15.11. – 21.11.2016

OSM CZ

• Výpadek u Geofabrik a neaktuálnost extraktů OSM.
• Maphaton Lékařů bez hranic na brněnské MU.
• Padání poslední verze JOSM při mazání relací.
• Upozornění na geoportál pro turisty a cyklisty využívající data OSM.
• Pavel Machek hledá službu pro odkaz na mapu obsahující vlastní značky.
• Zmínka o českém importu budov z RUIAN na import mail listu.
• Seznam všech katolických kostelů s bohoslužbami včetně UUID.

OSM SK

• Ukázky dlouhých názvů v OSM.
• Martin se dělí o svůj nástroj pro extrakci geotagovaných obrázků z videa z Truecam.
• Pěkný nástroj na zjištění, v jaké projekci máte data. Stačí vědět jeden bod a kde se v reálu vyskytuje.
• Tipy pro uživatele editoru JOSM na přístrojích od Apple.

Mapování

• [1] Jochen Topf rozšířil své Taginfo o zobrazování příkladů vykreslování na seznamu tagů na wiki. Matthijs Melissen to testoval pro některé stránky. Pokud chcete Matthijovi pomoci, prosíme kontaktujte ho přímo.
• ImproveOSM je nyní postaveno na editoru iD.

Komunita

• Uživatel PlaneMad vysvětluje velkou výhodou je mít identifikátory wikidat v OpenStreetMap a odkazuje na postup Mapboxu pro přidání těchto ID. Někteří další, sledující tyto editace, začali další diskuzi o tom, zda lze tyto editace považovat za automatické.
• Uživatel Joost Schouppe zdůrazňuje důležitost komunitních akcí, které mohou nasměrovat vývojové týmy k řešení problémů, které by jinak na seznamu úkolů hodně nízko. Tvůrci komunit po celém světě byli vyzváni k odpovědi na otázky o hlavních dilematech při organizaci komunit a potřebných nástrojích pro vytváření týmů. Jedním z těchto nástrojů je belgický Welcoming Tool, který nyní začala používat i španělská komunita. (informovali jsme minulý týden)
• FOSS4G a State of the Map Argentina 2017 se budou konat společně v prosinci na National Geographic Institutu s podporou OSGEO.
• Chris Hill vysvětluje, jak používat nástroje v OpenStreetMap pro vytvoření skvělých map pro festival Clockenflap v Hong Kongu bez použití vlastních OpenStreetMap dat.
• Blog OpenStreetMap informuje o vydání druhé verze editoru iD a jeho zpřístupnění na hlavní stránce webu. Na blogu Mapboxu poskytuje Bryan Housal více detailů a popis některých nových vlastností.
• Sebastian přemýšlí nad významem všech těch place=locality tagů, které objevil v zemědělské krajině Španělska.
• Nelson žádá o pomoc širší komunitu ohledně tagování “nebezpečných cest”. Brazilská komunita nemůže najít shodu jak tagovat cesty například napříč favelami tak, aby navigační software měl možnost se těmto nebezpečným oblastem vyhnout.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• V rozhovoru pro OpenCage Data, mluví člen rady OSM Martijn van Exel o aktuální výzvě k příspěvkům a proč je důležitá. Říká, že financování je důležité pro zachování nezávislosti a proto nelze hledat jen firemní sponzory. Dává také možnost komunitě pomoci vyrovnat peněžní potřeby Nadace OSM.

Události

• Akce ‘jen pro holky’ se koná před konferencí SotM LatAm dne 24. listopadu. Cílem je setkání dívek působících v OSM komunitách a výměna zkušeností.
• Byla vydána výzva k zaslání přednášek pro FOSSGIS 2017. Akce se bude konat v Pasově 22. – 25.března. Jsou vítány přednášky představující projekty, prezentující zkušenosti z projektů a to jak z pohledu začátečníka tak i pokročilejšího uživatele. Jsou vítány i přednášky o geo datech a jejich zpracování.
• První ročník akce “SysInfoLibre Abidjan 2016 (automatický překlad): Yunohost, SI Libre pro skupiny knihovníků, otevřená data a OpenStreetMap v Západní Africe” se skupinou LesLibresGéographes, projektem EOF a Direction Francophonie Économique et Numérique z International Organization of Francophonie (DFEN-OIF) se konal od 11 do 20 listopadu v Abidjanu.

Humanitární OSM

• HOT oznámila, že získali grant z Nadace Billa Gatese pro boj s malárií v Africe s pomocí analýzy OSM dat.
• Séverin Ménard mluví na blogu projektu EOF o své dobrovolnické misi (automatický překlad) k zjištění dostupnosti silnic v oblastech postižených hurikánem Mattew na Haiti.

Programování

• Při příležitosti druhých narozenin routovacího systému Valhalla shrnuje Mapzen důležité body, představuje vývojový tým a oznamuje verzi 2.0.

Nová vydání

Poskytuje OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) nesvobodný software. Viz svobodný software.

OSM v médiích

• Routefifty informoval o Santa Catalina, oblasti jihozápadně od Los Angeles, která je na Google Maps stále prázdná. Článek popisuje problémy a výzvy chybějících oblastí v komerčních mapách a příležitostech pro OpenStreetMap a Mapillary.

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• Richard Harris vyzpovídal Anthonyho Calamita, hlavního vývojáře open source GIS platformy Boundless.
• Smithsonian publikoval článek s interaktivní mapou ilustrující sopečnou činnost a zemětřesení v průběhu času s odkazy na jednotlivé výskyty.
• Irská Univerzita v Maynooth navrhuje nový protokol pro vektorizaci prostorových dat vytvořených s pomocí dobrovolníků.
• Katherine Andersonová píše o 13. plenárním GEO zasedání v Rusku, které se uskutečnilo mimo jiné z důvodu spuštění nového portálu GEOSS.
• Proces výroby mapy AuthaGraph (psali jsme minule) nebyl publikován. Marcin Ciura popisuje na svém blogu matematické metody pro vývoj presudo-authagrafů. Zdrojový kód je publikován na Bitbucketu. Pro úplnost ještě dodáváme projekci Dymaxion brazilského architekta Sérgio A. J. Volkmera.
• Jižní Korea zamítla žádost Googlu na využití lokálních mapových dat pro firemní globální mapové služby z důvodů obav o národní bezpečnost, pokud by se tyto informace dostaly ke Googlu. Jižní Korea zakazuje exportovat lokální mapová data cizím firmám, které nemají své servery na jejím území.
• V předmětu Kombinatorická optimalizace na bonnské univerzitě mají jako úkol najít nejkratší trasu pro navštívení 24 727 hospod v Anglii. Je to pěkná ilustrace problému obchodního cestujícího. Použili Google Maps a data o hospodách poskytl Pubs Galore. Interaktivní mapa ukazuje optimální trasy pro návštěvu každé z hospod.

Plánované události

kde	co	kdy	země
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	24.11.2016
Sao Paulo	GeoChicas	24.11.2016
Sao Paulo	State of the Map Latam 2016	11.25. – 27.11.2016
Trento	SAT e OpenStreetMap – Sentieri e Cartografia libera – novità, opportunità e prospettive future	25.11.2016
Matagalpa	Fiesta de mapeo en UNAN Matagalpa	25.11.2016
Ala	MappAla! party	26.11.2016
Brémy	Bremer Mappertreffen	28.11.2016
Graz	Stammtisch	28.11.2016
Rennes	Rencontres mensuelles	29.11.2016
Colorado	OSM Brown Bag Talk Colorado State University, Fort Collins	29.11.2016
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	29.11.2016
Düsseldorf	Stammtisch	30.11.2016
Drážďany	Stammtisch	01.12.2016
Dortmund	Stammtisch	04.12.2016
Rostok	OSM Stammtisch Rostock	06.12.2016
Stuttgart	Stammtisch	07.12.2016
Mnichov	Stammtisch München	08.12.2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	08.12.2016
Berlín	102. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	09.12.2016
Pergine Valsugana	Mappatura sentieri del Lagorai Cima Asta	09.12.2016
Pasov	Mappertreffen	12.12.2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	13.12.2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	13.12.2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	12.13.2016

Poznámka: Pokud zde chcete vidět vaši akci, zadejte ji prosím do kalendáře. Pouze data z kalendáře se objeví v našem týdeníku. V kalendáři prosím nezapomeňte zmínit město a zemi. A pro vložení kategorie použijte prosím [edit blog detail].

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

22.11. – 28.11.2016

OSM CZ

• Monitorování a úklid zrušených zastávek v mapě.
• Historie Liberlandu v OSM.
• Poslední letošní maphaton Lékařů bez hranic v Praze.
• Jak tagovat kilometrickou polohu bodu jako je například přejezd na železniční trati?
• Pavel Cvrček se snaží jako mapper přežít i s novým iPhone.
• Marián připomíná druhé kvartální OSM pivo. Zřejmě bude v Praze, Brně, Ostravě a Plzni.
• Žádost o kontrolu opravy mapování ulice Za Hládkovem v Praze.
• Mirek potřebuje rozdělit turistickou trasu a bojuje s JOSM.

OSM SK

• Velké poškození landcover severovýchodního Slovenska a co s tím.
• Pokusí se slovenská OSM komunita zneplatnit patent Apple na navigaci v pozměněné realitě (augmented reality) přes prior art?

O nás

• V hlubokém zármutku vyjadřujeme velkou lítost nad ztrátou našeho drahého přítele Thomase Bellmanna známého také jako Malenki. Malenki minulý týden vydechl naposledy ve Španělsku, po nešťastném pádu z útesu. Thomas byl zanícený přispěvatel do WeeklyOSM, aktivní OpenStreetMap mapper po více než 9 let, programátor, autor dokumentace a fotograf. Rádi bychom vyjádřili naši účast jeho matce, rodině a přátelům. Jsme zarmouceni touto ztrátou a Malenki navždy zůstane v našich vzpomínkách.

Mapování

• BharataHS, data analytik Mapboxu, popisuje dva postupy detekce a opravy chybných multipolygonů a vyzývá každého ke kontrole stavu ve svém okolí.
• Michael Tsang představil svůj návrh mapování leteckých tras. Je podobný mapování linek veřejné dopravy.
• Jako poctu zesnulému mapperovi Malenkimu zve španělská komunita mappery na akci, jejímž cílem je učinit místo, kde Malenki zemřel, nejlépe zmapovanou oblastí Španělska.
• Edith Quispe aka ediyes sdílí v příspěvku ne blogu své postřehy z akcí, které tým Mapboxu hostil jako součást týdne Geography Awareness. Kancelář v Ayacucho zorganizovala minulý pátek maphaton pro podporu znalostí zeměpisu a růst lokální OSM komunity. Více než 15 univerzitních studentů se účastnilo, OSM je zaujalo a rádi by se přidali ke komunitě.
• Aktuálně jsou ve fázi hlasování tři návrhy:
  • François Lacombe dodal detailní popis elektrických rozvoden.
  • Michael Tsang prezentuje svůj návrh pro služby veřejné dopravy, které mění trasy mezi linkami.
  • Nejen milovníci přírody mohou hlasovat o návrhu tagování hnízdních pomůcek pro ptáky, které jsou připevněny na stožár nebo věž.
• Simon Poole shrnul svou návštěvu Wherecamp 2016 v Berlíně a informuje o projektu Simple Indoor Tagging, který pomáhal vytvořit.
• Martijn van Exel navrhuje použít tag fixme pro značení sezónních problémů, aby bylo zajištěno, že se o ně někdo zase včas postará.
• José Sánchez vytvořil návrh pro tagování obchodů s 3D tiskárnami a žádá o zpětnou vazbu.
• Na tagging mail listu se diskutuje soubor míst pro přistání vrtulníků pro krizové operace.

Komunita

• [1] Christoph Hormann popisuje svůj pokrok v renderování velkých vodních ploch při malých přiblíženích mapy a ukazuje některé pěkné příklady své práce.
• Clifford Snow píše o své práci na zvýšení počtu mapperů ve svém okolí.
• OpenStreetMap komunita na Pobřeží slonoviny (OSM_CI) je držitelem druhého místa ocenění Young Digital Initiative Award na Pobřeží Slonoviny. Cenu obdrželi od ministra pro digitální ekonomiku a poštovní služby a mluvčího vlády Bruno Nabagné Koného.
• Martijn van Exel informuje na blogu Improve OSM o přejmenování Telenavem podporovaného projektu OpenStreetView na OpenStreetCam. Doposud bylo shromážděno 12 milionů fotek.
• Roland začal diskuzi o zásadní změně druhé úrovně vstupních stránek na OSM wiki.

Importy

• Brian M Hamlin píše o přetrvávajících problémech s importem malých balíků využití půdy v kalifornském Fresno county. Po detailní analýze navrhuje kritéria pro smazání a vyčištění dat.
• Rozjela se také diskuze na import mail listu o pluginu pro JOSM Thomase Konrada pro přidání adresy v Rakousku (informovali jsme dříve).
• Andrea Musuruane plánuje importovat data v italské Province of Biella.
• Brandon Liu oznámil plánovaný import výšek budov pro San Francisco. Vypadá to, že iniciativa je motivovaná Mapbox GL JS. Následuje diskuze o zapojení lokálních mapperů a iniciátor projektu vysvětluje svou motivaci.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• Frederik Ramm, pokladník Nadace OSM, informoval WeeklyOSM, že, po připsání darů od FOSSGIS e.V. (organizace zaštiťující německou OSM komunitu), bylo dosaženo cílové částky letošní sbírky OSM. Díky všem dárcům po celém světě! Zasílat dary je samozřejmě stále možné.
• Christoph připomíná všem, že letošní volby do rady Nadace OSM se konají 10.prosince. Na wiki je seznam kandidátů pro dvě dostupná křesla spolu s jejich odpověďmi na množství otázek.

Humanitární OSM

• Ve francouzském Lyonu bude @Coworking Lyon, L’atelier des Médias 20. prosince organizovat maphaton. Více informací ve francouzštině (automatický překlad).
• HOT odstartoval svůj každoroční kolotoč žádostí o příspěvky a natočil malé motivační video.

Mapy

• Nový celosvětový prototyp web mapové aplikace OSMLanduse.org byl spuštěn skupinou GIScience Research Group v Heidelbergu. V příspěvku na blogu GISRG Heidelberg říká: “Naším cílem je vyhodnotit celkové možnosti a použitelnost OpenStreetMap (OSM) dat pro tyto specifické účely (využití půdy a informace o pokryvu povrchů), identifikovat cesty pro zlepšení a poskytnout všechny tyto informace globálně a automatizovaně.”
• PlaneMad hodnotí blogový zápisek uživatele Supaplex popisující jeho přednášku na SOTM Asia ohledně lokalizovaného tagování: “Výborný soupis zvýrazňující problémy kulturních dat v rámci šablon a jazykových tagů na mapě”

Software

• Zakladatel projektu Skobbler Philipp Kandal (nyní viceprezident pro OSM u Telenav) vysvětluje na svém blogu, jak a proč Telenav pracuje na budoucnosti mapování pro OSM s využitím OpenStreetCam, počítačového vidění a strojového učení.
• Dennis Nienhüser oznámil verzi 1.0 Marble Maps pro Android.
• Paul Norman porovnává a hodnotí různé alternativy poskytování vektorových dlaždic.

