January 27th, 2014 – February 10th, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Wired.com: “At Sochi Olympics, Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap Trounces Google Maps“, but Zverik clarified: “Sochi was not mapped for the Olympics“.
• Grant Slater provided some information about two new OSM servers (Clifford und Ascalon).
• The Congo Mapping (#mapcongo) party will take place on Febrauray 15th, in Berlin (Germany). Come and help improve the map!
• The next Karlsruhe (Garmany) OSM hack weekend will take place on Saturday, 15th. They are also planning some activities for the #mapcongo mapping party.
• The next Berlin hack weekend will take place directly after the FOSSGIS conference on March, 22nd-23rd 2014. More information in the wiki.
• Pascal Neis created a new website which can filter OSM changesets by a specific comment.
• Rodolphe Quiédeville created some real-time charts of OSM edits.
• Blog post by Derick Rethans about “Hunting for Postboxes in the UK“.
• Mikel Maron and his “HOT Year“.
• OSM contributor 51114u9 created several HOT OSM tasks for the Bolivian floods.
• Pascal Neis and Dennis Zielstra published a new publication about “Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap“.
• If you trace objects from areal imagery, please be aware of the imagery offset. You can find important information in the wiki. JOSM has a plugin for the offsets correction.
• The OSM contributor svimik created some up-to-date statistics about OSM Estonia.
• OSM US has some “scholarships specifically targeted to women” for the State Of The Map US conference in Washington D.C.

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

January 13th, 2014 – January 27th, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Richard Fairhurst wrote some code that adds routing to the main OSM webpage. Code and Running Demo, click “Get Directions”.
• Sticker: “We’re On The Map!”
• The OSM contributor cosmicpop created the 20,000,000th changeset.
• More than 100,000 map notes have been reported by now. Some statistics.
• The Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT): Support Haiyan/Yolanda Reconstruction – Contribute Public Use UaV (Drone) Imagery.
• Harry Wood published the slides, notes and an audio recording of his “Typhoon Crisis Mapping ODI talk“. He also wrote a blog post for the HOT website with “Some editing stats from the Typhoon Haiyan response“.
• The Google Crisis Map for Tacloban City now also supports OSM.
• Richard Weait wrote a blog post about the quite interesting topic of mapping for the OSM render engine.
• Serge Wroclawski about „Edit Wars in OpenStreetMap“.
• Tom Chance used OSM data of London for strategic planning.
• Frederik Ramm published a webpage that calculates the number and size of map tiles of a given bounding box.
• Node-tileserver has been published. It is a lightweight tileserver using NodeJS. It can serve bitmap and vector tiles and is designed as a fast and easy-to-install tileserver that renders OpenStreetMap data.
• Rail routing worldwide based on OSM data.
• How to make an OSM wallpaper.

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

December 30th, 2013 – Januaray 13th, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Buenos Aires (Argentina) will host the next State of the Map (SotM) 2014 conference.
• Why the World Needs OSM.
• Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!
• OSM: A Year of Edits 2013.
• Mappy New Year! What are your plans for 2014 and for the 10th anniversary of OSM?
• OSM UK: What should we do this year?
• Attribution and all that (a rant).
• How many mappers are there in Switzerland?
• A report of the Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) mapping party.
• HOT Activation in Central African Republic: Review of current progresses.
• The next Karlsruhe (Germany) hack weekend will take place on February 15th/16th, 2014.
• Changes made in the OSM Kort game are updated in the OSM database now.
• OSM routing with GraphHopper and Java on Raspberry Pi.
• Badita Florin published the first edition of state of the map Romania 2013.

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

December 16th, 2013 – December 30th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The call for presentations for the upcoming State of the Map Europe (SotM-EU) is available here.
• A new version of the JOSM OSM editor has been published. For Windows users switching to JAVA version 7 is recommended.
• Simon Poole updated the “Street Name Completeness Statistics” for Switzerland.
• SK53 wrote a blog post about mapping off-piste OSM ski routes for freeriding.
• Steven Vance wrote a blog post about his work to ensure a proper bike routing in the Chicago Bike Guide.
• The Hiking and Trail Riding map got a small redesign and is now again available in English. Give it a try here.
• OSM contributor MorbZ published an iOS app for displaying and editing opening hours of OSM shops, bars, restaurants and more.

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

December 2nd, 2013 – December 16th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The next State of the Map Europe (SotM-EU) will take place June 13-15, 2014 at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Germany).
• The next State of the Map United States (Sotm-US) will take place April 12-13, 2014 in Washington DC.
• The next US Winter Editathon 2014 will be on January 18-19, 2014. Find your location here.
• The next Berlin (Germany) OSM hack weekend will take place on January 24-25, 2014.
• Bluehost.com donated two new OSM tile servers.
• An additional OSM database server has been added to the main OSM infrastructure in December 2013.
• Simon Poole published some new OSM contributor statistics.
• A blog post about the collaboration between the British Red Cross, the American Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team project during the Typhoon Haiyan response.
• A blog post by Kate Chapman about “OpenStreetMap and Yolanda: A Report from Manila“.
• Richard Fairhurst and others created a new bike map for the UK.
• Andy Allan wrote a blog post about the OSM elevation tag with its value of ’0.00000000000′ and broken OSM imports.
• Aaron Lidman created a name-suggestion-index which helps with correct spelling and tagging in OSM. This new functionality has also been integrated into the iD OSM editor.

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