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26/07/2022-01/08/2022

Breaking news

• The OpenStreetMap project will turn 18 on or around Tuesday 9 August 2022. If you have a birthday event to announce or want to post photos from your celebrations you can add them to the wiki page.

Mapping campaigns

• An item, in last week’s weeklyOSM, about classifying data quality in OSM triggered a brief discussion on the HOT talking list.
• People from TomTom have put together a series of MapRoulette tasks and shared them with the Chilean, Maltese, Slovenian, and other communities. Elsewhere, TomTom’s own editing has been criticised for making incorrect edits.

Mapping

• Anne-Karoline Distel published new videos describing how to map thatched roofs and how to tag a variety of roof:material on the one building.
• Patrik_B shared his workflow and tips for validating multiple tasks at once using JOSM and a number of plugins.

Community

• The next OSM-FOSSGIS community meeting is planned > to be held on the weekend of 16 to 18 September at the Linuxhotel in Essen. Travel is at your own expense; accommodation and meals will be provided by the the FOSSGIS Association, the German local chapter of OSM.
• User AwoowoArne, from Germany, is the UN Mapper of the Month.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OWG, the operational group that manages the OSMF servers, showed the board-approved version of their 2022 (Q3–Q4) budget.
• The OSMF Board is running an ‘Ask Us Anything’ at SotM, and is looking for questions.

Local chapter news

• OpenStreetMap US’s July newsletter has been published.
• OpenStreetMap Poland has signed > a cooperation agreement with the Internet portal gisplay.pl which will promote OSM and modern map solutions based on OSM data.

Events

• The OpenSteetMap community in Kerala held their Meetup 2022, which took place on Sunday 31 July in Kochi. Around 30 mappers across Kerala state participated. Presentations and hands-on sections on were devoted to mapping public transport and local government bodies.The meeting was reported by The Hindu, and Florian Lainez, of Jungle Bus, tweeted highlights of the day.

OSM research

• Mohammed Rizwan Khan reported on the development of a lite-mode ohsomeHeX application for smaller-screen mobile devices. Though the application will have limited functionality on smaller screens, it will still allow mobile users to get an overview of current OSM topics on the go.

switch2OSM

• Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn is cycling from Luxembourg to Saint Maxime, in Provence (over the top of Mont Ventoux!), and he used OpenStreetMap to plan his journey.
• New instructions for setting up a rendering server on Ubuntu 22.04 were published when that version of Ubuntu was released. In a diary entry, SomeoneElse explained that setting up replication with osm2pgsql or PyOsmium and monitoring with munin is much easier now, as Ubuntu provides up to date packages for osm2pgsql and osmium, so that a manual build from source is not needed any more.

Software

• ChrisPark blogged a Google Summer of Code midterm update for their goal of reintroducing transit to Valhalla, an open-source routing engine.
• The OpenStreetMap Ops Team has published post-mortem reports about two recent service outages: the longest outage in 5+ years, and a degraded standard tile layer incident.

Programming

• Roland Olbricht has released Docker containers to run the Overpass API. Instructions for installing these are available here.

Releases

• [1] Pieter Vander Vennet has added another map to the 46 themes at MapComplete, the OnWheels map. In his blog post, Pieter tells how he and four students, funded by Open Knowledge in Belgium, implemented the OnWheels project as part of their Open Summer of Code and created a special map for wheelchair users.

Did you know …

• … we left some options out in last week’s list of tools for contributing to OSM? Go Map!! is available on iPhone (thank you for the kind comments from @Notna M and @Tordans) and OsmApp for Android, iOS and Web. Felipe says on Telegram ‘On Chrome, Firefox and Safari you can download the Progressive App directly from its page’. We also recommend checking Wambacher’s SoftwareWatchlist.
• … all the best alternatives to the various Google services? This list > , by the French Clubic web magazine, contains a section about Google Maps alternatives. OpenStreetMap and its ecosystem are placed at the top of the list of alternatives.

Other “geo” things

• Plan4Better has used their Geo Open Accessibility Tool (GOAT) to see how close Munich is to being a 15-minute city.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Csömör	OSM 18th birthday hiking & survey in Csömör		2022-08-06
Cayambe	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de Cayambé, Ecuador		2022-08-06
	OSM Africa August Mapathon: Map Rwanda		2022-08-06
新北市	OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團 #3		2022-08-07
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-08-10
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2022-08-09
Köln	25. Stammtisch Köln		2022-08-10
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-08-11
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-08-10
Zürich	143. OSM-Stammtisch		2022-08-11
Berlin	170. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-08-12
Perth	Social mapping Sunday: Claisebrook to Optus Statium		2022-08-14
Windsor	StreetComplete Group Quest		2022-08-16
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-08-15
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #43		2022-08-15
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-08-17
	154. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-08-16
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-08-16
Firenze	State of the Map 2022		2022-08-19 – 2022-08-21
Firenze	FOSS4G 2022		2022-08-22 – 2022-08-28
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)		2022-08-22
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-08-23
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-08-23
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-08-24

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, SK53, SomeoneElse, Strubbl, TheSwavu, conradoos, derFred.

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02/08/2022-08/08/2022

Mapping

• Anne-Karoline Distel shared, in a diary entry, her efforts on nano-mapping the roofs of thatched buildings. Furthermore Anne-Karoline’s new video about creating ( voice / subtitles) a thatch map on uMap is now available, which completes the videos we reported last week.
• coolmule0 described how Microsoft’s recently released ‘Worldwide building footprints derived from satellite imagery’ can be filtered and used in JOSM.
• The proposal on cycleway=expressway, to map a cycleway with high design speed, limited access, no or very few at-grade crossings, and right of way, is waiting for your comments.
• Mateusz Konieczny published the results of StreetComplete user experience tests.
• Troy Hartwig blogged about the variety of difficulty rating systems and published an attempt to harmonise difficulty scales for trails (hiking and MTB).

Community

• Last Sunday, 7 August, we celebrated 18 years of OpenStreetMap! The OSMF invites you to share your birthday event, your birthday cake, or anything else related to the 18 years of OSM.
• The OSM Africa community organised an online monthly mapathon in honour of OSM’s 18th birthday, mapping Rwanda.
• The virtual meeting of the Latin American OSM community, organised ► by the OSM community in Argentina, took place on 30 July. The next meeting will take place in September and will possibly be organised by the OSM community in Panama.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium presented their August Mapper of the Month, Domenico Calvagna from Italy.

Maps

• Neil Southall showed his animation of lidar data that he combined with OSM to create a colour 3D representation of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Topi Tjukanov has created ‘Notable people’, a map based on data from both OpenStreetMap and based on research by a team led by Morgane Laouenan. The map aims to show the most notable people from anywhere on Earth.

Software

• Jean Marco Rojas Umana, a computer engineering student at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (Public University), is working on proposing and developing an improvement to the OSMTracker. Now he needs your help by answering seven questions (most of them YES or NO) to validate the necessity to implement functionality to upload tracked traces to a shared folder.
• Mikael Codes showed in a video, how you can make use of Prettymapp, by Christoph Rieke, to make amazing maps. Prettymapp is software based on prettymaps (we reported earlier), which has fewer configuration options, thus is much faster and has a web interface.
• The new 2022.07.27 update of Organic Maps was released for iOS and Android. Shop types were added, API support is improved for Android, and it is now possible to remove cuisines in the editor. As usual, maps and translations have been updated, and several routing fixes are in place.
• Eugene and Tatiana, from OsmAnd, explained in detail how to use and manage the route layer in OsmAnd.

Programming

• GitHub user Discostu36 is currently gathering feedback for a ‘photo uploader for Wikimedia Commons’ which directly links newly surveyed images to an OSM POI after uploading it to Wikimedia Commons. The project aims to ease the contribution of new images to already existing OSM objects. It is currently still in a pre-development stage, but you can find it on GitHub and provide feedback or track progress.

Releases

• [1] Paul Norman informed us that v5.6.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. A GitHub issue offers arguments as to why large water polygons labels are rendered at high zoom levels only.
• Sarah Hoffmann (lonvia) proudly announced the release of Nominatim 4.1.0. Also check out the new Nominatim Cookbook.

Did you know …

• … John Wiseman (@lemonodor) has a map showing likely GPS interference, based on aircraft reports of their navigation system accuracy? For details have a look at the FAQ.
• … chronotrains-eu can show how far you can travel by train in five hours? Benjamin Td was inspired by the direkt.bahn.guru map.
• … the OSM Node Density map? You can either view the density for a specific year between 2014 and 2022 or display the difference between two consecutive years.
• … wheelmap, the OSM-based map by Sozialhelden e. V.? Apps to join in are available for Android and iOS.

Other “geo” things

• The GIScience Research Group, at Heidelberg University, is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions within the Heidelberg Mannheim Health and Life Science Alliance ‘Innovation Campus’ working on a inter-institutional project. The postdoctoral research at Heidelberg University will generate new geographical and environmental information through the combination and fusion of various geodata sources using state of the art machine learning methods.
• Our market companion has got ► some new bicycle functions.
• City Monitor discussed ‘how Google Maps is ruining your neighbourhood’ by encouraging rat running.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Berlin	170. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-08-12
Manila	#OSM18 meet-up in Manila		2022-08-13
Perth	Social mapping Sunday: Claisebrook to Optus Statium		2022-08-14
Windsor	StreetComplete Group Quest		2022-08-16
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-08-15
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #43		2022-08-15
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-08-17
	154. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-08-16
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-08-16
Firenze	State of the Map 2022		2022-08-19 – 2022-08-21
Lancaster	OSMUK AGM	✓	2022-08-20
Firenze	FOSS4G 2022		2022-08-22 – 2022-08-28
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)		2022-08-22
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-08-23
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-08-23
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-08-24
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-08-25
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-08-31
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-08-31

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

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

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09/08/2022-15/08/2022

Breaking news

• The next public video-meeting of the OSMF board will take place on Thursday 25 August 2022, at 13:00 UTC on osmvideo. The preliminary agenda is in the OSMF wiki and this is also where the draft minutes will be added.The topics to be discussed are:
  • Treasurer’s report
  • Initial State of the Map 2022 report
  • Responding to requests for licence enforcement
  • Advisory Board – monthly update
  • Monthly presentation (presenter not set yet)
  • Guest comments or questions.

Mapping

• User CharliePlett created a funny infographic to rant about micro mapping by Apple. In his blog, readers seem not to share his opinion.
• Martijn van Exel raised the question of how best to deal with existing address nodes when adding buildings with RapiD.
• The following proposals are waiting for your comments:
  • Consistently extend usage of utility=* to service/industrial buildings and cabinets.
  • Deprecate departures_board=realtime and promote instead passenger_information_display=yes.
• User SK53 wrote about completing the mapping of solar power in Wales.
• The US Supreme Court decision to overrule a previous court decision permitting abortions prompted some to promote drop boxes for babies as a way to give up newborns anonymously. Similar facilities have existed since medieval times and the tag amenity=baby_hatch is used to map these.

Community

• Christoph Hormann wrote about his motives for not going to the State of the Map 2022, in Florence this year, having previously attended four SotMs.

Events

• How to follow State of the Map 2022 on social media:
  • official account: https://en.osm.town/@sotm
  • hashtag: https://en.osm.town/tags/SotM2022
  • https://twitter.com/hashtag/SotM2022?f=live
  • https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sotm2022/.
• As Ilya says: ‘Don’t miss State of the Map 2022!’

Maps

• [2] With Sketch Map Tool, residents can indicate on paper maps where they know there is a risk of flooding. These maps are based on OSM field papers.
• Silvina Pugliese used OpenStreetMap data and R to plot and compare fuel and charging station availability in three locations, revealing that there are more mapped electric charging stations in Norway than Oceania.

Open Data

• HOT and its regional Open Mapping Hub Asia-Pacific have announced that they are going to support up to 10 student groups within the Asia-Pacific region in OSM and open-mapping related activities. The application deadline is Friday 26 August, and more information can be found here.

Software

• Sarah Heidekorn discussed ‘is-osm-uptodate‘, an application that uses the ohsome API as a back-end to accumulate historical OSM data, in the newest entry of the ‘How to become ohsome’ series of articles. As the name suggests, this application allows users to check if the OSM data within their given input boundary is up to date.
• Tobias Zwick (westnordost, the main developer of StreetComplete) is currently working to improve speed limit detection for OSM-based routing. There is an interactive demonstration to try out the API.

Programming

• ‘Where Should I Eat‘ is an app that gives restaurant recommendations. The authors of the webapp described their lessons learned and how they decided to use OpenStreetMap with the pigeon-maps package.

Releases

• Paul Norman announced the release of OpenStreetMap Carto v5.6.1, which includes fixing the rendering of water bodies on zooms 0 to 4.

Did you know …

• … if you are using the Greasemonkey Addon for the Firefox browser, there’s a powerful script that gives you multiple ease-of-use changes for openstreetmap.org? You will have direct access to Mapillary and KartaView links that point to the same map area and multiple tools from a sidebar such as OSMCha (for Changesets), OSM Deep History, and Nominatim (for other Objects), or a link to create an overpass history request when you’re looking at a note. Also, when you’re viewing your ‘My Notes’ page, you will have the option to filter only unresolved notes for a better overview. You can see the development process on GitHub, or you can install the script directly into Greasemonkey.
• … this continuously updated map about developments in the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory?

Other “geo” things

• Geomob’s podcast episode 141 discussed the recently announced Grab Maps and its possible effect on Google and OpenStreetMap.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Firenze	State of the Map 2022		2022-08-19 – 2022-08-21
Firenze	FOSS4G 2022		2022-08-22 – 2022-08-28
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)		2022-08-22
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-08-23
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-08-23
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-08-24
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-08-25
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-08-29
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-08-31
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-08-31
Santa Terezinha de Goiás	2° Validatona da UMBRAOSM – Brasil.		2022-09-03
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #44		2022-09-05
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-09-06
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-09-06
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-09-08
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-09-08
Claix	Cartopartie à Claix (Isère, France)		2022-09-10

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by MatthiasMatthias, Nordpfeil, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, derFred.
We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via this form and look forward to your contributions.

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16/08/2022-22/08/2022

SotM 2022 [¹] | © Photo by Carlo Prevosti, Wikimedia Italia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Mapping campaigns

• The Swiss project of the month (PotM CH) for August 2022 is mapping benches on OpenStreetMap. A dashboard shows (//) map edits related to this PotM CH made since the beginning of August. A change simply counts as adding or changing any element with the tag amenity=bench, for instance adding other tags such as colour. The data is updated hourly.
• New mapping projects, curated by UN Mappers, are available in Somalia. Topics include mapping roads, villages and barriers; all in support of the UNSOS mission.

