OpenStreetMap News №9: how Rome was drawing, the growth of the load on the site, the seminars "Open Maps of the Perm Territory", the Russians are the most talkative

• Even if you are completely far from cartography, please take part in the survey .
• The load on the OpenStreetMap server is growing at a tremendous pace . They say that most of the requests come from the zone .ru and Eastern states, but they do not create real problems (that is, you should not worry, OSM can be embedded on sites without fear). But some programs that download too many tiles on a massive scale have been blocked . The rest is limited speed. Program statistics available . Alternatives - run your server, use other programs, use mirrors and other renders, contact companies that provide commercial services based on OSM.
• Within the framework of the project " Open Maps of the Perm Territory ", seminars were held in Okhansk and Suksun , and in the middle of November will be held in Kizel. Come on !
• And on December 2 in Moscow the conference “Web and GIS 2011” will take place, part of which will be devoted to OSM .
• A note on the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference .
• "The Russian OSM forum has already done German by the number of posts: ~ 88 thousand versus ~ 72 thousand. Russian Omery - the most talkative Omery in the World! "
• The number of “correct” villages has exceeded 100,000. About 150 new villages are added to the map every day.
• Beautiful site with POI Minsk .
• POI-card is now in Russian .
• The public transport map is now updated daily.
• The creators of the project for the blind Look and Listen Map based on OSM received the Torsten Brand Award.
• An OSM-based wheelmap.org application for disabled people - for Android .
• Flickr, Wikipedia, Panoramio, Last.fm on the map OSM .
• Ideas are being taken to improve the ITO map. With you - suggestions, with them - implementation.
• A new book has been written for newcomers to OSM .
• New site with OSM statistics .
• There was an earthquake in Turkey - OSM is right there .
• The government portal of the Tula region posted an OSM card, but then removed it .
• Maps of one of the three largest in Europe rally Giro d'Italia - based on OSM.
• OSM maps are printed in the London Cycling Guide .
• Three-dimensional Poland .
• A local branch of OSM has been established in France . There are more than 10 thousand Frenchmen in total.
• Almost 100% of all streets in Denmark are painted on OSM .
• In Wales Wales, more than 95% of road names are mapped .
• Study "Accuracy Comparison OpenStreetMap for Ireland with Google Maps and Bing Maps . "
• In South Africa, OSM uses a census site .

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/131740/