Weekly OSM Summary #91

March 10th, 2014 – March 24th, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The OSM project has been recognized by the Free Software Foundation Europe with the Document Freedom Day Award 2014.
• The HOT has an emergency request to map Guinea Conakry – Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou. You can read more in the initial mailing list post and on the OSM wiki page.
• Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) has published an “Open data for resilience initiative – Field Guide” and mentioned the important role of OSM and HOT for disaster management.
• A new version of MapRoulette has been launched. It is a gamified approach to fixing OSM bugs that breaks common OSM data problems into micro tasks.
• mkmap, who created OSM Garmin maps, received a major routing upgrade. Read the full announcement.
• OSM iD editor usability study: Looking for test persons.
• The upcoming FOSS4G-Europe conference will take place at the Jacobs-University in Bremen, Germany.
• OSM Switzerland created its own OSM map style which is also available on github.
• Severin Menard is a new member of the HOT OSM board and he wrote a blog post about his latest activities.
• Richard Weait wrote a blog post about “Courtyards! Multipolygon Relations in OpenStreetMap“.
• OSM contributor Stalfur described how he mapped Botswana via Facebook.
• The weather radar screens at the Melbourne Formula1 Grand Prix used OSM.
• OSM contributor RoadLessTraveled reviewed different tools for “Quickly Mapping Stores & Street Numbers w Android“.
• Felix Butzbach created a Pacman-style game based on OSM maps for Android. Give it a try.

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

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