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09/01/2018-15/01/2018

Mapping

• Curtis Melvin of 38 North states that he believes their work has been plagiarised by OSM editors in North Korea.
• Javier Sánchez Portero would like to have a tool to filter out objects that have been added at a certain time, with a certain tag, in a certain area. Overpass API was suggested multiple times, which at least partly meets his expectations.
• Stefan Nagy starts a discussion on the Talk-AT mailing list about short-term parking zones in Vienna. This then continued on the tagging mailing list.
• Fernando Trebien asks on the Tagging mailing list for a method for capturing Portuguese pavements, which consists of small stone tiles embedded in a matrix, rather like mosaics.
• A user reports on reddit that the latest updates to ESRI World Imagery are not as clear as previous versions. There is a thread on a similar theme in the forum.
• Pieter Vander Vennet explains in his user diary how he maps the different types of cobblestone/sett pavement in Bruges, Belgium.
• Wille Marcel shares a diary about the latest updates and enhancements to OSMCha.

Community

• On the talk mailing list, Michael Reichert raises the question to what extent change record discussion comments can be created automatically. He also criticizes the new review feature of OSMCha.
• Pieter Vander Vennet is the Mapper of the Month January 2018. He got to know about OSM a few years ago, when a fellow student introduced him to OsmAnd. His first edit was a ski slope in Austria, while his current focus is on cycleways. He maps both on-site and at home with a combination of OsmAnd, StreetComplete, JOSM and iD. The full interview is available on the osm.be blog, don’t miss it!
• Randy Meech, founder & CEO, offers his personal thoughts about the closure of Mapzen, and the philosophy behind its business strategy.
• Joost Schouppe announces the creation of OSM-Science mailing list, that aims to talk about recent scientific research, develop the OSM research agenda and get feedback and support on your planned OSM surveys. The list is the follow-up to the OSM-science-communication project, initiated by Peter Mooney, Frank Ostermann and Joost himself.

Imports

• The release of speed limits on railways seems to make good progress in the United Kingdom. There is also a discussion on the Import mailing list.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Pineapple Fund, the foundation of an unknown Bitcoin owner, donated 18 Bitcoin (about 200,000 Euro) to OSMF on January 10, 2018. This is approximately 1.5 times the annual turnover of the OSMF. For more information, see Reddit and the OSM Blog.
• The OSM Board plans to extend the contract of its administrative assistant, Dorothea, for another year.
• The next OSMF Board Meeting, the first since the AGM, took place on Thursday 18th January. The agenda and draft minutes from the November meeting are now available.
• The Engineering Working Group of the OSM Foundation held a meeting on January, 15th, centered on the participation to Google Summer of Code 2018.

Events

• FOSSGIS Konferenz 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The annual German language conference is always organized by FOSSGIS e.V., the OSM Community and a local team. Date: March 21st – March 24th.
• Proposals for sessions – that is: talks, lectures and workshops – for the International State of the Map in Milan (28-30 July) received are now invited. The closing date for submissions is 18th February.
• OpenStreetMap US seeks proposals for the SotM-US conference in 2018 and 2019.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT supports five projects of the Turkish community with laptops and smartphones from a “device grant” by Nethope. An example of the community’s activities are provided through the experiences of field mapping by 17-year-old Leila, a refugee from Syria.

Maps

• [1] Stephan Bösch-Plepelits announces that Openstreetbrowser is back online. He asks for help with creating additional categories of interest.
• Holiday flats (tourism=apartment) becoming increasingly popular not only in Europe. With more than 14k objects in the database they deserve to be rendered in osm-carto. What’s missing is a convincing icon. Any ideas or contributions are welcome.
• A research group in Oxford, England have calculated travel times to major cities across the world using Google Earth Engine and OpenStreetMap data. Galleries of maps for various places have been published by The Guardian and Spiegel-online.
  Owen Boswarva notices that this dataset is released under CC-BY 4.0. He asks if this has a special licence waiver. The topic is further discussed on the legal-talk list.

Open Data

• Budget pressures may force the US Department of Agriculture to charge for use of the National Agricultural Imagery Programme. Mapbox explain on their blog why this is a bad idea.

Programming

• OSM Operations team prepares the change to “HTTPS-by-default”, and asks all developers to test their OAuth integration against the preview site.
• Paul Norman asks on the mailing list dev about the size of metatiles.
• Mapbox would like to persuade former Mapzen customers to become Unity users.

Other “geo” things

• The Mapbox office in Washington DC will be moving to a new location.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Moscow	January Meeting	2018-01-21
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-01-22
Nottingham	Pub Meetup	2018-01-23
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-01-23
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-01-25
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-01-25
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-01-28
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-01-31
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-02-01
Rome	FOSS4G-IT 2018	2018-02-19-2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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16/01/2018-22/01/2018

Mapping

• Open Data Institute Cardiff have announced a beta-test version Welsh-language map of Wales based on OpenStreetMap. It joins two other Celtic languages Breton and Irish which already have dedicated OSM-based maps. Carl Morris describes his approach to rendering. There are many Welsh names still missing from OSM.
• Now that OsmAnd has started rendering deserts, Warin has started a thread on the talk-au mailing list about how to properly map them. The discussion mentions the climatic definition of desert and the difficulty in mapping fuzzy boundaries of such areas.
• Daniel wrote about how to place motorway junction nodes — typically, those that connect a motorway to a motorway_link way — for improved routing. Discussions follow in the comments.
• Reddit user Toxx8 asked for help on /r/openstreetmap about the import of an official dataset from Queensland, Australia, and the related licensing hurdles. The discussion is continuing on the talk-au mailing list.
• Mappa Mercia writes a blog post about an import that led to erroneous petrol station data within OpenStreetMap, they have captured some of this and added it a “fixme” tag to it. This will help anyone to identify and fix these errors.
• François Lacombe points out that the voting process on the hydropower proposal has begun.
• Brian Prangle of Mappa Mercia writes an article about the future of phoneboxes in the UK. The plans include the removal of half of the phoneboxes and the repurposal of the others: Brian mentions the subsequent tagging challenges and the unfortunate unwillingness of British Telecom to share their data with OSM.

Community

• [1] Christian Quest has been combining hobbies: baking cakes imprinted with the OSM logo.
• Jan Kinne and Bernd Rensch from the Centre for European Economic Research have analysed location samples of software companies on a microgeographic level using OpenStreetMap data in Germany (Paper as PDF). The main limiting factor in accuracy is the absence of fine grained geospatial data on socio-economic demographics..

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF Board meeting that took place on January 18th was continued, and concluded, on January 25th.
• OSMF published the minutes from the recent board meeting, Christoph Hormann (aka imagico) shares his views on the same as a diary post and that elicited lots of reactions from the board members.
• The minutes of the meetings of the Communications Working Group of 19 December 2017 and 16 January 2018 as well as the data working group of the OSMF of 11 January 2018 are online.
• OSM-US is seeking candidates for the upcoming board election. The post also sets out the goals for 2018: hiring an executive director, becoming an official local chapter and redesigning the web site.

Events

• There is still time to apply for scholarships to attend the State of the Map 2018 conference in Milan. The deadline is February 14th. Some useful tips are provided for applicants to enhance their chances of receiving financial support from the programme.

Humanitarian OSM

• The eruption of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines is featured on the HOT mailing list. Links to Tasking Manager’s tasks can be found in the resulting discussions.
• Also in 2018 there are two promotion programs from HOT for OSM communities.
• With the money from the non-governmental organisation Nethope, HOT has purchased computers and mobile phones in various countries and financed mapping training courses. Details can be found on the HOT website.

Maps

• The GIScience Research Group of the University of Heidelberg announces a new version of OSMlanduse.org. Gaps in OSM data, for Germany only, have now been filled using machine learning methods on satellite imagery.
• TravelTime Maps provide two interesting maps based on various sources, including OSM data: RadiusMap, which compares a simple ‘miles radius’ around a point with the travel times (isochrones), and the travel-time-only map, that includes walking, cycling, driving and public transport options.

Licences

• A well-known city in Bosnia-Hercegovina asserts that it has full rights over its name.

Software

• Fred Moine announces the availability of a French QGIS tutorial.
• MapCat.com has revised the sidebar and displays additional information (opening hours, Wikidata) now.
• Sarah Hoffmann explains the modified handling of post code areas and tags in Nominatim.
• 5.25 million routes are calculated by the Matrix API of the OpenRouteService of the University of Heidelberg each day.
• Zhuangfang from Development Seed writes a blog post on how one can create a building classifier to detect buildings in Vietnam. In this example, Label Maker will pull data from Mapbox Satellite and OpenStreetMap and prepare training data that is ready-to-use with MXNet in Amazon SageMaker, a service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables users to develop, train, deploy and scale machine learning approaches in a fairly straightforward way.

Programming

• WeRobotics has launched a competition for machine learning, which aims to identify roads, coconut palms, banana trees, papaya and mango trees on aerial photographs; but the prize is nothing but fame and glory. (Details)
• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology at the University of Heidelberg searches for a backend developer (Java or C++). The contract is limited to two years.
• Jan Marsch has published an SQL function for calculating rendering of shadows on Github.
• Paul Norman guides his readers through the creation of a shell script for downloading planet files and extracts with robust error handling.
• Robin Boldt, who runs Kurviger.de, reports in a guest article in the Graphhopper blog about their migration from Mapzen to the competitors and about which problems vector tile customers have to cope with.
• HeiGIT developed a new open source “Realtime OSM Extracts” Service. It allows to automate the generation of the most recent OSM data extracts for arbitrary user defined regions in pbf format. For example these are needed during disasters for most frequent updates of maps and services such as the Disaster-OpenRouteService.

Releases

• iD editor has been released in version 2.6.0 (Changelog). The main new feature is the possibility to adjust brightness, contrast and sharpness for satellite images. iD now also prevents the user from drawing overlapping lines.
• Mapbox Navigation SDK for iOS v0.12.0 comes with modified Carthage installation instructions, end-of-route feedback UI, improved roundabout guidance, improved road name pronunciation, faster/slower route simulation, Bulgarian localization (translations welcome), and much more.
• MapboxDirections.swift v0.16.0 comes with improved Objective-C compatibility.

Did you know …

• … the POI search WhatIsWhere?

Other “geo” things

• North Road has summarized the new features of QGIS 3.0 in a blog post.
• The location intelligence platform CARTO announces its switch to Mapbox, in order to provide fast rendering of big geodatasets, better geocoding and routing.
• Spiegel Online interviewed Heinz Vielkind, who draws ski slope plans and has to weight up between reality and usability.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting (2nd part of January meeting)	2018-01-25
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-01-25
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-01-25
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-01-28
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-01-31
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-02-01
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-02-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-02-07
Rome	FOSS4G-IT 2018	2018-02-19-2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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23/01/2018-29/01/2018

Mapping

• Matej Lieskovský started a discussion on the mailing lists about how non-breaking spaces in name tags should be handled. Some languages, in this case, Czech, have rules about how a name can be displayed when split over two lines. The question is whether such rules should be enforced directly in the data in the OSM database or applied by data consumers.
• Christoph Hormann has prepared new satellite layers of parts of the Antarctic and the Western Alps based on Landsat and Sentinel 2 satellite images. Amongst other things, he asks if they are suitable for mapping leaf_cycle.
• Vespucci will support imagery from OpenAerialMap soon.
• Voting for the proposal of piste:type=connection for connections between ski lifts and pistes is open, until February 8th.
• The vote on the hydropower water supplies proposal was suspended due to pertinent remarks.

Community

• Scott Davies tweets a rendition of buildings of Walthamstow, London, made with OpenStreetMap data using QGIS and Inkscape.
• In France, a mapping party was held at La Fabrique Numerique, Gonesse where data were added to both OSM and Google Maps at the same time.
• Post Mortem III: Randy Meech has written another post on the closing of Mapzen. It features the future of former team members and Mapzen’s products.
• Reddit user BeFlatXIII starts a thread on OpenStreetMap about township mapping in Ohio, which results in rendering inconsistencies. Among the answers there are relevant links to OSM Wiki and to US mailing lists.

Imports

• The plan of the import of buildings from the Spanish cadastre is already in its final stage.The import will begin as soon as possible, initially on Tenerife and in the city of Málaga.
• Albert Pundt suggests improving county boundaries in Pennsylvania using TIGER 2017 data. The use of “Replace Geometry” from the utilsplugin2 JOSM plugin is recommended in the comments.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The License Working Group of the OSM Foundation has published the FAQ on the recently enacted Trademark Policy along with other relevant documents.

Events

• The call for abstracts for the Academic Track of the State of the Map 2018 is now open.
• On April 14th and 15th, an OpenStreetMap hackweekend will take place in the DB-Mindbox in Berlin. Even sooner, an OSM hackweekend will take place on February 17/18 in Geofabrik in Karlsruhe.
• 3rd of March is celebrated as Open Data Day. Join or organize one of the dozens of events around the world. Mapbox is supporting the mini-grants program to help local communities share the benefits of open data, particularly in Open Mapping. Find more about it here.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT reports on the refugee issue in Northern Uganda where up to 7,000 people a day are arriving, having fled from violence in South Sudan. HOT tries by providing equipment and training together with the refugees to capture Water points, also even sinking.
• HOT, OpenStreetMap and ThinkWhere (a geospatial company in Scotland) get a mention in a UK parliamentary debate.

Maps

• Franscisco Morales tweeted a Monde Geospatial video tutorial on how to download watershed delineation from OpenStreetMap for ArcGIS.
• Ilya Zverev has revived OpenWhateverMap, originally created by Grant Slater. Have a look at the unusual rendering of the map!
• The map style OSM-Carto will show military areas differently in the next version, see the pull request by andrzej-r with its examples.

switch2OSM

• Niantic has updated its map data for PokemonGo and Ingress to the status of December 15, 2017. Unfortunately this also increases vandalism.

Programming

• [1] Geoff Boeing wrote about easily measuring and visualizing street network centrality with OSMnx (Python) and OSM data.
• Frederik Ramm suggests the introduction of a feature in the OSM API to allow moderators to rename user accounts, which he wants to use against obscene usernames.
• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology is looking for a Software Developer (Web) for a limited period of two years.
• Nakaner has released an Osmium-based C++ program called PrepDelRels that determines which paths become unnecessary when deleting a relation.

Releases

• OSM-Carto has been released in version 4.7.0. An icon for tourism=apartment has been added and the entrances are now displayed. The full change list can be found here.
• The new release of Mapbox Navigation SDK for iOS v0.13.0 comes with user location tracking in standalone map views, Danish and partial Hebrew localizations and Mapbox Navigation SDK for Android v0.9.0 opportunistically reroutes in the background, turn banner improvements including route shields and much more.

