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06/28/2016-07/04/2016

Mapping

• Lars-Erik Wessman would like to add a functionality to their taxi driver app, that would enable taxi drivers to provide missing house numbers along with GPS locations.
• Zverik created a web frontend for his revert scripts. It allows to revert a maximum of 200 objects. No way/relation membership changes are possible though. On the plus side, it does allow a 3-way merge instead of just restoring older versions, so you won’t run into any conflicts.
• The OSM wiki proposal for “extended Kneipp water cure” tagging has been approved.

Community

• An analysis of tagging practices and patterns in urban areas in OpenStreetMap.
• Jonathan Schleuss asked on talk-us mailing list about what we should do after the Erskine Wildfires.
• Pergamino Municipality (near Buenos Aires, Argentina) contributes to OSM.
• In Switzerland, Geometa Lab have started a project observing the places in OpenStreetMap that people are looking at (by counting actual tile views). There’s also an article in the Geoawesomeness blog about it.

Imports

• Rafael Avila Coya wants to perform an import according to the rules of OSM. First he described the import details in the OSM-wiki, then he submitted his intention to the import mailing list asking for comments.
• The Madrid City Council released the data of drinking water fountains in the city. Santiago Crespo who manages the import data of Madrid in a wiki table, already created a page for these imports .
• Christian Ledermann proposed a semi-automatic import of school data from Ordnance Survey (UK).
• Maning Sambale reports about the work and the tools developed for building imports in Los Angeles.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Paul Norman published the meeting minutes for the board meeting of June.
• Christoph published a detailed summary of the public OSMF board meeting.
• The OSMF will from now on be holding its board meetings on the 3rd Friday of each month at 6pm London time publicly on mumble.
• Thomas Skowron tweets “I think I solved the financing problem of the OpenStreetMap Foundation”. For those who haven’t seen it, there have recently been a series of display-once-per-browser conference advertisements in that space (SOTM, SOTM-US and FOSSGIS).

Events

• The Schedule for State of the Map 2016 in Brussels (23.–25. September) is published. There was some criticism on Twitter (not merited according to us).
• The State of the Map Asia 2016 will take place in Manila, Philippines.

Humanitarian OSM

• Tyler Redford published a blog from HOT which focusses on the role and the efforts made by HOT to achieve the UN goals for their 2030 Agenda: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in all states.
• HOT Summit (22nd of September 2016) early bird registration ends on July 9.

Maps

• User Lutz the maintainer of Historic.place implemented the Swiss Dofourkarte from 1865.Lutz also created two maps with special topics: “Bismarckturm map” (automatic translation) and a map of “Preußischer optischer Telegraf” (automatic translation)
  • The Bismarckturm map for historical Bismarck towers used the tag network=Bismarckturm.
  • The Preußischer optical Telegraf is now complete.
• A howto for creating a 3D Map with QGIS and the QGIS2threejs plugin with little effort. Here an WebGL-3D-model from a German blog.
• Dan published on marginallyclever.com an “how to draw Open Street Maps with Makelangelo“.
• The Institute of Wines of Germany uses an interactive OSM Map to show the locations of all the vineyards growing regions.

Open Data

• NOSOLOSIG explained the fastest way to view and download images from Landsat 8. (automatic translation)

Licences

• People are still suggesting that we change the ODbL!
• The Collective Database Guideline has been approved by the OSMF Board.

Software

• Federico Mena Quintero has published Mapería. It is intended to “produce beautiful OSM maps for printing”. Mapería is available on github.
• MAPS.ME now includes navigation for bicycle riders (beta).

Programming

• [1] Polyglot published a blog article documenting how to use the new JOSM Plugin for Public Transport, that’s being built by Darya Golovko during this year’s Google Summer of Code.
• Disastermappers Heidelberg created a tool in Python to monitor data as it is added to the OSM database. This means mappers at mapathons get feedback on their efforts during the event, which is cool and very motivating.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• … OpenFietsMap? (Dutch OpenCycleMap with many instructions for mapping in English)
• … the video vector tiles from the site osm2vectortiles.org/?

Other “geo” things

• Colin Marshall presented some historic transit maps in “Open Culture”.
• The 3D Modeling Software Esri CityEngine 2016 now offers a simplified import of OSM data.
• Gabriele Gargantini (Ilpost.it) blogs (very extensively) compellingly about the small village of Esino Lario in Lecco Province, which hosted Wikimania the most important event of Wikipedia for a few days . (automatic translation)
• Google Earth and Maps get sharper satellite imagery with new update.
• Fernando Quadro reported in his blog about the fact that mappers work feverishly on OSM data in Rio de Janeiro in preparation for the Olympics. (automatic translation)
• The company Lichenecker presents a schematic map for the EM, that visualizes emotional tweets.
• mAppiaM! will take place from 09th to 11th July in Rome along the “Via Appia”. Three groups will map Roman monuments in OSM and collect geoinformation for Wikipedia. (automatic translation)
• Chris Hormann described the “new Google Landsat mosaic”.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Roma	”’mAppiaM!”’ Mapping of Appia’s Monuments Appia Antica	09/07/2016-11/07/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup	11/07/2016
Zürich	Stammtisch	11/07/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	12/07/2016
Lyon	Missing Maps Lyon @Maison des associations	12/07/2016
Quito	MappingEcuador Quito	13/07/2016
Guapí	#MapatonXGuapi	14/07/2016
Trentino	Presentation of a hiking map done using OpenStreetMap data, Storo	15/07/2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第１回 北野天満宮	16/07/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	19/07/2016
Seattle	”’State of The Map US 2016”’	23/07/2016-25/07/2016

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Long Term Dates

Wo	Was	Wann	Land
Salzburg	AGIT 2016	06.07.2016-08.07.2016
Roma	”’mAppiaM!”’ Mapping of Appia’s Monuments Appia Antica	09.07.2016-11.07.2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第１回 北野天満宮	16.07.2016
Seattle	State of The Map US 2016	23.07.2016-25.07.2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint	20.08.2016-22.08.2016
Bonn	Workshops at FOSS4G 2016	22.08.2016-23.08.2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016	24.08.2016-26.08.2016
Aiglun	Opération libre	27.08.2016-28.08.2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint Part II	27.08.2016-28.08.2016
Brussels	State of the Map 2016	23.09.2016-26.09.2016
Metro Manila	State of the Map Asia 2016	01.10.2016-02.10.2016
Dresden	Elbe-Labe-Meeting	08.10.2016-09.10.2016
Berlin	Hack Weekend	15.10.2016-16.10.2016

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07/05/2016-07/11/2016

Mapping

• Bryce Nesbitt asks for comments on a proposal to use a mechanical edit to change the tagging of pit latrines.
• Edits of some employees of Mentz in Düsseldorf cause trouble at the German Forum.
• User mueschel detected some SEO-trash in OSM and wonders, what to do with it. The garbage he found is recognisable through Tags like Keywords=* and payment options=* (sic!).
• Since July 09 the new version of MapRoulette is available. The tasks (challenges) from the old MapRoulette must be transferred to the new MapRoulette when the tasks should be continued. Attention: Martijn van Exel also wrote up two tutorials for Challenge Creator: Part1 and Part2. So if you are new at creating challenges, give it a try.
• Tijmen Stam proposes some changes to the public_transport scheme.
• On the talk-de list, Tom Pfeifer “complains” (translation) that many statues in parks don’t have toilets for disabled people – never mind statues in general don’t have any other toilets either.

Community

• A large American geo company suffers a sense of humour failure over a “What 3 Words” parody (warning – thread may not be considered safe for work). Another delightful suggestion to the problem of cross-cultural addressing was suggested on the talk list.
• A group of mappers challenge the mechanical edit policy as they feel treated wrong by the DWG.

Imports

• David MacNeil describes a building import he’s done in a part of Canada and hopes to get a permission and not a revert even though he did not follow the import guidelines.
• Lisa Mastaler from Geographic Institute of University of Heidelberg wants to import sidewalk information (by adding tags to streets) in Heidelberg. See also the discussion at Talk-de mailing list. (automatic translation)

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OpenCage Data has joined the OSMF as a corporate member.
• The OSMF devised a FOSS guideline (FOSS = Free and Open Source Software).
• Ilya Zverev wants to award special achievements and is therefore collecting ideas in our Wiki.

Humanitarian OSM

• Doctors without Borders reports about their current cooperation with Missing Maps on Idjwi, the island in the Kivu lake of DR Congo.
• An Article of Doctors without Borders exemplifies the usefulness of Remote Mapping for the work they do on site.

Maps

• MapQuest Open has been shut down on July 11th. More information can be found at their error tiles, on the Talk mailing list and at a tweet by Richard Fairhurst.
• HistOSM is a new map which visualizes historic data that is present in the OSM database.
• Geraldine Sarmiento plays with “sphere mapping” and tests it with different textures.
• In their OSM diary, tyr_asd showcases an updated map visualisation of how OSM node density has changed over the last 2 years.

switch2OSM

• Cuban tourism site nosotroscubaneamos (automatic translation) is now using OSM-based maps using the WordPress OSM plugin.
• The UK’s Department of Work and Pensions has a brand new map site (based on OpenStreetMap) to go with its brand new minister. Perhaps it’ll be useful for the last two incumbents of the job?

Open Data

• Aquaterra (a Belgian geographical services company) has updated its portfolio of digital maps to include some free OSM ones in vector format. (via mapshop_be).

Programming

• Node 4294967296 is the first node beyond unsigned 32 bit integer. It has been uploaded at the beginning of final match of European Football Championship.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• … the musical map map of Canada? Programmed by 15 year old Laef Kucheron.
• … OSM2VectorTiles? A set of vector tiles with world coverage which is easy to use and extend and with a size that fits on an usb stick. (via sfkeller)

Other “geo” things

• CartoDB has changed its name to CARTO. Please don’t confuse it with CartoCSS or OpenStreetMap Carto!
• geocacher.de presents Garmin’s newest outdoor devices, the Oregon 700 and the Oregon 750t. The Oregon 750t comes with an OSM map preinstalled. Both devices can be connected to a smartphone to fetch data from the internet (Weather information, Geocaches).
• The Technical University of Darmstadt develops a project named “Ui! Traffic” a smartphone app that helps, to regulate ones driving speed such, that one can keep driving through a sequence of green lights. The browser map uses OpenStreetMap as background.
• Toyota announced that they’ll start creating their own high precision maps with on-board camera and GPS only.
• Here is a Wikidata query to fetch all buildings that span borders between countries Wikidata has data on. To achieve the same with OSM data would involve downloading all borders and buildings nearby to it using Overpass API, then use another tool to figure out which ones intersect with those borders, unless you have all OSM data in PostGIS, then you can do a spatial query directly.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Trentino	Presentation of a hiking map done using OpenStreetMap data, Storo	15/07/2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第１回 北野天満宮	16/07/2016
Kyoto	京都オープンデータソン2016 vol.1（青蓮院、円山公園、粟田神社）	18/07/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	19/07/2016
Seattle	”’State of The Map US 2016”’	23/07/2016-25/07/2016
Tokyo	”’State of The Map Japan 2016”’	06/08/2016

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07/12/2016-07/18/2016

Mapping

• A discussion is ongoing on the German mailing list whether mobile shops (e.g. a mobile takeway) should be mapped on OpenStreetMap or not. If yes, then how can such shops be tagged. (automatic translation)
• The government of Ecuador has made available a TMS layer of aerial imagery for OpenStreetMap mappers so that they can use it to improve OSM’s data.
• #MapatonxGuapi generates geographical open data to control Malaria. Please join and start mapping. The project focuses on the layout of buildings, validation and creation of a complete transport network (roads) and identification of waterways and lakes of the Municipal head of Guapi, Cauca, Colombia.
• The tagging proposal for “education 2.0” by user Keder (as we reported in an earlier edition) is now open for voting.
• Maarten Deen wonders about the newly emerged tag waterway=fairway.
• Manohar Erikipati had a detailed look at the changes made by Maps.Me users and came to a conclusion that there are many edits which are constructive.

Community

• User Ziltoidium asked a question on behalf of a Spanish user in the German forum regarding the Berlin Wall. Subsequent activities revived the largely vanished Wall.
• Build your own OpenStreetMap Tile Server in Ubuntu 16.04, a step by step guide by Xiao Guoan.
• Marcos Costales publishes an introduction on how to setup your own tileserver (for Europe) with only 120GB of disc space.
• Our editor Jinal Foflia from weeklyOSM was interviewed as the “Mapper in the Spotlight”.
• Just in case anyone had forgotten – Field mapping is so much fun!
• As Pokémon Go is played in the real world, some were wondering about the source for the map data. Anita Lankinen asked about it on Spatineo’s blog and concludes it’s definitely not OSM based.
  Also in the OSM Talk mailing list, Pokémon Go and its consequences for OSM are the subject of discussion. One thing should be obvious though: Please don’t add Pokémon spots to OSM, unless you can add actually useful information about the POI itself.
• Since the OSM Forum admin, Lambertus has been very hard to reach, people in the community are wondering if there’s another forum admin who can be contacted instead of him?
• [1] Graphhopper is seeking help for coding as well as for translations.

Events

• “Welcome To Germany – Building Bridges” is the motto of the FOSS4G in Bonn from August 24th till 26th. Please register before August 12th to get early bird advantages.
• The International Open Data Conference, where the global community will discuss and debate about the future of open data, will happen in Madrid, Spain on October 6th and 7th, 2016. Pre-registration is open.

Humanitarian OSM

• If you want to help HOT mapping efforts by preprocessing aerial imagery while you’re on the road, you can now use Mapswipe, so mappers can focus on the areas where there are actual features to map and where the imagery is useful (no clouds, sufficient resolution). You can download data beforehand and work with it while offline. The tutorial shows some examples, so that the “mapping”, as it is called there, too, can be carried out correctly.

Software

• Gnome Maps suffers from the shutdown of MapQuest-Open. They are searching for alternatives which isn’t that easy as they have hardcoded URLs and they’d like to use maps that have English labels worldwide.

Programming

• Inspired by Pokémon Go John Oram describes how to create a map in Pokémon Go style with Tangram.
• Mapillary and Mapzen both report about their collaborative effort to match Mapillary data with OpenStreetMap with their tool called Meili. However, neither article evaluates the license-wise occurring problems due to OSM’s share-alike.
• Nicola introduced the EU supported project i-locate which is dedicated to develop open standards and tools for indoor tracking, mapping and routing. It thereby tries to closely cooperate with OpenStreetMap.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• … that Kartotherian is a vector tile server based on open-source Mapbox stack, developed by Wikimedia Foundation for use on Wikipedia.

Other “geo” things

• Bicycling presents a new bike option from the German startup COBI for offline navigation using OpenStreetMap data.
• The “Spiegel” reports (automatic translation) about changes of border rivers and the implications for the affected states.
• SuperGIS with its latest version helps the user to integrate free online maps like OpenStreetMap.
• Ian Grasshoff offers maps for 3D printing on Shapeways.
• The Faroe Islands would like to get Google StreetView, too. So they started a petition and their own SheepView.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Buenos Aires	Geobirras en Bellagamba	22/07/2016
Seattle	”’State of The Map US 2016”’	23/07/2016-25/07/2016
Cerro de Pasco	Mapping Raymi en Oxapampa	26/07/2016
Tokyo	”’State of The Map Japan 2016”’	06/08/2016
Ballerup	OpenStreetMap 12th Anniversary	13/08/2016

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07/19/2016-07/25/2016

Mapping

• BushmanK feels the need to explain the differences between tag values, value lists and separate keys.
• HermannstadtGeographer tries to argue for mapping cell towers in OSM. Though not every comment likes his reasoning.
• Kaxtillo points out (automatic translation) the availability of Strava data for OSM mapping and Joost Schouppe explains how he utilizes these GPS traces to map forest trails.
• Arun Ganesh summarizes the convention for multilingual name tagging in India.
• [1] Grant Slater shows a picture of his high precision OpenStreetMap survey kit.

