News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 474 (08/13/2019 - 08/08/2019)

Green areas - information from OpenStreetMap overlaid on satellite image ¹ | CC-BY-SA 2019 Public Lab contributor MaggPi - data OpenstreetMap contributors

Mapping

• Kevin Kenny has begun the development of a protection_class=* tagging scheme that can be used to note the degree of protection of protected areas. The new tagging scheme is protect_class=* replace the existing protect_class=* . The new scheme was designed to increase the readability and usefulness of the tag values ​​that are used with this key. For example, it is proposed to replace not quite clear numerical codes with more conveniently memorable notations.
• MaggPi showed how to work with satellite images in the Jupyter Notebook development environment. For example, combining data from OpenStreetMap with a satellite image, you can understand where the park areas in Nottingham (England) are, or compare them with each other.
• Are you looking to save this? The MapRoulette service has new interesting tasks:
  
  • Indonesia needs help checking places where building contours cross the road
  • In the state of Washington (USA), there is a massive validation of roads that were added to OpenStreetMap as part of the TIGER data import
  • Draw cities in South Africa that are still not marked in OSM
  
  
• User Mark Zoutendijk in his 15th post from the series “Improving OSM? Why not! ” Reflects on the use of the landuse=village_green . He believes that this tag is not used as it should, and has a different meaning in each region.
• An Nvk user talks about his project in which he implemented OSM support for displaying disputed boundaries depending on who visited the site. User Frodrigo is also experimenting with something similar now.
• The street, which has two names: one on the one hand, the other on the other, caused (automatic translation ) a little discussion on the forum about how best to mark it in OSM. It turns out that such a situation in the world is not uncommon. 4 years ago, a solution to this problem was proposed on GitHub. In total, such streets are now in OSM - 4235 . They are marked as name:left/right .
• We note solar panels - this is a UK project for the next quarter. This will help improve forecasting for the grid and reduce the need for power generators that run on non-renewable resources, as they can be in standby mode. After watching the video you can understand how to map solar panels. By the way, already 25 thousand of such batteries are marked !
• The cartographic company lvl5 was bought out and now, as its management notes, “new adventures” are waiting for it, but at the same time, all street panoramas they have paid are currently uploaded to Mapillary. Soon, they will be able to edit OSM.

Community

• Vincent Privat, one of the main developers of JOSM, is unhappy with one of the Core Systems Award nominations this year.
• 10 years ago, Erica Hagen and Mikel Maron began drawing a map of Kibera - Kenya's largest slum. Not so long ago, Mikel wrote an article on his blog about this.
• Frederick Ramm offers to give preference to his own communication channels for communication within OSM, for example, to organize a chat inside the iD online editor. He considers it incorrect that we use services that are controlled from the outside. The same issue was raised by Justom Schuppe in the OSM Community Index project.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• The OSMF Licensing Working Group prepared meeting minutes of July 11, 2019 and August 8, 2019 . Among other things, OSM and Brexit attribution principles were discussed.
• OSMF's UK branch, OpenStreetMap UK CIC Ltd, has submitted to OSMF its annual and financial statements for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019.
• FOSSGIS Board of Directors meeting minutes of May 7 (automatic translation ) and August 13 (automatic translation ) are published.

Developments

• Galway University College Information Center will host an OpenStreetMap event on August 31. It will be organized in conjunction with the local OSM office in Ireland.
• Heidelberg University's Giscience Research Group invites everyone to a free open source routing workshop. The event will take place on September 20, 2019 before the State of the Maps conference.
• Are you planning to attend this year's State of the Map 2019 ? If so, then Christoph Hormann carefully studied the program and compiled a list of recommended lectures for attending. As a bonus, he also analyzed speaker biographies and, based on where OSMF fellowships were awarded, suggests that next year's conference will be held in the Philippines.

Humanitarian OSM

• Overpass Turbo - perfectly copes with requests and display data from OpenStreetMap. But still this is a rather complicated service for users who are not quite versed in OSM. Therefore HOT created its own tool for exporting data from OSM. It allows anyone to select their area of ​​interest, an object, and quickly upload it to the GIS format they need. At the same time, you do not need to understand OSM tags at all, the service allows you to choose from the existing list of blanks.
• Melanie Shabo, the GIS coordinator at the Red Cross, wrote an article about how she conducted a joint campaign with the Missing Maps nonprofit in Canada to improve the resilience of indigenous people to natural disasters.

Cards

• There are excellent tiles on the Fraunhofer server, in which place names are indicated in English. That's cool. But you can’t just take and use them in your project. Have to ask first.
• The Babykarte card , which displays objects for parents of babies, is now localized in French. The new update has a filter that allows you to select game objects and other functions.

Open data

• Rob Kitchin is pleased with how he managed to print a 3D map of Dublin.

Programming

• Nikolay Petrov noted that the Domofond website (rental and sale of real estate) uses OSM data. The surprise was that Yandex.Map was used as a substrate, and OSM data was superimposed on top of it.
• Russian user ZKir has improved its validator, which checks the availability of 3D models for churches and some other historical buildings. Now 3D models are displayed directly on the web page in the validator. It looks like this or like this .

Releases

• The mobile application for public transport in the city of Cochabamba (Bolivia) Trufi is now also available on iOS .

Do you know ...

• ... what can you watch in real time for ship movements on the Vessel Finder website? This site uses data from an automatic identification system and displays it on a map based on OpenStreetMap.
  
• ... what is the difference between the change tag (when driving it is allowed to leave the lane - a U-turn) and overtaking (overtaking is allowed)? Despite the legislation, these two tags are not identical, because overtaking can be allowed even where there is a physical separation of the bands, and a U-turn is possible where you can cross the line.
• ... about the simple and beautiful site Nebo.live , which shows the air quality in Krasnoyarsk?
• ... about the map of restricted areas for flying on a quadrocopter?
• ... how to connect online maps to the navigator in the smartphone (parts 1 , 2 , 3 )

OSM in the media

• It often happens that map edits in OSM are informods, which happened not so long ago in the Waldshvt region (Germany). Albalstrasse has been closed since 2015 due to a rockfall, and this was regarded as evidence (automatic translation ) that it would not be re-opened for traffic.

Other geo events

• Theverge.com has published material from Chinese newspapers, according to which Huawei is working on an alternative to Google Maps. Their own Map Kit is expected to appear in October.
• Radio Garden is a geoservice that allows you to find and listen to live streaming radio stations around the world. Radio Garden appeared in 2016 at the request of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision as part of an exhibition dedicated to the international research project Transnational Radio Broadcasts.
• Transport for London this month published “the world's largest bicycle infrastructure database.” Startups are already using this data to improve their travel planning services. Beeline is now developing its own routing tool built on OpenStreetMap for London.
• Yanko Design creates and sells lighting maps that show what your favorite city would look like from above at night. These maps are based on OSM data.

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