Did you know …

• … the collaborative route planning platform FacilMap?

Other “geo” things

• With Mapire historical maps can be compared with each other or with today’s maps/satellite images of OpenStreetMap and Here Aerial.
• The website of the Colorado-Convention-Center in Denver/Colorado contains an 3D-Multi Floor-Indoor Map based on OpenStreetMap.
• “Indoor navigation in AR with Unity” – a blog post that shows how to use the Mapbox Maps SDK for Unity to create an augmented reality navigation application.
• Here bought the indoor map startup Micello.
• Microsoft Power User magazine speculates that the use of the Google Maps API on a recent Microsoft app presages the end of Bing Maps.
• The Guardian reports about Strava heatmap revealing the location of secret US Army bases
• TomTom discontinues the provision of what had been sold as “lifelong” data updates for some navigation devices (some actually still, or very recently, on sale). See also the comment by “Anonymaps” on Twitter.
• Due to a military exercise, GPS disturbances and failures in the western USA are expected from 26 January to 18 February.
• Brian Reinhart from the Dallas Observer has found that a lot of restaurants which do not exist in in real life are present on the Google Maps, and in services that rely on that. During his research it was easy for him to create and delete another imaginary restaurant. He wasn’t able to answer why they are there though – maybe someone just enjoys creating fake data?

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Biella	Incontro mapper di Biellese	2018-02-03
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-02-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-02-07
Berlin	116. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-02-09
near Brisbane	Beaudesert Mapping Party	2018-02-10
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第16回 赤坂氷川神社	2018-02-10
Rennes	Cartographie humanitaire	2018-02-11
Lyon	Rencontre libre mensuelle	2018-02-13
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-02-13
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-02-14
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend February 2018	2018-02-17-2018-02-18
Otaru	小樽マッピングパーティー	2018-02-17
Rome	FOSS4G-IT 2018	2018-02-19-2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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30/01/2018-05/02/2018

Mapping

• Dave Swarthout inquired on the Tagging mailing list whether scenic=yes could be an appropriate attribute for rivers in the United States with the status “National Wild and Scenic River“.
• Esri has made available a new background layer “Esri World Imagery (Clarity)“, which restores some sharper but older aerial photos in the main OSM editors.
• Mapbox released a dataset of 10,400 turn restrictions at 5,200 road junctions. Machine learning vision models were applied to Bing Streetside imagery to detect the turn restrictions. Mapbox has acquired the rights to contribute this data to OSM.
• User Glassman tried to contact the company Milestone Inc. in Santa Clara (California) regarding low-quality OSM edits with the purpose of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). As the company didn’t answer, Glassman tweeted about the issue.
• User Alexos set up a coordination page for the update of regional railway relations in Eastern France. The grouping of regional railway service under the new company “TER Grand Est” took place in September 2017.
• Till Adams features the app StreetComplete on the Terrestris blog.

Community

• Andrew Wiseman from Apple has written to some of the South American mailing lists including the one for Ecuador that his company is willing to help improving missing roads, road connections and classifications or GPS trackings in these countries. For this purpose he has opened a project on GitHub.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The nomination period for candidates in the OSM US board elections was extended so that more candidates could come forward. There are now six candidates for five seats.

Events

• The deadline for submission of proposals for talks, lightning talks and sessions for the State of the Map 2018 in Milan, Italy (28-30 July) is 18 February. Papers for the academic track have a separate, later, deadline.
• The monthly mapping party of Brisbane, Australia will take place on February 10th in Beaudesert, one hour away from Brisbane.
• OSM was present at FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels (Belgium) with a meeting organised by OSM-Belgium and several talks in the geospatial devroom, for which both slides and videos are available.

Humanitarian OSM

• The January Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team board meeting minutes are now available online.
• The Austrian communist-leaning blog “Unsere Zeitung” reported (translation) about the benefits of HOT and Missing Maps for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

switch2OSM

• From version 4.2.4, the “DJI Go” app uses maps from Mapbox. There’s a discussion on the DJI forum about how they compare to previous ones (from HERE and Google).

Programming

• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) has just made Openrouteservice APIs available on PyPi.
• Following on from the announcement of the shutdown of its services, Mapzen announces how long-term support will be handled for its maps, basemap designs, and the vector and terrain tile data. It also provides detailed instructions on how to update Mapzen-based projects with the new endpoints. The geocoding team is currently working on the successor to Mapzen’s Pelias, geocode.earth.
• Paul Norman continues his series of diary reposts from his blog, by describing how to download and build a custom style (here OpenStreetMap Carto) for OSM data.

OSM in the media

• La Prensa published (translation) an article about the updates on the Nicaraguan public transportation map created by Mapanica, the Nicaraguan OSM community.

Other “geo” things

• Warren Davison shows in Esri’s official blog how he designed a map of his hometown to look like a “historical” map.
• The Berlin Morgenpost newspaper lets you test your knowledge about the course of the Berlin Wall on a map created by means of Mapbox, OSM and Leaflet. An 1989 aerial photo of the Wall can be viewed afterwards.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Berlin	116. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-02-09
near Brisbane	Beaudesert Mapping Party	2018-02-10
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第16回 赤坂氷川神社	2018-02-10
Rennes	Cartographie humanitaire	2018-02-11
Lyon	Rencontre libre mensuelle	2018-02-13
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-02-13
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-02-14
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-02-14
Zurich	Stammtisch Zürich	2018-02-14
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend February 2018	2018-02-17-2018-02-18
La Riche	Ubuntu Party #3	2018-02-17
Otaru	小樽マッピングパーティー	2018-02-17
Takatsuki	OpenStreetMap Frontier #01	2018-02-17
Rome	FOSS4G-IT 2018	2018-02-19-2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-02-20
Derby	Pub Meetup	2018-02-20
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-02-20
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-02-21
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-02-22
Hasselt	OSMBE Meetup	2018-02-22
Moscow	Schemotechnika 14	2018-02-22
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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06/02/2018-12/02/2018

Mapping

• Contributor Rub21 posts about their new JOSM plugin for visualising changesets.
• The OSM Argentina community discusses errors made in Argentine territory by new mappers of a project from the National University of Asuncion (Paraguay). (automatic translation)
• Christopher Beddow from Mapillary demonstrates how he used street-level imagery as a visual aid to improve OpenStreetMap after hiking in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.
• User jremillard outlines the potential benefits of applying AI technology to map from satellite imagery. Automated mapping is not going to replace human mappers in the near future, but could assist them in various ways. The comments are strongly divided between optimists and pessimists about the potential of AI-based mapping contributions.
• As a follow-up to recent discussions on the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in OSM, Christoph Hormann posts his thoughts on the way that some large companies are currently using those technologies and how things could be improved.
• User Zisper asks on OSM Forum about how to map a riverbed that is walkable when dry. Intermittent rivers can already be mapped, but there is no implication that they are suitable for pedestrians. A possible solution, which raises a warning in JOSM, is to add a highway=track tag to the relevant river segment.

Community

• The Open Data Institute of Cardiff asks help from the public to map street names near them using OSM as the collabaration platform, to create the first online Welsh-language map of Wales. More info can be found on ODI Cardiff website (in Welsh and English).
• Christian Shadrack published in the Talk-cd mailing list, the OpenStreetMap DRC Monthly Information Report of January 2018, relating mapping parties in various neighborhoods of Kinshasa, remote mapping over flooded or cholera affected areas, a large mapathon organized at the Unikin (University of Kinshasa) and participation during a “Data collaborative” workshop.
• The operators of Easylist (a collection of rules for Adblocker) are unwilling to whitelist OSM banners on the main website. These banners appeal for donations or promote community conferences organised by OSMF and its local chapters. Eastlist believe such an action would set an awkward precedent.
• The GIScience group at the University of Heidelberg announced new data for wheelchair routing in the city of Heidelberg. The data were collected in collaboration with the city authorities.
• Wille Marcel writes a diary highlighting the new release of OSMCha – OpenStreetMap Changeset analyser which comes with many new features such as more flexibility in posting changeset comments and a new location filter.

Events

• An Open Mapping event to celebrate International Open Data Day 2018 will be held in Metro Manila on Saturday 3rd March at a venue to be confirmed. Registration is free.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT has launched its 2018 Microgrants Programme. It will accept up to ten projects between $2,000 – $5,000 USD. Applications must be received by midnight on the 28th February 2018.

Maps

• OpenMapTiles project now automatically detects visitors language and serves them labels in their mother tongue (more than 50 languages are supported). The labels are now unified by using Noto Sans font, which can display characters in almost every language.

Licences

• Jason Remillard posts on Talk-US mailing list about the final steps of his import of US Northeast sports fields. He trained a neural network using Bing imagery to produce spots that he manually checked for such fields. Recently, he got the approval from Microsoft for that data to be put in OSM.

Software

• Jakob Miksch describes on his blog how route planning with OSM works and which programs can be used for it.
• Mapbox customers can now use Valhalla.

Programming

• Mapbox announces the hillshade layer type for client-side realistic 3D terrain with custom styling.

Did you know …

• …. the railway map AllRailMap?
• … the OpenStreetCam support of the iD-Editor, which has been around for a few months now?
• … Ilya Zverev made a map with all the global imagery layers available for tracing into OpenStreetMap? Use it to compare the dates, or to check for coverage before editing a remote region.

Other “geo” things

• Datawrapper now provides a simulation tool that checks the colours of a plot or a map, so that they are colorblind-friendly. The blog article also provides tips on how to choose colour palettes and gradients.
• The Spanish newspaper El País writes about an almost forgotten grove of 500 Californian Redwoods planted in Galicia in memory Christopher Columbus. Of course it is mapped on OSM.
• … Lumion 8? It allows you to render architectural (automatic translation) designs with an OpenStreetMap feature where you place the design in a real-life setting.
• “Burned Places” is a map of sites of Nazi bookburnings in 1933. The reference to OSM and the copyright can be found in the imprint.
• The flight simulator X-Plane 11 can now use a scenery that is based on OSM data. The AddOn is free of charge and covers all of Europe.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Karlsruhe	Karlsruhe Hack Weekend February 2018	2018-02-17-2018-02-18
La Riche	Ubuntu Party #3	2018-02-17
Otaru	小樽マッピングパーティー	2018-02-17
Takatsuki	OpenStreetMap Frontier #01	2018-02-17
Rome	FOSS4G-IT 2018	2018-02-19-2018-02-22
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-02-20
Derby	Pub Meetup	2018-02-20
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-02-20
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-02-21
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-02-21
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-02-22
Hasselt	OSMBE Meetup	2018-02-22
Moscow	Schemotechnika 14	2018-02-22
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-02-22
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-02-26
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-02-26
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2018-02-26
Brussels	Road Completion Workshop	2018-02-27
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-02-27
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-02-28
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #14	2018-02-28
Minsk	byGIS #6	2018-02-28
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-03-01
San Juan	Open (geo)Data Day 2018	2018-03-03
Hachiohji	高尾山薬王院マッピングパーティ IODD2018　Code for Hachioji	2018-03-03
Biella	Incontro mensile mapper di Biellese	2018-03-03
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it 2018	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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13/02/2018-19/02/2018

Mapping

• Joost Schouppe would like to revive the proposal for hollow ways, but some English native speakers have never heard this term and prefer sunken lane.
• User tyr_asd posts about their Latest changes tool: the new version displays deleted features as light outlines on the map. This visualisation is based on Overpass’ augmented diff queries.

Community

• After five years, MapLesotho moves onto Phase 4: more detailed localised field surveying.
• Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Leicester have studied the location of alcohol outlets in OSM data. Their work is now published in Health & Place. After assessing the reliability of the data, they conclude that OSM is a useful supplementary data source for researchers interested in the spatial availability of alcohol.
• The Japan OSM community received (automatic translation) the Special Award from Japan Cartographers Association. The award was given for the community’s contribution to the map industry by making maps through citizen participation.
• Heather Leson and Kate Chapman invite women in the OSM community to attend two Mumble conferences about gender and OSM. A date has not yet been set. She also assures that subsequent conversations around this topic would include the wider community.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium’s Mapper of the Month is Anisa Kuci from Albania. In the interview she talks about her involvement in a variety of OSM activities.
• OpenCageData’s blog interviewed Ilya Zverev, developer of the Level0 editor, about the reasons for the development and his hopes for OSM.
• Members from OSM Benin (community supported this year by an OSM-focused International Volunteer from Francophonie) met on Saturday 17, February at Cocotomey Centre to discuss activities for 2018 and map the town of Cotonou.
• Aimée Sama, member of OSM Togo and Projet EOF, currently in Master’s degree of Geography in Grenoble (French Alps), met the local community to present the OSM activities made in Togo since 2014.
• OSMF Operations Working Group has published a call for tender for a new data centre to replace the data centre of Imperial College, London. Only facilities in the European Union are eligible to participate. Deadline is February 28th.
• Former long-time contributor emacsen, who previously wrote “Why the world needs OpenStreetMap“, has written a new blog post “Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble“.
  The article was discussed on, among others, Hacker News, on the subreddits /r/openstreetmap and /r/linux, and also extensively on OSM’s own lists.
• In a Twitter thread, Randy Meech, the founder of Mapzen and Mapquest, explains his view on the current discussion sparked by emacsen’s blog post.

Imports

• The Brandify company inquired about the import of RetroFitness locations, but got reminded about a previous import of theirs (Walmart locations), which still needs fixing.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The draft of the minutes of the meeting of the License Working Group held on February 8th is online. The discussion focused on the restrictions on the publication of OSM metadata in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force at the end of May. A position paper of the LWG on this topic is also available.
• The minutes of the public OSM Foundation’s Board meeting are online.
• The Engineering Working Group (EWG) held a meeting on February 12th to discuss OSM’s participation in GSoC, project ideas and top priority tasks. Detailed minutes can be found here.

Events

• The State of the Map Latam 2018 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The dates are yet to be finalized and more details will be published soon.
• The HOT Summit 2018 will be hosted at FOSS4G’s location, from August 27th to September 2nd in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).
• The Japan community, with their experience of hosting an international SotM, will hold the State of the Map Japan 2018 in Tokyo on August 11th.

Humanitarian OSM

• Rory McCann criticizes the organisers of the HOT Summit at FOSS4G in Tanzania over the inconsistency of having a Code of Conduct, which prohibits discrimination on basis of sexual orientation, for a conference taking place in a country where homosexuality is banned.
• According to the minutes of the board meeting of HOT on February 9th, they are thinking about changing the membership model. Currently, new “voting members” have to be elected by a two-thirds majority of the existing voting members.
• Tino Raphaël Toupane reports in the official HOT blog about the use of smartphones for mapping at Lansana-Conte de Sonfonia University in Conakry (Guinea). The equipment was financed by the NGO Nethope.