Community

• The user HermannstadtGeographer announces the start of a laboratory for creating the Big Map of Sibiu , Romania and calls for volunteers.
• Steve Coast looks for new challenges by finding a private chatroom for GIS professionals and experts, including the most highly ranked luminaries for only 99$. Update: Shortly before our release Steve Coast cancelled the project even though the funding goal had been reached.
• Gregor MacLennan writes about Mapeo, a fork of the editor iD, which helps people in the Amazonas to map their neighbourhood.
• PRX_MPK explains Facebook’s results of automatic detection of streets from aerial imagery.
• Even though not mathematically correct or equivalent, Minh Nguyen’s compares our progressively ever more elaborately detailed mapping to fractals.
• Skippern presents his homemade Mapillary camera mount for his car.
• Mapillary reworked their user interface and the website’s viewer from ground up.
• More than 40 Videos from State of the Map US 2016 available now. From twitter feedback, recommendations goes to: Katherine Maher from Wikipedia, Wikipedia Maps, OSM Past & Future from Alan McConchie, Field Papers from Lindsey Jacks, Portable OSM and OpenStreetView from Navicat
• Clémence Maret (LaCroix)blogs about Vincent, Vice President of the French OpenStreetMap association and his penchant for hydrant mapping. (Automatictranslation.
• Maarten Deen believes that the formula 1 uses OSM data for their rainradar overlay. Several pictures confirm it’s true.

Imports

• Maning Sambale reports about the progress of importing buildings in Los Angeles.

Humanitarian OSM

• Earlier this month HOT launched the new Pacific Drone Imagery Dashboard (PacDID) project to support aerial imagery use in Pacific island communities which have experienced significant typhoon damage in recent years.

Maps

• Mapzen shows on a map, which of its produced extracts get downloaded most often.

Open Data

• After extensive research, the LabGIS, has compiled an extensive base of 587 links to free geographic data for viewing and download. This base is now open to the public and can be accessed by anyone.
• Jan Erik Solem underlines Mapillary’s commitment to OpenStreetMap and open data.

Licences

• On legal-talk there’s a thorough discussion, if the new hotel information and reservation feature in Maps.Me is compatible with the OSM license.

Software

• GSoC student, Zabot shows his latest extensions to OSM2World.
• A new version of Vespucci just arrived. However, due to problems with Google/Android, this version is only available via Github and not via Google’s play store.
• Jennings Anderson presents his tool collection to analyse contributions to OpenStreetMap. These tools are created for the work of his PhD thesis. More details can be found in his user diary.
• The editor OSM2Go got a patch to work with IDs larger than 32 bit.
• Anita Graser publishes a CKAN-Browser-Plugin for QGIS that allows to access the CKAN-data of “Deutsche Bahn”. (via @underdarkGIS)

Programming

• Rory McCann from the Geofabrik presents his port of the OSM-Carto style to vector tiles.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• … Daniel Hänßgen’s tactile maps? The German newspaper “Die Welt” reported on this work from 2012. (automatic translation). He also wrote a book based on his master’s thesis paperback book named “HaptOSM”.
• … the first “Welcome Map” for refugees in Paris? CitizenPost writes about students Blandine Richard of the Sorbonne university, wo programmed a multilingual (5) map with their friends and who would like to develop it further. (Automatic translation)

OSM in the media

• #MappingEcuador was a citizen initiative started in response to the earthquake disaster, where people from around the world added data to OpenStreetMap, that would help them not only in cases of natural disasters but also to get a better overview of the surrounding territory. Free maps were generated after the earthquake.
• Volunteers work together to map neighborhoods and tell their stories.

Other “geo” things

• Making the most of Open Data, a blogpost from Katrin Humal.
• Simon Kuestenmacher shows a map of all countries that share a border with exactly one other country.
• Finally with what3pokemon and what3ikea, there are coordinate systems that can be accepted by everyone!! (via @Anonymaps)

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Tokyo	”’State of The Map Japan 2016”’	06/08/2016
Amagasaki	みんなのサマーセミナー	06/08/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	08/08/2016
Essen	”’SommerCamp 2016”’	12/08/2016-14/08/2016
Ballerup	OpenStreetMap 12th Anniversary	13/08/2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第２回 特別編 サントリー京都ビール工場、恵解山古墳、ねじりまんぽ	20/08/2016
Bremen	Mappingparty POI im Hackerspace Bremen	20/08/2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint	20/08/2016-22/08/2016

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07/26/2016-08/01/2016

Mapping

• Portable OpenStreetMap (POSM) aims to provide an offline workflow for mapping by integrating with OpenMapKit, FieldPapers, JOSM and others. It enables volunteers to bring OSM data into the field on very small servers that host their own wireless local area network, allowing editing to occur without any access to the Internet at all.
• User geocodec compares the current indoor mapping of the Olympic venues in Rio de Janeiro in OSM and Google.
• The Osmose-QA tool is available with world wide coverage. (automatic translation)
• Coleman McCormick explains how to map OpenStreetMap data with your own captured videos.
• The Education 2.0 proposal in the wiki was rejected.

Community

• Benutzer -karlos- thinks that there should be an OSM Go, similar to Pokemon Go, to gain new mappers. He has some basic ideas, but is seeking for further input and help.
• Australia is moving north – Andy Mabbett asks what the impact of Australia’s plans to change national coordinates will be on OSM. A followup message has lots more detail.
• Lars Ingebrigtsen considers closing the Gmane archive due to hackers and lawyers costing him much time. Gmane mirrors a large amount of OSM mailing lists, too.
• As we reported in Issue 314, the Kickstarter campaign for a $99 “MapClub” started by Steve Coast was canceled. A blog post by Alex Mahrou talks about the reasons. Steve reacts to that post and the cancellation.
• Katrin Humal published a post about Celine Jacquins (mapeadora) work on OpenStreetMap, HOT, Mapillary and her love for Open Data.
• Martien Sch complains about a change a Mapbox employee made, which removed good, locally surveyed data to replace it with bad remote data. She is also not pleased with his answer on her changeset comment. (automatic translation)
• The Spanish OSM community also wants to create a local chapter.
• User marczoutendijk shares his learning from running the “Welcome-to-new-mappers” program – an initiative to help new mappers in The Netherlands get started. Having run the program for over a year, marczoutendijk explains why he will no longer continue the program.
• Michal Migurski explains in his blog why we don’t need “craft mappers” any longer, and why we should surrender those duties to Mapzen, Facebook and the like. Apparently “Facebook’s efforts here are a quantum leap in seeing from a distance” (though incidentally in Thailand their efforts had to be completely reverted and significant problems have been identified with their edits in Egypt). It’s worth reading the full text, if only for Joost Schouppe’s excellent comments.

Imports

• Chetan Gowda discovered a large amount of poor-quality mapping of streets in Egypt. The comments to his post suggest that this has been auto traced by Facebook.
• Meg Drouhard at the University of Washington wants to import sidewalks in Seattle. The discussion continues over the talk-us, tagging and imports lists.
• User schleuss compares building data across a few cities in the U.S and shows the impact of L.A. Building import project in making OSM data ‘building rich’.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Andy Allan explains how to help and test contributions to the Operations Working Group’s work. The OpenStreetMap blog also calls for participants that want to help.

Events

• State of the Map Japan is happening at Tokyo on August 6th. (automatic translation) The theme for this year is “relations” – fostering stronger partnerships between various users of the map. Participation is free of cost.

Humanitarian OSM

• You would like to see MapSwipe in your language? Then translate the few items in the spreadsheet.
• MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) urgently needs data for teams in Kinshasa that are battling the yellow fever outbreak. The most recent tasks are #2043 and #2045.

Maps

• Mateusz Konieczny compares OSM carto and other map styles with the aim to improve the style. Further comparisons are to follow.
• [1] OpenRouteService, the first routing service based on OpenStreetMap, now provides routing services for North and South America including all the main routing profiles, e.g. for car, pedestrian, heavy vehicles, bikes – the latter with several options from MTB, road bike to safest bike route etc.

switch2OSM

• Mishari Muqbil suspects that Uber is using OSM data. Grant Slater is waiting for a response. Maybe someone who was at the SOTM US Social Sponsored by Uber would know?

Software

• MapSurfer.NET has published a v.2.5 (beta).

Programming

• Anand Thakker has launched a new project. A promising approach: “A pipeline to simplify building a set of training data for aerial-imagery- and OpenStreetMap- based machine learning. The idea is to use OSM QA Tiles to generate “ground truth” images where each color represents some category derived from OSM features. Being map tiles, it’s then pretty easy to match these up with the desired input imagery.”
• Marcos Dione explains how he’s automatically extracting the centerline of riverbanks.
• Mapbox’ lawyer approaches the OSM2Vectortiles project. Following accusations regarding authorship of the project’s PBF files there now seems to be a problem with the BSD-licensed “MapBox Streets Style”.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• … MapGive, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Humanitarian Information Unit, provides a step-by-step guide to help volunteers get started with mapping and contribute to humanitarian initiatives?
• … want to explore the possibilities of OsmAnd on your travels? Matthias Grote from heise Download Team succinctly sums up the most important functions of this versatile OSM app.
• .. Go Map for iOS? Matthijs Melissen shares his personal experience of how the mobile editor has minimized the chance of user errors and made mapping easy.
• … the many approaches to include images in UMAP? Please attempt to read the whole thread.

OSM in the media

• José Sierra (Levante el Marcantil Valenciano) reports about the education of geo experts in Valencia focused on “OSM / HOT”. (Automatic translation).

Other “geo” things

• Troy Lambert explains how maps are used to share information in a visual and engaging manner.
• Apparently Apple has opened a secret development office for Apple Maps in Berlin and recruited developers that were also based in Berlin for Here Maps.
• Brian McClendon writes on Uber’s blog about the mapping efforts that Uber are making, including launching mapping cars on the roads of the U.S.
• The UN OpenGIS Initiative is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations. The logo contest invites the artistic minds in the community to develop the official logo of the UN OpenGIS initiative. Deadline – August 31st, 2016
• Gonzalo Ciruelos tries to mathematically determines the roundness of countries with details of the dataset used, algorithm and the code implementation.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Amagasaki	みんなのサマーセミナー	06/08/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	08/08/2016
Essen	SommerCamp 2016	12/08/2016-14/08/2016
Ballerup	OpenStreetMap 12th Anniversary	13/08/2016
Posadas	Segunda Reunión Regional de Maperos OpenStreetMap	13/08/2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第２回 特別編 サントリー京都ビール工場、恵解山古墳、ねじりまんぽ	20/08/2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint	20/08/2016-22/08/2016
Derby	Derby	23/08/2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016	24/08/2016-26/08/2016

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08/02/2016-08/08/2016

Mapping

• The University of Washington wants to import sidewalks into OSM. They therefore try to discuss a new tagging scheme presented in a proposal that is supposed to expand upon existing tagging schemes. There’s plenty of criticism on the list, and only limited response to that, but there is more discussion on the wiki.
• The quarterly task “schools” in UK continues – the “dramatic jump in relations” was Christian Ledermann’s “find a school near you and map it” tool.
• Manohar from Mapbox writes about adding turn restrictions in Canada and shares the work-flow used for it.

Community

• We are proud to announce the new OSM Latin America Logo. Big thanks to @mapanauta and @jbtschopp
• Karito Tenorio Palomino and the weeklyOSM editor Edith Quispe trained 100 high school girls in an OpenStreetMap workshop conducted at the Women in Science Camp 2016. The participants were introduced to OSM, how to contribute using iD/JOSM editors and also shared project ideas to work on.
• OpenCageData interviewed Namitala Gertrude about OpenStreetMap in Zambia.
• A map showing the distribution of contributors who are active in the OSMLatam-telegram-group.
• Tom Lee (working at Mapbox) writes down his thoughts on Mike Migurski’s somewhat incendiary blog post.
• weeklyOSM has reported previously on the mapping activities of the Irish OSM group involving among others Dacor in Lesotho. Now the activities are honored by a Mapping Party in the Dublin embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho.
• Someone’s created a Slack channel for OpenHistoricalMap. The splitting of communications between Mailing Lists Forum, Twitter, Telegram groups and now even Slack makes it more increasingly difficult for beginners and also for weeklyOSM to keep track.
• Martijn van Exel initiates efforts to improve OSM data in Idaho by (in Michal Migurski’s phrase) “craft” mappers. Locally produced and surveyed data is available to work on improving the area on OSM.
• Thomas (malenki) announced a “timeout” from OpenStreetMap activities. So long and thanks for all the mapping!

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSM Awards is calling for nominees in six categories – Core Systems, Innovation, Writing, Mapping, Community and the Ulf Möller Memorial Award. The awards will be presented at State of The Map conference (SOTM) 2016. The Source code of the website is open for improvements and translation.

Events

• Users SB79 reminds everyone about the Elbe-Labe-Meeting that takes place from 07th until 09th of October in Dresden (Germany).
• INTERGEO, a trade fair for Geodesy and Geoinformatics takes place in Hamburg between 11th-13th October.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Guardian reports about MapSwipe, and almost (but not quite) manages to avoid mentioning Pokémon Go in the article.
• Ann Mei Chang reports about the American initiative against the spread of malaria. For an effective defence, good maps are essential. The OSM Group YouthMappers contributes as an example in Mozambique.

Maps

• The well known guides lonely planet launch an app with offline maps using Mapbox’s mobile SDK.
• The desktop app, GNOME Maps, stopped working when MapQuest discontinued unrestricted tile access to their maps. Mapbox has now stepped in as the data provider for GNOME Maps (one of the most importantant features desired apparently was Latin alphabet “Western” names, even of places not natively using the Latin alphabet).
• Walter Nordmann complains that for weeks the German-French border is damaged near Luxembourg in UMAP. He thinks it looks like “nobody cares“.

switch2OSM

• The information portal Marine Traffic now uses OpenStreetMap to visualize the recent locations of the vessels. (Via twitter)

Licences

• Due to the discussion about the replicas of the map style Mapbox Streets (in JSON format of Mapbox GL) between Mapbox and the OSM2Vectortiles project. Steve Gifford writes about Mapbox GL Style Sheets of the WhirlyGlobe toolkit for version 2.5. Styled Layer Descriptor format support is coming soon. As Steve says: “Not as cool, but a nice safe OGC standard.”

Programming

• Door2Door, a Berlin based startup working in the area of Public Transport is hiring for the position of a GIS Software Developer.
• Pepijn Schoen describes how he created a Docker container to display on a map the routes he has travelled by railway.

Releases

provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• … the Atlas of Countries That Don’t Exist by Nick Middleton. The book is also published in Italian, Spanish, French and newly in German. A very elaborate made book not only for bibliophile geographers.