Community

• Christoph Hormann feels that the OSMF is moving strongly towards an increasing dominance of technical interests and viewpoints, over the social and economic context of OpenStreetMap. He thinks the current situation is seriously out of balance and that this is increasingly affecting the OSM community’s ability to handle the various challenges it faces.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Jochen Topf has published the results of his study into the problems with the current OSM data model, possible improvements, and their impact on OSM’s systems (we reported earlier).

Events

• [1] Carlo Prevosti shared this SotM2022 Group Photo.
• As with every OSM event, the State of the Map could not have taken place without a small group of dedicated volunteers. Many thanks to them!
• Poster presentations from the State of the Map 2022 have been uploaded.
• Future cartographers also didn’t want to miss this year’s conference. Students from the joint Cartography M.Sc., run by universities from Munich, Vienna, Dresden and Twente, had a great time this year at #SotM2022 in Italy.
• Thierry Jean reports ► on the participation of six members (actually, at least nine) of the Brazilian OSM community at the OSM World Event in Italy.
• Oscar Zorrilla tweeted about the OSM Spain community present at State of the Map 2022, in Florence, Italy.

Maps

• Ellen Poe shared the project Headway, which aims to be a self-hostable maps stack powered by OpenStreetMap. A demo is available at maps.earth.
• Koen Rijnsent has created a clickable map showing a series of murals in Utrecht, NL.

Software

• Sarah Heidekorn presented the 14th entry to the ‘How to become ohsome?‘ series, discussing the convenient and intuitive ohsome dashboard. Boasting more of a user interface than other tools, the ohsome dashboard allows users to select features of interest using a map. A recent update with advanced filter settings now also provides more complex filters.
• Ilya Zverev released version 1.0 of the Every Door app.

Programming

• Paul Jeffrey reported an issue about the OSMAnd app presumably ‘leaking data about users’ travel history’ through a unique identifier. While true, it’s been explained that this randomly generated UUID is used solely to maintain fair usage of the servers’ resources when downloading maps and seemed to be already covered in the privacy policy.
• Sarah Hoffmann announced the release of 1.7.0 of osm2pgsql, a tool to import OSM data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database.
• Stamen blogged about Chartographer, which generates visualisations of a supplied Mapbox GL stylesheet to better understand how its layers are rendered per zoom level. Chartographer has special views for areas, lines, icons and labels. It is especially helpful when generating a basemap style for vector tiles.
• Leo van der Meulen used data from the Dutch Bureau for Statistics to visualise the variation in sun hours across the Netherlands, which indicates the expected efficiency of solar panels.

Releases

• The new release of the Open Camping Map integrates user reviews from Mangrove.
• Geospatial analytics provider Kontur added the new OpenStreetMap Road Completeness layer to their free emergency mapping dashboard, Disaster Ninja. It helps to check if all roads are mapped in OpenStreetMap by showing the ratio of OSM road length to Facebook AI-detected road segments, find exactly where the gaps are, and go to the iD editor to fix them.
• The August maintenance release of Vespucci (17.1.6) and the first beta release of 18.0 are available from Google Play, F-Droid, or their GitHub repository now.

Did you know …

• … Table2map, which can put addresses in table format onto an OSM map?
• … OpenStreetMap live edit, where you can watch added changes to OSM?
• … OSM Landuse Landcover? It is a WebGIS application to explore the OpenStreetMap database specifically in terms of landuse and landcover information. Landuse tags were predicted where absent. This was first applied to Germany in 2017 and since 2020, with improved methods, for all EU countries.
• … the SaveEcoBot Map of Ukraine and adjacent areas showing air quality, gamma radiation, and fires?

OSM in the media

• The Italian newspaper La Nazione featured ► an article about State of the Map 2022.
• Daniel Kulesz noticed that modern cars are equipped with headunits that support Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. With the recently added support for Android Auto in OsmAnd, an established open source offline maps and navigation app, his hope for a privacy-friendly solution was re-awakened. Hence, he investigated whether it was practical and possible to use this combination in a data-literate way. He stumbled over several caveats and irritating privacy-invasive issues but also found a semi-satisfactory workaround for the time being.

Other “geo” things

• Clara Aberneithie, writing in The New Statesman, asked if the logic behind routing algorithms, and their preferences for certain spatial resources in urban environments, has broader societal implications for poor people.
• The Spanish Geographical Society published ► an article on the avant-garde activities of the cartographers of the Society of Jesus up until the 18th century.
• Brandon Liu explained some of the improvements being proposed for v3 of PMTiles, a single-file archive format for tiled data. A great deal of storage space can be saved by using the Hilbert curve and run-length encoding.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Firenze	FOSS4G 2022		2022-08-22 – 2022-08-28
Puerto López	Hablemos de OpenStreetMap-OSM		2022-08-27 – 2022-08-28
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-08-29
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-08-31
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-08-31
Santa Terezinha de Goiás	2° Validatona da UMBRAOSM – Brasil.		2022-09-03
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #44		2022-09-05
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-09-06
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-09-06
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #39 (Online)	✓	2022-09-06
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-09-08
Berlin	171. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-09-08
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-09-08
Morogoro	Field Mapping is the Future: A Tasking Manager Workflow for Open Data Kit (ODK)		2022-09-09
Claix	Cartopartie à Claix (Isère, France)		2022-09-10
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-14
Großarl	6. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2022-09-14
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup		2022-09-15

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, Nordpfeil, PierZen, Robot8A, SK53, Sammyhawkrad, SeverinGeo, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, derFred, mavimsii.
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23/08/2022-29/08/2022

Mapping

• After comparing different 360° cameras, OSM user 2hu4u came up with a fairly low-budget option for 360° street level imagery that has led to satisfying results for mapping.
• Ilya Zverev commented on the proposal to change the OSM data model.

Community

• MarcoR is amused about a case of pareidolia in OSM, where he identified a smiling farm in Tuscany, Italy. In the comments, other references are posted, for example a memorial looking like a bear.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• To be eligible to vote at this year’s OSMF annual general meeting you must be a member or associate member for the full 90 days prior to the date on which the meeting is held, that is, from Sunday 11 September.
• Tobias Knerr reported about the Software Dispute Resolution Panel (SDRP), a mechanism for dispute resolution where developers, members of the community, or the OSMF board can take disputes to be resolved. There were no disputes taken to the panel over the past year and the OSMF Board would like to hear opinions from the community on how to evaluate the value of the SDRP.
• The OSM Foundation (OSMF) has decided to only accept new applications for OSMF membership and associate membership from people who have previously contributed to OpenStreetMap. The Foundation additionally plans to perform a survey among the OSMF membership.

Local chapter news

• OpenStreetMap Polska has signed ► another cooperation agreement, this time with the author of the Velomapa.pl ► portal.

Education

• Craig Kochis wanted to know how vector maps work and taught himself by implementing one.
• Altilunium published a tutorial on how to self-host an OSM tile server by using JOSM, NodeJS, Maptiler Desktop and Tileserver GL. It also covers how to design your own map style by leveraging OSM tag data.
• Anne-Karoline Distel wrote a diary entry about aspects of tagging stiles before completing a video about how to map them.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT is offering data quality internships. They are full-time for 12 weeks and interns will be paid.

Maps

• [1] Cristoffs blogged about the initiative to rewrite and extend the Polish map of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). The result is available at openaedmap.org. The project is looking for support with coding as well as translations.
• OpenSnowMap reported that very high resolution relief (0.5–2 m resolution) shading is now available for Switzerland. The data are sourced from SwissTopo OpenData.
• As one can read on Twitter, OpenMapTiles is taking steps towards open governance and considering moving to a CC0 licence, in order to become the official OpenStreetMap vector tiles. Tobias Jordans created an issue on GitHub to collect information about this announcement and hopefully get an official response.

switch2OSM

• Sahil Dhiman wrote about his discovery of OSM data usage in many products during daily life and how it motivates him to contribute to the map.

Did you know …

• … LibRedirect, a web browser extension redirecting to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends? It effectively redirects requests from the usual map providers to OpenStreetMap.
• … that requests to the OpenStreetMap tile server for tile status and tile re-rendering have not possible since July? See the discussions on Reddit and the GitHub issue.

OSM in the media

• Le Monde featured ► the local OpenStreetMap office in Mali. The group, initiated by Nathalie Sidibé, aims to contribute to the development of the territory by collecting and distributing data, starting with the capital, Bamako.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Santa Terezinha de Goiás	2° Validatona da UMBRAOSM – Brasil.		2022-09-03
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #44		2022-09-05
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-09-06
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-09-06
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #39 (Online)	✓	2022-09-06
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-09-08
Berlin	171. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-09-08
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-09-08
Morogoro	Field Mapping is the Future: A Tasking Manager Workflow for Open Data Kit (ODK)		2022-09-09
Claix	Cartopartie à Claix (Isère, France)		2022-09-10
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-09-12
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-14
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup		2022-09-15
Großarl	6. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2022-09-14
Ballerup Kommune	OSM DK Konference		2022-09-17
Dublin	OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM		2022-09-17
Pacé	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-20
	155. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-09-20
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-09-20
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-09-20
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali		2022-09-21
Miniac-sous-Bécherel	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-09-22
Cisterna d’Asti	Incontro mapper astigiani		2022-09-24

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This weeklyOSM was produced by PierZen, SK53, Strubbl, TheSwavu, adiatmad, derFred, richter_fn.
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30/08/2022-05/09/2022

About us

• We are pleased to be able to offer two more languages from issue #632 onwards: Bahasa Indonesia and Russian. weeklyOSM now informs local OSM communities about the happenings in the OSM world in a total of 15 languages.

Mapping

• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • pedagogy=* to denote the educational theory (or pedagogy) of an element, especially schools or kindergartens.
  • man_made=graduation_tower for mapping the structures used in the production of salt which remove water from a saline solution by evaporation, increasing its concentration of mineral salts.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • to deprecate departures_board=realtime and promote instead passenger_information_display=yes, until Friday 16 September.
  • crossing:markings=*, for mapping the existence and style of pedestrian crossing markings, until Saturday 17 September.
• CasGroenigen created the 10 billionth node (10,000,000,000) in OSM on 4 September. The node is part of a house in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. Interestingly, this node caused problems with some of the Geofabrik’s free shapefiles. This is because the Geofabrik .dbf file limits the ID length to 10 digits, while this node has an ID length of 11 digits.
• An IDN Times journalist has produced a podcast about OSM mapping for Situ/lake conservation in Jabodetabekpunjur, Indonesia.
• rtnf published his opinion regarding localised styles and vector tiles.
• Jochen Topf presented his proposal for changes to the OSM data model at the State of the Map 2022. If you would like to participate in the discussion of the new OSM data model, you can do so in the GitHub discussion forum.
• Christoph Hormann explained his thoughts on the planned changes to OpenStreetMap’s data model.
• After a long discussion that has stalled several times since 2009, Belarusian OpenStreetMap contributors have again proposed ► using Belarusian as the official language of the Belarusian OSM, replacing Russian. A mass editing bot has been set up to perform this migration. They are currently waiting for community member voting results before running the bot.
• Amanda McCann has created a data visualisation of the growth of the building tag in Ireland from 2007 to the present.

Community

• Following a debate regarding the definition of service=driveway, as we reported earlier, an OSM user has proposed a new alternative tagging scheme: driveway2 for better routing. Others have proposed instead a mass deletion of the service=driveaway2 tag in OSM.
• Two personalities who have helped shape the OpenStreetMap ecosystem, while working for business partners in recent years, each share some personal thoughts: Randy Meech and Mikel Maron.
• The Geomob London Meetup will take place on Wednesday 28 September at the Ordnance Survey Geovation Hub. As usual, the meeting will feature several talks about innovations in the geospatial field. If you are planning to attend this event, please complete the registration form. Those unable to attend the conference can receive a summary of the conference by joining the Geomob mailing list.
• Bartosz Racławski ► , from Poland, is the UN Mapper of the Month for September.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The development team of osm2pgsql, a command line tool for converting OSM data into the PostgreSQL/PostGIS format, received a test server grant from FOSSGIS e.V., the German local chapter of the OSMF.
• The OpenStreetMap tile server address has changed to https://tile.openstreetmap.org. The new tile server supports HTTP/2 + HTTP/3 and has a higher cache hit ratio than the previous tile server. Applications still using the old OSM tile server url ((a|b|c).tile.openstreetmap.org / (a|b|c|).tile.osm.org) should switch to the new format immediately, as the old urls may be deactivated at any time.
• FOSSGIS and the German OpenStreetMap community were invited ► by the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to participate in the Citizens’ Festival at Bellevue Palace. This event was held to honour citizens who actively participate in various voluntary activities.

Local chapter news

• The August newsletter of OpenStreetMap US has been published.

Events

• Some OpenStreetMap users have shared their personal experiences of the SotM 2022, held in Florence, Italy.

Education

• Anne-Karoline Distel explained how to map blacksmith workshops on OpenStreetMap. In the video she explained that there are many forges in Ireland that now have the status of historic buildings. In the old days, there were forges along main roads in Ireland that were used to repair broken horseshoes.

switch2OSM

• The French government provides information on the net about fuel prices at petrol stations in France. It uses OSM for this and even uses the © reference correctly. Recommended for imitation.
• In his latest video, Luke Smith, a well-known privacy advocate, gave his opinion about smartphones vs privacy. At the end of the video (16:00 min), he said that ‘the only Google software that is better than the free and open source variety is Google Maps’, as opposed to OpenStreetMap which he deemed to be lacking in its search features.
• IT security blogger SwiftOnSecurity recommended checking OpenStreetMap data if deliveries or people have trouble finding your home. The reason is that OSM powers many routing engines.

Software

• The August release of Organic Maps is available for iOS and Android. Routing performance was improved for long routes and total ascent and descent is now displayed for the route. New icons were added for different sport POIs. Information about OpenStreetMap as a map source was added to the splash screen.
• BRouter was featured on the HackerNews front page.
• As a work in progress, jmsbert listed the JOSM plugins that they consider useful.
• woheller69 has published LavSeeker on F-Droid. The application lists the toilets nearest to you that are mapped in OpenStreetMap.
• Samuel Manu, perhaps better known in OSM as sammyhawkrad, tweeted about new updates to the OsmoseStats tool he built. You can now see the number of OSM issues per country/region and also view the list of individual issues with hyperlinks on the charts.
• Altilunium has released OSM Pantau, an OpenStreetMap recent change monitoring system. See the live demo here, click the blue button to refresh. Find out how it works here.

