Weekly OSM Summary #79 & #80

September 23rd, 2013 – October 21st, 2013
Special issue – A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Simon Poole wrote an announcement about the “PD checkbox” which maybe some of the long-time contributors see in their personal OSM profile.
• Paul Norman published a list of upcoming OSM main website features.
• Please participate in this rework of the local OSM chapter agreement.
• New OSM flyers can be ordered at the OpenCycleMap shop.
• The results of the OpenStreetMap US Elections 2013 have been published. Congrats to Mele, Kathleen, Ian, Martijn and Alex!
• Will Skora about the new HOT OSM map style. The CartoCSS code has been published on GitHub. More information in a presentation and a blog post. The new style is also available at fieldpapers.org.
• Some new stats about the OSM street network of Switzerland.
• KeepRight seeks volunteers to help with maintaining the website.
• Werner Hoch about the transition from OpenStreetBugs to OSM Notes.
• Martin Dittus wrote a blog post about “Changing the Ratio: OpenStreetMap Community Diversity at SotM 2013“.
• Mele Sax-Barnett provides some useful information about “Getting what you want out of OpenStreetMap“.
• Matthew Kenny wrote a blog post about “Generate [Topo|Geo]JSON Vector Tiles“.
• Jochen Topf wrote a blog post about “Preventing the Flooding of the Planet” due to broken OSM coastlines.
• Keiko Tanaka wrote a short blog post about OpenStreetMap contributors who helped to create a crisis map of Izu Oshima island.
• Chris Hill wrote a blog post about the “open” UK Land Registry polygons.
• Carol Kraemer about her personal experience as a new OSM member and data contribution attempts.
• The OpenSeaMap switched to GitHub. Also a new forum is online here.
• “My Opening Hours” a new and simple Android application that maintains a list of places and their corresponding opening hours.
• The Navit project is looking for translators. Navit is an open-source car navigation software capable of using OSM data.
• Norway offers different open datasets on their own geodata portal. Read more here. The potential import to OSM is coordinated here.
• The videos of the FOSS4G in Nottingham are online at Youtube. Also the videos of the State of the Map Scotland are available here.

Authors: Pascal & Dennis – (thx @ “Wochennotiz”)

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