Programování

• Jochen Topf shrnul na svém blogu nejdůležitější změny v projektu Osmium.

Nová vydání

Poskytuje OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) nesvobodný software. Viz svobodný software.

Věděli jste …

• … o webovém klientu pro BRouter na plánování vaší příští cesty?
• … o službě Meshu, která vyrobí z vaší oblíbené oblasti mapy náhrdelník?

OSM v médiích

• Ottawa Sun informuje o pilotním projektu Statistického úřadu Kanadu na sběr dat společně s OSM mappery. Tato data se stala základem poněkud kontroverzního importu.

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• Vypadá to, že všechny zpravodajské služby přináší informaci o tom, že Millennium Tower v San Francisku klesá rychleji než se čekalo a naklání se na stranu. Nicméně skutečná zpráva je, že satelit ESA umožňuje analýzu a monitorování podobných změn kdekoliv, včetně oblastí náchylných na zemětřesení.
• Invisible Cities natrénovali neuronovou síť pro automatické vytváření satelitních map z mapových dat. Zůstává jen otázka zda to bude fungovat zpětně s použitím například extraktoru od Facebooku
• Švýcarské noviny “Der Tagesanzeiger“ informují, že mnichovská firma Terraloupe pracuje na software na rozpoznávání a mapování budov, konstrukčních projektů, skupin stromů a vodních ploch z leteckých fotografií.
• Betsy Masonová z National Geograhic publikovala článek nazvaný “Nejlepší nové mapy podle kartografů”.
• GeoSLab stručně popisují rozdíly mezi bitmapovými a vektorovými dlaždicemi.

Plánované události

kde	co	kdy	země
Helsinki	OSM GeoBeers	01.12.2016
Drážďany	Stammtisch	01.12.2016
Tampere	OSM kahvit	02.12.2016
Dortmund	Stammtisch	04.12.2016
Metro Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 3/8, San Juan	05.12.2016
Rostock	OSM Stammtisch Rostock	06.12.2016
Stuttgart	Stammtisch	07.12.2016
Mnichov	Stammtisch München	08.12.2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	08.12.2016
Berlín	102. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	09.12.2016
Pergine Valsugana	Mappatura sentieri del Lagorai Cima Asta	09.12.2016	Trentino
Pasov	Mappertreffen	12.12.2016
Metro Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 4/8, San Juan	12.12.2016
Grenoble	Rencontre groupe local	12.12.2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	13.12.2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	13.12.2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	13.12.2016
Berlín	DB Open Data Hackathon	16.12. – 17.12.2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第３回 小石川植物園	17.12.2016
Essen	Stammtisch	18.12.2016
Kyoto	【晴明神社】マッピング＆ステップアップ勉強会	18.12.2016
Metro Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 5/8, San Juan	19.12.2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	19.12.2016

Poznámka: Pokud zde chcete vidět vaši akci, zadejte ji prosím do kalendáře. Pouze data z kalendáře se objeví v našem týdeníku. V kalendáři prosím nezapomeňte zmínit město a zemi. A pro vložení kategorie použijte prosím [edit blog detail].

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

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

11/29/2016-12/05/2016

Mapping

• BushmanK tries to enhance the definition of the tags man_made=mast and man_made=tower.
• The voting for nesting_site has started on Dec 5th and will be open until the 19th.
• Markus Schnalke wants to know how to deal with worthwhile suggestions made on a proposal after voting has started.
• Marc Zoutendijk created an Overpass query to show all fixme tags on a map. A comment from Andy points to his tool to generate GPX files of fixmes (and notes) to go out and visit them.

Community

• Sarah Hoffmann is the new mapper of the month.
• Mapanauta writes an interesting diary entry about the results and new initiatives that were discussed during the GeoChicas/ Geoladies event that happened during the SotM LatAm.
• Peter Bremer writes, in his blog, that Mapillary released new raster tiles showing all traces and photo locations, for use as a layer in map applications that don’t support vector tiles (such as OsmAnd). OsmAnd users would find the step-by-step instructions, to add the tileset to OsmAnd, interesting.
• Mappa Mercia has won a prize for its traffic heatmap at the Birmingham Highways Data Challenge. Congratulations!
• Matt Amos asks on GitHub whether OSM should run a Mattermost server as an alternative communication mechanism to Slack (used by OSMers in the US) and IRC.
• The Russian blog SHTOSM reported (automatic translation) about Malenki and the great services he did for OSM and the OSM community.

Imports

• Christoph Hormann writes an insightful post on the imports list, prompted by the San Francisco building heights import. Among other things, he says “The main aim when planning and performing an import (…) needs to be to allow you and your fellow importers to responsibly and productively participate in the community process of open map production” and “It is completely fine to articulate diverging experiences and opinions but in return you also need to respect the views of others”.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF warmly thanks all the donors. A special thank you goes to Mapbox.
• The wrong list of members was used while sending out the ballots for the OSMF election. The decision was to reissue the ballots and extend the voting period until 16:00 UTC Wednesday, 14 December 2016.
• Due to the OSMF elections, Christoph explains how Single Transferable Vote (STV) voting works.
• OpenStreetMap US will have board elections soon. The manifestos of all candidates can be found on the wiki.

Events

• A group at the San Jorge University of Zaragoza organized a mapathon (automatic translation).
• Up to the 16th of December, you can apply for the first State of the Map Africa. Until now there’s been one application from Uganda.

Humanitarian OSM

• Blake Girardot calls to participate in the planning, commenting and development of OSM Tasking Manager 3.0.
• HOT launched a fund-raising campaign to support local mappers from vulnerable places with micro-grants.
• Severin Menard criticizes HOT’s transparency and questions the donation campaign’s purpose. Tyler Radford tries to clarify and promises an enlightening blog post.

Maps

• Paul Norman announced major changes to OpenStreetMap-Carto, which hopefully will soon lead to a database reimport. As a result, the new tags could easily be transferred to the main map.
• OSMLanduse.org is live – depicting landuses/landcovers according to OSM data by contrasting colours and providing a pie chart of the composition.
• A tutorial explains how to add labels on a map using mapzen.js and Tangram.

Open Data

• A talk^fr on free digital cartography and sustainable development has been held by members of several OSM communities from West Africa, at the world summit on Open Government Partnership.

Software

• Chris Hill writes in his blog post about how to replace OpenLayers and use Leaflet.
• Some Brazilian mappers made a pull request to the Maps.Me application in July, which got accepted now. The pull request adds the translation to Brazilian Portuguese and fixes some errors in the current European Portuguese translation. Problems in the translation are making users to insert data tagged wrongly on OpenStreetMap.
• Akbar Gumbira shares the work he did in GSOC around the problem of resource sharing in QGIS.

Programming

• Marc Tobias points out osm4scala, a library for Scala that can read PBF files.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the OpenGridMap of the Technical University of Munich? The TUM reported on this important international tool for energy transition in Germany and other countries.
• … there’s a way to discover suspicious changesets?

OSM in the media

• The Washington Post shows six different maps which show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure. The maps are created by using data from OpenStreetMap and various government sources. The president-elect is likely to suffer some nerves with the necessary investment of half a trillion dollars to maintain and expand this infrastructure.

Other “geo” things

• The New York Times reports about the friendly settling of a land dispute between Belgium and the Netherlands.
• We featured the Dymaxion projection, the projection of Autagraph, and the Pseudo-Autagraph-projection by Marcin Ciura. Now Jos Dirksen presents an animated projection. Vox published a video that explains the problem of the projection of a three-dimensional image (globe) into a plane (map) very vividly.
• Srinivas Kodali from Hyderabad writes about Hyderabad GHMC wants to have so called smart addressing through a PPP model and he is seriously concerned about the state of all geo databases with closed numbering systems. Here is the tender document (PDF).
• Qivalon, a startup company from Saarbrücken, Germany, has developed Tankplaner an app for Android und iOS. This app gives an optimal fuel recommendation on the route to be driven. Martin Dirich says to weeklyOSM: “The route calculation is done on the server side with specially prepared OSM data, even if we take the standard components of the respective platform for the visualization.”
• George Joseph maps U.S. pipeline accidents of the last 30 years in an animated map.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
München	Stammtisch München	12/08/2016
Heidelberg	Earthquake management in Kyrgyzstan	12/08/2016
Paris	Mapathon Paris with HOT, OSM France and CartONG	12/08/2016
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	12/08/2016
Berlin	102. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	12/09/2016
Pergine Valsugana	Mappatura sentieri del Lagorai Cima Asta	12/09/2016	Trentino
Hanoi	Mapathon	12/10/2016
Passau	Mappertreffen	12/12/2016
Metro Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 4/8, San Juan	12/12/2016
Grenoble	Rencontre groupe local	12/12/2016
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	12/13/2016
Nottingham	Nottingham	12/13/2016
Landshut	Landshut Stammtisch	12/13/2016
Zurich	Stammtisch Zürich	12/13/2016
Berlin	DB Open Data Hackathon	12/16/2016-12/17/2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第３回 小石川植物園	12/17/2016
Essen	Stammtisch	12/18/2016
Kyoto	【晴明神社】マッピング＆ステップアップ勉強会	12/18/2016
Alpi Apuane	2016 Mapping party Rifugio Nello Conti	12/17/2016-12/18/2016	Toscana
Metro Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 5/8, San Juan	12/19/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	12/19/2016
Graz	Stammtisch	12/19/2016
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	12/20/2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	12/20/2016
Valencia	Missing Maps Valencia 1	12/20/2016
Moscow	Schemotechnika 07	12/21/2016
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	12/22/2016

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropiate..

This weeklyOSM was produced by Hakuch, Peda, Peuc, Rogehm, SomeoneElse, Spec80, SrrReal, YoViajo, derFred, jcoupey, jinalfoflia, kreuzschnabel.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

12/06/2016-12/12/2016

About us

• Dear reader, you might noticed that this issue was published very late. WeeklyOSM is normally published after being proofread twice. This issue had been proofread only once. If you are not satisfied with the English texts, grammar, wording, or anything else, please feel to join us and help us to publish the next issue. The next issue will only be published if it gets proofread twice. Get in touch with us or ping us on twitter.

Mapping

• On Osmtalk there is a discussion about the tag in highway=living_street Africa.
• Andy Mabbett suggests a few ideas for quarterly projects on the Talk-GB mailing list. The polls on proposals amenity=baking_oven and oven=* are open until December 20th.
• Alejandro Suárez wonders about the different definitions of the tag amenity=bar in the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, which probably comes from another semantic information of “bar” in Spanish and he would like to harmonise this in the wiki.
• LeTopographeFou establishes, that the original intended tagshop=estate_agent is ignored, and the tag office=estate_agent is used instead.
• User daniel-j-h writes a diary about the anomalies that the OSRM users report and the impact of oneway=reversible tag on the routing engine. He also introduces the oneway=alternating tag and it’s usage in OpenStreetMap.
• Manoharuss publishes his MAPS.ME edits analyses for November.

Community

• As part of the OSM women’s initiative against the gender gap in the past OSM latam there is a new group now on telegram. If you are a woman and interested, join!
• Who says that people don’t comment to changeset discussions on very old changesets?
• @mapeadora writes about the construction of OSM woman group on Latin America, and how to make a community.
• OSM is proposed as a method and database for the inventory of trees in Colombia in the urban areas of the nation.
• Presentation on the OGP by @mapanauta on how open data/open mapping can make a difference for social impact & humanitarian purposes. OGP is overseen at the international level by a Steering Committee composed of representatives of governments and civil society organizations in equal numbers. It brings together governments and civil society organizations as true partners at both the national and international level.
• On December 9th, the Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski visited the Mapbox team, in Ayacucho, Peru, where he learned about the company and worked on his first OpenStreetMap edit, contributing to the largest open geographic database in the world. Alex Barth asks if the president is the first head of state on OSM?

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSM Foundation chairperson’s report for the 2016 Annual General Meeting has been published.
• The OSM Foundation Treasurer’s Report for the 2016 Annual General Meeting has been published. The meeting occurred last Saturday, December 10th.

Events

• The SoTM 2017 will take place in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan from 18th to 20th of August.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT explained details and procedures of their “Microgrant Program” for 2017. The sum donated so far, however, is limited.
• DutchNews.nl writes about the dedication of Paul Uithol from HOT and a team of volunteers who have been using online maps to help rebuild devastated communities since Hurricane Matthew swept through Haiti last month.

Maps

• OpenInfraMap, a project by Russ Garrett, has been updated with new layers.

Open Data

• Christoph Hormann publishes his reduced waterbody data (we reported earlier) on openstreetmapdata.
• OpenAddresses has passed the 300 million address milestone.

Licences

• User PlaneMad thinks that MapMyIndia, a commercial aggregator, is using OSM data and shows an example of an area he personally mapped.

Software

• Dave F. writes to the talk mailing list expressing his unhappiness about automatically generated notes from Maps.me.

Programming

• Chris Hill wrote a Leaflet plugin that adds a hash to the URL, denoting which baselayer and overlays are currently selected.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• …the first node translated into the language Atikamekw?
• … the service MapContrib of Guillaume AMAT? User escada presented it on the basis of a map with dog parks a few months ago.

OSM in the media

• The newspaper La Croix published (automatic translation) an article about a contributor, Fabrice Ramamonjy who improves the data of Antananarivo with his community of students. Their university supports (automatic translation) the initiative. 

Other “geo” things

• An impressive interactive map visualizes the population density of English cities. John Elledge shows some examples on CityMetric.
• The detailed replica of the world famous “Lascaux” cave, a Unesco World Heritage Site, was opened by French President Hollande, is now open to visitors.
• The change of name from Open Street View to OpenStreetCam is complemented by the new version.
• Sightline reports on structural changes in the use of living space in Seattle.
• Ivory Coast adds the 3-word global addressing system offered by the British startup What3Words to their own insufficient system of postal addresses. What3Words assigns an arbitrary three-word-code to any 3×3-metres square of the Earth surface. Critics consider it a bad idea to make a postal system dependent on a commercial company’s licensing system.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	DB Open Data Hackathon	12/16/2016-12/17/2016
Washington_DC	Mapping Anacostia	12/17/2016
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第３回 小石川植物園	12/17/2016
Essen	Stammtisch	12/18/2016
Kyoto	【晴明神社】マッピング＆ステップアップ勉強会	12/18/2016
Alpi Apuane	2016 Mapping party Rifugio Nello Conti	12/17/2016-12/18/2016	Toscana
Tampere	OSM kahvit	12/19/2016
Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 5/8, San Juan	12/19/2016
Taipei	Taipei Meetup, Mozilla Community Space	12/19/2016
Graz	Stammtisch	12/19/2016
Cologne/Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	12/20/2016
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	12/20/2016
Valencia	Missing Maps Valencia 1	12/20/2016
Lyon	Missing Maps Lyon	12/20/2016
Moscow	Schemotechnika 07	12/21/2016
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	12/21/2016
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	12/22/2016
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	12/30/2016

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropiate..

