June 18th, 2012 – July 2nd, 2012
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.
- 165 terabyte of new aerial imagery has been released by Microsoft/Bing. You can read their announcement here. You can also find some more general information in our wiki.
- Flickr increased their implementation of OSM map tiles for a few cites. Read the full blog post here. Their map styles are available at github.
- The “Pirate Map” is a new special mapstyle provided by MapBox and created by AJ Ashton.
- The “Swiss OSM Association” was founded during the GEOsummits 2012 in Bern.
- The OSM Mapping project „Via Alpina 2012” has been traveling for 18 days now. They created a blog and a hiking map to keep everyone posted.
- The Android App “KeypadMapper”, which can be used to recording addresses, has been updated. Check out the wiki page.
- The new version 2.12 of Openlayers has been announced. Please be sure to check your current map-pages, since the new version might cause some problems.
Did we miss something? You can contact us via weekly.osm@googlemail.com
Authors: Pascal & Dennis – (thx @ “Wochennotiz”)
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