Weekly OSM Summary #68 | OpenStreetMap Blog
April 22nd, 2013 – May 6th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.
The
newly developed OSM editor
, named iD, has reached version 1.0 and is now online at the main OSM website. Also the main OSM website has a new feature:
Add a note!
The
Call for Papers
for the upcoming
State of the Map
(SotM) in the UK is out. The registration is open too and the fee for community members is 60 Pounds –
Early Bird
The next OSM Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe (Germany) will be at
June 1st and 2nd
The Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) is searching a
senior field coordinator
for Bangladesh (Sri Lanka). Further, Mikel asks for help to write an
HOT Activation Protocol
An article on the OSM US blog tells you more about “
OSM’s Growing Use in U.S. Government
“.
Amir and “How to say:
No…This is not a bug!
” in OSM.
Pascal created a website with some
statistics and contributor rankings
of the latest OSM “Add a Note” feature.
Humberto Yances wrote about the “
La Boquilla Project
“: “including the use of OSM maps for mangrove conservancy, social inclusion and community strength”.
Martijn van Exel wrote a blog post about the
Chicago Hack Weekend
A blog post by Eric Fischer about “
Visualizing the Progress of OpenStreetMap Around the World
“.
Marco Antonio shows his first previews of
OSM 3D
on a smartphone.
Mapping the history of San Francisco street names
“, great visualization by Noah Veltman.
A useful script that can be applied in JOSM allows you to download errors detected in OSM that need to be fixed. You can find more information in the
OSM wiki
The open source
POI+
editor still needs some translations. You can help
here
Tom’s “
Hexbin Edits on OpenStreetMap
” website is available at
github
The
Planet.osm website
by bbbike.org has been updated. You can export OSM data in a variety of data formats (e.g. Garmin OSM or ESRI’s shapefile) for your individual area of interest. They also published a free of charge
iPhone
Bike app.
A new version of RTKLIB, an open-source software package that allows accurate positioning, was released on April 29th. You can find
more information
in the OSM wiki.
Authors:
Pascal
Dennis
– (thx @ “
Wochennotiz
”)
This post is also available in:
Russian
OpenStreetMap Blog
Subscribe via RSS
Languages
Русский
Russian
Recent Posts
Announcing SotM 2026 Call for Participation
Announcing SotM 2026 Travel Grant Program
Announcing the 2025 Microgrant Program Grantees
Results of the SotM 2025 Travel Grant Programme
Paris, the heart of OpenStreetMap in 2026!
Blogroll
blogs.openstreetmap.org
Categories
Archives
Archives