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04/04/2017-10/04/2017

Mapping

• Walter Nordmann analysed the extent of the improper tagging landuse=farm, which has to be changed. His NoFarm-Map helps to discover such areas.
• Version 0.9.9 of Vespucci is now available! Simon Poole shares the news along with some details.
• User Rogehm brings up the discussion about the already mapped building=conservatory on the German forum. A OSM wikipage was created.
• User dktue would like to map rescue guides. An internationally recognized tag is still being discussed, since these can be called “MRCC”, deviant from the proposed “ECC”, or different.

Community

• In an interview to OpenCage Data, Vivien Deparday speaks about the state of OSM and its community in Sri Lanka – their current work and future plans.
• Ruben Lopez made an app to report the flooded streets in different regions of Peru, based on the one for Chennai.
• Taïs Grippa released a new statistic tool for mapathons and shows some examples of the last Belgian National Mapathon 2017.
• On the Talk mailing list, the Engineering Working Group asked what would be the most important thing to change. There are many suggestions made.

Imports

• Chetan Gowda shares updates about the San Francisco Building Height Import project. As they begin validation, he invites the community to join.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Simon Poole, head of the License Working Group of the OSMF, commented on our (fake) news of April 1st.
• Frederik Ramm reported the status of the preparations of FOSSGIS to become a OSMF local chapter. Christoph Hormann brought some important points into the conversation.

Events

• You can give your inputs on which sessions you would like to see at State of The Map 2017 through the community survey.
• The Costa Rican OSM community invites you to join them to map the bars in San José, as part of the Maperespeis activities. Beers not included
• Resistance GIS, an upcoming free mini-conference at Portland State University, aims to explore how GIS, open data and its visualizations can empower communities, social movements and civil resistance struggles.
• Submit talk proposals and scholarship applications for the first ever State of the Map Africa at Uganda in July 2017.

Humanitarian OSM

• In order to be prepared for disasters, HOT in Indonesia teaches authorities and non-profit associations how to map with JOSM. A pilot project for risk assessment of threats, weaknesses and capacities is to be established in the regions of Barru and Wajo (South Sulawesi). (automatic translation)
• HOT calls for help to fight the malaria on the occasion of World Health Day on April 7th.

Software

• [1] User mmd writes a post showcasing a small proof of concept to demonstrate @jotpe’s proposal on GitHub.

Programming

• Mapzen presents a new, fast and accurate parser for address input.
• User daniel-j-h writes about Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) supporting bearing constraints and highlights their use-cases and effects on routing.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-04-10 15:08:55+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the tutorial to use Overpass queries in uMap?

OSM in the media

• In a YouTube video, The Crowd & The Cloud discuss the need of up-to-date maps for disaster relief, highlighting the great importance of OSM.

Other “geo” things

• The Indian government is trying to organize the agricultural assets of the country by better geotagging and mapping and would like to use the open data application Bhuvan.
• US president Donald Trump’s planned wall in the Mexico border would cut ecosystems and lead to irreversible damage to the already endangered flora and fauna in the region. The Vox report uses OSM-based maps.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Manila	MapAm❤re #PhotoMapping San Juan, San Juan	13/04/2017-16/04/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第７回 小石川後楽園	15/04/2017
Vicopisano	Collaborative mapping lab, Festa Dèi Camminanti 2017	15/04/2017
Manila	FEU YouthMappers Mapillary Workshop, Manila	17/04/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	18/04/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	18/04/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	18/04/2017
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	18/04/2017
Moscow	Schemotechnika 09	18/04/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	19/04/2017
Portland	Portland Mappy Hour	19/04/2017
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #05	19/04/2017
Colorado Springs	Humanitarian Mapathon Colorado State University, Fort Collins	19/04/2017
Augsburg	Augsburger Stammtisch	20/04/2017
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	20/04/2017
Zaragoza	Mapeado Colaborativo	21/04/2017
Kyoto	【西国街道#03】桜井駅跡と島本マッピングパーティ	22/04/2017
Misiones	Charla Mapas Libres en FLISoL, Posadas	22/04/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	24/04/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	24/04/2017
Kinmen Shang Yi Airport	Do mapping Kinmen by youself	24/04/2017-25/04/2017
Zaragoza	Mapatón Humanitario – Mapeado Colaborativo y Dpto. Geografía de la Universidad de Zaragoza	25/04/2017
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	26/04/2017
Leuven	First Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup/Missing Maps	26/04/2017
Antwerp	Missing Maps at IPIS	26/04/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	27/04/2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	27/04/2017
Vancouver	Vancouver mappy hour	28/04/2017
Ouro Preto	Mapatona Estrada Real	29/04/2017-01/05/2017
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
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+State of the Map Brasil 2017	27/07/2017-29/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017	USA
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+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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11/04/2017-17/04/2017

Mapping

• There is a discussion on the OpenStreetMap Forum about Bing rolling out new aerial imagery for Darmstadt, Germany.
• A question by wolfbert about grouping buildings and terrain of castles leads (automatic translation) to an amusing discussion. The results are on the wiki.
• Levente Juhász writes in the Mapillary Blog on how to map hiking routes in OpenStreetMap and Mapillary.
• Micah Cochran invites comments on his modified proposal concerning improvements to toilet tagging.
• On the talk-fr mailing list, Florian Lainez suggests using the upcoming French presidential election as a good opportunity to map electoral billboards. A wiki page has been set up and questions are raised on polling stations tagging.
• A question is raised on the tagging mailing list about restaurants that allow customers to bring in their own alcoholic drinks.
• Some mappers wonder why thoroughly mapped amenities like schools, churches and other buildings do not show up as expected. This was discussed (automatic translation) in detail on the German forum, and on the Tagging mailing list.
• Manohar Erikipati (manoharuss) writes about OpenStreetMap Changeset Analyzer (OSMCHA) and how to use it to review recent changes in your area using filters.

Community

• Steve Coast launched a Kickstarter campaign to fix and stabilize OSM Stats and already reached his goal of 1000 USD. However, it also received some criticism.
• Mapbox Cities is a mentorship program for cities. For research projects on public sector open datasets and OpenStreetMap, Mapbox wants to learn about the local government datasets that are most interesting for you to import, the pain points that you face while interacting with government open data stakeholders, and more on your experience with local government contacts. If you are interested in answering these questions, please take up the survey for OpenStreetMap Contributors and there is one for local government officials too.
• Mikel Maron publishes his notes on the Local Chapter Congress that took place during SotM 2016.
• Joost Schouppe publishes his analysis of the most frequently used OpenStreetMap editors.
• Tyumen Oblast is small region in Western Siberia. The evolution of local mappers in this region is analyzed by user mavl in his blog.

Imports

• Ivan Garcia wants to import borders in Indonesia on behalf of HOT.
• User ff5722 suggests in his user diary to import the treecover2010 dataset by USGS outside of Europe. Vincent de Phily, Christoph Hormann and SK53 explain in their comments what the issues of this dataset are and why it should not be imported.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSM UK has officially applied for Local Chapter. Paul Norman asks for comments on the British request.

Events

• The call for papers of FrOSCon conference (Free and Open Source Conference) in Siegburg, Germany is open (and will close on 23. May). FOSSGIS e.V., the German de-facto local OSM organisation, cooperates (automatic translation) with the organizers for GIS and OSM related topics.

Humanitarian OSM

• The HOT board was renewed. Meet the members. Melanie Eckle from HeiGIT / GIScience Research Group Heidelberg was elected along with Ahasanul Hoque and Pete Masters.
• ‘The Conversation’ discusses the role of social media in the improvement of human life, and also addresses the ‘Missing Maps’ project.
• A new Missing Maps Hosting Tool helps mapathon organizers register the event and contact other volunteers.
• The HOT Mapathons in Belgium were not as successful as hoped, judging by the statistics on continued participation. However, Joost Schouppe writes that they were more successful in other aspects – they have united the community and recruited volunteers while organizing SotM (2016) last autumn.

Maps

• OpenStreetMap Carto released version 3.2.0, and landuse=farm will no longer be displayed.
• Michael Spreng presents the Swiss map of CHFreeWiFi which is based on OSM. The WeeklyOSM editors do not issue any political opinion.

Open Data

• ChristianSW points out that this year Wiki Loves Earth will take place in May. It is an annual photo competition for nature conservation and natural phenomena. Images can be uploaded to Wiki Commons.
• The twitter account openOV claims that the timetable data of the integrated transport authority of Aachen, Germany, is public domain.

Software

• [1] Geohacker writes about preparing accurate history and caching OpenStreetMap changesets.

Programming

• User pathmapper asks on GitHub what will happen with Maputnik in the future because Lukas Martinelli joined Mapbox. Lukas responds that he is looking for a new maintainer.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-04-17 18:40:55+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

OSM in the media

• The Euronice trendblog writes (automatic translation) about the possibility of HERE and OpenStreetMap as viable alternatives to Google Maps.

Other “geo” things

• Descartes Labs are developing a geo-search engine to search for similar objects in satellite images. Currently, the record is limited to the US.
• Marketwired reports about Helsinki Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New Journey Planner being an interactive map and is based on OpenStreetMap.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Cochabamba	Taller Hrrmtas. digitales de mapas para estudiantes de Psicología (UMSS)	20/04/2017-24/04/2017
Kyoto	【西国街道#03】桜井駅跡と島本マッピングパーティ	22/04/2017
Misiones	Charla Mapas Libres en FLISoL, Posadas	22/04/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	24/04/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	24/04/2017
Kinmen Shang Yi Airport	Do mapping Kinmen by youself	24/04/2017-25/04/2017
Zaragoza	Mapatón Humanitario – Mapeado Colaborativo y Dpto. Geografía de la Universidad de Zaragoza	25/04/2017
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	25/04/2017
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	26/04/2017
Leuven	First Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup/Missing Maps	26/04/2017
Antwerp	Missing Maps at IPIS	26/04/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	27/04/2017
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	27/04/2017
Heidelberg	Semester Start Missing Maps mapathon for World Malaria Day 2017	27/04/2017
Vancouver	Vancouver mappy hour	28/04/2017
Ouro Preto	Mapatona Estrada Real	01/05/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	02/05/2017
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	03/05/2017
Helsinki	Monthly Missing Maps mapathon at Finnish Red Cross HQ	04/05/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	04/05/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	08/05/2017
Taipei	OSM Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	08/05/2017
Rome	Walk4Art II	08/05/2017
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
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+State of the Map Brasil 2017	27/07/2017-29/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017	USA
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+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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18/04/2017-24/04/2017

Screen shot examples of the new OpenTopoMap style for Garmin devices ¹ | © Wolfram Schneider, OpenStreetMap contributors CC-BY-SA 2.0

Mapping

• Marc Gemis (Escada) explains the workflow he follows when he surveys an area to map on OpenStreetMap.
• Christoph Hormann provides new satellite images for mapping on his website imagico.de. The pictures show the North Sea in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, the Petschorasee coast in the North of Russia, part of the Arctic coastline and islands in the North Atlantic.
• Michael Tsang asks for votes for his proposal bus_bay=left/right/both. Michael also extends the voting for through_service and asks for increased participation.
• A discussion about how to map a mill channel/trench started both in the German forum (automatic translation) and the Tagging mailing list at about the same time. waterway=leat is called the water providing alternative for the existing tags waterway=ditch, drain and canalis proposed. The German forum prefers waterway=ditch, so far.
• surface=cobblestone was discussed on the German forum (automatic translation), after wiki fiddling changed the original intent of the tag over the years. Do we all have to start retagging what we know colloquially as cobblestone to surface=sett? Or do we make the definitions in the wiki the way they started out?
• Élisée Reclus (@reclus23) tweets that "In #Ruhrgebiet the cycle path signposts in #OpenStreetMap soon have (automatic translation) to be changed / supplemented". He also points out that new signposts might also be rescue points tagged highway=emergency_access_point or emergency=access_point.

Community

• Whoever currently scrapes the JOSM server is kindly, but urgently asked to stop it.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• On the recent OSMF Board meeting on 18th April a possible directive was discussed on how to deal with commercially organized edits in a largely non-public item of the agenda. This led to a turmoil prior to the meeting. A theme in the public part was also a possible change of the e-mail provider for osmfoundation.org (Gmail) to a self hosted solution.
• "OSMUK Chapter has opened a dialogue at senior level with Highways England about access to their data and they have indicated they are open to releasing data to us", says Brian Prangle at Talk-GB. He lists a number of features to add to the initial request of data. Your comments are welcome.

Events

• On May 10th, a Missing Maps Mapathon will take place in Lyon, France.
• The tickets for SotM Africa from July 8th to 10th in Kampala, Uganda, can be purchased here.
• On September 14-15, the HOT Summit will take place in Ottawa, Canada.

Humanitarian OSM

• OpenGovAsia reported in detail and clearly about the HOT activities and disaster management in Indonesia. The "pioneer work" by HOT even in very remote areas is highlighted in particular.
• HOT reports on the projects being supported by the "Microgrants Program 2017".

Maps

• On the Talk mailing list, you can read a discussion about how the important landmarks of cell towers are perceived differently and only pylons are rendered by the map style openstreetmap-carto.
• [1] BBBike extract service now also delivers maps with the OpenTopoMap style for Garmin devices.

switch2OSM

• The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar uses OSM data on its website (automatic translation) since the end of March. So far, start and destination maps, and line trajectories are available. They are already working on an interactive map.(automatic translation)

Software

• Bryan Housel requests your help to translate the next version of iD. He also gives some details on the upcoming 2.2 release.

