Conference participants State of the Map Asia 2019 - Dhaka, Bangladesh 1 | Nn
Mapping
- Voting began for the SelfishSeahorse user tagging scheme , which suggested marking in OSM lanes on the roads specially reserved for pedestrians.
- Voting began for the
footway=access_aisle
, which user Clifford Snow suggests marking footpaths in parking lots. - The offer of SelfishSeahorse to use the
footway=link
tag to indicate the connection of stairs or sidewalks with roads received the status of "proposed". - User Eric Taze has developed a tagging scheme that can be used to identify telecommunication masts and towers disguised as something else. He suggests using the qualifying key
mimics=*
with the value of the type of object under which the mast is masked. - Strava allowed OSM to be refined with its heatmap, which is based on custom GPS tracks. According to representatives of Strava, users download more than 8 million tracks per week.
- Recall that not so long ago, a scheme for tagging plates and identification marks of communal infrastructure was approved. It is assumed that now all such objects will be marked with the
marker
key, including, for example,pipeline=marker
. However, not everyone is happy with outdated tags, which are now widely used.
Community
- Michael Reichert published a draft open appeal of the German OSM community to the developers of the iD online editor on a number of problematic issues. You can discuss it on the German forum or on the Talk-de mailing list .
- OpenStreetMap tweeted that teachers from a number of European cities have gathered in Saarburg, Germany, to attend humanitarian mapping training and take part in the hackathon to launch the two-year Erasmus + project.
- MilpaDigital project dedicated its 14th
OpenStreetMap Newsletter. - On Habré there was an interview with the old-timer of the Russian OSM community - user Zkir. Not so long ago, he created the YouTube channel " OpenStreetMap and not only ", on which he publishes video reviews of various services and applications related to OSM: Sight Safari , OsmBuildings , etc.
- Using the " OSM Community index " service, you can not only learn about all the communication channels within the OSM project, but also add a new one if there is none already. Moreover, this list is now rendered as a map.
Imports
- Henry Bush plans to import plots of special scientific importance (a natural monument protected by law in the UK), and therefore has already begun to discuss this issue on the mailing list.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Michael Collinson posted official questions for the candidates for the upcoming OSM Foundation Board elections .
- On GitHub, user Jan Dees suggests using API keys for OSM tile servers, and also offers code written by himself. As far as we know, they are driven by the desire to reload the tile cache of those regions for which OSMF does not have enough computer time. Tom Hughes, one of the system administrators, points out that this code is not suitable for the OSMF server structure, which has more than 40 cache servers.
Events
- Marcel Reinmouth of the GiScience research group at the University of Heidelberg on November 28 made a presentation on his internship with the HOT team in Uganda.
- Presentations and videos from the State of the Map CZ + SK 2019 conference in Brno have been published .
- User Yeni IRM-RV published her impressions of the State of the Map Asia 2019 conference, which was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Humanitarian OSM
- Felix Delattre said that the HOT Task Manager is currently unstable due to maintenance. This problem arose at the most inopportune time for this - during the GeoWeek conference, at which several cartonboards were planned. The service is currently running ..
Licenses
- Facebook has posted road datasets that were discovered by its machine learning system and OSM data, under a MIT license. To be more precise, we are talking about those roads that are not in OSM. Rory McCann asks on the mailing list whether these entries are subject to the ODbL sharing license provisions.
Software
- The Jungle Bus project announced the release of the new web editor Busy Hours , with which you can edit the schedule of traffic. It allows you to set the hours of operation, the time of peak and off-peak loads, as well as the frequency of service at this time. The application uses a tagging scheme , which was approved in December last year. Currently, it is being translated into different languages! Join now ! Need help.
- Ski Nav’s mobile skiing app is available for both iOS and Android . In addition, there is a demo web version . User jancellor talked about how data is processed and combined from OSM with NASA altitude information, which allows you to create 3D maps of ski slopes with a perspective similar to the official paper map.
