News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 484 (10/22/2019 - 28/10/2019)

Data from OSM + Blender + QGIS + ... + Dolly Andriaciferan’s creative approach

¹ | Dolly Andriatsiferana (@privatemajory) - Map data OpenStreetMap contributors

Mapping

• Jean-Louis Zimmerman gives another example, probably the most common problem in OSM - "how to map?". How would you mark a tourist sightseeing index with signs that rotate and change the names of objects?
• The highway=mini_roundabout
  
  
  
  , which indicates roundabout, was adopted 11 years ago. Since then, it has been used 52 thousand times. But Florian Lohoff learned about it not so long ago, and therefore proposed to cancel it, since he had never used it before. This marked the beginning of a lengthy discussion on the mailing list, where you can also find out the background and rules from different countries.
• The tagging scheme has been approved , which proposes to mark the signs and identification marks of the communal infrastructure on the map: gas and water pipes, service valves, power lines, hydrants and much more. As it usually happens, the article on the tagging scheme was moved from the " Suggestions " section to WikiOSM .
• Mateusz Konecki on GitHub invited the developers of the iD online editor to roll back their controversial solution, which is that iD now insists on marking the crosswalk with the cross=marked
  
  
  
  tag, rather than the established cross=zebra
  
  
  
  . In particular, this decision hurts users from the UK, because it was there that this tag appeared, and also has an exact legal value. The proposal on GitHub was closed, further comments were ignored.
• Apple’s Andrew Wizman told several mailing lists at once that they had updated assignments in MapRoulette: they added new countries and data.
• Nino Caldeira wrote a post about how the Portuguese OSM community uses MapRoulette to check parks to find fakes added by Pokémon GO players. It turned out that a number of parks were marked incorrectly due to differences in the Portuguese language in Brazil and Portugal.
• User Fanfouer has developed a tagging scheme that allows you to add additional information to power lines, namely, specify the method of mounting and location of wires on the support.
• The Blog.dedj blog illustrates how to use the Task Manager . from HOT to manage the project and share work among group members.
• There is still a debate, especially among transport companies, regarding the two qualifying keys for the access tag: yes and designated (preferred). SomeoneElse wrote a post on this topic, where he looked at this problem from a resident of England and Wales.

Community

• The nonprofit organization Kathmandu Living Labs reported on the results of its Digital Internship and Leadership Program (DIAL) in the journal Open Geospatial Data, Software, and Standards. Under this program, undergraduate students and recent graduates from Nepal have completed a distance learning curriculum for mapping rural areas of Nepal.
• On the OSM forum, Air3, developed by Negreheb, was set as the default style. Thanks to this style, viewing the forum from mobile devices has become much more convenient. The author of the style is waiting for comments. Registered users can select the Air3 style in the section Profile -> Display -> Styles.
• Malian site WoManager interviewed Natalie Sidibé of OpenStreetMap Mali In an interview, Natalie talks about her difficult childhood, and also shares plans for the future.
• The OSM Association of Young Mappers - Youthmappers - published its third quarterly newsletter in 2019. One of the main news: this year, the offices of this organization opened in nine universities (in Bangladesh, Tanzania, Ethiopia, the USA, Uganda and Ethiopia). There is also information on the various mapping projects carried out by Youthmappers worldwide.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• A draft document regulating the provision of micro grants by the OSM Foundation has been published. Michael Reichert has already made some detailed comments on this subject.
• The OSM Foundation Membership Working Group described in detail how to become a member of the Fund for those who cannot afford to pay or have difficulty transferring a membership fee. In addition to the details of the waiver program, you can also learn about the various ways you can help people in your community become members of the Fund.

Events

• If this year you have not yet attended the State of the Map conference in one of the cities in the world, then you have a chance to catch up in New Zealand, in the capital of which is Wellington, from November 12 to 15, 2019 the FOSS4G SotM Oceania will be held "
• Ilya Zverev shares on his blog the thoughts that came to his mind during the State of the Map conference in southeastern Europe. He reflects on the features of mapping in each of the countries.
• On October 17 and 18, the OSM community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MapBox companies conducted training on the use of the MAPBOX ATLAS service, which is a stand-alone map system associated with MapBox map tools. The training was attended by members of the local OSM community, Claire Alle and David Kapay, as well as two employees of the Ministry of Health who plan to use these tools to combat epidemics.
• The organizers of the State of the Map Africa conference published detailed information on it on their blog. The conference will be held from November 22 to November 24, 2019 in the cities of Abidjan and Grand Bassam (Cote d'Ivoire).
• The Conference " State of the Map LatAm " is just around the corner . The main OSM event in Latin America will be held from November 14 to 16, 2019 in the city of Encarnacion (Paraguay). More information about the conference can be found in WikiOSM. .