Programming

• Mapbox released their Node.js binding for or-tools as open source. Although the code is thought to use the Mapbox APIs, first users confirmed that it also works directly with OSRM and OpenStreetMap data.
• R0bst3r thought about how to use OpenStreetMap in his car. He found (automatic translation) a simple way to mirror the smartphone display on his Mazda radio. User michalfabik refers to a discussion on the same topic on reddit.

Releases

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
OpenStreetMap Carto Style	3.2.0	2017-04-17	Many changes, please read release info.
Naviki iOS *	3.58	2017-04-18	New cycling map, bug fixes.
Mapbox GL JS	v0.36	2017-04-19	One new feature, five bugs fixed and three development workflow improvements.
OsMo iOS	1.6	2017-04-19	Improved application stability. View group members, points of interest, tracks on OpenStreetMap.
Komoot Android *	var	2017-04-21	No Infos.
OSRM Backend	5.7.0	2017-04-21	Many changes, please read release info.
QGIS	2.18.7	2017-04-21	No infos.
MapContrib	1.7.9	2017-04-24	Some smaller changes.
Mapillary Android *	3.51	2017-04-24	Auto break sequences after 600 photos, fix timestamp and upload issues.
Naviki Android *	3.58.2	2017-04-24	Added language instructions for additional languages.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-04-24 16:37:53+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the livemap24? It shows public transport vehicles, either where they should be based on GTFS timetables, or where they actually are if the public transport operator provides an API with live positions.

OSM in the media

• The French newspaper "Le Monde" reports (automatic translation) about the Jungle Bus (automatic translation) project whose aim is to build tools to ease contributions and use for public transport data on OSM. The app has been previously mentioned as Bus Contributor.

Other “geo” things

• Mapzen expands the Who’s On First Neighbourhoods post, presenting the work-flow, sources and a status report.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Ouro Preto	Mapatona Estrada Real	01/05/2017
Toronto	Mappy Hour	01/05/2017
London	Missing Maps May Mapathon	02/05/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	02/05/2017
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	03/05/2017
Geneva	Mapathon Missing Maps Université de Genève	03/05/2017	Suisse
Paris	Mapathon Missing Maps Paris	04/05/2017
Helsinki	Monthly Missing Maps mapathon at Finnish Red Cross HQ	04/05/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	04/05/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	08/05/2017
Taipei	OSM Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	08/05/2017
Rome	Walk4Art II	08/05/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	09/05/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	09/05/2017
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	09/05/2017	everywhere
Lyon	Mapathon Missing Maps Lyon	10/05/2017
Grenoble	Mapathon Missing Maps Grenoble	11/05/2017
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	10/05/2017
Berlin	107. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	11/05/2017
Zurich	83. OSM-Stammtisch	11/05/2017
Prague	Wikimedia Prehackathon	12/05/2017-14/05/2017
Tirana	OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania)	13/05/2017-14/05/2017	Albania
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	15/05/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	16/05/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	16/05/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02/06/2017-04/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+State of the Map Brasil 2017	27/07/2017-29/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
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+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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25/04/2017-01/05/2017

OpenRouteService with isochronous distances ¹ | © OpenStreetMap Contributors CC-BY-SA 2.0

Mapping

• The Bing Maps team announced in its blog the release of new satellite imagery (a total of 3.67 million km²) in Turkey, Greece and Argentina in cooperation with DigitalGlobe.
• Nuno Caldeira describes how to improve road tagging using Mapillary horizontal imagery in JOSM.
• The Zoo tagging has been extended with the tag zoo=wildlife_park. A description for Safari Park is to follow.

Community

• GIScience of Universität Heidelberg supports the Crowdsourced Damage Assessment project at Stanford University by developing experiments to enable area based damage assessments and comparative damage rankings by volunteers.
• The Colombian community operates their own tasking manager. The donations (see banner upper left) are going directly to Colombia.
• Andrew Lester, a highly active mapper, expresses his thoughts after discussions on Telenav’s turn restrictions mapping in Canada.
• In Senegal, a free of charge, ten days OpenStreetMap Mapping Training course has begun. It is organised within the framework of the Sunu Gox project "Our locality/community", developed by the movement Y en Marre Senegal, in partnership with the Gret, "Les Libres Géographes", OpenStreetMap Senegal and financed by the European Union. It aims to promote urban solidarity and citizenship in the peripheral districts of Dakar by strengthening citizen movements and grass-roots organizations in their capacity to act for the environment and the improvement of basic services through the production of diagnostic maps.
• Federico Pertile from the Argentinian OSM community presented "OpenStreetMap the Wikipedia of maps" at the FLISOL2017 in Resistencia, Argentina.
• The OSM community from Cochabamba are having mapping workshops with students of the career of Community Psychology from the Universidad Mayor San Simón.
• Pascal Neis has enabled an OAuth login for his HDYC page to protect privacy.

Imports

• Drishtie Patel asks for feedback on the plans to import the road network in Thailand that are traced by an artificial intelligence.

Events

• Maning Sambale announced that proposals for presentations can be submitted for the SotM Asia 2017 happening in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 23rd-24th.
• Contributions to the SotM LatAm 2017, to be held in Lima, Peru from November 29th until December 2nd, can be submitted.

Humanitarian OSM

• Mikel Maron writes a Mapbox blog about the impressive work done by 3000 mappers in the mapping of 1.7 million buildings. These were mapped into OpenStreetMap to fight Malaria in Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Honduras and Guatemala.
• The user upendrakarukonda, who works as a data analyst at Mapbox, summarizes the previous work of the project "eliminate malaria" and asks for more supporters to join this mapping effort.
• Matthew Gibb (American Red Cross, HOT Community Member) shows the results of the mapping work after the cyclone Enawo.
• Janet Chapman announced an one-hour webinar for Thursday, May 18th and asks to enroll for the same.

Maps

• derstefan announced an enhancement for railway stations on OpenTopoMap written by Max Berger.

Open Data

• ArchitectsNewspaper writes about the open source project NYC space/time directory, which represents the development of the city of New York in the period from 1850 to 1950 by means of interactive maps.
• Todd Robbins announces about him giving dataportals.org a facelift as the new maintainer of the page.

Licences

• Dan Jacobson started started a discussion on licensing in the legaltalk mailing list.

Software

• [1] OpenRouteService appears with a new API, new features (such as isochronous calculation) and an improved look.

Programming

• Mapbox now provides a new layer with data about traffic congestion. The information is based on customer’s meta data and thus can be updated frequently in many places.
• Jiaoyan Chen is pursuing research at the University of Heidelberg on how data from OSM and MapSwipe can be used to train neural networks with the objective of an automated detection of buildings on satellite images. First preliminary results are now available in a paper.

Releases

Software	Version	Release date	Comment
iOsMo	1.7	2017-04-24	Fixed issue with unhided screen keyboard on registration view, waypoints from group tracks now visible on map.
Mapillary Android *	3.54	2017-04-25	Better deletion of sequences after upload.
Komoot Android *	var	2017-04-28	No Infos.
Kurviger Free *	10.0.20	2017-04-28	The selection between the 3 route modes (fastest, curvy, extra curvy) has been moved to the route menu, avoiding ferries, highways, toll roads and smaller roads possible.
StreetComplete	0.8	2017-04-28	Add translations: Albanian, Danish, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, simplified Chinese, Swedish and Turkish, sending crash reports, bugfixes.
Locus Map Free *	3.23.2	2017-05-01	No infos.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-05-01 13:17:55+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

OSM in the media

• Mundodiario from Spain published an article about offline navigation apps and unsurprisingly mentions OSM.
• Melanie Eckle talks about mapathons on the German radio station DLF Nova. Read more here in English.
• SWR (German regional TV-Station) reported on a user Mapathon, at the University of Heidelberg, from minute 14:52 to 17:34.
• "SciDevNet" reported on how a way out of violence in the suburbs of Tunis was found by using "mapping tools to influence planning decisions".

Other “geo” things

• The Norwegian village of Fossmork feels overrun (automatic translation) by tourists looking for Preikestolen rock via Google Maps – which is nearby but on the other side of the fjord.
• In France, the police have introduced a tracking system for those in need. When an emergency number is dialed, the caller receives a text message with an HTML link. The caller then confirms the link and the geo-coordinates are sent to the rescue headquarters on a map.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Passau	Mappertreffen	08/05/2017
Taipei	OSM Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	08/05/2017
Rome	Walk4Art II	08/05/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	09/05/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	09/05/2017
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	09/05/2017
Lyon	Mapathon Missing Maps Lyon	10/05/2017
Grenoble	Mapathon Missing Maps Grenoble	11/05/2017
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	10/05/2017
Berlin	107. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	11/05/2017
Zurich	83. OSM-Stammtisch	11/05/2017
Prague	Wikimedia Prehackathon	12/05/2017-14/05/2017
Tirana	OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania)	13/05/2017-14/05/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	15/05/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	16/05/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	16/05/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	17/05/2017
Moscow	Schemotechnika 10	18/05/2017
Amstetten	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	18/05/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第８回 浜離宮恩賜庭園	20/05/2017
Osaka	【西国街道#04】摂津富田の街並みと寺社巡り	20/05/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	22/05/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	22/05/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02/06/2017-04/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Curitiba	FOSS4G+State of the Map Brasil 2017	27/07/2017-29/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
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+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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02/05/2017-08/05/2017

Mapping

• There is a discussion on Reddit about the level of detail in OSM, using a UK maze as a starting point.
• The proposal for tagging bus bays is accepted.
• Paul Johnson wants to propose a better way to map traffic control (stop and yield) and traffic calming devices, by using relations to overcome the “non-directional” nature of nodes.
• Thilo Haug created a new wiki page for aeroway=spaceport. He is facing criticism because this tagging is not generally accepted. Frederik Ramm notes that tag discussions should take place in the tagging mailing list and not in the wiki itself.
• Mattias Dalkvist proposed the tag meadow=wooded_meadow and invites comments.
• Michael Tsang suggests a new tag to mark areas where public transport has no regular stops but can be asked to stop by waving.
• Manohar writes about the Pokémon related mapping activity on OpenStreetMap, also discussing some features that are mapped specifically for Pokémon “biomes”.
• Old-style multipolygon relations on OSM are now history. (via twitter)

Community

• On the OpenCage Data blog, an interview with Mohamed Marrouchi, from Tunisia, was published.
• OSM-Belgium declared Ben Abelshausen as mapper of the month for April 2017.
• The call for proposals for the FOSS4G+SOTM Argentina is open until July 31st 2017. The event will take place from October 23rd to the 28th 2017, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• At Oxford University, a temporary position for a “Researcher in Digital Geography” is vacant. Application deadline is June 15, 2017.
• Continuing the work of the Humanitarian Mapping Unit (UHM) in the first emergency days in the city of Mocoa, the OpenStreetMap Colombia Foundation will conduct a workshop to provide information about activities in case of emergencies. The workshop (automatic translation) is aimed to assess the information and communication needs of participants in the stage of reconstruction after the event and to provide practical tools that may be useful in this respect.
• Pascal Neis’s change of his extremely useful HDYC site to use OAuth, based on an OpenStreetMap account created a certain amount of surprise. Previously there had been a long discussion about “data security” on the German Forum (automatic translation) (it’s a long but worthy read) and on the mailing list Talk-de (automatic translation). The conversation on talk did move towards a useful sort of discussion about “what OSM data is all about anyway“.
• Stefan Keller of Hochschule Rapperswil addresses managers and marketers of the tourism industry, with a remarkable initiative for OpenStreetMap. (automatic translation) He will be presenting the possibilities of using OpenStreetMap at the “Swiss holiday day 2017” in Davos to the tourism industry. In doing so, he shares two video clips, a poster, and highlights the opportunity to participate in OpenStreetMap directly, as well as through MAPS.ME.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Data Working Group (DWG) published its Activity Report for the first quarter of 2017, outlining the details of the cases handled by them.
• OSMF is looking for a UK accountant.
• Dieterdreist publishes a map of all regular OSMF members. Have you thought about becoming a member?

Events

• Call for scholarship applications to attend State of the Map Asia 2017 in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 23rd to 24th 2017 is now open.
• Registration for State of the Map 2017 is now open. Register now for the early bird discount.
• DINAcon 2017 (automatic translation) is a conference on digital sustainability. The call for proposals is open (automatic translation) until May 20th 2017.
• SotM-FR in Avignon published their program schedule. You can still register. Most sessions however will be in French, of course.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT outlines its mapping efforts in the refugee establishments of Uganda and invites interested agencies to collaborate with them.

Maps

• [1] Bruno Salerno published recently Citylines.co, which is a collaborative platform that helps rebuild transport systems in the cities of the world as well as their evolution. Citylines is free software and uses OSM maps and Mapbox GL technology.
• Adrien-github reported on linuxfr.org, that marble, the virtual globe, has integrated the French rendering of OSM .
• The EuroVelo 13, also known as the Iron Curtain Trail, is a cycle path over 7500 km from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea. An official app has been released for the trail, which includes an OSM based interactive map.

Software

• Patryk Adaś achieved a remarkable result with Mapbox API and the OrientationEvents of Joshua Tucker.

