Monthly Archives: July 2014

Welcoming our first Corporate Members

Back in February we described a new membership option for the OpenStreetMap foundation, and since then we’ve seen our first “corporate members” joining.

Geofabrik, Geotab, Naver, and NextGIS were the first four members, and [UPDATE] they are joined by Mapbox today:

By becoming corporate members, these organisations are generously helping to keep our servers running, supporting the work of our volunteer working groups, and above all showing their support for OpenStreetMap.

We hope to see a growing number of organisations appearing on our Corporate Members page. Thank you for your support!

OpenStreetMap at Open Knowledge Festival

Next week OKFN’s Open Knowledge Festival takes place in Berlin bringing together open data practitioners from all over the planet. There is also a flurry of activities around OpenStreetMap, here is a run down. Are you in Berlin? Come out and meet other mappers.

July 12/13 OpenStreetMap Hack weekend (side event, no festival pass needed)
July 16 4.30 PM Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Workshop (part of regular festival schedule)
July 16 7PM Open Mapping Happy Hour (side event, no festival pass needed)

…and plenty more open map data possibilities related to other sessions on the programme

There’s other conferences where OpenStreetMap will be making an appearance coming up soon too, including:

FOSS4G 2014 in Bremen – Open Source GIS conference by the OSgeo foundation
Wikimania 2014 in London – International conference of wikipedia and the wikimedia projects

Check out the wiki events list for these and many more events, and stay tuned for more news about our OpenStreetMap conference(s)

Weekly OSM Summary #98

June 16th, 2014 – June 30th, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

Several photos of the State of the Map Europe have been uploaded to flickr. Also Serge Wroclawski and Tim Waters wrote a blog post about the conference.
Several updates to the main OSM rendering have been rolled out.
The International Red Cross needs your help in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia (via Humanitarian OSM Team).
“A legend generator for Mapnik stylesheets” by Andy Allan.
The OpenBeerMap needs several translations.
OSM contributor Hawkeye wrote a diary entry on how you can make “a map of the mappers contributing to mapping parties“.
MapRoulette has some new challenges: “Crossing Ways” for the US and for example “Highway intersecting building” for France. What is MapRoulette?
“OSM Node Density Visualized” by Martin Raifer.
Richard Fairhurst released a “Style Prototyping Utility for Mapnik” named “Sputnik”. It helps to visualize the changes you made to a Mapnik stylesheet in real time.
The Julia OpenStreetMap Package has been published. It provides basic functionality for parsing, viewing, and working with OpenStreetMap map data. “The package is intended mainly for researchers who want to incorporate this rich, global data into their work …”.
“Opengeofiction – Using the OSM software for mapping a fictional planet” is online. You can find the SotM-EU session here.
Robin Hawkes and Peter Smart published a first version of their: “3D city and data visualization platform http://vizicities.com“
Per Liedman about “Generate maps of sun and shade from OpenStreetMap data“.

After nearly 4 years and almost 100 Weekly OSM Summary posts, we would like to announce our retirement as editors from this service. Thank you for all your suggestions and submissions to the blog over the years! We hope that other volunteers will be willing to continue this service for the OSM community in the near future. We will officially end our endeavor with the 100th Weekly OSM Summary in a few weeks. This announcement does not imply that we will stop contributing to the OSM project or that we won’t conduct other data analyses in the future. Feel free to check out Pascal’s blog at neis-one.org in the future for any updates. Thanks. Pascal and Dennis

(thx @ “Wochennotiz”)

Upcoming Maintenance

On Saturday 5th of July 2014 between 09:00 and 19:00 (GMT / UTC) we are moving our servers hosted by University College London to another data center.

The following services will be affected:

Search (nominatim.openstreetmap.org) will be unavailable. *
Slower map updates / Reduced tile rendering capacity. (Yevaud outage)
OSM Foundation websites and blog.openstreetmap.org will be unavailable.
Taginfo (taginfo.openstreetmap.org) will be unavailable.
Development Server (errol) will be unavailable.
Some imagery services will be unavailable. (GPX Render, OS
Streetview, OOC, AGRI, CD:NGI aerial)

Other OpenStreetMap provided services should not be affected – all of the following are expected to function normally:

www.openstreetmap.org web site will allow edits as per normal (iD or
Potlatch).
API will allow map editing (using iD, JOSM, Merkaartor etc.)
Forum
trac (bug-tracker)
help.openstreetmap.org
tile serving (“View The Map” & “Export”)
Wiki
mailing lists
subversion and git (source code repositories)
donate.openstreetmap.org

Technical: We are moving all the servers listed here to a new UCL data center. The current building is being closed soon for refurbishment. The new data center has better server racks, power feeds, cooling and faster networking.

* Searches through the website will still work – we will redirect
them to another nominatim instance temporarily.

Sincerely
Grant Slater
On behalf of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team.

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