OSMers were invited to run a mini mapping party at Brixton Market as
part of a tech themed event, which in turn is part of the wider
project called Spacemakers Brixton. Passersby were able to mark
improvements on the map with pins and yarn.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spacemakers_Brixton_mini_mapping_party
Brixton pin map is by Ciarán Mooney http://www.flickr.com/photos/20156581@N03/
and licensed cc-by-sa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Long time OpenStreetMap contributor, OSMF board member and OpenGeoData
contributor, Mikel Maron[1] has launched a Strategic Working Group for
the OpenStreetMap Foundation. If you are not familiar with Mikel by
name or through his participation on the OSMF board since 2007, you
might know him as one of the driving forces behind
http://mapkibera.org/
The Strategic Working Group is in the very earliest stages of planning
for itself and for the future of OpenStreetMap. In fact, it should be
no surprise if you have heard little of the Strategic Working Group
before now. Thus, this introduction.
To date, Mikel is the only member[2] of the Strategic Working Group,
and also serves as its chair. Points of contact for the Strategic
Working Group are the mailing list[3] and the beginnings of some wiki
pages[4].
The goal of the Strategic Working Group is to serve the OpenStreetMap
Foundation and community by raising funds where needed and to plan and
provide for the smooth operation and growth of OpenStreetMap.
Essentially the goal is to do those things individual mappers may not
care to do, and those things that individual mappers may not be able
to accomplish in ad-hoc groups. These goals will be refined and
formalized with time.
When this group was first announced on 21 May 2010, on the OSMF
mailing list[5], Mikel envisioned the tasks as:
I anticipate the WG would be looking at tasks like the following:
* Evaluate our current fund-raising strategies and budget allocations.
* Assess the overall needs and priorities for the Foundation, and
determine where resources are needed.
* Make recommendations for changes to the budget allocations to the Board.
* Assess the strengths and positions of funders with interest in
OpenStreetMap. Assess other fundraising methods.
* Help shape programs and draft proposals to funders.
Your thoughts on what the Strategic Working Group should be, what it
should do, and how it operate are important. Now is a great time for
you to get involved with the Strategic Working Group.
There has already been some interest in the SWG from members of the
OSMF mailing list. On the Strategic Working Group mailing list you’ll
see some business people who are OSM consumers, you’ll see some of the
usual community faces you’ll see some of the developers and admins who
keep OSM running.
To be successful, the the Strategic Working Group will need more than
a few business people, a few OSM folks and good intentions. To be
successful, the SWG needs to perform the tasks that you assign to it.
Now and in the future, the SWG needs to listen to the community and
remove the obstacles that hinder mappers.
To be successful, the SWG needs to make sure that OpenStreetMap keeps
getting better. An ideal SWG would be indistinguishable from a magic
lamp; if mappers make a wish, the SWG should provide. You can help by
participating. What do you wish?
What are the problems that the SWG should solve? How should the SWG
best communicate with you? How will the SWG know that their goals
have been reached?
* Is it impossible to edit OSM in your preferred language?
* Does it take too long to save data edits?
* Is your connection to OSM servers irregular?
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mikel
[2] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Groups#Stragegy_Working_Group
[3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/strategic
[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strategic_working_group
[5] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2010-May/000891.html
This weeks project is to re-visit the map of the last place you went
on holiday and add as many ‘tourist’ features as you can remember, to
make it easier for the next visitor. You can do this from memory, by
looking through your holiday photos, or of course going there again to
check details!
More details and tagging suggestions for this Project of the Week:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Jun_06
This Project of the Week was presented by Graham Jones. Graham has
been mapping Hartlepool, England with family members since 2007.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Grahamjones
Graham is also helping to organize the OpenStreetMap participation in
Google Summer of Code this year.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010
This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions, like Graham did
when he provided us with this PotW.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/Proposals
Travel trunk photo by joguldi http://www.flickr.com/photos/landschaft/
Licensed ccby
A couple of additional sponsors have confirmed for State of the Map
2010! This update brings news of a returning friend who we all know
plus a couple of names that everybody knows.
Returning as a diamond sponsor for the second consecutive year:
CloudMade http://www.cloudmade.com/
Welcome to a new silver sponsor for 2010:
ESRI http://www.esri.com/
Welcome a new sponsor for food and breaks.
There are still a few sponsorship spots available. Act now to sponsor
State of the Map 2010 and meet and greet with a wide cross-section of
the movers and shakers of the OpenStreetMap community.
Sponsor State of the Map 2010
http://stateofthemap.org/sponsors/
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:
Hey All,
Nicolas Chavent and I are heading to Haiti on June 14th. On previous
missions HOT left behind computers/GPS Units and printer scanners so
people could continue mapping.
At the moment there is no further funding for more kits, but we are
going to be moving out to additional cities in Haiti.
We are doing a last minute fundraiser to see if we can get money for
more kits: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/?page_id=13
If you want to help that would be most amazing,
Kate
More about the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT
HOT mailing list
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Some of our favourite OpenStreetMappers were showing OSM at a recent
Ubuntu Release party in The Netherlands. The response was great, or
so I’m told, but look at this?
What happened in the translation of the names in the photo caption?
Author and standing, at left, is Floris Looijesteijn and the
translation has created some kind of Cycling-super-hybrid.
Original links below.
http://blog.openstreetmap.nl/index.php/2010/05/31/veel-belangstelling-voor-op…
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8…
Frederik writes:
For the first time, this week’s .osm.bz2 planet has an eleven-digit size (10026036818 bytes). That’s up 20% from beginning of the year. In 2007, we had an 88% increase in the same time span; in 2008 it was 36%, and in 2009 it was 19%. Of course these numbers say little since we had numerous large imports, format changes, and even changed the bz2 implementation along the way.
The uncompressed XML file ist just a few bytes short of 150 GB.
Sometimes a map becomes more than just a spatial representation and becomes something else. Sometimes a data visualisation becomes more than just the underlying data and almost takes on a life of its own. When these two things meet or collide the results can be spectacularly compelling and almost … art? Which brings me neatly to the Geotagger’s World Atlas.
The image of the week is a screenshot of an OSM editing program,
Mapzen. http://maps.cloudmade.com/
About Image of the Week
These are Featured images, which have been identified as the best
examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations 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