Programming

• Giacomo Serva is one of the 5 students who were accepted by Google for GSoC 2017. He will continue the work on the JOSM PT_Assistant plugin.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-05-08 20:24:45+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … MapHub, which works like uMap?
• … osm.wikidata.link?
• … the slides of the talk by Stefan Keller on the topic: “OpenStreetMap for web maps – OpenStreetMap – the underestimated resource?” (automatic translation)
• … Trending places? Daily reports on Twitter and is of course OSS.

OSM in the media

• Linux Journal presents a short introduction of editing OSM using JOSM.
• Technical.ly published an article on the fight against malaria in Zimbabwe by Missing Maps and partners.
• Techcrunch reports about Mapillary releasing a free dataset of 25,000 street-level images from 190 countries that can be used to train automotive AI systems.

Other “geo” things

• World’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge was opened in the Harz Mountains in Germany on Sunday, but in OSM there is still some work to do. At the nearby Geierlay bridge in Hunsrück, the mapping is exemplary.
• Mapbox released Mapbox Studio Preview, which is a companion app to Mapbox Studio. It allows one to view any map style directly from the mobile device and help one design the right map for iOS applications.
• Bruno Sánchez-A Nuño,‏ you’re dead right!
• Uluman published a very nice animation of the South American drainage pattern. (via twitter)

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Prague	Wikimedia Prehackathon	12/05/2017-14/05/2017
Tirana	OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania)	13/05/2017-14/05/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	15/05/2017
Grenoble	Rencontre groupe local	15/05/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	16/05/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	16/05/2017
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	16/05/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	17/05/2017
Freiberg	Stammtisch Freiberg	18/05/2017
Augsburg	Augsburger Stammtisch	18/05/2017
Moscow	Schemotechnika 10	18/05/2017
Amstetten	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	18/05/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第８回 浜離宮恩賜庭園	20/05/2017
Osaka	【西国街道#04】摂津富田の街並みと寺社巡り	20/05/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	22/05/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	22/05/2017
Derby	Derby Pub Meetup	23/05/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	25/05/2017
Vancouver	Vancouver mappy hour	26/05/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02/06/2017-04/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18/08/2017-20/08/2017
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	23/09/2017-24/09/2017
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	19/10/2017-22/10/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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09/05/2017-15/05/2017

About us

• The weeklyOSM team is looking for new members to join the team. weeklyOSM publishes 52 issues per year currently in eight languages, regardless of holidays or public holidays. To do this we need to get reinforcements. As a part of weeklyOSM, you can work on: collecting and evaluate links belonging to OSM, writing articles, translating and proofreading, editing images, etc. Please drop an email to ( blog at openstreetmap dot de ) with your OSM account.

Mapping

• DigitalGlobe and Mapboxshared two new global satellite imagery layers for live tracing on OpenStreetMap. Now, mappers will have even more sources of high quality, recent imagery layers to trace, identify, and validate roads, places, and buildings to continue to expand this free and open database of the Earth’s features. In JOSM, you have to activate it explicitly under Background → Background Settings. For more information read DigitalGlobe’s employee Kevin Bullock’s diary entry, the discussions in the German forum and the mailing lists: Talk-en and Talk. The License Terms are available in the OSM Wiki.
• There is an interesting discussion in the OpenStreetMap forum about tips, tools and apps that can be used for videomapping while biking.

Community

• Roland Olbricht highlighted three suggestions for improving data protection, which were discussed at the FOSSGIS conference in Passau. There were related discussions in the German forum (automatic translation) and on the mailing list Talk-de (automatic translation) and later on the mailing list talk.
• Yuri Astrakhan writes about the SPARQL (rdf) database with both OSM and Wikidata being ready for testing. It allows massive cross-referenced queries between two datasets. This service is a test, and needs a permanent home to stay alive.Oleksiy Muzalyev points to his Web app, in which one click on the map shows the associated Wikipedia articles.
• Jinalfoflia shares her experience of being a part of the mapping party hosted by the Ottawa OpenStreetMap community.

Imports

• Ilya Zverev has suggested importing Shell petrol stations (initially in the UK) on the Import and talk-gb lists. The import discussion thread covered whether storing external IDs was a good idea and whether the sources of data were all OK to import fromor even any good.  The import was commissioned by the company NavAds, which has been discussed previously in Germany (automatic translation) over alleged “search engine optimisation” in OSM.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Guardian reported on an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pete Masters and Claire Halleux have published the tasks. Nicolas Chavent summarized the priorities on two wiki pages in English and in French.

Maps

• [1] Melody Cao designed maps of cities to look like they were made of wood. At multiple zoom levels, explore the different textures she has made use of.
• The whole world on the console
• Making maps with React, with a tweet.

switch2OSM

• At Rotterdam Central Station, OpenStreetMap is shown on a big screen where people can explore the city by dragging and tapping the screen. It is the only interactive map in the station, so it has been consciously chosen.
• The French National Institute for preventive archaeological research provides a visualization tool based on OSM for its archaeological sites.

Open Data

• OpenData France published a mid-term review. (automatic translation)

Programming

• Baran Kahyaoglu from Mapbox writes about the creation of geo coordinates data structure to match Unity World Space with the real world. Read more about this and other things that have been added in the latest Mapbox Unity SDK release.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist.  Timestamp: 2017-05-15 22:00:37+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• Casio started the sales of a new Smartwatch, named “Pro Trek”. The watch loads OSM maps powered by Mapbox.

Other “geo” things

• Google now offers to certify panoramic cameras as compatible with Street View. Street View has been accepting crowd sourced images for some time now, however similar services Mapillary and OpenStreetCam, also do and keep the images available under a free license.
• On ápfelmagazin.de you can read (automatic translation) an interview with Tobias Hallermann by komoot.
• Geoawesomeness publishes a beginner’s guide to GIS.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	22/05/2017
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	22/05/2017
Derby	Derby Pub Meetup	23/05/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	25/05/2017
Vancouver	Vancouver mappy hour	26/05/2017
Leuven	2nd Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup	31/05/2017
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	31/05/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	01/06/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02/06/2017-04/06/2017
Lviv	Map Solutions 2017	03/06/2017
Taipei	OSM Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	05/06/2017
Toronto	Mappy Hour	05/06/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	06/06/2017
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon, Royal Geographic Society	06/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18/08/2017-20/08/2017
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	23/09/2017-24/09/2017
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	19/10/2017-22/10/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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16/05/2017-22/05/2017

Mapping

• Dieterdreist wrote a proposal on aeroway=spaceport. The voting is open until May 30th.
• Yo paseopor calls to use the traffic sign recognition of Mapillary in OSM as nodes to capture traffic signs.
• On the tagging mailing list, Dave F wonders about the existence of toilets:wheelchair and wheelchair_toilet in the iD editor. After some discussion, he gets the information that a pre-selection for free texts information comes from Taginfo and thus can contain typos.

Community

• User Hakuch published WikiRever, a tool that looks up who inserted or deleted a specific phrase from an OpenStreetMap Wiki page. He claims that it is easier to use than Wikiblame. (automatic translation)
• The American Red Cross announces a job as “American Red Cross GIS Analyst” in Bogota, Colombia.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSM France has applied for recognition as a regional representative of the OSM Foundation.

Events

• The Dresden OSM-Community is planning an OSM Summer camp on a weekend in August or September and is seeking expressions of interest (DE) before booking the venue.

Humanitarian OSM

• Geoffrey Kateregga writes in the HOT blog about the malaria elimination mapping campaign, in which youth mappers from five universities in Uganda mapped 800,000 buildings. The three most active users got a scholarship to the SotM Africa.
• The Jakarta Post reported on the collaboration of several humanitarian organisations to support disability and the poor in Indonesia.
• Rebecca Firth searches on the HOT mailing list for experienced mappers to validate tasks in the District of Salima, Malawi.
• C J Hendrix of the Centre for Humanitarian Data reported on the new automatic OSM exports for the HDX (Humanitarian Data Exchange), which were created in cooperation with HOT.

Maps

• Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
• Black is beautiful: A bug in the latest carto style caused waterways with intermittent=yes to be rendered in black instead of dashed blue. The issue has been solved.

switch2OSM

• Via Staziun is a project of the SBB and the Foundation My Handicap with the aim “to facilitate orientation at train stations: with current photos and information from all Swiss railway stations, collected and shared by other travellers”. The pictures are available in Mapillary but all other information is not available under a free and open license.

Open Data

• [1] Michal Migurski presents the OpenAdresses project on the Mapbox blog and garnishes it with some nice statistics.

Software

• A new Taginfo site for Japan has been setup, joining the other 12 country specific Taginfo sites. The site is operated by MIERUNE.
• Arun (PlaneMad) wrote a diary entry about StreetComplete, an app by Tobias Zwick (westnordost). It asks a user to complete things like street names, bus stops, street surfaces, house numbers and opening hours. As with attempts at “gamification” in the past there has been both praise and questions over the mechanism used. Suggestions or assistance are welcome at Github.
• The MapOSMatic instance by Hartmut Holzgraefe is now able to represent GPS tracks as an overlay on maps and shows preview pictures of the map layout configuration.

Programming

• The Mapbox Mobile SDK can be enhanced by plugins.
• Christoph Lingg asked whether there is an easier-to-use OSM data format other than PBF. He would prefer the data in GeoJSON. Jochen Topf explained in detail where the problems are and suggested his export-branch of osmium which can export to GeoJSON.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-05-22 19:23:05+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

OSM in the media

• João Pedro Leite blogs on GeekTime about the three map monopolists and why OpenStreetMap is a way out.

Other “geo” things

• Andy Dearing explains why open source GIS software is so important and a driving factor, especially in the IoT (Internet of Things) environment.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Manila	San Juan City Mapa-thon by MapAm❤re , San Juan	29/05/2017
Leuven	2nd Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup	31/05/2017
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	31/05/2017
Dresden	Stammtisch	01/06/2017
Avignon	State of the Map France 2017	02/06/2017-04/06/2017
Lviv	Map Solutions 2017	03/06/2017
Taipei	OSM Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	05/06/2017
Toronto	Mappy Hour	05/06/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	06/06/2017
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon, Royal Geographic Society	06/06/2017
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	07/06/2017
Montreal	OSM monthly meetup at BANQ	07/06/2017
Praha/Brno/Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	07/06/2017
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	08/06/2017
Falkensee	108. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	09/06/2017
Russia	Tula Mapping Party, Tula	10/06/2017-11/06/2017
Takatsuki	【西国街道#05・初心者向け】万博探索マッピングパーティ	10/06/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	12/06/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	13/06/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	13/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18/08/2017-20/08/2017
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	23/09/2017-24/09/2017
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	19/10/2017-22/10/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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23/05/2017-29/05/2017

Mapping

• The note # one million was created in Hong Kong.
• You can vote for the newly proposed tag name:language = ISO code until June 6th.
• Santamariense proposes a new tag for livestock dips. They consist of rural structures where livestock go through to eliminate parasites, and are useful landmarks for orientation in otherwise uniform landscapes.
• User nammala writes about some interesting cases of inconsistent and detailed mapping activity in OpenStreetMap.
• Maning Sambale informs about a crucial milestone: finally emojis can be used in name tags

Community

• Mapillary would like to fill some gaps in Berlin, Germany, and therefore starts “Complete the Map Challenge – Berlin“.
• Julio May has carried out a two-day mapping workshop in the Dominican Republic for the FUNDECOR.
• The Belgian community voted Marek Kleciak as Mapper of the Month for May 2017. He has been (and still is) a pioneer in the field of 3D mapping, in the area:highway tagging (which was further expanded) and is strongly engaged in Nepal.
• This discussion on osm-dev mailing list compares several ways of printing a large area on PDF.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSM blog published the list of current corporate members. We thank them here as well for their support! We welcome further organisations to check the Corporate members tiers and contact the Foundation for further enquiries.
• The monthly CWG meeting took place on May 26th.

Events

• From the June 2nd to the 4th, the SotM France (State of the Map France) takes place in Avignon. In addition, “OSM kids“ event have occurred in several schools from May 30th to June 1st.
• This year SotM France has a very nice additional program for students (automatic translation) All the information can be found in the wiki (automatic translation).
• SotM 2017 has published the list of talks and workshops; a detailed program is coming soon. Did you get your early bird ticket already?

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT considers developing a new tool for organized field mapping.
• HOT calls for urgent help on the current priority mapping tasks for the OSM response to the Ebola outbreak: validation for project #10 and #13, and mapping in project #9
• In the HOT mailing list, there is a debate on how meaningful is the tagging of buildings by a node only and the think about to display such nodes in the HOT map style.

Maps

• Stefan Keller shows all important medieval festivals in Switzerland on a map.
• OpenAndroMaps now provides multilingual maps.
• Viktor Garske announced the project WinilooC to find public toilets.
• Sven Geggus asked on the implications of the OSM Carto 4.0 changes for the German-derived style.

Open Data

• Apple provides building footprints and heights under ODbL for France and Denmark

Software

• Dana Sulit writes in the Mapbox blog about carto-cam. This tool can help designers to evaluate custom styles.
• OSRM (see also release table) has added the multi-level Dijkstra (MLD) routing algorithm in addition to contraction hierarchies (CH). This allows e.g. a fast and flexible change of edge weights or multiple parallel profiles.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-05-29 22:52:18+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … the OsmHydrant map created by Robert Koch with all hydrants’ locations and features extracted from OSM data?