Education

• Wikimedia Italia, the italian OSMF chapter, organised (automatic translation) a 60 hours work-related learning project at the technical school IIS Avogadro (Turin, Italy) introducing some students to the OSM ecosystem and allowing them to remotely map buildings in the Ivrea area.

Maps

• Ilya Zverev imported the planet dump from 20th February 2008 into a PostGIS database and rendered it with Mapnik with the current version of OSM-Carto. He shared more details about it on the Talk mailing list.
• Matthijs Melissen is working on a redesign of the low zoom levels of OSM Carto. Test rendering can be found on Github.

Open Data

• The Canton of Thurgau allowed to use an orthophoto layer with a ground resolution of 10 cm for the OSM community.

Software

• A message on the JOSM’s homepage praising Elon Musk’s commitment to space has been criticized by some of it’s users to which the JOSM developers put forward their point of view.

Programming

• In light of the data protection laws that will come into effect in EU, Michael Reichert tested how some of the OSM tools would behave with OSM data that has less or no metadata. This sparked a long discussion on the OSM-dev mailing list about the upcoming data protection law and the changes that might be required in OSM in order to ensure compliance.
• OpenStreetMap has, once more, been accepted as a participating organisation for Google’s Summer of Code 2018. Ideas for projects are being collected on the OSM Wiki.
• Martin Raifer works on adding WMS support for iD editor—currently limited to WMS which support Web Mercator (EPSG:3857).
• help.openstreetmap.org currently uses QSQA, but needs to be ported to Askbot, as QSQA is not maintained anymore. A volunteer is needed for performing this task.
• The OSMF tile servers answer requests to port 80 now with a forwarding to port 443.

Releases

• The Boundaries Map has been released in version 4.3. Author Wambacher is happy about getting some feedback.
• The recent stable release of JOSM includes support for XZ compressed files and fixing memory leaks related to image mapping among others. The complete list of changes can be found here.

Did you know …

• … Mapbox has invited the registered map developers to tweet their ideas and generated maps under the hashtag #1millionexploring ? A look is worthwhile.
• … OpenStationMap, the indoor map of railway stations?

Other “geo” things

• Vox video “Europe’s most fortified border is in Africa”, used OpenStreetMap data through Stamen to show Melilla in North Africa. Sadly no attribution during the video or in the end credits. If only the one million viewers would know the source of the map.
• Heise.de reported that the new code of conduct of the operating system FreeBSD goes too far in the eyes of some, and so is causing controversy. (automatic translation)
• RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) would like to record the locations of important network infrastructure and recently launched the OpenIPMap project, similar to OpenStreetMap but distinct and with unique features.
• Mapbox now provides three new Chinese map styles via Mapbox.cn.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-02-26
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-02-26
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2018-02-26
Brussels	Road Completion Workshop	2018-02-27
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-02-27
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-02-28
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #14	2018-02-28
Minsk	byGIS #6	2018-02-28
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-03-01
Lannion	3ème concours de contributions OpenStreetMap	2018-03-01-2018-03-23
San Juan	Open (geo)Data Day 2018	2018-03-03
Hachiohji	高尾山薬王院マッピングパーティ IODD2018　Code for Hachioji	2018-03-03
Helsinki	Open Data Day mapathons	2018-03-03
Biella	Incontro mensile mapper di Biellese	2018-03-03
Brisbane	Missing Maps mapathon	2018-03-04
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-03-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-03-07
Praha/Brno/Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	2018-03-07
London	OpenStreetMap Q&A London	2018-03-07
Berlin	117. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-03-08
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-03-08
Brussels	OSMBE Official Meeting & Meetup	2018-03-09
Buenos Aires	Geobirras	2018-03-09
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#02：月の明かりと大獄と	2018-03-10
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第17回特別編 旧東海道品川宿	2018-03-11
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it 2018	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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20/02/2018-26/02/2018

Mapping

• Rory McCann asks on the talk mailing list how to connect rivers that flow through lakes, thus forming a network suitable for routing calculations. Extending the riverways into the lake works fine, but the extra segment in the lake should be excluded for determining the length of the actual river.
• Two tags are in use for passenger information in railway stations. The tagging mailing list discussed the pros and cons of standardising on the more widely used tag passenger_information_display=yes.
• Robert Whittaker announced a tool for comparing OSM Post Office data with that recently released by the company now running post offices in the UK. The newly-released data has also been republished here by Owen Boswarva.

Community

• Dominic Royé tweeted a map that displays population density through the number of gas stations in Europe. A further tweet shows the same data for the whole world. The original joke, for those unfamiliar, is here.
• Several users on the Talk-IT mailing list discuss (automatic translation) the use of information from Google StreetView for OSM mapping. It’s clear to everyone that plain copying is not allowed by the terms of service, and that explicitly listing StreetView among the sources for an edit is a call for legal trouble.
• Alleged problems in OSM are discussed (translation) again on the German forum. The use of the OSM-Carto style as the standard map is increasingly under attack for a number of perceived weaknesses.. The thread was prompted by Serge Wroclawski’s blog entry reported here earlier).
• The University of Malta and the University of New York have published a paper dedicated to the automatic creation of game puzzles using Wikipedia articles, OpenStreetMap data and Wikimedia commons.
• User SeleneYang published a diary entry (translation) about the International Gender Representation Survey led by Geochicas, an OSM women’s mapping group.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Freemap Slovakia has applied to become an official OSM Local Chapter.
• The OSM-US Board has completed this year’s election process. For the first time, the board used Single Transferable Vote procedure.

Events

• A “call for logo” has been announced for the State of the Map LatAm 2018, that will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Deadline for submissions will be March 15th.
• OSM Burundi organized its State of the Map on February 23 and announced a partnership with SmartBurundi providing free 3G SIM cards for OSM contribution.
• Tickets for State of the Map 2018 are now on sale, at the Early Bird discount rate. It’s time to start planning the trip to Milan for the end of July!

Humanitarian OSM

• Fanga e. V., aims to enable the youth in Burkina Faso (West Africa) to receive training and to take care of their medical care. A HOT tasking manager project has been set up to help update the map there.
• A recent HOT project succeeded in mapping Dar es Salaam’s smallest decision making structures, the “shina”. These administrative units, unmapped until November 2017, are now available on an official map and will help improve public health services, emergency response and decision making for local authorities and community members. They’re not yet in OSM though – the highest level boundary currently there is at the “subward” level such as Makangarawe here.
• In the International Journal of Geo-Information published (PDF) a scientific paper by Wei Liu et al. on mapping flood-prone regions in Nepal with the help of OSM.

switch2OSM

• Omniscale (a map hosting company using OSM data) has released a new outdoor map style. The map is available as WMTS and WMS and is updated live. (via Twitter)
• Rescue services in Luxembourg use (amongst others services) OpenStreetMap. It is the most up-to-date map in the area shown here. (via Twitter)

Open Data

• Sidorela Uku reports about the first successes of the Albanian OSM community, which received geodata from the city of Tirana under an OSM-compatible license, and hopes that further cities will follow this model.
• The English Environment Agency announced which areas are targeted for new Lidar imagery this winter. This is part of the programme to achieve complete coverage of England by 2020.
• This year’s global Open Data Day will take place on Saturday, March 3. OSM is also represented, e. g. in Düsseldorf.

Software

• The web application “is OSM up-to-date?” by Francesco Frassinelli checks for the last edit of nodes and ways, based on the assumption that older data could more likely be outdated. The application produces a colour overlay that makes these old data easy to spot.
• During the most recent Karlsruhe hack weekend Hartmut added support for uploading Umap export files into his MapOSMatic instance. This now allows for easy printing of custom maps created with Umap.

Programming

• Frederik Ramm has added an option to “planet-dump-ng” (which generates the the planet dumps from OSM that all other data extracts rely on). The new functionality is to optionally allow the removal of user metadata. This may be necessary because of GDPR, and also will also reduce the size of planet dumps.
• Version 3.6.2 of Mapnik’s NodeJS bindings is the last one supporting Windows, unless a new maintainer can be found.
• The geodata analysis team of HeiGIT is currently developing a historical OpenStreetMap analysis platform. The goal is to make OSM data from the past more readily available for various types of data analysis tasks at the global level.
• Mapbox Navigation SDK for iOS v0.14.0 uses Amazon Polly–powered spoken instructions by default for most languages, cleans up notifications, and displays map labels in the local language by default.
• Mapbox has published revamped developer documentation about its Maps SDK for Unity.

Releases

• The latest version of “OpenStreetMap Carto” (the default style on the OpenStreetMap.org website) has been released. 4.8.0 now also shows some historical tags like Wayside shrines and Forts (and discussion continues about other historical things such as castles).
• QGIS 3.0 ‘Girona’ has been released for Windows, MacOS X, Linux and Android.
• For most OSM applications you will find the current release, as always updated by Wambacher, on the OSM Software Watchlist.

OSM in the media

• Several German news websites published a brief article on OpenRailwayMap.

Other “geo” things

• A pilot project from DataSeed has succeeded in mapping high-voltage towers in Pakistan, using machine learning to speed up manual mapping. This strategy, called Intelligence Augmentation, allowed speed-ups of 16x and 19x while maintaining the quality level of manual mapping. An example of a mapped power line is here.
• Google Maps rolls out the open source and royalty-free “Plus Codes” (formerly Open Location Code). There’s speculation on the effect on proprietary suppliers in that area.
• Spiegel online praises (translation) the map system of Here (BMW, Daimler and Audi) in an article and compares it with its major competitors.
• Bloomberg writes about the companies competing to supply highly detailed maps for autonomous driving, including Google. This is heavily discussed on Hacker News.
• The magazine “Binnenschifffahrt” in German presents the digital shipping assistant (translation), an app using OSM maps for inland waterway logistics will be tested from autumn this year.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Lannion	3e concours de contributions OpenStreetMap	2018-03-01-2018-03-23
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-03-07
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-03-07
Praha/Brno/Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	2018-03-07
London	OpenStreetMap Q&A London	2018-03-07
Berlin	117. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-03-08
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-03-08
Brussels	OSMBE Official Meeting & Meetup	2018-03-09
Buenos Aires	Geobirras	2018-03-09
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#02：月の明かりと大獄と	2018-03-10
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第17回特別編 旧東海道品川宿	2018-03-11
Rennes	12 Mar.2018-03-12–2018-03-13
Réunion mensuelle	2018-03-12
Lyon	Rencontre libre mensuelle	2018-03-13
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-03-13
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-03-15
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-03-15
Rapperswil	9. Micro Mapping Party Rapperswil	2018-03-16
Yokkaichi	第1回　富洲原マッピングパーティ	2018-03-17
Rennes	19 Mar.2018-03-19–2018-03-20
Cartopartie bâtiments en 3D	2018-03-19
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Turin	MERGE-it 2018	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-10-01-2018-10-31

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27/02/2018-05/03/2018

About us

• We invite anyone with an OSM account to propose topics for weeklyOSM and/or to write a summary for them. The regular members from the weeklyOSM team will translate them to the other languages.

Mapping

• François Lacombe invites mappers to vote on his improved proposal about hydropower water supplies. Several comments from the first round of voting have been taken into account.
• Frederik Ramm searches for help to fight against the growing number of SEO firms flooding OSM with ‘not useful’ data.

Community

• Ilya Zverev calls for nominations for the 3rd edition of OpenStreetMap Awards. You could also volunteer for the selection committee.
• bdiscoe publishes a ranking of OSM data contributions with short notes of the typical mapping activity of individual users.
• Nikolai Janakiev shows in a very well built-up explanation how to access the Overpass API with Python, to download specific OSM data and visualise it.
• Geochicas, an OpenStreetMap Women community, published their first annual report 2016-2017.
• Geochicas celebrate the Women’s International Day with a series of stories #MujeresMapeandoElMundo (WomenMappingTheWorld) about women through history in geography and cartography.
• 36 percent of all downloads of StreetComplete come from Germany.
• The diversity-talk mailing list is back.
• Jose opens the Paraguayan section of the forum with a call for reviving the osmparaguay website.

Imports

• Raymond Nijssen asks for the best way to import roof shapes and materials from Saint Maarten Island. These data come from a mapathon organised by The Netherlands’ Red Cross after Hurricane Irma. The import sounds straightforward because it contains OSM object IDs as well as the new roof detail.
• Jozef Riha is coordinating the import of address data for Slovakia, provided by the Ministry of Interior. There is no automated procedure so far, so it’s not formally an import; still, the import mailing list remains the best place to ask for help and feedback.
• Stefan Keller would like to do a semi-automated import of 1,500 car sharing stations of the Swiss mobility.
• Multi Modal informs the import mailing list of an import for water areas in the Dutch Rhineland.
• User bdiscroe points out some bad imports of data on woods and waterways that he found during his program find_small_displacement on Japan.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSMF has updated the OpenStreetMap trademark policy as per January 1st 2018.
• The protocol of the Engineering Working Group was published.
• The Membership Working Group of OSMF met on 2nd March. The minutes of the meeting are available online. MWG’s protocol and a discussion on Github show that the MWG is working on displaying the OSMF membership of a mapper on their openstreetmap.org profile if the mapper explicitly requests it.

Events

• The organisers of 2018 State of the Map, happening at Milan, have opened a community survey for the choice of the conference talks. The survey is open until March 20th. Everyone is welcome to vote!
• The State of the Map Latam 2018 working group is pleased to announce a call for logo designs. The deadline for submissions is March 15th.

Education

• An article, recently published in the International Journal of Geo-Information, demonstrates how participatory mapping practices can be combined with collaborative digital mapping techniques for better disaster management and rural development. It draws learning from a pilot study conducted in a flood-prone lower river basin in Western Nepal.

Open Data

• YEKA, the Youth Mappers’ chapter in Nicaragua celebrated the Open Data Day (#ODD18) in Managua with a mapathon.
• OpenStreetMap featured in the 2018 Open Data Day celebrations at Nepal and Düsseldorf, with efforts led by Kathmandu Living Labs and OSM Stammtisch at Nepal and Germany respectively.

Software

• The offline navigation app MapFactor is now available on iOS.
• OpenRouteService introduces new border restrictions that allow to avoid crossing any external border of the Schengen Area in route planning.
  Also, the result can now be created as GeoJSON.
• Rinigus gives an update on the status of OSM Scout Server after more than one year.

