OpenStreetMap News Digest

Hi, Habr! I present to you the translation of the digest " weeklyOSM 400 ".

Mapping

• Russel Deffner (Russel Deffner) launched a repeated request for discussion (RFC) of the proposed tag shop=cannabis .
• The stage of voting for the proposal on aircraft signal lights is already open . This sentence implies accurate tagging of signal light sources on high-altitude objects (towers, buildings) in order to prevent collisions with aircraft in flight.
• Another proposal for contractors, for example, in the construction of an office building, was published by Christopher Baze as a contractor= tag. Voting is open until April.
• Carlos Brice from Argentina reopens the discussion on the forum about tags for various types of paving, especially the “Brazilian” type (version of Portuguese paving) mentioned earlier on the Tagging mailing list.
• Geochicas (“Geodevushki”, isp. ) Launched their Twitter project called #LasCallesDeLasMujeres (Streets of Women), in which they created a map for analyzing gender balance in the nomenclature of Latin American and Spanish streets with links to women's biographies on Wikipedia, after which named streets.
• A proposal for pedestrian connections between the ski lifts and the ski slopes was accepted .
• Strava has updated its heat map. The maximum zoom level is now limited to 12. In addition, places with very little activity will not be shown. As a result, in most cases it will be much more difficult to track or link tracks to a strongly pixelated heat map.

Community

• The size of the OpenStreetMap community has reached one million registered members!
• GeoHipster interviewed the Anonymaps behind the project on Twitter.
• Levente Juhász created a tweet about his new, freely available publication about how to contribute to OpenStreetMap and about “bringing up” cartographers with a view to their long-term participation.
• Maurizio Napolitano (user napo) published a proposal on the Mappers in Residence wiki (Resident Cartographers). This proposal is to replicate the resident wiki experience in OpenStreetMap: the idea of ​​volunteers to help institutions or companies provide their information to the world of open data.
• “OpenStreetMap, MapaNica and buses in Nicaragua” is the name of a presentation recently held in Esteli, Nicaragua, which explains the process of mapping bus routes in Managua and Esteli. Additional information is available in the blog;
• OpenCageData interviewed Andy Mubbett , who is active in the Wikidata and OpenStreetMap communities. He spoke about the connections between them.
  
  
• Valentina Carraro and Bart Wissink wrote an article about the underrepresentation of minorities on OpenStreetMap and the risk that real-world inequality leaks into potentially democratic crowdfunding projects. The full article is available only for paid subscribers.

Data import

• It appears that over two months in Portugal, large amounts of data were imported into OSM without prior approval or documentation;
• Ilya Zverev gained access to the Navady data set at more than 59 thousand gas stations around the world. Currently, the data is checked and prepared for import - the current status can be tracked in the mailing list on imports and on a dedicated wiki page .

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Michael Reichert in the OSMF-Talk list suggests closing several inactive or low-active unmoderated sections from the OSM forum in order to make better use of the moderator time.
• March 15, a meeting of the OSMF Council. Nakaner published a report on the OSM forum (in German). Christoph (Christoph) commented on his blog discussion about the translation of the OSMF site into other languages.

Developments

• Lars Lingner recalls ( his. , Translation ) of the upcoming OSM Hackweekend , which will be held in DB-Mindbox in Berlin on April 14-15.
• The next Grazer Linuxtage will be held April 27-28 in Graz (Austria) at the FH Joanneum Automotive Engineering course. In addition to various presentations and seminars on open source software, you can also visit the JOSM workshop. The entrance is free.
• The 6th annual conference, organized by OpenStreetMap France, will be held from June 1 to 3 in Pessac, on the campus of the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne . Presentations of participants can be provided here .
• On April 7, the General Assembly of the Swiss Association of OSM, and then the cartographic party, will take place at the Geoinformation Office in Solothurn.

Humanitarian OSM

• sev_osm described in detail in his diary (Fr., translation ) a seminar he held in Dakar with several members of the local OSM community, teaching various advanced editing technologies, processing several available sources of aerial and space images, information about the OSM ecosystem and its management.
• Published minutes of the meeting of HOT US Inc., held March 1.
• Biondi Sima explains what was planned by the Indonesian HOT team in the InAWARE project after the completion of the project in Jakarta.

Cards

• James2432 is working on rendering craft enterprises in OSM Carto.

Open data

• The Uruguayan community gvSIG and GeoForAll Iberoamérica are organizing the 5th Conference on Free and Open Source Geographical Information Technologies, which will be held in Montevideo in October this year.
• The municipality of Tirana agreed to provide its geodata for OpenStreetMap under an open license.
• The Asian Foundation showed in a photo blog how the Nepalese community celebrated Open Data Day. Kathmandu Living Labs organized a map marathon (mapathon), where many participants were introduced to the capabilities of OpenStreetMap.

Licenses

• Wikimedia strongly opposes (its . , Translation ) of the European initiative to introduce filters into Wikimedia Commons when loading data, due to "unprecedented changes" in legislative projects "at the last minute . " John Weitzmann remarked that even Wikipedia "will not avoid similar problems . "

Software

• HeiGIT is currently developing an OpenStreetMap history analysis platform. This will facilitate access to OSM data from the complete change history. The preliminary results of the project can be found on the example of Nepal .
  
  
• Do you want an OSM-based wallpaper on your smartphone? This dream will help implement a web service from Alvar Carto.
• In his article, the publication Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten describes the Calimoto startup. Their navigation application for motorcyclists is distinguished by the fact that they prefer the most scenic and winding routes.
• The OSM forum presented a new editor , primarily designed to add new 3D buildings. Its authors are the creators of PlaceMaker, a paid plugin for SketchUp, which imports and processes 3D geodata in SketchUp. Also, the developers have downloaded an instructional video .

Development

• Beginning May 1, public Geofabrik downloads will no longer contain metadata about OSM users. Access to the full unloading will be possible only through the OSM account.

Releases

• Simon Poole told what will be in the new version 10.2 of the editor Vespucci in his blog .

"Do you know about? .."

• ... script visualization of the query results from the database on the map?
• ... OSM themed flosm maps? There is another new site for creating your own themes for maps.
• ... the OpenMapTiles project? Here you can use a set of tools to create vector world maps that can be hosted or used offline. The program is available as free software at OpenMapTiles.org .
• ... this video , which illustrates our mapping activity in OpenStreetMap since 2006?
  
  

OSM in the media

• The CityLab article on gender distribution among cartographers is discussed on the mailing list and Reddit . While commentators welcome cartographers of all genders and lineages, the statistics mentioned in the article are skeptical.

Other cartographic

• Google maps following OSM now also provide data for wheelchair users . However, so far only in individual cities and less informative than in OSM.
• According to World Bank estimates, half of the world's urban population lives on unnamed streets. Google's Plus Codes are an alternative to regular addresses (city, street, house number). Also, this system is a free alternative to proprietary systems of the "what3words" type.
• Google wants to make life easier for augmented reality gamers like Pokémon Go using the Google Maps API.
  
  
• The article on SciDev discusses the principles of humanitarian mapping.