Other “geo” things

• The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management releases the highest-resolution bathymetry map of Gulf of Mexico to date: it shows the dynamic geology structures caused by extended salt deposits underneath the ocean bed sediments.
• The Guardian publishes new scientific discoveries about a potential second layer of tectonic plates within Earth’s mantle. This would explain the strong earthquake activity in the Pacific region.
• What are your favorite places in the world? Found any interesting destinations you want to travel to while exploring the map? Checkout the world wonders Mapbox’s geocoding team has discovered!
• Seán Lynch calls for contributions on OpenLitterMap, as he plans to trace and model the path of litter along rain and sewage systems.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	#CompletetheMap – Mapillary photo mapping	25/05/2017-15/06/2017
Taipei	OSM Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	05/06/2017
Toronto	Mappy Hour	05/06/2017
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	06/06/2017
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon, Royal Geographic Society	06/06/2017
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	07/06/2017
Montreal	OSM monthly meetup at BANQ	07/06/2017
Praha/Brno/Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	07/06/2017
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	08/06/2017
Falkensee	108. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	09/06/2017
Russia	Tula Mapping Party, Tula	10/06/2017-11/06/2017
Suita	【西国街道#05・初心者向け】万博探索マッピングパーティ	10/06/2017
Tokyo	第1回 東京！街歩かない！マッピングバーティ	10/06/2017
Manila	San Juan City Mapa-thon by MapAm❤re – Juan more time! , San Juan	10/06/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	12/06/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	13/06/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	13/06/2017
Freiberg	Stammtisch Freiberg	15/06/2017
Zittau	OSM-Stammtisch Zittau	16/06/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第９回 旧芝離宮恩賜庭園	17/06/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	20/06/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	20/06/2017
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	20/06/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	20/06/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	21/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18/08/2017-20/08/2017
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	23/09/2017-24/09/2017
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	19/10/2017-22/10/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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30/05/2017-05/06/2017

Mapping

• Bryan posted a blog entry, A friendlier introduction to editing OpenStreetMap, which emphasizes on improving the iD editor walkthrough, a tutorial that guides new users through some basic editing tasks and teaches them the skills and confidence to improve OpenStreetMap.
• GeoMappando wrote (automatic translation) a great introduction to OSM, that includes data quality, licensing, database layout and the tagging system. This post is the beginning of a series: stay tuned for the second post about database exports and file formats.
• The proposal to extend the ‘aeroway’ tagging with spaceport infrastructure has been accepted with 15 to 3 votes.
• The tagging list discusses an appropriate tagging of restrictions for vehicles fueled by liquefied or compressed gas. This applies to underground parking facilities as well as the Chunnel, for instance.
• This thread on the tagging mailing list reviews tags for truck parking.

Community

• Ouizi notes that OpenStreetMap is more detailed than any other map provider.
• User piligab from Peru, published an OSM diary, “My first year at Mapbox working with OpenStreetMap”. She talks about her experience working in Mapbox and how to make OSM the best map of the world. By the way, she regularly contributes to the Spanish version of weeklyOSM as well.
• Chris Hill noticed new notes around Hull created by Street Complete. He installed the app and expressed dismay that it: added unnecessary information, such as surface=asphalt; and does not inform the user that they are adding them to OSM.
• Various events took place for the students throughout Avignon as a part of the Education OSM program for this year’s SotM-FR. More information here.
• The first #Geobeers get together of the Paraguayan OSM community took place in Asunción to discuss new projects.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• After a failure of the current hard disks, the company Metanet donated 8 SAS disks to the Swiss OpenStreetMap association. This ensures the operation of the server for the next 1 to 2 years. A big thank you to Metanet!
• Simon Poole released the first draft of the geocoding guidelines. Feedback can be given until the end of June.

Events

• This year’s AGIT, the “largest yearly conference and fair about geoinformation” will take place (automatic translation) from July 5th to 7th in Salzburg (automatic translation). OSM will be featured.
• Some nice items from the SotMFR 2017 in Avignon:
  • The City of Digne-les-Bains writes (automatic translation) about their involment and participation in SotM-FR
  • The City of Avignon explains why it uses OpenStreetMap data.
  • “The” reference for maps in Europe – Michelin – was the main sponsor of the event.
  • our selection of tweets…
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  • … and presentations [Attention – work in progress].
• State of the Map US 2017 will be held in Boulder, Colorado, this year over the weekend of October 19th-22nd. Check out their website for more information.

Humanitarian OSM

• David Luswata of HOT US reports about LEGIT team completing the field mapping in Zwedru City.
• The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is currently seeking a Short Term Consultant (8 month) who will work in Kampala, Uganda. Attention deadline: June 9th, 2017.
• Melanie Eckle published the meeting minutes of the HOT board meeting that happened on 1st of June 2017.
• The Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) is hiring a full-time consultant for their office in Washington D.C.

Maps

• uMap prepared custom Avignon maps in occasion of SoTM-France.

Programming

• The development (coding) phase of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) started on May 30th. OSM has five accepted projects. In addition students from OSGeo, KDE and Green Navigation will work on applications using OSM data.
• Andy Allan describes his work on “Factory Refactoring”, a significant change in OSM website codebase that makes the test suite more reliable.
• OSM data are now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), as snapshots, historical archives and changesets.
• Anita Graser reports about a prototype for pedestrian navigation using OSM data. Novel features include: routing through areas, and navigation by landmark (“turn left at the school”).

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-06-05 17:28:17+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Other “geo” things

• A recent post on the Reddit, Data is Beautiful which went viral, shows community animating the transformation of subway maps of 15 cities to actual geography.
• Wired publishes an article about air quality mapping at hyper-local scale and transboundary impact of global air pollution.
• Mapbox developer Antonio Zugaldia worked on a connection for Amazon Alexa for navigation and traffic information.
• Apple plans to improve (automatic translation) their maps by trained crowdworkers. A comment on Heise wonders why Apple wouldn’t use the much better OSM data instead, supporting the OSM community in return, which could mean a win-win deal.
• The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the release of information, satellite imagery and associated geodata under the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence, as well as an unprecedented prize for Copernicus Masters, the largest international competition in the commercial use of Earth observation data.
• Last Thursday Japan sent the second of four satellites of their Quasi-Zenith Satellite System into space. They will send GPS compatible signals and augmentation values. Because of their elliptical, geosynchronous orbits the satellites will stay for a long time in the zenith over Japan and will provide highly accurate positioning around 10 centimeters.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	#CompletetheMap – Mapillary photo mapping	25/05/2017-15/06/2017
Russia	Tula Mapping Party, Tula	10/06/2017-11/06/2017
Suita	【西国街道#05・初心者向け】万博探索マッピングパーティ	10/06/2017
Tokyo	第1回 東京！街歩かない！マッピングバーティ	10/06/2017
Manila	San Juan City Mapa-thon by MapAm❤re – Juan more time!, San Juan	10/06/2017
Passau	Mappertreffen	12/06/2017
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	12/06/2017
Nantes	Rencontres mensuelles	13/06/2017
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle libre	13/06/2017
Freiberg	Stammtisch Freiberg	15/06/2017
Leipzig	Stammtisch Leipzig	15/06/2017
Zittau	OSM-Stammtisch Zittau	16/06/2017
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第９回 旧芝離宮恩賜庭園	17/06/2017
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	20/06/2017
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	20/06/2017
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	20/06/2017
Scotland	Edinburgh	20/06/2017
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	21/06/2017
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	22/06/2017
Essen	8. FOSSGIS Hacking Event im Linuxhotel	23/06/2017-25/06/2017
Essen	SommerCamp 2017	23/06/2017-25/06/2017
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	26/06/2017
Salzburg	AGIT2017	05/07/2017-07/07/2017
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	08/07/2017-10/07/2017
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	18/07/2017-22/07/2017
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	14/08/2017-19/08/2017
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	18/08/2017-20/08/2017
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	23/09/2017-24/09/2017
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	19/10/2017-22/10/2017
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	23/10/2017-28/10/2017
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	29/11/2017-02/12/2017

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06/06/2017-12/06/2017

Mapping

• François Lacombe published a presentation on the topic, “Mapping of energy distribution networks”.
• User Jothirnadh explains how to edit a road segment while preserving route relations. His diary entry provides plenty of details and clear screenshots for each step.
• Michał Brzozowski posts some statistics about MAPS.ME edits. He remarks how power users fix many editing mistakes, but devote too much time and resources that could be otherwise applied on OSM improvements. Roland Obricht expresses appreciation for MAPS.ME edits.
• Yuri Astrakhan aka nyurik released a video on the topic “OSM+Wikidata”. More information on the wiki.
• Tijmen Stam suggests to introduce a tag man_made=tunnel equivalent to the widely-used man_made=bridge. Responses are positive and include suggested use-cases.
• In Talk-ES user dcapillae mentions (automatic translation) a conflict happening in Galicia, North-West of Spain when someone decided to “close” a note. This practice is discouraged by many.
• Vincent Privat has summarized the suggestions from the SotM-FR concerning “indoor mapping” in a ticket.

Community

• The OSGeo-Live team is looking (automatic translation) for a maintainer of JOSM and Mapnik, in order to keep them as part of the Live-DVD. Astrid Emde provides detailed information on tasks and expected workload.
  Additional help is needed to compile new documentation based on LearnOSM material. You’re welcome to contribute, ideally before July 3rd.
• Creator13 collected a set of weird errors in French land registry. Despite these mismatches, he is glad that the dataset’s import saved a great amount of manual editing.
• GOwin compares OSM and Google Maps “glitches” in four areas of the world. He identifies OSM’s strength in community involvement versus centralised map management and cites Kibera project as a great example of map maintenance done by local people.
• PlacesForBikes used OSM data to compare bike networks in 299 cities across the U.S. The analysis aims to identify whether bikers can travel on low-stress segments of the bike network, and unveiled interesting findings.
• Members of the Russian community (automatic translation) travelled to Tula in order to map together.
• People for Bikes’, “Bike Network Analysis” gave Chicago a low score, but this is strongly related to the model and assumptions underlying the analysis itself. Both the data and the analysis are open: geodata comes from OSM and U.S. Census, while the analysis’ source code is available online.
• Edward Betts presents a tool to add Wikidata tags to OSM elements, and provides a summary of its functionality and usage.
• Bryan Housel is looking for translators for the iD editor.

Events

• At SotM-FR, Michaël Louchin introduced LizMap, an integrated tool to create maps using QGIS and publish them online.
• The second edition of “l’université d’été développement de logiciel libre et open source (UDOS)” is taking place from June 28th to 30th in Digne-les-Bains, France. Among others, there are workshops on OpenLayers3, LeafletJS and OpenStreetMap with Overpass API.
• The Regionalverband Ruhr wants to convert its cross-city map work, which is in part OSM-based, and is looking (OSM-wiki) to communicate with the community. For several years, the RVR provides high-resolution aerial photographs for mapping.
• Stefan Keller will be talking about “Using OpenStreetMap for Tourism and Transport“ at the Opendata.ch (June 27, Luzern Switzerland) in the track, “Open Tourism & Transport Data“.
• Julien Coupey shares the presentation on Vehicle Routing Open-Source Optimization Machine he did for the State of the Map France 2017.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has recently signed a cooperation agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN’s Migration Agency. Both organisations agreed to work closer together in the time of need, with the shared commitment to defending the rights and well-being of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and migrants.
• OpenStreetMap Togo extends (automatic translation) the Open Source Tour to Sotouboua municipality, where it has organised a OSM introduction for development agents (associations, NGOs and public service personnel).

Maps

• “La Dépêche” published an OSM-based interactive map to display the results in every district for the French parliamentary elections.
• Jean-Christophe Becquet presents on the French mailing list the project Cartosaixy. The main objectives: encouraging and animating the contribution to digital commons in rural areas, valuing free data by producing custom maps for the needs of small municipalities and experimenting with an innovative method of producing wooden maps with a laser cutter.
• Sarah Hoffmann, aka Lonvia, the maintainer of Waymarked Trails, announced a collaboration with OpenTopoMap.

switch2OSM

• DoorDash recently updated their application and are using Mapbox to let their customers track couriers, food delivery and much more.
• The NZZ shows all stages of “tour de Suisse” – of course OSM based.

Licences

• OSM-legal mailing list answers a question regarding OSM data processing for routing calculations on a private machine for commercial purposes.
• Seán Lynch, creator of OpenLitterMap, asks OSM-legal mailing list for advice on terms and conditions, and liability of the site in case the user gets injured while mapping litter.

Software

• Mapbox Streets now supports Arabic and Portuguese languages, making their maps more accessible to 300 million internet users and contributing back to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

Programming

• The Qt Automotive Suite (Qt 5.9) now ships with vector-based maps (provided by Qt Location Mapbox GL plugin) and APIs for navigation, customized design and the ability to layer in your own data.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-06-13 00:32:52+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Mapbox’s mobile Navigation SDKs for iOS and Android have released big updates iOS (0.4.0) and Android (0.3.1). These will now give the tools that you need to add turn-by-turn navigation to your app or build a completely custom navigation app from scratch.

OSM in the media

• Ulrich Waltemath created (automatic translation) a database of bus stops for Harz district, Germany. He added precise locations to OSM, agreed, however, to share the database (complete with pictures) with the bus transport company for internal use only, at least for now.