Other “geo” things

• The online journal NOSOLOSIG is pubilshed, the recent edition has an essay on the origin of the term “Cartography” (automatic translation) and a how-to to use Stamens (terrain watercolor or toner) in gvSIG.
• Uber invested US$ 500 million in a mapping project to reduce its dependence on Google Maps and to prepare for autonomous driving.
• [1] The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology presented the interactive web app “PHIVOLCS faultfinder” to use different maps (including OSM) to display fault lines in the Philippines.
• AJ Dellinger reported about the research of Prof. Guevara Noubir of Northeastern University in Boston, where an application could use the accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass to track location without being granted access by the user via the typical location permissions process.
• Simon Mikkelsen writes about the Ricoh Theta S spherical camera in the context of Mapillary.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Wien	56. Wiener Stammtisch	11/08/2016
Zurich	Stammtisch Zürich	11/08/2016
Ballerup	OpenStreetMap 12th Anniversary	13/08/2016
Posadas	Segunda Reunión Regional de Maperos OpenStreetMap	13/08/2016
London	OSM anniversary BBQ	13/08/2016
Cochabamba	OpenStreetMap: Nuevas Tecnologías e Investigación en Ciencias Sociales	19/08/2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第２回 特別編 サントリー京都ビール工場、恵解山古墳、ねじりまんぽ	20/08/2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint	20/08/2016-22/08/2016

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08/09/2016-08/15/2016

Mapping

• On talk-de, Nikhil Prabhakar from Mapbox outlines a proposal to map turn restrictions and exit & destination tags remotely. Some people reply to the thread; the rest of OSM reaches for the popcorn :)The plan is to start in Stuttgart (almost no Mapillary images), Wolfsburg and Berlin (the homes of Daimler, Porsche, VW, and allegedly someone else). Mapbox is also doing something similar in Canada.
• Mapbox Peru team led a Mapillary event at Ayacucho, Huamanga during which over 8000 photos were captured while walking, biking and driving.
• @Mapeadora reports on an artistic project based on the memory of missing persons in Michoacán: “El caminar y los mapas de la memoria” (automatic translation) based on various audiovisual techniques, where a map of the journeys made in the State of Michoacan used georeferenced taking pictures using #Mapillary.
• There’s discussion on talk-gb about a mapper editing boundaries around the East Midlands of England (specifically “unparished areas”, where there’s no local authority at admin level 10). There has also been considerable criticism of his “automated responses” to changeset discussion comments.
• Martijn van Exel writes in his user blog about the newly restarted OpenStreetView (OSV) – now looked after by Telenav. Martijn points out that the OSV app can retrieve data from the bus systems of the car for better geo-referencing using the OBD2 interface. Unlike Mapillary, the front and back end are both free software. This issue is still open, however… we invite you to collaborate with pictures and code!
• Pokemon Go works as a perfect excuse while collecting ref points for new #OpenStreetMap aerial imagery correction, Grant Slater says.

Community

• User Alan Bragg writes about the celebrations at New Hampshire for OSM’s 12th birthday.
• In an interview with OpenCage Data, Pekka Sarkola talks about the OSM community in Finland including their current work and challenges they face.
• Last week, OpenStreetMap turned 12 with birthday celebrations across the world at Kigali, Dublin, Copenhagen, Moscow, New Hampshire, London, Bangalore, Essen, Teyateyaneng and Tunis.
• Lambertus is the only person with full admin rights for the OSM forum and he is apparently not available. Therefore, there is discussion on the talk mailing list to consider setting up a new forum. Some of the concerns discussed were preserving the existing data.
• Pascal Neis’s How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap? now has a heatmap Calendar too!

Imports

• The Data Working Group (DWG) has reverted Facebook’s undiscussed import of poor quality autorecognized streets in Egypt. See also the discussion on one of the reverted changesets.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The DWG (Data Working Group) is looking for English to Chinese translation help.
• Sven Geggus thinks that because membership@osmfoundation.org uses Google’s email services and rejects emails from his server as “spam”, it might be a reason to resign from OSMF . (automatic translation)

Events

• The BarCamp Takoradi 2016 will take place on 27th August 2016 in Takoradi, Ghana at a venue that is yet to be decided. The theme for this year is “Professionalism in entertainment and entrepreneurship”.

Humanitarian OSM

• Ramani Huria has worked with Garmin & Mapillary to conduct street view mapping of Dar es Salaam using Mapillary. This street view imagery can be used in numerous ways, including to take virtual walks & explore landmarks, map key points of interest, and survey solutions.

Maps

• Markus Reuter from Netzpolitik.org introduces an OpenStreetMap project Surveillance under Surveillance. It is an interactive map of all the surveillance cameras mapped so far.
• A free Mapbox GL basemap, OSM liberty from OpenStreetMap, with complete liberty to use and self host. It is a fork of OSM Bright based on free data sources with a mission for a clear good looking design for the everyday user.
• Stamen launched a worldwide version of the OSM-based Terrain map. The repo is public and Stamen welcomes collaborators.
• If a client that uses the tile servers used for OSM’s “standard” map style (i.e. tile.openstreetmap.org etc.), and doesn’t send an HTTP referrer, it will operate with reduced priority in the future, as Paul Norman announced on the dev mailing list. It is done to reduce the overloading of those servers. The overloading was caused inter alia, by FastPokeMap.
• Lukas Martinelli asks what Antarctica really looks like? That’s why Martin Raifer points to an old article (by Christoph Hormann).

switch2OSM

• One of the famous long distance walks in Belgium now uses OpenStreetMap.
• Nick Doiron discovered an OpenStreetMap map in Dubai.
• In Gdansk and Olsztyn one can follow the position of the Tram on an OSM based map.

Open Data

• Christoph Hormann analyzed the record ALOS AW3D30 of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. ALOS AW3D30 is a global digital elevation model under a free license.
• Michael Hörz from Goethe-Institut sums up the recent Open Data discussion in Germany. Worth mentioning here is the Mapnificent project on OSM base.
• IBM announces it’s collaboration with Mapbox to bring geospatial analysis or “mapping” to business users by integrating it into Watson Analytics and thereby opening up a new level of analytics to all.

Licences

• Tobin Bradley wrote his personal take about the dispute between Mapbox and OSM2Vectortiles.

Software

• User -karlos- extended his plans from OSM Go (we reported) to OSM Earth .

Programming

• Mapzen elaborates about its routing service Valhalla and how it provides country-specific access restrictions for pedestrians. For this, the library Mjolnir is used to create tiled routing data.
• Geofabrik has revised its range of free shapefiles. In a transition phase, both versions are offered, but later only the new one will be. The free shapefiles have been enhanced to include cycling and walking routes.
• Users Zabot who is working under the Google Summer of Code writes about how OSM2World now dominates reflections on building windows.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist

Did you know …

• Jochen Topf blogs about the latest changes made to the taginfo ‘projects’ feature, also encouraging users to add their projects to the page.

Other “geo” things

• Astro Digital won first place in the NGA Maps Actually Hackathon this weekend. They analyzed thousands of satellite images to automatically detect missing buildings in OpenStreetMap (OSM).
• The Washington Post explains that “Google Maps did not ‘delete’ Palestine — but it does impact how you see it.”
• Adrian Lobe from the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung suggests, that the use of Google Maps “areas of interest” would not always show the truth and he suspects that Google manipulates and nudges its users imperceptibly. (automatic translation)
• Google encourages its users to add local knowledge of their surroundings, such as opening hours, noise levels, etc, to help provide better maps.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Cochabamba	OpenStreetMap: Nuevas Tecnologías e Investigación en Ciencias Sociales	19/08/2016
Kyoto	京都国宝・浪漫マッピングパーティ：第２回 特別編 サントリー京都ビール工場、恵解山古墳、ねじりまんぽ	20/08/2016
Derby	Derby	23/08/2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016	24/08/2016-26/08/2016
Duitama	Toma de trazas GPX transporte Público Duitama	25/08/2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint Part II	27/08/2016-28/08/2016
Kanagawa	武蔵新城マッピングパーティー 新城テラス	27/08/2016
Aiglun	Opération libre	27/08/2016-28/08/2016

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08/16/2016-08/22/2016

About us

• When reporting on OpenStreetView last week we made a mistake. Thank you Jochen for pointing it out.

Mapping

• Voting on the proposed tag healthcare=midwife started on August 22nd and closes on September 5th.
• More on the ‘MAPS.ME’ – a new application version is rolled out by them which includes an extra “name:<language>” key (also a Github isssue is filed on the same).
• In a blog post, Seth Fitzsimmons explains the technical details of ‘Portable OSM’.
• Joost Schouppe reported about ‘open’ road data in Flanders (Belgium) and how it can be used in OpenStreetMap.
• Mapbox mapping employees have lately been looking at possibly “suspicious” change sets. User manoharuss asks in his blog about how long it is suggested to wait for an answer in the changeset discussions. His colleague nammala listed questionable changesets in his user’s blog on OpenStreetMap.
• Christian Quest wrote a bash script that allows him to copy and georeference a Linux-mounted iPhone’s Mapillary images via exif data to use them directly in JOSM before uploading.

Community

• Escada interviews Jorieke Vyncke from Belgium, as this month’s “Mapper of the Month”.
• “OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads” is the subject of Laura O’Gradys message on the Canadian OSM talk mailing list describing how communication stopped between her a “local craft mapper” and a “robot Mapper”. Laura refers in her e-mail explicitly to the blog post OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads from Jonathan Crowe who qualifies and discusses the statements of Migurski.

Imports

• This Minneapolis Maptime announcement caused a certain amount of amusement in some quarters (” … techniques bringing in large open source datasets to Open Street Map … No previous Open Street Map experience is necessary”). However Minneapolis did get 3 new local users last week, and a few more further afield.
• The OSM versus TIGER Battle Grid has been resurrected, now with Stamen tiles in the background. The Battle Grid points out areas where recent USA Census TIGER data is different from OSM data. This usually means OSM data needs to be updated (but sometimes it means TIGER is worse than OSM). If you have not tried it, go to http://184.73.220.107/battlegrid and solve a few squares.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Following some issues with its current bank, OSMF is on the look out for an alternate bank which will provide the board more flexibility in terms of multiple currencies and international access. Frederik Ramm asks for advice.

Events

• The State of the Map will host a social event for the participants of the conference on September 24th.
• On Friday, 26 August 2016 an interesting Mapathon will take place in Colombia from 08:00 AM to 12:15 PM. Targets among others are highway=tertiary. This Mapathon is aimed at a group of Spanish speaking students which are part of YouthMappers, students from Universities in Colombia and the general Colombian OSM community. There are awards up for grabs (including field trips and tablets) in multiple categories.

Maps

• [1] Lukas Martinelli published osm-activity, a global heat map of OpenStreetMap where one can see the number of changes made to OSM in each tile dating back to 2008. The sources are available on Github. Lukas Martinelli says: “When you click on a region a timeline is displayed and you can see imports and long-term trends.”
• Opentopomap doesn’t update anymore? Stefan Erhardt is looking for help. (automatic translation)
• The New Cloud Atlas is a special map for telecommunications infrastructure presented by Tim Waters on the talk mailing list and in his blog.
• Paul Norman asks how “handling the need to do both cartographic and technical review”.

switch2OSM

• ImmobilienScout24 a German property website shows data from Wheelmap showing wheelchair suitability of nearby POI. Data are provided by Sozialhelden and thus from OSM. However, the base map is still the one from a competing map provider.

Licences

• Due to the confusion about Mapbox vector styles, Simon Poole asked Mapbox about 2 weeks ago to clarify their licences.

Software

• Mapbox has now acquired Human, a company which developed an app focusing on activity tracking.
• The latest version (6.3.2) of Maps.me offers several improvements, such as considering gradients in bicycle routing, and a clearer map layout.
• The OsmAnd developers work on a new rendering engine with multi-threading.

Programming

• Mapz provides two job vacancies for “people with a penchant for OpenStreetMap”.
• Frederik Ramm proposed in a pull request on GitHub to reduce the maximum size of change sets from 50,000 to 10,000 objects. He received only affirmative responses.
• Want to install Overpass yourself? It’s really not that difficult
• If the indexes of your PostgreSQL database are too large, may be pgindexrebuild by Rory McCann can help.
• Weather Decision Technologies released on Github a Java library for processing Mapbox vector tiles under the Apache License.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the correct number of braces for URLs in uMap popups?
• … OSM Algeria published the OSM-development in the capital Algiers from 2008 until today?
• … the WebGL Globe for visualizing spatial data? There is also a live demo.
• … the users blocked from editing OSM are listed with details of duration and reason?

Other “geo” things

• The Toronto Public Library exhibits visually stunning maps from the 15th through the 19th centuries.
• The International Business Times explains once again, why Google Maps doesn’t display reliable geospatial information in Chinese territory.
• Why Apple Maps was a disaster for Apple? Because the map in Cupertino was “pretty darn good”, not the case for other locations. This incident led to a big change for the company.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016	24.08.2016-26.08.2016
Cantón Sarapiquí	Evento de Mapeo Ciudadano en Puerto Viejo	25.08.2016
Duitama	Toma de trazas GPX transporte Público Duitama	25.08.2016
Bogotá	Mapatón de Vías Terciarias	26.08.2016
São Paulo	Workshop de introdução ao OpenStreetMap	26.08.2016
Bonn	FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint Part II	27.08.2016-28.08.2016
Kanagawa	武蔵新城マッピングパーティー 新城テラス	27.08.2016
Aiglun	Opération libre	27.08.2016-28.08.2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	30.08.2016
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	30.08.2016
Düsseldorf	Stammtisch	31.08.2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	05.09.2016
Rostock	OSM Stammtisch Rostock	06.09.2016

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08/23/2016-08/29/2016

Mapping

• Sometimes the notes left by the Navmii users (supposedly to help OSM mappers improve the map) are not very helpful.
• All you OpenStreetMappers storing images in Mapillary? Guess what — HERE Maps is going to use them to update their maps too!
• A ‘totally confused’ mapper starts a lengthy discussion on the tagging list on how to tag freeway lanes approaching an exit.
• Marc Zoutendijk points out an interesting problem in tagging restaurants which offer multiple cuisines. How does one add multiple values to the cuisine key?
• The tagging mailing list discussed whether and how speed limits (when there is actually no limit) should be tagged.
• Martin Koppenhoefer wonders why name=* tag is used for natural=cave_entrance and suggests using cave:name = * instead.
• The official aerial imagery of canton Basel-Stadt (Switzerland), taken in April 2015, is now available for mapping at Mapproxy service of Swiss OSM Association.
• Kreuzschnabel gives an example why “armchair” mapping via seemingly good Bing imagery still needs attention in order not to impair our data. (automatic translation
• Nammala outlines a way of using Mapillary data to keep OSM turn restrictions up to date.

Community

• Falk (if you’re not familiar, think “the German Rand-McNally or Bartholomew”) introduced (automatic translation) their new outdoor navigation device Tiger Blu. It has a Bluetooth interface and offers a range of OSM-based maps covering 31 European countries or regions via Falk Activity Manager.
• OpenSnowMap adds a tile usage policy in plenty of time to prepare for the northern-hemisphere winter.
• In the city of Duitama, Colombia, a group of OSM enthusiasts collected GPS traces for all bus routes in the city.

Imports

• User MiroJanosik has written a diary entry about importing the conscription numbers (a central-European system of house numbers) of one town from cadastre to OSM and then verifying by survey.
• Encoding coordinates by combining several words is nothing new. In Nigeria it is already happens, said at least the one who has imported it into OSM.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Martijn van Exel shares the Corporate Membership’s final draft for review in the OSMF-talk mailing list.

Events

• The videos from FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn are now available.
• State of the Map Latam (25th-27th of November in São Paulo, Brasil), the annual conference for the Latin America OSM community, invites proposals for talks and workshops. Deadline for submission is September 25th. There are scholarships available and attendance is free.
• At FOSS4Gbe (the Belgian edition of FOSS4G), there will be an OSM booth. OSMF is looking for interested volunteers to staff the booth.

