2012 | OpenStreetMap Blog

The SoTM organizing committee have just announced the winning bid for the 2012 International conference for OpenStreetMap. This year we’re going to…

Tokyo, Japan!

‘Tokyo by Night’ photo CC-BY-2.0 user JeHu68 on flickr

The annual event will be held September 6th-8th 2012.

From the stateofthemap.org blog:

There were five proposals to host the leading international OpenStreetMap conference: Aveiro (Portugal), Havana (Cuba), Lille (France), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Tokyo (Japan). “We’ve received several strong bids. Deciding on the best location for State of the Map is always one of our biggest and toughest decisions.” says Henk Hoff, chairman of the SotM organizing committee. With the crisis Japan had to face the past year, the Japanese OSM has grown intensively; making Asia an important part within the OSM community.

“We strongly believe that holding State of the Map in Asia will widen and strenghten the international community as a whole, like it has done in Europe and North America in the past” commented Tiachi Furuhashi of OpenStreetMap Japan.

2012 will host the sixth annual international conference, attracting over 250 people in attendance. Previous editions of this conference were held in Manchester (UK), Limerick (Ireland), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Girona (Spain), Denver (USA). Sponsorship details, volunteer opportunities and more information will be available in the near future.

December 12th, 2011 – January 1st, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

On Dec. 24th, 2011, OSM reached the goal of £15,000 in donations for new hardware that is needed for the OSM project. Thanks to all donators!
A new video shows all edits made in OpenStreetMap in 2011.
The OSM system administrator created a list with the “Top Ten Tasks“. Developers are welcome!
The OSM domains are now registered at gandi.net. Why?
A blog post by Nestoria about switching from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap and some interesting comments. MIT published a similar article about the switch from Google Maps to OSM.
“The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked HOT and the Stand By Task Force (SBTF) to be activated to map health facilities in Libya.” Read more here. Also, the HOT Board has two new members.
How are your road conditions? A nice OSM application for St. Petersburg.
The Overpass API has been updated to a new API version wich included some bug fixes and new features. More about the Overpass API can be found here.
The ArgGIS Editor OSM 2.0 beta has been published. To be able to use this editor you need to purchase the ArcGIS for Home software.
Blog post by Chris Hill about the OSM license change and the remapping procedure.
Simon Poole created a first CLEANMAP. A map using ODbL licensed OSM data only.
A Youtube video shows how you can resolve license problems in OSM Editor JOSM.
Taginfo also shows tag combinations now. You do not know Taginfo? Read this.
Osmbugs.org has a new GUI and is no longer redirecting to openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org.
MapStalt – A simple OSM POI-editor for Windows phones.
OpenFixMap is an android application that shows OpenStreetMap errors from MapDust, OpenStreetBugs and KeepRight. The source code is available here.
With Smrender you can render sea maps based on Mapnik and OSM.
A new JOSM APT repository for Ubuntu is available online. For details see here.
A new plug-in helps to add SRTM elevation information to OSM Nodes using OSMOSIS.
The X-Plane flight simulator uses OSM data? How? Read this blog post to get some more information.