This weeklyOSM was produced by Hakuch, Laura Barroso, Peda, Rogehm, Spec80, TheFive, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

12/13/2016-12/19/2016

About us

• FYI: – Why the German team were thinking about reducing their contribution to weeklyOSM. Read here why the German team continues. (automatic translation)

Mapping

• TagaSanPedroAko asks for comments on his power pole extension proposal which will increase the detail of tagging of power poles to include design, material, function and more.
• The proposal for power switching extensions which increased the tagging detail for power switches (previously mentioned here) was adopted after a successful vote.
• Voting closed and the proposed features to map (pizza) ovens and bakehouses (communal ones often found in France) were approved. The already mentioned tagging scheme for man-made nesting sites was also approved.
• Martijn van Exel asks mappers to give ImproveOSM a(nother) try, as Telenav and INRIX have recently added almost 1 million new tiles that might contain missing streets.

Community

• OpenStreetMap US conducts a census of the US OSM members. The results up to now can be seen on a heat map.
• The videos of this year’s SotM Latam are now available. Besides many interesting Spanish and Portuguese talks there are also three in the English language.
• Michael Reichert discusses cleaning up the deprecated and unused rooms and services from OpenStreetMap Wiki’s contact channels page.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• We congratulate Frederik Ramm and Kate Chapman on their re-election to the OSMF board. If you weren’t able to vote please consider joining the OSMF now!

Events

• An international workshop on crowdsourcing in “National Mapping” will be held in Leuven, Belgium on April 3rd and 4th, 2017. The workshop is sponsored by EuroSDR, a not-for-profit organisation linking National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs) with research institutes and universities in Europe. Participation from the OpenStreetMap Community is greatly encouraged. Registration is free.
• You can now submit proposals for SotM Latam 2017.

Humanitarian OSM

• FT features Missing Maps and HOT and their involvement with Doctors Without Borders as part of its seasonal appeal series.
• Mapbox supports the HOT donation drive with a generous incentive: if 150 people donate within the next 12 days, Mapbox will donate US$10,000!
• HOT’s involvement and assistance with the recent earthquake in Aceh is noted by Jakarta Globe.
• Africa Times follows up FT’s coverage of Missing Maps with an article detailing their involvement in Africa, as well as MapSwipe.
• HOT hosted a workshop in Suva, Fiji that trained 25 participants on how to use tools such as the iD editor and OpenMapKit. Overall, the workshop was a success, with Mhairi O’Hara reporting that “participants were fully engaged and picked up techniques quickly.”

Programming

• Based on OsmSharp, the multi-platform opensource routing library Itinero has its own page in the OSM wiki now.
• Thomas Park releases its open source editor of vector styles for interactive maps. The MVT Styler uses the Mapbox GL Style specification.
• Paul Norman presents OSMBorder that extracts and transforms administrative boundaries. He developed it for Wikimedia, so also controversial borders in the Wikipedia maps can be displayed. He hopes for more interest in the data and asks for feedback.

Releases

Vladimir Elistratov (vvoovv) has released a new version of his OSM 3D Blender plugin . The plugin is now liable for costs, although the source code is still available.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the app Transportr, which is open source and respects your privacy? The app continues to grow and the supported cities and countries are increasing.
• … the global light map of the University of Heidelberg? Here an example of London.
• … the German test track on a public motorway will be equipped with special traffic signs for self driving cars to measure their exact position. (automatic translation)
• … the still quite new company KreateLabs by Bradon Levalds, which produces acrylic maps from OSM data?

OSM in the media

• The Register reports about OpenStreetCam as an alternative to Google Street View.

Other “geo” things

• On December 12th the European satellite navigation system Galileo has begun operating.
• The New York Times reported on a research project, in which Italian researchers investigated the change of larger waters. The article contains some impressive animations. OSM data was also used.
• A research project by Pierre L. Ibisch at the Eberswalde College of Sustainable Development shows the connections of the road network with an unbelievable 36 million kilometers to the number of the resulting areas (600,000), which are left to nature, using a worldwide map (OSM-based) In order to develop sustainably. Conclusion: A global strategy is needed to adapt nature’s infrastructure. Read the stories in English in National Geograhic and in The Conversation.
• Eight italian schools answer to a call for proposals for “digital curriculums” from the Ministry of Education with a project that would make use of open data about school buildings and OSM to teach and improve the students digital skills. (automatic translation)
• QuickMapServices (QMS) is a geoservices catalog with public API that hosts over 200 TMS, WMS, WFS and GeoJSON services. QMS is already integrated with QGIS, NextGIS Mobile and ArcGIS. The catalog is open for participation where anyone can add a service after simple registration and easy form. After that, this service immediately becomes available in client software.
• SPON reports (automatic translation) about picture books produced more than 100 years ago that were supposed to help you navigate your car. Humorously they write about a “Predecessor to Google Street View”.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs	10.01.2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	10.01.2017
Berlin	103. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	12.01.2017
Ulloa	1er encuentro comunidad OSMCo	13.01.2017-15.01.2017
Brussels	Brussels Meetup	16.01.2017
Essen	Stammtisch	16.01.2017
Metro Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 7/8, San Juan	16.01.2017
Osnabrück	Stammtisch / OSM Treffen	18.01.2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	18.01.2017
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	19.01.2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	19.01.2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第４回 根津神社	21.01.2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropiate..

This weeklyOSM was produced by JoshuaKGarner, Laura Barroso, Peda, Rogehm, Sadless74, Softgrow, Spec80, YoViajo, derFred, jcoupey, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, sabas88, vsandre.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

12/20/2016-12/26/2016

Mapping

• The very old proposal to introduce a validation date for keys is again being discussed.
• Rory McCann reports on Townlands.ie, which can now display the historical names. The validity date for keys described above is used for this.
• Philip Hunt presents his work on the automatic recognition of building outlines and makes further suggestions for improvements. John Whelan takes the opportunity to ask on the talk mailing list, if there is already a directive for such contributions to the database.
• Daniel J H writes a diary about routing circular junctions. This post gives information about how OSRM distinguishes between roundabout intersections, named, and unnamed roundabouts. It also gives information about the criteria for a junction to be a roundabout.

Community

• The OpenCage Data Blog interviewed Julio May about OpenStreetMap in Costa Rica.
• Pascal Neis’ HDYC now also supports OpenStreetCam profiles.
• Alan described how the STV (single-use) voting system works and why it would be better suited than the majority voting system currently used by OSM US.
• It has been speculated for a while that Niantic are using OSM data within Pokemon Go (to determine where certain game creatures appear). Since just before Christmas, we’ve now seen a lot of Pokemon Go players updating OpenStreetMap. In many cases their edits are to be welcomed and perfectly valid, but unfortunately a small number are adding unlikely nonexistent footpaths, parks and water features in their locality. However what Niantic are doing is purely speculation – Grant suggests that in the absence of hard evidence we should try and persuade US-based Pokemon Go players to perform TIGER fixup and map missing amenities Using Pascal’s search tool for suspicious changesets, it’s easy to find such changes.
• The app Transport (that we’ve reported on previously) asks if a change from osmdroid to Mapbox would be a software freedom issue for their users.

Events

• In Solsona, a small town with 10,000 inhabitants near Barcelona, cartography students, headed by teacher Fermí Garriga, meets to collect data in OSM. Since google has “many disadvantages” and the data of the cartographic institute of Catalonia are partly faulty, but the participants map with their local knowledge, OSM-based maps are the best choice, Elpuntavui.cat said (auto translation).

Humanitarian OSM

• Douglas writes a very detailed summary of the HOT and FSD workshops in Uganda, which focused on the use of crowdsourcing and geodata for financial services.
• There is page at HOT to make donations for OSM Latam event. Help the Latam event if you can!

switch2OSM

• Faced with high costs from commercial providers, a Pokemon map decides to “just serve their own OSM tiles” (and saves a lot of money in the process).

Software

• Lukas Martinelli published a video demonstrating the current status of Maputnik (that we reported on earlier).
• You may have seen OSM diary entries by Mapbox’s data team such as this one showing potentially problematic changes to OSM. Many of the issues listed in those were revealed by OSMCha, originally written by Wille Marcel. In this diary entry Manohar from Mapbox goes into more detail about OSMCha and what they have found from using it.

Programming

• OpenStreetMap Carto was released in version 3.0.0. It uses Mapnik 3 for the first time and is a crucial step towards HStores on our main page.

Releases

Mapbox releases a new version of their Android SDK which comes with the following enhancements like clustering, integrated support for Mapbox Android services and much more.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the page mapcontrib? It is up with new features: The ability to create heat maps a new tag and presets handling and has the theme creator to translate all the theme information in English, French and Italian (for now).
• … the beginner’s guide to use JOSM by Ramya Ragupathy?

Other “geo” things

• Geomatics Canada presents “The five most interesting things that happened in geomatics in 2016”.
• Uber explains in great detail how to deal with geodata and describes the different tools they use for this.
• National Geographic presents 15 maps of 2016 who show “cartography at its best”.
• National Geographic released a video of NASA with some impressive shots of Earth from space, with the title “A Year on Earth as Seen From Space”.

Upcoming Events

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropiate..

This weeklyOSM was produced by Laura Barroso, Peda, Rogehm, SomeoneElse, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

12/27/2016-01/02/2017

About us

• We wish all our readers a peaceful and a happy new year 2017.The Geman team produced a review of the year’s events with the most important links in our category maps. Unfortunately, the team has had no time to translate it into other languages. But the translations links should be fine in most of the articles.
• Due to shortage of manpower we have had to drop our Italian version of weeklyOSM. So we will publish in 8 languages in the future. A special thanks to the two remaining editors sabas88 and sbiribizio who tried together to keep the Italian edition alive. For an edition – even if it is just translations – the weeklyOSM requires minimum three editors. We thank them for their willingness to continue as weeklyOSM’s reporters for the Italian community.

Mapping

• Brian Prangle has written a guide to help with the collection and mapping of fire hydrants in UK. This mapping effort was prompted by the declaration of fire hydrant locations in the West Midlands of England as “secret” (despite each one being labelled with a highly visible, often bright yellow sign)!
• Harald Hartmann is looking for the source of the tag maxspeed=DE:rural. (automatic translation)
• TagaSanPedroAko writes in detail about his latest mapping activity, including power line mapping and adding points of interest, in Batangas City – a place he has been regularly mapping.
• Zverik analyses the change count of POIs by editor type.
• Toc-rox reports, that often tracks do not have a tracktype and how this is handled in the “Freizeitkarte” . A disussion about good default values has started. (automatic translation)

Community

• Tom analyses the building coverage of OpenStreetMap in Austria. (automatic translation)
• HackerNews user recommends OSM in response to a discussion about Google Maps lite mode, particularly with respect to up-to-dateness regarding roads and speed of loading in comparison with Google Maps.
• Stumbled upon OpenStreetMap while playing Pokemon Go? Here are some tips to get started with contributing to OSM.
• On Talk-GB, Brian Prangle shares a list of tentative projects in consideration for this year’s first ‘Quarterly Project’.
• Andygol shows how to test for a connected net of streets that are still connected at other zoom levels.
• User escada interviews Philippe Verdy as the Mapper of the Month.

Imports

• User ryebread brings to the community’s attention his efforts to import data from the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) for Detroit.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSMF provides a recap of 2016, highlighting some of the interesting work done during the past year.

Events

• The call for proposals (CFP) for FOSSGIS (automatic translation) 2017 is open until January 6, 2017. There were announcements about the same on the OSM forum (automatic translation) and the talk-de (automatic translation) mailing list.
• The SotM Africa will take place 2017 in Kampala.
• The next hosting country for the State of the Map Latin America 2017 will be Peru! The conference will be held in December, in Lima. Exact dates are yet to be confirmed.

Humanitarian OSM

• In Tunis young people are looking for a better image of a poor district. The project uses OSM and is financially supported by Switzerland.
• Tyler Radford announced the successful completion of the fund critical community mapping projects.

Maps

• Greg reported the results of the last quarterly project. The aim was to use UK Food Hygiene Rating System data from the UK Food Standards Agency to improve the density of POIs, addresses and postcodes in town centres. Statistics and tools can still be used.
• Christian Quest announced the renewed French map style and moved to a new server. See the new map and what was changed.
• Sven Geggus improved the “German-Map-Style”. Very nice feature: The map shows names in two languages. Sven is looking for help.

switch2OSM

• The TAHUNA app beta version is available (automatic translation) from Google Play Store, adding Teasi navigation tools to your mobile device.

Software

• Maps.me has integrated an important feature since the new update: traffic information.
• The Android app OSM for the dyslexic an OSM-based world atlas for dyslexic users. The development is part of the MyGEOSS project.
• WordPress asks via tweet for beta testers on their upcoming OSM plugin version 3.8.

Programming

• Mike Fricker, the technical director for Unreal Engine 4 at Epic Games, has released a plugin for their popular game engine which can import OpenStreetMap data into their game editor.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the German alternative to Google Maps? Maps.metager.de (automatic translation) of the SUMA-EV and the Leibnitzuniversität Hannover is currently in the beta version and offers only Germany-wide search requests on OSM basis. However, it promises to be one of the safest search engines.

Other “geo” things

• In an article on L’Obs, the online edition of the Nouvel Observateur, it is once again about how Google adapts the national boundaries according to the states’ view.
• The Verge reports about the launch of the service toilet-locator from Google and India’s Ministry of Urban Development.

Upcoming Events

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropiate..

This weeklyOSM was produced by Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, SomeoneElse, SrrReal, TheFive, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, kreuzschnabel, seumas.

03.01. – 09.01.2017

OSM CZ

• Aktualizace semaforů na křižovatkách v ČR – návrat k tématu z posledního kvartálního piva v Praze.
• Mirek upozorňuje na mapperskou perlu – podivný tvar státní hranice mezi Belgií a Holandskem.
• Jakob z Německa se ptá na správnost tagování placených úseků nové dálnice D8.
• Odkaz na mapu osvětlení ulic v návaznosti na Weekly #335 a nedávné téma otevřených dat v Brně.
• Dotaz na správné značení silnic po zavedení D8. Mapovat podle stavu v terénu kde už je přeznačeno nebo počkat na to, až to zpracují úředníci na ministerstvu dopravy?

