Yearly Archives: 2011

Project of the Week: Stationery shops

Would you pass me the quill and inkpot please?

A stationery shop may seem outdated in a paperless, electronically
connected world. There is something more formal about getting a card
or letter in the mail, something joyful in the anticipation of opening
an envelope, thick with greetings and dreams, from an old friend.
Let’s put the local stationery shop on the map.

What goes into a well-mapped stationery shop? Find out on the Project of the Week: Stationery shop page.

This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap
interests by suggesting a Project of the Week.

The current Project of the Month: Bridge and Tunnel continues until the end of March.

Stationery photo by Simon Pearson is
licensed CC-By-ND.

Scientific American: Mapping the food desert

Scientific American has just published an article Amateur Cartographers Map Local ‘Food Desert’ by Francie Diep on urban
food quality.

A volunteer effort to map all the food stores in Brooklyn,
New York, is an example of two rising trends: citizen mapping and
increasing scrutiny of urban Americans’ access to healthy
food

Brooklyn Food Coalition are using OpenStreetMap to present their data
on the web.

Deli photo by Catherine is licensed
CC-By.

Image of the Week: OpenSeaMap and weather

OpenSeaMap showing weather information for a storm in the North
Atlantic ocean on 14 February 2011

OpenSeaMap web site

This is a Featured image, which means that it has been identified as
one of the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or that it provides
a useful illustration related to the OpenStreetMap project.

If you know another image of similar quality, you can nominate it at

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_image_proposals

Weekly OSM Summary #11

02/14/2011 – 02/24/2011

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world:

The True Offset web service is available since last week. True Offset aims to create a database of correction data for aerial imagery offsets.
The call for papers for this year’s SOTM.EU in Vienna is still open till the 28th of February. All the accepted speakers will get a free ticket to the conference. The organizing team is also looking for sponsors for the conference.
Travel Discounts for the SOTM conference in Denver are now available.
JOSM (latest) now supports MapCSS, a CSS like map style language this is also used by Potlatch 2.
ScanAerial is the successor of the JOSM plugin “Fuzzer” for the automatic tracing of seas and other water areas. The developer is looking for people to test the plugin and report bugs.
Forum user kendzi has developed a JOSM plugin that displays the scenery in 3D.
User:vvoovv has found a way to use Google Sketchup as an OSM editor.
OSMembrane is a new java application that offers a graphical user interface for Osmosis, the popular command line tool for manipulating large quantities of OSM data.
KeyPadMapper is an Android App specialized for mapping of house numbers.
The new MapQuest Android App has a dedicated OSM mode.
TileMill is a new open source map designing studio.
A chart visualizing “the most prolific contributors in the region and how contribution volume (not to be confused with quality!) changes over time.”
Maxim Dubinin has created some stats about the OSM community in Russia.
A new import is starting in Georgia.
DIY-StreetView is yet another initiative to make an open street view.
MapQuest is looking for projects that use its open services and could be presented at SXSW.
Everyone who missed the HOT conference call can listen to a recording of it and look at the notes here.
Steve Coast is looking for someone to take over future development of Transiki.org.

Authors: Pascal, Jonas & Dennis
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Project of the Month: Bridges and tunnels

Bridges and tunnels assist travel. They span barriers that otherwise
impede travel such as mountains and ravines. They also reduce the
interaction between travelers in cases such as grade-separated railway
crossings, and motorway interchanges.

The Project of the Month is to add local bridges and tunnels to the map.

See the bridge and tunnel project page for more details and results.

This is the a Project of the Month. Project of the Week returns
next week, while PotM will continue until the end of March. These projects
inspire mappers to contribute data they might not have considered
previously, and allow us to be inspired by the projects of other
mappers.

This is your Project of the Month. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap
interests with other mappers by contributing a Project of the Month.

Photo of Millau viaduct by Philiip Capper is
licensed CC-By.

Image of the Week: OSM 3D routing on mobile

Gosmore routing to Freizeitpark Marienfelde in Berlin on 11th of
February 2011. Operating system: Windows CE 4.2 Hardware: Transonic
6000

Higher resolution here

If you know another image of similar quality, you can nominate it on
Featured image proposals.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_image_proposals

Nice simple animation of OSM growth

… and some basic stats ;

“A simple way of getting an idea of the coverage expansion trends is to look at the historic data. This article aims to provide visualizations for two elements: where was the coverage expansion happening and how did it break down on a weekly basis.

Beyonav has performed a statistical analysis on over 600GB compressed (10 TB uncompressed) weekly Planet-OSM database dump files since December 30th, 2009.”

http://www.beyonav.com/sites/beyonav/osmanalytics.aspx#