Humanitarian OSM

• For his PhD thesis, Chul Hyun Park has interviewed members from HOT on their roles as volunteers in crisis management.
• Doctors Without Borders introduces a mobile app called MapSwipe to enable smart phone users to help map remote regions. MapSwipe is a part of the larger Missing Maps project.
• In wake of the recent earthquakes in Italy, European Space Imaging and Planetek Italia provided high-resolution satellite imagery to HOT to map the damaged infrastructure. To support those concerned, volunteers in Italy created a task to help.

Maps

• Laser Atelier created this detailed laser engraved paper map of Tokyo with OSM data.

switch2OSM

• Marine Scotland (the Scottish Government department) use OpenStreetMap as their default base map in their National Marine Plan Interactive website. This layer integrates bathymetry data with OSM land data and is provided by Oceanwise, a British company providing Marine GIS services.

Licences

• Mozilla “breathes a petition of fire” at EU copyright laws, reports the Register. Mozilla Foundation says: “We need to build into the law flexibility, through a UGC exception and a clause like an open norm, fair dealing, or fair use, to empower everyday people to shape culture and conversations online and keep the Internet awesome.”
• Simon Poole asks for feedback on the updated privacy policy for OSMF before it is decided by the board as an official policy.

Software

• Mapbox opens up access to the Mapbox Studio dataset editor, a tool for creating and editing geospatial data in your browser.
• The next version (0.5.4) of the Python Overpass API wrapper is now available.
• Federico has developed a Telegram bot, named SearchAroundBot, for searching and editing POIs on OSM. He also invites people to make suggestions of any improvements they’d like to see.

Programming

• [1] Paul Norman did an experiment with ClearTables, generating vector tiles on his own and with client-side rendering using Tangram. He also published a demo site.
• A summary of Michael Zangl’s work on JOSM as a part of Google Summer of Code 2016
• Hartmut Holzgraefe summarizes his latest work on improving his Maposmatic instance.
• Kamalpreet Kaur Grewal from India has sent out an email to the dev mailing list about his interest in contributing to ‘Detection of Vandalism’ project.
• Tom MacWright presents the work results of the iD developers, in modularizing the editor’s code. This will allow modules to be written for iD in the future.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See free software.

Did you know …

• … that you could generate maps like the ones on the back page of fantasy novels?
• … the Import Guidelines which apply for all imports and include the constraint to use a dedicated account for imports?
• … these “live” public transport maps (showing where buses actually are), reported by Streckensucher – VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg); Alexander Matheisen – Transit Visualization Client – Travic and Jochen – ÖPNV in Ulm.

OSM in the media

• Arnulf Christl, co-organizer of the Bonn FOSS4G, stated in an interview in Bonner-General Anzeiger the meaning of open source systems for geographical information. The basis for the data required for this is OpenStreetMap. (automatic translation)

Other “geo” things

• The (independent) Google Earth blog speculates that Google is threatened by a $15 million penalty due to Indo-Bangladeshi border issues including numerous unanswered enclaves contradicting Indian legislation. These enclaves still show up on Google Maps. OSM has clarified this long ago.
• ‘Migrations in Motion’, an animated map, shows how different species in North America will migrate as a result of climate change.
• With Uber planning to roll out self-driving cars, there is need for better maps and navigation technology to overcome dependence on communication with the rider.
• The historic digital maps by Map Edinburgh’s Social History (MESH) project blends the picture of contemporary Edinburgh provided by OpenStreetMap with historical geological and cartographic data.
• German radio station Deutschlandradio Kultur discussed (translation) the impact of digitalisation and cross-linkage on general mapping procedures and map usage, emphasizing the growing importance of dynamic, use-oriented mapping based on movement profiling over merely descriptive maps.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	05/09/2016
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon	06/09/2016
Stockholm	Mapathon and Wiki Loves Monuments meetup	11/09/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	13/09/2016
Zaragoza	OpenStreetMap Spain Association at the Wikimedia-ES conference	16/09/2016
Zaragoza	Spanish 10th anniversary mapping party	17/09/2016

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Long Term Dates

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Brussels	HOT Summit 2016	22/09/2016
Brussels	HOT Summit Missing Maps Mapathon	22/09/2016
Brussels	State of the Map 2016	23/09/2016-26/09/2016
Metro Manila	State of the Map Asia 2016	01/10/2016-02/10/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	03/10/2016
Dresden	Elbe-Labe-Meeting	08/10/2016-09/10/2016
Berlin	Hack Weekend	15/10/2016-16/10/2016
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	29/10/2016-30/10/2016
Sao Paulo	State of the Map Latam 2016	25/11/2016-27/11/2016

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08/30/2016-09/05/2016

About us

• We were asked after publishing issue 319 why MAPS.ME was marked as non-free software. MAPS.ME is not free software because it contains Code2000 font which is a shareware. We mark a software as free software if all its parts are free software as defined by Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Mapping

• Johan Gyllenspetz of Mapillary, tweets about their new filter function for traffic signs.
• Jochen Topf blogs about a service that Martin Raifer created to show the history of tags in nice graphs. Some more background in a diary entry from Martin. Matthijs Melissen has already used this to find some interesting statistics.
• On the Tagging mailing list, Martin Koppenhaofer initiates a discussion on the tagging of the BND (the German intelligence service) in Bad Aibling. He points out that landuse = military doesn’t fit and suggests alternatives.
• Swiss OSM community discusses, in the Talk-ch mailing list, whether they should map postal code polygons (as boundary relations) similar to what happened in Germany.
• User Nammala from Mapbox updates about progress of reviewing navigation data in Germany in the OSM forum and diary.

Community

• This year, for the first time in history of OpenStreetMap, there is a preparation for the OpenStreetMap Awards, they will be presented this September at the State of the Map 2016 in Brussels. Don’t forget to vote for your favourites! Anyone who is registered at OSM may participate. So you are! Please vote.
• On the OSM-Talk mailing list, Matthijs Melissa proposed to replace the wiki page Map Features with an automatically generated version from Taginfo.
• Martin Raifer has visualized the information of anonymized and simplified log-files of OSMF Tileserver provided by the OSMF.

Imports

• Greg shares his idea to import trigonometric points in OSM in the Talk-gb mailing list.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Brian Prangle communicates in the talk-GB mailing list informing that the statutes of the OpenStreetMap UK Community Interest Company has been reviewed by solicitors.

Events

• Geofabrik invites everyone to be a part of the hack weekend on 29th and 30th October in Karlsruhe.
• We are going to have two continental State of the Map conferences: in Asia and Latin America.
  • The State of the Map Asia will take place in Manila, Philippines, on October 1st and 2nd. The program schedule will be published soon.
  • São Paulo, Brazil, will host the State of the Map Latam from November 25th to 27th. The call for talks, workshops and working groups is still open: submit yours before September 25th! The event accepts activities in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
• SB 79 advertises the Elbe-Labe Meeting which takes place from October 7th to 9th in Dresden. Register before September 14 to get a T-shirt.

Humanitarian OSM

• Submit your scholarship application for SotM Asia.
• Microsoft and Mapzen have built a Augmented reality app which is a navigation system for visually impaired people. It was presented at the SotM-US as well.
• The Newton hurricane struck the area of Southern California. Tasking Manager has been made to facilitate mapping by the community. The red zone is the priority area. The whole area is poorly mapped, so the challenge is strong! Please help map!
• Mapswipe was probably used with success in Myanmar.

Maps

• [1] The Austrian Taxi company Bruckbacher advertises its regional knowledge and therefore painted (automatic translation) a huge OSM map on one of its cars.
• Andy Allan runs his map services (OpenCycleMap, Transport map) under the label Thunderforest. These services are converted to API keys (instead of the previous HTTP Referrer).
• The Guardian published an interesting quiz – ‘Can you identify the world cities from their running heat-maps?”. Try it.

switch2OSM

• The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, is using OpenStreetMap in their crowdsourcing attempt of getting to know the real reach of their Emergency population warning system, Jan Ainali told us. (automatic translation)

Software

• E-Healths-COM reported about the project Carus-Navigator by a group of students from Dresdner Marie-Curie-Gymnasium. The grounds of the Uni-Klinik Carl Gustav Carus were mapped via OSM and is now available as an app and online as routable accessible location map.
• The Overpass API v0.7.53 release comes with a bundle of useful improvements with changes in database and interface, coupled with other useful changes.

Programming

• Yves asks in the Dev mailing list, “Along with minutely diffs, I wonder if expired tiles lists would be something to be shared”. Andy Allan justified why that does not happen.
• Due to high load on the OSMF tile server, requests without HTTP-Referrer are considered as low-priority processes (that is too slow for interactive maps). This happens even if you include the tiles over HTTP on an HTTPS page,.
• Petr Pridall of Klokan Technologies, the project Tileserver GL. This is a tile server written in Node.js that uses Mapbox GL Native (C and OpenGL).
• The Irish Overpass API instance is back again.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the list of OSM-based services?
• … the “OSM Truck QA Map – Missing maxheight tags in OpenStreetMap“? The corresponding wikipage has the details.

Other “geo” things

• IEEE Spectrum reports a new approach of the University of Texas to reach GPS centimeter accuracy with the help of ground stations.
• Arthur Brenaut has published on github a nice game to locate cities. The game has the potential for development.
• Here, which belongs to Audi, BMW and Daimler, is “open to for new investors”, the German IT Blog Heise-Online says. (automatic translation) Golem, an other IT news blog suspects two investors: MS and Amazon. (automatic translation)
• Network World shows a map by our competitor visualizing which countries in the world have open source laws.
• PlaneMad explains why the line on the ground given at the Greenwich Royal Observatory is about 100 metres off zero longitude today.
• An Icelandic tourist drew this map on the envelope instead of an address. The postal service delivered!

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Stuttgart	Stammtisch	07/09/2016
München	Stammtisch München	08/09/2016
Berlin	99. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	08/09/2016
Berlin	OSM-JOSM-Workshop	10/09/2016
Stockholm	Mapathon and Wiki Loves Monuments meetup	11/09/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	13/09/2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	13/09/2016
Zaragoza	OpenStreetMap Spain Association at the Wikimedia-ES conference	16/09/2016
Zaragoza	Spanish 10th anniversary mapping party	17/09/2016
Rennes	Rencontres mensuelles	19/09/2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	20/09/2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	20/09/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	20/09/2016
Edinburgh	Edinburgh	20/09/2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	20/09/2016
Helsinki	HOT @ SPR in Helsinki	21/09/2016
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	21/09/2016
Brussels	HOT Summit Missing Maps Mapathon	22/09/2016
Brussels	HOT Summit 2016	22/09/2016
Brussels	State of the Map 2016	23/09/2016-26/09/2016

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09/06/2016-09/12/2016

About us

• Do you wish to join the diverse weeklyOSM team or start weeklyOSM in your language? Or are you just curious to know how weeklyOSM works? If so, we’d be delighted to see you at our workshop at SotM. If you look at this map of where weeklyosm is currently produced in, you can see that we are looking for YOU!

Mapping

• The Mapbox team now intends to focus on OSM data in French cities. In his English blog BharataHS summarizes his questions to understand French road rules.
• User BushmanK explains on why he believes that the healthcare=midwife is a poorly designed tag.
• Mountaineer’s Mailbox has been proposed as a new value for the man_made tag. The proposal was also discussed on the Tagging mailing list.
• LeTopographeFou suggests an automated correction of typo errors in tag values. To begin with, he has started a voting on typos tunnel = building_passage in the wiki.
• On the talk-GB, the British community discusses its upcoming quarterly project. Proposals range from opening hours on speed limits to food hygiene ratings. In preparation for these tasks, interesting analysis tools are used.
• User mapmeld writes a dairy about transliterating place names around the world, with an open source crowdsourcing tool called CityNamer. This project uses OSM data and account details, but does not save edits yet.

Community

• Gmane website has been off the air for a few weeks, Martin writes about reviving this web interface and get it working.
• OSM Awards 2016 are the community awards. Have you voted for your favourites in the six categories? The voting ends on September 22nd. Frederik Ramm explained (automatic translation) in the forum why you should vote. Nakaner presents his view point on the candidates in his user diary.
• User PeWu from Poland presents OSM History Viewer – a tool to view the history of OSM nodes, ways and relations. In his post in the OpenStreetMap Forum he added some nice examples. (Example1, Example2). The source code and the examples are available on Github.
• Mapper of the month, SomeoneElse, shares his OSM journey so far and his upcoming work.
• The Saarländischer Rundfunk, a German TV channel, broadcasted an excellent video (start playing from 16:39 min) by Herbert Mangold on “Mapping with OSM”. This video talks about Mundraub, an OSM based map, how mapping efforts assist in fighting catastrophes like the Ebola crisis in Africa and the importance of local knowledge. Few members of the weeklyOSM team have also been featured in the video!
• There is a survey aimed at OSM users who edit in Argentina, in order to learn more about what they think about the project and also determine the possibility to organize task groups and contribute to the enrichment of the map.

Events

• As a run up to the State of the Map conference at Brussels, there is a call for informal sessions including Birds of a Feather (BoFs). Take a look at some of the proposed sessions.
• The upcoming week is slated to be eventful at Brussels with five big Geo-events lined up including a hackday and a mapathon! (It surely is Meptember!)
• Selene Yang writes in her user diary writes about 25th September being the last date for submitting proposals for the State of the Map Latam which is going to be held from 25th to 27th November in Brazil.
• At this year’s State of The Map conference, members from the various local communities can share their experience during the State of the Local Map and the Local Chapters Congress.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Missing Maps project is building capacity at Sierra Leone by imparting knowledge on usage of OpenDataKit, OpenMapKit and OsmAnd.

Maps

• [1] The German business journal ‘Manager Magazin’ illustrates the cyclist routes of the ten major European cities.
• During ongoing system upgrade, the OSMF Tileserver will be migrated on Mapnik 3. Tom Hughes writes about the same on the Talk-list.
• Luke Smith writes about grough developing a composite map, which would be a combination obtained by blending OSM data with OS OpenData to fill in the gaps, and using public rights of way data directly from the local authorities which have released it.

switch2OSM

• The social network Diaspora shows in its latest version, locations on an OSM map. (automatic translation)

Open Data

• The Array of Things (AoT) is an urban sensing project, a network of interactive, modular sensor boxes that will be installed around Chicago to collect real-time data on the city’s environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use.
• East Africa’s commitment to Open Data is evident from its latest initiatives including the recently concluded East Africa Open Data Conference.

Licences

• When Toursprung found out that a German TV station used their OSM based map, they billed them for it and donated the amount (200 €) to OSM.

Programming

• Mapzen has set up a Personal Package Archives or PPAs for Ubuntu for its routing engine Valhalla. This makes it possible to install Valhalla with a simple apt-get command.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

OSM in the media

• An interesting article in the Melbourne Age, on how economics can make your dinner taste better! They did some analysis and matched review data about restaurants with geospatial data from OpenStreetMap and found that there is a strong negative link between restaurant quality – as defined by star ratings – and proximity to tourist attractions and street corners.

