04/26/2016-05/02/2016
OSM data analysis with OpenStreetMap Analytics [1] | go to OpenStreetMap Analytics
Mapping
Article on the disaster response (automatic translation) for the Ecuador earthquake from the Spanish language School of Data (Escuela De Datos), highlights how the response can be visualised in new tools like OpenStreetMap Analytics featured above.
Pascal Neis announced in his blog that one can not only search changeset comments in the application OSM Changesets. “You can now search for any term in any tag value of all OSM changesets,” Pascal says.
Mapbox bought three million square kilometers of satellite imagery from Digital Globe. Simon Poole asked for a visualization of which regions are new and got a reply that this will follow soon.
There will be server maintenance works on 9th and 10th of May. OSM API will be read only during this time, therefore you cannot edit OSM. More information and updates can be found at the OSM Wiki.
Community
The students of the Loreto Secondary School in Letterkenny in Donegal, Ireland, mapped a lot on “World GIS Day” and won the “Association of Geographic Information Prize”.
OSM for the dyslexic is released. Read more about the app here in the blog.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
The minutes of the March OSMF board meeting are final.
The OSMF board are seeking volunteers who are willing to create and join a Membership Working Group, which would handle everything related to OSMF membership, something that was handled by board members in the past.
OSMF treasurer Frederik Ramm published the budget (PDF) for the year 2016 which leads to a larger discussion about how the OSMF will run out of funds at the end of 2017 if they can’t enlarge their income. Additionally Simon Poole warns that in case of damage (e.g. fire at the OSMF hosting site) the OSMF might loose its independance.
The OSMF board wants to expand the range of corporate memberships. To this end the board presented this draft, which is an intense discussion on the OSMF-talk mailing list. In future there will be more, higher-priced levels, most applicable to large companies. The revenue situation of the OSMF is to be improved. Frederik Ramm explains the motivation and intentions in a post on OSMF Talk.
Events
CubaConference a conference and workshop featuring OSM and related tools (JOSM, Mapillary, etc) took place on the 25-27th of April. Including participation from Wille on behalf of Mapbox, Julio from Fundecorg, Mauri from OSGeo and Ivan from MedialabUIO-CIESPAL of Ecuador. (automatic translation)
There are less than 30 days until the 10th Jornadas SIG Libre ( Spanish FOSS4G ) and QGIS 2nd International Conference organised and held by the University of Girona in Catalonia sponsored by Geocat and Boundless.
Registration for State of the Map in Brussels (23rd-25th of September) is possible now. Prices for early birds are 75€ for active community members and 180€ for everyone else. Additionally it’s still possible to sponsor the event!
Humanitarian OSM
[1] Martin Raifer, aka tyrasd, (the developer of overpass-turbo), developed the tool OpenStreetMap Analytics on behalf of HOT. Martin said to weeklyOSM: “The main focus of our work is aimed at creating an intuitively usable tool that can get a glimpse behind the creation of OSM data for non mappers also.” The Knight Foundation who funded OpenStreetMap Analytics says on the website: … “Helping journalists, humanitarians, academics, government officials and others determine the quality of data in the OpenStreetMap database for a user-defined area, depending on the topic of interest.” The source code is available on GitHub.
Updates to the OSM response to the earthquake in Ecuador
Tasking Manager Projects
Other Data
Mapathons
OSM and earthquake in Ecuador related blogs:
Plataforma Urbana (automatic translation)
LlactaLAB (automatic translation)
Iniciative Ciudades Emergentes y Sostenibles (automatic translation)
Escuela de Datos (automatic translation)
Pascal Neis with “MappingEcuador” shows impressive numbers: more than 2,300 mappers, nearly 300,000 buildings and almost 3,000,000 map changes. Mhairi O’Hara summarized the ongoing activities in Ecuador.
Article about #MappingEcuador: a collaborative strategy to create new maps of the areas destroyed by the earthquake. (automatic translation)
Noah D’Mello describes in ComputerWorld how in five recent humanitarian crises of recent years, where stability and assistance was brought to the affected people by open source projects.
Kerstin Ewald and Noah Wintzer wrote a nice article “The Digital Remeasurement of the World”. They describe vividly how Nama Budhathoki with his club Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) has contributed in Nepal using OSM to address the consequences of the earthquake in 2015. Worth reading even and especially for beginners! (automatic translation)
The article was first published in the German newspaper “Neues Deutschland”. (automatic translation)
Digital Journalism students are mapping under guidance in Ecuador and learn to assess properly the importance of OSM for rescue teams.
