News from the world of OpenStreetMap for November

proposed Topics. Their work can be found on social networks (Twitter, Mastodon, Linkedin), and some by subjective choice you will see in this digest.

Mapping

• Suggestions awaiting comments:

• Voting is over:

  • highway=cyclist_waiting_aid to designate handrails near bicycle paths, making it more comfortable to wait for a traffic light signal, accepted: 26 “for”.

  • highway=ladder for vertical stairs, accepted: 20 “for”, 1 “against”, 3 abstained.

Releases

• Christoph Hormann announced about the release of OSM Carto 5.8.0 style.

  • underground railway=platform no longer displayed

  • rendering added landuse=flowerbed (flower beds) and roller_coaster=track (roller coaster tracks)

  

  • improved colors of sports fields, metro exit numbers and several others little things

• November came out update Organic Maps, which brought a preview of the natural style, scroll inertia improvements, and other fixes.

  

• Also in Organic Maps appeared referral link to a hotel aggregator, which, according to some users, contradicts the app’s privacy-focused mantra. Due to the presence of a link in F-Droid is being discussed adding a note about the presence of “anti-functions”.

Community

• Koreller found two online sources with information about skyscrapers from around the world. On the blog he tellshow I used them to enrich several free projects: Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and OSM.

• unsungNovelty shared places that impressed him while editing OSM.

• Martin van Exel told about the monthly OSM community meeting he organized in Salt Lake City.

• Ponsiano da Costa de Jesus reported on the launch of the Timor-Leste OpenStreetMap community.

• TomTom Company became sponsored by MapRoulette

SotM EU 2023

Global State of the Map conference hosted by OSMF this year did not have. Instead, many local conferences took place, the largest of which was the European version of the conference. SotM EU took place in Antwerp on November 10-12.

The reports will be posted later, so for now you can read the text broadcast Ilya Zverev, posts on social networks and feedback from participants.

• The theme that permeated the conference was the interaction between OSM and large companies.

  Thoughts on Overture Maps shared Ilya Zverev and Simon Poole thought about it about how Linux Foundations can impact geo-businesses that rely on OSM data.

• General impressions shared Bart.

• In the presentation “Maintaining OpenStreetMap.org» Andy Allan told about the development of the site. One of the significant changes was addition editing speed limits for new members.

• Courtney after the conference explained, how to tell stories, citing the example of your speech at SotM EU. She also talks about why good stories are important to OSM.

Cards

• Zkir analyzed OSM object age maps. From them you can understand in which areas the oldest edits have been preserved and which areas have recently been edited inactively.

  

• Christopher Beddoe noted the trend towards decentralization of mobile mapping applications around the world.

• GeoObserver done website Pathfindingwhich visualizes algorithms for finding the shortest path using OSM data.

• Oliver Roic countedthat the approximate cost of creating a global tile server based on PMTiles will be $12.

• Raquel Desiderio Soutocoordinator of the technical part of the second stage of the fifth Brazilian Cartographic Olympiad, created the exhibition Amazonia no Mapa (Brazilian Amazan) with cards participants of the Olympiad.

• Juan Jose Iglesias reportswhat service OpenStreetMap Analytics will be closed. Users are advised to go to alternative from HeiGIT.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

• Arnalie, as a member of the OSMF board, appealed to the community asking for ideas to improve the OSMF membership system.

• OSMF Board Member Election Commission published candidate manifestos and their responses to community questions.

Humanitarian OSM

• Rabbi Shrestha reports about the humanitarian mapping activities of the OSM Nepal community during the November 3 earthquake in Jajarkot district, Nepal.

• Sige published photo report from the OSM training course and map meeting for victims of the September 8th earthquake in the High Atlas, which was attended by 230 Moroccan geomatics students!

Open data

Retro Pac-map! Author – Yana Taushinski

Programming

• Kamil Monich (NorthCrab) announced about his personal work on completely rewriting the osm.org code in Python and releasing API 0.7. Code available on GitHub.

• Sarah Hoffmann reports about an experiment to improve the performance of the Nominatim Python frontend using SQLAlchemy optimization. Optimization improves the performance of the Python frontend, but it is still not as good as the previous PHP frontend

Licenses

• Kathleen Lu of the OSMF Licensing Working Group offers EU governments to release their open data under a CC-0 license rather than CC-BY-4.0 so that it can be used in OSM. If this is still not possible, he proposed a slight modification to the CC-BY-4.0 license to make it compatible with the OpenStreetMap license.

OSM in action

• Spanish online edition elDiario.es published interactive map telling the history of urban planning in Spain

Did you know …

• … about the map of street surveillance cameras Surveillance under Surveillance?

• … O map with all the hackerspaces, fablabs and makerspaces?

• … O R City ViewsR library with web interface to create stylized maps from OSM data?

  

• …what you can find to OSM Great Post Road (Great Post Road)?

• … O OSM NightWatcherror validator for boundaries and coastlines?

Other “geo” events

• Nate Berg from FastCompany.com did review Felta service for collaborative map creation.

• Robert Thorson toldHow stone walls became the signature landform of New England.

• OSM isn’t the only place where people are willing to argue over seemingly minor issues. In Hampshire (England) locals lead campaign for the correct display of apostrophes on street signs. And in OpenStreetMap there was an apostrophe Always.

And finally

Day 5: Analog card. Knitted world map from Wendy Shijia

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