Weekly OSM Summary #93 | OpenStreetMap Blog

April 7th, 2014 – April 21st, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

The program of the SotM-EU in Karlsruhe, Germany (June 13th-15) is online now. Get your early bird tickets here.
All videos of the SotM US 2014 are online.
DigitalGlobe announced that they will bring “timely and relevant imagery to OpenStreetMap” implemented in the popular OSM editors iD or JOSM.
Ilya Zverev created a new browser-based OSM editor called: Level0.
Slide is an OSM iD editor add-on to optimize line mapping with GPS data.
The OSM Inspector address view (which checks for misspelled addresses or addresses without matching roads) is now available world-wide.
BBBike.org now also offers SRTM data downloads in OSM pbf file format.
The OSM Stack: A mind map visualization by Christophe Rodier.
Jue Yang, Kate Chapman and Chris Henrik worked on a new and better “HOT OSM Export Tool” during the SotM US. You can read more about their results here.
A second update about the HOT response for the “2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak“. Also, a summary is available here.
SK53 wrote a blog post about Nick Whitelegg and his “10 years of footpath mapping for OpenStreetMap“.
OSM map of Budapest (Hungary) with live public transport.
OSM diary entry “Elevation carving using OSM waterway data” by Andrew Buck.
The new tool “OsmHydrant” by Robert Koch simplifies the process of adding and editing hydrants in OSM.
Chrill Hill wrote a blog post on how you can use/create historical map overlays for OSM.
Harry Wood created a video about “Updating the Olympic Park in OpenStreetMap“.
OSM contributor ybon added GeoRSS support on uMap. He is also working on a Heatmap made for uMap. What is uMap?
Quattroshapes offers OSM boundary downloads for different administrative levels.