Other “geo” things

• The French government is using ► satellite data to locate illegal swimming pools.
• Achim Sawall reported how he was misled by Google Maps on a bike tour from Berlin to Lübbenau.
• Chloé Woitier, from LeFigaro newspaper, reported ► on the launch by Google of its fuel-saving itinerary function, based on automatic learning from data including those collected by the map application itself.
• The Wall Street Journal has published a video explaining the technology used by Google Maps.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-09-12
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	Afterwork meetup OSM + OSgeo		2022-09-13
Hamburg	Hamburger Mappertreffen		2022-09-13
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-14
Kortrijk	DigiPinguïns: OpenStreetMap		2022-09-13
Großarl	6. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2022-09-14
Chippewa Township	Michigan Meetup		2022-09-15
Bologna	Wikiaperitivo del buon rientro a Bologna (per OSMer e wikimediani)		2022-09-15
Град Кикинда	OpenStreetMap x Pionir #1		2022-09-17
Ballerup Kommune	OSM DK Konference		2022-09-17
Dublin	OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM		2022-09-17
Peyruis	Cartopartie à Peyruis		2022-09-17
臺北市	第四次 OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團工作坊		2022-09-18
Pacé	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-20
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-09-20
	155. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-09-20
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-09-20
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-09-20
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali		2022-09-21
Miniac-sous-Bécherel	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-09-22
La Virgen	5ta reunión bimestral de OSM Latinoamérica		2022-09-24
Cisterna d’Asti	Incontro mapper astigiani		2022-09-24
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend		2022-09-24 – 2022-09-25
Gent	OpenTechTalks: OpenStreetMap		2022-09-26
Arlon	Réunion des contributeurs OpenStreetMap, Arlon (Belgium)		2022-09-26
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-28
Derby	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup		2022-09-27
London	Geomob London		2022-09-28
Vern-sur-Seiche	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-29
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-09-30
Bengaluru	Hacktoberfest 2022	✓	2022-09-30 – 2022-10-31
Villa de Cos	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de México		2022-10-01

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If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, SK53, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, derFred, rtnf.
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06/09/2022-12/09/2022

Breaking news

• The next monthly video-meeting of the OSMF board will take place on Thursday 22 September 2022, at 13:00 UTC. The preliminary agenda is on the OSMF Board wiki and this is also where the draft minutes will be added.

Mapping campaigns

• Sven Geggus created a website that shows ‘campsites with others inside’ and, as we reported earlier, has asked the community for help to clean up this specific type of erroneous tagging.

Community

• Ruben Martin, from the Forums governance team, announced that the old forum.osm.org will be retired and migrated to the new forums on Friday 30 September as part of the OSMF modernisation efforts. Communities are asked to migrate and request a space in the new forums (community.openstreetmap.org) as soon as possible.

Events

• The Call for Presentations for Pista ng Mapa 2022 and State of the Map Asia 2022 Conferences is now open.

Education

• Anne-Karoline Distel explained how to map horse hitching locations on OpenStreetMap. Horse hitching facilities are common in historic places, especially in the stables of European castles.

Maps

• [1] Marcel Reinmuth announced an update to the Open Healthcare Access Map. Released last year, the map based on OpenStreetMap healthcare facilities and access times from OpenRouteService, now has global coverage of healthcare access.
• This constantly updated map shows the current deployment of military units in the war in Ukraine, the location of incidents, and which areas are controlled by the respective warring parties. The map is based on OSM.It should be remembered that maps always have a political dimension. weeklyOSM cannot and does not want to judge the facts presented or whether it is propaganda or the glorification of war.

Licences

• Ilya Zverev wrote an article to commemorate the day the OpenStreetMap data licence changed to ODbL. He has also created a website where, for a while, you can see what OSM looked like in 2012, before the licence change.

Software

• An easter egg can be found on the ideditor.org website : an information file named IDEDITOR.NFO, with a 1 April 1994 timestamp and a Chmod 4162 permission, referencing the Warez subculture.

Programming

• Jochen Topf announced the start of a project that will add cartographic generalisation capabilities to osm2pgsql. The project is funded for six months through a research grant from the Prototype Fund and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. There is a GitHub issue that goes into details of what is planned.
• Zhengyi Cao, a Google Summer of Code 2022 participant, published a final report on their ‘JOSM plug-in for public transportation route visualisation’.

Releases

• The BBBike extract service now supports OrganicMaps for Android and iOS.

Other “geo” things

• Researchers, from Bavaria and Austria, have developed ► a ‘cardio-mapped’ hiking trails information system to prevent overexertion while hiking. Hikers can determine their individual heart fitness during a short test hike on-site and then find hikes in the area that match their ability.
• Vincent Privat discovered a place in Kourou, French Guiana, where a gun shop can be found opposite a bank.
• Jon Keegan wrote an article about ‘Highway Photolog’, an ancient version of street-level imagery, conducted by highway departments in the US as early as 1961.
• Gary Dagorn, from Le Monde, documented ► the current floods in Pakistan. More than 1300 deaths have been reported in this disaster, where 10% of the land area was flooded according to satellite imagery. Multiple image comparisons are provided in the article, in addition to an overview map of the country. A HOTOSM task has been created for volunteers and is still ongoing.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Град Кикинда	OpenStreetMap x Pionir #1		2022-09-17
Ballerup Kommune	OSM DK Konference		2022-09-17
Dublin	OpenStreetMap Ireland AGM		2022-09-17
Brno	Zářijový brněnský Missing Maps mapathon na konferenci OpenAlt 2022		2022-09-17
Peyruis	Cartopartie à Peyruis		2022-09-17
Nantes	À la découverte d’OpenStreetMap la carte numérique collaborative libre		2022-09-17
臺北市	第四次 OpenStreetMap 街景踏查團工作坊		2022-09-18
Grenoble	Réunion mensuelle du groupe local OSM Grenoble		2022-09-19
Budapest	OSM Fonó: Short editing introduction and remote help (online, live)		2022-09-19
Pacé	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-20
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-09-20
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-09-20
	155. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-09-20
City of Edinburgh	OSM Edinburgh Social		2022-09-20
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-09-20
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-09-20
Aachen	Aachener Stammtisch 2.0		2022-09-21
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali		2022-09-21
Miniac-sous-Bécherel	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-22
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-09-22
La Virgen	5ta reunión bimestral de OSM Latinoamérica		2022-09-24
Cisterna d’Asti	Incontro mapper astigiani		2022-09-24
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend		2022-09-24 – 2022-09-25
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-09-26
Gent	OpenTechTalks: OpenStreetMap		2022-09-26
Arlon	Réunion des contributeurs OpenStreetMap, Arlon (Belgium)		2022-09-26
Derby	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup		2022-09-27
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-28
London	Geomob London		2022-09-28
Vern-sur-Seiche	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-29
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-09-30
Bengaluru	Hacktoberfest 2022	✓	2022-09-30 – 2022-10-31
Villa de Cos	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de México		2022-10-01
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #45		2022-10-03
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-10-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-10-04
Murray	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-10-06
Град Крагујевац	OSM Serbia regular meetup	✓	2022-10-06
La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-10-07
Kaiserslautern	OSM Mapping Event Erfassung von Barrieren		2022-10-08
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第32回 Re:妙心寺		2022-10-08

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, Nordpfeil, PierZen, SK53, SeverinGeo, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, derFred, rtnf.
We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via this form and look forward to your contributions.

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13/09/2022-19/09/2022

About us

• We are always looking for people to help us improve our newsletter so it can get out faster, have more depth and coverage, and generally benefit our readers, like you! Please join our team now.

Mapping

• The French city of Rennes, announced ► that it is hosting three mapping parties, during which citizens will be helped in adding shops to OpenStreetMap.
• Pieter Vander announced that now MapComplete is able to detect tree species automatically by using PlantNet.org API, making it easier to link a tree to its correct species while mapping tree location on OpenStreetMap.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposal:
  • highway=scramble for indicating that a path needs use of hands to travel over.
• Voting on the following proposal has closed :
  • crossing:markings, to declare the existence and style of pedestrian crossing markings, was approved with 29 votes for, 1 vote against and 3 abstentions.
• Voting is underway for the following proposal:
  • To clarify the definition of the dimensional tags used on loading docks, until Wednesday 28 September.

Community

• OSM user Mannivu wrote > a diary entry on how to upload pictures to Wikimedia Commons, create a Wikidata element, create a Wikimedia Commons category, link a Wikidata element and a Commons category, and insert those data into OSM.
• Martijn van Exel wondered why there is no search form for OSM diaries. Commenters explained how to use your favourite search engine for that.

Events

• Katja Haferkorn announced ► that a workshop ► on the topic of OpenStreetMap indoor tagging will be held 14 to 16 October in Frankfurt am Main.
• Some statistical figures on the recent SotM in Florence for you.

Humanitarian OSM

• Adam Rousell announced that HeiGIT has activated the Disaster openrouteservice in the region of Pakistan in response to the severe monsoonal flooding the country has experienced in recent weeks. Currently, data is being updated every 10 minutes to reflect the dynamic situation and affected infrastructure.

Maps

• Martijn van Exel published an open source clone of Ilya Zverik’s vintage OSM tile server.

switch2OSM

• Deutsche Bahn is using OSM in their passenger information system. It tracks the train’s current speed, position and schedule and informs passengers of points of interest that can be found along the route. Recommended for imitation.

Open Data

• GwenCarto gave a tutorial on NoiseModelling using OSM data.
• The state of Sachen Anhalt, Germany has released ► a 20 cm resolution digital surface model as open data (via Twitter). The licence ► allows using the data to improve OSM.

Licences

• Harry Wood published an article to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Open Database License (ODbL), the licence of OpenStreetMap’s data. The ODbL was created in response to several issues regarding the unsuitability of CC BY-SA licences when applied to map data.
• Andres Gomez Casanova has published two Spanish-language videos in which he explains the incompatibility of ODbL and CC-BY:
  • The problem of attribution.
  • The use of DRM in derivative works where ODbL allows it but CC-BY does not.

  They expand ► on an article from 10 April (we reported earlier).

Software

• [1] Ilya Zverik published a tutorial for his Every Door OpenStreetMap editor (for POIs and entrances) along with the release of version 2.0 of the software. Downloads are available for Android and iOS. Release notes are on GitHub.
• Arno Wolter, one of the three founders and CEO of the Initiative for Safer Roads, talked about their new project Gefahrenstellen.de, which seeks to help parents and schoolchildren select the path to school with the least traffic and risk. The project uses HeiGIT’s openrouteservice as a routing service, which in turn uses OSM data.
• Altilunium has released Pataddress, an open-source alternative to what3words (but with four words instead) with a built-in word frequency analyser to build a custom word database in your own language.
• GraphHopper has released version 6.0 of their routing engine. This update offers faster route calculation, more flexibility, better instructions, and developer documentation.
• HeiGIT, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, reported that a building completeness indicator has been added to the ohsome quality analyst. This indicator uses proxy variables to predict the expected area of buildings in a given area of interest and then compares this prediction to the total area of buildings currently mapped in OSM.
• Marcel Reinmuth wrote that the Open Healthcare Access Map has now achieved global coverage. The Open Healthcare Access Map uses OpenStreetMap, HeiGIT’s openrouteservice, and WorldPop to estimate the number of people living within a certain distance of a healthcare facility. The data is also available on the Humanitarian Data Exchange.
• The RapiD development team at Meta blogged about an ‘early preview’ of RapiD 2.0 alpha, an OSM editor with access to AI-generated open data. The big change is a rewrite of the graphics engine to improve overall performance. They are asking for feedback via GitHub, Slack or Facebook.
• Felt announced that Erica Fischer, the creator of the library Tippecanoe, joined the company to continue her open-source work. Tippecanoe is a GeoJSON to vector map tiles converter, with a specific aesthetic intent to enable making a scale-independent view of the data. At any zoom level, the density and texture of the data is still visible, rather than having to manually exclude certain classes of data.

Programming

• The osm2pgsql team just announced that the source code of osm2pgsql has gone through a security audit. None of the tests revealed any severe security issues, but users should be aware that they should properly set up a secure system environment. The team have amended the manual further to explain several important security practices.

Releases

• Vespucci, ‘the editor for Android that allows any kind of editing directly on mobile devices’, released version 18.0.0. The highlights are described in a blog post.
• Marcos Dione discovered that JPEG map tile files with quality parameter set to 70–80 are 50% or less their size in PNG, suitable for low-resolution, offline, low-connectivity, or mobile map apps. He also updated his osm-tile-tools to accept JPEG tile file format.

Did you know …

• … Marcel Reinmuth presented several maps with information on abortion access in Germany that were created using HeiGIT’s openrouteservice?
• … you can find places with vegetarian (diet:vegetarian) and vegan (diet:vegan) options by using Veggiekarte?
• … that an anonymous critic collects problems with the what3words algorithm and implementation?

OSM in the media

• OpenCage is partnering with the MapScaping podcast to help promote OSM-based projects. The selected projects will receive a 30 second promotional message at the start of a podcast episode and logo inclusions on the MapScaping front page and Twitter account. Any project using OpenStreetMap is eligible (tools, technologies, services, open source, NGO, or for-profit start-up). You can apply until Saturday 15 October.

Other “geo” things

• The events associated with the funeral rites for Queen Elizabeth II would seem an unlikely reason for an item of geospatial news. However, Gizmodo reported that a number of odd errors occurred through the use of what3words to help people find the end of the queue for viewing during the lying in state.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Budapest	OSM Fonó: Short editing introduction and remote help (online, live)		2022-09-23
La Virgen	5ta reunión bimestral de OSM Latinoamérica		2022-09-24
Recife	[online] First pic4review mapathon from UMBRAOSM (BR)		2022-09-24
Cisterna d’Asti	Incontro mapper astigiani		2022-09-24
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend		2022-09-24 – 2022-09-25
Gent	OpenTechTalks: OpenStreetMap		2022-09-26
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-09-26
Arlon	Réunion des contributeurs OpenStreetMap, Arlon (Belgium)		2022-09-26
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-09-28
Derby	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup		2022-09-27
London	Geomob London		2022-09-28
Washington	OSM US Mappy Hour	✓	2022-09-29
Vern-sur-Seiche	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-29
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-09-30
Villa de Cos	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de México		2022-10-01
	Hacktoberfest 2022		2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #45		2022-10-03
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-10-04
London	London pub meet-up		2022-10-04
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-10-04
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #39 (Online)	✓	2022-10-04
Murray	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-10-06
Mannheim	Mapathon in der Moschee		2022-10-06
Град Крагујевац	OSM Serbia regular meetup	✓	2022-10-06
La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-10-07
Kaiserslautern	OSM Mapping Event Erfassung von Barrieren		2022-10-08
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第32回 Re:妙心寺		2022-10-08
Polokwane Local Municipality	OSM Africa October Mapathon	✓	2022-10-08
Polokwane Local Municipality	OSM Africa October Mapathon	✓	2022-10-08
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-10-12
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-10-12
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-10-11
Frankfurt am Main	Arbeitstreffen Indoor OSM 2022		2022-10-14 – 2022-10-16

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If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

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20/09/2022-26/09/2022

About us

• The Ukrainian version Тижневик OSM, as part of the weeklyOSM family, once again demonstrates the international nature of OpenStreetMap.