OSM SK

• Slovenská komunita plánuje jarní mapping party – zřejmě na květen 2017.
• Nápad na doplnění tagu maxspeed na všechny cesty, kde není explicitně definovaný asi nakonec nebude úplně ideální. Aneb nemapujme pro renderer.
• Zdrojové kódy nové verze portálu freemap.sk jsou dostupné na GitHubu.
• Na freemap.sk do verze 3 doplněna navigace po trase.
• Nevykreslující se relace route=mtb a co je vlastně špatně.

Mapování

• Regio OSM, tester na kompletnost adres nyní kontroluje 1702 komunit a mnoho měst v Německu, jedné z 11 zemí, které nástroj podporuje.
• Zajímavá kombinace otevřených dat a OSM pro zlepšení OSM dat škol v UK. Jedna z nevýhod je, že přímý odkaz existuje pouze pro editor iD. Pokud si ale otevře iD, můžete si z něj otevřít JOSM.
• Pascal Neis popisuje na blogu své nástroje pro zajištění kvality v OSM
  • Latest OSM Changeset Discussions (diskuze nad sadami změn) a
  • Find Suspicious OSM Changesets (hledání podezřelých sad změn, nabízí mnoho možností filtrování a také relevantní odkazy pro další informace)
• Arun Ganesh ukazuje důležitost tagu wikidata=* na příkladu ze severoindického města Manali. Ve svém příspěvku také poukazuje na možnosti vylepšení OSM přidáním dalších informací z Wikidat, Wikimedia Commons, WikiVoyage a na možnost využití Wikidat v nástrojích Mapboxu.
• Tým OSM Operations oznámil novou vlastnost na hlavní stránce: veřejné GPS stopy.
• Tom Pfeifer se ptá, jak tagovat docela moderní formu spolupráce – sdílení pracovního prostoru a vybavení v podobě coworkingu.
• Chris používá AutoHotKey (Windows) a JOSM pro optimalizaci svých mapperských zkušeností. Demonstruje to na videu při trasování obrysu budov.
• Uživatel rorym ukazuje, proč je užitečné nedělat automatické editace, ale zároveň se “podívat na oblast komplexněji a hledat i další chyby!”

Komunita

• HDYC od Pascala Neise se pomalu mění na informační centrum. Nově byla přidána i služba Mapswipe.
• Rafael Ávila Coya publikoval video o tom, jak OSM pomáhá v Tanzanii v boji proti ženské obřízce.
• Diskuze na tagging mail listu o landuse=village_green vyústila v editaci stránky pro landuse_grass tak, že říkala něco úplně jiného než předtím (což vyvolalo stížnosti).
• Yuri Astrakhan, který přidává OSM objektům odkazy na wikidata a propojuje tak tyto objekty s wikipedií, žádá o pomoc s řešením některých problémů s daty, která editoval. Diskuze brzy přerostla v otázku role revertů, vyvolanou revertem CANVEC importu v Kanadě.
• Uživatel mmd ukazuje na svém blogu overpass-turbo dotaz, který v OSM najde unicode emotikony. Seriózní pozadí řešeného problému je najít všechny názvy se smíchanými jazyky. Tyr_asd přidal k dotazu i mapcss. Následně napsal mmd návrh kódu a žádost o hlasování pro podporu plného Unicode v regulárních výrazech pro Overpass API.
• Pnorman zmiňuje na svém blogu, že Sarah Hoffmannová (lonvia), Matthijs Melissen (math1985) a Bas Couwenberg (sebastic) mají velký podíl na projektech jako osm2pgsql nebo OpenStreetMap Carto.
• Od nynějška existuje formální reprezentace OpenStreetMap ve Velké Británii.
• Nikaraguiská komunita začala hledat financování pro projekt veřejné dopravy, ve kterém chtějí vylepšit přesnost dat autobusů v hlavním městě Managua.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• OSM UK se stala CIC Ltd.. Můžete se také přidat.
• OSM UK navrhuje, aby se Nadace OSM stala také CIC Ltd. (britskou neziskovkou).

Události

• Klaus Torsky informuje (automatický překlad) o posledním FOSS4G v Německu. Odkazuje na interview s Till Adamsem – hlavním organizátorem FOSS4G v Bonnu.
• Frederik Ramm zve všechny na únorový hack víkend do německého Karlsruhe.
• V Tombuctu se 7. – 9. ledna konala mapping party.

Humanitární OSM

• Kizito Makoye informuje o iniciativě administrativy v tanzanském Dar es Salaam City, která provádí mapování záplavových oblastí, například Tandal, pomocí dronů. Projekt Ramani-Huria tuto akci podporuje zanesením sesbíraných údajů do map na bázi OSM. Toto a další opatření pomohou vylepšit životní podmínky a infrastrukturu ve slumových oblastech.

Mapy

• Na GitHubu navrhuje hlavní vývojář Israelských turistických map některé prvky, které by dávaly smysl i na OpenStreetMap.org. Různí lidé vysvětlují, jak se většinou přidává nová funkcionalita – nejprve jako externí implementace a následně, pokud to dává smysl, přímo na osm.org.
• OpenRouteService nyní nabízí unikátní navigaci pro vozíčkáře. “Proč právě touto cestou?”. Bere v úvahu výšku obrubníku, rovnost povrchu, cesty s převýšením a chodníky.
• Mapcontrib dosáhl verze 1.0 a při té příležitosti publikoval první popisný příspěvek na blogu.
• Na akci CES 2017, se snažil Mapzen zaujmout zákazníky 3D tiskem.
• Lutz přesunul Historical Objects Map na nový server. Udělal také několik změn a žádá o zpětnou vazbu (automatický překlad)

Přechod k OSM

• Uber využívá OpenStreetMap. Grant Slater očekává, že Uber přispěje do OSM i daty.

Software

• Nápověda Wikimedie vysvětluje jak použít Wikidata ID pro zobrazení obrysu OSM objektů na mapách Wikimedie.
• Uživatel Daniel sepsal příspěvek do deníku o tom, jak poslední vydání Open Source Routing Machine (verze 5.5) umožňuje jednodušeji nasadit vlastní navigační služby a sdílí některé užitečné dokumenty k tématu.

Nová vydání

• OpenStreetMap Routing Machine vydala verzi 5.5 s velkými změnami v navigaci, podporovaných tazích, API a infrastruktuře.

Poskytuje OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) nesvobodný software. Viz svobodný software.

Věděli jste …

• … o denně aktualizovaných extraktech od Netzwolfa?
• … o cíli vaší příští dovolené? Pokud ano, georeferencované obrázky na Wikimedia Commons jsou ideální k získání představy o tom, jak to tam vypadá.
• … o GPS navigátoru uNav pro chytré telefony s Ubuntu? Tato navigační aplikace na bázi OSM je nyní dostupná ve verzi 0.64 pro Ubuntu Mobile Operating System (OTA-14).

OSM v médiích

• Tracy Staedter (Seeker) vysvětluje mapy od Geoffa Boeinga. Nazývá jeho vizualizační nástroj OSMnx (OSM + NetworkX). Tento nástroj umí vytvořit fyzickou charakteristiku ulic v černobílé mřížce a zobrazuje tak zajímavý historický vývoj měst. Boeing říká, “Obrázky pomáhají změnit názory tím, že ukazují, že větší hustota města není vždy nutně špatná.”

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• Open Traffic Partnership (OTP) je iniciativa spuštěná ve filipínské Manile, která se snaží za pomoci anonymizovaných GPS dat analyzovat dopravní zácpy. Partnerství vedlo k open source platformě – OSM je reprezentováno firmou Mapzen – umožňující rozvojovým zemím zaznamenat a analyzovat vzory v dopravě. Alyssa Wright, President nadace OpenStreetMap US říká: “Partnerství se snaží vylepšit efektivitu a výkonost využití globální dopravy skrz otevřená data a rozšiřování kapacit.”
• Takto to vypadá, když projekce Mercator deformuje zemské póly.
• Treepedia, vyvinuta v Senseable City Lab a MIT a Světovým ekonomickým fórem, poskytuje vizualizaci pokrytí stromy v 12 hlavních městech světa včetně New Yorku, Los Angeles a Paříže.

Plánované události

kde	co	kdy	země
Lyon	Mapathon Missing Maps pour Ouahigouya	16.01.2017
Brusel	Brussels Meetup	16.01.2017
Essen	Stammtisch	16.01.2017
Grenoble	Rencontre groupe local	16.01.2017
Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 7/8, San Juan	16.01.2017
Augsburg	Augsburger Stammtisch	17.01.2017
Cologne/Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	17.01.2017
Edinburg	Edinburgh	17.01.2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	17.01.2017
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	17.01.2017
Osnabrück	Stammtisch / OSM Treffen	18.01.2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	18.01.2017
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #02	18.01.2017
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	19.01.2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	19.01.2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第４回 根津神社	21.01.2017
Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 8/8, San Juan	23.01.2017
Brémy	Bremer Mappertreffen	23.01.2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	23.01.2017
Brusel	FOSDEM 2017	04.02. – 05.02.2017
Benátky	OSMit2017	08.02. – 11.02.2017
Pasov	FOSSGIS 2017	22.03. – 25.03.2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02.06. – 04.06.2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18.08. – 20.08.2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10.23. – 10.28.2017

Poznámka: Pokud zde chcete vidět vaši akci, zadejte ji prosím do kalendáře. Pouze data z kalendáře se objeví v našem týdeníku. Následně prosím akci zkontrolujte ve veřejném náhledu kalendáře a v případě potřeby záznam opravte.

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

10.01. – 16.01.2017

OSM CZ

• Jak se v OSM mapují budovy s podloubím?
• Indoor mapování pater a nákupních galerií – upravený iD editor Pavla Zby.
• Marián si zapnul RSS pro podezřelé sady změn a objevil divné parky – že by Pokemon Go?
• VOP shrnuje aktuální stav mapových dat od města Brna.
• Jak mapovat permanentní stavební buňky a montážní jámy případně montážní rampy?

OSM SK

• Jak tagovat v OSM místo, kde se v zimě dobře parkuje pro běžkaře – tedy je tam prostě odhrnutý sníh?
• Slovenské OSM v rádiu Regina Košice.
• Hledá se vhodný termín pro jarní slovenskou mapping party.
• Dočasně pozastavené renderování mapy freemap.sk kvůli aktualizaci databáze, POI a dalších příslušných věci. Předpoklad dokončení cca za jeden až dva dny (tj. 18.1. nebo 19.1.)

Mapování

• Kartitotp ve svém blogovém příspěvku popisuje pokrok, který udělala OSM komunita spolu s týmem Mapboxu při mapování města Ayacucho ve snaze udělat tohle město se 150.000 obyvateli v peruánských Andách nejlépe zmapovaným městem v Latinské Americe. Nejnověji bylo do OSM zmapováno 20 autobusových linek od 22 dopravních společností.
• Martin Koppenhöfer znovu položil otázku: Proč stále nejsou rozlišovány monumenty pomocí dvou navržených podklíčů?

Komunita

• Fork projektu MapOSMatic Hartmuta Holzgraefa dostal spoustu vylepšení a rozšíření a je nyní dostupný celosvětově se širokou škálou stylů a překryvných vrstev.
  • francouzský styl
  • nouzové přístupové body
  • turistické trasy
  • styl Monochrome
  • nové styly a vrstvy OpenRiverBoatMap a OpenPisteMap
  • vrstva Dohled nad dohledem
  • styl Bright
  • pokrytí celé planety.
• Studenti komunitní školy Portmarnock v irském Dublinu byli oceněni na akci “BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition za svůj mapový projekt – “Zmapuj rozdíl”.
• Simon Poole publikoval svou výroční analýzu přispěvatelů OSM za rok 2016 včetně surových dat pro další zpracování. V komentářích Pascal Neis přidává dvě další statistiky ukazující počet aktivních přispěvatelů za každou zemi za poslední rok a celou historii projektu.
• Mappa Mercia informuje o tom, jak jejich aktuální čtvrtletní projekt ohrožuje národní bezpečnost!
• Uživatel yasunari bloguje o pořádání mapovací párty (automatický překlad), poprvé v novém městě – tentokrát přímo v Tokyu, co při tom dělat a čemu se vyhnout. Cílem akce bylo zmapovat všech 77 historických bodů v parku Tetsugaku-dō.
• Pascal Neis publikoval žebříček mapperů podle zemí za prosinec 2016. V jiném tweetu ukazuje nováčky s jejich použitým editorem.

Události

• Fatouma Harber a Aboul Hassane Cisse pořádali v termínu 7. – 9. ledna 2017 v Timbuktu, ve spolupráci s OSM komunitou v Mali, mapovací párty CartoCamp.
• Ulf Treger se ve své přednášce o mapách pro 33C3 dívá na historický vývoj map a mapových projekcí a jejich geopolitického pozadí.
• Selene Yang publikoval ve svém deníku fotky z konference SotM Latam 2016, konané v brazilském São Paulu.
• Pracovní skupina pro konferenci State of the Map Africa otevřela soutěž, ve které hledá logo akce.

Humanitární OSM

• Na svém OSM deníku si uživatel “everyone_sinks_starco” stěžoval na HOT maphaton v Indonésii. Ukázalo se, že je to pěkný žvanil. V komentářích se ozvali různí členové HOT Indonésie a uvedli věc na pravou míru. K tomu se následně vyjádřil i projekt manažer pro HOT Indonésie Iyan, který přidal detaily projektu.
• Že mapathony mohou být velmi užitečné ukazuje Červený kříž: Po proškolení lokálních mapperů je zmapováno 7000 vesnic v Libérii, Guinei a Sierra Leone s jsou sesbírány GPS stopy pro 70.000 km cest a pěšin.
• Blog globalinnovationexchange.org publikoval velmi pozitivní příspěvek na téma: Boj s Ebolou informačními zdroji.

Mapy

• J. Budissin hledá dobrovolníka, který by nastavil a provozoval mapu pro Horní Lužici, vzhledem k tomu, že dosavadní správce nehodlá pokračovat. Ideální je někdo z Lusatie a okolí.

Přechod k OSM

• Chilská daňová správa používá OSM mapy. (Via osmCL)

Otevřená data

• Martin Isenburg informuje na rapidlasso.com o otevřených a volně dostupných LiDAR datech pro Německo. Nejprve svá data otevřelo Porýní – Vestfálsko a nyní také Durynsko, které na začátku roku 2017 otevřelo své geoportály pro volné stahování prostorových dat. Plně doufáme, říká Martin, že ostatní spolkové země budou následovat. Jak bylo nedávno demonstrováno v Anglii, nedává žádný smysl tato data prodávat.

Software

• Robot8A se snaží přesvědčit vývojáře Telegramu, aby použili OSM místo Google Maps. Následuje zajímavá diskuze.

