Participants of OSMit2010, the second Italian meeting on OSM held in
Genoa from 3rd to 5th June.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMit2010
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Project of the Week: Fireworks!!!
It is fireworks season in North America, with both Canada Day and
Independence Day coming up this week. But where are the good places to
go to see fireworks displays?
This week’s project is to map your local fireworks locations. It may
be a waterfront park or other public space. Add those places to the
map where people collect to celebrate and observe the celebration of
holidays.
Find out more about this project of the Week, including tagging suggestions
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Jun_27
Make a suggestion or submit a guest Project of the Week
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/Proposals
Fireworks photo by spatulated http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshuarothhaas/
licensed ccby http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_CA
State of the Map 2010 – Exciting updates
There is still time to register for State of the Map 2010 in Girona, Spain.
http://stateofthemap.org/register/
You’ll want to be there to:
Find out about the latest developments in the OpenStreetMap world
Get tips on using OpenStreetMap data and tools in your projects
Relax and socialize in a friendly atmosphere with like minded mappers
from around the world
Mapnik ( http://mapnik.org ) and OpenAerialMap (
http://openaerialmap.org ) workshops will be held on Friday 9 July
2010
More sponsors are showing their support for OpenStreetMap
Silver Sponsors:
Bronze Sponsor:
Workshop Partner:
http://www.sigte.udg.edu/sigte_en/sigte
Media Sponsor:
Image of the Week: Green Point Common
This map of Green Point Common was created from OpenStreetMap project
data, collected by the community.
Green Point Common in Cape Town, including the new Cape Town Stadium, one of the venues of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. See also the 2010 World Cup mapping project.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Africa/Soccer_2010_Map
See the original image here
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Green_Point_Common_OSM.svg
This OpenStreetMap image is licensed ccbysa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Project of the Week: Translation: Now You Are Speaking My Language
There are OpenStreetMap contributors in many countries. They map many
roads and speak many languages. The Project of the Week is to
translate countries, states, provinces and cities for as many
languages as possible. This means that single language maps will be
practical in more languages. Perhaps we’ll never have OpenStreetMap
rendered in the original Klingon, or perhaps we’ll have that before we
complete the country translation in Cymraeg
So calling all multi-lingual OpenStreetMap contributors, or
uni-lingual OpenStreetMappers and your multi-lingual friends and
family. Come one, came all and make the map better for more people.
Which languages can be translation-complete in OpenStreetMap? Which
countries will be completely translated in OpenStreetMap. Is this a
chance for you to do some mapping with a family member from The Old
Country?
How well are the languages that you speak already represented in
OpenStreetMap?
For example:
Cymraeg is shown as translated for 204 of 226 countries or 90% complete.
ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut is shown as translated for 8 of 226 countries or
3.5% complete.
Find out how to help with this Project of the Week and where to find
the tools that make this simple!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Jun_20
Make suggestions or submit your project of the week.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/Proposals
Crowd photo by Wayne Large http://www.flickr.com/photos/havovubu/
is licensed ccbynd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en_CA
Wolfram Alpha is using OpenStreetMap data
Frank Sautter reports on osm-talk that Wolfram|Alpha is using
OpenStreetMap data.
So if you search for, Girona, as in the example above, their reply
includes a map based on OSM data, like below.
So why would you search for “Girona” on Wolfram|Alpha? Because Girona
is where State of the Map will be held in just a few short weeks. You
really should attend. It will be informative and fun. And it will be
both in large measures.
Register now for State of the Map
The importance of timing to feedback
L.A. Times: Digital map of the world is the product of a large-scale volunteer effort
OpenStreetMap user “Beej” is quoted widely in the L.A. Times article
on OpenStreetMap.
Digital map of the world is the product of a large-scale volunteer effort
With the help of more than 240,000 volunteer cartographers worldwide,
OpenStreetMap is trying to create an Internet map of every street in
every city and village on the planet.
June 09, 2010|By Mike Swift
SAN JOSE, Calif. — — When Brian “Beej” Hall first heard
about an ambitious volunteer effort to create an Internet map of every
street and path in every city and village on the planet, he was
hooked. At the time, the nascent effort had only a few American
members, and the U.S. map was essentially a digital terra
incognita.
Read the whole article here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/09/business/la-fi-digital-maps-20100609
OpenStreetMap Humanitarian Team: Third Deployment to Haiti
Nicolas Chavent reports that the OpenStreetMap Humanitarian Team has
just arrived in Haiti for a third deployment.
Read the first report of the third deployment here:
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/?p=25
Image of the Week: Indian Railway Network on OSM
This visualization of Indian Railway Network was created by Arun
Ganesh. Arun has even includind instructions on how the image was
created. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Indian_Railway_Network_Coverage_on_OSM.png
This is a Featured image, which means that it has been identified as
one of the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or that it provides
a useful illustration of the OpenStreetMap project.
If you know another image of similar quality, you can nominate it on
Featured image proposals.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Featured_image_proposals
Photo is CC-by-sa Arun Ganesh, National Institute of Design Bangalore