Other “geo” things

• You do not want to be constantly tracked by Google and hence delete its mapping service on your phone. Would that suffice? Google makes it harder to evade it’s data collection.
• Here is a video of generating a 3D city model in LOD1 by extrusion, with the software 3dfier developed by the 3D Geoinformation group at TU Delft and partially funded by Kadaster.
• Japan is mapping its streets in 3D to support their autonomous taxis for the 2020 Olympic Games.
• Mapbox opened a development office in Detroit.
• Tanvi Misra published an article on CityLab with the headline “Gorgeous Maps of an Ugly War” about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
• Owen Powell, a GIS analyst and cartographer, explains his workflow in creating both beautiful and accurate digital 3D maps using Blender and GIS data in great detail.
• German science magazine “Spektrum” discusses possible effects of the use of electronic navigation aids on our natural sense of direction.
• User schleuss shares interesting aerial imagery captured during the LA Building import project. A batman landing rooftop, a hexagonal pool and a bunch of green cars are among the weird things seen from above Los Angeles.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Zaragoza	OpenStreetMap Spain Association at the Wikimedia-ES conference	16/09/2016
Zaragoza	Spanish 10th anniversary mapping party	17/09/2016
Karnali	Tikapur Mapping organized by Kathmandu Living Labs and Practical Action Nepal Tikapur	18/09/2016
Rennes	Rencontres mensuelles	19/09/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	20/09/2016
Edinburgh	Edinburgh	20/09/2016
Brussels	HOT Summit 2016	22/09/2016
Brussels	HOT Summit Missing Maps Mapathon	22/09/2016
Grenoble	Rencontre groupe local	26/09/2016
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	29/09/2016
Kyoto	京都オープンデータソン2016 vol.2（吉田神社） with 第1回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティ	01/10/2016
Metro Manila	State of the Map Asia 2016	01/10/2016-02/10/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	03/10/2016

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09/13/2016-09/19/2016

Mapping

• Jothirnadh explains in his user diary how one can revert changesets in JOSM that would normally trigger a timeout.
• Christoph Hormann analyzed data quality in the Canadian Arctic and compared it to Greenland in his blog post entitled “OpenStreetMap at its worst”.
• Michael Tsang suggests a new relation in his proposal for “Through Services”.
• Johnw asks how one could tag an amphitheatre.
• Greg wants to add some more stats for the upcoming quarterly project and asks for help on Github.
• Edits by Telenav employees with the quality assurance tool ImproveOSM are seen very critically by the Canadian Community. User Mihai Iepure requests to provide a short summary of the emails in English as he does not know French.
• Adam Old, member of a “Tree Board“ in South Florida asks if they may use OpenStreetMap for their collection of trees and meta data of those trees.
• Denis Stein asks on the OpenRailwayMap mailing list where exactly and how to map points (switches, turnouts), and makes some suggestions.
• Jojo4u asks if railway=technical_station is obsoleted by railway=service_station.
• Analysing MAPS.ME changesets, manoharuss found several typical rookie mistakes but surprisingly little misuse of name=*.
• Krishna Nammala from Mapbox Data Team reported the German forum on the status of their efforts to “missing turn restrictions” in Germany.
• Jojo4u created a new proposal for tagging mud flat trails.
• Srividya from Mapbox Data Team reported a notable data offset of 15-20 meters with respect to GPS Traces in Taiwan. Mapbox has therefore provided new satellite images for the larger cities.

Community

• Joe Morris is a cyclist and interested in public drinking water spots and created a map for that. To increase the data he’d like to create a dedicated site to map such locations and therefore asks for feedback.
• Søren Johannessen notes that OpenStreetMap reached 200 million buildings in its data base.

Imports

• Gianmario Mengozzi proposes on the import mailing list a boundary Import in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna from a CC-0-licensed source.

Maps

• The application Gnome Maps slowly starts to get usable. After the end of MapQuest Open they started to use Mapbox tiles, they now have aerial imagery, a very basic search function and a routing based on Graphhopper.
• GeoHipster will again be publishing a calendar in 2017. For that they have asked to send in the maps that might be included in the official calendar.
• Hans Hack created a poster of the 104 islands in the German capital Berlin.
• The OSM Carto developers plan to switch to Noto, a new font. They ask for feedback from readers of Asian countries.
• [1] Thej from India analyzes in his blog, the consideration of Indian languages in OpenStreetMap (Mapnik). Arun Ganesh points among others to the multilingual map by Jochen Topf and his own experiments.

switch2OSM

• It is evident, that Pokémon Go uses OSM data.

Software

• The OsmAnd maps of September 1st initially ignored turn restrictions. This issue has been fixed, newer maps contain turn restrictions.

Programming

• Ircama did publish tutorials on how to setup your environment if you want to participate in OSM Carto development.
• Andy Allan asks for help to refactor the original ruby on rails code of the OSM-API.
• Paul Norman would like to register MIME types for our OSM file formats.
• Geofabrik now provides separate extracts of every country in Africa on their download server.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Jochen Topf announces the new features of libosmium 2.9.0 and Osmium-Tool 1.4.0 in his blog. The latter now also allows to change tags with sed and generates human readable diffs.

Did you know …

• … the Francophone project “Espace OpenStreetMap Francophone” where Nicolas Chavent trains mapper in West Africa?
• … Martin Raifer’s map of the node density in OpenStreetMap?

Other “geo” things

• Both Forbes and TechCrunch Network report on the technical assistance, that has done inter alia OpenStreetMap Italy after the earthquake.
• Paul Groves explains how 3D-Mapping could be used to enhance the accuracy of GNSS in cities. As a data source for the needed 3D models he suggests to use OpenStreetMap data.
• Peter Richardson of Mapzen reported in his blog post as he generates 3D models with Heightmapper from Mapzen’s high-quality open-source terrain data.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Brussels	HOT Summit 2016	22/09/2016
Brussels	HOT Summit Missing Maps Mapathon	22/09/2016
Brussels	State of the Map 2016	23/09/2016-26/09/2016
Grenoble	Rencontre groupe local	26/09/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	27/09/2016
Kyoto	京都オープンデータソン2016 vol.2（吉田神社） with 第1回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティ	01/10/2016
Trento	Mapping Party Pieve Tesino	01/10/2016-02/10/2016
Genova	Mappalonga Mapathon	01/10/2016
Metro Manila	State of the Map Asia 2016	01/10/2016-02/10/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	03/10/2016
Dresden	Elbe-Labe-Meeting	08.10.2016-09.10.2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	11/10/2016
Berlin	Hack Weekend	15.10.2016-16.10.2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第１回 哲学堂公園	15/10/2016

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09/20/2016-09/26/2016

SotM 2016

• During State of the Map in Brussels the 2016 funding drive was started, which shall finance the current cost of the OSMF. This is (not only) including the purchase and operation of the OSM servers. The funding goal is 70,000 Euro.
• The videos from State of the Map 2016 are available online as full event streams. It will be split by talk shortly.
• [1] At SotM the winner of the OSM awards were published (number of votes and given votes in brackets): Roland Olbricht (213/665), Lukas Martinelli and Manuel Roth (160/500), WeeklyOSM-Team (377/584), Martin Ždila (186/554), Pascal Neis (306/605), Frederik Ramm (186/576). More detailed results are on the voting platform, and there is a OSMF-Blog post.
• You can find some pictures from the SotM Brussels with the tag sotm2016 on flickr.
• At this year’s SotM there had been many wearers of a craftmapper t-shirt. The shirt was distributed at the conference as a reply to Michal Migurskis’s blog post (as reported here earlier). Which created some speculation on twitter.
• Gregory Marler shares his experience of being a Code of Conduct volunteer at the SoTM Brussels.

Mapping

• BushmanK thinks that the RFC status of proposals is not always respected and are not allowed to pass into the voting phase without processing all comments and questions.
• On the Tagging mailing list, the tag for cenotaph is being discussed. It seems like none of these memorials had been added to OSM.
• Warin has discovered an eight year old draft of a proposal to tag floodplains (natural=floodplain).
• Abhishek of the Mapbox data team reports in his user diary about their work to improve the positional accuracy of the road network in Taiwan. (we reported earlier)

Community

• Bryan Housel suggests in the Github repository of OpenStreetMap to introduce a code of conduct. In Bryan’s simultaneously added pull request there is a discussion about who would be the correct person to address for complaints.
• About 100 students of the 4th grade of Santa Maria high school of Portugalete mapped the problematic points for people with reduced mobility and suggested more accessible routes so they can reach destinations, which are critical for them. Mapping Portugalete according to the report of this blog (automatic translation) is one of the many actions that were developed since 2014 by the program Ciudades Amigables (Friendly Cities).
• Yahoo Finance reported, that Telenav on September 22 announced the availability of Open Street View, a free open – source platform, designed to accelerate the development of OSM. The platform includes free iOS and Android apps.
• Pascal Neis experiments with a presentation of active mappers on a map.
• Ben Discoe (in possibly the most polite “rant” ever written) commented on Michal Migurskis blogpost “OSM at Crossroads” (which was mentioned in weeklyOSM previously). The issue that he raises is somewhat different however – money!
• Pratik Yadav asks for the reason to choose a particular username for OpenStreetMap. First answers can be found in the comments.

Imports

• Spencer Gardner tries to find out how the lanes=* tag of oneway streets got “caculated” for streets in Massachusetts during the MassGIS Road Import.
• The highway milestones became OpenData in France. The community discusses the tags, especially the value for the ref-tag
• Dewi Sulistioningrum, an member of HOT, is interested in importing “infrastructure” (schools, mosques, hospitals etc.) and boundaries in a part of Indonesia.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Swiss OpenStreetMap Association is now a recognized local chapter (regional office) of OSMF. More local chapters exist in Italy and Iceland.

Humanitarian OSM

• Biondi Sima of HOT Indonesia reported about three ways to DRR in Indonesia.
• The project Healthsites.io that collects medical care centers for humanitarian purposes is now in a ß-status.
• HOT reports about a week-long pre-assessment trip in Karamoja, Uganda.

Maps

• The OpenCycleMap now supports cycleway: right = track / lane and cycleway: left = track / lane.
• The Open Transport Net project with 14 European partners involved, opens and visualizes transport data in Europe. The city of Pilsen (Czech republic) visualized the traffic flow before and when major public works were taking place in the center of the city. The Pilsener citizens can see on the web which traffic issues they can expect.
• Sven Geggus has deployed (automatic translation) the new German map style, a fork of OSM Carto with German/transliterated labels and “German” road colours, on openstreetmap.de.
• Yvecai has created a new base layer for OpenSnowMap, which allows good contrast and good visibility for the display of ski slopes.

Open Data

• GISuser reported about the crowdsourcing pilot project Statistics Canada, which was launched on October 17.

Software

• Urbica has developed Galton an OSM-data and OSRM-engine based router that shows the areas for any point that can be reached in a fixed time. The source code is on Github. On her blog, the project is described more details.

Programming

• On AWS there’s a new public and free digital elevation model which was created with Mapzen’s help out of different free data sources.
• Tim Teulings reports about his work on libosmscout during the SommerCamp in Essen.
• Lukas Martinelli searches for supporters on Kickstarter.com to develop a free style editor for JSON Styles for MapboxGL. The funding target was 4000 CHF and was reached during the SotM weekend.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the Taginfo report that indicates which tags are used a lot but do not have a wiki page to describe them?
• … VROOM (Vehicle Routing Optimization Open-source Machine)? jcoupey provides an extension for OSMBC.
• … the ‘Binary Bandits’ are stealing house numbers in Philadelphia, USA? Mysterious thieves steal the zeros and ones of the house numbers in Philadelphia. What drives the ‘Binary Bandits? And what does that mean for OSM?

Other “geo” things

• Holger Sparr of MacLife lists the best map apps for iPhone/iPad and explains their merits.
• The web-enabled vehicles from Audi, BMW and Daimler probably will soon be a data supplier for Here.
• The Spanish magazine NOSOLOSIG reported (automatic translation) in its latest edition that the “Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia (IPGH)” commissioned a study on the quality of geodata in Latin-America.
• Google explains how to create a custom map style for their vector tiles and therefore tries once more to close the gap with OpenStreetMap.

Upcoming Events

Wo	Was	Wann	Land
Tampere	OSM kahvit Tampere	29.09.2016
Espoo	OSM kahvit Espoo	29.09.2016
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	29.09.2016
Stazzema	Mapping Party Sentiero Alta Versilia: serata introduttiva al Mapping Party del 2 Ottobre	30.09.2016
Düsseldorf	Stammtisch	30.09.2016
Sarapiquí	https://fundecor.org: Mapatón v3 UNA Sede Río Frío Distrito Horquetas de Sarapiquí, Heredia	30.09.2016
Genova	Mappalonga Mapathon	01.10.2016
Saint-Herblain	Cartopartie	01.10.2016
Kyoto	京都オープンデータソン2016 vol.2（吉田神社） with 第1回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティ	01.10.2016
Trento	Mapping party Pieve Tesino	01.10.2016-02.10.2016
Metro Manila	State of the Map Asia 2016	01.10.2016-02.10.2016
Stazzema	2016 Mapping party del sentiero Alta Versilia: escursione e raccolta dati	02.10.2016
Rennes	Découverte d’OpenStreetMap pour l’humanitaire	02.10.2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	03.10.2016
Rostock	OSM Stammtisch Rostock	04.10.2016
Paris	Mapathon Missing Maps Paris	04.10.2016
Falmouth	Missing Maps by ClearMapping (https://twitter.com/clearmappingco/status/780704843786817536)	04.10.2016
Roma	Geobirra Roma	04.10.2016	Italia
Stuttgart	Stammtisch	05.10.2016
Vienna	57. Wiener Stammtisch	06.10.2016
Dresden	Stammtisch	07.10.2016
Dresden	Elbe-Labe-Meeting	08.10.2016-09.10.2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	11.10.2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	11.10.2016
Munich	Stammtisch München	11.10.2016
Berlin	100. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	14.10.2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第１回 哲学堂公園	15.10.2016
Berlin	Hack Weekend	15.10.2016-16.10.2016
Favara	Mapping party dei vicoli, cortili, scalinate, archi e orti del centro antico di Favara, Organizzato dalla Molitec, Farm Cultural Park e Tivissima	16.10.2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	18.10.2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	18.10.2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	18.10.2016
Scotland	Edinburgh	18.10.2016

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09/27/2016-10/03/2016

SotM 2016

• Geofabrik has published a blog entry about State of the Map in Brussels.
• User Escada shares his experience of attending State of the Map conference in Brussels.
• Mikel Maron reported on the “Local Chapter meeting” in Brussels and presented the notes.

About us

• [1] OSM Foundation asks you to donate to help preserve OpenStreetMap’s continued independence as a project.
• Happy to announce that weeklyOSM now appears in Italian language as well thanks to sabas88 and Martin Koppenhöfer. Both are still looking for collaborators.

Mapping

• Miami Herald reports on mapping activities on Havana for local mappers and the Mapillary executive Cossio.
• Ever been confused about using amenity=bar vs amenity=pub vs amenity=restaurant? Check out the latest discussion on the talk-US list.
• Mapaton Xalapa 2016 is a series of coordinated events mapping public transport routes in Xalapa, Mexico. The project has an android app MapMap also available for download.
• The user rdacardenas provides detailed progress report mapping in Arequipa, Peru.
• Helge Fahrnberger opened a proposal Piste:type=connection that would allow you to connect ski lifts to ski pistes.
• At the end of September the summer Quarterly Project “farmyards” came to an end and Mappa Mercia summarized the results. On the mailing list Talk-GB the quarterly project for the autumn will be presented: Mapping using the UK Food Hygiene Ratings dataset.
• People on the German OSM users forum discuss whether a bunker below the city centre of Dortmund, which is partially secret and cannot be accessed, should be deleted. (automatic translation)
• Aun Johnsen makes the argument that highway=road is an annoyance, why editors and presets should remove it, and why the wiki should warn about its use.
• The Swiss OSM Association has purchased aerial imagery of canton of Aargau as it happens every second year. Simon Poole asks at Talk-ch mailing list for donations to cover the expenses. (automatic translation)

Community

• Mapbox is looking for an English teacher to hire for their data team in Ayacucho, Peru. In return, he/she will learn how to map.
• After a remark on the problems with addresses in Brussels by Sarah Hoffmann, Glenn Plas developed a tool to detect those problems, i.e. mismatch between addr:street and name due to the bilingual names of the streets
• Walter (wambacher), is looking for a new server for the international project Boundaries Map FOSSGIS probably pays a rented server. He asked unsuccessfully for four months for donations. Restrictions per IP address and per user will be established.
• The UK community ask for final comments on their proposed Articles of Association following review by pro bono lawyers.
• Maning compared some cities in Asia with regard to their node count and made some observations in these graphs.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• In 2014, the OSMF approved a program for people who have difficulty paying the annual membership fee, to allow them to be members for free, but this has never been implemented. If you are interested in helping to define the rules of this program, please contact the Membership Working Group
• Simon Poole announced the new privacy policy of the OSMF. In another post he gives a round up of future work of the License Working Group due to changes in EU-data privacy laws.
• Following Simon Poole’s suggestion on the Osmf-talk mailing list to ‘spend some money’ to increase development activity on OpenStreetMap’s core website, there was a discussion on possible next steps.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT is going to activate and update map data in Haiti and Jamaica following Hurricane Matthew. Start mapping and spread the word about these high priority projects.
• HOT is hiring a part-time Operations Coordinator. The deadline for applying is October 11th, 2016.

