Weekly OSM Summary #64

February 25th, 2013 – March 11th, 2013

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

• The Geofabrik updated their established and famous OSM Data Extract server. Furthermore they offer regional OSM Diff files.
• Microsoft Bing offers some new high resolution satellite imagery.
• Caerus is working with Stamen Design on a new version of Walking Papers. Read more about the new advantages here.
• Some stats from Mapping Kathmandu.
• A series of new blog posts about the architecture of the new OSM editor iD [1][2][3].
• An interview with the OSM Chairman Simon Poole at swissinfo.ch: The globe, mapped by you.
• The OSM History Viewer is back online. What is it?
• You can find all Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) board minutes here. Also, HOT is now tax exempt in the US. Further, a new HOT task for Madagascar is available now. Derick Rethans created an animation of the HOT Mapping efforts in Mali.
• The “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” webpage shows the main and latest activity area of a contributor now. To get more information read Pascal Neis’ blog post here.
• OWL API and History Tab Beta are back online. Thanks Pawel!
• Seasonal mapping: Some stats about ski piste data collections in the past few years from Yves.
• The video of the “Virtual Mappy Hour – Let’s Talk MapRoulette” is online at Youtube.
• Garmin Connect now uses OSM maps too.
• “State of the OSM Coastline” a blog post by Jochen Topf.
• Richard Weait wrote a blog post about the Toronto OSM Hack Weekend.
• “A OSM GPS Tile Type” by Tom MacWright. It hits the OSM GPX API, processes GPX with toGeoJSON, draws pictures with Canvas and it is Open Source.

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