OpenStreetMap News №6
- With the help of OpenStreetMap, you can build a continuous route from Vladivostok to South Africa with a length of 23,448 km or 201 hours by car. Perhaps this is the longest route that can be laid using some kind of public service. All competitors have a rest!
- Yahoo! closes the API and this means that you will no longer be able to use satellite imagery . Before this event, you have 3 months to draw a map of Kopeysk, Artyom, Ivangorod and Narva, after which it can no longer be done.
- But ASTER (in the public domain) pictures are posted , which will help to draw Siberia well (before that, there seemed to be no good pictures of the eastern part of Russia).
- Since June 19, those who disagreed with the new license will not be able to edit anything .
- Mobile Yandex.Maps can display an OpenStreetMap map , and on top - Yandex traffic jams.
- @baxi offers a good deal of Baku card . The user writes: “OpenStreetMap for Baku in a shameful way. And it is in the city, which will attract tens of thousands of tourists . I'm starting to correct. Who will support? "
- Meetings will soon take place in Volkhov (June 18) and Tver (June 26). You can join and see with your own eyes how a city map is made up!
- New anniversary - one million " relays " (if it is not clear what it is, never mind, I myself did not fully understand the details and this does not prevent us from drawing a map)
- Started sending emails to all ever registered participants who did not agree to the terms of the new license. Spam has proven to be effective .
- According to statistics published by Kolossos , the author of the OpenStreetMap map embedded in Wikipedia , Russian Wikipedia is the leader among all Wikipedias in terms of the number of clicks on it (2nd place is taken by Polish Wikipedia with more than double the lag). For 4 months (or for 1 day?) There were 154,379 calls to the OpenStreetMap map and many people who knew for the first time learned about OpenStreetMap for the first time.
- Water object validator launched. We must deal with the rivers of Russia once and for all, and then this information will be used for centuries!
- Video tutorials on how to add a POI and how to add a road or area
- OSM can now log in via OpenID ( official announcement )
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/122011/
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