Other “geo” things

• The Economist reviews the landscape of digital cartography for consumers, OSM and related projects are mentioned as an alternative to Google Maps.
• ISPRS’ 4th International Workshop on GeoInformation Science will take place in Safranbolu, Turkey, on the 14th and 15th of October 2017. The workshop will focus on multi-dimensional and multi-scale spatial data modeling. Papers can be submitted until the 15th of July.
• Mapillary hosted a blog post from Harriette Stone about post-earthquake survey methods. She listed pros and cons of data collection with cars, by foot or with drones, and suggests how to mitigate downsides of each method.
• Viae Romanae Maiores – Tabula reticuli: main roads of Ancient Roman Empire, rendered subway-style.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第９回 旧芝離宮恩賜庭園	2017-06-17
Procida	Unaquantum conference Procida	2017-06-17-2017-06-18
Istanbul	First Missing Maps Mapathon in Turkey for the World Refugee Day, Impact Hub	2017-06-18
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	2017-06-20
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	2017-06-20
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	2017-06-20
Scotland	Edinburgh	2017-06-20
Melbourne	Missing Maps Mapathon in Melbourne, Kathleen Syme Community Centre	2017-06-20
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2017-06-21
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2017-06-22
Wateringen	Missing Maps Mapathon gemeente Westland, Rode Kruis en GeoGilde, Gemeentehuis Wateringen	2017-06-22
Essen	8. FOSSGIS Hacking Event im Linuxhotel	2017-06-23-2017-06-25
Essen	SommerCamp 2017	2017-06-23-2017-06-25
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2017-06-26
Dijon	Rencontres mensuelles	2017-06-27
Prague	Missing Maps Mapathon in Prague, Paralelní polis	2017-06-27
Leuven	Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup	2017-06-28
Digne-les-Bains	{UDOS} 2017 : Université d’été du développement de logiciel libre	2017-06-28-2017-06-30
Amstetten	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2017-06-29
Nantes	Mapathon Missing Maps à l’ENSA	2017-06-29
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	2017-06-30
Salzburg	AGIT2017	2017-07-05-2017-07-07
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	2017-07-08-2017-07-10
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-18-2017-07-22
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02

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13/06/2017-19/06/2017

Mapping

• User Chetan_Gowda writes a diary about Microsoft’s release of 9.8 million building footprint data of 102 cities, covering 44 US states, to the OpenStreetMap community. He finds the general quality of data being good and encourages the local communities to evaluate the quality for import. He is asked in the comment section why he considers the data to be of good quality.
• Christoph Hormann explains how to accurately map coastlines and tidal zones in OSM, thanks to recent and detailed aerial imagery.
• Jochen Topf announces another forthcoming multipolygon challenge, concerning “old-style” multipolygons with the same tags on both the relation and the outer way. As these are rendered differently with the 4.0 release of OSM Carto, they may be now noticeable.
• Volker Schmidt asks how to map a “Verkehrsübungsplatz” – “Traffic training area”. Here is an example.
• Joachim suggests to map places also as areas. The idea is to introduce a new tag boundary=place and, if necessary, to use boundary relations.
• Malte Heynen proposes to tag foot and cycleways next to highways with their street classification. Routing engines could then prefer ways far away from the traffic. According to the proposal you would change cycleway=sidepath to cycleway=sidepath:primary.
• Even though the proposal “Language information for name” by Lukas Sommer was accepted by 57% (26 votes), he will rewrite it, “to explain better, more detailed, what missing language information means for Unicode text strings, and how an example use case could look like.“
• São Jorge Island in the Azores disappeared, reports Topo Lusitania on June 9th on the Portuguese mailing list. Obviously, the issue is still not resolved until the drafting of this edition of weeklyOSM.
• User Polyglot wants to start doing regular Hangouts on Air about mapping of public transport using JOSM and the PT_Assistant plugin.
• User marthaleena explains how she is mapping her hometown Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh, India).
• Pascal Neis published a blog post as a summary of his German talk (slides and video) at the FOSSGIS & OpenStreetMap conference 2017 with the title “Detecting vandalism in OpenStreetMap”.

Community

• Antoine Riche setup a map of regular OSM meetings in France: these are usually held monthly.
• Ilya Zverev announced the “Call for Nominees” for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2017. There are some changes compared to last year’s process.
• As part of its twinning with the rural commune of Dianguirdé in the north-west of Mali, the town of Ivry-sur-Seine mapped the village and its surroundings with the support of CartONG.
• A user published in the German OSM Forum, parts of the letter, “German Association of Energy and Water Management e.V.”. Hydrants in the OpenFireMap (i.e. in OpenStreetMap) were a thorn in the side of the association. It is feared the security of critical infrastructure. The association disapproved of the letter’s publication. Readers may recall similar issues in the United Kingdom.
• Simon Poole sent a reminder that an OpenStreetMap organisation entity exists on Transifex where you can now move easily your project for more visibility to volunteer translators.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSMF published the minutes of the Engineering Working Group’s meeting on May 30th.
• Martijn van Exel informs the Talk-FR mailing list that the French OpenStreetMap association has made an application for local chapter status with OSMF. He asks the community to share any questions, comments or concerns.

Events

• Sev_osm reports on Twitter about two workshops on using free tools for mapping and geoscience (OSM, QGIS, geOrchestra), taking place from June 12th to 24th in Niamey, Niger. This initiative is supported by “Les Libres Géographes (LLG)“, Projet EOF and OSM communities from Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo.
• On June 15th, the Mapbox team in Peru conducted an OpenStreetMap workshop for 4th and 5th grade students at the Mariscal Caceres School in Ayacucho, Peru. Students were amazed to see how easily different geographic data can be added in OpenStreetMap.
• OSM Peru participated in the “Conference on the reconstruction of peasant cooperatives” (after the devastating floods of the past few months) on June 6th in Lima, Peru.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has named the 50 semifinalists for the 2017 Drucker Prize, and HOT is one of them. The winner of the $100,000 Drucker Prize will be announced on September 29th.
• HOT Indonesia hosts a mapathon with students from the University of Indonesia’s (UI) Department of Geography.
• Fatima Alher tweets about a mapathon that took place on June 17th in Niamey (see “Events”). It was aimed, through this task, at mapping the surroundings of Diffa, Niger, an area affected by the Boko Haram abuses. See this announce on the HOT mailing list for details.
• HOT has partnered with the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) and ImageCat on a Challenge Fund focused on developing a global exposure database for multi-hazard risk analysis. The Challenge Fund, formed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is aimed at building local and global resilience through innovation in order to better identify risk and enable more effective decision-making.

Maps

• A major new release, 4.0, of CartoCSS is in the process of being rolled out on the OSMF servers. There is no official announcement yet, but many hints in the mailing lists, here and here. One of the big steps forward in increasing the flexibility of the style is the incorporation of LUA pre-processing.
• HeiGIT @ GIScience Heidelberg released a dedicated stable disaster version of OpenRouteService (ORS) to support humanitarian logistics for Africa, South America and Indonesia with data from OSM.
• Lokaler Editor, a browser-based tool for creating maps for print on the web, is now in beta stage. It helps journalists to create maps with their own design and enables them to add their own notes. The service offering is a freemium model with among others SVG export, and should start in autumn. The source code will be opened in 2018. User Spanholz named other possibilities for this tool: “I shared it also with my local police forces. They can now easily create maps for festivals or emergency situations, which can accurately show the area while highlighting more necessary informations.” There is a tutorial video as well.
• [1] pole_climber published a very detailed blog post on how to create a colour coded map about OSM notes, displayed based on last edit date.

Licences

• Milan municipality imported a few drinking fountains’ locations from OSM, therefore prompting (automatic translation) a detailed licensing discussion on the talk-it mailing list.

Software

• Jean-Maxime Fillau recently contributed to the OSRM project by adding an option to compute a route that ensures the vehicle arrives on the correct side of the road for the destination. This is particularly useful for large vehicles such as delivery trucks and fire engines.

Programming

• Graphhopper is looking for freelancers or companies interested in implementing customizations of the GraphHopper routing engine, jsprit or integrating the GraphHopper Directions API in an application or process.

Releases

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-06-19 14:20:12+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … what to do when you find OSM maps used without attribution?
• … the three-language platform of the Belgian OSM Community?
• … that Berlin city map on berlin.de portal uses OSM?
• … that Italian OSM data, updated daily, are available for download on Edmund Mach Foundation servers?

OSM in the media

• Various medias published Delphine Bousquet AFP report on the Benin OSM community.

Other “geo” things

• An international research team published an article on Nature about crowdsourced validation of land use data collected by remote sensing. They opened four campaigns on GeoWiki platform, analysed the variations in accuracy, and made the datasets available for further research.
• The University of Heidelberg is looking for a Software Developer.
• ResearchNReports published the Global Cloud GIS Market Research Report Forecast 2017-2021, a valuable source of insightful data for business strategists. It provides the Cloud GIS industry overview with growth analysis and historical & futuristic cost, revenue, demand and supply data (as applicable).
• MapMyIndia claims to be India’s most comprehensive GPS navigation & tracking solutions provider, engaging the user on multiple platforms – mapping India years before Google Maps. While Google Maps is an app that allows users to visualise data, the data provided by MapMyIndia allows users to analyse a detailed array of geo-demographic data.
• User ff5722 asks if there are really over 4.5 million km of roads in China. Several different estimation methods appear to confirm this figure. OSM only has mapped 1.2 million km of Chinese roads so cannot be used yet, to provide a more detailed analysis.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Essen	8. FOSSGIS Hacking Event im Linuxhotel	2017-06-23-2017-06-25
Essen	SommerCamp 2017	2017-06-23-2017-06-25
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2017-06-26
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2017-06-26
Dijon	Rencontres mensuelles	2017-06-27
Prague	Missing Maps Mapathon in Prague, Paralelní polis	2017-06-27
Leuven	Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup	2017-06-28
Montpellier	Rencontre mensuelle	2017-06-28
Digne-les-Bains	{UDOS} 2017 : Université d’été du développement de logiciel libre	2017-06-28-2017-06-30
Brest	Mapathon Missing Maps à l’UBO Campus Victor Ségalen	2017-06-29
Amstetten	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2017-06-29
Nantes	Mapathon Missing Maps à l’ENSA	2017-06-29
Paris	Rencontre mensuelle	2017-06-29
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	2017-06-30
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	2017-07-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2017-07-05
Essen	Ideenaustausch mit dem RVR	2017-07-05
Salzburg	AGIT2017	2017-07-05-2017-07-07
Toyonaka	【西国街道#07】豊中の歴史マッピングパーティ	2017-07-08
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	2017-07-08-2017-07-10
Passau	Niederbayerntreffen	2017-07-10
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2017-07-10
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-18-2017-07-22
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02

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20/06/2017-26/06/2017

Erratum

• In weeklyOSM #361 we said that the proposal “Language information for name” was approved. That was wrong. As chris66 pointed out in the German forum: “A rule of thumb for ‘enough support’ is 8 unanimous approval votes or at least 10 votes with more than 74 % approval, but other factors may also be considered (such as whether a feature is already in use).”

Mapping

• Google got good publicity from Radio-Canada / CBC for mapping boundaries of the First Nations and Inuits (native Americans) territories. Pierre Béland suggests on Talk-ca that there is an equal opportunity for publicity for OSM by highlighting the quality of OSM in the same places.
• Telenav invites the Ecuador community to discuss adding street names and turn restrictions. They estimate that only 35% of streets or roads which have been mapped are named in this country.
• Marcos Oliveira informed the Portuguese mailing list that Bing published new aerial images in Portugal. Several people acknowledged this update. Happy mapping.
• On the “talk” mailing list, a contributor asked how they could follow other mappers’ edits to things of interest to them. Other than whodidit (which can also provide RSS feeds), other monitoring tools such as “Hall Monitor” and osm-qa-feeds were mentioned.
• Daniel writes about the validator for sharp turns onto ramps and explains about why highway ramps should never be sharp (i.e. < ~90 degrees) and the possibility of finding turn restrictions in this location.
• User Paul the Archivist has mapped the town centre of Alton, Hampshire in great detail including simple3D tags. This F4map demo 3D Map shows buildings, trees, lamps, cranes, etc… This is just one of many town centres in South-East England which Paul has mapped in recent years.
• Simon Poole tweets about his work on a usable opening hours editor. It will be featured in the next version of Vespucci.

Community

• Alexander Zipf announced the new Labs.OpenRouteService.org where you can test and comment on new upcoming features of OpenRouteService. It is also demonstrating some more experimental research results. The list starts with Open Space routing through squares for pedestrians and the new POI location API Places. The labs demonstrator is only using OSM data for Germany at the outset.
• The OSM Belgium community’s “Mapper of the Month” is Julien Minet aka juminet. More about him on his site.
• Italian mappers discuss relations, tags and trail maintenance for the Sentiero Italia, a long-distance path initiated in the 1980s. As guideposts and official sources don’t always coincide, OSM mapping could be the incentive to revive this picturesque route.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• On June 20th a public OSMF Board meeting took place on the HOT Mumble server. Topics included: the applications by France and the United Kingdom associations to be recognised as regional chapters; a policy for organized arrangements; and the relationship between the OSMF and HOT.

Events

• Applications for travel grants to FOSS4G 2017 in Boston (August 14 – 19) are open until July 7th.
• The 2017 edition of FOSS4G-Europe will take place in Paris – Marne-la-Vallée, from the 18th to the 22nd of July.
• The videos from SotMFR 2017 are online.
• FOSS4G-Africa is taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a strong focus on geography education. The event is organised by OSGeo Africa and the South African QGIS User Group, together with SAGTA (Southern African Geography Teachers’ Association) and GeoforAll.
• Registration for the HOT Summit on September 14-15, in Ottawa, Canada, is now open.
• The 2017 Elbe-Labe meeting in Saxony, SE Germany is a gathering for mappers. It takes place from September 1st to 3rd. The location is a little bit outside Dresden. Participants are expected from the local area and the Czech Republic. If you want to participate, please register by entering the details into the table in the OSM wiki.
• The program of SotM 2017, Japan, in Aizuwakamatsu City Culture Center is online.