Maps

• monochome.com is now selling pillows, skirts, and tablecloths with self-selectable map excerpts.

Open Data

• Linda Poon (Atlantic-CITYLAB) reported about Mapbox’s new “mentor program” for American cities to integrate OpenData via OSM into appropriate urban platforms.

Software

• User eis_kalt has released a first version of his 3D world model android app UtyMap.
• Sebastian Kürten introduces a new open source desktop viewer: Jeography is Java GIS toolkit with a focus on OpenStreetMap data. The main GUI is for browsing the map and performing some geo data related tasks.
• mmd presents a test instance of OverpassAPI previewing of some experimental material

Programming

• On January 31st, 2017, Mapbox will end support for some of its products such as TileMill, Mapbox.com/editor and the v3 endpoint of the Mapbox GeoCoding API.
• Ilya has offered a EUR 100 reward for the first person to implement a service to subscribe to OSM diary post comments. Mikel Maron and user Stereo added a EUR 100 each.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the Android library Lost by Mapzen? It is a free replacement for the proprietary Location APIs which are part of Google Play Services.

Other “geo” things

• Thomas Skowron had a look at Apple Maps on iOS 10 from the point of view of an active OSM contributor.
• The popular weather forecast application Dark Sky has re-launched its web version, previously known as forecast.io, with dynamic maps which are using OpenStreetMap data in the background.
• How open is Mapillary? Richlv poses the question on the Mapillary forum.
• Mapillary started to use semantic segmentation on its image dataset. This technology makes it possible to partition an image into different regions which get a label (e.g. road, sky, building, vehicle).
• Pokemon Go players are using an overpass turbo link to collect information on where Pokemon creatures are likely to “spawn” locally. As reported previously there is some evidence Niantic may be using OSM data to decide on spawn points. (Originally from Reddit)
• EE Times Automotive reported that navigation provider TomTom cooperates with graphics chip vendor NVIDIA to develop a third open cloud-based platform for autonomous driving.
• Joost Schouppe explains how to use OSM data to improve government data.

Upcoming Events

Dónde	Qué	Fecha	País
Cagliari	Archeofoss 2016	07/10/2016-09/10/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	11/10/2016
Moscow	Schemotechnica 06	12/10/2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第１回 哲学堂公園	15/10/2016
Nantes	Initiation à OpenStreetMap, Fête de la Science	15/10/2016-16/10/2016
Favara	Mapping party dei vicoli, cortili, scalinate, archi e orti del centro antico di Favara, Organizzato dalla Molitec, Farm Cultural Park e Tivissima	16/10/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	18/10/2016
Scotland	Edinburgh	18/10/2016
Brussels	Meetup at Café de Markten	18/10/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon University of Northern Colorado, Greeley	20/10/2016
Tampere	OSM kahvit	21/10/2016
Antwerp	Missing Maps @ IPIS	26/10/2016
Omihachiman	近江八幡漫遊マップづくり 第2回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティー	29/10/2016
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	29/10/2016-30/10/2016

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10/04/2016-10/10/2016

About us

• This year’s OSM donation drive is still running. weeklyOSM says thank you to: Peter Karich (Graphhopper) for 1000 Euro, Florian Schenk (500 Euro), Viktar Shcherb (OsmAnd team) for 300 Euro, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Markus Hallermann, Henri Geist and Julian Hollingbery each for 200 Euro and all the other donors to OSMF.

Mapping

• Last week Mexico launched (automatic translation) their first cableway for public transportation: the ‘Mexicable’. The importance of the Mexicable is that it will be able to transport people from the poor neighborhoods of the suburbs of the capital. @federicomena asked (automatic translation) OSMers in Mexico to help map the stations. A week later the stations were mapped on OSM.
• Ziltoidium asks in the German Forum, whether one can exert influence on bicycle routing by means of special tagging. (automatic translation)
• Claudio Cossio reported about photomapping in Cuba on the occasion of the International Free Software Conference .
• The weekly roundup by Krishna Nammala (Mapbox) about suspicious changes that were commented or reverted.

Community

• ImreSamu has written a diary entry after reading Michal Migurski’s blog post that talked about robot mapping. Influenced by Sadya Nadella’s “laws of robotics” (which was of course influenced by Asimov), ImreSamu suggests what rules robot mappers should have to adhere to.
• OSM Mexico participated in and gave talks at the Latin American Geospatial Forum 2016 (one of the most prestigious annual conferences organized in Latin America).
• User SK53 has done some experiments with topological skeletons of water surfaces and reported about it.
• There’s discussion in the DE forum about the tone and etiquette used in discussions, including changeset comment discussions, with reference to the draft community code of conduct that has lain ignored in the wiki for some years (including a suggestion, perhaps not entirely serious, for a “Ministry of Truth Working Group”). There’s also been discussion of codes of conduct elsewhere, such as for OSM website and “Standard” map style development.
• Guillaume is looking for documentation for uMap in English. As a basis for a new one, commentors suggest the French version.
• Christoph Hormann shares his views about the OSM Awards in his OSM diary.
• [1] Stéphane Péneau presents his new mapping bike. Stephane explains the system here: Part1 and Part2
• The Swiss SOSM updated their installation of uMap to the latest version.
• On Spreadshirt.com you can order your T-shirt with the Craftmapper design as it was distributed at SotM.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Skrill.com, a payment service you have to use if you use Flattr, owes the OSMF £ 500 and refuses to pay its debts.

Events

• Harry Wood published a recap of this year’s SotM in the OSM blog.
• Daniel and Victor reminds about this year’s SotM LatAm (Latin America) that takes place in São Paulo from 25 to 27 November .
• In Tuscany (in the area of Alta Versilia) a hiking mapping party took place from September 30 until October 02.

Humanitarian OSM

• Dale Kunce reported in the HOT blog about the great mapping achievements accomplished by more than 1,000 volunteers in recent days. However, further aid is needed for the areas affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti.
• Fredy Rivera called on October 10 for help to map two threatened villages around the volcano Cerro Machín (automatic translation) in Colombia. The mapping is already finished: Task1, Task2. It would be nice if experienced JOSM mappers could validate the data.

Maps

• Anton of Transit wrote a very detailed and quite interesting explanation of how they autogenerate their transit maps for their supported cities worldwide.
• Srikanth Lakshmanan reported that he has installed a language selection for 12 languages for India openstreetmap.in.

Open Data

• DigitalGlobe delivered the latest satellite imagery after Hurricane Matthew’s catastrophe in Haiti under a CC BY license for humanitarian organizations such as HOT and the American Red Cross. Many of the images are also now available in OpenAerialMap, both for download and as map services.

Programming

• Klokan Technologies (known for their OSM2VectorTiles) started OSMNames, a new project that features basic place search functionality.
• Mapzen published a new API called Libpostal to expand address data into component parts (like house number, street, city etc.).
• Kepta, a GSoC intern, summarizes his contribution over the summer. He worked on building a lane editor for iD.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

Did you know …

• … that you can use BBBike to extract an area from Planet.osm and convert it into one of many supported formats?
• … WhirlyGlobes Maply, a toolkit for Android and iOS that provides visualizations in OpenGL ES for maps with many features?
• …. about the smallest street in Nottingham which Alex covers in details in his report?

OSM in the media

• Spanish newspaper, Las Provincias reported in the group “Geovoluntariado” of Polytechnic University of Valencia who organized a mapathon to update the areas affected by hurricane Matthew.
• The University of Gijon held an experimental workshop (automatic translation) within the framework of the INCUNA VIII Conference in which free use technologies are used to collect data of all kinds, visible and invisible, on buildings. The underlying intention (apart from practicing with OSM) is to extract useful information about the potential and use of public space.

Other “geo” things

• One year after the historic agreement in the border conflicts between India and Bangladesh the Indian-Bangladeshi enclaves are still in Google Maps.
• Wendy Lee from the San Francisco Chronicle reported from the Google Summit in California, where Jen Filzpatrick (Head of Google Maps) talks about the challenge of creating maps for self-driving cars. The competition like Mapillary is mentioned. The OSM-based Trulia website is also mentioned in relation to the limits of Google Maps’ timeliness.
• Google has published Cartographer, a library running on ROS for building SLAM applications.
• TanDEM-X, from the German Aerospace Agency, makes available a “seamless 3-dimensional world map of unprecedented accuracy“.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	100. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	10/14/2016
Bouaké	State of the Map West Africa (étape Côte d’Ivoire), Anphithéâtre B, Université Alassane Ouattara	10/15/2016
Nantes	Initiation à OpenStreetMap, Fête de la Science	10/15/2016-10/16/2016
Berlin	Hack Weekend	10/15/2016-10/16/2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第１回 哲学堂公園	10/15/2016
Favara	Mapping party dei vicoli, cortili, scalinate, archi e orti del centro antico di Favara, Organizzato dalla Molitec, Farm Cultural Park e Tivissima	10/16/2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	10/18/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	10/18/2016
Scotland	Edinburgh	10/18/2016
Brussels	Meetup at Café de Markten	10/18/2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	10/18/2016
Elda	Mapping Party Elda	10/19/2016
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	10/19/2016
Espoo	OSM kahvit	10/20/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon University of Northern Colorado, Greeley	10/20/2016
Maastricht	Mapping the new Arriva Busses	10/20/2016
Tampere	OSM kahvit	10/21/2016
Essen	Stammtisch	10/21/2016
Nara	マッピングパーティ奈良2016・西大寺	10/22/2016
Graz	Stammtisch	10/24/2016
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	10/24/2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	10/25/2016
Düsseldorf	Stammtisch	10/26/2016
Antwerp	Missing Maps @ IPIS	10/26/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon Colorado State University, Fort Collins	10/27/2016
Omihachiman	近江八幡漫遊マップづくり 第2回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティー	10/29/2016
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	10/29/2016-10/30/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	10/31/2016
Rostock	OSM Stammtisch Rostock	11/01/2016
Stuttgart	Stammtisch	11/02/2016
Dresden	Stammtisch	11/03/2016
Wien	Hack Evening (58. Wiener Stammtisch)	11/03/2016
Levoča	Mapping party Levoča	11/04/2016-11/06/2016

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10/11/2016-10/17/2016

About us

• Procuram-se editores! Se é leitor do weeklyOSM ajude a traduzi-lo para português recolhendo também notícias de Portugal e Brasil relativas ao OSM. Ajude a relançar o idioma neste semanário.

Mapping

• Lorenzo Mastrogiacomi publishes a proposal for adding the racetrack tag for motor vehicles to OpenStreetMap.
• [1] Yvan asks for opinions on the tagging mailing list about his proposal amenity=baking_oven. At the same time he wants to establish the tag amenity=bakehouse.
• AJ Ashton explains how to tag complicated buildings and add 3D information to them. This information can now also be viewed on Mapbox Streets and Mapbox GL JS.
• Basstoelpel starts a discussion about a mechanical edit to convert type into leaf_type for natural=tree in the German forum (automatic translation).
• Ilya Zverik, who works for MAPS.ME, blogged about the history of editing the name tag using this simple editor, and the challenges of offering simple tag editing functions.

Community

• OSM forum moves to a new server on Saturday the 22nd of October.
• A huge mapping party held at the town of Böblingen witnessed 850 people from (Germany) working together to capture wheelchair accessibility data in Böblingen county, using wheelmap. (automatic translation)
• Escada declares Sus as the Belgian Mapper of the month. WeeklyOSM admires his impressive performance. Escada also wonders whether François is the oldest mapper ever.

Imports

• On the Spanish Talk-es mailing list, a discussion about an import of taxi ranks has started. There is also a wiki page for this import.
• Statistics Canada, the national statistical office, started a crowdsourcing project in collaboration with the local OSM community on Monday to collect information such as geometry, height etc. for non-residential buildings using a modified iD editor. Before and during the launch, three users imported buildings and addresses in Ottawa, but sadly failed to comply with the import guidelines, debated enforcement of it, and engaged in edit warring. John Whelan summarized the project itself.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Simone Cortesi, treasurer of the Italian OSMF Chapter (Wikimedia Italia), signed a memorandum of understanding with the Club Alpino Italiano, the national alpine association. They plan to collaborate on improving data about hiking routes and facilities. (automatic translation)

Events

• The third “World Settlement Summit” of the United Nations, HABITAT III, took place in Quito, Ecuador from 17th to 20th October 2016. At the conference, USAID led a mapping activity in Latacunga.
• The call for presentations for Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM 2017 on February 4th and 5th 2017 in Brussels is open.
• Escada blogs about two open discussion groups (Birds of a Feather) from the SotM 2016. He writes about the JOSM plugin PT-assistant, and Kartotherian, the tile server of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• On October 15, 2016, the SotM West Africa conference took place in Bouaké, Cote d’Ivoire. See tweets by participants from Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, Senegal, Niger, Mali and from the official account #SOTMBKE, OSM Girls, OSMGuinea and a Spaniard from Galicia also took part.

Humanitarian OSM

• Two competing humanitarian mapping organizations are currently operating in Haiti – on the one hand the American HOT US Inc., on the other hand a group of French-speaking mappers, called Projet EOF. The latter one has built up, according to their own statements, a local community for the last six years and has contact to the local government.HOT US Inc. and the francophone community have been in conflict for a while. Pierre Beland reminds that HOT US is blocking postings on the HOT mailing list.Projet EOF runs it’s own tasking manager. Read here what happened as well and conceive your own opinion.
• Severin Menard initiates a discussion about necessary improvements to the Tasking Manager to combat the problem of “crappy newbie edits” of humanitarian mappers. A suggestion by John Whelan to disable the connection between the Tasking Manager and the iD editor for difficult tasks is not met with disapproval. The quality issue has stuck with the OSM humanitarian community since the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and has been reoccurring.
• Tyler Radford announces the publication of HOT’s 2015 Annual Report that includes statistics and information about HOT’s community achievements over the last year.
• The disastermappers group at the GIScience department of Heidelberg University extracted all the information related to the Missing Maps project from the HOT Tasking Manager and published it on a map.
• John Whelan is looking for experienced JOSM mappers to improve data in Africa. In his email, he describes the procedure.
• Raw drone images captured in Jérémie are made available. Mappers are welcome to use these images to map the disaster struck areas in Haiti.

switch2OSM

• SIASAR the platform for the management, planning and monitoring of Water and Sanitation in Rural Areas including the governments of Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Oaxaca (Mexico), Peru, Ceará (Brazil) and Bolivia are using (automatic translation) OSM in the new version. The importance of this project is that, it allows user to analyze the current situation, expose the shortcomings and give governments the tools that help them to invest.
• The first mention of a commercial use of OSM was ten years ago.