Mapping campaigns

• Włodzimierz Bartczak reported ► that OpenStreetMap Poland and the Pedagogical University of Kraków are organising ‘Peljesac Cartographic Training Ground’, a week-long training camp for students under the guidance of experienced OSM editors. You can follow their activity by watching for the #peljesac hashtag in OSM changesets by using osmcha.

Mapping

• Michael Reichert announced that Geofabrik has added two road-related layers to OSM Inspector, relations with highway=* and out-of-use roads.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • to deprecate passenger_information_display and promote departures_board instead.
  • settlement_type=crannog for mapping prehistoric settlements that are artificial islands constructed in lakes or sea inlets. Usually found in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
  • privacy=* for indicating how much privacy an amenity, such as a shower or toilet, provides.
  • payment:coins|notes:denominations=* to record information about which denominations of coins or banknotes are accepted at a feature.
  • amenity=training_centre to unify the tagging of facilities that provides various additional or special training, other than universities, colleges, and schools for children.
  • amenity=pickup_point to tag places that primarily serve as places where products that have previously been ordered (usually online) can be picked up.
  • replace the tagging mail list with the OSM Community forum for the purposes of announcing proposal requests for comments and voting.
  • move proposal voting from the wiki to the OSM Community forum.

Community

• Thunderforest, one of the sponsors behind the osm2pgsql project, published an interview with Jochen Topf, one of the lead developers in the osm2pgsql project.
• Cartocité ► , an OpenStreetMap consultancy agency based in France, is currently conducting a street-level imagery survey around the commune of Lons-le-Saunier. The collected data will be uploaded on Mapillary to be used in OpenStreetMap.
• During the short outage of OSMCha martien-176 noted some useful alternatives.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF Operations Working Group have released their August 2022 report.

Events

• Recordings of the State of the Map 2022 sessions have started to be uploaded to YouTube and media.ccc.de.
• The proceedings of the Academic Track at State of the Map 2022 have been published.
• The committee of SotM Japan announced that SotM Japan 2022 will be held on Saturday 3 December in Kakogawa, Hyogo.
• Topi Tjukanov, the creator of the interactive map ‘Notable-people‘ and organiser of the 30DayMapChallenge, tweeted about several alternative formats for the upcoming challenge. As always, the next 30DayMapChallenge will take place throughout the month of November.
• The OpenStreetMap Switzerland monthly meeting will now be held ► both on site and virtually. You can check the schedule on the wiki ► .
• OpenStreetMap US has announced the online Mapping USA conference, which will be held on 11 and 12 November. This year’s Mapping USA will be a joint event together with WikiConference North America. Attendance will be free. The call for presentations is open until Saturday 15 October.

Maps

• Christoph Hormann published a blog post about Landsat 7’s end of operations scheduled for September 2022.
• Take a look at this scalable 2×2 map, which shows how the same part of the world was mapped in OSM in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2022.

Software

• [1] Rizwan Khan reported that HeiGIT has begun to integrate some of the functionality of the Ohsome Quality Analyst into ohsomeHeX, a tool to visualise maps and time series of data development in OSM. A completeness indicator for mapping saturation now allows the estimation of completeness by looking at the saturation of the data.
• Leaflet just released v1.9.0 followed closely by a fix release the day after.
• Tykayn has created ► a Mastodon bot that shares an ‘OSM tag of the day’ from the French wiki each day. Toots can be followed using the hashtag #rtfw.

Programming

• Amanda McCann blogged about her tool for measuring distances between nearest POIs, inspired by the bank and gunshop example we reported on earlier.
• The Prototype Fund, which is funding Jochen Topf’s osm2pgsql project (as we reported earlier), is also funding ► an OpenStreetMap parking space analysis project. The project aims to provide detailed information on parking in public spaces in the form of interactive maps and prepared data exports. The project group consists of Alex, Lars and Tobias from the OSM Berlin community. In order to support other interested parties to collect parking data, the group is also working to improve the documentation and provide instructions for local mapping campaigns.

Did you know …

• … that the OSM Community forum is configured so you can reply in your native language regardless of the language of the thread? The Discourse translator will then do the translation.
• … that you can use OSM Smart Menu in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to open links related to OpenStreetMap, based on parameters from the current page? It helps OpenStreetMap contributors to easily switch between different maps and analysis tools.

OSM in the media

• Delphine Sabattier interviewed ► Florian Lainez, about OpenStreetMap initiatives regarding the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Florian is also known for their participation in many projects including ‘ÇaResteOuvert‘ ► , a platform people used during lockdown to share opening hours of nearby shops through :covid19 tagging, or the sillier one ‘Panneau biche‘ which involves gathering knowledge about wildlife road signs.

Other “geo” things

• Do you love 3D maps, fantastic worlds and visualisations? Have a look and enjoy!
• HBO published a map of the fictional world of Westeros from the series Game of Thrones.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Washington	OSM US Mappy Hour	✓	2022-09-29
Vern-sur-Seiche	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-09-29
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-09-30
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-10-01
Villa de Cos	Notathon en OpenStreetMap – resolvamos notas de México		2022-10-01
Berlin	Vortrag auf Konferenz Bits & Bäume: Parkplatzzählung und Parkraumanalysen mit OpenStreetMap		2022-10-01
	Hacktoberfest 2022		2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
Berlin	Vortrag auf Konferenz Bits & Bäume: Mit OpenStreetMap die Verkehrswende begleiten – Tagging, Tools und Analysen		2022-10-02
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #45		2022-10-03
City of Westminster	London pub meet-up		2022-10-04
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-10-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-10-04
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #39 (Online)	✓	2022-10-04
Murray	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-10-06
Mannheim	Mapathon in der Moschee		2022-10-06
Olomouc	Říjnový olomoucký mapathon – hybridní		2022-10-06
Град Крагујевац	OSM Serbia regular meetup	✓	2022-10-06
Salvador	[online] mapatona UMBRAOSM e YouthMappers Brasil no TECISS 2022		2022-10-07
La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz	Atelier participatif « Recensement des commerces »		2022-10-07
Kaiserslautern	OSM Mapping Event Erfassung von Barrieren		2022-10-08
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第32回 Re:妙心寺		2022-10-08
Polokwane Local Municipality	OSM Africa October Mapathon	✓	2022-10-08
Polokwane Local Municipality	OSM Africa October Mapathon	✓	2022-10-08
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-10-12
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-10-11
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-10-12
Frankfurt am Main	Arbeitstreffen Indoor OSM 2022		2022-10-14 – 2022-10-16
Berlin	172. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-10-14
Hlavní město Praha	World Railway Mapping Online Quarterly Meetup.		2022-10-15
	156. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-10-18
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-10-18
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-10-18
Sélestat	Rencontre des contributeurs.rices en Alsace		2022-10-19
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali – ottobre 2022		2022-10-19
Arlon	EPN d’Arlon – Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap		2022-10-20

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Approksimator, Lejun, Nordpfeil, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, derFred, rtnf.
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27/09/2022-03/10/2022

Mapping

• Albert Guillaumes Marcer published digitalised sketches of different metro station layouts around the world. Of interest to indoor mappers and transport nerds.
• A request has been made for comments on the following proposal:
  • gender=*, a gender designation of the facility.
• Voting on the following proposal has closed:
  • clarifying the definition of the dimensional tags used on loading docks was approved with 17 votes for, 0 votes against and 0 abstentions.
• Robhubi published ► a georeferencing tutorial using JOSM.

Community

• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) is looking for an experienced software engineer in the field of OpenStreetMap Routing Services (Java backend).
• The Trufi Association is hiring a part-time development/fundraising professional to help find new funding and projects for mapping public transport, open source apps, and open data. Applications by Saturday 15 October.
• OpenStreetMap Commune of Pontarlier’s Twitter account discussed the importance of OpenStreetMap usage by the French tourism offices. Later, Antoine Riche pointed out carte.seignanx.com, a land mapping project carried by the Commune of Seignanx Tourist Office.
• The UN and the EU have launched seven challenges around OpenStreetMap, running until the end of October. The challenges include using OpenStreetMap data to measure achievement on sustainable development goals, mixing OpenStreetMap and other open data, improving tools for mappers, and improving the OpenStreetMap website. There’s even a challenge to create a ‘News’ section to include weeklyOSM on openstreetmap.org! The EU will award a prize of €10000 to the best solutions.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The 16th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) will be held online in the #osmf-gm IRC chat room on Saturday 10 December 2022, 16:00 UTC. This meeting will have a board election, with three seats available. Voting for the board election will start one week before the annual general meeting.

Local chapter news

• OpenStreetMap US has released their September newsletter.

Events

• GeomobLON was back in London. On Wednesday 28 September you could have listened to the following talks at geovation:
  • Chris Brown – create maps much faster with mapstack.io
  • Ben Abelshausen – how anyways.eu uses data from OpenStreetMap
  • Pablo Viejo – applying AI-driven text recognition models with bettermaps.ai
  • Chris Barrington Brown – maps used in preparation, training and during the 1944 Normandy landings
  • Christian Nolle – his newspaper for airline maps called Direction of Travel.

  And, as usual at such events, the second half with geobeers and discussion was very important to deepening the discussion of topics.

Maps

• Paul McBurney Jr has built an interactive map to simulate asteroid impacts and to locate all major known asteroid collisions with Earth from the 18th century up to the present. The required OSM attribution is missing on both maps.
• Maptiler Labs has created a ‘Lord of the Rings’ style world map.

Open Data

• Martijn van Exel explained how he uses the RapiD tool to add data from free and open sources to OSM.

Software

• The Goose Maps team shared their detailed story about building OSM-based offline maps on the Apple Watch platform.

Programming

• Flo Edelmann is working on standardising the file extension for Overpass QL query files to *.overpassql. The goal is to enable proper syntax highlighting on GitHub. If you know of such files in repositories not currently listed, please contact him.
• QwantMaps, a French Google environment alternative, now includes ► public transportation in its routing service in addition to car, foot and bicycle. While using OpenStreetMap for numerous things, the transportation data results from a collaboration with Hove, a part of Keolis, which in turn is a multinational transport company.

Releases

• iD editor version 2.22.0 has been released. You can find the changelog here.

Did you know …

• … there is a dashboard that allows you to track statistics on changes in OSM by changeset count ?
• … the OpenInfraMap, an OpenStreetMap-based power and telecom infrastructure map?
• … OSM Apps Catalog, a website to filter and search for OSM apps described in the OpenStreetMap wiki?

OSM in the media

• Minds Behind Maps, a geospatial podcast sponsored by OpenCage, hosted an exclusive interview with Steve Coast, OpenStreetMap’s founder.
• OpenStreetMap was featured on the HackerNews front page, generating tons of discussions.
• The Financial Times published an interactive map to explain Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the north-east.

Other “geo” things

• OpenCage explained several interesting facts about Germany’s borders, border disputes and exclaves in their #geoweirdness weekly thread.
• The ‘web-based citizen social science project’ Colouring London published a map showing twelve categories of information about the buildings of London. They also have plans for other cities.
• Google has announced a number of new features for Google Maps.
• Channon Perry and her boyfriend analysed their personal GPS traces to find ‘missed potential fateful encounters’ in the past.
• Arnaitz Fernández highlighted the difference in lighting before and after Hurricane Ian hit Florida.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	Hacktoberfest 2022		2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
	United Nations – OSS4SDG: Smart Sustainable Cities Hackathon		2022-10-03 – 2022-10-31
Washington	MappingDC Mappy Hour		2022-10-12
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-10-11
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-10-12
	HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up		2022-10-12
Berlin	Missing Maps – DRK Online Mapathon		2022-10-12
Montrouge	Réunion des contributeurs de Montrouge et du Sud de Paris		2022-10-13
Frankfurt am Main	Arbeitstreffen Indoor OSM 2022		2022-10-14 – 2022-10-16
Berlin	172. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-10-14
Hlavní město Praha	World Railway Mapping Online Quarterly Meetup.		2022-10-15
Guapimirim	Mapeamento da Cidade de Guapimirim – Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil.		2022-10-17 – 2022-10-18
Grenoble	Réunion mensuelle du groupe local OSM Grenoble		2022-10-17
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-10-18
	156. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-10-18
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-10-18
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-10-18
Sélestat	Rencontre des contributeurs.rices en Alsace		2022-10-19
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali – ottobre 2022		2022-10-19
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe		2022-10-19
Zürich	Missing Maps Zürich Mapathon		2022-10-19
Arlon	EPN d’Arlon – Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap		2022-10-20
Berlin	Berliner OSM Hackweekend		2022-10-22 – 2022-10-23
Rapperswil-Jona	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-10-25
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-10-26
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-10-27
City of New York	New York City Meetup		2022-10-29

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, Nordpfeil, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, derFred, jcr83, mvexel, rtnf.
We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via this form and look forward to your contributions.

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04/10/2022-10/10/2022

Breaking news

• Submission of self-nominations for the OSMF 2022 board election is now open on the AGM2022 Election_to_Board wiki page and the deadline is 22 October 2022, 23:59 UTC. There are four seats available as Amanda McCann just announced that she will be stepping down early from the Board. You can already start writing your manifesto on the wiki page. This page also contains information on what the board is/is not, rules, responsibilities, and the personal views of current and past board members.

About us

• ‘As the blog adopted a new design a few months ago, the previous banner is not accurate anymore. Today, I propose to you a new one.’ This is how an email from Antoine Cadoret began. He provided a weeklyOSM logo, banner, CSS snippet, preview (tested on our theme) and even a user guide (how to do it in WordPress). We think the result looks much better now. Thank you very much, Antoine.

Mapping campaigns

• The WholeEarthFoundation company has launched the mobile app ‘Tekkon’ in a closed beta. Through themed quests, users are motivated by rewards to collect and review data about infrastructure such as manhole covers , for now limited to Japan and the Philippines. In its latest release, one can now review utility poles.

