News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 477 (09/03/2019 - 09.09.2019)

Development Seed announces the launch of mapping.team service, with which it is possible to coordinate the actions of cartographers and create communities ¹ | kamicut, development seed

Clarification

• In the previous news release, there was information that vacant seats would soon appear in the OSMF Council. Not so long ago, it was clarified that there will be 4 vacant posts, and not three, as we reported earlier. Heather Leson resigns from the OSMF Council until the end of his term of office.

Mapping

• The OSM community in Guinea has tweeted that it has begun collecting information on illegal landfills in the Ratoma municipality in Conakry, Guinea's capital. Data will be displayed on the uMap thematic map.
• The user of Ruben suggests to add the opening_hours tag opening_hours new key, which would allow to indicate the need for pre-recording, if necessary.
• Jeremiah Rose suggested using the footway=indoor tag to indicate routes inside buildings, but still has not said how it differs from the existing highway=corridor tag.
• Andrew from the Maps team at Apple uploaded to MapRoulette the alleged road network and routing errors in Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Tunisia, Uganda, and South Africa that were flagged by their own Atlas validator.
• The SK53 attempted to bring together all the tags that designate showgrounds in the UK. He got a rather controversial selection.
• A purely German discussion - how many lanes are on the road if there is no marking on it. The material published on the Zeit Online website provides (automatic translation ) arguments for cartographers who believe that the number of stripes depends on the physical width.
• The transport company Lyft, headquartered in San Francisco (USA), spoke about its work in identifying and correcting errors in OSM.
• Students from the University of Miami and GIS specialists launched the Bahamas Carton to help the Bahamas quickly eliminate the effects of the devastating Hurricane Dorian .

Community

• The OSM Irish community has applied for OSM Foundation local representation in both parts of the Irish Island: Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. All but one support the idea of ​​creating one organization that would bring together cartographers in both countries.

Imports

• Brian M. Sperlongano wants to import the borders of statistically isolated areas in Hawaii. However, the question arises - how to mark these boundaries, because they do not meet the requirements of the boundary=administrative tag, which indicates administrative boundaries.
• At the SotM 2019 conference in the USA, Facebook demonstrated software that can recognize satellite images of buildings and allows you to import this data into OSM using the RapiD online editor.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Nuno Caldeira drew attention to the new "Report a bug" button on maps posted to Facebook. Unfortunately, if you click on it and try to report an error, then there will be no link or mention of OSM anywhere, only “Facebook maps” are indicated there. Nuno has already raised the question that Facebook does not properly indicate OSM attribution and literally three months ago requested the OSM Foundation to convince Facebook to do everything according to the provisions of the license.
• OSM Foundation's trademark policy remains a relevant topic on the mailing list, as not everyone agrees with the existing procedures.
• In anticipation of the OSM Foundation’s annual general meeting, Michael Reichert reminds everyone how to renew (automatically transfer ) their membership in the Fund. At the same time, he asks everyone to observe a number of small rules, which will facilitate the life of the OSMF Membership Working Group. He also encourages everyone to join the Fund.

Developments

• This year, tickets to the State of the Map conference were sold out on September 6, 2019. If you could not attend it, you can always watch the broadcasts in real time or in the recording . More about this in the program .
• September 12 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) as part of the Einfachbahn project initiative (automatic translation ) was organized (automatic translation ) cartographic party . Two groups of participants tried to collect various information about the railway at the Frankfurt-Hochst and Frankfurt-Redelheim stations, and then jointly entered the data into OSM using JOSM.
• The organizers of the FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference are looking for a venue for the event next year .
• The next meeting of the Franco-German cross-border OSM community will take place (automatic translation ) on September 28, 2019 in Strasbourg.
• The SigInfoLibre blog talks about (automatic translation ) a seminar for OpenStreetMap community leaders in French-speaking countries in Africa. The seminar is being held at the University of Lome in Togo with the support of the Francophonie international organization. In the program: lectures on OpenStreetMap, project management, IT and free digital mapping technologies.
• Rappersville University (Switzerland) can often be heard when talking about innovative technologies and services using OSM. Therefore, it is logical that the Rappersville University has applied for the State of the Map conference next year, from June 19-21, 2020.
• March 11-14, 2020 in Freiburg (Germany) will host the annual FOSSGIS 2020 conference (automatic translation ), which brings together experts in geo-software with open source code and OpenStreetMap. As usual, the last day of the conference will be dedicated to OSM.
• The non-profit organization Missing Maps plans to hold another cartographic marathon at the Doctors Without Borders office in Brussels. The event, entitled “Save the world - make a map” will be held on September 24, 2019.
• Ilya Zverev prepared notes on the State of the Map conference in the USA: Wednesday , Thursday , Friday.

Education

• The French NGO CartONG, specializing in mapping and related services for humanitarian organizations, is looking for a data specialist who is ready to move to the city of Chambery (France).

We pass to OSM

• Severin Kann tweeted that in Cracow trams, OpenStreetMap is used as the substrate on which their online traffic is displayed.

Software

• [1] Development Seed announced the launch of the mapping.team service, with which you can coordinate the actions of cartographers and create communities. On their blog, they provided a complete overview of the features of this service and asked to test the beta version , deploy the entire service or correct the code on GitHub .
• Simon Poole posted screenshots of the interface of the new version of Vespucci mobile editor for Android devices, which is still under development. Vespucci v.14 beta is expected to be released in September.

Releases

• A new version of OsmAnd (v. 3.0) for iOS has been released. It made it possible to perform various actions with the map from the main screen, also now you can download the desired map directly from the context menu. In addition, tips have been added for tags and their values ​​in the OpenStreetMap editing mode.

Did you know …

• ... about the OSM Science Mailing List? There they discuss ideas for future research, the formation of surveys and communication with scientists participating in the OSM project.
• ... that there are at least two different types of gas stations? Some are charged with liquefied petroleum gas (( fuel:lpg )) (propane), and others with natural gas ( fuel:cng ) (methane). Do not confuse these values ​​when marking gas stations, as they are incompatible with each other!

OSM Media

• The LinuxInsider website announces the release of a new version of OSGeoLive. OSGeoLive is a Linux distribution specializing in geospatial applications.

Other geo events

• The OpenMaptiler blog highlights the highlights of the FOSS4G 2019 conference in Bucharest.
• Elijah Zarlin from Mapbox talks about 15 new projects that were created using Mapbox tools.
• The “Pudding” portal has released a “ Map of the United States People ”, which instead of city names shows the names of the most famous people from these settlements according to Wikipedia. There is a similar map for the UK.
• When building a route using public transport , Google Maps now adds suggestions for using ridersharing cars (Uber, Lyft) to save even more time.
• The 1983 North American Geodetic Coordinate System (The North American Datum of 1983) of the year is the Everest of classical geodesic art that was developed before satellite imagery replaced everything. Tim Birch reflects on the problems that will arise in connection with the fact that in 2022 a new coordinate system will appear, which will replace the venerable NAD83.
• It is no surprise to anyone that the behavior of Pokémon GO players is controversial in the OSM community. The Silph Road website tells and shows how some OSM tags prevent new Pokémon from appearing in certain places in the game. Of course, this is not about OSM, but about how the data is processed by Niantic.

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