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Mapping
- Richard Fairhust on the Talk mailing list draws attention to the fact that most EuroVelo routes are seriously outdated.
- Over the past few years, OSM's toy library has been celebrated , but there is no single and approved tagging scheme for this. Now it is proposed to fix it and go through all the formalities. During the discussion, special attention was paid to ensuring that libraries of toys with specialized facilities for children with disabilities are marked accordingly.
- Carlos Bryce spoke about the work done by the local OSM community in Paraguay, after the government of this country revised the classification of the existing road network and created 10 national routes.
- Currently, rendering (so far) is not ready to display the
natural=cliff
tag if it is excessively used in a limited area (automatic translation ). - The developer of the GPSLogger application (an open source Android GPS tracker) spoke on his blog about how he mapped the village of Marmari on the Greek island of Evia during his vacation.
- It began voting for the tag
traffic_calming=dynamic_bump
, which proposes to mark a new type of special road devices capable to calm traffic, depending on the speed. - The issue of “structural separation” of roads and their display as separate divided paths in OSM led to a tough discussion on the forum
in the comments to edits and note about the error. At the time of writing this text, the discussion is ongoing , and its participants have not reached an agreement. The discussion went to the Tagging mailing list.
Community
- In the Austrian Talk mailing list, PPete draws attention to the revision package to which the additional values “municipality” (district) and “district” (districts) have been added to the proving grounds and municipalities in Tyrol and Voralberg. This caused a heated discussion and showed that there is still no consensus on this issue. This situation also demonstrated that problems are solved differently in each country.
- On Habré there was an interview with Natalya Kozlovskaya. She told how she came to OSM, and also shared her opinion on why there are practically no women in the Russian OSM community. The material concludes with a funny story about how mapping in winter and summer differs.
Imports
- Russ Philipps inquired about the views of the local community in the UK on whether he can import UK postal codes. Since this information is only a mathematically calculated geographical center of the territory where one or another zip code is used, he received many objections.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- The protocol of the meeting of the OSM Foundation licensing working group meeting dated September 12, 2019 was published. The main topics are attribution guidance, a guide to using OSM data in machine learning, and data leakage from the iD online editor, which transfers user data to Facebook.
- As part of the OSM Foundation scholarship program, 22 scientists from around the world were supported in 2019. He was paid for the trip and participation in the conference " State of the Map " in Heidelberg (Germany). You can familiarize themselves with their notes on the conference, as well as watch videos of the speeches of some of them.
Developments
- Christoph Hanser invites cartographers to take part in the first Trufithon (Trufi Hackathon) - a hackathon dedicated to both improving the Trufi application and collecting the data it needs. Trufi is an application showing minibus taxi routes in Cochabamba (Bolivia).
- If you’ve ever wondered what WeeklyOSM editors look like, you can check out two of Betaslb’s shots that he took during the SotM-2019 conference.
- From December 27 to 30, 2019, the 36th World Hacker Congress ( Chaos Communication Congress ) will be held in Leipzig (Germany). The OSM project has been participating in the Open Infrastructure Orbit section for 11 years in a row . Therefore, volunteers are sought who could introduce OSM. If you are interested, then join to discussion on the German forum.
- FOSSGIS is not only a non-profit organization that promotes free and open source software and geodata. One of the most significant conferences on this topic in Germany, which will be held next March 11-14 at the University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany), is also called exactly the same. Already, the reception of reports and the formation of the program have begun
Humanitarian OSM
- Felix Delattre talks about how the gradual update process of the HOT Task Manager is going.
- In the MapSwipe mobile application, which has been used since 2015 for humanitarian actions to identify settlements, two new functions have appeared, HOT and Missing Maps reports. Thanks to this, users will be able to help update an existing map of the territory in OSM. For example, to note that the buildings were painted poorly or not accurately, as well as detect changes in satellite images.
- Independent American media NPR published an article by freelance journalist Joanna Lou about the key role OpenStreetMap plays in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. This article also mentions the organization Missing Maps, which is involved in mapping in OSM before any natural disaster occurs. In addition, the journalist was glad that she was able to quickly draw several buildings in OSM. She hopes that after more experienced members of the community will check her edits and, if necessary, correct the mistakes.
Cards
- [1] Greg Sterling wrote a panegyric in honor of Mapquest, which still exists, but no one knows about it. Analyzing the reasons why this service became unpopular, he wonders if the search engine of his direct competitor could help him in this. By the way, Mapquest is a good example of the correct use of the copyright sign © and OSM attribution, which is worth paying attention to other companies.
We pass to OSM
- The Scandinavian gaming site IGN Nordic has provided some details on the upcoming Minecraft Earth Augmented Reality game. Her map will be based on OpenStreetMap. Minecraft creative director recommended future players to start editing the map in OSM, which those who heard about Pokémon GO caused mixed feelings. Also about Minecraft Earth in The Guardian there was an article entitled “Minecraft Earth is coming - you will see the city in a new way”, in which three paragraphs are devoted to OSM.
- Syna (a subsidiary of Süwag Energie AG) has launched a new feedback portal through which citizens and municipalities can report street lighting malfunctions. If earlier a “signal” could be submitted only through a simple online form, now an OSM-based card helps in this matter. Service created on the basis of GIS company Syna.
Software
- MapTiler service reports that new OSM-based vector tiles are available for use, made in the Netherlands coordinate system using the latest version of @OpenLayers (v.6).
Releases
- A new stable version of the JOSM editor, 15390, has been released. Working with layers has become even more convenient since the layer number is now displayed, which allows you to switch between them using the shortcut keys. In addition, the release includes many medium and small improvements.
- About a year later, the open PostgreSQL relational database management system was upgraded to version 12. Increased productivity, especially when rebuilding broken tables and indexes, new functions such as SQL / JSONPATH, optimization of specific queries, and much more .
Did you know …
- ... about the list of Telegram channels related to OSM? If a channel is missing from the list, do not forget to add it to WikiOSM.
- ... Martin van Excel has created a machine learning page on WikiOSM? Machine learning is something that is often perceived skeptically, both because of the poor quality of the results and from the point of view of community development. But in any case, it is worth supporting an initiative that aims to increase the transparency of activities related to machine learning in OSM.
- ... about WikiOSM pages that contain example queries in Overpass_Turbo and Overpass_API ?
OSM Media
- The latest issue of the Bergauf magazine published an overview of maps from the "Austrian Mountaineering Club". Four cards are compared among themselves: OpenStreetMap, Outdooractive, Topo-Maps and the Alpenvereinskarte / Alpine Club card, which is used on the alpenvereinaktiv.com website. You can find this material on page 22 of the journal ( online , PDF ) .
Other geo events
- Emina Demiri-Watson drew attention to an article on attempts to use satellite imagery to detect and map outbreaks of disease among ash and oak by the British Department of the Environment, Food, and Agriculture (Defra).
- Owen Bosvarva said that his tweet , in which he mentioned the existence of an analogue of the What3Word project, but only with open source code , was deleted by the Twitter administration at the request of W3W lawyers.
- Jack Cornish, himself called a vagabond artist, set a goal - to go in 2019 2019 miles (3249 km) by visiting every street in London. Not so long ago, he shared his successes.
- The drone, equipped with the CrocSpotter AI algorithm, transmitted a streaming video in which it detected crocodiles with an accuracy of 93% with a delay of less than one second.
- On the wiki page of the GIScience blog repository, a new software guide for the HELIOS 3D Geospatial Data Processing Research Group software has been posted that allows you to simulate the operation of the lidar.
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