Programming

• Jason Remillard put together a spam detector for OSM. It now needs training data, so Jason is asking mappers to report spam changesets. This tool could then become part of an automated spam detection process.
• There are plans to redirect HTTP requests to planet.openstreetmap.org on HTTPS from May 7th. Users of Osmosis and curl are made aware that these programs can’t follow the redirect.

Releases

• iD version 2.7.0 is published. It now supports more background imagery and comes with an improved editor for turn restrictions. All updates can be found on github.
• The new JOSM version 18.02 is released. It supports private data layers and ESRI projections. For more details, see changelog.

Other “geo” things

• The Dutch State Archives have published 4700 historical maps.
• Mapillary’s #CompleteTheMap challenge has come to an end. The first three places went to Brisbane, San Jose and Milano. To know more about the challenge, you can read in a entry in the Mapillary blog.
• Currently, if satellites in space malfunction or run out of fuel, they are decommissioned. NASA and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are working on projects to build robotic arms that could be used to repair or refuel the satellites.
• Microsoft has published an app that allows visually impaired people to get a better picture of the environment via 3D audio. Information about the places is served by OpenStreetMap.
• The national map of Switzerland is getting more and more accurate but still does not include street names or addresses, as the Tagesanzeiger reports.
• A map showing the birthplace of over 6,000 notable women born in Latin America and listed on Wikipedia but with no article in the Spanish language edition.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Lannion	3e concours de contributions OpenStreetMap	2018-03-01-2018-03-23
Brussels	OSMBE Official Meeting & Meetup	2018-03-09
Buenos Aires	Geobirras	2018-03-09
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#02：月の明かりと大獄と	2018-03-10
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第17回特別編 旧東海道品川宿	2018-03-11
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-03-12
Lyon	Rencontre libre mensuelle	2018-03-13
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-03-13
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-03-15
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-03-15
Rapperswil	9. Micro Mapping Party Rapperswil	2018-03-16
Yokkaichi	第1回 富洲原マッピングパーティ	2018-03-17
Hanoi	Hà Nội OSM Mapathon 2018	2018-03-18
Rennes	Cartopartie bâtiments en 3D	2018-03-19
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-03-20
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-03-20
Nottingham	Pub Meetup	2018-03-20
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-03-21
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-03-21
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-03-22
Turin	MERGE-it 2018	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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06/03/2018-12/03/2018

About us

• The Czech weeklyOSM team decided to move (automatic translation) all content out of the OSM wiki, due to continued editing conflicts.

Mapping

• At FOSS4GUK, the British bird protection society, RSPB, presented their work on using drones to monitor bird reserves (abstract). Some of the collected data was added to OSM.
• Wiki fiddlers are changing the definition of the aeroway=runway tag.
• How would you map a house number like 9 3/4? The Tagging mailing list weighs the use of Unicode ( ½ ) versus ASCII (1/2) and also discusses how other map providers handle this. Mappers from different regions pitch in with their local experience in mapping such fractions.
• Matthijs Melissen starts a thread on the tagging mailing list about the upcoming change in the rendering of boundaries announced by the developers of OSM Carto, the default stylesheet of osm.org. The discussion that follows tries to distinguish tagging issues (how to accurately tag different features) from mere tagging-for-the-renderer. Most participants agree that the information for the accurate rendering of boundaries worldwide is already there, and that the renderer can aggregate them on its own instead of asking for duplication of information.
• Gregory Marler has started making OSM Diaries, talking to a camera when he goes out mapping. They’re not intended to be tutorials, but a casual glance at what one mapper notices or how he uses different tools. Hopefully, they’re intriguing or inspirational, and will continue if popular.

Community

• Bryan Housel requests support on Twitter to generate an index of local resources for the various OSM communities, in order to help new mappers find relevant information easily.
• Harry Wood reports about London OpenStreetMap Q&A events, a new format that is becoming quite successful. The events feature a few presentations and plenty of time for chats among the participants.
• Heather Leson summarizes the recently held discussion on ‘OSM and Gender’ and some of the ways in which it could be taken forward.
• Nathalie Sidibe is the newest Mapper of the Month! She shares her experience of mapping places in Mali with minimal internet access and how OSM empowers her activism.
• Selene Yang examined the gender ratio among the nominees and winners of OSM Awards and invited the community to continue work in growing more diverse and inclusive. The answers to her diary entry try to find the possible causes of women’s under-representation in OSM, and most agree that removing these barriers would benefit the whole community.

Imports

• Ilya Zverev would like to import 59,000 gas stations from NavAds’ database into OSM. Christoph Hormann points out that the database spans across several countries and therefore, integration of the respective local communities is necessary.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the Licensing Working Group meeting of March 8th is online. Topics included the Basic Data Protection Ordinance and the protection of minors.
• The Chat minutes of the Communications Working Group meeting of March 8th is online.

Events

• OSM Ireland will hold its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 24th to set up a formal organization. So far, it has been a loose collective of like minded people contributing to OSM for over a decade.

Humanitarian OSM

• The University of Northern Colorado’s Geography and GIS Club maps out first responder routes in Bogota, Colombia to prepare for when disaster strikes.
• On the occasion of International Women’s Day, HOT throws light on some of the gender equality initiatives within the HOT community – including those funded by Micro grants and Device grants. It also suggests ways in which one could support gender equality in HOT and in the OSM community.
• Aerial imagery clearly shows that militias are burning down entire villages in DR Congo, causing people to flee and seek refuge in Uganda. It is unclear why the violence suddenly flares. Political motivations are suspected.
• In Belgium, the third National Missing Maps Mapathon will be organised across 8 university campuses on Saturday, March 24th, by the National Committee of Geography, in collaboration with OpenStreetMap Belgium to improve the map in Northern Nigeria and enable MSF to fight the ongoing Meningitis C epidemic.

Maps

• The Wheelmap now uses parking data of Parkopedia, a commercial project.

Software

• The Openrouteservice for Disaster Management by HeiGIT now provides OSM updates more frequently. Africa, South America and South Asia are available as stable instances with hourly update intervals.

Programming

• The application phase for participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code is now open. The OSM-Blog invites students who would like to participate in open source projects in the OSM environment.

Releases

• Version 0.10 of the open source routing engine GraphHopper has been released on March 8th.

Did you know …

• … the open source geo data search engine Geoseer? The query for “OpenStreetMap” returns this record.
• … TouchMapper, a service that creates custom 3D maps?

OSM in the media

• The Unna district in central North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany received recent aerial imagery, which OpenStreetMap is allowed to use to improve the map.

Other “geo” things

• Google Maps for iOS now supports public transport routing for passengers in a wheelchair.
• Co-founder shares an article about how Mapbox started.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Lannion	3e concours de contributions OpenStreetMap	2018-03-01-2018-03-23
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-03-20
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-03-20
Nottingham	Pub Meetup	2018-03-20
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-03-21
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-03-21
Cologne Bonn Airport	FOSSGIS 2018	2018-03-21-2018-03-24
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-03-22
Quezon City	MAPAbabae: OpenStreetMap Workshop with Women and for Women	2018-03-22
Turin	MERGE-it 2018	2018-03-23-2018-03-24
8 university campuses	Third National Mapathon	2018-03-24
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-03-26
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2018-03-26
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-03-26
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-03-27
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-03-28
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #15	2018-03-28
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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13/03/2018-19/03/2018

Mapping

• Russell Deffner starts a second RFC for the proposed shop=cannabis tag.
• The voting phase on the proposal about aviation obstacle lights is currently open. This proposal involves the precise tagging of lights on tall obstacles (towers, buildings), that work as collision avoidance for aircraft in flight.
• Another proposal on the subject of contractors, for example for the construction of an office building, was published by Christopher Baze as a tag contractor=. The voting is open until April.
• Carlos Brys, from Argentina, reopens the discussion in the forum about the tags for various paving types, especially the “Brazilian” type (a variant of the Portuguese paving) which was previously mentioned on the Tagging mailing list.
• Geochicas launched their project on Twitter called #LasCallesDeLasMujeres (the streets of women), in which they generated a map to analyse the gender balance in street nomenclature in Latin America and Spain, linked to the Wikipedia biographies of women who have a street named after them.
• The proposal about pedestrian connections between ski lifts and pistes has been approved.
• Strava has updated its heatmap imagery.
  Besides not displaying places with very little activity, the maximum zoom level is now limited to 12.
  It will be harder to trace or align ways in most cases due to the heavily pixelated heatmap.

Community

• OpenStreetMap has reached one million registered map contributors!
• Geohipster interviewed someone behind the Twitter account Anonymaps.
• Levente Juhász tweets about his new open-access publication about OSM contribution patterns and how to foster long-time mappers.
• Maurizio Napolitano (user napo) published a proposal on the Wiki for “Mappers in Residence”. This suggests replicating in OSM the Wikipedian in Residence experience: a volunteering idea designed to help institutions or companies donate their information to the open knowledge world.
• “OpenStreetMap, MapaNica and the Buses in Nicaragua” is the title of a presentation recently held in Esteli, Nicaragua, that explains the mapping process of bus routes in Managua and Estelí. More info is available on the event’s blog post.
• OpenCageData interviewed with Andy Mabbett, who is active in both Wikidata and OpenStreetMap communities. He speaks about the connections between the two.
• Valentina Carraro and Bart Wissink wrote a paper about minorities’ under-representation on OpenStreetMap, and the risk of real-world inequalities seeping into potentially democratic crowdsourced projects. The full article is behind a paywall.

Imports

• In Portugal, massive data seems to have been imported for two months without prior agreement nor documentation.
• Ilya Zverev got ahold of NavAds dataset of over 59K fuel stations worldwide. Data are currently being reviewed and prepared for the import – the progress can be followed on the Import mailing list and on the dedicated wiki page.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Michael Reichert suggests on the OSMF-Talk mailing list that some inactive or less active sections from the OSM forum without moderators be closed to improve use of moderators’ time.
• On March 15th the OSMF board met. Nakaner has published a German report in the OSM-Forum. Christoph comments in his user blog on the discussion about the translation of the OSMF website.

Events

• Lars Lingner reminds (automatic translation) about the upcoming OSM Hackweekend, which will take place in the DB-Mindbox in Berlin on April 14th-15th.
• The next Grazer Linuxtage will take place on 27-28 April in Graz / Austria at the premises of the FH Joanneum, Automotive Engineering course. Among many other contributions, a JOSM workshop can also be attended. Entrance is free.
• The 6th Annual Conference organised by OpenStreetMap France will take place from 1 to 3 June in Pessac on the campus of the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne. Presentations can now be submitted.
• On April 7th the general meeting of the Swiss OSM Association takes place at the Office for Geoinformation in Solothurn followed by a mapping party.

Humanitarian OSM

• sev_osm reports in his diary (automatic translation) in detail on a workshop he did in Dakar with several members of the local OSM community, including teaching various advanced editing techniques, handling several available imageries, the OSM ecosystem and its governance.
• The minutes of the March 1st board meeting of HOT US Inc. have been published.
• Biondi Sima explains, what the Indonesian HOT team has planned to do next as part of the InAWARE project after completion of the Jakarta project.

Maps

• James2432 works on rendering craft businesses in OSM Carto.

Open Data

• The Uruguayan gvSIG Community and GeoForAll Iberoamérica are organising the 5th Free and Open Source Geographic Information Technologies Conference, that will take place in Montevideo this October.
• The municipality of Tirana agreed to donate geospatial data to OpenStreetMap using an open license.
• The “Asia Foundation” shows in a photo blog how the Nepalese community celebrated Open Data Day. Kathmandu Living Labs organized a mapathon where many participants were introduced to the possibilities of OpenStreetMap.

Licences

• Wikimedia strongly opposes (automatic translation) a EU motion that is being modified last minute and would imply Wikimedia Commons would have to implement upload filters. John Weitzmann says that Wikipedia will not be spared (automatic translation).

Software

• A history analysis platform for OpenStreetMap is currently being developed at HeiGIT. It will make OSM data from the full history of edits more easily accessible. Check out the project‘s first ohsome Nepal Dashboard preview.
• An OSM map as wallpaper on your smartphone? This web service operated by Alvar Carto makes it possible.
• In a report (automatic translation) the Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten describes the start-up Calimoto. Their navigation app for motorcyclists is characterised by its preference for curvy routes.
• In the OSM-Forum a new editor was introduced, which can primarily add new 3D buildings. It comes from the creators of PlaceMaker, a paid plug-in for SketchUp that imports 3D geodata into SketchUp and prepares it. The developers also uploaded a tutorial video.

Programming

• Starting May 1st, the public Geofabrik downloads will no longer contain metadata about OSM users. Accessing the complete extracts will require logging in with an OSM account.

Releases

• Simon Poole explains what the Vespucci version 10.2 will bring, in this blog post.

Did you know …

• … a script to show the results of a database query in a map?
• … the flosm OSM theme maps? There’s a new site to create your own individual map themes.
• … OpenMapTiles? Here you can create vector world maps with a set of tools, which you can use for hosting or offline use. The program is available as free software at OpenMapTiles.org.
• … this video that illustrates our mapping activity in OpenStreetMap since 2006?

OSM in the media

• An article by CityLab on the gender distribution among mappers is being discussed on the diversity mailing list and Reddit. While commenters extend a welcome to mappers of all genders and backgrounds, the statistics cited in the article are met with scepticism.

Other “geo” things

• Google Maps is following OSM and now also offers data for wheelchair users. For the time being, however, only in selected cities and with a lot less information than OSM has available.
• According to a World Bank estimate, half of the world’s urban population lives on unnamed streets. The “Plus-Codes” from Google are an alternative to the usual addresses (city, street, house number). But it is also an alternative to proprietary systems like “what3words”.
• Google wants to make it easier for game developers to create games similar to Pokémon Go using the Google Maps API.
• In an article on SciDev, the principles of humanitarian mapping are discussed.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-03-26
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2018-03-26
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-03-26
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-03-27
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-03-28
Osaka	もくもくマッピング！ #15	2018-03-28
Paraná	Creando mapas colaborativos libres ParanaConf	2018-03-29
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-03-29
Rennes	conférence découverte d’OpenStreetMap	2018-03-30
Lima	Yo mapeo	2018-03-31
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-04-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-04-04
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-04-05
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-04-05
Solothurn	2018 SOSM AGM and mapping party	2018-04-07
Rennes	Cartographie des rivières	2018-04-08
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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20/03/2018-26/03/2018

Mapping

• Stéphane Péneau wishes to crowdfund the conception and production of a GNSS receiver that would be particularly suited for OSM contributions. The ongoing discussion should help to refine the specifications.
• In his diary, Martijn van Exel details the beta of Maproulette 3.0.
• Ilya Zverev (Zverik) posts his analysis of the impact of the new iD release: OSM-based routing engines need to correctly process the increasing number of intersections with “via” nodes and no-U-turn restrictions.

