July 19, 2019 at 01:11

News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 468 (07/02/2019 - 08/07/2019)

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OSM at the celebration of its birthday in 2006 in London - a card with the correct attribution (at that time)
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  • ERROR: In the previous issue of WeeklyOSM No. 467 we wrote : “The Japan Times reports that not so long ago a modern digital map of Benin (a state in West Africa) appeared, which replaced the old map of 1957.” Mentioning OSM in the context of this news was incorrect. The link led to one of the cities of Nigeria, not Benin. Moreover, the geodata created as part of this project under the direction of IGN France International , as in many former French colonies, unfortunately, are closed, despite the fact that the development of such projects is partially funded by EU state funds.

Mapping


  • Joseph Eisenberg rewrote the Good Practices wiki page and began discussing his changes on the Talk general mailing list. Despite the fact that almost all of its additions, with rare exceptions, were approved by the majority, he was criticized for editing the article before discussing it with the community.
  • Joseph Eisenberg announced the start of voting for his proposed tag for usewaterway=tidal_channel .
  • Higa4 studied(ja) how mapping was done in Japan in the first half of 2019.
  • Maning Sambale said that he, along with other colleagues from the Philippines, visited Lupang Rent (Municipality of Taipei, Reizu Province), where they were involved in mapping. They also took street panoramas and took aerial photographs using drones to help local authorities in their emergency prevention and response programs. In addition, he noted that next month a series of free seminars are planned in the Philippines, which will be held as part of the Pista Ng Mapa conference . They will be organized by the same team of volunteers who rented Lupang from drones.
  • Discussed a proposal SilentSpike user: do iD warning when landuse connected to the motorway. As usual, there are different opinions on this.

Community


  • [1] On August 9, 2019, OpenStreetMap will celebrate its 15th birthday. Holiday information is collected on WikiOSM.
  • SeverinGeo posted on Twitter a photo of a two-week OSM and geomatics course in Nouakchott, Mauritania. They were held for members of the local OSM community, researchers and representatives of local authorities. The courses were organized with the support of the Nigerian and Senegalese communities with the support of the international organization Francophonie.
  • In 2017, Zoe Gardner conducted a survey on gender and some other demographic issues among cartographers, and also analyzed their profiles in the online service “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” . Her detailed findings were recently published in a scientific journal. As it turned out, men were more active cartographers. But at the same time, there were no significant differences between the sexes in the use of tags, which at that time were displayed in HDYC.
  • The OSM forum now has a style that is friendly with smartphones - Victory. You can enable it in your forum profile under “Display”.
  • The Grab team in the Philippines successfully carried out carton and wrote about it on the blog.
  • Harry Potter Wizards Unite is a new augmented reality game using user locations from Niantic , creator of Ingress and Pokémon Go . User Gregory played this game and broadcast it on his youtube channel Mapper Diaries. He also looked at how she uses OpenStreetMap data.
  • On June 22, in Moscow (Russia) , an offline carting took place in the village of Kommunarka, where a new metro station was opened not so long ago. 5 people took part in the action. They slowly walked around several areas of this village and collected a lot of information. Editing a map of this territory in OSM is in the process.

OpenStreetMap Foundation


  • OSMF Council Member Jost Schuppe announced that the Council will now conduct regular polls before every major OSM event. This will not be done in order to increase the popularity of the Council, but in order to get acquainted with the opinions of people whom otherwise no one will ever hear.

Events


  • Until July 21, the discount on early purchase of tickets for the State of the Map conference has been extended .
  • SotM team began collecting cards and posters for the exhibition "Posters, respond!" , which will be held this year during the conference "State of the Map" in Heidelberg (Germany). You can submit your work until August 18, 2019. By the way, the conference program has already been published .
  • The OSGeo nonprofit(ja) in Japan announced the organization of the FOSS4G Niigata Conference on September 13 and 14 (ja)and the start of accepting applications for speeches. Applications are accepted until July 31. Please note that this year the conference will be held not in Tokyo, but in Niigata .
  • AGIT-2019 ( translation ) - a symposium and exhibition of applied geoinformatics, which was held a week ago in Salzburg (Austria). The OSM and OSGeo information stand, which was created and installed by Marcus and Andreas, worked on it. They spent all day answering quite complex questions from visitors. Andreas, aka Geologist, made a daily report from this event. Please read his posts on how they arrived ( translation ) on the first day ( translation ), OSGeo day ( translation ), second day and Friday ( translation ). Marcus (nickname ScubbX) also wrote his report ( translation)
  • GeoMundus is a free international conference on geospatial technologies, geoinformatics and earth sciences, organized by Erasmus Mundus graduate students in geospatial technology. Now she is registering. The conference will be held November 29 and 30 at the University of Jaume I in Castellon de la Plana (Spain).
  • Erwin Olario invites Asian people to the local open cartographic conference, Pista ng Mapa (Card Festival). It will be held August 1-3, 2019 at the University of the Fund in the city of Dumaguete (Philippines).

Humanitarian OSM


  • HOT is now drawing the contours of buildings to measure exposure risk in Tanzania. For the study, cartographers drew 10,955 buildings, some of which were collected by 20 cartographers “in the fields”. The blog tells about the history of the project, how the data was collected, how it will be used, as well as about the tasks facing the research team.

