News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 479 (09/17/2019 - 09/23/2019)

Participants in the SotM-2019 conference in Heidelberg, Germany ¹ | Photo Thomersch CCBYSA2

SotM 2019

• In Heidelberg, a city in southwestern Germany, the State of the Map international conference recently ended. A general photo was published on Twitter, which gathered nearly 600 people who came to this event from around the world.
• Some editors of the WeeklyOSM project met (automatic translation ) at the SotM-2019 conference in Heidelberg. It was great to finally see the faces of people who are hiding behind nicknames.
• " OpenStreetMap is a quiet but useful digital revolution " is the name of the press release on the SotM, HOT and OSM conference in general from the authors of the Heidelberg blog GIScienceHD .
• Maptiler in its blog talks about the most important points, from their point of view, of the SotM-2019 conference.
• The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) website published all the videos they recorded at the SotM-2019 conference.
• Two scholarship program participants share their impressions of the recently concluded SotM-2019 conference and experience: Polyglot from Belgium and Anditabinas from the Philippines.

Mapping

• The user Warin announced the start of voting for his tagging scheme, which proposes to mark special designs with which horses were comfortably mounted. The voting format is different from the usual one. Now you can vote not only for or against the tagging scheme itself, but also for individual keys, i.e. for man_made, leisure, horse, bridleway, animal or amenity.
• The Bing Maps team took part in creating a dataset for OpenStreetMap containing the outlines of buildings in Uganda and Tanzania.
• The campsite tagging scheme put to the vote, which was supposed to expand the number of marked objects, did not receive community support.
• The cash_withdrawal=* tag, which proposes to mark the possibility of cash withdrawal in a store or other object of the service sector, was unanimously adopted. The only “against” vote was cast after the end of the voting period.
• The Christian community of Martinus included the metro in Vienna as part of the pilgrimage route, which led to discussion (automatic translation ) and additional checks after these changes were made to OSM.

Community

• Winners of the OSM Awards 2019 announced. We join in the congratulations and thank all the nominees, even if they did not win. The winners are:
  
  • For contribution to infrastructure: Andy Allan
  • For Innovation: Adrien Pavi
  • For important words: Steve Friedl, Guillaume Richard
  • For the best mapping: Alan Mustard
  • For Community Development: Natalie Sidibé
  • For team work: Data Working Group
  • Ulf Möller Prize: Victor Scherb
  
  
• Marco Mingini and Francesco Frasinelli from the European Research Center published an article entitled “The history of OpenStreetMap for internal quality assessment: is OSM relevant?”
• The local branch of the OpenStreetMap Foundation in Colombia has developed a gaming technique (automatic translation ) that can be used to teach completely different people how to use OSM. The essence of the methodology is to attract new technologies to those places where people are not familiar with them.
• Jennings Anderson has prepared a selection of visual materials showing how individual cartographers influence the development of OSM.

Imports

• CycleStreets service for cyclists continues to analyze the database of bicycle infrastructure, which was recently made publicly available by Transport for London, but now CycleStreets is offering 11 new tags that would make it useful for OSM and new attributes. Comments on this proposal are welcome. All new tags are compatible with existing OSM data and generally make them more complete, which in turn can contribute to improved routing.

Developments

• The organizers of Boston’s monthly mapping meeting, Maptime , announced that the next event will be held on October 2, 2019. This time the meeting will be held in the Boston office of Facebook.
• On October 10, Moscow will host the 19th " Circuit Engineering " - a mini-conference on OSM and open GIS. Do not forget to register !

Humanitarian OSM

• HOT is looking for a new technology director .
• Earlier, Doctors Without Borders used measles vaccines in Chad to use only hand-drawn maps until the Missing Maps volunteers helped them create digital maps .
• Yer Chiesenler launched a cartographic campaign due to the fact that on August 8 there was an earthquake in the city of Denizli (Turkey).
• The Third Sector, a British publication for volunteer and nonprofit organizations, published an article titled “How Charities Can Benefit from Micro-Volunteering at OpenStreetMap and Other Civilian Research Projects, and How They Can Use It.”
• HOT has announced improvements to MapCampaigner , a tool for managing and monitoring in-field data collection. It is planned that "... quality tracking and monitoring will be improved so that this tool becomes the main platform for managing mapping campaigns."
• Amy Cama, from the OSM community in Togo, has developed a mapping project that maps the effects of a heat island into cities. This term refers to a meteorological phenomenon, which consists in increasing the temperature of urban space relative to the surrounding rural areas due to human activities. The temperature difference is usually more noticeable at night than during the day, and also when there is practically no wind. The goal of the project is trees and green spaces to reduce the effect of a warm island.

Education

• Applications for participation in the YouthMappers Research Fellowship 2020 scholarship program are accepted until November 1, 2019. Students who plan to apply must be YouthMappers members and have good references.

Releases

• Sven Geggus updated his project - a map of campsites Opencampingmap . Among other improvements, the amenity=power_supply tag (camping socket) is now displayed on the map.
• Joseph Eisenberg announced the update of the OSM Carto cartostyle to version v4. 23.0. In the new version, leisure=sports_centre again displayed on the map, a bug that duplicated the parking icon was fixed, as well as improved rendering of the airfield and much more .
• We remind you of the Wambachers-OSM website, which lists various programs related to OSM, as well as their current versions. Using the hash tag #OSMSoftwareWatchlist on Twitter, you can quickly find out about the release of a new version of one of these programs.

Did you know …

• ... about all the new Croatian aerial photos you can use with OSM? The Croatian State Geodetic Agency has changed (automatic translation ) the conditions for using data on its geoportal. Now the license allows you to do derivative work, which in turn has opened them for OSM. In addition, the cities of Knin (automatic translation ) and Zagreb (automatic translation ) provided their aerial photographs of 2007 and 2012 for use in OSM. Zagreb also provided (automatic translation ) images with a resolution of 20 cm. The data has been processed and serves as a TMS layer on the OSM Croatia server .

Other geo events

• Alasdair Ray tweeted a link to his presentation from his presentation at the FOSS4GUK conference: From map projections to geopods and cartography - My journey through open source GIS.
• If you like old maps, you can join the Royal Society for the Preservation of Boring Map Areas . Tim Waters draws attention to this interesting organization, which aims to preserve the “boring” sections of maps in the Landranger series of maps and the UK national mapping agency “Ordnance Survey”. Harry Wood noted that the organization has an important work to do in Scotland, as OSM cartographers draw the map, leaving the “boring” sections empty.
• Streetfightmag.com has published a list of five applications (with a short description of each) for maps that preserve user privacy.
• An article is published on the moment.at website ( translation ), which provides a map of the per capita CO2 emissions of each country. This publication also addresses “outsourcing CO2 emissions,” for example, when goods are purchased in Austria, but CO2 emissions are assigned to the producing country, China.
• The Irish Times explains why Ireland needs better information on land cover. Ireland is one of the few countries in Europe that does not have detailed information on vegetation cover. There is only one dataset that has already partially appeared in OSM - the EU Corine (Environmental Coordination Information) dataset. But these data are not particularly detailed: there are no territories with an area of ​​less than 25 hectares.
• The German Federal Ministry of Transport has opened ( translation ) one road for testing autonomous vehicles. These cars will run on a 3.6 km stretch of road between the Brandenburg Gate and Ernst Reuters-Platz, where there is also regular traffic.
• The Geospatial World website has published an article on BGT, the public registry of geospatial data, which serves as the national digital topographic map of the Netherlands. The creation of such a register required the coordination of activities at various levels.

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