Humanitarian OSM

• Russell Deffner announced that this year the geography week will be held from November 11 to 16. Partners include the Climate Center, a reference center for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC and KP). During the event, he plans to prepare tasks for cartographers and validators related to climate change and extreme weather events.
• Ramani Huria is a collective mapping project in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), which maps the most flood-prone areas of the city. It was included in Nesta’s Collective Intelligence Collection as an example of collaborative projects combating climate change and the consequences of this process.
• Nicolas Marchio, in an article on phys.org, draws attention to the fact that creating the Million neighborhood map of Africa’s fastest growing informal settlements "is an important step towards identifying where the most important urban services are in demand."

Education

• At the DINAcon Digital Sustainability Conference in mid-October in Bern, Dinacon Awards presented five interesting projects. One of them - OpenSchoolMaps - became the winner in the nomination "The best educational project." It is possible that the jury's decision was influenced by the fact that this service has the possibility of feedback. OpenSchoolMaps is a small project to promote open maps and map data, including OpenStreetMap. It is founded by Professor Stefan Keller. Also, students of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Technology named after Rappersville ..

Cards

• [1] Dolly Andriaciferan tweeted a map of her hometown of Fianarantsoa , which she made herself.
• Two Brazilian public organizations - the Institute for Transport and Development Policy and the Brazilian Cyclists Union - have jointly developed the CicloMapa platform, with which you can see the bike infrastructure of Brazilian cities, noted in OSM.

Open data

• Maurizio Napolitano tweeted a link to an article posted on the website of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - "Stuttgart Sustainability Study Based on OpenStreetMap Map and Documented Sustainability Indicators."
• The Open Data Institute has published a “Data Collaboration Guide ” to help service projects like the integration of OSM and Wikidata.

Licenses

• Eliza Reklus on Twitter said that the German postal company Deutsche Post AG uses OpenStreetMap to find the location of objects, although it indicates the attributes of the company HERE. He understood this, as he had previously accidentally spelled the name of one street with an error . According to the requirements of OSMF and FOSSGIS, OSM attribution must also be indicated in this case.

Programming

• Tomasz Kashparek wants to make a map of the Czech Republic using old OSM data. He has no data problems until October 2007, but he asks the community to help get what was submitted earlier than that date.

Releases

• A new version of the iD online editor has been released - v.2.16.0. One of the main innovations - a layer of objects appeared that were recognized on Mapillary panoramas. This function is available during editing mode.
• Joseph Eisenberg announced the release of a new version of the OpenStreetMap Carto v.4.24.0 cartostyle. Now the waterways, like rivers and canals, have become somewhat darker. Also fixed rendering of a water body on a point and tag. In addition, there are other changes that you can read about on Eisenberg’s blog or on GitHub 'e.
• A new version of QGIS 3.10 is available for download . In this version, the length of 3D lines is displayed, marking, symbol display and rendering are slightly improved, as well as new 3D functions are added, including 3D navigation on the screen. The full list of changes can be found here (they begin after the list of sponsors).

Did you know …

• Datawrapper offers the Enriched Map mapping service, which is based on OSM. This map was used to illustrate news on Radio Canada with the correct indication of OSM attribution. Earlier (in the 430th issue) we also reported about another service of this company - Map Locator.
• ... about the resiliencymaps.org project, which leverages the OpenStreetMap data wealth to simulate earthquake risks.
• ... about the Taginfo website, with which you can find out which keys and tags are used in OSM. There are also a number of local versions.

Other geo events

• Lighthouse Rubierg Knude Fir in Denmark, which is 118 years old, almost crawled into the sea. But with the help of the rail it was moved and strengthened. Now nothing threatens him. This situation has become public. All changes, of course, were made in OSM.
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• OpenStreetMap-Cameroon tweeted that they are looking for people willing to take on the development of the GeOSM project in their country, as Geocameroun is doing in Cameroon, for example: by deploying a national geodata infrastructure based on OSM. Note that the search is conducted among the five subregions of Africa.
• Unexpected expenses for mobile roaming almost ruined the Russian scientists studying the movement of birds. The eagle, to which the tracking device was attached, was for a long time out of the coverage area of ​​the cellular network, and when it was there, somewhere on the border of Iran and Kazakhstan, hundreds of SMS messages containing the coordinates of all its movements were sent to scientists at once.
• It’s not only the Osmerians who are trying to understand what the difference is between a bar and a pub. The Spanish edition of El País has published an interview with Amadeo Lazaro, owner of the Casa Amadeo Los Caracoles pub in Madrid. In his opinion, a bar in Spain differs from a pub in that there are ordinary chairs in bars, and only high bar ones in pubs.
• From now on, climbing Uluru Rock, located in the Australian desert south of the city of Alice Springs, is prohibited. Some people believe that this ban, based only on the fact that this is a sacred place of indigenous peoples, is illegal .

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