Weekly OSM Summary #48 | OpenStreetMap Blog
July 16th, 2012 – July 30th, 2012
A summary of all the things happening in the
OpenStreetMap
(OSM) world.
The
State of the Map
(SotM) schedule, which is going to take place in Tokyo (Japan),
has been announced
The automated redaction bot process is complete, you can read more
here
The OSM Inspector (a web based debugging tool for OSM users) has
a new layer
which shows the data which has been edited by the license redaction bot.
A request of the
Humanitarian OSM Team
(HOT) to “
Help mapping non-mapped areas of Tajikistan
“.
The latest version of osmconvert (a tool to convert and process OSM data) can create csv files. Read more about the tool and several other options in the
wiki
new website
shows in which areas members are looking for new OSM contributors. You can create your personal contributor feed too. You can also find the latest OSM contributors of the last two and seven days per country
here
step-by-step tutorial
for rendering SVG maps from OSM data.
Nathaniel Kelso created a plugin to load the Stamen maps into the QGI. Read more in the following
blog post
MapBox introduce a new Open Source
Javascript API
to create your own browser maps.
GraphHopper is a new and open source routing engine for OSM road networks. You can find the project on
github
Did we miss something? You can contact us via
weekly.osm@googlemail.com
Authors:
Pascal
Dennis
– (thx @ “
Wochennotiz
”)
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