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

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

http://stateofthemap.org/register/

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

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

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

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035644987@N01/2941880596/

Official notice arrived from the Secretary of the OpenStreetMap
Foundation today. The OSMF AGM will be held in Girona at SotM 2010.
Elections to the OSMF board will be held at the AGM.

The official announcement was sent by email to OSMF members. You can
find details on the OSM wiki.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM10

Those who choose to stand for election to the OSMF board of directors
must join OSMF first. Nominations will be listed on the OSM wiki as
well. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM10/Election_to_Board

Ballot photo by D’Arcy Norman http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/
is licensed cc-by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_CA

This road trip is dragging on for hours. Highway construction slowed
your progress through the last town and there is a funny smell coming
from the air conditioner. The family is getting hungry, fuel is
getting low, and it isn’t just the car that needs a pit stop at this
point. Fortunately, the billboards have been telling you about an
approaching roadside oasis every five miles for the last fifty. A
place to stop and unwind, let the dog run around and walk the kids. A
place for food and fuel and maybe even a photo with the oversized
roadside attraction.

This week’s project is to map roadside attractions. They are the huge
fibreglass apple or World’s biggest lobster or an oversized Canada
goose, placed to be visible from the highway, and attached to a fast
food joint and probably a gift shop.

Learn more about this Project of the Week,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Jun_13

This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/Proposals

Big Apple photos by rw__ http://www.flickr.com/photos/51037673@N03/
licensed ccby http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_CA

As part of the ongoing OSM data license upgrade, a small notice has
been added at the top of each page on the OSM wiki,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

That notice reads Find out more about OpenStreetMap’s upcoming
license change. That notice links to the license change summary
page on the OSM Foundation wiki.

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License

NWT license plate photo by woody1778a
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodysworld1778
is licensed cc-by-sa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Dane Springmeyer has posted another field report from the
OpenStreetMap folks participating in the humanitarian response in
Haiti.
Here is a brief extract, but you’ll want to read the whole report by
following the link below.

[ … ] He had become known as the map guy simply because
he had them on his wall and the stack given to him from the Port Au
Prince OCHA office was quickly dwindling. Dane showed him
walking-papers.org, where he could easily print off PDF maps of
Leogane with up-to-date OSM data (even the Mango trees and the camp
outlines we added that morning) , and he exclaimed that this was
exactly what he needed. [ … ]

Read the full report
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/?p=5

Crossing the mountains to Jacmel photo by dbsgeo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50235282@N07/
Licensed cc-by-sa-nc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en