Humanitarian OSM

• On the talk mailing list, Michał Brzozowski complained about some low quality changesets by new users in Nepal. The thread touches many topics: best practices for new mappers, communication improvements, local knowledge, partner organisations to exchange with the local community, languages and respect.
• Russel Deffner opens three mapping projects (1, 2 and 3), the first HOT tasks concerning the elimination of malaria in Cambodia.

Maps

• Henry Lau downloaded a list of bakeries from OpenStreetMap using Overpass Turbo, and used d3-hexbin plugin together with leaflet to map the density of bakeries in two capital cities – London and Paris. This is part of his larger project about baking or cooking 80 different recipes involving dough or wheat from the top 80 wheat consuming countries.
• Rosenblatt has created a meticulous work, an interactive map of prehistoric sites where human DNA was secured. Each individual site on the map contains classification information and links to the relevant publications. The Spanish newspaper “La voz de Galicia” reported in a popular scientific way on it.
• moovellab, the home of “Roads to Rome”, launched a new project: “What the Street!?” (desktop browser only), a dataviz project to interactively explore mobility space in cities around the world. What the Street!? illustrates how daily transportation choices shape cityscapes in a playful way. The project analyzed OpenStreetMap data from 23 cities around the world, including London, Barcelona and Tokyo to create unique, comparative data visualizations of parking and movement spaces in each city.
• Maki recently updated Bugianen, a map of Piedmont for hikers and mountain biking that merges OSM to the official regional cartography. The improvements are visible on zoom levels 11 to 15, now much more detailed, and in the inclusion of neighbouring areas’ open datasets.

switch2OSM

• Snapchat now offers SnapMap powered by Mapbox, OpenStreetMap and DigitalGlobe. A video.

Open Data

• The reuse of Open Data in Italy, PA-Webinar Events: June 27, 12:00. Slides are available here.
• Connected Signals, a traffic analytics firm, offers its database of traffic signals, stop lines and other features to OpenStreetMap. The data, presumably for the Continental USA, are acquired through machine-learning from sensor data, including video.

Software

• Nils Nolde developed a new QGIS plugin for OSM routing and accessibility analysis using OpenRouteService.
• Walkalytics from EPB (an engineering company, based in Switzerland) calculates which amenities can be reached within 2, 5, 10 minutes from a given point or a set of points (i.e. Isochrone maps). They use both OSM data and other sources.

Programming

• Vladimir Agafonkin is working on Mapbox GL’s heatmaps, a convenient way of exploring massive datasets.

Releases

Version 3.0.0 of Nominatim is now out. The result is a much smaller database and improved query response times. The most important feature is undoubtedly the on-the-fly address interpolation, as it makes sense to address blocks of houses that are particularly popular in North and South America. Sarah Hoffmann, aka lonvia told us, that Nominatim has now officially moved to openstreetmap.org on GitHub and nominatim.org is currently being expanded into the official homepage.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-06-26 18:14:22+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … Fhacktions? It is a free location-based MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) where you are a member of a faction of hackers in a dystopian world. It was produced in Paraguay and uses an OSM based map.
• … MapProxy is an open source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services (any WMS or tile server) and serves any desktop or web GIS client.
• … OSM Blitzermap, a map of speed cameras from OSM?
• … OpenStreetMap Ireland?
• … that the Export Tool is pushing customised OpenStreetMap data through to the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform?
• … the nice video to advertise SotMFR 2016 one year ago in Clermont-Ferrand?

OSM in the media

• The “Journal de Montréal” followed a group of enthusiasts of OSM along their thorough mapping wanderings.
• Fabrizio “Sbiribizio” Tambussa presents OSM at TEDxNovara Salon, in his talk “A free map of the world”.

Other “geo” things

• KDE Google Summer of Code student Davide Riva announces the first stable release of Brooklyn, a protocol-independent chat-bridge. Telegram and IRC are fully supported and attachments are managed. Map locations are provided through OSM.
• The International Cartographic Association (ICA) invited children from all countries into a competition, mapping how they see their places in the world. The results are stunning.
• Blitzortung.org (German for “lightning localization”) visualises worldwide lightning strikes in real time.
• Andy Kriebel publishes an intuitive map of U.S. air quality levels, with plots displayed geographically.
• AMSTS made a map colouring countries depending on the main subject of their national anthems’ lyrics.
• National Geographic published an article with the title “Atlas for the End of the World” and the subtitle “Dozens of colorful new maps and graphics show where urbanization is most likely to conflict with biodiversity”.
• Thanks to new algorithms, researchers from the Technical University of Munich succeeded in making four-dimensional, high-resolution point clouds of Berlin, Las Vegas, Paris and Washington, D.C. from images stacks of the TerraSAR-X radar satellite.
• A World Bridge has been chosen as GeoForAll’s “Lab of the Month”. It’s an international award-winning program for learning 21st century skills, using advanced teaching methods that incorporate real-world projects involving industry and government partners.
• Maps could look great when they actually say nothing, like this one from xkcd
• weeklyOSM correspondent in Paraguay, Selene Yang discovered a nice and unconventional vehicle to contribute to Mapillary.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Seattle	Complete The Map Challenge, Mapillary image mapping	2017-06-23-2017-07-31
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	2017-07-04
Lyon	Mapathon Missing Maps Validation à l’Atelier des médias	2017-07-04
London	Missing Maps London Mapathon at UCL	2017-07-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2017-07-05
Essen	Ideenaustausch mit dem RVR	2017-07-05
Heidelberg	Missing Maps Data Collection and Validation Mapathon to help eliminate Malaria	2017-07-05
Salzburg	AGIT2017	2017-07-05-2017-07-07
Dortmund	Stammtisch Dortmund	2017-07-06
Toyonaka	【西国街道#07】豊中の歴史マッピングパーティ	2017-07-08
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	2017-07-08-2017-07-10
Passau	Niederbayerntreffen	2017-07-10
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2017-07-10
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle ouverte	2017-07-11
Berlin	109. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2017-07-13
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第10回 向島百花園	2017-07-15
Łódź	Spotkanie sympatyków OpenStreetMap i Walne Stowarzyszenia	2017-07-15
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-18-2017-07-22
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02

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27/06/2017-03/07/2017

Mapping

• Mapping public bus transport seems to be the theme of community projects this summer. The French community have announced their project of the month (similar to the UK’s Quarterly Project and Germany’s Wochenaufgaben) for July 2017: Bus Stops. The results are published on the OSM wiki. At the end of the month (July 29th and 30th), OpenStreetMap US is running a summer bus Mapathon, with the objective of field survey of bus stops and bus routes on those two days.
• OSM Inspector has been updated. This affects the “Geometry”, “Tagging”, “Places” and “Highways” views.
• Nuno Caldeira explains that the rendering problem on São Jorge island in Azores is solved. He also asks for comments about further clean-up options. At the moment of writing some old “flooded” tiles still appear at some higher zoom levels, but that will get fixed as new tiles are rendered.
• Clifford Snow initiates a discussion on Talk-us mailing list about a recent case of data being added to OSM for SEO in the US. A company created one account per POI and added the tags of the POI to an existing street.

Community

• A mapping team from Aoyama Gakuin University mapped emergency facilities (such as AEDs, fire hydrants, etc) in Yamato city. This data was built to be browsable on MAPS.ME. And their results were reported (automatic translation) on a local newspaper. However, on the Japanese mailing list, their tagging manner (name=AED and tourism=information were added on emergency=defibrillator) was criticized (automatic translation) to be “tagging for the renderer”. After a discussion, problematic tags were removed. His justification on that tagging is explained at a changeset discussion.
• Mapbox writes about the StatCan initiative in collaborating with OSM-Canada to map buildings of Ottawa in OpenStreetMap. MapBox indicates that it support this project.
• Jennings Anderson wrote about the procedure of creating his “User per Country” statistics maps.
• OSM Colombia trained 25 local farmers in the region of Anitoquia on how to map with JOSM in cooperation with a “Right to land and territory” group and the PASOColombia Organization. This included people from Nechí, Tarazá, Caucasia, Valdívia, El Bagre and Zaragosa.
• OSM blog posted a bunch of “Featured Images of the Week” along with the histories behind each of them. Check the wiki to learn how to propose your image of the week!
• Spanholz has posted a list of OpenStreetMap projects in the reddit linux forum.
• Wambacher’s Online Maps will only be reachable via wambachers.website in the future . (automatic translation)
• Jochen Topf states on Talk-CA that there are still numerous “old style” multi-polygons in Canada (ie. tag in both the relation and the external way), a great number resulting from CanVec imports. There is not an important community in Canada and the threat to erase the data was brought a few discussions about the way to collarate with local communities.

Imports

• Kyle Nuttall notifies imports mailing list about Ottawa’s official dataset of over 149,000 city-maintained trees. A lengthy discussion about tagging and verification ensues, and a wiki page lists the import’s current state.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Peter Barth reports about the last OSMF Board meeting in Amsterdam (May 2017).

Events

• SotM 2017 tweeted: Last chance! Nominate a person, a group or an organization for an OpenStreetMap 2017 award (deadline Sunday, July 9th).
• The deadline to propose sessions for SotM Asia (September 23-24, Kathmandu, Nepal) has been extended to July 15, 2017. The same for scholarships.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT has launched three formal research experiments on crowdsourced damage assessment. The study aims to better understand which type of data and accuracy is most urgent for post-disaster response, and how to maximise the impact of online volunteers’ contributions.
• OpenStreetMap Colombia releases the poster “Pre-elimination Malaria in Pacific Coast, Colombia” with the result of the project “Herramientas, formación y redes encaminadas a disminuir la carga por malaria en Colombia”. Best regards to all involved in the #MapatónXGuapi initiative that generated the needed geodata.
• HOT and Doctors Without Borders (Turkey) organized Turkey’s first Missing Maps mapathon in Istanbul together with volunteers in Kampala to support the many refugees and displaced persons in Uganda in order to better meet their needs.
• Heather Leson and Guido Pizzini from IFRC organised a Missing Maps workshop for grade 9 students in Ecole Internationale Geneva, and started a discussion about how to involve kids in mapping activities on HOT mailing list.

Maps

• Cyclestreet.net introduced their bikedata map, visualising critical spots in bicycle infrastructure to support campaigns for improving cycling networks.
• Hartmut Holzgraefe improved GPX upload in MapOSMatic. Until now it was necessary to manually select the upload area, while this update automatically detects the bounding box from the GPX data. There is more news about the service: the support of the veloroad.ru style, a locate-me button in the slippy map and contour lines for the OpenSnowMap style.
• Just arrived on the instant messaging app Snapchat, the Snap Map location sharing with friends functionality is already controversial. It allows to share its user’s position in real-time and to very precisely locate your friends around you, or track their movements on the other side of the world. Some voices warn parents against a too precise location of their children.
• The OpenTopoMap now evaluates (automatic translation) a given direction=* tag on viewpoint rendering.
• A new webservice Printmaps to create large-format, OSM-based maps in print quality is in beta testing. In addition, the display of your own data and map elements are special features of Printmaps. Klaus aka tok-rox asks for feedback.
• User tyr_asd just published a new layer for his OSM node density visualization tool, and challenges the readers to find out which city is represented in this screenshot.

switch2OSM

• Mapzen presents a second technical preview of OSMLR. It “provides a stable linear-referencing system atop the ever-changing network of roadways in OpenStreetMap. It’s used by the Open Traffic platform to associate statistics like speeds and vehicle counts with roadway segments. And it has many more possible uses, beyond just traffic statistics”. A preview build is also announced.
• Geoboxers’ WorldBloxer generates Minecraft templates of any place on Earth based on OpenStreetMap data. It’s now in beta.

Open Data

• The city of Amsterdam published over 800,000 360° images on Mapillary. Using an online tool pictures can be filtered for specific objects. Now, all the data has to be mapped!

Software

• Florian Lainez announces Jungle Bus, a new project for public transport mapping based on OSM Contributor. The app is meant to be very easy to use, in order to facilitate data collection for transport networks mapping.

Programming

• Mapbox announces its new plugin for calculating isochrones, curves that include the areas you can reach in a given time from a starting point. It is able to quickly compute up to 60 minutes isochrones for pedestrians, cyclists and cars.
• Thomas Skowron publishes the June summary of his work on “Grandine: Vector Tiles”. The introduction was presented on March. The source code is available on GitHub.

Releases

Mapbox’s latest SDK release for Android and iOS brings in the possibility of 3D map visualisation for mobile devices.

The current release status of software around OSM can be found on the OSM software watchlist.

Did you know …

• … that Critical Maps (an Android and iPhone App for the Critical Mass) uses OSM as background?
• … the free of charge WebService to create figure ground plans by the geographer? Thus they attract mainly students, architects and engineers.
• … OSM-Nottingham? It is an example of a website dedicated to providing OSM-based information for both the general public and mappers about a specific local area: the Nottingham conurbation. It provides a mix of layers: rasters, including historical maps, thematic layers using GeoJSON, and searches for OSM data and a wide range of local and national Open Data sources. It is maintained by user will_p.
• … the amazing keynote by Allan Mustard, U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan, held in Brussels at SoTM 2016?
• … that Frank Sellke has collected several photos and information about bridges on his page brueckenweb.de? The maps are based on OpenStreetMap.