Programování

• Adrien Pavie představil svou JS knihovnu Pic4Carto, která umožňuje vkládat geotagované fotky do webové stránky. V současné době podporuje Flickr, Mapillary a Wikimedia Commons.
• Karlos ukazuje nejnovější změny v OSM go, například vestavěné 3D modely laviček nebo větrných turbín a první dojmy z Londýnského metra.

Nová vydání

Poskytuje OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) nesvobodný software. Viz svobodný software.

Věděli jste …

• … o vizualizaci sad změn OpenStreetMap nebo slov použitých v dokumentaci tagů na wiki od Franze-Benjamina Mocnika?
• … o TorFlow? Zobrazuje provoz mezi uzly anonymizační sítě Tor v reálném čase.

OSM v médiích

• MVV – Mnichovský dopravní podnik brzy spustí (automatický překlad) novou službu postavenou na OpenStreetMap pro zobrazení příjezdu a zpoždění místních vlaků. MVV poznamenává, že OpenStreetMap data jsou nejen volná, ale také přesnější, než aktuální data z HERE.
• Federální agentura pro občanské vzdělávání v Německu publikovala článek o tom, jak může být OpenStreetMap využito pro vzdělávací účely ve školách. (automatický překlad)
• Magazín Herald píše v Zimbabwe o důležitosti kolaborativního mapování a iniciativ jako jsou Missing Maps pro vybudování vyšší odolnosti proti přírodním katastrofám a lepší humanitární pomoci.

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• Příklady použití OpenStreetMap dat a nástrojů Mapzenu v nových firmách.
• Služba QuickMapServices (informovali jsme dříve) již obsahuje více než 555 služeb.
• Firma Mashable představila džíny od Spinali Design, které pomáhají navigovat. S ohledem na vaši bezpečnost doufáme, že jsou použita pouze data OpenStreetMap.

Plánované události

kde	co	kdy	země
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第４回 根津神社	01.21.2017
Manila	【MapAm❤re】OSM Workshop Series 8/8, San Juan	01.23.2017
Brémy	Bremer Mappertreffen	01.23.2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	01.23.2017
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	01.24.2017
Drážďany	Stammtisch	02.02.2017
Lyon	Stand OSM Salon Primevère	02.03. – 02.05.2017
Brusel	FOSDEM 2017	02.04. – 02.05.2017
Benátky	OSMit2017	02.08. – 02.11.2017
Cardiff	OpenDataCamp UK	02.25. – 02.26.2017
Pasov	FOSSGIS 2017	03.22. – 03.25.2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06.02. – 06.04.2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08.18. – 08.20.2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10.23. – 10.28.2017

Poznámka: Pokud zde chcete vidět vaši akci, zadejte ji prosím do kalendáře. Pouze data z kalendáře se objeví v našem týdeníku. Následně prosím akci zkontrolujte ve veřejném náhledu kalendáře a v případě potřeby záznam opravte.

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

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

01/17/2017-01/23/2017

Brussels from 2006 to 2016 ¹ | © Joost Schouppe & OpenStreetMap contributors CC-BY-SA 2.0

Mapping

• Chethan Gowda from Mapbox writes about this awesome OSMIC JOSM style plugin which enables icons on all POIs when editing OpenStreetMap.

• A user is asking in the OSM Forum if there is an alternative to Bing for Malaysia as large areas are not covered yet.

• User Wille from Brasilia, made available the GPS tracks collected by the Brazilian Environmental Protection Agency. To use this data in ImproveOSM, Martijn van Exel tweaked the algorithm for recognizing missing roads. ImproveOSM now contains many unpaved roads in Brazil. ImproveOSM, works with iD editor and there is also a JOSM plugin of the same.

• A tweet from Brundritt informs that Bing Maps have been updating its imagery. This process should be completed in a few months according to the tweet.

• On talk-GB, Andrew Hain reports that a mapper added names to polygons landuse=residential and landuse=commercial in south west London (UK). This mapper did not respond to the changeset comments posted by Hain indicating that the names should be in the description and not the polygons themselves.

• Joost Schouppe asks which tagging scheme for dog toilettes should he publish as a proposal for voting.

• On the Tagging mailing list, there is a discussion about OSM tags for public transport cards data, which are gradually replacing transport tickets, according to user Warin.

• On the Tagging mailing list, Martijn van Exel is asking about destination:street tags which were noticed by Telenav mapping team on (mostly) motorway_link off-ramps in Canada. It’s an undocumented sub-tag of the destination tag. Van Exel is asking about how it is being used and if there is some sort of consensus that is documented somewhere else other than the OSM wiki.

• Joost Schouppe raises the discussion about shop=fuel which was already mentioned here. The issue concerns shops that sell fuel but are not fuel stations. Joost proposes identifying such products.

• Mapbox updated the basemap imagery in Washington, DC with 2015 aerial imagery at 3 inch (7.5 cm) resolution. Great for mapping (make mapping great again) and counting people as well when you need alternative facts.

Community

• Escada interviews Steve All from California (USA), for his Mapper of the Month series. The interview is published on the new website of the Belgian OSM community.

• According to Pascal Neis, while the number of OSM mappers is increasing around the world, it is decreasing in Germany.

• Are 25.000 mappers enough for Germany? It’s enough for the urban areas but in the rural ones there is still much to do, a weeklyOSM editor says.

Imports

• Michael Spreng asks on the imports mailing list about the import of addresses in the Canton of Bern (GEBADR list). There has been no feedback concerning to it. The import was refined and the bulk import is starting, which is expected to take some time. Building layouts are going to be improved when possible.

Humanitarian OSM

• Pascal Neis comments on a Russell Deffner’s tweet about the validation process of Missing Maps. This process apparently produces a lot of OSM changes.

• Logistics Cluster updates its access constraints map in South Sudan every Friday. This should be of special interest to humanitarian deliveries in the area.

Maps

• Paul Norman suggests a simple extension to CartoCSS which would decrease the size of our main page’s style by about one third.

• Molly Lloyd from Mapbox teamed up with some organizers from the Women’s March to create a map where you can find all the events of Woman’s March in different cities and countries.

• Take back the tech! uses technology to end violence against women and encourages activism against gender-based violence. Using an OSM-based map, people can report cases of violence against women from all over the world.

• Some of the issues faced by people creating symbols for map styles aren’t always appreciated.

• Stephan Bösch-Plepelits showcases on the Dev mailing list, the PTMap, a public transport map rendering based on Overpass API, which renders route relations according to the ‘new’ PTv2 scheme.

• Joost Schouppe shows in his diary how road mapping (tag highway=*) evolved in Brussels.

switch2OSM

• GeoBolivia migrates to georchestra 15.12.

Open Data

• The international Open Data Hackathon will take place on March 4, 2017. The map was broken at our editorial deadline.

• Weather data which is produced by the German Weather Service (DWD) could be freely available in the future, according to an article of the Spiegel Online. (automatic translation)

Licences

• Due to copyright issues with Mapbox, the project OSM2VectorTiles was discontinued. The authors have created a successor, the OpenMapTiles, with their own vector tile scheme, and free from legal problems.

Software

• Lukas Martinelli has released a first stable version of Maputnik the OSS Map Designer.

Programming

• For the Google Summer of Code 2017, project proposals are being collected in the Wiki.

• Geofabrik reports in a blog post how they recently improved referential integrity in their extracts. With a marginal impact on file size while cutting down processing time, this was made possible by switching to the latest osmium version.

Releases

Mapbox releases ios-v3.4.0 of their iOS SDK, which brings in changes with improved packaging and documentation, more control over styles and data, and so much more. They also released macos-v0.3.0 SDK which corresponds to version 3.4.0 of the Mapbox iOS SDK.

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
Mapillary Android *	3.21	2017-01-15	Minor fixes.
Naviki Android;*	3.53	2017-01-15	Display driving direction, some bug fixes.
Mapillary iOS *	4.6.1	2017-01-18	added optional push messages, upgraded to Mapillary-JS 3.0, fixed viewer bug (hopefully).
Osmium tool	1.5.1	2017-01-19	Two changes and three bug fixes.
OSRM	5.5.4	2017-01-19	Five bug fixes.
Leafletjs	1.0.3	2017-01-23	Twelve bug fixes, two API changes, two improvements.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Sorry, still offline

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

OSM in the media

• Mapanica, the OSM community in Nicaragua, proposes a new project to help improve the frequency data of public transport, in order to create a system that allows people to better plan their trips in the city of Managua.

• German TV GRIP_RTL2 used stamen’s great looking #watercolor OpenStreetMap for Romania in their yesterday’s episode (via pascal_n). No attribution was mentioned.

Other “geo” things

• This is how buildings look when OSM enthusiasts are rebuilding their house.

• Geospatial World wrote about DigitalGlobe’s AComp: "When a satellite takes an image, the light reflecting from the ground is impacted by the atmosphere and can affect the visual aesthetics of the image. That’s where DigitalGlobe’s Atmospheric Compensation (AComp) steps in."

• Carlos Felipe Castillo informed: "The new private beta from Blueshift has arrived!" A fun and easy tool to create dynamic maps.

• Yorokobu from Spain featured the nice maps from Axis Maps.

• Euro space agency’s Galileo satellites have been stricken by mystery clock failures.

• Eric Gundersen shows a satellite image of Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration in 2009 by GeoEye, now DigitalGlobe.

• Open Stats from India notes that Uber’s OpenData Platform is not really Open Data. They call it #openwashing.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	01/27/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	02/02/2017
Lyon	Stand OSM Salon Primevère	02/03/2017-02/05/2017
Brussels	FOSDEM 2017	02/04/2017-02/05/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	02/07/2017
Genoa	OSMit2017	02/08/2017-02/11/2017
Berlin	104. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	02/10/2017
Rennes	Atelier de découverte	02/12/2017
Cardiff	OpenDataCamp UK	02/25/2017-02/26/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Hakuch, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, SeleneYang, Spec80, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, vsandre, wambacher, widedangel.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

01/24/2017-01/30/2017

OSM 2007 and now ¹ | © OpenStreetMap Mitwirkende CC-BY-SA 2.0

Mapping

• Since last few days, an increased activity has been detected by newcomers who are targeting Pokémon Go – unfortunately, the term of "vandalism" is applicable to many of those changes. Michael explains in his blog how to find Pokémon mappers and deal with them. Mic.com reported as well.

• MikeN says in his blog that two more MapRoulette tasks for railway fans are to be done: Crossing Ways: Highway-Railway, US and Crossing Type: Highway-Railway, US. These tasks are well thought through, technically perfect compared to the tasks in Rivers going up the mountain and tasks in Ecuador which still have some technical issues.

• Pascal Neis presents the new functions in "Find Suspicious OpenStreetMap Changesets" to group by contributor and see all changesets with sums.

• Bing Maps has fresh imagery for Brazil. 8.5 million square kilometers covering its total area, including land and water.

• The German forum discusses (automatic translation) whether roads which show direction arrows yet no lane separation line should be tagged lanes=1.5.

• Martijn van Exel asks your opinion about the OpenStreetCam plugin for JOSM. Suggestions and any other help is welcome.

• Interesting OSM diary entry by user nammala, that shows some common errors and unexplained edits that happened this month in OpenStreetMap.

Community

• Eric Rodenbeck summarizes the past year for his company Stamen Design and presents all the accomplished projects.

• Following the discussion about Bing Maps imagery updates, @katpatuka underlines the importance of filling in the gaps, for example, in Turkey.

• Inspired by the "Belgium Welcome Tool" from user M1dgard, user sabas88 wrote a new "Italian Welcome Tool" from scratch. It is available on GitHub. Regarding different languages sabas88 told us: "Currently the language function is made only for the ‘snippets’. Each snippet is a reusable message template (or part of it) you can drag to make the message. Internationalization of the proper software is in my mind, but actually I still need to do it."

• On January 25 and for the first time, more than 6000 mappers were active on OpenStreetMap in one day, as Pascal Neis reported on Twitter.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Ilya Zverv published details and statistics on the last OSMF board election.

Humanitarian OSM

• In early January, 60 students met in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, to learn how to map in OSM.

• Rebecca Firth, HOT Community Partnerships Manager, participated at the UN World Data Forum in South Africa. The achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) takes place with the support of the HOT community. An example is the fight against malaria. The UN conference participants were very impressed by the work and the results achieved by the OSM map support.

• Missing Maps thank their 20,000 volunteers for their efforts. We too take the opportunity to congratulate them.

• The HOT Task Manager is currently very slow because another program regularly consumes a lot of resources on the same server.

Maps

• A map about the Syrian war in 2017 uses tiles from the German style OSM tile server as a background, causing overload to the server. Maybe the German style, which is maintained by Sven Geggus, was preferred for its labeling countries and cities in both Latin and Arabic.

• Mapzen reported in their blog about graphical changes that their maps (style) offer and also regarding API keys.

• This split map by Martijn van Exel compares OSM mapping states of 2007 and today.

• OpenRouteService introduces "E-bike and Level of Fitness" into its routing application.

• Joshua Comeau has created a nice map that visualizes the activities of Unsplash. Unsplash is a photo community where you can get free high-resolution photos is under CC0. In an article Joshua explained the background to his map.

• User aromatiker asks how to map whiskey distilleries. The Whiskymap is according to his opinion by far not yet complete.

switch2OSM

• Florian Lainez points out that the DuckDuckGo search engine has OpenStreetMap as an option for directions.

• The SNCF, the French National Railway Company, uses OSM in their TGV. (via 0x010C)

• Mapzen now supplies map data for all smart devices with the operating system Tizen.

• Chile’s police uses OpenStreetMap to show crime and other data. (via OpenStreetMap Chile)

• Pokémon Go named OSM in South Korea as a data source.

Software

• The University of Heidelberg experimented with deep learning methods to automatically detect populated areas in rural regions .

Programming

• Mapbox writes about Project Atlas that turns blueprints into maps – ingesting thousands of drawings and work orders per project, converting them from building information modeling (BIM) and computer-aided design (CAD) formats to Mapbox vector tiles, and making them interactive with Mapbox GL JS.

• Panier Avide reports in his user blog on the Pic4Carto.js JavaScript library, which places georeferenced images from various sources (Flickr, OpenStreetCam, Mapillary) on a map.

• Mapbox has released its MapboxNavigation.swift as open source, which provides an SDK for routing applications for iOS.

Releases

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
Traccar Client iOS	4.0	2017-01-16	Fix battery level reading.
Osmose Backend	v10.0-2017-01-24	2017-01-24	No infos.
Mapbox GL JS	v0.32.1	2017-01-26	One bug fixed.
Mapillary iOS *	4.6.2	2017-01-26	Tap on user names and hyperlinks.
Naviki Android;*	3.53.1	2017-01-26	Bluetooth bug fixed.
Mapillary Android *	3.24	2017-01-27	Less user data saved in EXIF, fix small bugs, dismissal be error notification.
OpenJUMP	1.10	2017-01-27	Many enhancements and fixes, read release info.
OpenStreetmap Carto Style	3.1.0	2017-01-29	No infos.
Maps.me Android *	var	2017-01-30	Improved search, search filters.
Maps.me iOS *	7.1.1	2017-01-30	Improved search, search filters.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … Disaster Mapping and Management from the University of Heidelberg? Heidelberg supports humanitarian activities in disaster management through innovative technologies and services using OSM.

