News from the world of OpenStreetMap №460 (05/07/2019 - 13/05/2019)

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Cards

• On the Internet portal Bexhill-OSM , which contains a detailed map of the English city of Bexhill-on-Sea, the opportunity to see pictures of interesting buildings (1300 shots), as well as 360 panoramas, in full screen mode. How to do this is explained in this tweet .
• The public Swiss geoportal made OSM-based vector map accessible to all. As notes (automatic translation ) Boris Meritsky in his tweet, the style of the test card can be changed, but quite a bit.
• The site of the Russian OSM community ( openstreetmap.ru ) has recently updated POI and address information.
• Dmitry Konoshonkin made a guide to Krasnoyarsk. As a base map, he used OpenStreetMap.

Do you know …

• ... all the values ​​of tags from the group "Life cycle of objects", with which you can indicate the current state of an object? Basically, tags from this group are used to separate already constructed and functioning objects and those that are only being designed or are under construction or, on the contrary, are already closed, moved or demolished. This is done to ensure that this information is still stored in the OSM database and can be searched for.
• ... how to mark a door that opens automatically? For this there is an automatic_door key. This information can be useful to people with disabilities, as in this way they will know that this door will open itself - without their help.
• ... about this video portuguese tv channel tvi? He was sent to us by one of the users, who noted that it confirms the use of OSM in a government body responsible for civil defense.
• ... ¹ about the open data card of various OpenSenseMap sensors? SenseBox offers students and interested citizens an OSM-based platform for collecting and publishing data from various dimensions.

OSM in the media

• On the radio "Echo of Moscow" in the program "Iznanka" interview with the Russian cartographer Nikita. In an interview, he often mentions OpenStreetMap. For example, Nikita believes that the basics of OSM should be told in school geography lessons.
• In the latest issue of the Japanese magazine about GIS technology "Map Central" (automatic translation ) several articles about OpenStreetMap: about crisis mapping, mapping, ODbL and much more. Of course, all materials were prepared by members of the OSM community.

Other “geo” events

• Timofey Samsonov in his article ( PDF ) (co-authored) talks about the automatic addition of middle horizontals. Software for generating the main contour lines and counting them has been around for almost 50 years. However, medium horizontals are drawn only where there is a place and it makes sense to show relief. A version for ArcGIS can be found on GItHub .
• With the support of a number of large companies, the Linux Foundation has created a new foundation, the Urban Computing Foundation. It is planned that he will be engaged in the development and promotion of open source software, which is somehow related to mobility.
• ZDNet talks about The Ordnance Survey, a national mapping agency in the UK, which aims to create a highly accurate, real-time map for 5G planning and autonomous driving. Data collection will be performed by processing images taken by utility vehicles, which are equipped with special cameras.

Open data

• CycleStreets wrote a blog post about the alleged release of information on 240,000 elements of the bicycle infrastructure in Greater London published by Transport for London as open data. The article points to a newly created sample map for some areas to allow OSM cartographers to evaluate data. Please note that we are not yet allowed to use the data in OSM.

Software

• CleanTechnica, a technology-oriented site, promotes A Better Route Planner (ABRP), a router powered by OpenStreetMap data, designed for electric vehicles. The site explains why OpenStreetMap matters, and how users can start editing to improve mobility on an electrical basis.
• The geohacker member from the Development Seed team introduces the first stand-alone field mapping tool called “Observe”. Longrid is dedicated to motivation, quick start guide, future plans and requests to write a review.

Programs

• Announced release of the library Leaflet version 1.5. If you have problems with the export module, the correction of the problem with which is the only entry in the change log, then you should upgrade to 1.5.1.
• Westnordost member has released version 12 of the StreetComplete application. In the new version a new quest is added “What is this place called?” Also added some improvements .
• Many new tests for testing OT data have recently been added to Jungle Bus validators for JOSM (they improve the quality of public transport data in OSM):
  
  • new tags interval, opening_hours and interval: conditional
  • line color designation OT
  • tag differences between route_master and route relationships
  • walking bus routes
  • bus and bus station areas
  • etc.
  
  

  These validators can be enabled in the JOSM Preferences> Data Validator> Attribute Checker Rules tab.

  
  You can help translate into your language.
  