OSM in the media

• GIScience Research Group of the Heidelberg University has published the article “Introducing Healthy Routing preferring Green Areas with OpenRouteService”.

Other “geo” things

• GIScience News Blog points to the study “Are Crowdsourced Datasets Suitable for Specialized Routing Services? Case Study of OpenStreetMap for Routing of People with Limited Mobility” and gives further insight into the issue and its background.
• Peter Murray compiled an impressive list of 80 maps, to celebrate the art and power of data visualisation. He grouped them into six broad categories: Conflict Zones; Connectivity; Environmental; Sites, Sounds, and Smells of City Living; Social Media Maps and Transportation.
• Direction Magazine analyses the emerging trends at the intersection of GIS and aerial imagery, that feature the rise of cloud services and of platforms that allow the exploration of many image sources at once.
• Before vacation, Guillaume Roche proposes to discover the offline world of MAPS.ME.
• Smithsonian.com published an article, titled: “From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps” written by Clive Thompson. He reports as well on the island of California, trap streets in London and non existing mountains on a map “drawn up in 1798 by the British cartographer James Rennell and copied throughout most of the 19th century”.
• Metrocosm maps show how so much of the world occupies so little of its land. For countries like Australia, Spain, USA, Canada and for North Africa, we see which size of the country is occupied by 50% of the population. For Canada, this is in South Ontario and Quebec near the USA border. Note that this population occupies less than 150,000 km², 2% of Canada’s surface.
• Mapbox introduces a new tool, Cartogram. It’s a drag-and-drop tool to create a custom map in seconds.
• The World Economic Forum shows maps that will change the way you see the world. Surface comparisons of various countries are made.
• Following an enquiry started in 2007, Brooke Singer created the platform ToxicSites. It includes a map that provides information about pollution in the U.S., aggregating information from several sources.
• Canada, which has one of the most restrictive drone regulation, just approved a micro drone to his record of Compliant Unmanned Air Systems. This approval could enable better flexibility for flight in restricted areas or past visible line of sight (LoS) and offer more possibilities to surveying and mapping professionals. One example is a drone delivery company who passed successfully the Transport Canada tests for flights beyond visual LoS. This should allow experimental drone deliveries.
• Spiegel Online published an article about the fastest moving island of the world: Trischen island, which shifts to the east about 30-35 meters per year.
• OSM Cochabamba reported on Twitter on the way in the “Quebrada del Yuro” and the village of La Higuera, Bolivia, places of the capture and death of Ernesto Che Guevara are now included in OSM as well.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Seattle	Complete The Map Challenge, Mapillary image mapping	2017-06-23-2017-07-31
Toyonaka	【西国街道#07】豊中の歴史マッピングパーティ	2017-07-08
Kampala	State of the Map Africa 2017	2017-07-08-2017-07-10
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2017-07-10
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle ouverte	2017-07-11
Passau	Niederbayerntreffen	2017-07-11
Berlin	109. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2017-07-13
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第10回 向島百花園	2017-07-15
Łódź	Spotkanie sympatyków OpenStreetMap i Walne Stowarzyszenia	2017-07-15
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	2017-07-18
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	2017-07-18
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	2017-07-18
Scotland	Edinburgh	2017-07-18
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-18-2017-07-22
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	Mapathon Missing Maps @FOSS4G, ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-19
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2017-07-19
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	2017-07-20
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2017-07-20
Spoleto	OpenStreetMap e open data a Spoleto	2017-07-21-2017-07-22
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2017-07-24
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02

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04/07/2017-10/07/2017

Mapping

• Bing updated (automatic translation) its imagery for large parts of Germany on the 11 & 12th of July. It is not known (yet) if this only affects Germany. The new imagery is at a lower resolution and its offset should be checked before using it by comparing it with other permitted imagery sources and the available GPS tracks!
• Argentina’s national mapping agency IGN made some of their aerial imagery available for OSM mapping. Presets are available already in JOSM, but a little more time is needed for the services themselves.
• The tagging mailing list attempts to pinpoint the meaning of the word “office” (at least for mapping purposes), with the consequence of questioning many other definitions.
• Steve All reported on the Talk-US mailing list that there are differences between the data of the US Census bureau and the states for administrative boundaries. This also means that some boundaries in OSM have incorrect admin_level tags. Update: please see also Steve’s comment below.
• John Whelan talks in his blog post about how the recent Stats Canada Building import into OSM came about and how the origins lie in OC Transpo’s efforts to improve accessibility for their partially sighted riders some years ago.
• Richard Fairhurst explains how you can easily capture the height of bridges using aerial imagery together with photographs from Mapillary, OpenStreetCam and, in the British Isles, Geograph. A video of a notorious low bridge in Durham, NC, emphasises why this is so important for HGV routing. Thanks to Jeff for the correction
• User Trockennaseaffe is busy mapping ticket validator machines. He encountered OpenStationMap’s proposed tagging vending=ticket_validator, but he was encouraged to use the clearer amenity=ticket_validator instead.
• Simon Poole publishes OSM statistics for the second quarter of 2017, and includes a new metric of Edits per month.

Community

• Jinal Foflia writes a Mapbox blog showcasing this year’s State of the Map conferences around the world. This map was made using the GeoJSON that contained the location co-ordinates of all the event venues, the icons from the various SotM and their respective websites. You can refer to this example for doing something similar.
• All other rendering issues having been resolved, discussion over at OSM-Carto’s GitHub issues turns to whether a submarine is a ship.
• Sukhjit Singh Sehra et al. published a paper about the analysis of the abstracts of 485 papers about OSM from 2007 to 2016. They used latent semantic analysis to identify research trends regarding OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Voting for OSM-Awards 2017 in all categories will start on July 16.

Events

• FOSS4G 2017 HOKKAIDO took place in Sapporo (Hokkaido, Japan) on the 30th of June and 1st of July. The event was a hands-on day and a case presentation day. They were a great success on both. Check the videos and Twitter summary.
• User Andrea Musuruane proposes a mapping party in Viverone (Biella, Italy), co-organised with local Linux user groups.
• OSM Geography Awareness Week, that will take place in many locations around the world in November, is already in action – check the map for an event near you, or propose one yourself!
• SotM Africa took place in Kampala, Uganda from the 8th to the 10th of July. Several tweets point to a great event with great success. We’ll report published blogs or recordings of the lectures as soon as they become available.
• Wikimedia Italia has organised a two-day event in Spoleto (Umbria, Italy) on the 21st and 22nd of July dedicated to OSM and open data. The program includes talks about open (geo)data and public administrations, hiking maps, OSM and Wikipedia, and a full day for the mapping party.
• The call for venues for SotM 2018 is closed. Two candidates have applied: Heidelberg and Milan (Milan also applied last year).
• Do you plan to attend SotM in Japan? This post on the OSM blog provides useful information about visa procedures.

Humanitarian OSM

• After the two mapathons in Uganda and Istanbul (we reported) was examined to what extent the refugees could be involved in field mapping. The results were presented by HOT US on a UNHCR meeting.

Education

• Created in 2014, TeachOSM is an online resource to assist educators at all levels to introduce open source mapping using OpenStreetMap in the classroom. You can find mapping assignments, documentation and case studies. Do you have teaching material to share? This page explains how to contribute.

Maps

• Mapcat is a new OSM- and Wikipedia-based mapping portal from Hungary that is catering to users internationally. The cat-pun-heavy introduction provides information about what they’re doing now and what they plan to do in the future.
• OpenRouteService comes once again this week with an innovation! A new experimental “Quiet Routing” option is integrated into the LABS.OpenRouteService.org. It can generate routes that avoid noisy areas. This is adding to the “healthy” (stress reducing) routing theme, that has been introduced recently starting with the “prefer green areas” routing option. Both options can now be weighted dynamically. OSM data is also used for modeling the noise levels along the road.
• Mapzen used the tangram engine to produce a futuristic-looking 3D map. Especially in large cities, the design looks like as it were from a science fiction movie. See New York or Birmingham.

Software

• P4CaaS (Pic4Carto API) is now available. The documentation shows how to download the pictures around a point or within a BBOX.
• Users report that http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ is working reliably again.
• Ilya Zverev describes in his user-blog how he creates Walking Papers: he now uses QGIS instead of Maperitive.

Programming

• Andy Allan has joined the maintainers’ team for the OSM website. He aims to continue his work on refactoring, streamline issue processing, and communication to end users, including the moderation queue. Welcome Andy!
• As reported last week, there have been problems caused by SEO spammers, especially in the USA. On Talk-US, Frederik Ramm published the Perl scripts that he used to identify likely candidates (just one edit, heavy use of certain unusual tags).
• The GIScience Research Group of the University of Heidelberg is looking for a “Software Engineer Geoinformation Technology/OpenStreetMap”. The job is limited until June 2019.

Releases

Version 0.9 of the Graphhopper routing engine was released on May 31. There are a couple of highlights: public transport routing, and a new “hybrid mode” which is intended to support fast routing queries as well as support for turn costs and restrictions. Graphhopper is now also available on osm.org as a car profile, in addition to the existing bicycle & pedestrian profiles.

New releases are listed as usual on the OSM Software Watchlist. Here are some highlights:

• • JOSM 12450 | 02.07.2017 | Among others, better audio mapping support and addition of automatic filter buttons
  • ID 2.3.1 | 11.07.2017 | Changelog on GitHub.
  • OSRM Backend 5.8.1 | 01.07.2017
  • Mapillary Android 3.65 | 03.07.2017
  • Kurviger Free 1.1.3 | 04.07.2017

Did you know …

• … that it was possible to show Mapillary pictures in the OSM Truck QA Map, which shows “maxheight” values?
• … the wide selection of layers on bigmap.osmz.ru?

Other “geo” things

• Tanja Pfeffer, a student of the Hochschule Karlsruhe, has designed a map that changes projection according to zoom level. Check it here!
• Mundialis offers a printing service that features satellite images as art compositions.
• Forbes.at reported on Mapillary and the competition of the company with Google in terms of the self-driving cars.
• Google Maps have made it easier for users to add missing data to places. This will enable the collection of more information on accessibility in restaurants and shops.
• The International Cartographic Conference was held last week (2-7 July) in Washington, DC. Papers from thematic streams on Disaster Mapping (Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management), Mountain Cartography, Maps and Graphics for Blind and Partially-sighted People may be of particular interest.
• Philipp Kandal, Senior Vice President of TeleNav mentioned, at ConCarExpo 2017 in Berlin, the work of his company using OSM data to improve navigation for autonomous cars.
• UNESCO has expanded its World Heritage List to additional natural and cultural heritage sites. One of these new listings, the English Lake District, is controversially suggested to be very damaging. By the way: one can find cultural heritage sites on the Historic Place Map. If they aren’t there yet, it is a good opportunity to map them.
• Have you ever wondered how the glacial features called roches moutonnées got their name? The Atlantic explains the complicated story.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Seattle	Complete The Map Challenge, Mapillary image mapping	2017-06-23-2017-07-31
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第10回 向島百花園	2017-07-15
Łódź	Spotkanie sympatyków OpenStreetMap i Walne Stowarzyszenia	2017-07-15
Managua	Repubikla Mapping Party	2017-07-15
Accra	Africa Open Data Conference Mapathon	2017-07-17
Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	2017-07-18
Lüneburg	Mappertreffen Lüneburg	2017-07-18
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	2017-07-18
Scotland	Edinburgh	2017-07-18
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	FOSS4G Europe 2017 at ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-18-2017-07-22
Champs-sur-Marne (Marne-la-Vallée)	Mapathon Missing Maps @FOSS4G, ENSG Cité Descartes	2017-07-19
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2017-07-19
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	2017-07-20
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2017-07-20
Spoleto	OpenStreetMap e open data a Spoleto	2017-07-21-2017-07-22
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2017-07-24
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2017-07-24
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2017-07-25
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	2017-07-26
Itami	【西国街道#08】オープンデータソンin伊丹「有岡城惣構」	2017-07-29
Tokyo	東京！街歩かない！マッピングバーティ2	2017-07-29
Managua	Editathon with iD	2017-07-29
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017 (international conference)	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Brussels	FOSS4G Belgium 2017	2017-10-26
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02

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Mapping

• Nicolas Toublanc has a nice culinary question on how to map “Oyster farmers: growers, sellers, oyster bar and seafood” and a quick answer by Vincent Bergeot.
• Svavar Kjarrval wrote about several issues in the development of a router for pedestrians. He seeks solutions, including one to differentiate routing , whether a road can be crossed anywhere or must be crossed only on crosswalks.
• Horea Meleg of TeleNav asks at the Talk-US mailing list for the good practice on how to map lanes, turn lanes and signposts
• ChristianA shares in his user diary how he mapped some old and unused quarries near his home.
• Earlier we reported about Daniel’s work related to identifying potential sharp turns onto ramps. Following some discussions, they have refined some checks and added new ones for sharp turns (e.g. sharp turns from one ramp onto another). Here are the up-to-date results for the planet.
• Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) has started “project Ilam” together with Marek Kleciak, Heinz_V and WojtekK. The main goal is to get the utmost possible data accuracy using new high resolution imagery from Bing and Digital Globe in the district of Ilam, Nepal. The wiki page of this project describes how to identify such areas from aerial images. The project should demonstrate to the authorities in developing countries the usefulness of OpenStreetMap. The area should act as test area for comparing armchair mapping data to the reality in the field and support governments and NGOs. The project is looking for experienced mappers: sorry, no newcomers.
• User taz2015 asks at the English OSM Forum how to handle erroneous data from the TIGER import.
• Mapbox has purchased satellite imagery of 8.2 million square kilometers. Camilla Mahon explained in Mapbox’s blog how it decides which areas require better pictures.

