A year of vector tiles, Pokemon returning the favor, the noble closure of Placemark, and learning to render on Canvas with Rust.
[Векторные] Cards
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OSM Engineering Working Group announced 2024 is the year of OSM vector maps and hired Paul Norman to develop and implement them for osm.org
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Just two weeks later he showed demo With Shortbread-tiles for which he implemented minute-by-minute updates.
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Want to try them for yourself? Geofabrik is now offers to download packages of Shortbread tiles.
Releases
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Daniel announced about the release MapLibre GL JS 4.0.
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Openlayers 9.0 with improved rendering for WebGL.
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In MapComplete appeared mode with a map of ski slopes and 3D visualization of the terrain.
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Released Osm2pgsql version 1.11.0, which now uses by default middle format Database. Version 2.0.0 has also been announced, in which many outdated functions will be removed.
Mapping
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Anna-Caroline Distel shared mapping experience while on holiday in Malta.
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L’imaginaire has reached marks one million map changes and wondered philosophical questions about OSM.
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Valerie Norton I wonderedhow to mark on a map a mountain whose highest point is called differently.
Community
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Courtney Cook collected ideas for events in honor of the 20th anniversary of OpenStreetMap, about the preparation for which we told in previous releases.
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Austrian OSM Community in Vienna organized On January 25th its 70th meeting.
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In one of the episodes we reported O point with the largest number of tags in OSM. Minh Nguyen decided check This, using SPARQL engine QLever Hannah Bast. As it turned out, there are points with a much larger number of tags!
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Rtnf shared prototype of geo-blog platformwhich allows you to share personal stories around a specific coordinate.
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Christoffs completed made my New Year’s resolution list ideas for projects related to OSM, which he plans to update regularly.
Tagging
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Suggestions awaiting comments:
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hairdresser=barber to designate barbershops
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Extension road sign tagging schemes.
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healthcare:specialty=equine-assisted for equestrian facilities intended only for the treatment of patients with the help of horses.
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highway_construction:*=* to indicate the type of road construction.
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Education
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Raquel Desiderio Souto explainedhow you can carry out small imports using iD and control its progress using dynamic maps in uMap.
Cards
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OpenTrailStash — a map for planning cycling trips on dirt roads.
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OSM France submitted velotrain.fra map that combines open data from the French national railway company and OSM data to show travel times to stations by bike.
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Adam Steer explained how he made a bike trip map in QGIS using tracks from Strava and OSM data.
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Researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Southern California used OSM data to create synthetic maps in a historical style, which allowed them to improve text recognition on real old maps.
Events
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OSM US published video recordings of presentations at the SotM US 2023 conference.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
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Courtney Williamson reportedthat the OSMF received £373,000 in donations in 2023. In addition, OSM also received several types of in-kind support in the form of equipment and other infrastructure.
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OSM OWG presented OSMF Council 2024 budget.
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OSMF Board made a decision set a maximum budget deficit for 2024 of £85,820, resulting in budget cuts for all working groups.
Open data
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Friederike von Franke wrote column about the importance of free geodata licenses.
Programming
OSM in action
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Daniel in Mastodon reportsWhat Flixbus now uses Protomaps maps on its website.
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VacuumTube developed tool to import OSM data into the transport simulation game Transport Fever 2.
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Hans van der Quast recorded video tutorial on flood analysis in QGIS, combining OSM building data with DTM and DSM elevation data.
Programs
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Business Placemark SaaS closed, but onlineeditor geodata Placemark, plugin to import OSM data into Figma and projects now with open source!
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Peter Karich toldhow to use GraphHopper to build routes in OSMAnd.
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James Westman tellshow he changed the style of maps in GNOME Maps based on the project OpenStreetMap Americana.
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Ruben Lopez at the latest MappingUSA event told details of the Segment Anything Model integration for object recognition on aerial photographs in DS-Annotate.
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Nikhil Vijay from OpenStreetMap India developed “Large Map Printer & Exporter“, a web application for creating large OSM maps for field mapping.
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Tony Erdmann announcedthat Public Transport Network Analysis now allows you to compare GTFS data and routes in OSM.
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Ville Marcel told about the migration of the OSMCha website from the Mapbox infrastructure to the OSM US infrastructure.
Did you know …
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… about OSM Street Lightstreet lighting map?
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…that Daniel Yang collected list of different DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data sets?
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… O Router Freedom Tracker? This map shows which countries in Europe have a “Router Freedom” policy, which allows people to choose their own router to use the internet.
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… O nearbywiki, wiki-atlas and others wiki mapsbased on OSM?
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… what do you you can apply to data to Overpass Ultra different styles using MapLibre Style Specification?
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… O website to explore changes made to OSM in the last 30 days?
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… O list current versions of OSM related applications?
OSM in the press
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Jamie Staudiggle did a review cards Bubatzkartewhich uses OSM data to show where cannabis smoking is prohibited in Germany.
Other “geo” events
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OpenCage told about ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes that have been removed or changed.
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Alan McConchie did linguistic map of dialects North American English.
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William Gallagher from the site appleinsider.com reports about several accidents in Scotland due to outdated Apple Maps data.
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Dima Buko published book with photographs of different places in Belarus. For book navigation and cartographic illustrations were used Mapbox maps.
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Aaron Kelker printed it out using a thermal card printer Wakulla River in Florida.
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The Polish General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography announces the installation of three new reference stations for the ASG-EUPOS system.
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Niantic, developer of Pokemon GO, joined to the Overture Maps Foundation to gain access to data on approximately 59 million POIs. In exchange, Niantic will share location data collected by Pokemon Go players with Overture Maps.
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Harry Young from Scotland spent more than 30 years to create map countries made from stones collected in the places where they are located on the map:
Communication between Russian OpenStreetMap participants takes place in chat Telegram and forum.
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