Education


  • Jean-Francois Perrath published a(fr) guide to organizing carton or group classroom instruction. In addition to the basics and the tools available, he talks about different ways of doing activities in the classroom. (automatic translation )

Cards



We pass to OSM


  • Azores Civil Protection Services used OpenStreetMap, at least during exercise.
  • The Russian Cycling Federation, when preparing a booklet on the championship and championship in cycling (highway) of Russia, which was in Belgorod at the end of June (June 26-30), used OSM cards.

Open data


  • Nikolay Dzhanakiev made an online presentation where he compared Wikidata and OSM ..
  • The European Commission has published an OSM-based map showing the locations of companies in the EU that trade with MERCOSUR , the South American trading block.

Software


  • Maps.Me developers have greatly simplified the process of installing a map generator for their application. Now it is made in the form of a docker container, which allows you to collect fresh maps for Maps.Me by yourself, even for an experienced user. While this is only possible on Linux.
  • Mateusz Koniezhi published the results of testing the interaction of new users with StreetComplete (UX testing).

Programming


  • Now iD users can change the style of the map during editing. Quincy Morgan, an iD developer, called this feature, which is similar to what JOSM calls "map styles", "lenses."
  • Andy Allan in his blog talked about the changes that occurred on the OSM / API website in June. Among other things, GPX track download processing has been improved, and a new request has been introduced /api/versions. With this query, you can find out which versions of the API are currently supported, and also allows you to run multiple versions of the API in parallel.

Releases


  • The iD team has released a new version of the popular editor - v2.15.3. Changes to this version, which is already in use by osm.org, can be found on GitHub.

Did you know …


  • ... that the Vatican is the source of many secrets. The area of ​​a small country seems to be one of them. Frank Gavaerts claims that both Wikipedia and “every single source ... report that its area is 44 hectares, even britannica.com,” but the JOSM plug-in, when calculating the area, shows a figure of only 0.49 km².
  • You probably saw the image of the week on the WikiOSM main page. But do you know how to offer an image there? It is pretty simple .
  • ... ... what can you render the entire planet in the console? You can access the demo server via telnet or do it on your computer.
  • ....... how to mark the types of fuel at the gas station? It is recommended that generic names be used for different types of fuels instead of local names or brands in order to ensure consistency of data worldwide. WikiOSM noted these values, but in reality, more than 500 different “fuel: *” tags are used in total . Most of them are undocumented and are used only a few times.
  • ....... about the map of lighthouses , which shows how they look and blink? The GitHub project uses Seark:light:sequenceas well as Seaark:light:rangeand tags Seaark:light:color.
  • ... that the Russian company NextGIS made an information system for the cultural and historical heritage of the Rostov land (Yaroslavl region, Russia). On the map you can find historical sacred places of this territory, estates and even places where healers lived.
  • ... that the Russian mapper FreeExec made a lot of different validators? The power supply scheme of the Russian Federation, the validator of substations with voltages exceeding 35 kV, railway stations of Russia and much more - you can find on his personal website .

OSM in the media


  • Valery Trubin continues a series of interviews with Russian mappers. This time, he talked with a municipal official from Togliatti, Elena Balashova , who allowed the data from EMGIS to be used in OSM, as well as with maker Anton Belichkov from Magnitogorsk, who devoted 10 years of his life to OSM.

Other geo events


  • Alex Parsons wrote on Twitter about the study, which the authors analyzed the problems left by users on the site fixmystreet , to find out: is there a difference in reporting between the sexes. They found that men were more likely to report driving problems and women were more likely to walk.
  • In France, the General Council on Environment and Sustainable Development issued a ( translation ) report, which indicates that the prefectures quite freely interpreted the possibility of revising the hydrographic maps of IGN, excluding many small rivers. In a country where open data are considered important, there have been many criticisms ( 1 translation , 2 translation , 3 translation , 4 translation ) (fr), which emphasized that in this way the authorities try to avoid compliance with environmental laws regarding these rivers.
  • К. М. Александр извлек изображения из старых карт, таких как Isola di Malta 1686 года или Terræ Sanctæ 1660 года, и сделал их доступными под лицензией CC BY 4.0.
  • Интернет-портал NZZ рассказывает о влиянии Google Maps на территориальные претензий и пограничные конфликты (“война Google Maps”), а также том, что произойдет, если целый город исчезнет по ошибке на месяц… (автоматический перевод)
  • В The Guardian вышла статья о приложении Guthook Guides, которое предоставляет информацию о походах, диких регионах и тропах по всему миру, а также о непредвиденных последствиях, вызванных растущей зависимостью пользователей от своих телефонов при навигации по пустыне.
  • Mike writes ( translation ) on his #geoObserver homepage that, despite the disappearance of one method that allowed you to create a building base map from OSM using a request through the Overpass turbo service , you can still do this quite simply in QGIS.
  • Video about the new features of QGIS 3.8 (Zanzibar).


Communication of Russian OpenStreetMap participants is in the Telegram chat room and on the forum . There are also groups on social networks VKontakte , Facebook , but they mainly publish news.

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