Community

• OpenCage data, the blog of Open Cage Geocoder published an interview with Hernán aka Hernan and Zalitoar in which they speak about the state of OSM and its community in Argentina – their current work and future plans.
• Who is commenting? An Overview about OSM Changeset Discussions, a new blog post by Pascal Neis.

Events

• In a month, the State of the Map 2017 conference starts in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.
• This year marks the OSM’s 13th birthday which is celebrated on August 13th. Don’t forget to enter your local events to the OSM wiki.
• On July 21st a mini conference takes place on bike data (open data) organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium in Brussels.
• On July 15th, Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak was elected as chairman of OSM Poland in Łodź, Poland. For all other functions, refer to the website.
• On Tuesday, July 19th, Rubén López of Mapbox made a presentation for 60 students at the Congress of Information and Communication Technologies in Churcampa – Huancavelica. Rubén spoke about OpenStreetMap, how to collaborate with the OpenStreetMap community, how to add data to the map and the different applications that can be done using OpenStreetMap data.

Humanitarian OSM

• John Whelan notes on the HOT mailing list that there is a large number of untagged ways in Chad. Many of them are buildings, but not all.

Education

• Mario asked in the gvSIG blog: “Have you decided to learn to work with a Geographic Information System and you don’t know how to start?” His answer to this question is a free book with the title, “Learning GIS with Game of Thrones“.

Maps

• With the help of Leaflet and OverpassAPI, Harald Hartmann made a nice visualization of view points with views towards.

Open Data

• The Ordnance Survey in England has released a large set of data with various green spaces in England as open data. It is not yet clear whether the data are compatible with OSM.

Software

• NextGIS announced OSMInfo, a new tool for using OSM data in QGIS.
• The MapOSMatic fork of Hartmut now supports Email notifications once your requested map is ready or an error occurred. In addition, his instance also offers the map styles Pencil, Space Station and Blossom.

Programming

• Daniel Koć searches a server to work on the middle zoom levels of OSM Carto for some weeks.
• Andy Allan started work on the preparation of the integration of the moderation branch, a former GSoC project, into the OpenStreetMap website and API. The branch adds a report button. Up to now users have to report spam via email or IRC.

Releases

• Tobias Zwick has officially released StreetComplete. It can be downloaded at FDroid or in the PlayStore.
• The new release of Mapbox Directions swift comes with added attribute options option, congestion, for obtaining the level of traffic congestion along each segment of a RouteLeg and much more
• Mapbox’s new release for the Navigation iOS comes with a style specifically designed for turn-by-turn navigation, with French, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Persian, and Spanish localizations and much more.
• Other releases
  • Jungle Bus 1.2 | 11.07.2017
  • Komoot Android 9.3 | 13.07.2017
  • Kurviger Free 1.1.5 | 13.07.2017
  • Mapillary Android 3.67 | 11.07.2017
  • OSM Contributor 3.0.5 | 12.07.2017

Did you know …

• The uMap map of all world-wide host cities of the State of the Map (SotM) and FOSSGIS events

Other “geo” things

• An animation of ThingsWork shows the course of a day for winter and summer solstice.
• ThingsWork shows the change of the Ucayali river from 1985 to 2013.
• Boundless, an US open-source GIS company, announces a “strategic partnership” with Mapbox. In a press release they say that their customers will receive easier access to Mapbox products.
• Mapzen now offers map matching, which “takes in a trajectory of latitude/longitude coordinates and returns back a route line that is snapped to the OpenStreetMap road network and enriched with attributes, like speed limits and freeway exit signs.”
• ORF reported about a study of the University of Stanford, how much people are walking in different countries on daily-basis.
• Antonio Zugaldia from Mapbox shows how to generate traffic maps and add images in Alexa Show skill using Mapbox Java Services.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Seattle	Complete The Map Challenge, Mapillary image mapping	2017-06-23-2017-07-31
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2017-07-24
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2017-07-24
Nottingham	Nottingham Pub Meetup	2017-07-25
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2017-07-25
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch Düsseldorf	2017-07-26
Itami	【西国街道#08】オープンデータソンin伊丹「有岡城惣構」	2017-07-29
Tokyo	東京！街歩かない！マッピングバーティ2	2017-07-29
Managua	Editathon with iD	2017-07-29
Taipei	OpenStreetMap Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	2017-07-31
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	2017-08-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2017-08-02
Brisbane	Nundah Mapping Party	2017-08-04
Amagasaki	地図好きに送るオープンストリートマップの使い方 in みんなのサマーセミナー2017	2017-08-05
Taipei	COSCUP OpenStreetMap Track, National Taiwan University Social Science College	2017-08-05
Kusatsu	真夏のマッピングパーティ in 草津	2017-08-06
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017 (international conference)	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Boulder	State of the Map U.S. 2017	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Brussels	FOSS4G Belgium 2017	2017-10-26
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02

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18/07/2017-24/07/2017

Mapping

• Martijn van Exel writes on the Telenav blog a little bit about MapRoulette. He feels that the page with the most popular and newest challenges is not particularly easy to use. He asks for input to improve the way to find challenges of interest for contributors.
• Pander proposed some improvements to the beautified JOSM presets for natural=tree in the tagging mailing list. See also discussion on the related Vespucci github issue..
• Stuart Reynolds asks on Talk-gb mailing list whether “St” in names should be abbreviated or not.
• Vivek Bansal, of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, wants to set up a US Tasking Manager task for adding sidewalk=* tags across the entire Santa Clara County, California.
• Mapillary invites participation in a mapathon to improve street-level photo coverage in Medellin. The mapathon runs until August 3rd.
• Mapillary draws attention to the US Summer Bus Mapathon and publishes a tutorial on “How to Map Bus Routes and Infrastructure on OpenStreetMap”.
• The ‘Mapper of the Month’ chosen by OpenStreetMap Belgium is Jamie Nadeau aka LogicalViolinist from Canada.

Community

• OpenStreetMap awards are back. It’s time for you to vote and support not just one but multiple nominees. This time’s procedure involves Approval Voting. Learn more about this in the blog post.
• Mapmeld reasons and writes about translating OpenStreetMap into Divehi, the local language of the Maldives.

Imports

• It looks like Robin Paulson has discovered an import of buildings with no documentation (Auckland, NZ).
• Sam Libby works on a new feature for the iD editor to ease the import of “authoritative” (his wording) data from ArcGIS REST into OpenStreetMap without the need to use JOSM. Several OSM contributors have already commented on his issue.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• On July 18, an executive board meeting of the OSMF took place. Various topics were discussed, among others like “Microgrants”, and the corporate editing policy. OSM France was recognized as regional chapter (the contract is in the OSMF wiki). The log was still not online at the time.

Events

• The first SotM Africa was held between 8th and 10th July, you can read reports by Map Zambia and Janet Chapman sharing their experience at the conference.

Humanitarian OSM

• An invitation on the Talk mailing list to a Community Webinar about the improvement of mapping residential areas initiates some criticism about the way that landuse=residential is used in some HOT mapping projects. Christoph Hormann explains why from his point of view you cannot use the same assumptions as used in Europe in regions where most people work in the primary sector (agriculture).

Maps

• Wondering how to get an OSM-based map onto a Garmin device without external storage? This diary entry by robbieonsea contains detailed instructions.
• OpenMapTiles developed a map which shows the names of places in different languages.
• Mapbox presents “Whaam!” a map style inspired by the pop art movement, in particular, the work of Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein. True eye candy!

Open Data

• Dmitrij Kožuch is planning an open landuse map for Africa based on available data sources. The main source probably will be OSM.
• The Guardian and GiGL have worked together to produce an open data set (currently only available through GiGL’s dropbox) of privately-owned public spaces (squares, plazas, parks etc) for Greater London.

Software

• The Overpass API instance of FOSSGIS e.V. (overpass-api.de) had problems following a power outage. Metadata queries (out meta;) did not work. The problem is now fixed.

Programming

• Mapbox is looking for a “data science lead” for its office in Bangalore.
• Aaron Ng writes a blog post titled: “How I built it: Visualizing Foursquare check-ins with Mapbox + ARKit”
• User kepta is working on the integration of the Imagery Offset Database into iD. JOSM users can already use a plugin.
• User n42k reports about his ongoing work on the 3D Model Repository as part of Google Summer of Code 2017.

Releases

Walter Nordmann published emergency map 2.8. Main new feature is clustering for fire hydrants and rescue points.

Provided by the OSM Software Watchlist. Timestamp: 2017-07-22 21:29:55+02 UTC

(*) unfree software. See: freesoftware.

Did you know …

• … there are coasters with OSM map print available on the Net? Including yellow cast for “vintage” look, however still without attribution.
• … Mike Bostocks command-line cartography – part 1 and part 2?
• … the website blogs.openstreetmap.org where you can follow several OSM-related blogs?
• … the open source project Plan4all? The umbrella organization offers open data for use in research, development, and innovation. OpenStreetMap plays an important role.

Other “geo” things

• The Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento, Italy are looking for candidates for a PhD scholarship. The research topic is on the quality of OpenStreetMap.
• Mapbox’s new plugin for Android SDK enables you to display 3D buildings and show a user’s current location. These are simple features that you can add to your mobile app with a few lines of code.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Seattle	Complete The Map Challenge, Mapillary image mapping	2017-06-23-2017-07-31
Itami	【西国街道#08】オープンデータソンin伊丹「有岡城惣構」	2017-07-29
Tokyo	東京！街歩かない！マッピングバーティ2	2017-07-29
Managua	Editathon with iD	2017-07-29
Taipei	OpenStreetMap Taipei Meetup, MozSpace	2017-07-31
Rostock	Rostocker Treffen	2017-08-01
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2017-08-02
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2017-08-03
Brisbane	Nundah Mapping Party	2017-08-04
Amagasaki	地図好きに送るオープンストリートマップの使い方 in みんなのサマーセミナー2017	2017-08-05
Taipei	COSCUP OpenStreetMap Track, National Taiwan University Social Science College	2017-08-05
Kusatsu	真夏のマッピングパーティ in 草津	2017-08-06
Berlin	110. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2017-08-11
Passau	Mappertreffen	2017-08-14
Boston	FOSS4G 2017	2017-08-14-2017-08-19
Aizu-wakamatsu Shi	State of the Map 2017 (international conference)	2017-08-18-2017-08-20
Patan	State of the Map Asia 2017	2017-09-23-2017-09-24
Colorado	Boulder]]	State of the Map U.S. 2017, [[Boulder	2017-10-19-2017-10-22
Buenos Aires	FOSS4G+State of the Map Argentina 2017	2017-10-23-2017-10-28
Brussels	FOSS4G Belgium 2017	2017-10-26
Lima	State of the Map LatAm 2017	2017-11-29-2017-12-02
Bonn	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24

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25/07/2017-31/07/2017

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Mapping

• Pascal Neis tweets about a large number of new buildings around Surabaya, Indonesia, without any kind of highways or paths leading to them. On the discussion, other people point other places with the same issue and Pierre Béland discovers that the changeset comment and source are wrong.
• John Whelan asks if recent changes of the Highway Tag Africa wiki page can be highlighted. The revisions were agreed during a workshop at SotM-Africa. Discussion follows about the modifications made vs the goal of this wiki page for the highway tag to take account of the socio-economic role while other keys take care of the condition and practicability of the road.
• Christoph Hormann starts a discussion about the decline in accuracy of capture date metadata in Bing imagery, remarking that a range like 2003-2016 seen in a rural area is pretty useless for the purpose of mapping.
• François Lacombe asks on the Tagging mailing list for comments on his proposal to add extra details about power transformers devices functionalities and specifications under the transformer=* tag.
• Tobias Zwick wants to add a quest to his StreetComplete app to specify the produce of orchards. Currently three tags are used so he asks for comments on how to implement the tagging scheme.
• Christoph Hormann blogs about the problems of mapping without recent on-the-ground knowledge, otherwise known as remote or arm chair mapping. The different dimensions of image quality are discussed and exemplified by its age the main culprit.
• Polyglot wonders why so many details are repeated across OSM objects when mapping public transport and why we need 2 objects for each stop in every route relation, given that this makes maintenance harder. Several people reply with comments.

Community

• Pascal Neis tweets how the different levels of the OSM activity are attributed on his HDYC tool (How Did You Contribute to OSM?)
• Mutual Learning: In their July issue of the monthly "showcase", the Wikimedia Foundation’s Research Team discussed OSM data structure and further cooperation models. The live stream has been published on YouTube.
• In the German forum there is a wide-ranging discussion of "what OSM mappers map and why" has changed in the last 9 years (automatic translation). Two participants of the discussions claim that the thread is collection of people whose ideas did not gain wide enough acceptance by the community.
• Voting for the 2017 OSM Awards has started, and will end on August 16th. There are 45 nominees in 9 categories to choose from.
• User GoWin blogged about his visit to the General Santos City firefighters and the impromptu mapping activity he had with them completing the layout of their fire hydrant network.