• … OSMstats by Pascal Neis? The site contains a lot of interesting statistics about OpenStreetMap.

• this guide for mapping turn restrictions?

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Brussels	FOSDEM 2017	02/04/2017-02/05/2017
Santiago	Mapatón por los Incendios Forestales	02/04/2017
Toronto	Mappy Hour	02/06/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	02/07/2017
Genoa	OSMit2017	02/08/2017-02/11/2017
Paris	Mapathon Missing Maps	02/09/2017
Berlin	104. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	02/10/2017
Managua	Taller de mapeo para ciclismo urbano	02/11/2017
Rennes	Atelier de découverte	02/12/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	02/13/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	02/13/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	02/14/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	02/14/2017
Tokyo	Mappy Valentine’s Day!〜シビックマッピングについて語ろう〜	02/14/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	02/15/2017
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #03	02/15/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第５回 六義園	02/18/2017
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	02/18/2017-02/19/2017
Cardiff	OpenDataCamp UK	02/25/2017-02/26/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	07/01/2017-07/03/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	11/29/2017-12/02/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Nakaner, Peda, Rogehm, Spec80, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, kreuzschnabel.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

01/31/2017-02/06/2017

Free Fine dust Map in Stuttgart, Germany ¹ | © OpenStreetMap Mitwirkende CC-BY-SA 2.0

Mapping

• Transifex is a tool that helps to localize the content and reach thousands of people. If you want to contribute in making learnOSM in your language, start translating using Transifex.

• Jinal Foflia writes a post about getting started with OpenStreetMap, the importance of open data and why one should contribute to OpenStreetMap.

• Voonosm asks in the forum how periodically occurring lakes could be mapped.

• Volker Schmidt asks in the tagging mailing list about the best way to tag beef fattening stations.

• Pavel Zbytovský would like to extend Simple Indoor Tagging, which he calls CoreIndoor. Sadly most of his extensions are based on wrong assumptions and misinterpretations about Simple Indoor Tagging, which documentation should be enhanced.

• Joachim asks on the tagging mailing list for comments for an amenity = snow_removal_station where trucks can be freed from ice sheets.

• Unlike more enlightened places, England and Wales have a system of regulated access across otherwise private land. On the talk-gb mailing list Dave F mentions that the local government’s record of these might not match an actual path on the ground. The discussion then continues about which of these may be considered "correct".

• In the Swiss mailing list Hans Herzig asks about the tagging of gorges.

Community

• Wa Mbedmi writes a post introducing OpenStreetMap Senegal and showcasing the importance of OpenStreetMap and its impact on the lives of the citizens.

• Hernán De Angelis published a laudation of OpenStreetMap on his blog, which he has experienced through his Garmin.

• The Nicaraguan OSM community invites participants to a workshop they organise about urban cycling in Managua.

• User RichRico writes about the to-fix plugin and how that plugin coupled with the Tiger data layer can be used to align the misaligned roads in the US.

• Sajjad Anwar from Mapbox writes about using OSMcha and OSM-compare to validate and analyse changes happening in OpenStreetMap. He urges the community to join the effort to keep OpenStreetMap the best map out there.

• Due to progress in Belgium, Joost Schouppe queries whether there are examples of other governments to incorporate OSM into their data management.

Imports

• Mappers in West Midlands are going to import updated NAPTAN data (additional fields and improved coordinate accuracy). A discussion on Imports mailing list has not been started yet.

Events

• The call for logo designs for the SOTM Latam 2017 taking place in Lima, Peru, is out.

• The exact date of the State of the Map US 2017 has not been announced yet, only that it will take place in Boulder, Colorado in October. But the date of the international State of the Map conference in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan is known—18 to 20 August 2017.

• Stefan Keller invites to the 8th Micro Mapping Party in Rapperswil, Switzerland on March 10th.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT launches their new micro grants program to enable the development of local OSM communities, to have access to equipment and increase skills, capacity and experience.

• HOT announced that OpenAerialMap is officially no longer in beta status.

• The Guardian reported reported about the number of girls in Tanzania who manage to escape genital mutilation, thanks to collaborative crowd-mapping efforts of places they can flee to and how to get there.

Maps

• Wheelmap, the map for wheelchair-accessible places based on OSM, added support for 27 additional POI types.

• GeekWire reports on Access Map research project at the University of Washington, which, among other things, provides routing for pedestrians and wheelchair users, using a mix of different data sources. The project (its import, its procedure and its tagging scheme) met with some people in the OSM community on rejection.

Open Data

• [1] Stuttgart’s Citizen Science self-measure the particulates in their city. The project is also available in other areas, as you can see it on this map.

Software

• Osmand shares a gif showing how to quickly and efficiently search an address in the android app.

Programming

• Jochen Topf blogs about the new osmium-tool extract command that creates OSM data extracts faster than any other existing tool, while enabling several extracts on the same run.

• Chris Loer reports how Mapbox improved label rendering using better line-breaking algorithms. This can be particularly tricky when displaying right-to-left languages.

• The maximum size of changesets was restricted to 10,000 (down from 50,000). This should only affect editor developers.

• Mariusz Rogowski complains on the dev mailing list about the quality of Nominatim and the project’s ability to attract new developers. Sarah and Frederik give detailed answers and, among other things, clarify why erroneous code is not included in the project.

Releases

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
Magic Earth *	7.1.17.5	2017-01-31	Speed warning preferences, night colours, public transport now available in more cities.
Vespucci	0.9.8	2017-01-31	Please read release info.
JOSM	11526	2017-02-02	Hotfix of version 11514.
Mapillary iOS *	4.6.4	2017-02-02	Fixed Crash.
Maps.me iOS *	7.1.4	2017-02-02	Bugs fixed.
iD	2.1.0	2017-02-04	Many changes, please read release info.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … "Trending Places in OSM" by Bhavya Chanra? The project analyzes the anonymous server logs, generates places that are most frequently visited and publishes them on Twitter.

Other “geo” things

• ITECHPOST reports that the Philippine catastrophe management initiative "NOAH" ceased at the end of February. OpenStreetMap was very involved in this project last year, as this blog post shows.

• The Guardian featured a small quiz by Alex Szabo-Haslam, in which one should identify cities by their waterways.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Rennes	Atelier de découverte	02/12/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	02/13/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	02/13/2017
Zurich	Stammtisch Zürich	02/13/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	02/14/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	02/14/2017
Tokyo	Mappy Valentine’s Day!〜シビックマッピングについて語ろう〜	02/14/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	02/15/2017
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #03	02/15/2017
Antwerp	Bar meetup	02/16/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第５回 六義園	02/18/2017
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	02/18/2017-02/19/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	02/21/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	02/21/2017
Derby	Derby Pub Meetup	02/21/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	02/21/2017
Brussels	Bar meetup	02/21/2017
Montpellier	Rencontre mensuelle	02/22/2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	02/23/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	02/23/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	02/24/2017
Cardiff	OpenDataCamp UK	02/25/2017-02/26/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	02/27/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	02/27/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	07/01/2017-07/03/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	11/29/2017-12/02/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Hakuch, Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, SeleneYang, derFred, jcoupey, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, roirobo.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

02/07/2017-02/13/2017

Mapping

• The German forum points out (automatic translation) that glass recycling containers for bottles and jars should be tagged as recycling:glass_bottles=yes only, since the simpler key recycling:glass=* includes types of glass which are not accepted.
• [1] The Mennonite community of Colonia Pinondi in the Bolivian lowlands has started mapping its municipality in OSM with local knowledge. (Via OSM Cochabamba). We think it is a good example for Mennonite communities all over the world.
• Martijn reports about his visit to an OSMTime event in Cluj, Romania. Beata Jancso from Telenav organises OSMTime, a mapping event, once a month.
• Arun from the Mapbox data team exhibits the mapping of a street as an area. Specialized maps could get even better rendering results.
• Jherome Miguel asks for comments on his suggestion of the extended tagging of power poles.
• Joost Schouppe asks on the Tagging mailing list about how to tag knotted willows and search for English terms.
• Editing a single node with Level0, built a transcontinental highway from Europe to Brazil.
• Pascal Neis’ Suspicious Changesets now also displays rough-cut views of the content of suspicious changes. It does that using the Augmented Diffs of the Overpass API (Source: Twitter)

Community

• Christian Bittner wrote an article on OSM in Israel and Palestine. He notes, among other things, that the OSM data and the maps derived from it are of particular importance in this political conflict (keyword: “ground truth”). Since it’s not an open access-publication, Christian shares PDFs upon request by email.
• Ediyes shares her experience in mapping her hometown of Andahuaylas where she improved existing streets, added names, points of interest, parks, etc.
• Peter Barth summarizes the results of the last Google Summer of Code and invites students to take part this year. If you are interested, visit the ideas page in the OSM wiki.
• Martin Dittus (dekstop) presents the results of his research on how feedback on tasking manager affects the further activity of newcomers. Unfortunately, he does not disclose the rules by which he has classified the individual personal messages.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• On the 12th February several OSMF operated services got new SSL certificates by Let’s Encrypt. Now you also get a valid certificate if you request foobar.osm.org instead of foobar.openstreetmap.org. (source: Chef repository of OWG)

Humanitarian OSM

• The Irish MapLesotho group is again visiting Lesotho and there is a report about their work on Twitter too.
• HOT reports about their new mapping projects that have started in Istanbul and Uganda and is increasingly focusing on crowdsourcing to make high-quality maps available for these regions.
• LearnOSM has been updated with some interesting sections which include a guide for anyone to organise a Mapathon, tips aimed at new mappers which include an introduction to iD and tasking manager, and much more.
• MakingMalariaHistory reports on a joint project to fight Malaria. Everyone with an OpenStreetMap account is asked to help.

Maps

• The LA Times published their code to generate web based maps using Mapzen’s Tangram.

Open Data

• The Landsat program has a Twitter bot uploading images. Learn more about it.
• OpenDataSoft published a post discussing the nature and representation of public transport data from heterogeneous sources. French open data providers are listed, and both static and dynamic feeds are aggregated on a single map.

Programming

• Ilya Zverev from MAPS.ME submitted a pull request which adds MAPS.ME as an authentication provider for the OpenStreetMap website, i.e. users can log in with their MAPS.ME account.
• Peter Liu from Mapbox, explains how he used satellite imagery and height data to generate an interactive 3D map using Three.js. He plans to make a similar demo with Unity next.
• The behavior of osm2pgsql when no database is specified using the -d option will change in the next release. Up to now, the default name is gis.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. (*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

OSM in the media

• Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories, an interesting article by Lois Parshley where he talks about how certain areas in the world still remain a mystery. HOT is mentioned in the essay.

Other “geo” things

• Increasing usage of smartphones as navigation aids appears (automatic translation) to impair sales for manufacturers of navigation systems.
• Sebastian Meier used a laser cutter and moss to generate a nice map of Berlin.
• Jurij Stare created a map of the light pollution in the world.
• Mapbox joined 96 companies in filing the Brief of Technology Companies and other Businesses as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellees in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, opposing the Executive Order barring entry from and revoking visas from citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
• Sebastian Meyer published a script for automatically transforming geojson boundaries into rectangles.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Karlsruhe	Hack Weekend	02/18/2017-02/19/2017
Sucre	Charla sobre OSM para chicas del HackLab Sucre	02/18/2017-02/19/2017
Seattle	Mapping UW Sidewalks	02/19/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	02/21/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	02/21/2017
Derby	Derby Pub Meetup	02/21/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	02/21/2017
Brussels	Bar meetup	02/21/2017
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	02/21/2017
Montpellier	Rencontre mensuelle	02/22/2017
Wyoming	Humanitarian Mapathon University of Wyoming, Laramie	02/22/2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	02/23/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	02/23/2017
Paris	Rencontre mensuelle	02/23/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	02/24/2017
Cardiff	OpenDataCamp UK	02/25/2017-02/26/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	02/27/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	02/27/2017
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	03/01/2017
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	03/01/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	03/02/2017
Colorado Springs	Humanitarian Mapathon University of Northern Colorado, Greeley	03/02/2017
Helsinki	Monthly Missing Maps mapathon at Finnish Red Cross HQ	03/03/2017
Lyon	Stand OSM Salon Primevère	03/03/2017-03/05/2017
Minsk	byGIS Conference	03/04/2017
Graz	Map the Change @ Elevate	03/04/2017
Dortmund	Stammtisch	03/05/2017
Amagasaki	International Open Data Day 2017 in Amagasaki　～そのだ、マッパーになろう～	03/05/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	03/07/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	07/08/2017-07/10/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	11/29/2017-12/02/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Hakuch, Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Softgrow, Spec80, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, kreuzschnabel, roirobo, vsandre.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

02/14/2017-02/20/2017

Mapping

• [1] Jochen Topf has started a Maproulette-Challenge to repair invalid areas in OSM and wrote in his blog about it. Let’s begin with self-overlapping closed ways with tag building=*. More Challenges
• As part of the “fixing broken multipolygons” discussion, Christoph Hormann suggests that removing forest polygons from the old Corine landcover imports might be a better solution than repairing them, because they are very inaccurate.
• CloCkWeRX posts on enhancements proposed to OnOsm.org, some of them have already been accepted, for example, the location helper and internationalization, among others.
• Bryan Housel shows how picnic sites can be mapped easily using the iD editor and multi-selections.
• User Jojo4u proposes a new feature “meadow orchard” (German: “Streuobstwiese”) which is a meadow with scattered fruit trees or fruit trees that are planted in a field. The proposed tagging is possible with combinations of landuse=meadow or landuse=orchard.
• On talk-fr, Rogelio brings up the matter of toll fee data into OSM. It’s not clear if having this information in OSM is desirable or even feasible but some options are discussed to ease the integration of toll fee prices for OSM-based routing engines.
• Martin Koppenhoefer proposes the documentation of the usage of amenity=luggage_locker and amenity=locker tags. This initiates a discussion on the need for two different tags for a seemingly similar utility.
• The usage of amenity=vending_machine tag was discussed at length on the Tagging mailing list including what is within the scope of the term ‘vending’ and what are the alternatives to the amenities tag.
• Joost Schouppe writes about evaluating completion of the road map network in Flanders, Belgium. A thorough analysis is made along with many graphs and time-lapse animations.
• User Marczoutendijk wrote an article about the tagging of restaurants and its particularities in OSM. Bon appetit!
• The Mapbox Data Team invites you to map points of interest in San Francisco using JOSM with the Mapillary plugin. A comprehensive guide is provided and the project is open on the Mapbox tasking manager.