Community

• Mappers from OSM Benin community, in partnership with the French Research Institute for Development and Blolab, drove during the last two weeks the MapAndJerry mapping phase, alternating training and field collection. RFI made a video report of the event.
• In #400 we reported about “Who Maps the World?”, published on CityLab. In his presentation at FOSSGIS 2018, Frederik Ramm tries to analyse the gender-relevant facts neutrally and with the knowledge how OSM works and comes to surprising results.
• A thread on the Austrian subforum deals with the possible need of a moderator. In the end, emga and Nakaner were appointed as new moderators.
• User ImreSamu has created test instances of Taginfo and made them available online for testing and feedback.
• To improve the rendering of 3D models in OSM, user n42k created a repository in the last Google Summer of Code (https://3dmr.eu/) where the models are stored. He also wrote a diary entry.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the Membership Working Group meeting of March 20th is online. The main point on the agenda was the setup of an OSMF-owned survey engine.

Events

• From the 22nd till the 24th of June, the 4th OSM Summer Camp and the 10th FOSSGIS Hacking Event will take place at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.
• Jinal writes a diary post encouraging the OpenStreetMap community to participate in Wikimania 2018 that is happening in Cape Town from July 18th-22nd.
• The call for the venue for the State of the Map 2019 is now open.

Humanitarian OSM

• The HDX (PDF) Dakar Lab reports about last year’s successes. The open platform is responsible for the collection and dissemination of humanitarian data in West Africa. One of the biggest achievements was the automatic integration with the HOT data pool.
• Amelia Hunt reports on the HOT blog about improving access to health facilities in Dar es Salaam. Surveys were conducted among the population. A visualization shows problems and possible solutions. Especially in the field of obstetrics, mobile clinics could make life much easier for the female population in Tanzania.
• During the National Mapathon (translation) in Belgium, around 200 mappers added 1000 km (translation) of roads and 70,000 buildings to the map in Nigeria.

Maps

• kocio-pl prepared a pull request that makes OSM Carto display the name of large bays. The pull request got merged already.
• OpenStreetBrowser has a new view that displays gastronomy POIs, with a different marker according to their smoking policy.

switch2OSM

• The German national news service Tagesschau has created a news atlas on OpenStreetMap basis, which shows 24-hour news.

Releases

• The osm-carto team has published a new monthly release of this style (v4.9.0), with 2 times more changes than usual. Some of them are pretty important, like long-awaited towers and masts redesign, new rendering for gardens or rendering place=square labels.

Did you know …

• … the Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit, in short CyIPT? It’s a toolkit that identifies the best places to put new cycle infrastructure.

OSM in the media

• The OpenStreetMap community in Chile has tweeted that OSM data can now be seen daily in the official news and on their Facebook page.
• A magazine of the Italian public broadcaster (RAI) featured a segment on the open data world, featuring OpenStreetMap and an interview with Maurizio ‘napo‘ Napolitano.

Other “geo” things

• After ‘fake news’ now fake destinations on road signs.
• The tree management software ImmoSpector tree lists OpenStreetMap among the possible map background layers. This software aims at monitoring tree cadasters with online tools.
• Geolounge published a review of Walter Goffart’s “Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570-1870”, praising its high accuracy and readability.
• The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket produced circular shock waves in the ionosphere that could lead to GPS errors of about 1 metre.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-04-04
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-04-04
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-04-05
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-04-05
Solothurn	2018 SOSM AGM and mapping party	2018-04-07
Rennes	Cartographie des rivières	2018-04-08
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-04-09
Toronto	Mappy Hour	2018-04-09
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-04-10
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-04-10
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-04-10
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-04-10
Cologne	Köln Stammtisch	2018-04-11
Berlin	118. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-04-13
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第18回 本郷大横丁通り商店街	2018-04-14
Berlin	Berlin Hack Weekend April 2018	2018-04-14-2018-04-15
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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27/03/2018-02/04/2018

[Actual Category]

• People reading this announcement of collaboration between Niantic and OSM on April 1st, might have been tempted to believe it. Alas, maybe next year. No new legendary monsters for you.

Mapping

• Ilya Zverev reminds us of his RFC on the tagging list. It concerns dropping public_transport=* tags for stops, as they seem superfluous and going back to simply highway=bus_stop/railway=tram_stop. Those tags still need to be added anyway, if you want them to render on the main site.
• Apparently, one mapper has been adding names invented by himself to all aerodromes in Europe that didn’t already have names. A number of other mappers disagree with this practice. Frederik Ramm clarifies his stance on the matter.
• You can influence the proposal for landuse=autodrome with your vote until April 11th.
• The voting period for the proposal about airsoft shop tagging is open until April 11th.
• SketchOSM is a plugin for SketchUp that allows you to add new buildings to OSM in 3D (editing existing OSM buildings isn’t possible at present). A new feature called PhotoMatch, allows you to match the building height to street level imagery. Despite looking like an awesome tool, the usage of Google StreetView to add details using this new PhotoMatch is problematic. The author suggested to look into using Mapillary and OpenStreetCam for this purpose.
• The Vermont Transportation Agency shared 5 million images from the last five years on Mapillary.

Community

• Some categories of OSM Awards 2018 still miss candidates. You are invited to add nominations until May 31st.
• Michael Szell expresses his excitement in a tweet that shares his paper: ‘Inequality of urban mobility space – how to measure and visualize it (with OpenStreetMap)’.
• Rory McCann is looking for help on the Diversity-Talk mailing list for a special quarterly project modelled on an example set by the British community.
• Skinfaxi proposes on the German forum (automatic translation) to get started with a monthly or quarterly task to improve the long distance European hiking trails in OSM.
• Bryan Housel wants to compile a list of communication resources (mailing lists, FB groups, slack channels, etc) to suggest to mappers, so it becomes easier to communicate with other mappers near them. However, a project to collect local pub meetings exists already at usergroups.openstreetmap.de (source code).
• Tirkon mentions on the German forum (automatic translation) that Facebook is a Gold Sponsor of the State of the Map 2018 in Milan and triggers a discussion about how Facebook’s interests contrast with the interests of the OSM community (we reported this previously). The recent debates about Facebook’s editing activities in OSM are reflected in the discussion, even though support from financially strong sponsors is of course good.

Imports

• The Spanish OSM Community is looking (EN) for mappers to help with the import of buildings and addresses from the Spanish cadastre. At the moment everyone is welcome to help on different projects in the Canary Islands, Menorca, Andalusia and Cantabria.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OpenCanalMap clarifies on its website that they are not related to OpenStreetMap, as per OSMF’s trademark policy.

Humanitarian OSM

• Dan Joseph, GIS staff member of the American Red Cross, describes in the Mapillary blog how they use Mapillary in their organization.
• Missing Maps announces a new major version of leaderboard, their mapping teams’ coordination platform.
• The World Bank reports on ReliefWeb about the impact of their OpenCity program in Nepal. This project aims to build seismic resilience in the Kathmandu Valley by training civilians to map their local areas. While the project concluded in 2013, the report discusses about the work that followed for the local organization Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL). This shows for authors that disaster risk management and urban planning projects can be legitimately and successfully continued there together with the government.

Education

• Shahriar Alam aims to bring mappers around the world using different OSM editors closer together with his new video series (Part A, Part B) thoroughly explaining everything there is to know.
• User Spanholz made several video tutorials for JOSM, and shared them on Reddit asking for feedback.

Maps

• Atlas of Me is a Google Chrome plugin that converts mentions of distances or area surface measurements in article text into something the reader can more easily relate to, by converting them into measurements with a more familiar object as a reference.
• Kocio-pl has created a pull request for OSM Carto to hide platforms tagged with location=underground.

Licences

• A patent claim by the Brazilian Post for the protection of their postal codes was unsuccessful in Germany (file number 103 46 551.0).

Releases

• JOSM’s latest release is 18.03. The most important changes are establishing compatibility with Java 10 converting links from HTTP to HTTPS. When looking at the history of objects, there is a new context sensitive menu similar to the one in tag properties making it easy to copy values or tags.
• We like to remind you of the current OSM software Watchlist listing information on the releases of almost all OSM related software.

Did you know …

• … El Mapa del Asado, a map based on OSM with locations of butchers and the price of meat for grilling (asado)?
• … the Wiki category page, which automatically lists the current proposals in “Voting” stage for you to participate? All you need to participate is an OSM Wiki account.

Other “geo” things

• Reddit user JakeThyCamel explains how to use JOSM in combination with Maperitive to create maps of imaginary worlds and render them.
• Christian Trapp describes his unsuccessful tribulations with setting up DGPS.
• A new “Bike Map of Lübeck” was created. The bicycle map was developed in a cooperation of the publishing house Kalimedia with the city, the ADFC and the OpenStreetMap Community.
• Scientific American compares the geographical orientation of humans who use increasingly modern maps, to the many animal groups, that also migrate over very long distances using their own natural sense of orientation, as their life’s rhythm dictates. Through geotracking of these animals and new interactive maps, humans can more easily follow and understand these still unexplored paths of the animal world.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Rennes	Cartographie des rivières	2018-04-08
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-04-09
Toronto	Mappy Hour	2018-04-09
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-04-10
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-04-10
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-04-10
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-04-10
Cologne	Köln Stammtisch	2018-04-11
Berlin	118. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-04-13
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Sulbiate	Festival dell’Ambiente	2018-04-13-2018-04-15
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第18回 本郷大横丁通り商店街	2018-04-14
Berlin	Berlin Hack Weekend April 2018	2018-04-14-2018-04-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-04-17
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-04-17
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-04-18
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-04-19
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	2018-04-19
Leicester	Pub Meetup	2018-04-19
Shizuoka	静岡！街歩かない！マッピングパーティ２	2018-04-22
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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03/04/2018-09/04/2018

Illustration of how Polyglot proposes to simplify mapping of public transport. ¹ | Image © Polyglot

About us

• Last week we reported about the revert of invented names for runways. Contrary to our report, the revert itself and the noname=yes was not performed by Frederik Ramm.

Mapping

• John Willis looks for the most appropriate tagging for flower fields specifically cultivated as a tourist attraction.
• Mappers from the company Microsoft ticked off Thorsten Engler in Australia, because they add, in his opinion, unnecessary turn restrictions near roundabouts.
• Mateusz Konieczny suggests to change the description of amenity=bus_station in the OSM wiki.
• On talk-de a discussion is going on about whether to glue landuse to highways (reuse their nodes), or not. The project started out as an abstraction, so reusing the nodes of highways to avoid empty triangles in the rendering was the best solution for a long time, at least until we started to be able to map in more and more detail thanks to better imagery. Now it is perceived as imprecise by some and annoying by others. It seems like we will have to map all the highways as their own landuse areas (comparable to larger rivers), in order to avoid empty spikes on the map.
• Over the past weeks a probably organized group of mappers corrected alleged mistakes on roads (gaps, one-way streets, bans,…) in Germany and Great Britain, but did so in an incorrect, possibly automated way, thereby hiding real mistakes. See the discussion in the German forum and two emails on the talk-gb mailing list.
• Nicolas Chavent published a Twitter moment about the open science based project CohéSIoN in Bouaké (second city of Ivory Coast) where after two weeks of training, a mapping collective (local OSM members and young researchers) have started a four week long urban survey based on OSM: buildings, health, education, Central State and local authorities amenities, places of worship, markets and drinking water points.
• DWG has blocked 29 user accounts editing in Jakarta on behalf of GlobalLogic India because a local mapper felt overwhelmed.
• User pierzen created a new MapCSS style for JOSM to visualise boundary relations with user configurable levels.
• Another group of organised mappers adding minor roads attracts attention in India due to editing errors and unsuccessful attempts to get in touch with them. DWG issued user blocks on their accounts.
• After several years of mapping public transport and looking in different places around the world how it is done, user Polyglot proposes a simplification to the schema to make it straightforward to understand and maintain for all mappers.

  The principle hinges on using nodes next to the highways/railways to represent the stops for their full ‘lifetime’ and only adding these nodes to the route relations, one object per stop. This does not mean that platform ways/areas can’t be mapped any more in addition to these nodes.

Community

• On the osm-talk mailing list, Daniel Koć announces the creation of a new subforum focused on OSM Carto rendering.
• User Michał reports about a bot that comments changesets with wrongly tagged addresses and wonders about the community’s opinion on this practice.
• User rurseekatze proposes (automatic translation) to delete wiki pages of municipalities and counties lacking maintenance and proper content.

Imports

• The OpenStreetMap communities in France and Germany reject the NavAds gas station import due to quality issues.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Minutes of the Engineering Working Group meeting of April 5th was published.

Events

• From October 5th to 7th, Detroit is the place to be for the State of the Map US.
• On April 23rd there will be a Field Cartography Workshop in Grenoble, France. It will be a mapping party with specific focus on mobile apps, but also a small retrospective step with Walking Papers.
• The organizers look back at FOSSGIS 2018, the German conference for OpenStreetMap and open source software. With 465 participants, it was the second-largest FOSSGIS so far.
• State of the Map Asia 2018 is happening in Bengaluru, India from 17th till 18th of November. You can already submit proposals for talks or workshops.

Maps

• Twitter user davvyk shared some pictures of the etched maps of San Francisco which he made using OpenStreetMap data. He also shares the process behind making this happen.

switch2OSM

• Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological service, uses OSM as its background map.

Software

• OpenRouteService celebrates its 10th anniversary. This makes ORS the oldest OSM route planning service. You can reread Pascal’s original announcement from 2008 and this is a nice summary from GIScienceBlog.

Programming

• From May 7 onwards all unencrypted HTTP requests will be forwarded to planet.openstreetmap.org on HTTPS (port 443). For Curl, Java (Osmosis) and other HTTP clients this following of redirects must be activated manually!
• Arne Johannessen has published his diploma thesis (PDF) with the title "Algorithms for automated generalization by combining polylines in OpenStreetMap for specific special cases" and he also released the corresponding Java source code.
• Jochen Topf presents the innovation of Libosmium 2.14 and Osmium-Tool 1.8. Many bugs related to missing timestamps and other metadata fields have been fixed and the ability to write OSM files with only certain metadata fields was added.

Did you know …

• … that the German forum wondered about the origin of these grey networks of GPS traces on osm.org?

