Weekly OSM Summary #24 | OpenStreetMap Blog
August 10, 2011 – August 22, 2011
A summary of all the things happening in the
OpenStreetMap
(OSM) world.
OSM has more then
450 000 registered
members by now. About
150 000
of those contributed at least one node to the project.
The OSM
Licensing Working Group
(LWG) announced some guidelines for the preparation for the license change. Read more details in the
wiki page
The OSM Foundation announced that the 2011 annual general meeting and election board members will be held at State of the Map, in Denver. You can find more information
here
Harry Wood created a map with an overlay of the riots in London. You can access the map
here
Serge created basic information videos about OSM with a total length of more than 2 hours. See the videos at
Pascal created a website last week which shows your or other OSM member’s contributions in a Heat Map. You can find his blog post
here
, and the webpage
here
In the OSM Wiki you can find a first proposal “
to enable linking different datasets with OSM data
” (OpenMetaMap).
Last week the Wired magazine published an article about “
Amateur cartographers mistaken for criminals
“.
The new „Engineering Working Group“ has its first meeting on Monday 22nd at 5pm GMT. Read the full message
here
The
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
(HOT) wrote about their
work in Somalia
. And they created some OSM manuals and guides. Read the announcement
here
In the fourth and final episode of “Geospatial Revolution” the Map Kiberia project is mentioned. See the complete video at
Some aerial imagery is now available for the mapping of the city of Dedaab in Kenya, Read the
wiki page
or the announcement at the
mailing list
The Ministry of the Interior and Sports of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, published a raster map of entire Ruanda and permitted usage for OSM. Read more at the
wiki page
Harry Wood gave a presentation about humanitarian mapping with OSM. You can see his slides and slide notes
here
The Flosm-Map has now an Inkscap and Illstrator Export. Try it
here
(only available in German).
The OSM contributor “
Ogmios
” created a map (
) with a special overlay containing information for the homosexual community.
The “
OSM Amenity Editor
” is now Open Source. This tool allows you to edit OSM node features within a web browser. You can find the project at
github
The JXAPI now supports polygon queries. Read details
here
A new version of the German OSM flyer is available. You can order the flyer for free at the GeoFabrik. Read the announcement at the
German Mailing List
Did we miss something? You can contact us via
weekly.osm@googlemail.com
2 thoughts on “
Weekly OSM Summary #24
I think the active user count is off by order of magnitude … closer to 15000
thanks Mikel. I corrected it …
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