Mapping

• In a joint project of the Pedagogical University in Krakow and OpenStreetMap Polska Association (OSMP), Polish students gathered over 15,000 new objects and made around 27,000 changes to the database using OsmAnd for the field data collection. Changes are marked with the hashtag #peljesac.
• Augustus Kling experimented with indoor mapping and showed his results on a map.
• OSM user epicspongee released an update on their quest to map all the bike racks in Chicago.
• Martijn van Exel shared his review of the Every Door app.
• While doing some random mapping, Martijn van Exel stumbled across mappers that specialise in the mapping of a specific topic in high detail. This discovery sparked discussions about this phenomenon. Have you seen any other mappers that are highly specialised? Are you one yourself? Please share your work!
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • dress_code=* for tagging the clothing policy of a facility.
  • app:*=* to map mobile apps associated with a feature.
  • amenity=mailroom a tag to identify the location of shared mail rooms, receiving packages or letters, at a university, an apartment building complex, or in an office building complex.
  • castle_type=citadel a tag for historic fortifications inside cities that served as defensive cores.
  • to deprecate amenity=healthcare,clinic,dentist,hospital,doctors,pharmacy and introduce the approved healthcare=* as a main feature, as envisaged in the first healthcare proposal in 2010.
  • that the capacity of benches should be tagged even if there is no functional separation into individual seats; alternatively that you shouldn’t.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • settlement_type=crannog, for mapping prehistoric settlements that are artificial islands constructed in lakes or sea inlets, until Friday 21 October.
  • privacy=*, for indicating how much privacy an amenity provides, until Saturday 22 October.
  • replace the tagging mail list with the OSM Community forum for the purposes of announcing proposal requests for comments and voting, until Sunday 23 October.
  • payment:coins|notes:denominations=*, to record information about which denominations of coins or banknotes are accepted at a feature, until Sunday 23 October.
  • amenity=training_centre, to unify the tagging of facilities that provide various additional or special training, other than universities, colleges, and schools for children, until Monday 24 October.
• The proposal to use the Belarusian language for default tags within Belarus was approved with 66 votes for and 17 votes against.

Community

• Topi Tjukanov launched an official Twitter community for participants in the #30DayMapChallenge, a daily mapmaking challenge open to everyone, happening each November.
• Theresa Vieira (Tess2234), from California USA, is the UN Mapper of the Month for October.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Dorothea Kazazi has published a wiki page with all the information about the upcoming OSMF annual general meeting to be held on Saturday 10 December 2022 at 16:00 UTC.

Local chapter news

• Tristram Gräbener reported ► on Twitter that he received an email from the French company Île-de-France Mobilités, in charge of public transportation in the French Île-de-France region, moving from ODbL to a custom ‘Mobility Licence’ that will effectively reduce the reusability of data such as schedules, as the company could terminate any reuse based on their own judgement. OpenStreetMap France published ► an open letter a year ago saying that this licence would weaken the legal framework for access to this public data for transportation use cases (we reported earlier). A discussion about the Mobility Licence is taking place on another forum.

Events

• Dorothea Kazazi shared a brief report on her work for State of The Map 2022.

Maps

• The Washington Post released several OpenStreetMap-based maps to illustrate the location of Russian strikes against Ukraine after the Crimean Bridge attack.

switch2OSM

• On 8 October 2022 at 6:07 am local time, a large explosion occurred on the Crimean Bridge, a bridge linking mainland Russia with the Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula. As a response, OpenStreetMap contributors quickly updated the map data based on currently available trusted reports.

Licences

• According to the GDPR regulations, any US-based third party service usage without proper user consent could be prosecuted as an ‘unauthorized transfer of the user’s IP address‘ ►. Manuel Reimer asked ► whether it’s legal to use OSM tiles in Germany, since the tile server is hosted by Cloudflare.

Software

• At this year’s NASA International Space Apps Challenge, a team of developers from Kyiv presented an open-source SDK (WorldWind Kotlin) for creating applications that work with online and offline 3D maps.The source of data can be from any public service (OpenTopoMap, OpenStreetMap, GoogleMaps, WikiMapia and others), well-known sources of SRTM, ASTER, ALOS, GEBCO elevations, and servers working on WMS, WMTS and WCS protocols. The WorldWind Kotlin SDK supports visualisation of icons, lines, polygons and ellipses both in 3D space and on the surface. An example application is available to see what the end product looks like.
• Infection Free Zone , an OpenStreetMap-based city building game, is currently released as a pre-alpha version.
• Andy Townsend has released a tutorial on how to create OpenStreetMap-based maps for Garmin GPS devices.

Programming

• mmd has tested his own experimental Overpass fork (version 0.7.59.120) that includes support for PBF, multithreading, and many other changes under the hood. He was able to reduce by a factor of 4 the time taken to import the OSM planet file. As example, importing planet-220829.osm.pbf (70 Gb) went from taking 33.5 hours (version 0.7.58.5) to around 8 hours.
• Loic Hay has created / CartoTools, a curated list of tools aimed at manipulating geodata.
• David New published a tutorial on how to export power lines data from OpenStreetMap to Google Earth by using overpass turbo.
• Pieter Vander Vennet announced that MapComplete is currently participating in Hacktoberfest, an annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source projects throughout October.

Releases

• osm2pgsql is featured in Ryan Lambert’s new book Mastering PostGIS and OpenStreetMap. The book explains how to import OpenStreetMap data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database (by using osm2pgsql) and how to process the data with PostGIS.
• osm2pgsql version 1.7.1 has been released.

Did you know …

• … there is a curated list of OpenSteetMap-projects?
• … you can check your opening_hours tagging using the opening_hours evaluation tool?

Other “geo” things

• A French weeklyOSM editor at work … early in the morning … while skimming the wiki (‘for research purposes’), found the key fetish:office which led them to wonder how it was used. TagInfo did its job by indicating that fetish:office has been used only once, at a German adult bar, which was last updated 7  years ago.
• As a result of depicting the location of property lines on a map without a licence, Ryan Crownholm has been fined $1,000 by the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists.
• Jules Grandin tweeted ► a brief overview thread about the orientation of maps and the North on top convention.
• In the series Regard de Cartographe ►, Nicolas Lambert made multiple interactive maps about mapmaking. The latest example shows ► how symbols and colours can be used to convey different messages while using the same data.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	Hacktoberfest 2022		2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
	United Nations – OSS4SDG: Smart Sustainable Cities Hackathon		2022-10-03 – 2022-10-31
Frankfurt am Main	Arbeitstreffen Indoor OSM 2022		2022-10-14 – 2022-10-16
Berlin	172. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2022-10-14
Rio Paranaíba	Mapatona Noroeste de Rio Paranaíba (Youthmappers UFV)	✓	2022-10-15
Hlavní město Praha	World Railway Mapping Online Quarterly Meetup.		2022-10-15
Guapimirim	Mapeamento da Cidade de Guapimirim – Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil.		2022-10-17 – 2022-10-18
Grenoble	Réunion mensuelle du groupe local OSM Grenoble		2022-10-17
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-10-18
	156. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-10-18
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-10-18
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-10-18
Sélestat	Rencontre des contributeurs.rices en Alsace		2022-10-19
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali – ottobre 2022		2022-10-19
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe		2022-10-19
Zürich	Missing Maps Zürich Mapathon		2022-10-19
Arlon	EPN d’Arlon – Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap		2022-10-20
Bologna	presentazione OpenStreetMap al Linux Day 2022 di Bologna		2022-10-22
Berlin	Berliner OSM Hackweekend		2022-10-22 – 2022-10-23
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-10-24
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-10-26
Rapperswil-Jona	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-10-25
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-10-27
City of New York	New York City Meetup		2022-10-29
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-11-01
Wirral	OSM UK Chat	✓	2022-11-01
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #40 (Online)	✓	2022-11-01
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-11-03

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, MatthiasMatthias, Nordpfeil, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, andygol, conradoos, darkonus, derFred, rtnf.
We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via this form and look forward to your contributions.

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11/10/2022-17/10/2022

Breaking news

• The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board is inviting the public to its next online Board Meeting, to be held on Thursday 27 October 2022 at 13:00 UTC. The minutes of the 13 October board meeting have been released.

Mapping

• Anne-Karoline Distel is working on a historic=* tag clean up process in response to comments regarding her crannog feature proposal.
• Ilya Zverev has mapped a Tallinn district using Every Door and recorded the process. The two hour video showcases both POI mapping and micromapping, overlaid with a few comments on user rankings, map ownership, and motivation.
• Jake Coppinger shared his mapping efforts around ‘The Drying Green’, a newly opened park in Sydney, Australia. He created orthoimagery and a 3D model using OpenDroneMap, which is published on OpenAerialMap.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • fountain:design=* for specifying what type of fountain an amenity=fountain is
  • historic=* to approve a number of values of the historic tag.

Community

• Włodzimierz Bartczak shared his point of view regarding Florian’s speech at SoTM 2022 on ‘how to kill OSM’.
• Geomob Podcast interviewed Grant Slater from the OpenStreetMap Operations team.
• Following its presentation in a local newspaper, Donat Robaux asked French mappers how such elements should be tagged. The device is a vehicle scanning station, so far limited to cars, aiming to give an AI-driven estimation of their value.
• Pierre Beyssac criticised ► the GreenData framework ►, proposed by OpenDataFrance, which would reduce the value of geographical open data under cover of environmental protection. One example would be the reduction in data volume (e.g. geodata with no more than 1  metre precision or truncating text fields), which has been fairly controversial.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Submissions of community questions for the candidates in this year’s board election is open on the OSM wiki until 1 November at 23:59 UTC.
• The SotM Working Group (WG) has decided not to organise an international State of the Map 2023.

Events

• Mikko Tamura, the Community Manager of the HOT Asia-Pacific Open Mapping Hub, announced that the Hub will provide 10–12 travel scholarships for State of the Map Asia 2022 for people from their 18 priority countries in Asia. You can get more information about the scholarships here.

Maps

• [1] Besançon, a city in eastern France, has released ► their own GoGoCarto ► map, using OpenStreetMap as a base layer, where users can report traffic problems.
• Leonardo Nicoletti announced the release of CityAccessMap. The open-source web application measures accessibility in urban areas, those with more than 100,000 inhabitants, using multiple criteria.
• Andrii Holovin shared detailed instructions for creating a three-dimensional terrain model from plywood using the Isla del Meridiano as an example. Having obtained the terrain’s contours, following the instructions, you can prepare the layers of the model for cutting out of plywood or corrugated cardboard for further assembly into a three-dimensional model.

Software

• Taylor Smock warned that a potentially GPL-violating JOSM fork is being published on the Microsoft Store, but further investigation and clarification is still needed. Remember that we can modify GPL-licensed open source software and sell it, as long the modifications are also licensed with the GPL and the source code distributed appropriately.
• Grant Grubbs has developed OSM Finder, a tool that searches for locations in OpenStreetMap based on the distances and angles of annotated map features. This app won first place in Bellingcat’s second Hackathon.

Programming

• Andres Gomez Casanova has published ► a step-by-step guide to analysing country-specific OpenStreetMap map notes by using the weekly changeset export.
• The European Cyclists’ Federation shared their consideration of OpenStreetMap’s potential as a cycling infrastructure database, along with multiple reuse examples.

Releases

• The September release of Organic Maps is now available for iOS and Android. It contains map and translation updates, routing fixes, and a new UI for the bottom bar in Android.
• Martijn van Exel released an update to osmdiff, a Python library for interacting with OSM replication diffs or augmented diffs.
• Roland Olbricht announced that Overpass version 0.7.59 has been released. It has no new features, but offers a substantial improvement in performance and the potential for future performance increases and reduction in database size via a change in the database schema. The database remains binary compatible to its predecessor.

Did you know …

• … all of the tags associated with education features?
• …. that Mateusz Konieczny has published a list of OpenStreetMap objects that have Wikipedia or Wikidata tags with problems?
• … that the OpenStreetMap Foundation still needs the community’s assistance in fleshing out the Strategic Plan Outline into a strategic plan?

OSM in the media

• The Huffington Post wrote ► about the current wave of fuel availability maps in France while a strike is taking place at the Total and ExxonMobil oil companies. As a consequence of the strike, numerous petrol stations are facing shortages, leading to the need for maps showing where people can get fuel for their vehicles. The story contains some maps combining national public data with an OpenStreetMap base layer.

Other “geo” things

• The French government, in collaboration with Google, launched ► the project Foncier Innovant in 2021. The first results were published earlier this year and show positive results as more than 20,000 private swimming pools were AI-detected and landlords faced total fines of 10 million euros. Experiments are taking place to extend the project to cover other kinds of buildings.
• The Voyageurs Wolf Project published an animated map of some wolf packs’ movements in Northern Minnesota, based on GPS tracking data. Their research shows that the wolves are highly territorial, and packs don’t usually cross into another pack’s territory.
• What3Words have published their 2021 accounts. As Steven Feldman pointed out, the company has now made cumulative losses of £96 m.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	Hacktoberfest 2022		2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
	United Nations – OSS4SDG: Smart Sustainable Cities Hackathon		2022-10-03 – 2022-10-31
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-10-24
Budapest	OSM Fonó: Short editing introduction and remote help (online, live)		2022-10-24
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-10-26
Rapperswil-Jona	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-10-25
Washington	OSM US Mappy Hour	✓	2022-10-27
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-10-27
Windsor	OSM Windsor-Essex Monthly Meet Up		2022-10-28
City of New York	New York City Meetup		2022-10-29
Puerto López	Mapeemos vías faltantes de Colombia		2022-10-29
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-10-29
新北市	Wikidata Birthday Taiwan Streetview caputure		2022-10-29
City of Westminster	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-11-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-11-01
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #41 (Online)	✓	2022-11-01
Wirral	OSM UK Chat	✓	2022-11-01
Aberdeen City	Scottish Open Data Unconference		2022-11-05 – 2022-11-06
City of Subiaco	Social Mapping Sunday: Rokeby Road		2022-11-06
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #46		2022-11-07
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-11-09
	HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up		2022-11-09
Köln	OSM-Stammtisch Köln		2022-11-09
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-11-09
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-11-10
Berlin	173. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-11-10
Washington	Mapping USA + WikiConferenceNA	✓	2022-11-11 – 2022-11-12
	OSM Local Chapters & Communities Virtual Congress		2022-11-12
København	OSMmapperCPH		2022-11-13

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, andygol, derFred, rtnf.
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18/10/2022-24/10/2022

About us

• This week we mark 4 consecutive years of semanárioOSM, the Portuguese language weeklyOSM!Every week the editors Nuno MAS Azevedo and Elizabete Oliveira translate the several articles proposed in several languages by the OSM users worldwide and prepare the Portuguese version for publication.Do you also want to contribute with articles to weeklyOSM? We recommend you to read this tutorial.

