News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 471 (07.23.2019-29.07.2019)

On August 10, 2019, OpenStreetMap will celebrate its 15th anniversary! | OSM logo by Ken Vermette

Mapping

• Facebook said it plans to make the Intelligent Recognition service available to OSM mappers in its RapiD editor. According to media reports , Facebook plans to improve the data that it uses for its own purposes. Recall that the experiments of this company in mapping using artificial intelligence not so long ago caused a lot of questions and complaints .
• Joseph Eisenberg tried to improve the process of preparing new tagging schemes. Especially for this, he created a page in WikiOSM where he collected 13 properties (characteristics) that certain tagging schemes may possess.
• The waterway=tidal_channel , which was proposed by Joseph Eisenberg, is approved . They are encouraged to mark natural tidal waterways. Recall that the discussion on this tag took place in September 2018. A corresponding article has already appeared in WikiOSM describing this tag. The information was taken from the page on which the proposal for the new tagging scheme was drawn up.

Community

• Despite the fact that we were a little late, nevertheless we want to say a big thank you to our system administrator and congratulate them on the day of the system administrator , which was celebrated on July 26 this year.
• Erwin on the Austrian Talk mailing list is interested (automatic translation ), are there already those who have tried the online editor from Facebook - RapiD , in which there is a function of intellectual recognition of objects. They answered him (automatic translation ) several links to discussions of this tool in the Thai forum , where it is not praised.s
• Russian user Valery Trubin published a post “A few thoughts on OSM attribution”, which tells what he does when he notices that someone is using data from OSM without attribution. He suggests not passing by, but contacting the developers and explaining everything intelligibly. He responded positively to his requests: the administration of Nizhny Novgorod, the tourism portal Azur , etc.
• On his STOSM blog, Ilya Zverev talks about why the plus and minus buttons are not needed on interactive maps.

Foundation Foundation

• The minutes of the OSMF Council meeting of July 17, 2019 are published .

Developments

• Now is the time to plan and start promoting your OSM birthday celebration, which will be 15 years old on August 10, 2019.
• Registration for the HOT summit has begun, which will take place on the eve of the State of the Map conference on September 19-20 in Heidelberg (Germany).
• The GIM International Internet portal has published material devoted to the “International Cartographic Conference” in Tokyo, which recently took place under the motto “We map everything for everyone. Steve Coast, founder of OSM, now vice president of TomTom, spoke about the "Past, Present and Future of OpenStreetMap".

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT announced the winners of its promotion # map2020, during which everyone was invited to shoot panoramas for Mapillary in the most “poor” from the point of view of these regions.
• Philippine authorities are collaborating with the Pacific Center for Disaster Management at the University of Hawaii to tackle the threats of typhoons, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides and climate-related emergencies.

Cards

• The happy cyclist thanks the OSM community at Reddit for providing data that has made it easier for him to go on a bicycle trip.
• The AllTrails online trail guide bought the GPSies service and began displaying its data at home.
• One of the most popular radio stations in Portugal - Renascença, made an Internet page ( translation ), which posted maps of different stages of the " Volta a Portugal " road racing circuit . The maps are based on OSM, which the developers indicated.

We pass to OSM

• A new version of the Threema messenger (v. 4) (iOS and Android) has been released, which has gained popularity due to its privacy and encryption features. In the new version, the graphical interface was updated, the function of displaying the location appeared, which works on a proprietary map based on OSM, and it became possible to archive chats.

Releases

• Martin van Excel has written a post about the new version of MapRoulette. Version 3.3.3 introduced virtual projects for organizing tasks, improved integration with Mapillary, and added the ability to mark a task with tags specific to MapRoulette. \
• Quincy Morgan announced the release of a new version of the online editor OSM - iD. In version v2.15.4, the comment of the previous set of edits is no longer used by default, the direction of spillways is indicated and contains many bug fixes, as well as improved validation mechanisms, new localizations and additional tag blanks have been added.

Did you know …

• According to a BBC article , the steepest road in the world is in Wales, UK. Tilt was added to OSM 9 years ago.
• ... that the Russian company Urbika developed the WalkStreets app? This is an application that builds the most pleasant and comfortable walking routes instead of the shortest and fastest. The application works only in Moscow so far. Available for Android and iOS.
• ... that the Russian company NextGIS made a Territory Impossible card? The map shows places where rallies cannot be held in Russia.

Other geo events

• Dr. Marco Mingini of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission invites members of the OSM-Science mailing list asset to submit their own research articles to the upcoming special issue of the MDPI magazine, “ Achievements in the Use of Geographic Information Created by Volunteers ”.
• The US space agency NASA has developed a special receiver that will allow for positioning on the moon using existing GPS satellites. Maybe we should start the process of preparing tagging schemes for mapping craters.
• 2GIS developers shared how they collect road signs for their service (spoiler: automatically).

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