Maps
The Historic Place Map has been extended. Lutz implemented (automatic translation) routing and measurement tools (developed by Netzwolf) as well as various monuments layer. A new feature is a black and white Mapnik-background layer to emphasize the historic monuments.
switch2OSM
Simone Cortesi notes that mediawiki is currently discussing the future of OSM maps in Wikipedia.
Open Data
The Open Data Barometer 3rd Edition of the WWW-Foundation compares in a ranking the open data listing of many countries in the world.
Tom Steinberg, open data and transparency activist, claims at civichall.org that the open data and transparency movement is too polite against politicans to achieve great results.
Javier Carranza Tresoldi philosophizes in Geoawesomeness-blog about the contagious evangelisation of OpenStreetMap in Central and Latin America.
Software
The OSM-based Android app Velociraptor shows like Waze or HERE the current speed and the speed limit. The speeding alerts can be adjusted.
Cheap ruler of Mapbox is a collection (JavaScript) on methods for length, area and angle calculation. It is “cheap” because they do not count on the ellipsoid, but with approximate formulas. The code is free software.
Programming
Google Summer of Code: The OSM related projects are online.
Releases
Software
Version
Release Date
Comment
OsmAnd for iOS
1.2.4
2016-04-27
Bugs fixed
JOSM
10161
2016-04-28
New layer filters, Java 9, better bug reports and more
Mapillary for iOS
4.3.0
2016-04-28
multi-cam capture, new tab bar, tutorial added
Traccar Client Android
3.11
2016-04-28
–
OSRM Backend
5.0.2
2016-04-29
Bug fix release
QGIS
2.14.2
2016-04-29
–
Traccar Client iOS
3.0
2016-04-30
Implement app settings validation
Grass Gis
7.0.4
2016-05-01
150 stability fixes and manual improvements
GpsMaster
0.62.97
2016-05-02
Many improvements
provided by the OSM Software Watchlist
Other “geo” things
Null Island is not only famous in OSM.
India started the seventh and last satellite of their local GNSS system.
The intercept publishes a list of companies which have received money from the CIA-owned venture capital company In-Q-Tel. Mapbox is mentioned at this list. Maybe CIA is just a customer of Mapbox?
The blog Map of the Week got our attention to Zora Plays. This website is operated by Michael Froehlich, who explored playgrounds in Philadelphia with his daughter Zora and mapped numerous of them.
Justin O’Beirne did investigate, how the proportion of streets and city labels changed over time in Google Maps.
Upcoming Events
Dónde
Qué
Fecha
País
Zaragoza
Mapping Party #Zaccesibilidad
06/05/2016-09/05/2016
Bogotá
Mapping party – Bogota: Usaquén
07/05/2016
Metro Manila
Mapping Party with #MapPHL, Quiapo, Manila
07/05/2016
Lyon
Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs
10/05/2016
Marseille
Missing Maps mapathon in Marseille
13/05/2016
Kyoto
京都世界遺産マッピングパーティ：第１３回 特別編 延暦寺（西塔、横川）（再）
14/05/2016
Trentino
Besenello @ library 14:00. With support of Portobeseno and the Besenello Municipality
14/05/2016
Geneva
Missing Maps mapathon with MSF-CH
18/05/2016
Rapperswil
7. Micro Mapping Party
20/05/2016
Clermont-Ferrand
”’State of the Map France 2016”’
20/05/2016-22/05/2016
Milano
”’State of the Map Italy 2016”’
20/05/2016-22/05/2016
Brno
”’State of the Map CZ+SK 2016”’
21/05/2016
Sax
Sax (Alicante) – micro Mapping Party
21/05/2016
Clermont-Ferrand
Missing Maps mapathon at SOTM France 2016
22/05/2016
Toulouse
Missing Maps mapathon in Toulouse
24/05/2016
Derby
Derby
24/05/2016
Rapperswil
Swiss PG Day 2016
24/06/2016
Salzburg
”’FOSSGIS 2016”’
04/07/2016-06/07/2016
Salzburg
AGIT 2016
06/07/2016-08/07/2016
Seattle
”’State of The Map US 2016”’
23/07/2016-25/07/2016
Tokyo
”’State of The Map Japan 2016”’
06/08/2016
Bonn
FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint
20/08/2016-22/08/2016
Bonn
Workshops at FOSS4G 2016
22/08/2016-23/08/2016
Derby
Derby
23/08/2016
Bonn
”’FOSS4G 2016”’
24/08/2016-26/08/2016
Bonn
FOSS4G 2016 Code Sprint Part II
27/08/2016-28/08/2016
Brussels
”’State of the Map World 2016”’
23/09/2016-26/09/2016
Metro Manila
”’State of the Map Asia 2016”’
01/10/2016-02/10/2016
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