  We need articles about the activities of the Portuguese-speaking OSM community. Here is a challenge!

Mapping

• A request for comments has been made for archaeological_site=*, to replace the site_type=* key for tagging the type of archaeological site.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • castle_type=citadel, a tag for historic fortifications inside cities that served as defensive cores. Voting open until Tuesday 1 November.
  • pedagogy=*, to denote the educational theory of an element, especially schools or kindergartens, until Thursday 3 November.
  • amenity=mailroom, a tag to identify the location of shared mail rooms, receiving packages or letters, at a university, an apartment building complex, or in an office building complex, until Friday 11 November.
• Voting on the following proposals has closed :
  • settlement_type=crannog, for mapping prehistoric settlements that are artificial islands constructed in lakes or sea inlets, was not successful with 6 votes for, 5 votes against and 2 abstentions.
  • to deprecate passenger_information_display and promote departures_board instead, was not successful with 3 votes for, 4 votes against and 2 abstentions.
  • replace the tagging mail list with the OSM Community forum for the purposes of announcing proposal requests for comments and voting, was not successful with 49 votes for, 27 votes against and 4 abstentions.
  • payment:coins|notes:denominations=*, to record information about which denominations of coins or banknotes are accepted at a feature, was approved with 21 votes for, 4 votes against and 2 abstentions.
  • amenity=training_centre, to unify the tagging of facilities that provide various additional or special training, other than universities, colleges, and schools for children, was not successful with 10 votes for, 14 votes against and 3 abstentions.

Community

• Igor Eliezer ► has been appointed ► an honorary citizen of the city of Laranjal Paulista, Brazil (approximately 25,000 inhabitants) for his work on OSM. Apart from his remarkable mapping activities, Igor has also created ► an ‘atlas’ worth seeing.
• Pierre Parmentier published an interview with Jonathan Czalaj, OpenStreetMap Belgium’s October 2022 Mapper of the Month.
• Martin has written two extensions for OSM Wiki (OSM account login and vote GUI) and is waiting for your feedback. There also a demo wiki.
• The winners of OpenCage’s OpenStreetMap MapScaping Promotion Project have been announced. The winners were OSM Before-After Maps, MapComplete, The Global Healthsites Mapping Project, and weeklyOSM.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium have published their 2021 annual report.
• Andrew Wiseman, the community lead for Apple’s OSM team, is moving to a different team at Apple and Teddy Ahlvin (LessThan3Nodes) will be taking over Andrew’s role as community lead. More information about Apple projects can be found here. Andrew will continue to participate in OSM as a local community member.
• The results of the Indoor-OSM meeting held on 15 and16 October, at the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy in Frankfurt am Main, organised ► by FOSSGIS e. V., are documented on the wiki. The next meeting has been announced for November.

Events

• Arnalie Vicario announced that the Local Chapters and Communities Congress 2022, a virtual event where members of various OSM communities come together to share stories and learn from each other, will be held online on Saturday 12 November (12:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC).

Maps

• [1] Brian Sperlongano has published his ‘OpenStreetMap Americana Style’, a vector-tile map for roads in North America and for some other countries. It also displays custom route shields for routes in all US states and territories.
• The French government recently released ► data on the socioeconomic status of students at schools and colleges across metropolitan France. When visualised on a browsable map the data shows some discrepancies across the country.
• The Lost Rainforests of Britain Project has published an interactive map to highlight areas in the UK with a climate suitable for temperate rainforest, where reforestation efforts could be focused. It uses OSM as a basemap.

Software

• The French initiative to build a geolocated street level image sharing service has voted to name the project Panoramax, which is both a wordplay on panorama, maximum and Panoramix, the original name of Getafix from the Asterix series. One can follow the project’s development on this forum .
• Following the release of an unofficial JOSM paid version on the Microsoft Store a week ago (we reported earlier), Vincent Privat has made an official and free version of JOSM that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.
• Board members from the MapLibre community have reached out to Maputnik proposing a collaboration as a consequence of Mapbox’s GL JS closed-source update.
• MapTiler Desktop is now MapTiler Engine! It comes with lots of improvements and is available for download. MapTiler renamed MapTiler Desktop to MapTiler Engine to ‘better reflect how the software drives the process of turning your spatial data into web maps’.
• Pl@ntNet has released GeoPl@ntNet in beta. This application uses AI-GeoSpecies to estimate which plants may grow in any given area by aggregating data from multiple sources including OpenStreetMap.

Programming

• Maël is developing ► a tool built on OpenStreetMap data to estimate the cyclability of cities, effectively creating a ranking between them. A live demo is available ► where you can click on any city for detailed results. As noted in a Twitter thread ►, the method is significantly sensitive to the number of cities being considered (four by default).
• Seth Fitzsimmons published a tutorial on how to query OpenStreetMap data by using Amazon Athena, a serverless interactive query service.

Releases

• Hauke Stieler (hauke-stieler) has released version 1.5.0 of the Android app GeoNotes. This update includes several bug fixes and some new features. New is the categorisation of notes, filtering notes, and also translation into German, Hungarian and Italian.
• Walter Nordmann (Wambacher) has just released new versions of his Emergency Map and Healthcare Map. They have been changed using osm2pgsql with the Flex format, which has resulted in a considerable performance gain in updating. Menu navigation is available in , and .
• Stephan Bösch-Plepelits has released an update to OpenStreetBrowser, with new quality control categories.
• Vespucci version 18.0.3 has been released. This release contains a ‘custom style file importing’ bug fix in Android 12 and higher.

Did you know …

• … that you can keep track of current and previous OpenStreetMap tagging proposals by using osm-proposals?

Other “geo” things

• OpenCage has unrolled its latest Twitter thread in their ‘geographical oddities’ series (#geoweirdness). This time it’s about the last remnants of the British Empire, the Overseas Territories of the United Kingdom.
• Natacha Bouchart, mayor of Calais in France, asked for a car stopped on a pedestrian crossing to be ticketed, based on Google StreetView, thinking it was live.
• Chris Arvin is making a map of San Francisco store cats, including their names and friendliness.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	Hacktoberfest 2022		2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
	United Nations – OSS4SDG: Smart Sustainable Cities Hackathon		2022-10-03 – 2022-10-31
Windsor	OSM Windsor-Essex Monthly Meet Up		2022-10-28
City of New York	New York City Meetup		2022-10-29
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-10-29
Puerto López	Mapeemos vías faltantes de Colombia		2022-10-29
新北市	Wikidata Birthday Taiwan Streetview caputure		2022-10-29
City of Westminster	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-11-01
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #41 (Online)	✓	2022-11-01
Wirral	OSM UK Chat	✓	2022-11-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-11-02
Aberdeen City	Scottish Open Data Unconference		2022-11-05 – 2022-11-06
City of Subiaco	Social Mapping Sunday: Rokeby Road		2022-11-06
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #46		2022-11-07
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-11-07
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-11-09
	HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up		2022-11-09
Murray	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-11-10
Köln	OSM-Stammtisch Köln		2022-11-09
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-11-09
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-11-10
Berlin	173. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-11-10
Washington	Mapping USA + WikiConferenceNA	✓	2022-11-11 – 2022-11-12
	OSM Local Chapters & Communities Virtual Congress		2022-11-12
København	OSMmapperCPH		2022-11-13
	157. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-11-15
City of Edinburgh	OSM Edinburgh Social		2022-11-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-11-15
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali – novembre 2022		2022-11-16
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe		2022-11-16
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	FOSS4G & State of the Map Belgium		2022-11-17
Zürich	10 Jahre SOSM mit Fondue-Abend		2022-11-17

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, darkonus, derFred, miurahr, rtnf, 快乐的老鼠宝宝.
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25/10/2022-31/10/2022

Mapping campaigns

• OSM Cameroon shared their experience of a land cover mapping campaign on the Missing Maps blog.

Mapping

• dcapillae has created two infographics that describe ► how to map street parking spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility and spaces reserved for recharging electric vehicles.
• Hans Thompson reported on a dispute over new names for two mountains in Chugach State Park in Alaska.
• Jake Coppinger has mapped the controversial electronic billboards in Sydney and created a live map that uses the Overpass API to extract the data.
• The following proposals are waiting for your comments:
  • Start moving proposal announcements to the OSM Community forum.
  • Substitute passenger_information_display=* with departures_board=*.
• Rashid86 enhanced ► the OSM mapping of Ural River basin in the Zelenovsky district, West Kazakhstan, by adding relationships to existing streams.
• Grant Slater described an idea to create a map style that would highlight weaknesses in the OSM database, e.g. ‘change all highway=motorway/trunk/primary/secondary/tertiary without a surface=* tag to all display as a single simple road line type’.

Community

• [1] Włodzimierz Bartczak (OSM user Cristoffs), vice president of OSM Poland, is the UN Mapper of the Month for November.
• Censorship of a post and closing of a discussion about HOT on the OpenStreetMap Community was made without prior warning by a moderator who is a HOT employee and part of the Forums governance team.The post What happens if let others keep sponsoring against OpenStreetMap? discusses the 2017 HOT Google Ads that assured better positioning in Google searches. The moderator said that he saw a violation of the OSM Etiquette Guidelines.

  A participant underlined the moderator’s apparent conflict of interest. To prevent this happening again, there is an urgent need to clarify how moderators should behave in the event of a conflict of interest.

• The censoring of a post on the OpenStreetMap Community website has triggered discussion about how conflicts of interest should be handled, which brought community leaders into the discussion. One participant suggested that hiding or closing a post can be counterproductive and often a polite rebuttal will work. A second said that there was no obvious violation of the OSM Etiquette Guidelines.The HOT-affiliated moderator recognised that his handling of the previous topic was not ideal and reported that there are not enough moderators helping to review all the flags. Other reported that they are there more for technical support and didn’t sign up to be moderators. One says to hurry up with finding some good mods for the global categories whom the community can trust.
• Anne-Karoline Distel shared more archaeological discoveries in her diary and provided a short video about them.
• One of the Chinese community’s active contributors reported ► that OpenStreetMap was blocked in China by the GFW, including the API and tiles.
• Have a look at this video (voice: and , subtitles: ) about the volunteers who assisted at SotM in Florence.
• Juan Arellano (CWG translator) interviewed Andrés Gómez (OSM Colombia) about note-a-thons, group activities solving OSM map notes.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Rob Nickerson commented on why the decision to not hold a State of the Map in 2023 was wrong in his perspective.

Events

• The FOSSGIS Conference 2023 will take place in Berlin from 15 to 18 March 2023. The Call for Participation has been made ►.

OSM research

• Pietro Folco’s team published a study on data-driven micromobility (for example, bicycles or e-scooters) network planning. By tweaking the demand and crashes trade-off, this could provide urban planners with multiple short-term scenarios. A demo is available with three Italian cities.

Maps

• Tankaru has created a web page where you can easily switch between numerous map providers. Browser extensions are available, but can be difficult to use when listing too many services.
• Tracestrack has updated its Carto maps with open landcover data from the ESA WorldCover 2021 project. This results in more vivid and realistic low zoom maps.

Software

• Ilya Zverev has released version 3.0 of Every Door. Among other improvements he has improved handling and zoom.

Programming

• Sarah Heidekorn from HeiGIT reports that the OSHDB and ohsome API are now updated hourly. The OSHDB allows users to investigate the evolution of the amount of data and contributions to OSM, while the ohsome API is a generic web API for in-depth analysis of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with a focus on its history.
• Sarah Heidekorn, from HeiGIT, presented the latest chapter in the ohsome region of the month series. This time, they’re looking at the temporal development of highways and how to add smoothness information, as well as social facilities and updates on map development for Kyiv.

Releases

• StreetComplete has released a huge update with v48.0. The major changes are an ‘Addresses Overlay’ to efficiently map addresses on-site and a ‘Shops Overlay’ to map and check what shops exist in local shopping areas. A lot of of performance improvements, bug fixes and new quests were also added.

Did you know …

• … that the official network map of Deutsche Bahn’s long distance train services was (once again) created using Microsoft PowerPoint?
• … Klas Karlsson’s was surprised by better than anticipated results using a GoPro on a stick and @OpenDroneMap?

OSM in the media

• Ki-Joune Li, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pusan National University, South Korea, pointed ► to OSM as an important success in the fight against data hegemony.
• In the Rhön ► and Bavarian ► Forests there are ‘digital guardians’, who want to identify illegal routes online that lead through sensitive protected areas and have illegal tour tips deleted. They also help to correctly map the boundaries of protected areas and trail permissions in OSM.

Other “geo” things

• Marie Patino wrote in MapLab, a Bloomberg newsletter, about how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is being monitored by the watchful eyes of commercial satellites like no other conflict before.
• Miettinen Jesse / Blenderesse revealed the first results from a city generator that impressively creates random 3D city models.
• A French mountain biker spent ten hours literally hanging ► on for dear life from a cliff near the Cascade de l’Oule after going on a ride following Google Maps, which is a general service that is not adapted to mountain bike trails and shouldn’t be followed blindly.
• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology is looking for a software engineer to work in the OSM routing services field. Depending on the applicant’s experience, they will perform tasks within the field of route planning and smart mobility.
• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology is looking for a student assistant for communication tasks. The applicant will support the Openrouteservice team in communication with their users.
• Dave Smith has discovered a lake in Finland… that looks like Finland. Its origin and status has been revealed, as a quick search on OpenStreetMap would have done.
• The New York Department of Transportation released a list of about a hundred car-free streets (‘Trick-or-Streets’) to celebrate Halloween night. A map is available which may depict a far from good view of pedestrian considerations in neighbourhoods such as Park Slope.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Aberdeen City	Scottish Open Data Unconference		2022-11-05 – 2022-11-06
City of Subiaco	Social Mapping Sunday: Rokeby Road		2022-11-06
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #46		2022-11-07
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-11-07
Lajoux	Sensibilisation OpenStreetMap		2022-11-08
Lajoux	Sensibilisation OpenStreetMap (visioconférence)		2022-11-08
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-11-09
	HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up		2022-11-09
West Valley City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-11-10
Köln	OSM-Stammtisch Köln		2022-11-09
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-11-10
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-11-09
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-11-09
Berlin	173. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch	✓	2022-11-10
Montrouge	Réunion des contributeurs de Montrouge et du Sud de Paris		2022-11-10
Washington	Mapping USA + WikiConferenceNA	✓	2022-11-11 – 2022-11-12
City of New York	Mapping USA/Wiki Conference New York City		2022-11-12
	OSM Local Chapters & Communities Virtual Congress		2022-11-12
津山市	オープンデータソンin津山		2022-11-13
København	OSMmapperCPH		2022-11-13
	157. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-11-15
City of Edinburgh	OSM Edinburgh Social		2022-11-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-11-15
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali – novembre 2022		2022-11-16
Zürich	Missing Maps Zürich November Mapathon		2022-11-16
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe		2022-11-16
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	FOSS4G & State of the Map Belgium		2022-11-17
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta	OSMGeoWeek Indonesia 2022		2022-11-17
Letterkenny Municipal District	Online Map & Chat: Manor, Co Donegal, Ireland		2022-11-17
Zürich	10 Jahre SOSM mit Fondue-Abend		2022-11-17
Barcelona	Geomob Barcelona		2022-11-22
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-11-23
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-11-22
Gent	Meetup @ TomTom Gent		2022-11-23
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-11-25
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第33回 佛光寺		2022-11-27

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This weeklyOSM was produced by Elizabete, Lejun, Mannivu, MatthiasMatthias, Nordpfeil, PierZen, Strubbl, TheSwavu, YoViajo, andygol, derFred, 快乐的老鼠宝宝.
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01/11/2022-07/11/2022

Mapping campaigns

• At the request of OpenStreetMap Ireland, Włodzimierz Bartczak blogged about the lessons learnt from collecting AED data in Poland.

