OpenStreetMap News No. 13: foursquare and ambulance use OSM, OSM is represented in the French parliament, the EU recommends OSM, new satellite imagery, the Council of the Russian OSM is created
- Help find the killers of the former OpenStreetMap Foundation Council Ulf Moeller. They can be from Poland or Lithuania. Ulf was killed on January 9, 2012 in East Germany.
- The recently updated geolocation service foursquare said goodbye to Google Maps and switched ( reasons and analysis ) to the free OpenStreetMap maps that can already be seen on the 4sq website (using MapBox and the JavaScript library “Leaflet” developed by the habraiser Mourner ). “At some point we began to actively monitor the cartographic providers and found worthy alternatives. After thorough testing, we can confidently say that MapBox, designed on the basis of OpenStreetMap, turned out to be the best option for us, ”the blog reports .
- Switch to OSM and you! What for? Why? How?
- Many users leave Google Maps: Fubra first, then GPSies and Nestoria. Forbes Magazine: OpenStreetMap is growing in popularity . StreetEasy.com ( details ), Active.com , Toursprung and Stamen Maps are also moving . Articles: MIT , Wired , Sebastian Delmont .
- Google is not the enemy of OSM , but rather the opposite, but the Indian computer edition offered a monetary award of 15 thousand rupees for the head of a person working for Google, who committed an act of vandalism against the OpenStreetMap cards.
- Also an article about Steve Costa and OpenStreetMap in the framework of the project “50 radicals of Britain” was published by the oldest newspaper The Observer. “Pretty soon the moment will come when it will become just silly to use any other data. Someday we will look back and wonder why someone else made cards differently. ”
- Developers, you can help in implementing the most important goals of the project (and there are still plans for 2012 ).
- The OSM project is presented in the upper chamber of the French parliament , the EU information sites are encouraged to use OpenStreetMap as the main substrate, and the international conference State of the Map (SotM) will take place from 6 to 8 September 2012 in Tokyo .
- OSM now also uses QIWI Wallet , traffic service of the Moscow Government Traffic Management Center ( Yandex and Google cannot be used ), St. Petersburg paving map , Mobile Rambler Maps (?) And Novosibirsk ambulance - OSM now saves time and, pathetically speaking, saves life: "if you know in advance which side to drive up and which access, then you can save up to 10 minutes of driving time."
- New source of satellite images to work on OSM! Images from Bing ( updated !), ASTER (Russia), IRS (west of Russia), SPOT4 (east of Russia), SPOT (Belarus) are added images from OrbView-3 . But besides this, you can still just buy a picture yourself or with friends and use it in drawing up a map of your locality.
- New applications: Android ( well-known on Habré offline mapping program MapsWithMe), Android (bug fix), Windows phones (POI editor) and iOS (OpenSeaMap).
- Map of Izhevsk will be destroyed due to the transition to a new license?
- Wikipedia coordinates are now available in OsmAnd .
- A new plug-in “ MapsMaker ” for Wordpress integrates an OSM map into your blog.
- On February 7, 2012, an international marathon was held , when OSM participants from around the world spent the whole NIGHT flying around the satellite images.
- Goodbye, Osmarender Render and Mapzen Editor .
- The only daily updated routing database for CIS countries is available at openstreetmap.by .
- According to statistics, Russia is the second most active country in the entire project ( more statistics ).
- Created the Council of the Russian OSM ( why? )
- “ Recently, I prefer more and more to use space photography, reading news in the internet. You come home from work, you want to be distracted, loaded a section of the map and start to circle .
- Special style card for use as a substrate for color statistics .
- Rendered MapSurfer.NET render .
- A new ferry across the Moscow-Andreevskoe River - Lytkarino: only in OSM .
- The Netherlands removes restrictions on the database of roads and postal addresses .
- JOSM repository for Ubuntu .
- In the summer they will refine the map of the Alps .
- New installation and configuration guides .
- OSM presentations: " Changing the World, One Map at a Time " and on IGNITE Dublin .
- Research "OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007-2011" .
- OSM in Bangladesh .
- OSM in the Philippines .
- Humor: a hipster vintage car shooting panoramas for openstreetmap .
- Offtopic: Moscow City Hall has spent 20 million rubles in order not to use Yandex .
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/139200/
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