• The OsmAnd team promised to bring the version of their iOS application to the same level as on Android. Recently released version 2.70. The blog details about the new features. Nevertheless, you need to go a long way, since Android version 3.30 was published in March 2019.

Mapping

• Osmose now uses MapCSS-based OpenRailwayMap project validation rules to verify railway infrastructure.
• Dr. Erin Ryan discovered several gaps and errors in OpenStreetMap around the city of Charlottesville (Va.) While attempting to geocoding arrest information. Several points were identified that signify a prison, as well as the lack of clarification of “Advanced” on some roads, for example, on Avon Street .
• Not so long ago, Christopher Beddou of Mapillary traveled and was lucky: he found good weather in Scotland, and therefore filmed several magnificent landscapes.
• In the golf simulator, due to the use of data from OSM, it is possible to display fairly accurately the fields for this game.
• Nick Bolten wants to change the way he uses pedestrian crossings, because he believes that the existing tag crossing=* not quite true in terms of orthogonality, understanding and semantics. With his sentence ( crossing=marked ) he stirred up the wasp nest: this tag is already in iD, but its use is only being discussed .
• Quincy Morgan, one of the developers of the online editor iD, introduced a new tag - nonsquare=yes . He suggests using it for buildings where some or all of the angles are not straight. The idea is to thus avoid the display of such buildings when checking for errors. Quincy Morgan was asked to discuss the introduction of this tag with the OSM community, but he ignored it. This behavior is criticized by several users on the Talk mailing list.
• TBKMrt wants to expand the range of values ​​for the key toll=* , which is now used in 98.98% of cases only with Yes / No values. He suggests complicating the key type to toll=<COUNTRY CODE>:<TYPE> , where the values ​​of <TYPE> can be as follows: fee (fee), vignette (toll road), meter (parking meter ) or no (no). The key toll:type= can also be used with distance (distance) or time (time) values.

switch2OSM

• OpenStreetMap US published a link to the Associated Press article on how data from the US Census Bureau, Cal Fire and OpenStreetMap were combined to assess escape routes during fires.

Community

• Osmer from Germany dktue inquired (automatically translated ) in the Austrian Talk newsletter why postal codes are not recorded in Austria throughout the country, as is done in Germany. During the discussion, it turned out that he was talking about the designation of postal codes through drawing multipolygons, which cannot be so easily implemented in Austria, since the necessary data are missing.
• The famous Russian Osmer Ilya Zverev began to produce a podcast about GIS technologies - “Cartoklipsis” (in Russian). In each issue, he, Sergey Golubev and Maxim Dubinin (CEO of NextGIS ) discuss one specific topic related to GIS. In the penultimate release, called OpenStreetMap Kills , they talked about the negative impact of OSM.
• alexkemp studied the flow of spam (30 thousand messages per day), which appeared in OSM diaries from the end of April. In his blog, he talks in detail about the rule he proposes “ no edits - no diary, ” which can stop spammers.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• In the German branch of FOSSGIS received applications for grants from the developers of OpenLayers (automatic translation ) and Overpass (automatic translation ). The first ones want to receive funding for a five-day programming marathon, which would eliminate the existing errors in their open Javascript library, as well as work to speed it up and simplify it. The latter would like to update the Overpass development server, which is now running on a computer five years ago.
• The minutes of the April 11 working group meeting on licenses has been published.
• At the end of May, the OSMF Council will meet in person in Brussels, and therefore it has already begun gathering topics and issues that, in the opinion of the community, should be considered at this meeting. You can send them through a questionnaire specially created for this.
• A year ago, the Open Source Initiative , which also collaborates with the Linux Foundation , the Python Software Foundation , the Wikimedia Foundation, and many others , invited the OSM Foundation to become its partner. The OSMF Council agreed.

Developments

• The site FOSS4G Hokkaido 2019 is open (automatic translation ). The meeting will be held in Sapporo on July 12 and 13. Applications for reports and seminar topics will be accepted until May 24th.

Humanitarian OSM

• Mapillary and HOT are collaborating to speed up the collection of map data in small-mapped regions with the launch of the campaign # map2020. They ask local cartographers to provide pictures of the streets, these data are needed for humanitarian purposes. Two winners will be invited to the HOT Summit in Heidelberg, Germany, in September of this year.

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