News from the world of OpenStreetMap №391 (09.01.2018-15.01.2018)

The updated version of the site OpenStreetBrowser online again ¹ .
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Cards

• [1] Stephan Bösch-Plepelits announced that the Openstreetbrowser site is up and running again. He asks for help in creating additional categories for POI (points of interest).
• Holiday apartments ( tourism=apartment tag) are becoming increasingly popular not only in Europe. There are more than 14,000 objects in the OSM database, and by this they deserve to be displayed on the main cartostile of the osm-carto. Missing matching icon. Any ideas or your input would be welcome .
• A research team in Oxford, England, calculated travel times to major cities around the world using data from the Google Earth Engine and OpenStreetMap. Galleries of maps for different places were published in The Guardian and Spiegel-online .
  Owen Boswarva notes that this dataset is released under CC-BY 4.0. He asks if there is any conflict with the ODbl license. This topic is further discussed in the legal-talk mailing list.

Mapping

• Curtis Melvin of 38 North states that his work on North Korea was copied by OSM editors.
• Xavier Sanchez Portero (Javier Sánchez Portero) would like to have a tool to filter objects that were added at a certain time with a specific tag in a certain area. He was asked several times to use the Overpass API, this tool partially met his expectations.
• Stefan Nagy started a discussion in the Talk-AT mailing list about short-term parking areas in Vienna. This discussion then continued on the tagging mailing list.
• Fernando Trebien (Fernando Trebien) asks in the Tagging mailing list how to correctly identify the method of laying Portuguese sidewalks , which consists of small stone slabs made up of a mosaic-like matrix.
• A reddit user reports that the latest updates of ESRI World Imagery snapshots are not as good as previous versions. The forum has a topic with a similar message.
• Peter Vander Vennet (Pieter Vander Vennet) explained in his diary how he notes various types of cobblestone / settled pavement in Bruges, Belgium.
• Wille Marcel will share news about the latest updates and improvements to the OSMCha validator.

Community

• In the talk mailing list, Michael Reichert raises the question of how automatically it is possible to automatically create comments to the editing packages. He also criticizes the new feature for posting comments with the OSMCha validator.
• Peter Vander Venet (Pieter Vander Vennet) Cartographer of the month in January 2018.
  He learned about OSM several years ago when one of his students introduced him to OsmAnd. His first editing was on the ski slopes in Austria, and now his attention is focused on bike lanes. It maps both on trips and at home using a combination of OsmAnd, StreetComplete, JOSM and iD. Read the full interview in the osm.be blog, do not miss it!
• Randy Meech, founder and CEO of Mapzen, sets out his personal thoughts on closing Mapzen and on the philosophy of his business strategy.
• Joost Schouppe announced the creation of the OSM-Science mailing list, the purpose of which is to tell about the latest scientific research, develop an OSM research agenda and get feedback, as well as support your planned OSM research. This mailing appeared as part of the OSM project for scientists (OSM-science-communication), organized by Peter Mooney, Frank Ostermann and Just himself.

Imports

• In OSM there will be data on speed limits on the UK railways. Member Legolash2oLiam reports on preparations for importing. This is also discussed in the Import mailing list.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• On January 10, 2018, the Pineapple Fund (a fund of an unknown owner of bitcoins) donated 18 Btc (about € 200,000) to the OSM Foundation budget. This is about 1.5 times the entire annual budget of the OSM Foundation. Details can be found on Reddit and on the OSM blog .
• The Board of the OSM Foundation plans to extend the contract of its administrative assistant Dorothea for another year.
• The meeting of the OSMF Council, the first since the time of the annual meeting of the members of the OSMF, was held on Thursday, January 18th. The agenda and draft minutes from the previous November meeting are now available for review.
• On January 15, the Engineering Working Group of the OSM Foundation held a meeting , the focus of which was participation in Google Summer of Code 2018.

Developments

• The FOSSGIS 2018 conference will be held in Bonn, Germany (March 21-24). The annual conference in German is always organized by the local team, FOSSGIS eV and the OSM community.
• Currently, proposals are being collected for various sessions - reports, lectures and master classes - for the State of the Map International Conference 2018, which will be held in Milan, Italy (July 28-30). The deadline for receiving applications is February 18.
• The OpenStreetMap US community is looking for speakers for SotM-US conferences in 2018 and 2019.

Humanitarian OSM

• The HOT humanitarian team supports five projects of the Turkish community using laptops and smartphones, obtained through a grant from Nethope. An example of community activity is represented by the history of mapping a locality by 17-year-old Leila, a refugee from Syria.

Open data

• Budget cuts may force the USDA to charge for the use of satellite imagery from the National Agriculture Imaging Program. Mapbox in its blog explains why this is a bad idea.

Programming

• The OSM Operations team prepares changes for “HTTPS-by-default” (HTTPS-default), and asks all developers to test the integration of OAuth with the test site.
• Paul Norman asks in the dev mail list about the size of the meta files.
• Mapbox would like to convince former Mapzen customers to become Unity users.

Other “geo” events

• The Mapbox office in Washington, DC will move to a new location.

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