- RustProof Labs, an IT company in Colorado, has published its PgOSM tool on GitHub under the MIT license, which greatly simplifies the acquisition of open spatial data by providing an easy way to upload pbf files to PostGIS.
- Inga Pötting analyzed the Magic Earth navigation application to ensure that the user's privacy is respected. Since General Magic has made great efforts to maintain the privacy of its users, Magic Earth is recommended for use.
- Russian programmer Maxim Ilyukovich has developed a mobile application Wander (so far only for Android), which can build interesting tourist routes in St. Petersburg (Russia). It is based on data from OSM. He also described in detail how he worked on the application.
Programming
- An article was published on Habr by the user provotor, who shared his experience in importing data from OSM.
Releases
- Three years later, a new version of Merkaartor was released . In fact, there is nothing new, only the existing errors have been fixed. But work on updating is underway. Thanks Krakonosh !
- OSMAnd v.3.5 navigation application for Android released. Updated profile settings, map loading dialogs, and now the road network is displayed in more detail on the base map. Now the application can be useful for those who plan to ski in the winter - it learned how to build ski routes.
- The non-profit organization Missing Maps has released a video in which it recommends using the KoBo application to map its area of residence. The video also has a link to brief instructions .
Did you know …
- ... what can you see in the iD online editor those objects that Mapillary recognized in street panoramas? The new layer is available in iD in the "Map Data" tab.
- ... about the MyWay website, which allows you to find a convenient exit from the metro in Moscow? The service was developed by the Russian company NextGIS.
- ... about the various validators of the Russian user Cupivan? Among others, there is a validator of dangerous places, porches and helipads.
- ... about the Wowik validator ? With it, you can find missing roads or places (addresses) in a number of countries, not only Russia or its neighboring countries, but also in Germany and Nepal . In addition, there is a tool inside it that can be useful for cutting OSM downloads into smaller fragments.
OSM in the media
- Ahead of the SoTM LATAM 2019 conference, the non-profit organization TEDIC, which promotes opensource projects, has published an article on OpenStreetMap and the impact of mapping on our perception of the space around us.
Other geo events
- Dan Cookson has used UK postal codes over the past 10 years to create animations that show the emergence of new postal codes. You can see where new residential complexes appear.
- Joaquin Beltran tweeted an animation that shows the changes in the theater of operations from the moment of landing in Normandy in 1944 until Victory Day in May 1945.
- The 17th ISCRAM Conference (International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) will be held at Virginia Technology University in Blacksburg, Virginia from May 24 to May 27, 2020. Until December 6, 2019, reports are being received.
- The High Moselle Bridge, the largest bridge project in Europe in the past and the second largest bridge in Germany, is finally built and open for traffic after 8 years. Thousands of citizens celebrated this event at an altitude of 160 m above the Moselle Valley. Thanks to this bridge, a direct link has been created between the Rhine-Main region and the Benelux countries. Of course, OSM is one of the first mapping services that already has this new route and bridge.
- Swinburne University (Australia) published an article about the study, which examined the question of whether photographs of attractions located in mobile navigation applications help to find the way faster. It turned out that such images to some extent can compensate for the low spatial knowledge of mobile card users compared to paper cards.
- QuoVadis has released a new version of its product - QuoVadis X (QVX). QVX is a route planning tool with which you can create and manage routes intended for loading into your GPS navigator.
- Siaran Staunton found an archived television commercial in 1985, which shows the early stages of the computerization of cartography in Ireland.
- Joe Morrison believes that mature open source GIS projects do not threaten the ESRI business, and reveals his point in detail in an article on medium.com.
- On the StrelkaMag website published an interactive map " History of Moscow housing ."
- A year ago, Yandex launched a service similar to Mapillary - collecting panoramic images from users (mainly from auto-registrars). Now these pictures are available on the Yandex.Maps service in the Mirrors section.
Communication of Russian OpenStreetMap participants is in the Telegram chat room and on the forum . There are also groups on social networks VKontakte , Facebook , but they mainly publish news.
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