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Mapping
- The site number validator in Kosovo has appeared on the site regio-osm.de.
- Florian Lohoff wrote on his blog about problems that occur when using the
access=private tag (access only for his own) on roads marked with the highway=service tag. If you specify this access level, navigators will not pave the way for such a road. However, such roads are not always closed. Therefore, he suggests being careful and choosing more accurate tags. - Adam Franco recorded two videos about working with multipolygons in the JOSM editor. In the first, he talks about how to create a multipolygon for two objects that have common borders. Please note that this mapping method is not desirable in OSM. In the second - how to find and correct errors associated with multipolygons.
- Voting for the proposal of Varom Naram - do not use the
contact:phone= tag anymore, but use phone= instead - last until November 5th. - Also, until November 5, voting will last for the proposal of Vadim, who believes that it is necessary to mark places for sunbathing with a separate tag (to sunbathe).
- OSM-Croatia has deployed its own HOT Task Manager on its server with the aim of coordinating various carto transactions. For example, now they draw bays on the coast on the map of Croatia TOPO 1: 25000, which recently became free for use.
Community
- [1] Pascal Nays updated its OSMstats statistics service and added a few more features. For example, in the “Activity” section, you can see users who mapped almost every day, 19 of them each. Be sure to check out the other new sections: Map changes, Discussions, Traces, and Notes.
- Heather Leson asks everyone who takes part in the life of this or that free or open project (she called it the acronym FLO - Free / Libre / Open) to take a survey regarding the “burnout” of members of such communities.
- RebeccaF published in its diary a list of what can be done so that there are even more people at OSM, HOT and at the State of the Map conference. These thoughts were voiced during a discussion at the SoTM in Heidelberg (Germany).
- OSM is the cornerstone of a project to create a dynamic seismic hazard calculation model that updates data from OSM every minute.
Imports
- Estonian cadastre data has been imported into OSM since 2013. SviMik user has developed a convenient and simple tool for this. But he still needs community help. In addition to this, he also made a validator that tells where else to draw roads in Estonia. Statistics and an overview of all the tools are available on his personal website .
Events
- Betaslb wrote in OSM's diaries about his impressions of the SotM-2019 conference. They are interesting because it is the look of a beginner, not an expert in OSM.
- Registration for the SotM-2019 Asia conference has begun , which will take place on November 1-2, 2019 in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
Humanitarian OSM
- Riley Champagne, National Geographic's graphic editor, tweeted a link to his presentation “Refugee Territory Mapping Using Open Data,” which he made at the NAICS 2019 conference. As a bonus, he’s a link to a Google spreadsheet that contains the queries he used in overpass turbo.
Training
- Russian user Pavel Gavrilov wrote a training article about OSM, which may be useful for beginners. In it, he talks about the basics of the project.
Cards
- Russian user Nikolai Petrov has launched the online project OpenRecycleMap . This is a map with which you can find a container for separate collection of garbage. The service also allows you to add new collection points for waste. Data is taken and added to OSM.
- The maptiler.com service reports on its blog that their OSM-based maps are now available in new projections: WGS84, French Lambert and Dutch Rijksdriehoekstelsel. The article also has a brief overview of map projections and links to an interesting comparison made by Tobias Jung.
- The “Geographic Information System of Industrial Parks, Technoparks and Clusters of the Russian Federation”, developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, uses OSM as a substrate.
We pass OSM
- The Russian portal E1 has published the news that in Yekaterinburg in November 2019 “smart” traffic lights will start working, which will give priority to public transport. But one of the photographs illustrating the material, you can see that in the traffic control system, OSM is used as a map.
Open data
Licenses
- The debate over Facebook not properly attributing OSM attribution continues to this day. On the one hand, Christophe notes that the discussion and development of a new OSM attribution guide takes place behind closed doors. On the other hand, Nuno Caldeira tells in detail and with examples how exactly Facebook violated the requirements of the license.
Software
- Jody Garnett asked on Twitter: Are fossgis_eV members ready to support GeoServer by recertifying it to the OGC.
Programming
- Shay Strong of EagleView wrote on KD Nuggets about one of the methods of using machine learning to find buildings that are not painted in OSM. His model works with already marked buildings in OSM.
- Jochen Topf shared his experience with the Hetzner cloud service, where he recently moved the site osmdata.openstreetmap.de (previously openstreetmapdata.com).
- Andy Allan wrote on his blog about how he is working on refactoring the main OpenStreetMap code so that he can support multiple versions of the API at once.
Releases
- A new version of PostGIS v. 3.0.0
- Sight Safari v. Mobile App Released 2.2.0. Now you can share routes with other users directly from the application.
Did you know …
- ... about the site of the Russian user AMDmi3, which contains various OSM renderings?
Other geo events
- The Guardian published a funny article in which a journalist introduces modern teens to the technology of the 1980s: a phone with a rotary dial, a Sony Walkman player and a transistor radio. One example is the paper atlas of the streets of London (“AZ”).
- Last week, we reported that the Australian government agency, Geoscience Australia, will no longer print and sell paper topographic maps. The Guardian reflects deeply on this event.
- Jens Jakowski from Sweden shares : “The Swedish land surveyor asks citizens to participate in improving the official Swedish maps and, for example, to report on hiking trails that are not marked on the map.” We answer them: “Then we better start editing OpenStreetMap right now.”
- Jane Macfarlane believes that the spread of navigation applications like Waze, Apple Maps, and Google Maps multiplies chaos and makes traffic management difficult.
- An article on futurezone.at says that map errors should not always be perceived negatively. Due to an error in Google Maps, a gang of drug addicts was caught.
- The publication El Pais writes that the military maps of Spain, compiled during the Second World War by the Americans and the British, are finally declassified.
- Google announced that traffic accidents could soon be reported on Google Maps. The appearance of these features on Google Maps raises the question of the future of the Waze service, which was purchased by Google 6 years ago.
- An article published in Ecography shows how a text analysis of scientific articles can be used to create maps of places where various pollinating insects (usually bees) were studied.
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