Other “geo” things

• Jason Grinblat (@ptychomancer) tweets about his love of map generators, and demos several of them, for example, Red Blob Games’ Map Gen 2.
• Damon Burgett from Mapbox explains how his team developed a Satellite Health Index. Taking the distributions of users into account, this tool finds the priority areas for imagery updates.
• Cityzenith launched the commercial Smart World Pro 3D data platform, which allows to combine many different data sources in 3D visualisations, including OSM data.
• On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, National Geographic created a magazine with pictures of streets around the globe dedicated to his memory. Further pictures are reachable via Google Street View and an interactive OSM map.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Poznań	State of the Map Poland 2018	2018-04-13-2018-04-14
Sulbiate	Festival dell’Ambiente	2018-04-13-2018-04-15
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第18回 本郷大横丁通り商店街	2018-04-14
Berlin	Berlin Hack Weekend April 2018	2018-04-14-2018-04-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-04-17
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-04-17
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-04-18
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-04-19
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	2018-04-19
Leicester	Pub Meetup	2018-04-19
Freiberg	Stammtisch	2018-04-19
Shizuoka	静岡！街歩かない！マッピングパーティ２	2018-04-22
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-04-23
Nottingham	Pub Meetup	2018-04-24
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-04-25
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-04-25
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-04-26
Graz	Grazer Linuxtage	2018-04-27-2018-04-28
Bochum	OSM Einführungsworkshop für Anfänger mit praktischer Umsetzung	2018-04-28
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-04-30
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-02
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-05-02
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-05-02
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-05-03
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-05-03
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-05-03
Grenoble	[Missing Maps mapathon]	2018-05-03
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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10/04/2018-16/04/2018

Mapping

• ENT8R has developed a website called Notes Review. It enables you to perform a full text search of OSM Notes and view them quickly.
• Following up his earlier message about mapping underrepresented features (reported earlier) Rory McCann has launched a survey via the Diversity mailing list to select suitable topics for quarterly challenges.
• Robert C. Danziger (user RCD49) asks mappers not to use satellite imagery to map Larabanga, Ghana, as they are outdated. He has also prepared a wiki page with the current mapping workflow and tips on how/what to map remotely.
• Pascal Neis updated his “Find Suspicious OpenStreetMap Changesets” with new indicators.
• Vote on the public transport hail and ride proposal until April 24th.

Community

• Pascal Neis mentions on Twitter that changeset 51820940 is the one that had the most comments (113). The issue is that Belarusian is the official language on the ground in Minsk, Belarus, but the local population speaks Russian there, so all the names were added in Russian in the name tags.
• Dominique (@dominique_hoavo) presents on Twitter a review of the Girls Map for Togo initiative (#GirlsMap4Tg) that occurred April 11th to 13th.
• User Escada interviewed Andrew Harvey from Australia for his Mapper of the Month series.
• Jakub Klaučo explains how he created a high-resolution world map poster, using Python and TileMill. He is currently accepting suggestions on how to wrap around the 180th meridian.
• Daniel Begin, Rodolphe Devillers and Stéphane Roche published a paper called The life cycle of contributors in collaborative online communities – the case of OpenStreetMap in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. The paper published in 2018 is based on a four-year old full history planet dump.

Imports

• Cascafico Giovanni wants to import petrol stations in Italy from an official source.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The Data Working Group has published its Activity Report for the last quarter of 2017.
• OSM US has engaged Allen Gunn to help them find an executive director.

Events

• The Call for Proposals and Call for Scholarships for State of the Map Asia, happening in Bengaluru this year on the 17th-18th of November, is out. You can submit your proposals by the 10th of June 2018 midnight UTC.
• The call for venue for the State of the Map 2019 is open until May 6th. So far only Tunis has applied.

Humanitarian OSM

• Fred Moine informs that he conducted a training in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo) at the initiative of OSM-Kinshasa to develop a local community there. He thanks “Les Géographes libres” for the training material.
• Blake Girardot rounds up a few tweets @hotosm over the last weekend.

switch2OSM

• lib.reviews, a free, open and not-for-profit review platform, now extracts and synchronises map labels from the OSM database. A Reddit thread comments the news.

Open Data

• The beta version of the Wheelmap now includes information about the operating status of elevators and escalators of Deutsche Bahn. (via Twitter)

Programming

• In the previous issue we reported on Arne Johannessen’s thesis on the generalisation of roads. A small discussion about generalization in general has started on the osm-dev mailing list as a result.
• Leaflet developers are considering to drop support for versions 8 to 10 of Internet Explorer.
• Andy Allan posts about his work on refactoring the code of osm.org, so that it will be easier to add new features: This should help to attract new developers.
• The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) released a new open source microservice for searching OSM points of interest (POI) through specifying feature-buffers, polygons or bounding box. It returns GeoJSON features or simple statistics of categories. Are there any Python developers interested in contributing?

Releases

• Komoot’s open geocoder Photon reaches version 0.3.0, which includes major updates of software dependencies and a number of improvements on reverse geocoding, house number handling and location bias computing.

Other “geo” things

• Jessica Sena posts the process behind the Streets of Women (#LasCallesDeLasMujeres), a project by GeoChicas using Mapbox and NamSor APIs.
• Páraic and Pearse McGloughlin created “Arena”, a mesmerising film made with satellite imagery from Google Earth.
• Despite Australia’s rather accurate mapping on OSM, some people insist on believing it doesn’t actually exist. This theory is only the last of many conspiracies or jokes that deny the existence of countries and cities around the world, listed in this article from The Guardian.
• Mapillary announces a new, 15 million USD round of investment with BMW i Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and NavInfo joining in as investors.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Shizuoka	静岡！街歩かない！マッピングパーティ２	2018-04-22
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-04-23
Grenoble	Atelier Cartographie de terrain	2018-04-23
Nottingham	Pub Meetup	2018-04-24
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-04-25
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-04-25
Departamento del Cauca	Popayán	2018-04-25
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-04-26
Graz	Grazer Linuxtage	2018-04-27-2018-04-28
Bochum	OSM Einführungsworkshop für Anfänger mit praktischer Umsetzung	2018-04-28
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-04-30
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-02
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-05-02
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-05-02
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-05-03
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-05-03
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-05-03
Grenoble	Missing Maps mapathon	2018-05-03
Dortmund	Mappertreffen	2018-05-06
Arlon	Réunion au Pays d’Arlon	2018-05-08
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-05-09
deutscher Mumble-Server	öffentliche Vorstandssitzung FOSSGIS e.V.	2018-05-09
Berlin	119. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-05-10
Shiki	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第19回 出張編 小江戸と浅草の中継点「志木」	2018-05-12
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#04：薩摩藩士と寺田屋騒動	2018-05-12
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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17/04/2018-23/04/2018

Mapping

• Colin Blackburn tweets applauds the mapper who mapped,in great detail, the “Great Polish Map of Scotland”, a 200 m² model of Scotland.
• In the near future the Vespucci editor will feature convenient layer management.
• The blocking of Telegram by Russian authorities affected Amazon Cloud among others and therefore JOSM, as some of the rendering styles are hosted on GitHub, which uses Amazon Cloud too.
• Yuri Astrakhan proposes on the Tagging mailing list to use relations to map language regions.
• The tagging mailing list examines the appropriate tagging and naming of traffic training areas for children, focused on traffic rules for pedestrians and cyclists.
• The organised mappers group, who previously made bad quality edits to streets in India, still didn’t answer to comments to their changesets, and has now moved its focus on US highway=service additions. Further user accounts have been blocked and changesets were reverted. This was followed by a discussion on the talk-us mailing-list where some American mappers disagree with the reverts.

Community

• On his homepage, Pascal Neis provides a detailed overview of changeset discussions.
• bhousel suggests, on github, the introduction of two additional user roles (director/directee) for organized mapping on OpenStreetMap, Such roles may require additional classes of rights.
• felskia reports her work at Development Seed, conducting user interviews to discover the requirements of different groups for collaboration in OpenStreetMap. The overall aim is to guide selection of targeted improvements to the ecosystem.

Events

• The sixth SotM France will take place in Bordeaux from 1st – 3rd June. The organizers are delighted to share that participants will be greeted by OSM maps displayed on every public transport stop in the city.
• Registrations for SotM France (June 1st-3rd, 2018) in Bordeaux are open.
• The Linuxtage at the FH Technikum Wien will take place from 3rd to 5th May 2018. OpenStreetMap Austria will be represented with a booth. The general meeting of the Austrian OSM-booster society will take place on 4th May.
• The OSM Spring Hackathon will take place from May 21st and 22nd in Washington DC at the Mapbox premises.
• On the 19th May, OpenStreetMap UK 2018 Annual General Meeting will be held in Manchester. The afternoon will consist of the 1st Annual General Meeting of OSM UK CIC, followed by workshops and mapping by community members from across the country. All are welcome to attend. Before the lunch the AGM will include elections and then attendance is limited to paid-up members.
• The State of the Map 2018 in Milan is hosting a poster competition. Submit your posters by 30th June.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT OSM 2018 microgrants were awarded to eight OSM communities, including OSM Benin and Sri Lanka.
• Openstreetmap and TheMissingMaps tweet about the 30 million buildings mapped by MissingMaps volunteers.

Maps

• Bike Ottawa (Canada), has created a Traffic Stress map based on OSM. Every segment of street and path in Ottawa, has a calculated “Level of Traffic Stress” (LTS) rating from 1-4, based on the Mineta Institute formula. A few substitutions are also made to account for what data is actually available. For those not familiar with editing OSM, the map provides a feedback option.

Open Data

• imagico.de remembers the tenth anniversary of the first publication of the Landsat pictures by the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey).

Licences

• Simon Poole presents the recommendations (PDF) of the License Working Group for the implementation of the Privacy Policy in the OpenStreetMap project on the Talk and OSMF-Talk mailing lists and invites discussion.

Programming

• Klokan Technologies mentions in a blog entry how they generate their OpenMapTiles on a cluster of 32 cloud servers in parallel.
• Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology has published an R package to use the Openrouteservice API.

Releases

• The team of OSM-Carto has released a new version of the map style (v4.10.0). See all new objects in kocio’s diary.

Other “geo” things

• CNBC reports about the fight of Google and its unpaid volunteers against spammers on Google Maps.
• The king of Swaziland, Mswati III announced the renaming of the country to eSwatini. The occasion is the 50th anniversary of independence from Great Britain.
• Mapbox announced that Andrew Chen,formerly at Google Maps, has joined as Head of Product for Maps and Search
• The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography e.V. presents its historical map collection of the Central Geographical Library under the CC0 license online.
• Many of navigation apps by Navigon (acquired by Garmin a few years ago) will no longer be available for download starting in May. Most of them can still be used to a certain extent.
• Google is testing Landmark-based Navigation. OSM supports this already for a while via Openrouteservice, currently only for pedestrian navigation in Germany.
• There is an article on xyHt published about how different OpenStreetMap tiles can easily be integrated into QGIS 3.0.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-04-26
Graz	Grazer Linuxtage	2018-04-27-2018-04-28
Bochum	OSM Einführungsworkshop für Anfänger mit praktischer Umsetzung	2018-04-28
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-04-30
Toulouse	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-02
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-05-02
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-05-02
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-05-03
Dresden	Stammtisch Dresden	2018-05-03
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-05-03
Grenoble	Missing Maps mapathon	2018-05-03
Dortmund	Mappertreffen	2018-05-06
Arlon	Réunion au Pays d’Arlon	2018-05-08
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-05-09
deutscher Mumble-Server	öffentliche Vorstandssitzung FOSSGIS e.V.	2018-05-09
Berlin	119. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-05-10
Shiki	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第19回 出張編 小江戸と浅草の中継点「志木」	2018-05-12
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#04：薩摩藩士と寺田屋騒動	2018-05-12
Davao City	[Free & Open Mapping Workshop] at Ateneo de Davao University	2018-05-12
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-14
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-05-15
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-05-15
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-05-15
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-05-16
São Paulo	Painel OpenStreetMap no MundoGEO Connect	2018-05-16
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-05-17
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G & HOT Summit 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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24/04/2018-30/04/2018

Mapping

• Following a discussion on the forum (automatic translation) Leonhard Lenz suggests (automatic translation) unifying the tagging of (nature) reserves in Germany.
• Telenav’s OSM team released a portal for viewing a range of 22 different metrics on OSM. The ones available now focus on navigation attributes (e.g. turn restrictions). They are computed weekly for the whole world.
• Pokémon Go updated their map data and this brings along a new wave of mappers wildly adding parks, nature reserves, steppes, lakes and recreation areas to OSM. See the discussions in the German forum and on the Talk mailing list.
• Vote for the proposal on man_made=carpet_hanger until May 10th.
• Ilya Zverev wrote a diary entry about some remarkable big changes to OSM data, which stood out during their monthly processing for the MAPS.ME application.

Community

• sev_osm publishes a Twitter moment about two weeks of OSM and free Geomatics training in Dakar. Participation was aimed at students, teachers and professionals from both the private and public sectors. The courses were run with the help of members of the Senegal and West African OSM communities and with the support of the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF).
• Earlier this year the Data Working Group redacted a considerable quantity of data in Peru due to copyright infringement several years back. @karitotp describes in a diary post how the OSM community managed to recover speedily from the deletion of such an enormous amount of OSM data.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Heather Leson wrote a diary entry with a brief introduction to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) regarding the OSM Foundation.

Events

• Antoine Riche and three friends will leave in 4 weeks with their bicycles for SotM-FR in Bordeaux. You can follow their progress on the map!
• On 3rd May, two classes from the Floirac school (France) will be on a digital visit to their twin town Diébougou (Burkina Faso). They will work together with the help of the tasking manager provided by Les Libres Géographes with their partners (Floirac town hall, Num&Lib and Terre & Océan) to improve the data in OSM.
• The AGIT Symposium for Applied Geoinformatics will take place from 4 to 6 July 2018 in Salzburg. OSGeo Foundation and FOSSGIS e. V. showcase joint projects.

Humanitarian OSM

• HOTOSM reports about their work with YouthMappers in Indonesia.

Maps

• [1] User SK53 describes in his blog how to generate 1D maps from OSM data. A common example of such maps are linear maps of public transport stops.
• Paul Norman explains his new client-side rendering style “Bolder”.

Open Data

• The Opendata.ch/2018 conference will take place on July 3rd at the University of Applied Sciences of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

Software

• Heidelberg GIScience provided the first working example of the forthcoming REST-based “Ohsome API” for easy-to-use full history analytics of OSM.