Community

• JOSM maintainer Dirk Stöcker is concerned about the increasing gap between the translations. He is told that the launchpad translation platform is the problem.
• Steve Coast showcases his OSM Stats website where the evolution of the various types of ways can be gathered by country. Direct links to: UK and US.

Imports

• Facebook are suggesting that they try again with their “AI-based” road detection. Last time it didn’t work so well. Last time, imports in Egypt and Thailand were reverted because they were “far more wrong than right” (draining ditches being added as “roads”, among other things). Apparently this time they are now working with a larger team of highly-trained mappers and have added steps to the validation process.
• Nick Bolten, of the projects OpenSidewalks and AccessMap, announced a test import of footpaths in Seattle (Washington state). There were already extensive discussions on the mailing lists tagging and Imports.
• Max Bainrot suggests to use the ACTmapi data from Australia for OpenStreetMap. The data is under CC-BY, but there is probably a special permission for OpenStreetMap.

Events

• The submission of talk proposals for the 2017 State of the Map in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan is open until April 2nd.

Humanitarian OSM

• Mikel Maron reports that Mapbox has matched a US$ 10,000 grant to the HOT Microgrants Program (which we reported earlier).
• User MangleBlanco writes about impressive geological history of the Southernmost tip of the Caribbean Sea and why open source data might be key to sustainable development in the region. He also pledges to provide high resolution data for mapping efforts and humanitarian projects in the area.
• It seems that Fred Moine is not quite convinced by the quality of the mapping in Haiti by HOT volunteers.

Maps

• The OSM website now has a new right-click context menu which was programmed by user mcld. You can now set directions to and from points, centre the map, add notes, etc. The item “show tile image”, which was available in the previous browser-default image context menu, is missing. Ilya Zverev proposed to add it, but his pull request was denied – a long list of comments criticizing Tom followed.
• Mapzen added a new feature to the Who’s On First Spelunker: the Bundler. Now, after you selected a place, downloading a GeoJSON blob containing all its descendants with selectable categories is a few clicks away!

Open Data

• Do you already know the Open Digital Elevation Model – “The Portal for sharing the 3rd dimension”? At the beginning of the year, North Rhine-Westphalia (DE), Belgium, New Zealand and Switzerland joined.
• Open data under Trump probably doesn’t exist any more. The White House’s Open Data Portal has been emptied, user @denormalize reported on Twitter.

Licences

• KSJ2 data in Japan must not be imported any more because the terms of use have been changed (source).

Software

• An introduction tutorial for QGIS Atlas, a QGIS feature (formerly a plug-in) that allows you to create map snippets around a collection of features (eg a POI shape file).
• Ilya Zverev announced a new import tool. The OSM Conflator checks for matching objects in the OSM data. It adds tags to existing objects or creates new nodes for unmatched points.
• Martin Ždila announced his Toposcope Maker. Toposcopes can be found on top of hills or high places which indicates the direction to notable landscape features or cities.

Programming

• Frederik Ramm (woodpeck) submitted a pull request which would allow the geometry of deleted OSM objects to be displayed on “browse” pages. It was rejected for various technical reasons – see this comment by Matt and the comments above for a summary.
• Geofabrik announces that the download server now has full history files for all regions served. These files (called “.osh.pbf”) can be used to run analyses, and one can use Osmium to convert them to a text-based format (“OPL”) that is then accessible for grep et al.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• …the historic maps of Berlin? Here you can see them as an adjustable transparent layer on top of OSM.

OSM in the media

• An article (automatic translation) in Swiss media talks about three map services to navigate in Switzerland, which offer more accuracy than Google Maps. Guess what? OpenStreetMap is one of them.

Other “geo” things

• A podcast from BBC Radio 3 in the UK, is available worldwide, handling contents about the UK and Germany. The podcast has no OSM content, but it discusses in general and particular what borders mean to people.
• An article discusses the App “Metro” which provides routing through the public transportations network in Havana, Cuba.
• A single Indian rocket launched 104 satellites into space, including 88 micro satellites for Earth observation of the US start-up Planet.
• Ever wondered how each of the US states would compare to an European area with similar population? Wonder no more!. And how about European countries over the American continent? Speech500 has you covered too.
• The xkcd webcomic strip shows us how the world would look like if we were to correct every country’s layout by their timezones.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	02/24/2017
Hérault	Cartopartie, Clapiers	02/25/2017
Cardiff	OpenDataCamp UK	02/25/2017-02/26/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	02/27/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	02/27/2017
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	03/01/2017
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	03/01/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	03/02/2017
Colorado Springs	Humanitarian Mapathon, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley	03/02/2017
Lyon	Stand OSM Salon Primevère	03/03/2017-03/05/2017
Minsk	byGIS Conference	03/04/2017
Graz	Map the Change @ Elevate	03/04/2017
Brazil	OpenDataDay 2017	03/04/2017
Dortmund	Stammtisch	03/05/2017
Amagasaki	International Open Data Day 2017 in Amagasaki　～そのだ、マッパーになろう～	03/05/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	03/07/2017
Helsinki	Monthly Missing Maps mapathon at Finnish Red Cross HQ	03/09/2017
Berlin	105. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	03/09/2017
Rapperswil	8. Micro Mapping Party Rapperswil	03/10/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	03/10/2017
Chemnitz	Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2017	03/11/2017-03/12/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	07/08/2017-07/10/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+SOTM Brasil 2017	07/27/2017-07/29/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	11/29/2017-12/02/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, Sadless74, SomeoneElse, Spec80, SrrReal, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, kreuzschnabel, vsandre, widedangel.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

02/21/2017-02/27/2017

OpenSnowMap with new font and all winter sport possiblities ¹ | © OpenStreetMap Contributors CC-BY-SA 2.0

About us

• The weeklyOSM team happily switched from Slack to the open source software Mattermost for internal communication. After tests conducted on framasoft‘s framateam, a dedicated instance is now up and running thanks to FOSSGIS.

Mapping

• Inspired by the German OSM-Blog Wochennotiz № 343, and a previous discussion in the German forum, Ogmios wrote an article about the quality of recycling stations and how to improve their tagging. Also there is a new QA page for recycling tagging.

• Arun writes about broken relations in river banks and wants a good guide to correct such errors. Christoph explains in the comments why there is no easy answer.

• Daniel-j-h writes on the two tags, exit_to=* and destination=* and then explains why only the second is used in OSRM. Towards the end, he also shares a tool that allows automatic conversion.

• User naveenpf shows the steps to associate Wikidata QIDs to Indian districts in OSM.

• Wille Marcel has restarted development on his OSMCHA project. Its main objective is to help to detect potentially harmful OpenStreetMap edits. Wille asks for your feedback and suggestions for improvements.

• Anthony Hombiat recently presented his PhD thesis (automatic translation) – "A meta-model for structuring OpenStreetMap folksonomy into a new ontology in Grenoble, France". Here is a related paper on the same.

Community

• Recordings of the talks and sessions from the FOSDEM 2017 conference are now available. Access all events or the geospatial devroom track.

• On FOSDEM 2017, Ilya Zverev from MAPS.ME presented the talk "How to break the OpenStreetMap, Pros and pitfalls of editing OSM data offline". The challenges of creating an offline editor to an online database are discussed, along with the issues of making it simple enough for people that are not heavy mappers.

• The State of the Map France 2017 will be held in Avignon from June 2nd until June 4th. The submission for talk proposals are now open.

Imports

• Facebook has repeatedly uploaded import data into OSM, but without previous discussion as required by the import guidelines, as Frederik Ramm criticizes on the discussion page of the import. People are discussing it at the Thailand section of OSM forum in English.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Matt Amos announced on the Announce mailing list that the OSM API and the osm.org website will be temporarily unavailable on Sunday, March 12 due to a software upgrade, which will start at 11:00 UTC and hopefully take no longer than one hour.

Events

• You can now apply for a travel scholarship to help you attend State of the Map 2017 which is in Japan. The deadline is March, 22nd.

• The first fablab in Benin, blolab, promotes the use of open-source projects and tools, including OpenStreetMap through workshops. They have launched a crowd-funding campaign.

• The international OpenDataDay will take place with events around the globe. Search for your event on this map.

• The first in-person meeting of OpenStreetMap United Kingdom CIC (Community Interest Company) will take place at iCentrum, Birmingham on Saturday, March 4th between 11:00 and 16:00.

Humanitarian OSM

• Biondi Sima reports on mapping the whole of Surabaya, Indonesia. This HOT project (funded by USAID, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), supported by the University of Hawaii: Pacific Disaster Centre (PDC) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) concluded in just three months, resulting in addition of over 4,400 buildings and 3000 km of roads.

• The discussion about the quality of the mapping by HOT-volunteers continues on the hot-mailing list.

• Pete Master leaves his job as Missing Maps Project Coordinator.

Maps

• After the ticket about the context menu on the OSM main page had been closed (we reported earlier), the discussion continues on the dev mailing list. Though many who were criticising Tom Hughes, didn’t notice was that the desired feature was actually removed by Leaflet and not by OpenStreetMap.

• OpenSnowMap is using its own font (ski.ttf) and icons to render the winter sports (downhill, nordic, sledge, etc) of a ski resorts at zoom levels 10 to 12.

switch2OSM

• The so called "Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau", uses OSM on its home page.

• The Open Source Flight Simulator "Flight Gear“, integrates 3D buildings that have been rendered realistically using OSM data in its latest version.

Open Data

• The surveying authority of the German state of Saxony has, after much negotiation, allowed (automatic translation) the OSM community to use WMS services with aerial imagery and topographic maps as a data source.

Software

• A German Magazine reports (automatic translation) about a tool by Simon Lührs. This enables urban planners to easily generate figure ground plans out of OpenStreetMap data.

• Michael von Glasgows published a new map style for winter sports areas. Hartmut Holzgrafe found it so good that he replaced the previous OpenPisteMap style in his maposmatic instances.

• With the release of Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) version 5.6, Karen Shea highlights its main feature: Making Travel Time and Edge Weights Independent.

Programming

• Andy Allan describes his steady work on the OpenStreetMap website codebase.

• Mapzen announced their new address interpolation system. It used in the open source geocoder Pelias, which is therefore used by the Mapzen Search.

• OSM has been approved as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code this year, as Peter Barth announced on the mailing list OSM-dev. See the project ideas in our OSM-Wiki.

Releases

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
GeoWebCache	10.1.2	2017-02-20	No Infos.
MapContrib	1.4.5	2017-02-20	Update the italian translations, internal tuning.
Naviki iOS *	3.53.1	2017-02-21	Recalculate the route with the display off.
GeoServer	2.10.2	2017-02-22	Four extensions and eight fixes.
Komoot iOS *	8.5.2	2017-02-22	No infos.
Maps.me Android *	var	2017-02-22	New routing algorithms, bugs fixed.
OSRM Backend	5.6.0	2017-02-23	Many changes, please read release info.
iD	2.1.3	2017-02-24	Three bugs fixed and four presets changed.
QGIS	2.18.4	2017-02-24	No infos.
Cruiser for Android *	1.4.17	2017-02-25	Various improvements.
Cruiser for Desktop *	1.2.17	2017-02-25	No infos.
Osmose Backend	v1.0-2017-02-25	2017-02-25	No infos.
Mapillary iOS *	4.6.7	2017-02-26	Added Arabic, screenshot functionality modified.
VTM	0.7.0	2017-02-26	Many changes, please read changelog.
JOSM	11639	2017-02-27	See release infos.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the Fullscreen Map on sammyshp.de? Besides its full-screen mode, the Leaflet application offers interesting features such as hillshading, a history of views, a functional context menu (show the current tile, check its status and request re-rendering), and a distance meter.

OSM in the media

• Following recent political events, a French TV show tries to know where each member of parliament stands on simple questions regarding transparency. The results are displayed on an OSM-based map.

Other “geo” things

• Nyall Dawson explains the new map coloring algorithm that will be present in QGIS 3.0.

• Adam Rousell and Alexander Zipf from the GIScience Research Group at the University of Heidelberg publish a paper, which shows a new pedestrian-based navigation service. "Unlike car-based services where instructions generally are comprised of distance and road names, pedestrian instructions should instead focus on the delivery of landmarks to aid in navigation."

• The OpenHistoricalMap is online again, but changes after May 19th 2015 are now lost, as Rob H. Warren at the mailing list reported.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Lyon	Stand OSM Salon Primevère	03/03/2017-03/05/2017
Minsk	byGIS Conference	03/04/2017
Graz	Map the Change @ Elevate	03/04/2017
Brazil	OpenDataDay 2017	03/04/2017
Essen	OpenDataDay 2017	03/04/2017
Porto-Novo	OpenDataDay 2017	03/04/2017
Ulm	HOT-Mapathon	03/04/2017
Dortmund	Stammtisch	03/05/2017
Amagasaki	International Open Data Day 2017 in Amagasaki　～そのだ、マッパーになろう～	03/05/2017
Toronto	Mappy Hour	03/06/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	03/07/2017
Jakarta	WomenMap	03/08/2017
Helsinki	Monthly Missing Maps mapathon at Finnish Red Cross HQ	03/09/2017
Berlin	105. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	03/09/2017
Rapperswil	8. Micro Mapping Party Rapperswil	03/10/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	03/10/2017
Chemnitz	Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2017	03/11/2017-03/12/2017
Rennes	Atelier de découverte	03/12/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	03/13/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	03/13/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	03/14/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	03/14/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	03/15/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第６回 愛宕神社	03/18/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	07/08/2017-07/10/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+SOTM Brasil 2017	07/27/2017-07/29/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	11/29/2017-12/02/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, SeleneYang, Softgrow, SomeoneElse, Spec80, derFred, jcoupey, jinalfoflia, kreuzschnabel, vsandre, wambacher.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

02/28/2017-03/06/2017

Map of time zones in OSM ¹ | © OpenStreetMap Contributors CC-BY-SA 2.0

About us

• Dale Kunce accuses us of selective news coverage about HOT and points out the Validation Fridays. As barely 50% of the added data is validated till date, HOT hopes to have a quality gain and more feedback to the mappers, who are new mappers in many cases, through their initiative.

• March 8 marks the International Women’s Day. WeeklyOSM extends congratulations to all women within our community!

Mapping

• Tagging mailing list discusses the new tag motorcycle_friendly as the RFC and voting phases didn’t happen as expected.

• Tyndare reports on talk-fr about his use of the conflation plugin to work with French land registry data within JOSM. He provides documentation both on the wiki and in a video.

• [1] Frederik Ramm initiates a discussion, on the Tagging list, about issues concerning the mapping of time zones as geometries. A long and detailed discussion follows.

• A former modification of motorway exits by hsimpson triggers an extended discussion, in the Tagging mailing list, about where a way branches at motorway exits. There is a discussion in the German forum as well.

