Weekly OSM Summary #92

March 24th, 2014 – April 7th, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• If you want your city, state or country to have better OSM data, you need more local mappers. Some important suggestions by Richard Weait.
• The Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) wrote an overview article about the “2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response“.
• In 29 hours 68 contributors mapped the entire city of Mamou (20,105 buildings), the center of the Ebola outbreak.
• Jorieke wrote a report about a mapping week in Lubumbashi in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
• OpenAddresses has been launched: “The free and open, global address collection“.
• OSM contributor Zverik about “A year with imagery offset database“.
• Chris Fleming and “Android Apps for Mapping“.
• Andy Allan published a few screenshots from his new Lightning tile-server.
• The University of Heidelberg organized an OSM workshop for children.
• The maybe fastest OSM routing engine (OSRM) got several improvements. Read Dennis’ complete list here.
• OSM contributor sabas88 tried to map in 100 countries in 100 days.

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

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