Programming

• Reddit user iggy-koppa has introduced three small geo packages for Rust on Reddit. One of them is a GTK widget to display OSM maps.
• Want to find a suitable flat with OSM? Here is how to do it in Python using the ORS API.
• The provision of changeset diffs had a stutter on April 26.
• Florian (@floscher) will be improving the Wikipedia/Wikidata plugin for JOSM for the Google Summer of Code 2018. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Releases

• Wambacher’s “OSM Software Watchlist” now tweets the news from the OSM software world every week under the hashtag #OSMSoftwareWatchList.
• The iD editor reached version 2.8.1. Presets of less known tags are now available, like man_made=observatory or ... antenna, further examples are leisure=outdoor_seating or ...beach_resort.
• Klokan Technologies released OpenMapTiles 3.8.

OSM in the media

• Harry Wood spotted a mention of OpenStreetMap in the local newspaper and congratulates the Korean mappers.

Other “geo” things

• @MapScaping tweeted a picture of an unusual globe. It shows the geology of the Earth.
• Andy Woodruff created a tool that allows the export of contour lines for an area selected in the browser and saves them either as vector data (GeoJSON, SVG) or images. More details are provided on the Axismaps blog.
• “Wyndham City Council in Melbourne’s outer west is expanding an augmented reality urban planning tool to cover cities across Australia.” reports itnews.
• Hackernews contributor findus23 has used a Markov Chain model to simulate questions and answers for various Stack Exchange sites. Some of the simulated threads may seem familiar to users of GIS Stack Exchange.
• Nicolas Renoir reports at the Transport Research Arena 2018 in Vienna on how SNCF uses OpenStreetMap data to develop apps to help people with reduced mobility navigate railway stations.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
N’Djamena	Mapathon: Bol in Lake Chad	2018-05-05
Dortmund	Mappertreffen	2018-05-06
Heidelberg	Semester Start Mapathon with Kathmandu Living Labs	2018-05-07
Arlon	Réunion au Pays d’Arlon	2018-05-08
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-05-09
deutscher Mumble-Server	öffentliche Vorstandssitzung FOSSGIS e.V.	2018-05-09
El Salvador	Encontro de Dados Abertos	2018-05-09
Berlin	119. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch	2018-05-10
Shiki	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第19回 出張編 小江戸と浅草の中継点「志木」	2018-05-12
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#04：薩摩藩士と寺田屋騒動	2018-05-12
Davao City	Free & Open Mapping Workshop at Ateneo de Davao University	2018-05-12
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-14
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-05-15
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-05-15
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-05-15
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-05-15
Disneyland Paris Marne/Chessy Railway Station	FOSS4G-fr 2018	2018-05-15-2018-05-17
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-05-16
São Paulo	Painel OpenStreetMap no MundoGEO Connect	2018-05-16
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-05-17
Greater Manchester	OSM UK Annual General Meeting 2018	2018-05-19
Greater Manchester	OSM UK and OpenData Manchester joint meetup/workshops/mapping	2018-05-19
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-05-24
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-05-24
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G & HOT Summit 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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01.05. – 07.05.2018

OSM CZ

• První máj lásky čas? A kde je nejbližší rozkvetlá třešeň podle OSM?
• Prušánky (opět) rulez?
• Žádost o možnost importu chybějících poštovních schránek do telefonu jako GPX.
• Fell3 je opět zde. A opět řádí jako černá ruka…
• Zblbnutý JOSM ve verzi 13710 nebo korektní chování při opravě budov?

OSM SK

• Denně aktualizované statistiky z vyhledávání tras na freemap.sk.
• Návrh na vytvoření nových vrstev na freemap.sk, kombinujících ortofoto s dalšími daty.
• Dostupnost vlastních GPX záznamů nahraných na web osm.org jako uživatelský (fuse) souborový systém v Linuxu.

Mapování

• Návrh pro nový klíč spacing=* obdržel na tagging mail listu jak pozitivní, tak negativní komentáře.
• V Itálii je cesta dětí do školy ve skupině (‘walking buses’) organizována do té míry, že jsou na sloupech podél cest rozpisy časů. Na tagging mail listu se objevil návrh tagovat je podobně jako autobusové zastávky, jako speciální typ veřejné dopravy – bez vozidla.
• Bryan Housel, správce editoru iD, vysvětluje na tagging mail listu, proč iD zavedl (pomocí presetů) nové nedokumentované tagy související se servisem vozidel. Téma nevyvolalo na mail listu moc velkou odezvu a otázka, zda byly podobně zavedeny i jiné tagy, zůstala bez odpovědi.

Komunita

• Uživatel Redditu využil OSM data pro porovnání četnosti parkovacích ploch v centrech 50 amerických měst.
• Výzva k zaslání nominací na Ceny OpenStreetMap 2018 – šanci máte do 31. května.
• HOT vítá letošní studenty z programu Google Summer of Code (GSoC) a účastníky projektu Outreachy. Letošní účast HOT v GSoC je, na rozdíl od minulých let, nezávislá na OSM.

Importy

• Oficiální vládní adresní data z Dánska byla poprvé importována do OSM v roce 2009. Nyní se vyvíjí nová webová aplikace AutoAWS pro automatickou správu adresních uzlů v rámci Dánska. Již proběhly první živé testy funkčnosti.

Nadace OpenStreetMap

• Plánuje se zprovoznění německé instance uMap, nezávislé na francouzských serverech. Žádost o podporu, která by to umožnila, již byla zaslána organizaci FOSSGIS e.V.
• Tým OpenActive z Open Data Institute (ODI) hledá lidi z OSM nebo Nadace OSM pro rozhovor jako součást studie o otevřených datech pro sport a fyzické aktivity.

Události

• Konference State of the Map Asia 2018 se bude konat v indickém Bengaluru v termínu 17. – 18. listopadu v prostorách Indian Institute of Management. Žádosti o stipendium jsou již uzavřeny a možnost navrhnout sekci do programu končí 10. června.
• Organizátoři konference State of the Map 2018 v italském Milánu zvou účastníky na seznamovací párty v noci v sobotu 28. července.
• OSM US zve na mapathon v kancelářích firmy Mapbox ve Washington, DC, dne 21. a 22. května.

Humanitární OSM

• V Somálsku je aktuálně přes půl milionu lidí postiženo rozsáhlými záplavami. HOT hledá mappery ochotné pomoci.
• HOT obdržel dotaci od Digital Impact Alliance (DIA). Open source projekty, které by také měli zájem, se mohou přihlásit o dotaci do 31. května.

Vzdělávání

• Training working group HOT pořádá v pondělí 21. května v 14:00 UTC květnový HOT Community Webinar. Na programu je školení v používání JOSM.

Mapy

• JB použil Maperitive pro vytvoření pěkné mapy jedné vesnice ve Francii. Zdrojový kód, který pro to použil sdílí na GitHubu.
• Joe Matazzoni, produkt manažer Nadace Wikimedia, představil plánované inovace pro mapy Wikipedie v rámci akce Map Improvements 2018.
• Pro lepší podporu iniciativy Do práce na kole se kanadská skupina Bike Ottawa rozhodla vytvořil platformu, která pomáhá cyklistům plánovat bezpečnou trasu. Data pocházejí z OSM, především rychlostní limity, šířky ulic a přítomnost cyklopruhů. Díky tomu je pak spočítána vhodnost dané ulice pro cyklisty.

Přechod k OSM

• Na anglické Wikipedii jsou dostupné šablony Mapframe.
• OpenStreetMap se používá na informačních obrazovkách Irské autobusové společnosti Bus Eireann a také ve veřejných autobusech ve španělské Malaze.
• Democlub používá na svých stránkách OSM, aby ukázal voličům, kde najdou nejbližší hlasovací místo. Tato stránka fungovala již v době nedávných místních voleb ve Velké Británii, které se konaly 3. května.
• Od 11. června bude pro používání služby Google Maps potřeba jak klíč pro API, tak platební údaje. Cena se pro mnoho uživatelů zřejmě zvýší, v některých případech výrazně. Podívejte se na blog Google Maps a alternativní pohled na geoawesomeness.com.

Licence

• Importní nástroj Ilji Zvereva OSM Conflator – který byl použit například pro importy benzinek z dat NavAds – navrhuje uživatelům použít pro validaci Google Street View. To se nelíbí Data Working Group, protože to odporuje současným pravidlům.

Software

• Závodní simulátor Assetto Corsa nyní generuje tratě a scenérii ulic z dat OSM.

Programování

• OpenStreetMap získalo sedm slotů pro studenty na práci na projektech v rámci Google Summer of Code 2018.
  • • Thomas Hervey – přidávání OSM Notes pro editor iD
    • Princi Vershwal – podpora iD pro vektorové dlaždice
    • Florian Schäfer – plugin JOSM Wikipedia/Wikidata
    • Biswesh Mohapatra – plugin pro JOSM PT_Assistant
  • Anusha Singh – webový editor pro veřejnou dopravu
  • Heorhi Sidoryn – implementace OSM API v jazyce Go
• Vývojáři stylu OSM Carto diskutují o tom, jak by mohl být implementován styl, srovnatelný s OSM Carto, využívající vektorové dlaždice.
• Na OpenTopoMap jsou jména jezer vykreslena na čáře vytvořené z geometrie dané plochy. Díky tomu vypadají mapy velmi pěkně a profesionálně. Uživatel maxbe vysvětluje algoritmus, který renderer používá pro určení této křivky z čáry pobřeží.

Nová vydání

• Hledáte poslední aktualizace oblíbeného software? Zkuste OSM-Software-Watchlist.

Věděli jste …

• … o wiki stránce Top Ten Tasks pro důležité úkoly řešené v rámci Engineering Working Group?

Ostatní geo záležitosti

• Ollie O’Brien píše o mapách deformace země v Londýně způsobených konstrukcí železnice Crossrail. Data byla získána s pomocí speciálního typu radaru se syntetickou aperturou: InSAR.
• Planet Labs zkusili zajímavou změnu u normálních přímých satelitních snímků. Natočili kameru pod úhlem a nasnímali snímky ze vzdálenosti zhruba 450km. (via BoingBoing).
• Levente Juhász hledá pomoc pro svůj výzkum v rámci studia PhD ohledně geo sociálních médií a mapovacích platforem. Studuje online chování lidí z pohledu prostorových dat. Další informace najdete na jeho webu.
• Článek na webu Sitepoint ukazuje, jak vytvořit mapu vnitřních prostor s pomocí WRLD, QGIS a OSM.
• Nejdelší pozemní a mořská trasa je popisována v článku v Der Spiegel.
• [1] Vizualizace času jízdy vytvořená jako 3D korál.

Plánované události

kde	co	kdy	země
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	14.05.2018
Budapešť	OSM meetup – Urban Mobility(EN)	14.05.2018
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	15.05.2018
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	15.05.2018
Letiště Kolín-Bonn	Bonner Stammtisch	15.05.2018
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	15.05.2018
Disneyland Paříž, vlaková stanice Marne/Chessy	FOSS4G-fr 2018	15.05. – 17.05.2018
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	16.05.2018
São Paulo	Painel OpenStreetMap no MundoGEO Connect	16.05.2018
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	17.05.2018
Vídeň	60. Wiener Stammtisch	17.05.2018
Davao City	Free & Open Mapping Workshop at Ateneo de Davao University	18.05.2018
El Salvador	Palestra na Campus Party Bahia	18.05.2018
Greater Manchester	OSM UK Annual General Meeting 2018	19.05.2018
Greater Manchester	OSM UK and OpenData Manchester joint meetup/workshops/mapping	19.05.2018
Essen	Mappertreffen	24.05.2018
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	24.05.2018
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	24.05.2018
Brémy	Bremer Mappertreffen	28.05.2018
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	28.05.2018
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	30.05.2018
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	01.06. – 03.06.2018
Milán	State of the Map 2018, (mezinárodní konference)	28.07. – 30.07.2018
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G & HOT Summit 2018	29.08. – 31.08.2018
Detroit	State of the Map US 2018	05.10. – 07.10.2018
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (termín bude upřesněn)	17.11. – 18.11.2018

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08/05/2018-14/05/2018

About us

• ERRATUM: In the last issue of weeklyOSM we used an image from this video and stated that it was Newcastle, but it wasn’t. The picture showed the city of Liverpool. It was an oversight from one of our editors who is a fan of Newcastle United.

Mapping

• OSM contributor Adam Schneider has mapped features of the recent volcanic eruption in Leilani Estates, Hawaii including fissures and lava flows.
• Chris Eshun, a youthmapper from Ghana, made a map of recently flooded areas in Tarkwa using OSM data.
• Paul Johnson points out that a more completionist view towards lane tagging to include bicycle lanes may be better than the wiki’s view, which encourages error by omission in complex lane situations. The most common answer he receives is that changing the meaning of a tag that is used millions of times is counterproductive at this point and to propose a new tag, which includes lanes of any kind.
• New terms of use for Bing Maps allow OSM to use StreetSide images.
• The proposal for Tag:man_made=carpet_hanger was accepted.

Community

• Routing for Accessibility – new Project with the City of Heidelberg.
• OpenStreetMap Belgium’s ‘Mapper of the month’ features Yasunari Yamashita and Tomoya Muramoto. Yasunari hosts a continuous mapping party in Japan. Tomoya is also active as an editor for the Japanese language team of WeeklyOSM.
• sev_osm publishes a Twitter moment about two weeks of OSM and free Geomatics training in N’Djamena (Tchad) targeted to local students, teachers and professionals from both the private and public sectors. The courses were facilitated with the help of members of Chadian community and a Togolese mapper with the support of the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF).
• Ilya Zverev wrote a diary post about what annoys him of OpenStreetMap. Website stand still, OSM Carto style stand still, Tagging mess, no management, no news, etc

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the OSMF’s License Working Group meeting on May 10th is available. The topic was mainly regarding various data protection concerns.
• A blog entry in the official OpenStreetMap blog summarizes upcoming changes in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• An FAQ of the OSM Foundation answers several data protection questions currently asked by many website operators who integrate services of the OSM Foundation (tile.openstreetmap.org, nominatim.openstreetmap.org, api.openstreetmap.org).
• The Minutes of the Data Working Group meeting on March 13th is online.

Events

• The details about the academic track submission for FOSS4G Europe 2018 are available now.
• The website of State of the Map Japan 2018 has been released and a Call for Proposals has started. CfP deadline is June 18th.

