News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 478 (09/10/2019 - 09/16/2019)

Still unfinished map - “Saints of Europe” ¹ | data openstreetMap contributors

Mapping

• Martin Van Axel posted on Twitter his link to the presentation on MapRoulette service that he made during the State of the Map conference in the USA.
• Dan Stowell tweeted that more than 100,000 solar panels were mapped on a quarterly project by the local OSM community in the UK. In his blog, he clarifies that both solar panels located on the roofs and large solar farms were marked on the map.
• Joseph Eisenberg developed a new tagging scheme ( aerodrome= ), which presents more airport classifications: international, commercial, general_aviation, private, airstrip. This tagging scheme should replace the aeroway=airstrip and aerodrome:type=* tags.
• Antoine Jory suggests using the tags reusable_packaging:offer= and reusable_packaging:accept= to identify stores where goods are packed in reusable containers or are offered in such containers to reduce the amount of packaging waste. Antown is waiting for our comments .
• Francesco Ansanelli suggests using the tag highway=tourist_bus_stop to indicate a stop that is only for tourist buses. He even developed a tagging scheme for this.
• Simon Poole said (automatic translation ) that after negotiations with AGIS he included their aerial photographs from March 2019 in the SOSM Mapproxy configuration.
• Hüggelzwerg suggests adding the tag public_transport=stop_area_group to the public_transport=stop_area_group public transport tagging scheme. In his blog, he makes arguments (automatic translation ) in favor of such a decision. It is assumed that the relationship indicated by the tag public_transport=stop_area_group will include several public_transport=stop_area , which will allow connecting the latter in large transport hubs.
• Currently, nearly 125 million building contours are available as an experiment in the RapiD online editor. If you zoom in on the map of the United States in this editor, you can see the proposed buildings and roads. Further information is available on the RapiD website and the GitHub page for the Building footprint dataset.
• On September 23, 2019, voting for the camping tagging scheme developed by Joseph Eisenberg ends.
• Roland Olbricht moderates a session at the State of the Map conference on tag management. On the OSM mailing list, he asks for his opinion on this and share what issues are really important.

Community

• On the Austrian Talk mailing list, there was a discussion (automatic translation ) of an article published on the Golem website that talked about how Lyft is trying to automatically look for errors in OSM (which we mentioned in a previous news release). However, it is not entirely clear from this article that automatically errors are only found, not corrected. Editing is done using the MapRoulette service .
• Sergey Golubev is trying to find out in which cities of Russia the population is growing, and in which - not.
• Valery Trubin continues a series of interviews with Russian mappers. This time he talked with two newcomers ( Ivan aka BANO.notIT and Victor Vyalichkin ) who came to OSM earlier this year. Ilya Zverev draws attention to the unexpected conclusions of these users.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• OSM Community Preliminary Results Published . Five members of the OSMF Council expressed their opinion on this on the OSMF blog.

Developments

• Betaslb wrote in his diary (automatic translation ) about the news published in the Portuguese newspaper Diário Insular, which says that the EuYoutH_OSM team has been in Heidelberg (Germany) for a week now: it studies and attends the events of the SotM-2019 conference.
• Video recordings of presentations from the conference “State of the Map” -2019 in the USA are available for public access .

Humanitarian OSM

• Martin Dittus on his blog said that he completed work on his Ph.D. thesis " Analysis of the participation of volunteers in the work of humanitarian organizations involved in mapping " on the example of the HOT and "Missing Maps" communities. In his scientific work, he also gives an answer to the question: become an activist or are they born?
• HOT introduced a service that displays the status of all HOT tools.

Cards

• The map of Saints of Europe , which is still incomplete, shows European cities named after the saints.

Licenses

• Not everything is so simple with the data posted under the CC-BY license. OSM insists that in such a case there must be an explicit refusal or consent to the use of data from the copyright holder. Graham Fitzpatrick asked if he could use Australian QTopo maps . Despite the fact that OSM requires additional permission, the owner of these cards - the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy of the Australian state of Queensland, believes that he has already “sufficiently opened” his data and this should be enough for OSM. This situation is not unique . Andrew Harvey and Simon Poole of the OSM Licensing Working Group provided further clarification on this topic.
• Jez Nicholson updated the " Copyright Infringement " section of the United Kingdom Mapping Guide and asked others to join in this work, for now the only reference to the UK national mapping agency, “Ordnance Survey,” is prevailing.

Software

• Unsuccessful pedestrian paths are a typical problem for landscaping yards and parks. The result of this are spontaneous paths that occur on the site of lawns and flower beds. The Ant Road Planner service, which is based on OSM, will help to avoid this.

Programming

• The Russian public organization "Greenhouse of Social Technologies", which recently released a WordPress plugin - shMapper (they wrote about this in the 462th issue), published an article on Habr about how they developed this application. They also shot a short video showing how to use this plugin.
• There is another way to “ make friends ” with the Strava Heatmap and OpenStreetMap heatmap. However, as Simon Pool recalls : we currently do not have permission to use Strava data in OSM.
• The developer of the Sight Safari service, which knows how to build interesting routes to places of interest in unfamiliar cities, published an article on Habré where he talked about how he develops his application.

Releases

• Tobias Zwick has released a new version of StreetComplete (v.14.0). Among other improvements and new tasks, now this application is able to share paths.

Did you know …

• ... about the Age of Agglomerations website, developed by the Russian company Urbica?
• ... Orna is a popular classic RPG game, uses OpenStreetMap data for its map? Attribution is well hidden on the game's website.
• ... that Juno has revealed its driver’s travel map. Ilya Zverev details this in an interview.
• ... about the existence of an online version of the map of place names that sound rude to native English speakers from Gary Gale ?

OSM Media

• The Russian news agency TASS has made a special project " Mercator. About the brave flat world ", in which he talks about how the maps familiar to us appeared.

Other geo events

• Hollewegs ( Hollewegs ) - this road, which is laid in a significant depression. Dirk Kloosterboer used OpenStreetMap and elevation data to analyze the location of the streets called " holloway ". It turned out that they are more common in hilly areas, less often in high mountains.
• Very soon, a billion smartphone owners will again be able to use the European Galileo satellite navigation system, this was reported in the press release of the operator. Recall that in July 2019, this system completely failed. It is assumed that her work will be restored this year, but it will work in full force by 2021, when the launch of the new Arian 6 rocket takes place. The orbital constellation will include 24 main and 6 spare satellites. But it is quite possible that the deadlines can be shifted, since the first test flight of the Arian-6 rocket is planned for 2020.
• John Wyatt Greenlee created a map to demonstrate where in England people paid eels from X to XVII centuries. The map was made as part of the English Eel Tenant project.
• From September 17 to 19, in Stuttgart (Germany), for the 25th time, a specialized exhibition and conference on geodesy, geoinformation and land management INTERGEO will be held . More information about this event can be found here .
• Adam Van Etten described how In-Q-Tel extracts road topology from satellite imagery using computer vision.
• The tourist information bureau of the city of Oldenburg wants to switch (automatic transfer ) from Google Maps to its “own database” due to the fact that since July 2018 Google has been charging the organization for fees for its services.
• The article on citylab.com contains the most important information about the Dorian Trump map. It also includes an interview with Marc Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps (the third edition of this book has already been published).
• On September 20, peaceful demonstrations were held around the world in support of the worldwide Friday for the Future movement, which appeared after the strike of 16-year-old activist Greta Tunberg. In Germany alone, more than 1.4 million people took to the streets to demonstrate their concern for climate change. An interactive map was drawn a few days ago OSM-based demonstrations in Germany.

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