Weekly OSM Summary #81

October 21st, 2013 – November 4th, 2103
Special issue – A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• All GPX traces of the OSM project of the last 9 years are available for mapping now.
• Wheelmap.org has been redesigned (German blog post) and more projects are getting involved.
• Werner wrote an update about the OpenStreetBugs phase out progress.
• leodobrasil wrote a blog post about his experience creating a new map for Itapetinga (Bahia, Brazil): “Novo Mapa de Itapetinga-BA“.
• Tom MacWright wrote a blog about the “function of difficulty in collaborative communities“.
• Alex Barth wrote about a popular OSM related question: What is the OpenStreetMap convention? Do we tag addresses on buildings or on separate nodes?
• Creating real-time maps from data anywhere on the web.
• A speed camera map based on OSM data.
• A bash script for tile stitching by OSM contributor mkarau.
• A blog post that shows you how to create maps with Python.
• Ilya Zverev published the first version of the MapBBCode JavaScript library. It allows for easy integration of maps into forums, blogs and other web engines.
• Tobias Bieniek released a responsive sidebar for leaflet maps. Sources are available on github.
• The MychOSM project (“My community and my history in OpenStreetMap – New Comenius project”) is the follow up to the “Life Long Learning Mapping Project” aka BoostOSM project within the Comenius program.

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

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