Maps

• Hartmuts MapOSMatic instance has recently served its 20,000th request.
  It has also received a database upgrade/reimport to be able to render OpenStreetMap Carto v4.x stylesheets, so the OSM default style is now up to date with the OSM website again.
  There’s also now a DokuWiki instance running on the server that provides more detailed usage instructions, descriptions of available stylesheets, and other information related to the print service.
• Alex Kemp reports on landrises and landfalls due to termination of mining activities and the effects of stopping the pumping that kept the shafts from flooding on the underground water tables.
• “Millimeter precision HD Vector Maps”, a blogpost by Thiago Santos from Mapbox.

switch2OSM

• A team at MIT is currently developing a new navigation method that relies less on highly detailed maps and more on sensor technology which also makes use of OpenStreetMap data.

Software

• A Java bug in Debian renders JOSM unusable for all users of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Long term support). Meanwhile user abienvenu created a Docker container for JOSM so we can get by while waiting for Ubuntu to fix this in an update.
• Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
• MapsMania blogs about Antirubbersheeter, a tool that ease the use of Leaflet with any image, for instance with vintage maps.

Programming

• In response to Google’s price increase and not totally satisfied with switch2osm.org‘s tutorial u/Overv created a batteries included Docker image containing a way to follow minute diffs of OSM and render tiles for a given region. As he will use this in production himself, it will be kept up-to-date.
• Complying with the GDPR will require changes to OpenStreetMap.org’s registration form for new mappers and requesting explicit agreement of all mappers to the new API’s and website’s terms of use. The technical implementation on how to accomplish this is being discussed on GitHub.
• As announced previously planet.openstreetmap.org now redirects HTTP requests arriving on port 80 to port 443 (HTTPS).
• From now on Geofabrik’s download server provides data stripped of user-related metadata. OSM data with all metadata intact is only available for users with an OSM login at osm-internal.download.geofabrik.de.

Releases

• Version 0.6 of MUIMapparium, an OSM Client for Amiga, Free Pascal and PowerPC has been released.
• OSM Carto now renders additional tags like amenity=nursing_home and amenity=driving_school, as well as established tags like amenity=police and amenity=bus_station when tagged on surfaces.

Other “geo” things

• The new version of the free tool for the analysis of old maps MapAnalyst, now visualises the uncertainty of distortion grids, and has a menu for opening recent projects.
• An academic study of Wikimapia has been published by the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (main paper paywalled).
• Microsoft launched Azure’s first foray into providing native geospatial functionality.
• Nothing new: HERE uses Mapillary images – also in its online editor.
• The fight for Europe’s last wild rivers. Read the article from the Ecologist.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-05-22
Ulm	Mapping Stolpersteine Ulm/Neu-Ulm	2018-05-23
Mumble Creek	OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting	2018-05-24
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-05-24
Lübeck	Lübecker Mappertreffen	2018-05-24
Urspring	Stammtisch Ulmer Alb	2018-05-24
Ivrea	Incontro mensile Biellese/Canavese/Vercellese	2018-05-26
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-05-28
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2018-05-28
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-05-30
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-06-06
Praha – Brno – Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	2018-06-06
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-06-06
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-06-07
Potsdam	120. Brandenburg-Berlin Stammtisch	2018-06-08
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第20回 江戸開城の地 芝	2018-06-09
Rennes	Cartographie des bâtiments en 3D	2018-06-10
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-06-11
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G & HOT Summit 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Detroit	State of the Map US 2018	2018-10-05-2018-10-07
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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15/05/2018-21/05/2018

Mapping

• User warin asks for clarification about the water body tags seasonal, ephemeral and intermittent. The answers show how difficult it is to map irregular water flows in various climates, and to agree on unambiguous tags worldwide.
• User DeBigC shares his experiences with Mapillary in Ireland, where he has, to date, collected the most photos among all contributors.
• Christoph Hormann (imagico) shares his views about the various ways OSM tags can be used, or, more realistically, abused, to cause labels of various degrees of prominence to be rendered on the Carto-CSS map layer.
• Currently there is a vote for tagging amenity=lounger, for non-moving sunbeds.

Community

• Tim Frey, one of the creators of the STAPPZ app, asks for feedback on their open sourcing plan of the app’s content.
• OpenStreetMap US now has a dashcam for loan. The camera is the Waylens Horizon which will be used to take street level photos for OpenStreetCam. After a certain threshold one could keep the camera.
• Kathmandu Living Labs opened a job vacancy for OpenStreetMap Coordinator.
• Nikolai Janakiev wrote an extensive article on predicting Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap. Python source code is included.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF board and OSM working groups are preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is in effect in Europe since May 25th, 2018.

Events

• The official dates for the State of the Map Latam are out! The event will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from September 24th to the 25th, during the Open Data Week.

Humanitarian OSM

• On April 16-18, HOT Indonesia hosted a mapathon in collaboration with the State University of Semarang (UNNES). 25 students mapped over 47000 buildings and 290 roads, they learned to use validation and the buildings_tools plugin, as well as possible ways for exporting the data and use it for their research.
• Julie Zeglen from Generocity highlighted Annaka Scheeres’ work and how it might have helped save lives with her data storytelling.
• While the Ebola outbreak has spread from the countryside into the city of Mbandaka, 600 km north of Kinshasa, urgent mapping tasks await remote OSM contributors. More than 350 remote OSM contributors have collaborated to date to support epidemiologists,Claire Halleux of Kinshasa and the OSM-RDC community coordinate this OSM response and intensify actions in support of the DRC Health Ministry, MSF, the various humanitarian NGOs and various UN agencies with remote mapping and support to the collection of essential field data and addition in OSM.

Maps

• Stefan Grotz has presented his farm shop map www.farmshops.eu on the mailing list talk-de and Reddit and received plenty of feedback.
• Christoph Hormann has written a blog post about how forest areas are displayed in the OSM-Carto style.

Open Data

• The JungleBus team published a study comparing OSM data and Open Data GTFS Public Transport feeds for Paris and its surrounding region.
• The public transport associations of Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Rhine-Main and Rhine-Ruhr in Germany inaugurated their Open Data Portal.

Licences

• The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive. OSM data is currently protected under this legislation.

Software

• Michael from Graphhopper presents a demo of their new real-time public transit routing feature. His blog post unveils a few technical details behind the scenes.
• The Overpass API has some exciting new features. Roland started a blog series to explain the new additions. One of the new features is the nwr directive, which simplifies queries to fetch all nodes, ways and relations for the set of conditions specified and avoids having to repeat them.

Programming

• Robert Kaiser has created an OSM-based virtual reality demo based on Mozilla’s A-Frame library and presented it on the talk-at mailing list. The source code is available on Github.
• User demonshreddder explains how to adapt and render the OSM Carto style to your own native language.
• In his OSM diary, Martijn van Exel announces that Telenav released the source code and training data sets of OpenStreetCam’s traffic sign detection. They also sponsor a competition for the improvement of automatic detection of map features from over 45,000 images.

Did you know …

• … the Pic4Review tool to make mapping fun? The beta version comes with map editing missions, points and much more.

OSM in the media

• The Atlantic has interviewed various actors from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including Claire Halleux from OSM-DRC. They work closely with the Ministry of Health to respond to the Ebola crisis, 600 km north. Various OSM products such as printed, offline and navigation maps are already available, continuously updated by the OSM community.

Other “geo” things

• Steve Bennett created a tool that can help you find the right geocoder for your project.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-05-28
Graz	Stammtisch Graz	2018-05-28
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-05-28
Derby	Pub Meetup	2018-05-29
Dusseldorf	Stammtisch	2018-05-30
Bordeaux	State of the Map France 2018	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
San Romano in Garfagnana	Mapathon e Editathon alla Fortezza delle Verrucole	2018-06-01-2018-06-03
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-06-06
Praha – Brno – Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	2018-06-06
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-06-06
Moscow	Schemotechnika 16	2018-06-06
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-06-07
Potsdam	120. Brandenburg-Berlin Stammtisch	2018-06-08
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第20回 江戸開城の地 芝	2018-06-09
Rennes	Cartographie des bâtiments en 3D	2018-06-10
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-06-11
Lyon	12 Jun.2018-06-12–2018-06-13
Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-06-12
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-06-12
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-06-14
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G & HOT Summit 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Detroit	State of the Map US 2018	2018-10-05-2018-10-07
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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Mapping

• Gaurav Thapa from OSM Nepal asks on the talk list about mapping more metadata for schools. The answers examine the new metadata (students’ and teacher’s statistics especially) but suggest to store them elsewhere, for example Wikidata, that has specific support for such historical statistics.
• Mateusz Konieczny opened the discussion to revise the good practice of “Don’t map temporary events and features”. The issue edges on the frequency of occurrence (weekly, monthly, yearly…).
• Polyglot proposes role=reverse to indicate on a bus route that the vehicle needs to reverse out, in order to exit narrow dead end streets. It is not expected that this role will see much use, as this is extremely uncommon along the public transport routes, but the role would elegantly describe what is going on.
• After some discussion on the tagging mailing list, it became clear that the English term “roundtrip” has a different meaning to one that many people had expected it to have. The English word “round trip” resembles “rondreis/rondgang” (tour) in Dutch or “rundfahrt” (guided tour, race stage) in German. It seems the contributors to the discussion can agree on a new tag circular_route=yes for routes that return where they started (or very close to it) and maybe closed_loop=yes/no for QA purposes when all the ways in a route relation form a closed loop.
• SunCobalt questions and analyses the increasing Data Working Group user blocks. He seems concerned that there may be too many such blocks, but it could be just as well that growth in user numbers also brings along more users with undesirable behaviour.

Community

• CityLab reported on a mapathon aimed at public transportation by University of Maryland students.
• Baran Kahyaoglu demonstrated the Mapbox Unity SDK with a Civilization game style real world map. Watch it on Youtube or read some comments on Reddit.
• Alban Vivert, OSM France community member and CartONG NGO volunteer, started his cycling Andean cartographic itinerary at the beginning of May. Follow his South American adventure with an interactive map of the project, GPS traces (with elevation profile), and contributions to Mapillary.
• Tyrallová and Harald Schernthanner presented a practical introduction to OpenStreetMap in a science day. The participants learned how to record geodata on their smart-phones and PCs and then prepare and upload it to OSM. In addition to this ‘hands-on tutorial’, it was demonstrated that the data can be used, for example, for pedestrian navigation. The slide deck is available.
• Nicolas Chavent publishes a Twitter moment that shares pictures from the two weeks of organizational-governance-tech workshop related to OSM and free Geomatics in Lomé (Togo) targeted to OSM community trainers from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Togo with the support of the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF).
• Rene78 recounted a choice encounter in Myanmar while travelling a path he arm-chair mapped in preparation for his travels.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The minutes of the IRC meeting of the OSMF Data Working Group on May 10th have been published.

Humanitarian OSM

• Faults in the reservoir of Hidroituango could precipitate a flood in the Lower Cauca, Colombia affecting 12 municipalities. OSMColombia’s project 108 endeavours to map the affected area and help emergency agencies measure the possible damage. Please help if you can.

Programming

• daniel-j-h from Mapbox writes about implementing reasonable alternative routes in the Open Source Routing Machine’s Multi-Level Dijkstra mode.
• Rafael Troilo from HeiGIT gives a short overview of the access layers of the OSM History Analytics platform ohsome with the new OSM History Database OSHDB.
• hesidoryn reported his progress in implementing the OpenStreetMap API using Go language from Google Summer of Code 2018.

Releases

• Gisgraphy 5.0 is available. It allows forward and reverse geocoding, auto-completion, interpolation, location bias, find nearby, street search for vehicle tracking. All is open source and can be run offline (local installation), though some hosted services are also proposed. Some importers are using a consolidated database from open datasets (OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses, GeoNames, and QuattroShapes); to prepare the next version, David Masclet asks for people that have already worked with Tiger data to help to code its importer.

OSM in the media

• The Economist writes about the OSM volunteers coordinated by OSM-DRC that map the North of the Democratic Republic of Congo to support humanitarian organizations in the field that fight the progression of the Ebola outbreak.
• CBC-Toronto published a podcast (and transcript) about the coordinated efforts of DRC government, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations, Doctors Without Borders and OSM volunteer mappers to provide a more reliable map of the Democratic Republic of Congo, currently affected by an Ebola outbreak.

Other “geo” things

• Brian Tomaszewski presents his experience in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, empowering displaced people by teaching mapping and GIS skills.
• An article in Pacific Standard magazine states “Inaccurate beliefs about climate change and flood risk could crash housing prices in the next 20 years, according to new research by American economists.”
• Sasha Trubetskoy created an accurate transit-style map of the ancient Roman roads of Italy, based on the rich historical record on the topic.

Upcoming Events

Where	What	When	Country
Montreal	Les Mercredis cartographie	2018-06-06
Praha – Brno – Ostrava	Kvartální pivo	2018-06-06
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter Stammtisch	2018-06-06
Moscow	Schemotechnika 16	2018-06-06
Bochum	Mappertreffen	2018-06-07
Potsdam	120. Brandenburg-Berlin Stammtisch	2018-06-08
Tokyo	東京！街歩き！マッピングパーティ：第20回 江戸開城の地 芝	2018-06-09
Rennes	Cartographie des bâtiments en 3D	2018-06-10
Rennes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-06-11
Lyon	Rencontre mensuelle pour tous	2018-06-12
Nantes	Réunion mensuelle	2018-06-12
Munich	Münchner Stammtisch	2018-06-14
Lüneburg	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	2018-06-19
Cologne Bonn Airport	Bonner Stammtisch	2018-06-19
Sheffield	Pub Meetup	2018-06-19
Viersen	OSM Stammtisch Viersen	2018-06-19
Karlsruhe	Stammtisch	2018-06-20
Leoben	Stammtisch Obersteiermark	2018-06-21
Essen	Mappertreffen	2018-06-22
Kyoto	幕末京都マッピングパーティ#05：会津藩と京都守護職	2018-06-23
Essen	4. OSM-Sommercamp und 10. FOSSGIS-Hackingevent im Linuxhotel	2018-06-22-2018-06-24
Rome	Incontro mensile	2018-06-25
Bremen	Bremer Mappertreffen	2018-06-25
Milan	State of the Map 2018 (international conference)	2018-07-28-2018-07-30
Dar es Salaam	FOSS4G & HOT Summit 2018	2018-08-29-2018-08-31
Buenos Aires	State of the Map Latam 2018	2018-09-24-2018-09-25
Detroit	State of the Map US 2018	2018-10-05-2018-10-07
Bengaluru	State of the Map Asia 2018 (effective date to confirm)	2018-11-17-2018-11-18

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

This weeklyOSM was produced by Anne Ghisla, Nakaner, PierZen, Polyglot, SK53, Softgrow, Spanholz, Spec80, derFred, jinalfoflia.