStreetMap.
• Sunil Bhattarai, from Tribhuvan University, talked about his experience with the Youthmappers mapping project in Chepang, Nepal.
• Sam Wilson reported about the first OpenStreetMap meetup in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia.
• Florian Lohoff refers to the contribution of Littlebtc, who points out that due to the lack of current aerial images for the validation of new roads in Taiwan, there is a certain risk in relying exclusively on OpenStreetMap data for navigation purposes. Florian, on the other hand, recommends actively using OSM routing in order to find and correct routing errors more quickly.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• At the 27 January OSMF Board meeting, Seth Cochran and Dolly Andriatsiferana presented Operation Fistula in Madagascar. Dolly showed > the well illustrated tutorial with gif animations of building tracing and tracing/classification of roads in the African context.

Events

• Martijn van Exel showed in a tweet the mapping progress in Tucson, Arizona, the venue for this year’s SotM US. Minh Nguyen, in his comments on our coverage of the event in Issue 601, explained that SotM US recommends that all participants be vaccinated against COVID-19 or provide a negative test result. However, the University of Arizona (the owner of the venue) is prohibited by law from requiring vaccination as a condition of entry.

Education

• The fifth part of Anne-Karoline Distel’s ‘Derrynaflan Trail’ video series is an introduction to 3D mapping, the sixth video explains how to 3D map, and the seventh shows the results.

Maps

• The city of Magdeburg > now offers a map based on OpenStreetMap to display public recycling bins. Unfortunately, the recycling bins are only an overlay and not sourced from OpenStreetMap.

Open Data

• Christian Quest tweeted that orthophotos of five departments in France have been updated on wms.openstreetmap.fr > .
• OpenStreetMap user raibach wrote > about the Geoportal Hesse > , which has provided a lot of open data since 2019. Be aware that the available data is not licensed to be directly imported into OpenStreetMap.

Software

• qeef has published a web page where you can check if your new GeoJSON file intersects with any area already published on the HOT Tasking Manager. A similar service is also available for Divide and map. Now.

Did you know …

• … Pascal Neis’ statistics page for OpenStreetMap notes?
• … the wiki page with an overview of all the possibilities for creating high resolution paper maps?
• … how to become a UN Mapper?

OSM in the media

• Cory Doctorow’s latest book Attack Surface contains a reference to OpenStreetMap.

Other “geo” things

• Xirong7 visually compared the size of south-east Asia with some states.
• L.A. Dork tweeted about ‘One of the oddest maps of the Valley’, the ‘Hand that feeds Los Angeles’.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Lyon	EPN des Rancy : Technique de cartographie et d’édition		2022-02-05
	OSM Africa February Mapathon: Map Zimbabwe		2022-02-05
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-02-09
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2022-02-08
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen	✓	2022-02-09
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-02-10
	OSM Utah monthly meetup		2022-02-10
Bochum	OSM-Treffen Bochum (Februar) ONLINE		2022-02-10
Berlin	164. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-02-11
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #37		2022-02-14
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-02-15
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-02-16
	148.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-02-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-02-15
Köln	Stammtisch Köln		2022-02-16
	MSF online validation mapathon		2022-02-17
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-02-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-02-24

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01/02/2022-07/02/2022

Mapping campaigns

• Cristoffs showed > some statistics on the progress of mapping defibrillators (AED) in Poland.

Mapping

• Marjan, from TomTom, has initiated a MapRoulette challenge to add missing roads in the Caribbean.
• Florian Lohoff is puzzled about a strange behaviour of the OSRM routing engine that he uses to monitor the road network in OSM.
• Jherome Miguel, from Alberta, Canada, proposed developing and documenting a new highway classification scheme covering trunk roads and motorways, based on one being implemented in the USA. In Quebec, thousand of kilometres to the east, mappers are satisfied with the road classification as it is. Pierre Béland, author of Highway Tag Africa, suggested documenting > the classification of the forestry roads, sometimes hundred of kilometres long, managed by the forestry industry. On unpaved roads, heavy trucks have priority over other vehicles that access things in these areas such as chalets, fishing, or hunting.
• Gruff Owen started a discussion on Talk-GB about the mapping and tagging of what he called a ‘goat track’ in OpenStreetMap, which is a potentially dangerous path, and there are concerns that this could lead inexperienced walkers into dangerous situations.
• After complaints, Vespucci is removing Bing aerial imagery for third-party builds, e.g. F-Droid.

Community

• YouthMappers is inviting > people to a one-hour information session at 14:00 Friday 18 or 15:00 Saturday 19 February (Guatemalan time). The event is for students from Guatemala and anyone interested in starting new YouthMappers groups in Latin America.
• On Mastodon, MapAmore summed up the result of phase two of the OSMaPaaralan school mapping project in the Philippines.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium’s Mapper of the Month for February is Mustafa Kamil from Sudan.
• User contrapunctus proposed a mapping event in Delhi, and got quite a bit of interest.
• User Ziegenfritze wondered > how to best plan where to walk with his goats from Überlingen to Meißen, 583 km from Southwest to East Germany, using OpenStreetMap.

