September 23rd, 2013 – October 21st, 2013
Special issue – A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Simon Poole wrote an announcement about the “PD checkbox” which maybe some of the long-time contributors see in their personal OSM profile.
• Paul Norman published a list of upcoming OSM main website features.
• Please participate in this rework of the local OSM chapter agreement.
• New OSM flyers can be ordered at the OpenCycleMap shop.
• The results of the OpenStreetMap US Elections 2013 have been published. Congrats to Mele, Kathleen, Ian, Martijn and Alex!
• Will Skora about the new HOT OSM map style. The CartoCSS code has been published on GitHub. More information in a presentation and a blog post. The new style is also available at fieldpapers.org.
• Some new stats about the OSM street network of Switzerland.
• KeepRight seeks volunteers to help with maintaining the website.
• Werner Hoch about the transition from OpenStreetBugs to OSM Notes.
• Martin Dittus wrote a blog post about “Changing the Ratio: OpenStreetMap Community Diversity at SotM 2013“.
• Mele Sax-Barnett provides some useful information about “Getting what you want out of OpenStreetMap“.
• Matthew Kenny wrote a blog post about “Generate [Topo|Geo]JSON Vector Tiles“.
• Jochen Topf wrote a blog post about “Preventing the Flooding of the Planet” due to broken OSM coastlines.
• Keiko Tanaka wrote a short blog post about OpenStreetMap contributors who helped to create a crisis map of Izu Oshima island.
• Chris Hill wrote a blog post about the “open” UK Land Registry polygons.
• Carol Kraemer about her personal experience as a new OSM member and data contribution attempts.
• The OpenSeaMap switched to GitHub. Also a new forum is online here.
• “My Opening Hours” a new and simple Android application that maintains a list of places and their corresponding opening hours.
• The Navit project is looking for translators. Navit is an open-source car navigation software capable of using OSM data.
• Norway offers different open datasets on their own geodata portal. Read more here. The potential import to OSM is coordinated here.
• The videos of the FOSS4G in Nottingham are online at Youtube. Also the videos of the State of the Map Scotland are available here.

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

September 9th, 2013 – September 23rd, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Andy Allan wrote some guidelines about the default layer style at the OSM main page.
• The next OSM US #editathon will take place on October 18th and 19th 2013.
• Imposm3 is completely rewritten in the Go programming language. It also supports diff-updates now. The entire development is sponsored by the guys at omniscale.
• A website (by tyr_asd) that generates different types of quality assurance feeds for a specific area of interest.
• Manuela Schmidt created a poster about “Barriers for Contributing to VGI projects“.
• Sven Geggus wrote a blog post about “A simple way to localize (latinize) an Openstreetmap style“.
• Ed Freyfogle wrote a blog post about “Giving up on mapstraction“. Mapstraction is a JS library that provides a single, common interface for a wide variety of JS map APIs.
• Aaron Lidmann has published OSMLY as a simple browser based importer for OSM. You can get the source code at github. He also published some code that converts between OSM XML and GeoJSON.
• OpenSnowMap improved its ski routing.
• Proj4Leaflet adds support for different projections in Leaflet. Leaflet is a modern OS JS library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
• Canada and Switzerland have some new Geodata-portals.

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

August 26th, 2013 – September 9th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• OSMF board election results: Dermot McNally and Oliver Kühn were both re-elected and Kate Chapman was elected as a new board member. Congratulations!
• The next US #editathon will take place on October 19th and 20th.
• The first virtual SotM has taken place in Kathmandu, Nepal.
• First ideas on the upcoming OSM Groups API which will be available at the main OSM webpage.
• Mikel Maron about his work on Zaatari Camp Data in OSM.
• How is OSM relevant to journalism?
• JEO Demo: A WordPress parent theme for interactive maps and journalism.
• £25,000 prize for developing a gaming solution that “integrates open street map data with existing game engines“.
• A map full of “Vaguely Rude Place Names Of The World” by Gary Gale.
• An OSM map with Comic Sans by Alex Barth.
• DIY OSM PBF vector tiles by ikonor.
• Data visualization based on an OSM map and leaflet.
• ImageInOsm: a photomapping mobile application is now available on github.
• Photon is a new OSM Open Source Geocoder, which has been published at the SotM in Birmingham.
• Mercedes Benz uses the OSM JOSM editor in a promo for its new S-Class.

