OpenStreetMap News №14: Apple and geokeshery also leave Google Maps, monitoring of transport in St. Petersburg - on OSM, and our Linux users continue to ignore this success of freedom
- After the transition, Fubra, GPSies, Nestoria, StreetEasy.com, Active.com, Toursprung and Stamen Maps on OpenStreetMap followed them to the free maps by foursquare geolocation service (immediately causing a 30% increase in traffic on openstreetmap.org and during the last week 66% according to Alexa.com), geocaching.com , and now ... Apple! Yes, yes, that same Apple, as it was found out during the investigation , refused to use Google Maps in the desktop application iPhoto, and the new application for iOS immediately came out without Google Maps. True, Apple, which is so vehemently fighting for copyright around the world, did not indicate the source of the data at all, for which she was immediately given the title of “ thieves bastards ”. But nevertheless, the OSM Foundation is happy (by the way, why? ) And is hoping to cooperate with Apple in deciding the question of attribution. But that's not all. For some reason, Apple used data from 2010 and made an incredibly disgusting style of the map, which Apple wasn’t expected , though it’s hard without Jobs . You can see this here and compare it with OSM .
- We can safely say that the psychological barrier in using OSM has been overcome and now even more sites will use OSM. Why don't you think about switching to OSM ? Do not forget to tell about your positive decision to # switch2osm .
- By the way, " Google is not our enemy ." You remember that, don't you?
- The state system of monitoring public transport in St. Petersburg was launched , of course, on the OSM card, because ... other services simply prohibit such use of their card.
- Video Abakan online mapping party , held in January on ... the virtual territory of the real Khakassia.
- An OpenStreetMap data page about the former USSR was updated in Shape and PostGIS + statistics .
- According to a vote on the site about (attention!) Free OS LINUX.org.ru, 68% of users “do not use and are not interested” in a free card that is available under a free license and supports the entire open source philosophy. Very strange. And this is despite the fact that the FSF directly calls for maintaining, as a matter of priority, the early creation of a free alternative to Google Earth. And what do OSMery think?
- It is reported that in Brazil, after receiving new satellite images from Bing and switching 4sq to OSM (which the Brazilians didn’t like very much, because in this case the map deteriorated somewhat), they began to draw a map with such fierce rage that several participants at once time taken for the same piece of the map and there are numerous conflicts. At the same time, statistics show that Brazil is in 14th place in terms of activity . Russia, let me remind you, is on the 2-3 place, second only to geographical maniacs from Germany ( in German Wikipedia the topic of geography is extremely popular as well as nowhere , which is not very good news for the rest of the world, which Jimmy Wales seemed to hint at) from France (government connected?).
- Yandex has placed (anti) People's map on maps.yandex.ru and it is possible that it will become somewhat more popular. Well ... as you know, NCL is mainly used as a sandbox for training future OpenStreetMap participants, because all folk cartographers, having gained experience and understood the NCF imperfection (what is called "defective by design"), for self-improvement and career growth (if applicable in crowdsourcing) will inevitably move straight to OSM. “ Join and you ”
- Another map that, using the Overpass API, shows hotels , for example.
- Moved to the server of the University of Heidelberg, the very beloved in Russia MapSurfer.Net engine was called OpenMapSurfer and can display relief.
- The official Wikipedia app for Android has moved from Google Maps to OSM .
- MapQuest has improved the style of its OSM-based map (I remind you that it can be placed on websites without any restrictions on attendance and workload)
- Fast routeing through OpenStreetMap across Europe .
- Recommendations for collecting data for OSM .
- Analysis of the state of the US road network in OSM .
- The Humanitarian OSM Team is going to create a manual on OSM in Haitian Creole language (the largest Creole language in the world, if someone did not know).
- New program for Windows - OSM Explorer (rendering and routing).
- Video about the new open source tool Freemind .
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/139641/
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