June 4st, 2012 – June 18th, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

• Bing released new aerial imagery for some parts of the world. Read more here.
• “Wheelmap goes London and you can help us with your ideas”
• OSM Germany has its own OSM-podcast now. Well done guys!
• A nice animation about „A day in the life of Nice Ride bikes“ based on OSM data.
• You can compare up to 35 maps on the webpage “Map Compare“.
• Create your own OSM shoes. Pretty cool!
• Keepright.at (an OSM Quality Assurance tool) has a new layer („doubled places“) to find duplicate POIs.
• The Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) is searching for an “Acting Project Director“.
• The imposom project repository has been moved to github. With impososm you can import OSM data into geo-databases.
• New base layer (experimental) to show OSM admin boundaries.
• Peter Batty wrote an interesting article about “Apple Maps: Predictions and Questions“
• An interesting article about “Open licensing and databases”. You can find the full text here.

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

May 21st, 2012 – June 4st, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

• Jochen Topf published a new webpage titled: OpenStreetMapData.com. You can find several datasets there, such as water- and land polygons or coastlines, which are based on OSM data. Read more in his blog post.
• During a mapping experiment for the Horn of Africa, more than 10 refugee camps with more than 600,000 people have been mapped within almost 48h.
• A blog post about “OpenStreetMap at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Disaster Simulation“.
• An open position for the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) in Indonesia.
• Video of the “Shoreditch Mapping Party” process by Derick Rethans.
• Pascal Neis created an OSM-GPS-Grid-Map based on all OSM-GPS-Points and TileMill. Read more in his blog post.
• The new version of the CycleStreets webpage supports more OSM tags now (e.g. surface quality, barriers or lighting). Also, their mobile client has been judged as one of the „Best Application Designs“.
• The official webpage of Paris uses OSM data for their cycle route planer.
• You can get a free vector based cyclemap for Android-Phones here.
• openMarkers is reborn and starts with OSM now. Read more about this project.
• How can you display tweets on an OSM map? You can find an interesting solution here.
• TomTom published a blog post about Open Source Maps. Some responses by Henk Hoff and Richard Fairhurst.

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

May 7th, 2012 May 21st, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

• The latest news about the rebuild progress at the “Rebuild” can be found here and here.
• The OSM Foundation introduces the Ulf Möller Memorial Fund und Award.
• A Kickstarter project by Kate Chapman for the „First Free Haitian Creole OpenStreetMap Book“ can be found here.
• The International Committee of the Red Cross (IRRC) is asking for help to trace aerial imagery of Tierralta, Colombia. Read more here.
• The HOT have some new aerial imagery for Mali, Niger, Bangladesh, Colombia and South Sudan which can be used for mapping.
• Tom MacWright explained in a blog post how the new State of the Map US website works.
• Will White writes about the technology which Mapbox uses to create maps.
• Taking the Hackerbus to the mapping party.
• A Step-by-Step introduction to QGIS, PostGIS, and TileMill for Windows.

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

April 23th, 2012 – May 7th, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

• The latest news about the license change and the data rebuild-process.
• The OSM project has more than 600 000 registered members now. Pascal created a new webpage which shows the latest active members. You will find the blog post here.
• Apple’s new iPhoto attributes the OSM project as a source now.
• The State of the Map US will take place in Portland on October 13th and 14th, 2012.
• Six OSM projects have been accepted for this year’s Google Summer of Code.
• The next Wherecamp Berlin will take place on June 22nd and 23rd. You can already register here.
• „What we can learn from Wikipedia“ a new blog post by Frederik Ramm.
• Dan Stowell wrote a blog post about how he made a nice map handout from OSM.
• An online cycle map of Oxford was developed based on OSM data and created with Maperitive.
• The “Worst Of OSM” webpage shows some failed OSM mapping or import efforts.
• The new HOT Technical Working Group will start their first IRC Chat on Thursday May 10th at 3pm GMT. Read more here.
• The “Waymarked Trails: Hiking” webpage is available in seven new languages now.
• The new Maperitive version can create its own Walking papers now. You will find a description here.
• A new version of the Overpass API is available. You can find all changes and new features here. For all new readers: The Overpass API is a read-only API that serves up raw XML encoded OSM map data.
• A new plugin for the Leaflet open source library enables a feature to display GPX or KML overlays or a Google layer. You can find the code on github.

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

April 9th, 2012 – April 23th, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

• You can register for the State of the Map (SotM) conference in Tokyo, Japan now.
• An OSM Hackweekend will take place on June 2nd and 3rd 2012 in Karlsruhe (Germany).
• YOU (OSM) are GREAT!
• The HOT project is looking for mappers for Bogor, Indonesia. Read more here.
• A new version of MapOSMatic has been published. MapOSMatic is a free web service that renders city maps based on OSM data.
• Several results of OSM length calculations for a lot of countries.
• The fastest OSM routing project has a worldwide coverage now.
• The new version of CartoDB supports the import of OSM data now.
• Blog post by Artem Pavlenko about some new Mapnik features. A transcript of Young Hahn’s „Rendering the World“ presentation. 
• „OSM & ESRI Tools“ – Webinar recording available here.
• How can you link your addresses with OSM coordinates? Watch the Google Refine Youtube video.
• WheelMap.org published a Ruby OSM-API-Client on Github and is looking for developers.
• Chad Lawlis wrote an easy tutorial on how to show your OSM contributions on a map based on TileMill.
• With the OpenSource iOS SDK by MabBox you can easily integrate OSM maps into iOS apps. You will find the whole introduction here.

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

March 26th, 2012 – April 9th, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

• The OSM database is back in read and write mode since last Thursday. Thanks to the Admins for their incredible work to move everything to the new server! The changes that will be made to the dataset due to the license change will take place in the coming days and will be running in the background. Also, you can find the last CC-BY-SA OSM planet file here.
• “All I Want for OpenStreetMap is …“? Some thoughts and wishes from Mikel and Kate for OSM.
• The organization Development Seed would like to create some new contribution tools for OSM. You can help here!
• Which JOSM version do you use?
• Frederik released a JOSM plugin to record and store data in a separate database. Read more about it here.
• A new Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) project report from Indonesia.
• A blog article about tracing OSM data in the Sahel.
• Almost all videos and slides of the German FOSSGIS & OSM 2012 conference are online. You can find them here (of course in German).
• Pascal wrote a blog post about the geographical distribution of the newly released OSM GPS points. Further Steven created a really nice HeatMap from all points.
• A new blog post by Martijn about “Detecting Highway Trouble in OpenStreetMap“.
• Cyclestreets published an “OpenStreetMap community mapping guide – for Cycling Scotland“.
• After the OSM 3D workshop in Garching (Germany), the first 3D Map (OSM2World) has been published. You can read the announcement here.
• With Comapp you can create your own OSM web maps with an audio marker. Try it out here.
• A Youtube video about an indoor evacuation simulation based on MATSim and OSM data.
• With YAPIS (Yet Another Point of Interest Submitter) a further web site to add POIs to OSM is online.

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