Open Data

• Lisbon Town Hall publishes (automatic translation) its GIS data under public domain. Since February 2016, it has issued updates at least twice a month.

Software

• Gamereactor reports that Aerosoft Flight Simulator X-Plane 11 will be published in 2016. The road maps were obtained from OSM data.
• Have you always wanted your OSM appointments on your phone? Christoph, aka TheFive (the spiritual father of weekly’s Content Management System) published the OSM calendar in his blog and is looking for ß-testers. The list of available event calendars on OSMCAL is impressive.
• OsmAnd introduces a new topographic map style.
• MapQuest announces the decommissioning of the Xapi API and recommends the users of Xapi to move to Overpass API service. The Xapi open API service will be retired on October 31, 2016.

Programming

• Bill Morris explains how to process spatial data in parallel using GNU Parallel by reprojecting a bunch of shape files.
• mmd has released a prototype for downloading OSM data in PBF format through the dev instance of Overpass. The first reaction from Pierre is very positive.
• Mapbox now offers its vector tiles “style optimized”. Users can add the style to the request. The Server removes the tags from the vector tile that are not used by the users.
• Mapzen has updated its House styles. There are improvements on label priority and positioning.
• After the successful completion of Ilya’s paid challenge to add subscription to diary comments, Mikel announces notifications listing as the second challenge.
• Starting with version 0.5.5, CGImap, the C++ implementation of OSM API, calculates the usage limits based on the sent OAuth tokens instead of IP address of the editor who sends the token. CGImap also supports the /changesets/#{id} API call now.
• OSM Scout Server is a free server for Sailfish OS and Linux, which delivers tiles, calculates routes and contains a search function. It is based on the libosmscout library. User rinigus presents the server in his user diary.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• …the figures and business targets of Mapbox, a company headquartered in Washington, D.C.? Presented by Desina A. Lopez on equites.com.
• … the Unterkunftskarte (accommodation map)?

OSM in the media

• San Francisco Chronicle reports the efforts taken by the residents of few villages in Palestine, who wish to see their villages on Google or Apple Maps. The report also includes inputs from Harry Wood, an OpenStreetMap contributor, on how OSM maps such areas.

Other “geo” things

• Google announces the open source release of Cartographer – a library for real time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D.
• Google will turn off Panoramio on November 4th. Mapillary welcomes former Panoramio users to switch to its service.
• Haitians and American Haitians criticize foreign organizations and especially the American Red Cross (which is also involved in humanitarian mapping within OSM). According to the article these foreign organizations would use their donations in an ineffective way, have no local knowledge and do not want to get the locals to help themselves (to preserve their colonial dependency).

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Espoo	OSM kahvit	20/10/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon University of Northern Colorado, Greeley	20/10/2016
Maastricht	Mapping the new Arriva Busses	20/10/2016
Helsinki	OSM kahvit	20/10/2016
Tampere	OSM kahvit	21/10/2016
Nara	マッピングパーティ奈良2016・西大寺	22/10/2016
Graz	Stammtisch	24/10/2016
Antwerp	Missing Maps @ IPIS	26/10/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon Colorado State University, Fort Collins	27/10/2016
France	Missing Maps Mapathon Paris 8, Saint-Denis	27/10/2016
Albergaria-a-Velha	1st Meetup OSGeo-PT	27/10/2016
Omihachiman	近江八幡漫遊マップづくり 第2回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティー	29/10/2016
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	29/10/2016-30/10/2016
Donostia	Mapathon Hirikalabs – Missing Maps	29/10/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	31/10/2016
Wien	Hack Evening (58. Wiener Stammtisch)	03/11/2016
Levoča	Mapping party Levoča	04/11/2016-06/11/2016
Numazu	ラブライブ！サンシャイン マッピングパーティ2	05/11/2016
Rennes	Découverte d’OpenStreetMap pour l’humanitaire	06/11/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	08/11/2016

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10/18/2016-10/24/2016

Mapping

• Martijn updated the imagery for his MapRoulette task to map cemeteries in Texas.
• Martijn van Exel announced on the Talk-Ca mailing list, that colleagues in the Telenav mapping team are mapping turn restrictions in several Canadian cities using OpenStreetView and Mapillary as sources.
• Cédric Briner asks, on the Talk-ch mailing list, about the procedure of tagging a walking bus route.
• Multipolygon view of “OpenStreetMap-Inspector” has been turned off. The Areas view replaces it.

Community

• jidanni tried to make OpenStreetMap’s conference advertising and donation drive banners less persistent, and briefly suggested that they be added to Adblock’s blocking list. He withdrew that request following much criticism.
• UCC Ghana Youthmappers report about their success and their “snowball model” in teaching OSM at the University of Cape Coast.
• Simon updated his Contributor Statistics and noticed a spike in new users as Maps.me’s edit feature appeared.
• The Operations Working Group got access to the database of OSM Forum and moved it to an OSMF server on Saturday. During the move, HTTPS was deployed and all HTTP requests will be redirected to HTTPS. A subforum for Iceland has been created. OWG would like to hand over all forum-related aspects of the administration to a group of volunteers.
• Roland Olbricht reports that the requests on the overpass API have now been logged from “74.9 percent of the total IPv4 /24 subnets of the entire world”. That’s not exactly three-quarters of the people on the planet, but it’s a lot, and from a lot of different places. A puzzling load peak on Oct 1st is explained by OSM getting well-known among Pokémon Go players. Expecting further growth, he suggests a second server for the API.
• Jan Marsch, the person behind OSMBuildings, says on Twitter that it “Feels like Mapbox is eating up OSM. Project by project.“. Presumably it’s related to this blog post, although it’s unclear how one 3D building renderer can be threatened by the existence of another. Previously, Mapbox have introduced complementary tools before, like when To-Fix joined the existing Maproulette.

Imports

• James proposes an import of buildings and addresses in Ottawa, Canada, on the Imports mailing list, after his first attempt was reverted.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSM blog officially announces about the Swiss SOSM being a local chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. We say congratulations to SOSM!
• Frederik Ramm, member of the board of FOSSGIS e.V., invites comments on Talk-de mailing list and on German forum if FOSSGIS e.V. should become an official local chapter of OSMF.

Events

• On October 15, the State of the Map West Africa took place. Nathalie summarizes her impression of the event.

Humanitarian OSM

• Pierre Béland has published a website comparing aerial images showing the effect of Hurricane Matthew on Haiti. The “after” images were gathered by UAV and show the damage that the recent hurricane caused.
• Major parts of Surabaya were inundated by floods this year. In order to minimize the impact, concerted efforts are undertaken. This calls for collectively updating the city’s base map data remotely, which is crucial to support the creation of an accurate contingency plan in the unfortunate case of disaster.
• More discussion about the overlapping tasking managers in Haiti: An email by Rod Bera to the HOT mailing list explains why a second tasking manager for humanitarian mapping is required. According to him, the main problem is that tasks.hotosm.org is under the exclusive control of HOT. Blake Girardot denies that, and invites everyone to co-operate over a public Slack channel.

Maps

• NOSOLOSIG, a Spanish Geo-Blog, wrote a short blog (automatic translation) about Multimaps (automatic translation). Javier Jiménez Shaw, a Spanish software engineer who lives and works in Berlin, has combined many historical, topographic, satellite and road maps. Map enthusiasts can enjoy maps from seven countries, which are in overlay, synchronized or tangent. BTW a nice tutorial to explain the buttons on the right side.

switch2OSM

• The Russian city Kashira uses an OSM map for its new information point.

Open Data

• GoGeomatics Canada Magazine interviewed Ervin Ruci who has been collecting postal codes in Canada using crowdsourcing since 2005. In 2011, Canada Post sent him a cease and desist letter, and sued him and his company for copyright infringement. Canada Post discontinued court proceedings in 2012. Ervin Ruci talked about that at SotM 2014.

Software

• With Christmas coming up in two months, OsmAnd can show as overlay Christmas markets, Christmas trees and other Christmas POIs.
• GaiaGPS is now able to upload tracks directly to OSM.

Programming

• User -karlos- reported again about his work on a 3D renderer.
• Mapzen published Version 1.0 of their Tilelayer with worldwide elevation data.
• User Marqqs introduces his new geocoder osmgeoref on a wiki page.
• The new NVMe server “karm” has been the primary API instance since October 23, as announced by the OWG via Twitter. Its IO load has reduced from 90 percent to 3 percent since the change.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … (rather: Do you still know) the online poll platform by Harald Hartmann? Sunk a bit into oblivion, it’s still ready for action.
• … the Changeset Map by Mapbox to visualise a changeset? It offers different features to Achavi, and osmhv; try them all and see which you prefer.
• … the imagery offset database? Nammala wrote a simple tutorial to make use of it in JOSM.

OSM in the media

• Eugene published a new wiki page about movies that use OpenStreetMap data.

Other “geo” things

• Citylab writes about the importance of visualizing, which is one of the toughest challenges faced by the global cities. At Habitat3, the United Nations conference on housing and sustainable urban development, the Chennai flood map powered by OpenStreetMap and Mapbox tools was one of the five winners.
• The “Jungle” in Calais is being cleared. It is only a matter of time before it will disappear from OSM as well.
• Yahoo! News reports that in the vicinity of the Kremlin in Moscow, GPS signals are being interfered with.
• Following a decision by the Supreme Court of Sweden, drones with cameras are seen as surveillance cameras and they are banned unless a special permit is applied for.
• Alex Woodie from Datanami, summarizes a report about “The Here and Now of Big Geospatial Data”. The possible uses of spatial data, challenges characterized and different spatial databases are explained with examples.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	26.10.2016
Düsseldorf	Stammtisch	26.10.2016
Antwerp	Missing Maps @ IPIS	26.10.2016
France	Missing Maps Mapathon Paris 8, Saint-Denis	27.10.2016
Braunschweig	Stammtisch	27.10.2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon Colorado State University, Fort Collins	27.10.2016
Albergaria-a-Velha	1st Meetup OSGeo-PT	27.10.2016
Águeda	Oficina de Dados Abertos	28.10.2016-29.10.2016
Omihachiman	近江八幡漫遊マップづくり 第2回諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティー	29.10.2016
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	29.10.2016-30.10.2016
Donostia	Mapathon Hirikalabs – Missing Maps	29.10.2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	31.10.2016
Rostock	OSM Stammtisch Rostock	01.11.2016
Stuttgart	Stammtisch	02.11.2016
Dresden	Stammtisch	03.11.2016
Wien	Hack Evening (58. Wiener Stammtisch)	03.11.2016
Zittau	OSM-Stammtisch Zittau	04.11.2016
Levoča	Mapping party Levoča	04.11.2016-06.11.2016
Numazu	ラブライブ！サンシャイン マッピングパーティ2(Cartoon anime “LoveLive! Sunshine!!” Mapping party)	05.11.2016
Rennes	Découverte d’OpenStreetMap pour l’humanitaire	06.11.2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	08.11.2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	08.11.2016
München	Stammtisch München	09.11.2016
Berlin	101. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	10.11.2016
Dortmund	Stammtisch	13.11.2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	15.11.2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	15.11.2016
Scotland	Edinburgh	15.11.2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon Front Range Community College, Longmont	15.11.2016

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10/25/2016-10/31/2016

About us

• The OpenStreetMap Foundation is seeking donations to finance the Foundation’s expenditures in 2017. The fundraising drive though, has only raised 42,000 euros of the target 70,000 euros after a few weeks.

Mapping

• User Bharata from Mapbox writes about the usage of the offset database while aligning roads in Taiwan.
• The slave databases of the OpenStreetmap API experienced replication delays on Tuesday and Wednesday. This caused difficulties to editors who when editing write to the master database but then read from a slave which might be up to 10 hours out of date, causing spurious editing conflicts.
• On MapRoulette, there are seven new tasks of the project Zebrastreifen-Safari (automatic translation). This project is validating automatically detected pedestrian crossings in Switzerland.
• Thomas Skowron argues that the syntax of opening_hours=* is overly complex.
• Sven Geggus, the maintainer of the German OSM-style, has started a discussion about the rendering of country names. He proposed a correction of all country names into official languages of the respective countries instead of English names.
• Richard Welty suggests the creation of a new tag for car manufacturers’ test tracks instead of highway=racing.

Community

• Christian blogs (automatic translation) about his commitment to the collection of architectural monuments for the Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikidata projects. Also mentioned is the helpful tool Geolocator.
• Pascal Neis tweeted the answer to the question, in which country and on which day most mappers were active and most of the change rates were uploaded?
• A new mapper from South Australia, asked for advice about what to map on the talk-au mailing list and got a number of very helpful responses.
• Zoar announced (automatic translation) an OSM Advent calendar (日本語) for 2016. Is an English version a good idea? Here is the already opened one from last year. (automatic translation)
• FOSS4G Argentina tweeted about the first meeting for the organization of the FOSS4G + SotM Argentina 2017.
• Raymo853 wonders out loud on Reddit about privacy concerns as an OSM Editor in mapping sensitive/disputed areas.
• The discussions about automating OSM translations into Indic languages continue on the talk-in mailing list. (We reported earlier)

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Operations Working Group would like to reduce the load on the tile servers of the OSMF (tile.openstreetmap.org) considerably and asks for comments on the Tile Usage Policy. The discussion also highlighted some interesting statistics about the usage of the tile server by embedding in websites and applications of third parties.
• The official OpenStreetMap blog announced the new offer of memberships for companies and organizations. It will take effect on Jan 1, 2017.
• The Operations Working Group wants to document the rules for whitelisting of IP addresses on the tile and API servers and asks for comments.
• Simon Poole suggests to the OSMF Operations Working Group that “the use policies should contain pointers to the new privacy policy and at least the tile usage policy should recommend a suitable link to fix the map“.
• On the agenda of OpenStreetMap US are the elections in the second half of November.

Events

• DB Cargo, the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary for freight traffic, invites (automatic translation) mappers to a mapping party on the marshalling yard in Mainz-Bischofsheim (near Frankfurt). Participants have to register via email.
• The GISday 2016 will be on the 16th of November worldwide.
• The National Geographic Society celebrates the Geography Awareness Week from November 13th until 19th. Read more about the program’s mission and history.
• On October 19th, the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina held the UNIGIS Latin America Forum. This academic event provided a place to exchange ideas and discuss different topics on geomatics for the region.

Humanitarian OSM

• [1] Once again, a devastating earthquake hit 6.6 in Central Italy. BBC reported that thousands of people were left homeless and many buildings destroyed. The Italian community has its own tasking manager. Please help map Italy!
• Amelie Baron of AFP describes the drone mapping in Haiti after the hurricane Matthew. News on the devastation were tweeted by Potentiel3_0 with references to the images of Pierzen.
• On hotosm.org there is now a showcase to collect and show examples of the impact of humanitarian mapping projects. There was a discussion whether only projects from Hot Inc. should be shown, because it would be used for fundraising.
• The Atlantic’s Citylab explains the concept of the app MapSwipe, its goals and where it’s headed.
• The presentations at the HOT Summit 2016 in Brussels are online.
• Severin Menard writes to the HOT mailing list about his experience during the Hurricane Matthew mapping tasks. He also shares his perspective about using drones, remote mapping, involving local mappers and HOT US Inc.

