News from the world of OpenStreetMap №393 (01/23/2018-29.01.2018)

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Cards

• Francisco Morales (Franscisco Morales) tweeted Monde Geospatial on the video tutorial on how to download watershed marks from OpenStreet Map for ArcGIS.
• Ilya Zverev revived OpenWhHearMap , originally created by Grant Slater. Look at the unusual visualization of the map!
• In the next version, the style of the OSM-Carto map will display different military zones differently, see the pull request from andrzej-r with its examples.

switch2OSM

• Niantic has updated its card data for PokemonGo and Ingress to December 15, 2017. Unfortunately, this will further increase the vandal edits in OSM.

Mapping

• Matej Lieskovský started a discussion in the mailing list about how to handle non-breaking spaces in the name tag. Some languages, in this case Czech, have rules about how the name can be displayed when split into two lines. The question is whether such rules should be applied directly to the data in the OSM database or already by data consumers.
• Christoph Hormann prepared satellite layers of parts of the Antarctic and the Western Alps based on Landsat and Sentinel 2 satellite images. He also asked if these images are suitable for leaf_cycle mapping (specifying tag for forest types).
• Soon OSM editor Vespucci (for Android ) will support the background of images from the site OpenAerialMap .
• Voting for a proposal on the piste:type=connection tag for connections between ski lifts and tracks is open until February 8.
• Voting for the proposal on the hydropower facilities tagging scheme was suspended due to comments.

Community

• Scott Davies (Scott Davies) tweeted a link to a poster that depicts the buildings of the Walthamstow district in London, he made it using data from OpenStreetMap in QGIS and Inkscape programs.
• In France held a cartove in La Fabrique Numerique, Gonesse municipality, where data was simultaneously added to OSM and Google maps.
• Post Mortem III: Randy Meech wrote another post about closing Mapzen. It contains a description of the future for former members of his team and Mapzen products.
• On Reddit, BeFlatXIII user launched a discussion about mapping villages in Ohio in OpenStreetMap, which led to inconsistencies.
  Among the answers are relevant links to the OSM Wiki and to the US mailing list.

Imports

• Completed all the preparatory work on the plan to import buildings from the Spanish cadastre. Imports will start as soon as possible, first in Tenerife and in the city of Malaga.
• Albert Pundt proposes to improve the borders in Pennsylvania using TIGER 2017 data. Comments recommend using the “Replacement of geometry” from the utilsplugin2 plug-in for JOSM.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSM Foundation Licensing Working Group published a FAQ on the recently adopted Trademark Policy, together with other relevant documents .

Developments

• Currently, applications for the Scientific Report flow to the State of the Map 2018 conference are open .
• On April 14 and 15, the hackathon of OpenStreetMap will be held at the DB-Mindbox in Berlin. And even earlier, already on February 17, the Geofabrik company is also conducting a similar hackathon on OSM in Karlsruhe.
• March 3 is celebrated as Open Data Day. Join or organize a similar event. Mapbox made a mini-grants program to help local communities share the benefits of open data, especially in the field of open mapping. Find out more about this at this link .
• On 3 March, Infoculture invites to the “ Open Data Day in Moscow ” in the Blagosfera space. Also, the Open Data Day will be held in St. Petersburg and Kazan .

Humanitarian OSM

• The HOT humanitarian team reports on the problem of refugees in Northern Uganda, of which up to 7,000 people arrive per day, and there are 1.3 million of them in all, they are fleeing from the violence that occurs over them in South Sudan. HOT attempts to provide equipment and train locals along with refugees to create and use maps for the organized use of drinking water sources.
• The HOT, OpenStreetMap and ThinkWhere (GIS company in Scotland) organizations were mentioned in the UK parliamentary debates.

Programming

Frederik Ramm suggests introducing a function in the OSM API that allows moderators to rename user accounts that use obscene names.

Heidelberg Institute of Geographic Information Technologies is looking for a developer backend (Java or C ++). The contract is limited to two years.
The Nakaner member has released a C ++ program called PrepDelRels , which determines which lines become unnecessary when deleting a relationship. It is based on the source code of Osmium, a fast and efficient library for processing OpenStreetMap data.

Programs

• OSM-Carto version 4.7.0 is released. Added icon for tourism=apartment , and now the entrances to buildings are displayed. Full list of changes can be found here .
• The release of Mapbox Navigation SDK for iOS v0.13.0 announced the possibility of tracking the user's location on the map in offline mode, the Danish and partially ready Hebrew localization.
  In the version of Mapbox Navigation SDK for Android v0.9.0 , it is possible to recalculate a marshut in the background, the appearance of the turn signal is improved, route numbers are added, and much more.

Do you know …

• ... about the FacilMap platform for collaborative route planning?

Other “geo” events

• Historical Mapire maps can be compared with each other or with modern OpenStreetMap maps, as well as with satellite images of Here Aerial.
• The Colorado Congress Center in Denver, Colorado has a 3D interior map based on OpenStreetMap data.
• “ Indoor AR navigation with AR and using Unity” is a Mapbox blog post that shows how to use the Mapbox Maps SDK.
• Here has acquired the Micello indoor mapping startup.
• The Microsoft Power User Magazine suggests that the start of using Google Maps APIs in Microsoft applications foreshadows the imminent end of Bing Maps.
• On the website of the Guardian newspaper report that the map tracks from the fitness application Strava, you can reveal the location of the secret bases of the US Army
• TomTom ceases to provide what has been sold as “lifelong” data updates for some navigation devices (some of which are still on sale or just recently released). “Anonymaps” jokingly commented on this on Twitter.
• Due to military exercises, from January 26 to February 18, interruptions are expected , and problems with GPS in the western part of the United States.
• Brian Reinhart of Dallas Observer found that many restaurants that do not exist in real life are present on Google Maps and in services that rely on it. During his research, it was easy for him to create and remove another imaginary restaurant. He could not understand why this is possible, although perhaps someone just likes to create fake data?

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