Mapping

• rtnf shared a tutorial on how to display OSM data as a Wikipedia interactive map by using Kartographer > , a Mediawiki extension to display GeoJSON-based interactive maps.
• OSM contributor Graptemys blogged on his process of revising restaurant cuisine tags in Canada using JOSM.
• historic_bruno wrote about how his bridge tagging method has progressed over time and suggested some helpful links.
• A request has been made for comments on amenity=street_vendor, a proposal to deprecate street_vendor=* and to tag mappable street vendors with amenity=street_vendor, vending=* and opening_hours=* instead.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • to deprecate amenity=healthcare,clinic,dentist,hospital,doctors,pharmacy and introduce the approved healthcare=* as a main feature, until Saturday 19 November.
  • to deprecate man_made=drinking_fountain, until Friday 18 November.
• Voting on the following proposals has closed :
  • castle_type=citadel, a tag for historic fortifications inside cities that served as defensive cores, was approved with 10 votes for, 1 vote against and 1 abstention.
  • amenity=mailroom, a tag to identify the location of shared mail rooms, receiving packages or letters, at a university, an apartment building complex, or in an office building complex, was approved with 15 votes for, 1 vote against and 0 abstentions.

Community

• Jochen Topf shared his progress on the osm2pgsql cartographic generalisation project.
• OSM Belgium has named Patricia Solis as their Mapper of the Month.
• Following Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, many have switched to the alternative and FOSS protocol named Mastodon. Amanda McCann has been hosting a Mastodon-instance for quite a while (en.osm.town) where many contributors and official accounts live, such as OpenStreetMap, State of the Map, JOSM, MapComplete, MapRoulette, Osmose QA, Open Inframap and many regional accounts such as LATAM, BE, Guyane, Swiss, Pyrénées-Orientales, Catala, Berlin+Brandenburg, Missing Maps Slovakia,OSMChina and weeklyOSM as well.
• Amanda McCann is running the very successful OSM ‘home base’ (tech speak: instance) of the Twitter alternative Mastodon. She is looking for a logo for the Mastodon instance.
• [1] JazMichaelKing is maintaining ‘Mastodon Near Me’, a directory of Mastodon and Pleroma instances aimed at regional users.

Events

• The 30-Day Map Challenge has been running since 1 November. Topi Tyukanov opened the challenge on Day 1 with wind farms. Unfortunately, we can only present a few examples. A bot from Topi Tjukanov retweets every post marked with the hashtag ‘#30DayMapChallenge’.
  • Day 1: Points

  | samia @samiasab90 * Languages of London | @gontsa * Destroyed cultural heritage of Ukraine | にゃんこそばデータ可視化 @ShinagawaJP * Railwaystations in Japan 1872–2022 |

  • Day 2: Lines

  | Abdoul Madjid @issa_madjid * Every African airport connected to
  its 10 nearest neighbors | Eric Armijo @rcrmj * Rios en Bolivia | @nordaufnordost * Flights to Madagascar |

  • Day 3: Polygons

  | Marcel Reinmuth @GIScienceHD * isochrones (2h) by openrouteservice | D&G Place-Names
  @dgplacenames * Buildings in Dumfries | Nicolas Lambert @neocartocnrs * Countries and People in Africa |

  • Day 4: Colour Friday: Green

  | Xemartin Laborde @XemartinLaborde * green canopy global map | Stan McShinsky @smcshinsky * world moss map | ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs @pokateo_ * Greenland in ten different projections |

  • Day 5: Ukraine

  | Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins * Outgoing shipments under the Black Sea Initiative | Daniel B. @DOh_Bams * Super sleek street map of Kiev (Kyiv) | gontsa @gontsa * Forests of Ukraine |

  • Day 6: Network

  | Julian Hoffmann @Julian_H0ffmann * Global Submarine Cable Network | Wendy Shijia @ShijiaWendy * Shanghai Metro | Cécile @CecileMatusiak * Travel to work |

  • Day 7: Raster

  | Boris Mericskay @BorisMericskay * cuisine=crepe en France | D&G Place-Names
  @dgplacenames * NX96 100 Piece 3D Puzzle | Urban Analytics Lab @urbanalyticslab * Global Building Morphology Indicators |

• The State of the Map Nigeria will take place from 1 to 3 December in Port-Harcourt, Nigeria.
• The Trufi Association hosted a webinar ‘Digitalising Informal Transport in the Global South’ as part of the UN Habitat’s ‘Urban October’.

Education

• Martijn van Exel demonstrated in a tutorial how to tag parking=surface efficiently using MapRoulette.

OSM research

• On this week’s episode of Geomob Podcast Ed chats with Tobias Jordans about a parking data project in Berlin. It’s something you may not have considered, but data about parking spaces and their use can have a big impact on urban dynamics. Tobias explains how city planners, NGOs, and politicians pushing for positive changes can all benefit from accurate parking data. Using OpenStreetMap, Tobias and his colleagues are making it easier to record, retrieve, and update information about parking spaces in Berlin. Listen in to find out about the challenges, learnings, and how you can bring this project to your city.
• ‘Digital civic engagement, open data, and the informal sector: a think piece’, a journal paper authored by Marc Hasselwander, Mwendwa Kiko, and Ted Johnson, has been published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

switch2OSM

• The Office for National Statistics, the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics, has published a map showing ‘migration movements’ on an OSM derived base layer.
• TomTom announced its new mapping platform and ecosystem called the TomTom Maps Platform. The new map will be a pool of different databases, including OpenStreetMap, in order to become ‘the smartest map on the planet’. Public release is expected by mid-2023. A discussion on the
  OSM Community forum has already started.

Software

• Baremaps is a toolkit for creating custom vector tiles from OpenStreetMap and other data sources using Postgis and Java. The development takes place on GitHub.
• Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez and Jesús Sánchez-Dávila have published CityShadeMapper, an R package to create shade maps from OpenStreetMap and LiDAR data. A demo is available for Sevilla.
• Stamen has begun work on improving MapLibre Native, an Open Source SDK for rendering maps, with funding from AWS.

Programming

• Gustavo Soares has presented his ‘redesign project’ for the OSM website. The comments on GitHub issue are worth reading.
• Timothée Giraud has released version 4.0 of the osrm R package. This major release resulted from improvements to the Open Source Routing Machine API.
• Sarah Heidekorn reported that the oshdb (OpenStreetMap Historic Data Analysis) now contains more than 10 billion objects.

Releases

• MapTiler Server 4.2 now has many improvements to give you more control over your maps.
• Roland Olbricht released Overpass API 0.7.59.1 to correct a performance regression in 0.7.59 on systems that are disk bound.
• Brandon Liu outlined what’s new in PMTiles version 3.

Did you know …

• … that Natural Earth data doesn’t quite have the correct boundary for Ukraine? The participants of the #30DayMapChallenge faced difficulties on Day 5, Ukraine, because the Natural Earth dataset lacks complete data about the Ukrainian borders.
• … there may have been another ‘TerribleMaps’ competition on Twitter alongside the 30DayMapChallenge? 1, 2, 3.
• … Martijn van Exel is sharing his daily OSM tips? The tips will be pretty random; some technical, some community related, and some highlighting interesting OSM uses.

Other “geo” things

• Vox has published a video with a brief overview of how hiking trails are designed and what designers take into account when designing a trail.
• Following the recent changes at Twitter, numerous people, including geographers, have moved to a Mastodon instance, which is part of the Fediverse. Rob Kitchin from The Programmable City started a curated list of Mastodon geographers’ accounts before eventually making it into a blog post. As a remainder, even if moving instances is a breeze on Mastodon, please follow the etiquette and try to sign up for other instances apart from the main one, being mastodon.social, such as en.osm.town administered by @amapanda.
• The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors spoke with the Maxar News Bureau on how satellite imagery combats misinformation and increases global transparency, as well as warning of a potential food crisis as a result of the war in Ukraine.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
	OSM Indoor Meeting		2022-11-14
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle Lyon		2022-11-15
	157. Treffen des OSM-Stammtisches Bonn		2022-11-15
City of Edinburgh	OSM Edinburgh Social		2022-11-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen (online)		2022-11-15
Fort Collins	CSU GIS Days Humanitarian Mapathon		2022-11-17
Greeley	UNC GIS DAY MAPATHON		2022-11-17
Roma	Incontro dei mappatori romani e laziali – novembre 2022		2022-11-16
Zürich	Missing Maps Zürich November Mapathon		2022-11-16
Berlin	Missing Maps – DRK & MSF Online Mapathon		2022-11-16
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch Karlsruhe		2022-11-16
Ville de Bruxelles – Stad Brussel	FOSS4G & State of the Map Belgium		2022-11-17
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta	OSMGeoWeek Indonesia 2022		2022-11-17
Letterkenny Municipal District	Online Map & Chat: Manor, Co Donegal, Ireland		2022-11-17
Zürich	10 Jahre SOSM mit Fondue-Abend		2022-11-17
Bahi	Improve the map of Tanzania with tomtom and MapRoulette	✓	2022-11-18
Grenoble	Atelier positionnement GNSS temps réel		2022-11-21
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-11-21
서울	Let’s map Korea(렛츠맵코리아)		2022-11-22	kr
Barcelona	Geomob Barcelona		2022-11-22
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-11-23
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-11-22
Gent	Meetup @ TomTom Gent		2022-11-23
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-11-25
福岡市	「Mapping Hour」 in OSC2022 Online Fukuoka		2022-11-26
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第33回 佛光寺		2022-11-27
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)		2022-11-28
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-11-30
Cojata	Reunatón Latam		2022-12-03
加古川市	State of the Map Japan 2022 in Kakogawa		2022-12-03
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第34回 渉成園		2022-12-04

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, LuxuryCoop, PierZen, Strubbl, Ted Johnson, TheSwavu, TrickyFoxy, YoViajo, andygol, derFred, richter_fn, rtnf, 冰觞沐雨.
We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via this form and look forward to your contributions.

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08/11/2022-14/11/2022

About us

• Attention Telegram-Group admins: Matthias, from the weeklyOSM team, has created a Telegram-Bot. The bot does nothing more and nothing less than announce the publication of new issues of weeklyOSM – usually on Sundays.If you are interested in using this service for your Telegram group, an admin must add this bot as a member of the group. After that, a message to info @ weeklyosm dot eu is necessary so that Matthias can make your Telegram group known to the bot. The following Telegram groups have already joined OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap India, OpenStreetMap Korea, and OpenStreetMap Taiwan.

Mapping

• French OSM mappers are having a discussion about mapping advanced stop lines (cycleway=asl), especially the elements’ order where traffic lights are separately mapped. LeJun asked about it on the wiki but received only two opinions. If you have one, feel free to share it. A proper proposal for this tag might be necessary in the future.
• Kai Johnson has been using the US Bureau of Land Management’s transportation dataset to fill in backcountry routes in Southern California. Their diary post explores some of the difficulties encountered.
• Martijn van Exel gave us an update on his October OSM-related activities.
• The following proposals are waiting for your comments:
  • street parking revision to deprecate and replace the parking:lane=* and parking:condition=* schema for mapping street parking spaces.
  • deposit_ring=* for indicating if a waste basket has a Pfandring ►.
• Voting is underway for the following proposals:
  • highway=scramble, for indicating that a path needs use of hands to travel over, until Tuesday 22 November.
  • Standardising the tagging of manufacturer:*=* and model:*=* of artificial elements, until Sunday 27 November.
  • archaeological_site=*, to replace the site_type=* key for tagging the type of archaeological site.

Community

• OSM user fititnt has proposed an idea on how to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data access by using semantic web technology.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Foundation members will vote in December to elect four new board members from 11 candidates. The Candidates’ answers to official questions and manifestos are now available. More information about the Board election is available on the OSM wiki.The election will be followed by the Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) that will be held online in the IRC chat room on Saturday 10 December 2022 at 16:00 UTC.