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

August 12th, 2013 – August 26th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• September = Maptember. Read more about this year’s special month.
• The Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) will take place at the State Of The Map (SotM) 2013 conference.
• The “Articles of the OSMF Association” have been revised. Read more in a blog post by OSMF chairman Simon Poole.
• The new OSM iD editor is the default editor on the main page now. Furthermore John Firebaugh wrote a blog post about the latest changes made to the main OSM website.
• Do the Golden Rules of OSM need an update?
• Several videos of the SotM Baltics 2013 have been published on Vimeo and Youtube.
• At October 5th and 6th, 2013 a Hack Weekend will take place in Karlsruhe (Germany).
• The Red Cross asks for your help with mapping tasks in Northern Haiti.
• Roland Olbricht provides some information about the new version of a popup layer for the main OSM webpage.
• Eric Fisher created an OSM and TIGER comparison map for the US.
• Jochen Topf works on a new Osmium version. Osmium is a fast and flexible framework for working with OSM data. He will present the new Osmium version in more detail at the upcoming SotM conference in Birmingham.
• Create your own Photo Map based on OSM and flickr, a tutorial by Mikel Maron.
• The free of charge iPhone app “I Bike CPH” has been released. It uses OSM data, the OSRM routing engine and is so far only available for Copenhagen, Denmark. However, the source code of the app is available on github. Also, a new version of OSRM has been released.
• A Windows App that gives you the latest OSM news has been published by Henk Hoff.

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

July 29th, 2013 – August 12th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The default OpenStreetMap.org “standard” map switched to a new server. Additionally, the rendering server also uses the new “openstreetmap-carto” stylesheet. Comparison.
• GeoSprocket released the results of the “Tiled Basemaps Survey 2013“.
• Brittag about her first experiences as a new OSM contributor.
• Pascal wrote a new “OSM Contributor Activity Report 2013“.
• Foursquare users can directly edit OSM data now.
• A new version of the OSM Android editor Vespucci has been released. A video with all new features is available on Youtube. The language files of the GUI are hosted on Transifix.
• The Overpass API supports a new difference operator. What is the Overpass API?
• Geo5 is a new Javascript library that creates HTML5 mapping applications.
• Dodocase offers iPad cases based on Stamens OSM maps.
• ScalableMaps provides OSM maps as a PDF or Adobe Illustrator file, check out Manhattan.

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

July 15th, 2013 – July 29th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• John Firebaugh, Saman Bemel-Benrud and Tom MacWright added new “map controls” to osm.org. Furthermore a blog post by John Firebaugh about visions for the main website.
• A new rendering server for the British Isles based on the new “openstreetmap-carto” stylesheets is online. You can find more information in Grant’s announcement at OSM Talk-GB.
• A new JAVA and OSM based open source routing service has been published. It offers car, bike & pedestrian routing and you can give it a try here (Graphhopper.com).
• A new JOSM Plugin to edit OSM notes.
• Tom MacWright published a GeoJSON online editor. You can find a “how to” here.
• A script that exports POIs from OSM nodes and ways by Aaron Lidman.
• Alex Barth and why it is important to do some OSM #editathons.
• A blog post by Eric Fischer about improving OSM US data with the latest TIGER dataset.
• Remiguel wrote a PHP script that converts a CSV file into an OSM file (e.g. to open it in JOSM).
• A script by OSM member 51114u9 removes the left menu from the osm.org website.
• How to find the most popular pub names? A solution with MongoDB and OSM data by Ross Lawley.
• A Gigaom.com post about “Building a business on OpenStreetMap data?“.