Imports

• Sofia Kozidis announced a proposed import in Bayfield County (Wisconsin, USA) of Emergency Location Markers.

Local chapter news

• The OSM-US February Newsletter has been published here.

Events

• HeiGIT, the Heidelberg Institute of Geoinformation Technology, is presenting a lecture on ‘ohsome quality analyst (OQT): assessing the quality of OpenStreetMap data’ at the FOSSGIS conference > on Wednesday 9 March from 16:30 to 16:50 CET.

Maps

• Enzet has mapped the ‘Large Millimetre Telescope’ in Mexico in great detail. He created a ‘before and after’ animation in colour and with roof slopes with his Map Machine software.
• @RandoCarto published a new hiking map. This time, you can go and hike in the volcanoes of the Puys de Dôme, France with a printed paper map made from OSM data.

Open Data

• Pascal Neis has written a blog post comparing > German Federal Government and OSM data for amenity=police and government=healthcare in Germany (the Government data was from the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy). He concluded that ‘at least in Germany’ … ‘no more data imports should take place’. Data reconciliation is, in his opinion, a promising way to improve data quality on both sides. Tobias suggested > possibilities for realising this idea.

Programming

• Nicolas Lambert has published bertin.js, an easy to use D3.js-wrapper on GitHub, that can be used to create thematic maps.
• A change to API 0.6 will be deployed in the near future. After the change the OSM API will reject relations exceeding a certain number of relation members (significantly more than used in any current relation). The reason for the change is that extremely large relations can cause problems to downstream data consumers. The largest current relation is Tongass National Forest, which is already too large to be visible on the OSM website’s ‘relation view’.

Releases

• Kontur posted a Twitter thread which featured a new version of Disaster Ninja – a tool for mapping coordination and spatial analytics. It is now possible to get OpenStreetMap analytics within administrative boundaries or freehand polygons to know where to put your mapping efforts.
• The iD editor was recently updated from 2.20.2 to 2.20.4, including various improvements such as security fixes, improvements to screen reader accessibility, enhanced preservation of the history of OSM objects, bugfixes and more. See the changelog for the full list of changes. This version of iD will be the last to support Internet Explorer 11.
• Richard has released a new version of the Potlatch 3 OSM editor, which contains several fixes. Once running it can be invoked from OSM by remote control, just like JOSM can.

Did you know …

• … the map farmshops.eu , a ‘Code for Karlsruhe’ project? You can find farm shops, markets, milk vending machines and other direct marketers between Brussels and Brno. The data comes from OSM, of course.
• … the true size of a country? After selecting a country you can move it with the mouse on a world map (Google Maps, unfortunately) in Mercator projection and it changes the displayed size according to where it is placed.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Berlin	164. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-02-11
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Municipio	Mapeemos las ciclovías de Bogotá		2022-02-12
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #37		2022-02-14
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-02-15
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-02-16
	148.Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-02-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-02-15
Köln	Stammtisch Köln		2022-02-16
South Lakeland	OSM-UK chat		2022-02-16
	MSF online validation mapathon		2022-02-17
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-02-21
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-02-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-02-24
Bratislava	Missing Maps mapathon Slovakia online #6	✓	2022-02-24
Puerto López	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de Latinoamérica		2022-02-26
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2022-02-28
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-03-01
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-03-01

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08/02/2022-14/02/2022

Breaking news

• You are welcome to join the next video-meeting of the OSMF board on Thursday 24 February, at 13:00 UTC.The topics covered will be:
  • Treasurer’s report
  • Engineering Working Group’s funding request for work towards data model changes
  • Software Dispute Resolution Panel
  • April General Meeting plans
  • Decline request for tagging and similar working groups
  • Advisory Board – monthly update.

Mapping campaigns

• dricardo023 and Alexmol, from the OSM Portugal community, announced on Telegram the creation of an easy and intuitive uMap of the Portuguese telecom antennas with their locations and commercial operators. To help with mapping, the wiki page > with the tag communication:mobile_phone was translated into Portuguese.
• The OSM Switzerland Project of the Month for February and March 2022 is ‘Fixing FIXMEs in OpenStreetMap by resolving the reported problems and removing them’. This time the challenge aims for a statistic curve pointing down – not up! Menu is available in German, English and French.

