News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 480 (09.24.2019-30.09.2019)

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• Clarification: AndiTabinas user is not a member of the SotM-2019 scholarship program (we mistakenly wrote about this in the previous issue No. 479). Information (a post or a page on WikiOSM) about the scholarship should be published shortly. Upon publication, we will give a link to it.
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• Manfred Reiter, the founder of the WeeklyOSM project, spoke at a recent SotM-2019 conference in Heidelberg (Germany) about how to publish news from the OSM world in WeeklyOSM. If you are a cartographer, data consumer or iD developer and think that some news is worthy of attention, then you can find a guide on how to post them.

Mapping

• Valor Naram suggests that you no longer use the contact:phone= tag, but use phone= instead. At the moment, this initiative has received very mixed reviews.
• Michal Fabik is interested in how to mark the territory where temporary buildings (tents made of cardboard and other materials) are located and the place of residence of the homeless is located.
• A vote has begun on the tagging scheme for routes within buildings ( footway=indoor ) proposed by jrose_aph.

Community

• Pierre Beland mentioned in his Canadian Talk mailing list his presentation “ Building Circuit Monitoring, ” which he made at the SotM-2019 conference. This resumed a heated discussion about importing building data published by Statistics Canada and Microsoft. It was discussed which method to use and how this will ultimately affect local communities.
• Jennings Anderson, in his OSM diary post , talks about his participation in SotM-2019 and the HOT Summit that preceded this conference. At the summit, he held a seminar that focused on the extraction and analysis of OSM data using Amazon Athena. At SotM-2019, he made a presentation on the impact of paid cartographers on OSM.
• The user Fischkopp0815 on the forum asked (automatically translate ) to "throw" ideas on how to motivate those who leave anonymous notes on the map to register in OSM.

Imports

• Pierre Beland gives several unsuccessful examples of automatic recognition of building contours by an algorithm from Microsoft.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• SeverinGeo expressed his opinion about one of the points when registering with OSM, by checking the box in which the user agrees that his contribution to the project will be in the public domain (PD). Now that he has figured out the pros and cons of ODbl (OSM database license), he would like to remove this “tick”. However, this statement led to a rather lengthy discussion. It turned out that for many years this issue has been “hanging” unresolved and has several conflicting legal interpretations.
• The OSM Foundation Local Branch Working Group published the minutes of its meeting of September 3, 2019.
• OSM Foundation Membership Working Group updated statistics on Fund members.
• The protocol of the meeting of the OSM Foundation membership working group meeting dated July 19, 2019 was published .
• At the close of the SotM-2019 conference, the OSM Fans Association in Ireland officially became the OSM Foundation. The agreement was signed by Dermot McCarthy on behalf of OSM-Ireland and members of the OSM Foundation Board.

Developments

• Adrian Pavi liked the packaging of his SotM-2019 gift so much that he inserted it into a frame and hung it on the wall.
• On October 12, 2019 in Russia for the first time (in Moscow) the Missing Maps cardboard will be held , organized by Doctors Without Borders in conjunction with the Greenhouse of Social Technologies. Do not forget to register !
• Sushid Anand posted a video from the FOSS4G-2019 conference in Bucharest.
• Stefan Keller said (automatic translation ) that DINAcon Open Data Conferences will be held on October 18 in Bern, Switzerland. OSM on it will be presented along with Wikidata.

Humanitarian OSM

• The Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Center reports that climate research was the focus of this year's HOT Summit.
• If you have not had the opportunity to attend the HOT Summit this year, then you can watch the performances in the recording on YouTube.
• HOT continues its micro-grant program, which was launched in 2017, and announced the acceptance of applications for 2020. Organizations from low- or middle-income countries whose activities are related to OSM are allowed to participate. Grants are provided to cover the costs of mapping.
• The Kitum project plans to create a Citizen digital map (automatic translation ) for the national emergency response exercises organized by the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD) in Colombia.

Cards

• The user cq94 on his Twitter shared a link to a map of the most dangerous objects of Seveso (industrial enterprises associated with the processing, production, use or storage of hazardous substances) in France. He also provided a link to the data source.
• [1] CyclOSM is a brand new map for cyclists based on OpenStreetMap data. The project aims to create a beautiful and practical map for cyclists, regardless of their habits and abilities. The server is available at: https: /www.cyclosm.org and is maintained by the OSM community in France.
• If you ever want to find out where the witches lived in Scotland (to be precise, only those who were convicted), then this card may be useful to you.

We pass to OSM

• Thomas Skouron is glad that the online edition of Zeit Online uses data from OSM, but he notes that he could not find the correctly specified attribution anywhere. The cool stickers that were distributed this year at the SotM conference, unfortunately, can only be glued to analog cards.
• As the developers of OurAirports , noted on Twitter, using which you can find and explore any airport in the world, they switched from Google Maps to OSM and Esri satellite imagery.

Open data

• The OSM-Belgium website has published good material on why street panoramas are so important, as well as a brief overview of the current situation and current trends.

Software

• Guillaume Rischard recalls that it is better to use http instead of https to connect to JOSM, as https support may very well be discontinued . He draws attention to the specifications of the World Wide Web Consortium Consortium for reliable connections.
• Yuihiro (user nissyyu ) reported ) on the launch of the mapcompare.jp service, which can display up to 8 maps at a time. This service has also been announced. Toshikazu at the SotM-2019 conference.

Did you know …

• ... about the OsmInEDit web editor, with which OSM can mark the interiors of buildings? It was presented at the SoTM conference by its developer Adrien Pavi, who asks for help with the code.
• ... how to set up an address search by coordinates?
• ... how many edits in OSM were made by Maps.Me users through the editor built into this application? The blog of this navigator says that more than 3.1 million edits.

OSM in the media

• GIS Lounge has published an article by Mark Altavil "OpenStreetMap Communities".
• Siaran Staunton of the OSM Foundation Ireland Office is strongly committed to providing land use data to the OpenStreetMap community. This letter is a response to Sylvia Thompson's article, “ Ireland needs more accurate land use maps, ” published in The Irish Times.

Other geo events

• It seems that not only Microsoft , but also Google has problems with the artificial intelligence algorithm that recognizes satellite images.
• GIS Geography has published a list of the best GIS data sources in 2019. Of course, OSM also ended up in it.
• The list of speakers at the Caribbean GIS conference URISA-2019 has been published .
• The winners of the MonoCarto 2019 contest have been announced. Entries made in only one color or its shades are accepted for this contest.
• Pocketnavigation.de tested (automatically translated ) the new navigator for the TwoNav Trail 2 cycling and pedestrian navigator. Compared to its predecessor, it has more buttons, can connect to more satellites and is more environmentally friendly.
• If you are a writer who writes in the fantasy genre and do not want to invent the world of your work yourself, then the Procedural Fantasy Map Generator service can help you with this. But even if you are not a writer, in any case, check out this rather flexible and interesting service that even allows you to customize layers.
• Last week, we mentioned the Royal Society for the Preservation of Boring Map Sites. It turns out that in the UK there is a long and centuries-old history of mapping "boring" sections of the map. The first written record of a similar phenomenon that we can find is a letter in Volume 10 of The Angry Corrie , a hobbyist. Subsequent references are contained in volumes 12 and 14 under the heading “White Holes”.
• Rodolfo De Guzman published an article on the techinasia.com news site on how his team developed a model for assessing property values ​​in Singapore based on data from OpenStreetMap.

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