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

July 1st, 2013 – July 15th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The preliminary schedule of the State of the Map 2013 in Birmingham is online.
• The OSM Data Working Group wrote an “Activity Report for Jan-Jun 2013“. Also all protocols of the Licensing Working Group can be found here.
• First ideas of the OSMF Future Working Group have been published.
• Harry Wood published his slides that introduce “An OpenStreetMap training course intro“.
• Charlotte Hoarau created a 3D Watercolor OSM map (based on a Stamen map and a national elevation dataset).
• ESRI published a lightweight set of tools that allows ArcGIS services to work with Leaflet.
• Based on the “leaflet-providers” preview page, you can copy and paste JS code for different OSM maps that you can use in your leaflet online browser map.
• Russ Deffner mapped the entire Colorado State University.
• Johannes Kröger published his results about his “Analysis and improvement of the OpenStreetMap street color scheme for users with color vision deficiencies“.
• Maxim Rylov wrote a blog post about “High Cartographic Quality Label Placement on OSM-based Map“. You can find two great examples here and here.

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

June 17th, 2013 – July 1st, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Why has the OSM server fund raising been extended?
• Early sign ups to the State of the Map in Birmingham will get an individual mug.
• The income and balance sheets of the OSM Foundation have been published.
• The OSM download area at the Geofabrik server has been extended and improved for USA & Canada.
• A new HOT project regarding the flooding in India has been started. You can find an additional blog post about the work here and a video by Harry Wood about how to map missing rivers. Also HOT Indonesia started working on some new material for learnOSM.org
• Tate Watkins wrote a blog post about mapping in Haiti and Yohan Boniface is working on an HOT OSM map style. More information and a preview are available here.
• Frederik Ramm created some tiles that focus on low zoom levels (0-8). You can find some more information in the mailing list thread.
• A map made of wood and mapped OSM data.
• Some new program releases which are important for OSM: v0.6 of Leaflet (browser-map-lib), v0.3.4 of OSRM (routing engine) and v0.4 of uMap (OSM maps in your html site)

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

June 3rd, 2013 – June 17th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The videos of the State of the Map US conference are online now. Also Code for America wrote a blog post about the conference.
• You can find more or less all videos of the German FOSSGIS & OSM conference 2013 here and the entire schedule here.
• The new OSM editor ID has been translated into more than 30 languages now. Also the new version 1.1. of the editor is available for testing purposes.
• Any .geojson file in a GitHub repository will now be automatically rendered on an OSM map. Wondering how you can create a geoJSON file? Read this quick how to.
• Alexander Avtanski developed a tool that processes GPS tracks and creates a video from the collected data. See an example at his OSM user page.
• A new website creates polygons in different formats out of OSM relations. You can try it out here.
• An OSM Data Report 2013, created by MapBox.
• Sarah wrote a reminder about the Nominatim usage policy.
• A blog post about the HOT OSM data model.
• A new website which renders OSM data which has 3D tags, you can try it out here.
• A new version of the well-known OSM rendering software Mapnik has been published.

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

May 20th, 2013 – June 3rd, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• Lokku and Mapbox made large donations to the OSM Server Funding 2013. Thanks guys. You can also donate here!
• Three OSM related projects of the Google Summer of Code have been accepted: OSM: Cached API proxy, Surveying mobile application for OpenStreetMap mappers (Field Papers-like) and The creation of a stable and improved OpenTripPlanner Android client for pedestrian, cyclist, and transit routing based on OpenStreetMap and GTFS data.
• The registration for the State of the Map Baltics 2013 is open.
• Frederik created some stats about densely mapped areas in OSM (per sqkm).
• Pascal, Dennis and Alexander published a new research study titled: “Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Contributions and Community Development for Selected World Regions“. They compared OSM data for twelve areas around the world.
• Nelson Minar wrote a blog post about “American river map: a vector tile tutorial“.
• The Drone Adventures Project shows how it uses drones for mapping tasks in Haiti.
• Simon Poole added turn restriction support in the Vespucci editor.
• The Cyclestreets project published a new app for Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10.
• The OpenFloorPlan project uses the OSM iD Editor to create SVG floor plans. The OpenFloorPlan project is a set of open source JavaScript libraries that can be used to manipulate and interact with SVG-based floor plans in HTML5 or NodeJS.
• A slideshow about the new OpenLayers 3. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
• Vladimir Agafonkin published some slides about Leaflet: “Leaflet: Past, Present, Future” and “High Performance Data Visualizations in JavaScript“.
• A new plugin adds a button to any Leaflet map that lets users jump to the OSM edit page. Example.
• Tom MacWright’s “CartoCSS” slides of the Foss4g 2013.

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