Mapping

• ttomasz recently made a pull request to the openstreetmap-carto GitHub project to render amenity=parcel_locker in the OSM-Carto style, and asked for suggestions from local communities by sending a message to several active country subforums.
• eternaltyro explained how he found an OverpassQL script for downloading, into JOSM, only relevant data about roads used by buses and bus stops. This enables work on mapping and maintaining public transport route relations to cover a much larger area (the metropolis of Chennai). Commenters provided some additional hints about Overpass as well.
• Guillaume Rischard wrote how a bit of light mapping in Luxembourg City can help when he misses his home town.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • transformer=* to refine power transformers’ classification to make it clearer and remove redundancy with substation=* until Monday 21 February
  • boundary=forest a tagging scheme for forest boundaries (managed or unmanaged forests) until Sunday 27 February.

Community

• A newcomer to OpenStreetMap asked in the forum ‘What do you guys use these maps for?’ and got lots of different answers.
• OSMF Board Member Tobias Knerr posted a draft resolution defining prerequistes for membership on the OSMF mailing list. He asked for feedback. The board were asked to draft such a resolution at the 2020 AGM.
• OpenCage published an interview with Abdoullah ibn Ismaïl about OpenStreetMap in Guinea.
• Alessandra Figueiredo, Elena Veríssimo and Samara Franco, members of a favela mapping collective in Morro do Preventório (Brazil), published a guest post on the HOT blog on how and why they are making sure that their community is represented on the map.
• OSM Fukushima members have released videos introducing weeklyOSM 598, 599 and 600 . They also explained how to choose the best satellite images and generate a 3D model with Blender.

Local chapter news

• Here are the results of the OpenStreetMap United States Board Elections 2022. Congratulations to everyone who took part!
• State of the Map US 2022 published the programme for their event, which will be held from 1 to 3 April in Tucson, Arizona.

Education

• Strubbl has written > an easy-to-follow tutorial for Linux users that shows how to generate maps using the map-machine renderer (which we reported earlier) by Sergey Vartanov (aka Enzet). Strubbl’s tutorial gives instructions on how to install Docker, covers cloning the repository, building the Docker image, and explains in great detail the commands to generate the map.

Maps

• Richard Fairhurst mentioned, on Twitter, that Strava (which uses OSM-based maps) had a ‘Points of Interest FAQ’ that previously suggested to business owners that they could delete things from OpenStreetMap if they didn’t want them to appear on Strava’s Maps. Strava responded quickly to Richard and revised the content of the FAQ. Additionally, their ‘help improve…‘ page is a great introduction to OSM editing for Strava people.

switch2OSM

• Turkish high speed trains use OSM data, now with attribution to OSM.

Software

• OsmAnd tweeted that due to a problem on the servers this month, the generation of maps will not take place until 15 February. If you updated or downloaded the maps for February, please delete and download the maps again.
• Russian firefighters maintain > a water supply database that can be exported in kmz format to be used by many applications. For mobile use they suggest switching > to OSM-based OrganicMaps as a better alternative to Maps.Me.

Programming

• yuiseki is developing a program that generates an OSM vector map of a specified region and publishes it on GitHub pages.
• Richard Ulmer started a discussion on the ‘dev’ mailing list about the possibility of adding indexing to OSM PBF files.
• osmf (not the best name) is a simple command line tool, written in Golang, to explore OpenStreetMap databases that were created locally using osm2pgsql.
• A pull request by mathisloge added official CMake support to Mapnik. Furthermore, Mapnik can now be built in Windows again.

Releases

• OpenMapTiles v3.13 has been released and the most significant changes this time are in the transportation layer.

Did you know …

• … the routing analysis views in OSRM for bike and car?

OSM in the media

• An article in Il Fatto Quotidiano discussed > a map of Milan’s bike lanes, created from OpenStreetMap data.

Other “geo” things

• The daily word puzzle ‘Wordle’ is a recent internet sensation. Now you can test your geographical knowledge with Worldle, which also offers you six chances to guess correctly.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Grenoble	Atelier du groupe local OSM Grenoble		2022-02-21
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-02-21
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-02-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-02-24
Bratislava	Missing Maps mapathon Slovakia online #6	✓	2022-02-24
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-02-26
Puerto López	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de Latinoamérica		2022-02-26
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)	✓	2022-02-28
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-03-02
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-03-01
Landau an der Isar	Virtuelles Niederbayern-Treffen	✓	2022-03-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch (Online)		2022-03-01
Xexéu	Mapathona na Cidade Xexéu – PE -Brasil – Edifícios, Estradas, Pontos de Interesses e Área Verde		2022-03-05 – 2022-03-06
Bogotá Distrito Capital – Municipio	OpenDataDay – Mapeando el barrio Nicolás de Federmán de Bogotá, Colombia		2022-03-05
Marburg	FOSSGIS 2022		2022-03-09 – 2022-03-12
Michigan	Michigan Meetup	✓	2022-03-10

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