June 10, 2019 at 00:47

News from the world of OpenStreetMap No. 463 (05/28/2019 - 06/06/2019)

Original author: Team WeeklyOSM
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Mapping


  • The latest version of How Did You Contribute , developed by Pascal Nays, now uses osmose to display information about the quality of user edits.
  • Facebook’s mapping team announced the release of the iDi-based RapiD editor (puns and iD), which allows machine-learning data to be entered into OSM.
  • WiGeoGIS - OMV contractor (engaged in gas stations), announced that it plans to update and keep up to date OSM information on gas stations of the following brands: OMV, AVANTI, Petrom, FE Traiding and EuroTruck. See also the discussion on the Talk mailing list ( May , June ).
  • Valorie Naram ruled the vote a revised tagging scheme changing tables ( changing_table=*).
  • The developers of the Maps.Me navigator, which uses OSM data, has introduced a subway validator around the world.

Community


  • Simon Poole on the Tagging mailing list expressed several thoughts on how to deal with the growing number of messages and suggestions. Many answered him .
  • Not so long ago, the OSM community in Kazakhstan created a chat on Telegram for communication.

OpenStreetMap Foundation


  • Jost Schuppe on an OSM foundation blog talks about how the next face-to-face meeting of the OSMF Council took place, which this time took place in Brussels. It also discussed the study that was conducted earlier.

Events


  • The OSM community in Argentina has announced a local cartographic conference, State of the Map, which will be held July 27 in Santa Fe.

Humanitarian OSM


  • HOT talks about a pilot version of the "Task Manager" on his blog, which can help solve problems using machine learning algorithms.
  • Simon Johnson writes on Medium that the use of "big data" for humanitarian purposes often does not comply with the principle of "minimum viable data", which is: less valuable data because their quality is much higher, and it’s easier to double-check .
  • In the article “ Better Bombing with Machine Learning ”, Frederick Ramm points out that computer vision / machine learning can ultimately be used by the military for aerial bombing, and therefore the OSM community needs to think hard: it’s worth I rejoice at those companies that use these technologies to improve OSM.

Cards


  • In his tweet, Richard Fairhast gives an example of using the Lua script to automatically transliterate names when processing OSM data for rendering. Postprocessing OSM data in this way often makes it unnecessary to use tags with name:.
  • The site of the Magnitogorsk City Council has a map of constituencies. As the substrate used OSM.
  • On the website of the Russian state road repair program “Safe and high-quality roads” OSM is used as a substrate (you need to select a region).

Releases


  • A new stable version of JOSM (15155) has been released. Added category icons and a field for filtering background image settings. Dynamic recordings in the menu of background images are displayed in a submenu, as well as many other improvements .
  • OsmAnd Online GPS Tracker updated to version 0.5. New functions have appeared: searching for contacts, setting proxies, GPS and active markers.
  • Thanks to the new version of the Babykarte service (v2.0), children will no longer be lost. Although, rather, it became much easier for their parents to look for something that is suitable for children and toddlers ( map ).

Did you know…


  • ... about the OpenTrailView project ?
  • ... that the Spanish software engineer Javier Jimenez Shaw (Javier Jimenez Shaw), who lives and works in Berlin, brought together a lot of historical, topographical, satellite and road maps. We already talked about this, but now he has translated the page with the map on Leaflet.
  • ... about the map of all uMap cards ?
  • ... that Russian maker Roman Shuvalov, using OSM, not only created the “ Bicycle Map of Samara Region ”, but also developed the game “ Generation Streets ”, which is hosted on Steam.

OSM in the media


  • In this short podcast on BBC-4 radio, they ask the question: what more - stars in the Universe or grains of sand on the beaches of the Earth? A program participant, using the OSM Planet file, calculated the approximate amount of beach sand on planet Earth.
  • On Habré there was a big interview with the Russian osmery Ilya Zverev. He described what he had been doing at OSMF for two years, why the American community was the friendliest and why you need to participate in offline conferences.

Other geo events


  • How to make a map inspired by the Simpsons with expressions .
  • John Murray used the latest version of the Rapids AI - GPU big data library - to calculate the distances between any two points within the UK. The calculations took several seconds.
  • Excerpt from Barbara Tversky’s book “What makes a map good?”
  • The company, which produces outerwear, stealthily added photos of its models to Wikipedia articles in order to promote the brand in the results of issuing on Google Image. We need to know that this is another threat to which open wikis may be exposed.
  • Daniel JH announced the release of a new version of the RoboSat program, which can determine roads and buildings in aerial photographs.
  • An article on the best apps for water sports enthusiasts has been published on the Die Welt web portal .


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