Maps

• Candid Dauth presented the completely redesigned version 2 of the FacilMap based on Leaflet.

switch2OSM

• The city of Frankfurt am Main shows on an OSM basic map traffic details exactly as the current traffic situation.

Open Data

• The Open Data Institute (ODI) has announced the winner of the OpenDataAwards on November 1st in London. The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), operated by UNOCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), was honored by the Open Data Innovation Award.
• Punctually to the 4th birthday (Oct. 29th) of Wikidata, user Addshore presented his blog with the new version of the Wikidata map. A lot has happened in the last six months.
• Ash_Crow congratulates Wikidata on its fourth anniversary and talks about his experiences in the project.

Licences

• Mapbox clarifies who has which rights on a map style for Mapbox GL JS when created with Mapbox Studio. It does not make any demands on styles self-written by its users.

Programming

• The MapsForge developers forked the Java Vectron Library VTM for Android, iOS and desktop systems of the OpenScienceMap and released version 0.6.0.
• With GEOS 3.6, the C++ API was changed by GEOS. Jochen Topf as a developer of the library libosmium presented on the dev mailing list, three possible ways how to proceed with the functions to generate GEOS geometries in libosmium.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the GeoHipster map?
• … the blog post “Become a power mapper” from our correspondent Jinal Foflia from Bangalore? Jinal shows JOSM shortcuts by examples such as splitting and connecting ways, creating circles (for roundabouts), changing these shortcuts and last but not least using filters.
• … the numbers regarding usage of different editors in OSM?
• … the online tool yohours for determining the opening hours for OSM?
• … the long article by Alexander Zipf (automatic translation) of the University of Hedelberg about the value of social media and mapping in disaster relief operations.

Other “geo” things

• On Kickstarter there are posters and t-shirts with OSM design again.
• Telenav joins the select group of companies granted California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permits
• What does New York do with all its trash? This question has been investigated by The Guardian. An interesting Leaflet animation supports the report.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Zittau	OSM-Stammtisch Zittau	11/04/2016
Levoča	Mapping party Levoča	11/04/2016-11/06/2016
Numazu	ラブライブ！サンシャイン マッピングパーティ2(Cartoon anime “LoveLive! Sunshine!!” Mapping party)	11/05/2016
Rennes	Découverte d’OpenStreetMap pour l’humanitaire	11/06/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	11/08/2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	11/08/2016
München	Stammtisch München	11/09/2016
Berlin	101. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	11/10/2016
Zurich	Stammtisch Zürich	11/11/2016
Mainz-Bischofsheim	Mappingparty auf dem Rangierbahnhof	11/12/2016
Dortmund	Stammtisch	11/13/2016
Osaka	３６５アースデイ大阪・２０１６コミュニティマッピングパーティー	11/13/2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	11/15/2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	11/15/2016
Scotland	Edinburgh	11/15/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon Front Range Community College, Longmont	11/15/2016
Ottawa	OSM Founder Steve Coast	11/17/2016
Essen	Stammtisch	11/19/2016
Kyoto	諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティー:第3回 松尾大社、地蔵院(Matsuo-taisha Shinto Shrine and Jizoin Buddhist temple)	11/19/2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第２回 護国寺(Gokokuji Buddhist temple)	11/19/2016
Derby	Derby	11/22/2016
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	11/23/2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	11/24/2016
Sao Paulo	State of the Map Latam 2016	11/25/2016-11/27/2016

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11/01/2016-11/07/2016

Mapping

• The key lockers is seldom used in OSM. Thejesh GN asks, in the talk-in mailing list, whether the singular (locker) or the plural (lockers) should be used.
• The project “pedestrian crossings in Switzerland” (as we reported earlier) was created by OSMDeepOD. The publication on weeklyOSM shows a significant impact on their analysis and evaluation website.It looks like the tasks are not always visible on MapRoulette, so we published the direct links to them here:
  • Uri: http://maproulette.org/map/988/889410
  • Geneva: http://maproulette.org/map/337/874464
  • Ostschweiz: http://maproulette.org/map/987/888632
  • Südschweiz: http://maproulette.org/map/976/871529
  • Genf: http://maproulette.org/map/337/872867
  • Schaffhausen: http://maproulette.org/map/981/885613
  • Glarus: http://maproulette.org/map/982/885828
  • Ostschweiz: http://maproulette.org/map/987/888561
  • Nidwalden: http://maproulette.org/map/1410/1212819
  • Luzern: http://maproulette.org/map/1412/1222218
• GFDRR is a World Bank-managed organization that tries to help developing countries better understand and reduce their vulnerabilities to natural hazards and adapt to climate change. It has been running the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) since 2011. Humberto Yances reports that in October 2016, OpenDRI, hosted a day-long event during JICA’s flood mapping workshop for the National Unit of Disaster Risk Management in Colombia (UNGRD).
• In Berlin the tagging of the incredibly detailed mapping of the holocaust monument continues to be discussed. The question is if using the building tag is correct, or is this mapping for the renderer. The monument consists of over 2000 different-height blocks such as this one.
• Tobias Zwick aka westnordost presents the tool OSMAGENT, which can be used by an Android user without tagging knowledge to complete OSM data. The tool uses a “map of quests”, an approach that is already used by MapRoulette. Feedback is very welcome.
• In the HOT mailing list,
  Keith Darby a masters Candidate in GIS Technologies proposed to map potential helicopter landing sites in disaster-prone areas in OSM.
• Simon Poole warns against using the Amenity Editor, which does not support 64bit IDs for nodes. Please do not use the editor, as it systematically destroys OSM data.
• User Wille proposed in the talk-tagging to integrate the “service” tag on shop=car and shop=car_repair items in the iD editor.
• Gregory Marler aka livingwithdragons, writes to the talk-GB about mapping Key:xmas:features, especially since they are not only in the “official” XmasMap, but also on OsmAnd.

Community

• The Spanish community plans to send welcome messages to new mappers, mainly because of a few unfortunate incidents in the recent past. The beginner’s welcome tool from the Belgian community is being considered. Joost Schouppe presents in his email the text and process. Upshot: This is a very interesting tool for all communities worldwide.
• [1] Smaprs writes about 2 possibilities to tinker a paper globe with OSM data using dymaxion projection. Sérgio said to weeklyOSM: „… tell me if you see if school kids (or university ones, or adults too) could do it. Would love to see pictures of World in Dymaxion in many scales and colours. We’re studying how to do some script for converting to a soccer ball shaped globe.“
• Nathalie Sidibé writes a blog about the digital mapping business, Free & Geographic Information System, entitled “CartoCamp de Segou” which was during 3rd to 7th August 2016, in Segou, by OSM_ML in Mali.
• Lately there have been lot of discussions about mapping quality in the OSM community. Now in the Spanish mailing list there is a complete thread (strap yourself in, there’s a lot to read) about what they call the user “entrollización” on OSM. (automatic translation)
• mtc writes a diary entry saying thanks for the good support by provided by the OSM Help Website.
• A complete article about an OSM Workshop for high school students by the Ghandalf Association in Galicia, who have being giving talks since 2010 about the use of free software and open data. (automatic translation)
• RobJN wrote a summary of the progress of the UK Quarterly Project to improve mapping via comparison against government food hygiene rating data. It includes a number of calls for help. The links in the article are recommended for example FHRS/OSM comparison or top 10 districts for completeness and growth.
• The Russian Forum has voted for new moderators (automatic translation). The results are presented as a table.

Imports

• Santiago Crespo from the Spanish community announced the start of a manual import of “places of worship“ in Madrid. They imported data from the City of Madrid. See more info on the wikipage. Among others, some former imports: Drinking Water Fountains or Pharmacies. (automatic translation)

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The 10th Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation will be held online in the IRC chat room #osmf-gm on the IRC network irc.oftc.net, at 16:00 UTC on Saturday, 10 December 2016. The agenda can be viewed here: http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/16
• Frederik explains how the confidentiality of donors to OSMF currently works and asks whether this rule should be limited in the sense of transparency.
• Janet Chapman suggests on the OSMF-talk mailing list, not only to feed newcomers with a single email, but a “welcome pack to new members with a bit more background information about the foundation, its working groups, how you can get more involved, etc..”. weeklyOSM says: “Damn good idea!”.

Events

• The program of the SotM LatAM is published. SotM LatAM is happening on the 25th to 27th of November.

Humanitarian OSM

• EchoScience Grenoble reported about a Missing Maps Mapathon that is going to be held on November 24th by MaptimeAlpes in Grenoble. (automatic translation)
• Pierre Béland wrote to the HOT mailing list about the situation in Haiti, saying that this major crisis is simply forgotten. Part of the problem is the poor quality of the initial response, due to “Hit and Run” mapathons. Pierre documented this problem in his earlier presentation, which he made with data from the earthquake in Nepal.

Maps

• On github there is a discussion about switching from http to https for openstreetmap.org by default.
• Romainbou, an OSM novice from Avignon, France writes about his first experiences with overpass-turbo.eu. He analyzes the use of the name “Boulevard” in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. (automatic translation)

Software

• Remster presents his new long distance bicycle route planner named Zikes and asks for feedback.
• Bryan Housel is asking for support in testing and translation of iD v2.0.

Programming

• Mapillary has released the v2 of its JavaScript viewer, which comes with faster photo loading and decreased amount of data downloaded.
• Simple Opening Hours is a JavaScript class to parse opening hours and according to its author, it only supports the human readable parts of the opening hours syntax.
• The size of the OSM-Database is now 6.1 TB. Tom Hughes has published a detailed list of index and table sizes.
• User Zecke is asking for help on the Overpass mailing list. He would like to install a local Overpass instance. It looks like, that while solving his issue, the documentation has been updated.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the map with live train movements in the Netherlands? Conducteur has published a nice time-lapse animation of the same.
• … the Community in Niger? OSM-NE is part of the humanitarian OSM project Projet Espace OpenStreetMap Francophone. (automatic translation)
• … Multiroute, a tool for route planning and optimisation with plenty of stopovers?
• … Quality Assurance Feeds by Martin Raifer? Now with “support for feeds that are only available in certain countries”.

Other “geo” things

• Laura Bliss of Citylab in New York reported on the campaign involving 2300 volunteers to catalogue more than 685,000 inner-city trees with many details within a year. These open data, which is valuable to all citizens, have been summarized and visualized on an interactive map.
• Juc Cerovic wrote a guest post for Human Transit Blog differentiating good or bad urban bus maps.
• Quartz Africa reports on about how projects such as Missing Maps can fill in the gaps on African maps using crowdsourcing, and make the results available to all OpenStreetMap users.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	101. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	11/10/2016
Zurich	Stammtisch Zürich	11/11/2016
Mainz-Bischofsheim	Mappingparty auf dem Rangierbahnhof	11/12/2016
Ivry-sur-Seine	Mapathon Missing Maps Ivry-Dianguirdé	11/12/2016
Ambérieu-en-Bugey	Mapathon Missing Maps SSI	11/16/2016
Tatsuno	龍野城下町マッピングパーティ	11/12/2016-11/13/2016
Dortmund	Stammtisch	11/13/2016
Osaka	３６５アースデイ大阪・２０１６コミュニティマッピングパーティー	11/13/2016
Colorado	MSU Mapathon for Mongolia Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver	11/14/2016
Colorado	CSU Mapathon for Mongolia Colorado State University, Fort Collins	11/14/2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	11/15/2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	11/15/2016
Scotland	Edinburgh	11/15/2016
Colorado	Humanitarian Mapathon Front Range Community College, Longmont	11/15/2016
Porto Alegre	O dia do SIG	11/16/2016
Ottawa	OSM Founder Steve Coast	11/17/2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	11/17/2016
Heidelberg	OSM Geoweek Mapathon	11/17/2016
Colorado	Geoweek Mapathon Colorado State University, Fort Collins	11/17/2016
Essen	Stammtisch	11/19/2016
Kyoto	諸国・浪漫マッピングパーティー:第3回 松尾大社、地蔵院(Matsuo-taisha Shinto Shrine and Jizoin Buddhist temple)	11/19/2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第２回 護国寺(Gokokuji Buddhist temple)	11/19/2016
Derby	Derby	11/22/2016
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	11/23/2016
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	11/24/2016
Sao Paulo	State of the Map Latam 2016	11/25/2016-11/27/2016

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11/08/2016-11/14/2016

About us

• The OSM Foundation needs € 70.000 to cover its core operational expenses. Last Friday, Mapbox announced that they would “match the next ‎€10,000 in contributions“ to achieve the target. With €18,028 left to achieve the target, consider donating to keep OSM running.

Mapping

• Adrien Pavie introduces Pic4Carto, a website that combines recent pictures from Mapillary, Flickr and Commons, so mappers can easily refer to pictures from these three sites. He has also made the source code available.
• CartInnov (automatic translation), the collaborative and open map of the innovation actors in the French-speaking world.
• [1] OSRM’s debug map (we reported earlier) now also shows penalties given for turns.
• Markus Schalke calls for discussion of the bird tower proposal in the tagging mailing list.
• Daniel wants a tag for “not-a-roundabout” so that routing software can give better instructions. He explains here in more detail why is this needed.
• On the tagging mailing list, Warin proposed a more detailed mapping of football (soccer) fields.
• Joost Schouppe submitted a tag for dog toilets. There are various suggestions for the exact name of the tag.
• James opened a task in the Canadian task manager to incorporate wikidata into OSM. User LogicalViolinist explains in his blogpost why this is important (but there is significant controversy). Also please read about what James writes about the is_in: tag.
• User Tbsprs tweeted about OpenLevelUp! – a great tool for the representation of indoor mapping. For example, here is the multi-level Birmingham New Street Station.

Community

• The Dutch Computerworld magazine reports (automatic translation) about four projects that are “almost broke”. OSM, being one of them, has not yet reached its donation goal of €70,000. Time to donate!
• There is a discussion over at OpenStreetMap Carto’s GitHub repository (where the ‘standard’ style that appears on the openstreetmap.org website is developed), asking why there are relatively few contributors, and why some features (such as wayside shrines) take so long to appear.
• Gonzalo Pérez, from OSM Argentina, facilitated a workshop on mapping and collaborative practices. It was organized by Santalab (in Argentina, not at the North Pole) and the Centre for Media Studies, in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe.
• Santiago Crespo reports that the Spanish community is now also using “osm-welcome-Belgium“, the tool created by the Belgian community (actually M1dgard). Pascal Neis has already noticed the new users on his twitter feed.
• “kaxtillo” wrote a diary entry summing up (translation) the involvement of OSM in Colombia with the 3rd “citizen innovation lab”, (translation) whose aims were to promote citizen innovation in Latin America in order to foster social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.
• “Bike parking is not a problem, but part of the solution: Amsterdam’s 265K car places could allocate 2.1M bikes!” So says the “bike professor” from the Urban Cycling Institute. He explains (automatic translation) how to solve this, illustrated with an OpenStreetMap map.
• Pascal Neis has updated his analysis of the activity of OpenStreetMap members for this year.

Events

• OSM Geography Awareness Week (OSMGeoweek on Github) aims to celebrate geography and OSM with over 120 events worldwide. This complements National Geographic Society’s initiative with many local and humanitarian mapping projects.

Humanitarian OSM

• The “Red Cross climate center” in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, reported about another workshop with several partners. This involved plans for a second phase with the support of OSM in the creation of development plans, flood protection and infrastructure development.
• HOT is asking the community feedback on choosing the platform that would be the best to host activities such as live training. Please fill the three-question questionnaire!
• A mapathon hosted in Ivry-sur-Seine (Paris, France) with the help of cartONG brought together mappers and members of the local Malian community. Together, they mapped the area of Dianguirdé, Mali, adding some 337 km of roads.