Events

• The 30DayMapChallenge 2022 on Twitter continued. It is not possible to adequately acknowledge the multitude of outstanding works. The selection we have made is purely random and not an evaluation of merit. Please take a look at the works yourself, also available on Mastodon.
  • Day 8: Data: OpenStreetMap | Dominik Weckmüller @DomeGIS * Tutorial to create a 3D-map | flotsam @researchremora * Hiroshima, Japan, showing rivers, roads, and buildings | Helen McKenzie
    @helenmakesmaps * When was #openstreetmap last updated in London? |
  • Day 9: Space | T-map Studio @tmapstudio * NASA headquarters in Washington DC | Neil Southall @neilsouthall@mastodon.social @neilcfd * Commercial buildings in Dublin City Centre | Ceren Dolma @ceren_do * Highlighting Women in Space |
  • Day 10: A bad map | VizArt @hellovizart * Equalized elevation: geographically incorrect, but pretty 🙂 | Python Maps @PythonMaps * Can anyone guess what this is? | Wei @WeiDuhun * Map with almost everything |
  • Day 11: Colour Friday: Red | Kaluba Micheal @micheal_kaluba * Wetlands Data for Uganda | Margarita Hohun @margarita_hohun * Welcome home, Kherson | Julian Hoffmann @Julian_H0ffmann * Carte des vins de France |
  • Day 12: Scale | Romain T. @Romainsologne * Scale of European Union countries | GIScienceHD + HeiGIT @GIScienceHD * OpenStreetMap Building Completeness in Urban Centers | Ceren Dolma @ceren_do * Minneapolis Downtown | Wendy Shijia @ShijiaWendy * PLANETS
  • Day 13: 5 minute map | 3D Geoinfo @TU Delft @tudelft3d * Five minutes cover area from the BK Faculty at TUDelft
    | Dan Karran @dankarran * A snapshot of 5 minutes of updates to OpenStreetMap | Brandon Plewe @bplewe * 5 minute map
    | GIScienceHD + HeiGIT @GIScienceHD ofr1tz *
    A map of Dar es Salaam building levels in under 22 seconds |
  • Day 14: Hexagons | Helen Schmidt @helenschmidt * United States Google Search Internet in ‘Hexagon’ | Dolly Andriatsiferana @privatemajory * Lake Itasy | Lac Itasy | Farihy Itasy | Ansgar Wolsing @ansgar@vis.social @_ansgar * Football Pitch Surfaces | A.A. Smith @_aasmith * Tennessee Population x Elevation | jcarlson@mapstodon.space Josh Carlson @jcarlson@mapstodon.space * Bedrooms in Kendal County

Maps

• Dongha Hwang (LuxuryCoop) has made ► a map showing all the names that include either of the two Korean words (‘sageori’ in blue dot, ‘negeori’ in red dot) that mean ‘crossroad’ using overpass turbo and MapCSS. 카토그램 has made ► a set of maps showing n-way intersections (n from 3 to 10) in South Korea.
• The OpenIndoor map will help you see the insides of buildings if they are described in the OSM database. Of course, it does not tell (yet…) how many cabinets and TVs, or other interior elements, are inside, but it can provide information about the number of floors and where the stairs and doors are located. More details about this project are available on GitHub.
• Peter Karich, co-founder of GraphHopper, announced the release of GraphHopper Maps, a web-based route planner powered by the GraphHopper routing engine.

Software

• The GeoDesk team announced their release of a new spatial database engine, designed specifically for OpenStreetMap data. Key strengths include cross-platform support, a compact file format, fast imports, queries that are 50 times faster than SQL, full support of OSM features (including relations), and modest hardware requirements. You can build geospatial applications based on the GeoDesk Java toolkit, or use the standalone utility to query OSM features and export them in a variety of other formats. GeoDesk is free and open source.
• For users that are experiencing problems updating the official Java release from Oracle, rtnf has described how he updated Java on his computer to use the ‘Azul Platform Core’ package instead of Oracle’s and thus get rid of the deprecation message at JOSM startup.

Programming

• The French government recently voted for the systematic use of photovoltaic panels on parking lots with a capacity greater than 80 places. Christan Quest has run a quick fetch of the OpenStreetMap data in Île-de-France and found 1806 parking lots totalling 5,000,000 m². Further calculations lead to an estimated possible energy production of 1 TWh / year, enough for about 1% of the region’s population.

Releases

• The November release of Organic Maps (OSM based) is available for iOS and Android. Some important changes are fixes for handling KML files, detection of current position, and showing speed cameras on tap. As always map updates, bugfixes in search and routing and improvements in translations are included.
• [1] Pascal Neis’ ‘Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap‘ has just been updated with the latest OSM data. The map shows village nodes (place=village) that don’t have any streets (residential, unclassified or services) within a 700 m radius. As noted in the comments, it’s also useful as a place to discover poor-quality imports that should be reverted.

Did you know …

• … the two articles about osm2pgsql / postgis programming from Jakob Miksch How to replicate an OSM database (the easy way) and How to convert polygons to points (suggested by bufferclip) ?
• … there is a web application that shows charging stations for electric cars in Germany? You can switch between the data bases [B]undesnetzagentur (Federal German Net Agency) and [O]SM.
• … that the right and left banks of rivers match the perspective of a vessel drifting with the flow of the river? This perspective sometimes leads to the right bank of a river being on the left side of a map of that river, usually when the river flows north to south, such as the Dnipro does.
• … the daily word puzzle ‘Wordle’? You can test your geographical knowledge with Worldle, which also offers you six chances to guess correctly. There’s now an FAQ on the site, including details of how to access previous puzzles.

Other “geo” things

• Climate TRACE has released a interactive map of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The data shown comes from multiple sources including satellites, sensors, public and commercial datasets.
• Great Britain’s Ordnance Survey (formerly a government department, now a government-owned company) has commented about how the direction of Magnetic North (as viewed from Great Britain) is moving, East across the UK. Magnetic, Grid, and True North will align along a line running from Langton Matravers to Berwick-Upon-Tweed over the 12 months from August 2023.
• You can watch The Map, a 10 minute documentary about the redesign of New York City’s iconic subway map.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Dublin	Pub Meet		2022-11-21 – 2022-11-22
Grenoble	Atelier positionnement GNSS temps réel		2022-11-21
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-11-21
서울	Let’s map Korea (렛츠맵코리아)		2022-11-22
Barcelona	Geomob Barcelona		2022-11-22
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-11-23
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-11-22
Gent	Meetup @ TomTom Gent		2022-11-23
Lima	Gestión popular de riesgos de desastres y OpenStreetMap LATAM 2022		2022-11-24 – 2022-11-27
	[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2022-11-25
IJmuiden	OSM Nederland bijeenkomst (online)	✓	2022-11-26
福岡市	「Mapping Hour」 in OSC2022 Online Fukuoka		2022-11-26
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第33回 佛光寺		2022-11-27
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)		2022-11-28
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta	OSMGeoWeek Indonesia 2022		2022-11-30
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-11-30
Cojata	Reunatón Latam		2022-12-03
加古川市	State of the Map Japan 2022 in Kakogawa		2022-12-03
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第34回 渉成園		2022-12-04
	Monthly MapRoulette Community Meeting		2022-12-06
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-12-07
City of Westminster	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-12-06
	HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up		2022-12-07
Brest	Mapathon en partenariat avec Infini		2022-12-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-12-07
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-12-08
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-12-09

Note:
If you like to see your event here, please put it into the OSM calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Lejun, LuxuryCoop, MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, Sammyhawkrad, SomeoneElse, Strubbl, TheSwavu, andygol, derFred, rtnf.
We welcome link suggestions for the next issue via this form and look forward to your contributions.

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15/11/2022-21/11/2022

Mapping

• Anne-Karoline Distel is still ‘obsessing‘ about crannógs. She has published the first two of a planned five-part video series on how to map crannógs.
• watmildon outlined the technique they use to find and fix instances where addr:housenumber have been incorrectly tagged as name.
• OSM user blkatbyhh shared a tutorial on how to semi-automatically map landuse features from satellite imagery by using Fiji, which is image recognition software.
• Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
  • office=power_utility to replace office=energy_supplier for tagging the office of a power utility company.
  • emergency=lifeboat_station for tagging the buildings and base areas of those groups that are dedicated to the rescue of vessels and sailors in distress.
• Voting is underway for fountain:design=*, to specify what type of fountain an amenity=fountain is, until Monday 5 December.

Community

• The results of a OSMF member survey on membership prerequisites (we reported earlier) have been published.
• LySioS showed the increase in users of Mastodon. He also points out the instance administered by Amanda McCann. Amanda is looking for a logo for this instance.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Engineering Working Group has made a call for proposals for a project to add the ability to mute users on the openstreetmap.org website. This would let OSM contributors who receive unwanted messages in their openstreetmap.org message inbox to mute (ignore) private messages from another contributor. This subject was also discussed on GitHub.
• Eligible members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) should receive, on Saturday 3 December, instructions on how to vote to elect four new board members via their registered OSMF email. They can start voting on
  Saturday 3 December after 16:00 UTC. Voting will end on Saturday 10 December at 16:00 UTC when the Annual General Meeting will start in the IRC chatroom #osmf-gm on the IRC network irc.oftc.net.As we reported last week, the OSM wiki has more information and it is also possible to read the candidates’ answers to official questions and their manifestos.
• The ‘Risk of hostile takeover of the OpenStreetMap Foundation’ was the only discussion last week on osmf-talk for the current Board election (with four seats available this year and 11 candidates, some with corporate affiliations). OSMF is the legal owner of the OSM database and hardware. Brian Sperlongano started the discussion by asking Roland Olbricht to clarify a post on the talk-de discussion list where he perceived Roland to favour German over US candidates. Opinions varied widely, others focusing discussion on the risk of a hostile takeover.
• Christoph Hormann wrote, in his blog, about his observations on the past year regarding the OSMF. Among many other facts, he observes an increasing commercialisation of OSMF policy and the increasing dominance of lobbyists in OSMF policy advice.

Events

• The 30DayMapChallenge 2022 on Twitter and Mastodon continued. It is not possible to adequately acknowledge the multitude of outstanding works. The selection we make is purely random and not an evaluation. Please explore the works yourself. franceinfo reported ► on how this challenge, started by a Finnish geographer in 2019, has become a worldwide event.
  • Day 15: Food/drink | Vanessa Tebbitt
    @vanessatebbitt * Meat Consumption and CO2 Emissions | Loore @loore_ko * Traffic lines of Estonian fishing vessels 2019 | Hans van der Kwast @hansakwast * Where to buy Dutch Cheese | bordoray @bordoray * cooked as E(ps)GG:221115 |
  • Day 16: Minimal | ThoNoi @noirothomas * lLe Haut, Le Bas et Le Doubs | MapServer Studio @mapserverstudio * WORLDLE | Peter Gorman @barelymaps * The bridges of Portland, Oregon | Nim – @bbecquet@mamot.fr @nimwendil * 64×64 pixel art Isle of Mull |
  • Day 17: A map without a computer | suǝbbıɹɟ pıʌɐp @dakvid * A pizza in the shape of Australia | BKG @BKG@social.bund.de * Weihnachtsplätzchen/Bolachas de Natal | jcarlson@mapstodon.space Josh Carlson @jcarlson@mapstodon.space * Mapmaking With Children | Dolly Andriatsiferana @privatemajory * Geofiction |
  • Day 18: Colour Friday: Blue | Michel Stuyts @michelstuyts@fosstodon.org * Flow accumulation around Deurne airport | Vikki :verified: @DataScienceNot2@tech.lgbt * Migration paths of some Bluefin Tuna | Xiao Wang @gisXiaoWang * When map meets blue and white porcelain | Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins@mapstodon.space * wait for it … |
  • Day 19: Globe | LUC @LUCtweeting * Elemental Earth | Sam Keast @SouthCrossMaps * Population of Eurasian and African countries | Andrew DC @andrewdc_nz * For All Moon Time | Andrew Tyrrell * Platonic Earth @SouthArrowMaps@mapstodon.space |
  • Day 20: “My favourite …” | Doug G. @douggreenfield@mapstodon.space * Map of my Favorite Maps | ArtisansCartographes @Artisans_Cartos CrossMap Puzzle | Seán @Seaniesan * Geological Map of Ireland |
  • Day 21: Data: Kontur Population Dataset | Benjamin Becquet @bbecquet@mamot.fr * Population of the Netherlands living below sea level | I.K.D @IKEDA_02 * Population Mogadishu, Somalia | Ahmad Zaenun Faiz @zaenun_faiz * Hexagon Penduluk Jawa Tengah |
• HOT shared a HOT unSummit mid-programme report, which has so far included seven event collaborations across six countries.
• OSM contributor Rashid86 reported ► that InDrive.Tech launched a mapping campaign to map small settlements in Kazakhstan from 16 to 23 November, coinciding with the International Geographic Information System Days.

Maps

• yvecai celebrated the mapping of over 100,000 km of Nordic ski piste.

Releases

• Nominatim 4.1.1 has been released. This is a bugfix release, which resolves some issues around the updating of databases and search.

Did you know …

• [1] … MapSCII is a Braille and ASCII world map renderer for your console?
• … OpenLayers, a JavaScript library for interactive maps, had their Twitter account locked? Searching for it on Twitter returned ‘This account doesn’t exist’. Twitter requires users to be at least 13 years old and the team has put the date of their first release, which was in 2006, as their birthday. We can confirm the rebirth of @openlayers on Twitter but not their age!

Upcoming Events

Where	What	Online	When	Country
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen (Online)		2022-11-28
Natal	Mapeamento de Comunidades no Brasil / Mapping Communities in Brazil.		2022-11-29 – 2022-11-30
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta	OSMGeoWeek Indonesia 2022		2022-11-30
Łódź	UN Mappers and OSM Poland Mapaton		2022-11-30
Düsseldorf	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen	✓	2022-11-30
Budapest	OSM Weaving: Remote help, Corvin Mall preparation, Mapvent of December (online)		2022-12-01
Cojata	Reunatón Latam		2022-12-03
加古川市	State of the Map Japan 2022 in Kakogawa		2022-12-03
京都市	京都！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第34回 渉成園		2022-12-04
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #47		2022-12-05
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2022-12-05
	Monthly MapRoulette Community Meeting		2022-12-06
City of Westminster	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2022-12-06
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2022-12-07
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #42 (Online)	✓	2022-12-06
	HOT Tasking Manager Monthly Meet Up		2022-12-07
Brest	Mapathon en partenariat avec Infini		2022-12-07
Rio de Janeiro	Workshop Mapeamento Participativo e Cartografia Social 2022 / Participatory Mapping and Social Cartography Workshop 2022		2022-12-07 – 2022-12-08
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch		2022-12-07
München	Mapping Party: Christmas Edition		2022-12-08
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2022-12-08
Budapest	Corvin Mall in-person survey, Grund: NextCloud Maps, StreetComplete, Snap, IPv6		2022-12-09
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2022-12-09
Berlin	174. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch (hybrid – Test für FOSSGIS 2023)		2022-12-09
	[Online] 16th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation		2022-12-10
København	OSMmapperCPH		2022-12-11
City of Nottingham	OSM East Midlands/Nottingham meetup (online)	✓	2022-12-13
Rio de Janeiro	Workshop Mapeamento Participativo e Cartografia Social 2022 / Participatory Mapping and Social Cartography Workshop 2022		2022-12-14 – 2022-12-15
Salt Lake City	OSM Utah Monthly Meetup		2022-12-15
	Michigan Meetup		2022-12-15
Stainach-Pürgg	7. Virtueller OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Österreich		2022-12-14
Toulouse	Réunion du groupe local		2022-12-17