• Users sabas88 and sbiribizio from the Italian community experimented with the "geography" of Wikidata and built a service to assist in matching the Wikidata element to the OpenStreetMap database.

Community

• South Korea has its first forum thread. We wish to say: 오신 것을 환영합니다, 한국

• Martijn van Exel has created a small survey on Maproulette tasks. Please participate in the survey so that Martijn gets a picture as complete as possible.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Data Working Group (DWG) publishes the minutes of the February 8th meeting and its activity reports for the year 2016.

• On OWG’s issue tracker on GitHub, there is a discussion on the rules for a banner policy for advertising banners on osm.org in the future.

• The Operations Working Group (OWG) publishes its activities report for February.

• Gregory Marler summarizes his thoughts about the purpose of the UK local chapter.

Events

• Do you want to learn how to create and publish interactive and personalized maps? Come and participate in the Mapbox Studio workshop. It will be held this March 25th at the Mapbox Peru Office. It will be addressed for an open group.

• Framasoft, a group of FOSS enthusiasts, will provide technical support to the SotM France 2017 from June 02 to 04 in Avignon.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT aims to map buildings over an area of 500,000+ square kilometers by the end of April. The Malaria Elimination Campaign completed Guatemala and is currently validating Honduras and Botswana maps in Zambia. It is to begin soon in Zimbabwe, Cambodia and Laos.

• Trudy Namitala describes in a HOT blog post why we need women and girls in mapping. Hint: Especially in Africa women often lack the information about help facilities for gender based violence, family planning or maternity services. Look at the list in the wiki.

• Emir Hartato announces the completion of his Masters thesis on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Management. However, his full work may be published only after review.

• Various people, including Simon Poole, have expressed surprise that HOT is advertising on Google. Are they running short of volunteers? Do they want more donations? Let’s not forget that the OSM Foundation’s donate link will still happily take any spare cash that you might have…

Maps

• After ongoing discussions about debugging tiles infos (we reported earlier), Tom Hughes took the time to develop a new info box about a tile’s detail.

• Todd Neumarker introduces new Trailfork cards for the Garmin Edge series. You can find more information here.

switch2OSM

• The game 911 Operator uses OpenStreetMap data for a world wide coverage.

Open Data

• On the occasion of the international Open Data Day on March 4, the Guardian reported Open Data projects in five countries around the world. OSM has, of course, featured as one of them with CARTEAU in Burkina Faso and the Open Source Flood Map in Indonesia being OSM based.

Programming

• Paul Norman searched and found benefits in replacing string arrays with hstore in the previous representation of the tags in the slim tables of osm2pgsql databases.

• The Engineering Working Group calls for mentors for the next round of Google Summer of Code 2017.

• The next version of Overpass API is out. The release notes provide a summary of changes.

Releases

Dark POIs are mapped objects which have location data but no information on type. The new Overpass API blog provides details on how to query for such objects.

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
Mapzen Lost	2.2.0	2016-12-08	Many changes, please read release info.
Mapillary iOS *	4.6.8	2017-03-01	Gui modifications, added image direction to the standard EXIF tags.
Magic Earth *	7.1.17.9	2017-03-02	Points-of-interest categories, improved pinch zooming, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Czech and Romanian, Bug fixes and more.
Maps.me Android *	var	2017-03-02	Bug fixed, actual map data.
Maps.me iOS *	7.1.5	2017-03-02	Updated map data.
OSM Contributor	3.0.3	2017-03-02	No infos.
OSRM Backend	5.6.2	2017-03-03	Some bugfixes.
Mapillary Android *	3.31	2017-03-06	New and performance-optimized camera implementation, share button in photo view.
Overpass Api	osm3s-v0.7.54	2017-03-06	Some bugfixes.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Other “geo” things

• Christoph Hormann reports about the changes in Sentinel-2’s image format.

• The company SIGRA asks whether OsmAnd could be adapted for autonomous driving.

• Amazing Maps presents a map from the time of Charles the Great.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Chemnitz	Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2017	03/11/2017-03/12/2017
Rennes	Atelier de découverte	03/12/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	03/13/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	03/13/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	03/14/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	03/14/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	03/15/2017
Paris	Missing Maps Toulouse	03/15/2017
Moscow	Schemotechnica 08	03/15/2017
Heidelberg	Missing Maps Mapathon at Makerspace (DAI)	03/16/2017
Mazzano Romano	Presentazione di OSM al MAVNA	03/17/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第６回 愛宕神社	03/18/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	03/21/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	03/21/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	03/21/2017
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	03/21/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	03/22/2017-03/25/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	03/23/2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	03/23/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	03/24/2017
Louvain-la-Neuve	Bar meeting	03/24/2017
Mazzano Romano	Workshop 1	03/24/2017
8 locations in Belgium	National Mapathon	03/25/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	03/27/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	06/02/2017-06/04/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	07/08/2017-07/10/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+SOTM Brasil 2017	07/27/2017-07/29/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	08/18/2017-08/20/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	10/23/2017-10/28/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	11/29/2017-12/02/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, Spec80, SrrReal, YoViajo, derFred, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, piligab, vsandre.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

07/03/2017-13/03/2017

Mapping

• User BushmanK writes about the quality of foreign names submitted under the name:<language_code>=* tag. An in-depth analysis is presented and suggestions on how to mitigate the issue.
• The Costa Rican community organises a tour (Feb & March event) to map national parks and volcanoes. This month’s destination was Bosque del Niño.
• Jochen Topf reports that the multi-polygon fixing effort is going well and provides an issue thread to track the evolution.
• A discussion started on the French mailing list about tagging standards for river fishing categories. Concerns were raised about such information only being relevant with regard to local nomenclatures.
• User Muzirian proposes the tag amenity=courier to map courier services. However, it received some criticism.
• The Tagging mailing list is looking for a neutral name for “Segways and the like”.
• On the Tagging mailing list, Warin asks for ideas to map Drying_room or Drying_area.
• Dave Swarthout is looking for a tag for cannabis processing plants.
• Yuri Astrakhan published a proposal to distinguish between “There is a Wikipedia page about this object” vs “This object is mentioned in a Wikipedia page”. His suggestion was seen rather critically on the OSM Wiki.
• Joshua Houston suggests on the Talk-US mailing list to replace the tag man_made to human_made, as a step to make OSM more inclusive. The OSM Latam community had a similar discussion on this issue.
• Martijn van Exel posts the latest news from MapRoulette.

Community

• After Senegal, Burkina Faso and Benin, it is the turn of Togo to start its phase 01 of the project School of Free Geomatics.
• For some time now, there have been rumours that Niantic is using OpenStreetMap data to influence Pokemon Go. There’s more discussion about it here, and a recent OSM diary entry has linked to an article amusingly titled ‘How To Create Your Own Nest In Pokemon GO With A Free Tool Called “Open Street Map”’ (and as you’d expect, every other post there, reads like Buzzfeed Bingo too). But this could mean that there are a few people trying to game OpenStreetMap to make things appear in Pokemon Go. Here are a few things that you can do about such vandalism.
• Sven Geggus tweets that the German tile server operated by FOSSGIS e.V. is now HTTPS capable.

Events

• The Swiss OpenStreetMap Association’s Annual General Meeting will take place in Fribourg, Switzerland on April 8th. A mapping party will follow.
• Gregory calls again to submit lectures for the State of the Map in Japan, since not enough papers have been submitted so far. Rob also refers to the deadlines for proposals and the scholarship program.

Humanitarian OSM

• Marek Kleciak reports in the German forum that new satellite images from Nepal are available. They allow to map previously untapped areas.
• The HOT Team Indonesia organized a mapping event called WomenMap. They introduced women to ICT and digital mapping skills. It was pioneered by HOT as it moves towards promoting inclusion for vulnerable, disenfranchised groups (women, persons with disabilities, youth and marginalized communities) and thus help to narrow the digital divide. The initiative is supported by the Australian Government, Disaster Management Innovation and UN Women.

Maps

• Walter aka wambacher presents the completely revised version of the Emergency Map.
• Mapzen now offers a map style for cycling. European readers have to answer the question themselves if this map design can compete with the long-standing experience and work of all those cycling mappers/developers in Europe.

switch2OSM

• When you do a geo search on the meta search engine Startpage, you will directly see an OpenStreetMap map in the results.

Open Data

• Mapbox published new satellite imagery for Vancouver and Toronto.
• The summary of an interview with Antonio F. Rodríguez Pascual provides 10 good reasons why the public administration (in Spain) should release data under an open license. (automatic translation)

Software

• Andrés summarizes all important sources for learning about and using the Overpass API.
• The motorcycle route planner “Kurviger”, which prefers beautiful winding routes with elevation changes, is now available worldwide.
• Harry Wood created a tool to convert OpenStreetMap notes into KML and to use them in MAPS.ME.
• On talk-fr, Florian Lainez announces the launch of Bus Contributor, a new Android app to ease public transport related contributions in OSM. Provided by Jawg Maps, the app is based on OSM Contributor.

Programming

• A “monster relation” of an undiscussed import in Brazil with more than 32,767 members was too big for osm2pgsql, which probably caused problems on many servers.
• In the second part of his blog series, Roland explained how to deal with numbers in the Overpass API.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … Multimapas by Javier Jiménez Shaw to compare a variety of different map layers? Javier’s service also supports WMS layers and allows you to add your own layers.

Other “geo” things

• Mongabay Wildtech reported on a new mapping platform for environmental protection.
• The French magazine ‘Sciences et Avenir’ reports on PaleobioDB, a database inventorying fossils found by hundreds of paleontologists. The corresponding interactive map is based on OSM.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Mazzano Romano	Presentazione di OSM al MAVNA	17/03/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第６回 愛宕神社	18/03/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	21/03/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	21/03/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	21/03/2017
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	21/03/2017
Passau	FOSSGIS 2017	22/03/2017-25/03/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	23/03/2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	23/03/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	23/03/2017
Zaragoza	Mapping Party #Zaccesibilidad (Mapeado Colaborativo)	24/03/2017
Louvain-la-Neuve	Bar meeting	24/03/2017
Vancouver	Vancouver mappy hour	24/03/2017
Mazzano Romano	Workshop 1	24/03/2017
Ayacucho	Workshop of Mapbox Studio	25/03/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	27/03/2017
Mazzano Romano	Workshop 2	31/03/2017
Kyoto	【西国街道#02】山崎蒸溜所と桜マッピングパーティ	01/04/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02/06/2017-04/06/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+SOTM Brasil 2017	27/07/2017-29/07/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18/08/2017-20/08/2017
Boulder	State Of The Map U.S. 2017	19/10/2017-22/10/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map – LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. Only data which is there, will appear in weeklyOSM. Please check your event in our public calendar preview and correct it, where appropriate.

This weeklyOSM was produced by Nakaner, Peda, Polyglot, Rogehm, SeleneYang, Spec80, SrrReal, TheFive, YoViajo, derFred, freeExec, jcoupey, jinalfoflia, keithonearth, taranarmo, wambacher.

Not available yet. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language.

14/03/2017-20/03/2017

Mapping

• The Costa Rican community photomapped the trails in the natural forest reserve of Bosque del Niño in Poás volcano.
• The Mexican OSM community proposes the use of the hashtag #CallesVioletas to visualize and map the public spaces. This is done by using an inclusive methodology that empowers citizens by generating participatory data from georeferenced photos.
• User kreuzschnabel asks (automatic translation) in the German user forum how to tag scenery frames.
• Christoph Hormann cleans up defective multi-polygons and data garbage in the Antarctica region. He wonders why there are so many nodes created with the iD editor.
• In his draft proposal, user dieterdreist suggests that the key emergency be supplemented by the collection of “dry riser inlet”.
• Ever wondered why OSM hasn’t adopted a review procedure yet? Read the discussion on responding to vandalism thread in the Talk mailing list. Proponents and opponents share their thoughts.
• The proposal for drying rooms for sports equipment is under way and Thilo Haug asks for comments.
• Yuri Astrakhan suggests some features for editors to improve the usage of tags.
• Tod Fitch thinks that the direction=* tag is used for too many unrelated conventions. The mailing list Tagging discussed some of them.
• Charlie Loyd from Mapbox, writes a blog about the high-resolution images that are made available in India and can be used for mapping.

Community

• User mueschel has published the visualisation service OSM Destination Signs, for relations of type destination_sign. See also the discussion (automatic translation) at the German forum.
• Phase 2 of the School of Free Geomatics has just been launched at Benin with a lot of reuse of the OpenStreetMap data.

Imports

• An import of trees in the West Midlands of England that has mostly ignored the import guidelines has sparked some difficult discussions – some highly respected members of the GB community spoke up against it.
• There was a discussion about Facebook’s proposed import (based on automatically recognising streets) on the “import” mailing list. It also continues to be discussed on the Thai forum.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the board meeting held on 21 February 2017 were published in the wiki of the Foundation. There was a discussion about the transparency of the Data Working Group among other working groups, the necessary profit from SotM and furthermore, the status of the Corporate Membership was presented.

Events

• Simon Poole invites to the Annual General Meeting of the Swiss OpenStreetMap Association followed by a Mapping Party. This takes place on Saturday, April 8th at the University of Fribourg.
• The enrollments for SotM France from 2nd to 4th June in Avignon are open.

Humanitarian OSM

• On the HOT mailing list, Johnattan Rupire asks for help in dealing with the flood disaster in Peru which caused many casualties. This wiki page was created for more information.Here the recent tasks to work on:
  • #2701 – Peru Flood Support 5: Pampa Pacta, Punta Hermosa
  • #2677 – Peru Flood Support 2: Cayma
  • #2679 – Peru Flood Support 4: Huarmey
• Johnattan Rupire (@johnarupire) publishes an article in his blog about the importance of open data and participatory collaboration to save lives in time of emergencies and disasters.
• Jochen Topf asks on the HOT mailing list for support in the repair of defective multi-polygons. Background and tools can be found in his website. The current status can be seen here.
• Violaine from CartONG requests participation in a survey.
• In Belgium you are invited to the second National Mapathon next Saturday, 25th of March, which will be organised at 8 different university campuses simultaneously. “More than 200 mappers will be trained by OpenStreetMap Belgium volunteers to work on MSF/Missing Maps tasks”, says Joost Schouppe.
• Pjstewart1984 describes in his blog, how the results from MapSwipe can be used in OSM Tasking Manager.
• HOT is hiring a part-time developer for the OpenAerialMap project.

Maps

• [1] The “Neue Westfälische” presents a new city map of Bielefeld. This map is based on OSM, cadastral and other sources. It is to be further expanded.
• Frikart.no offers Garmin Maps with different Norwegian map styles.

Open Data

• Christian Quest reported that the RTE (the French electricity network operator) published all network data (overground 45 kV to 400 kV, Underground, etc.) and declared it as open data.