Community Updates/2011-03-07
Community Update from 07 March 2011 to 13 March 2011 (week 2011-10)
Image Of the Week 2011-10
Maperitive's custom DEM support showing detail of Viewfinder's Alps SRTM1 DEM compared to SRTM, for Lake Brienz area. (also visible on [1] [2] [3] topo maps) |
Project Of The Week : Music Shop
They aren't as common as they used to be, or perhaps they have merely changed form. Some of us have a music store on our phones. Others might have to travel to the next town to find a Bricks and Mortar music shop. The used to be called Record Stores; ask your grand-parents about them. The Project of the Week is to add your local music shop.
News
- New OSMF working groups summary [4]
- About the security and ethics of mapping Libya [5]
- The US power network is still incomplete [6]
- Using Kinect as 3D mapping radar [7]
- FixMyStreet had been deployed for Norway, with OSM map of course [8]
- EU develops a free open source lib to make EGNOS available to smart phones [9]
Software Updates
- Potlatch 2 got an update [10]
- JOSM 3981 has been released bringing better mapping styles
- Open-Gpstracker for Android
- The osm2postgresql script allows a better OSM->QGIS rendering workflow using PostGIS [11]
- OSM2World allows a 3D representation of OSM and exporting it to Povray render
- ForeverMap released for Android devices on 7th of March 2011
- New release version 1.1 of GpsMap for Bada devices
- Navit appeared on the Android Market [12]
Events
- OSM at the Where 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara (US)
- State Of the Map-EU registration is open
Lists Talks
RFC : Illegal Landuse
This proposal is to add a possibility to tag things that are illegal in OpenStreetMap. A fence, a barrier, a waste disposal and many other things can be tagged as illegal=yes and can be marked as reported to someone.
The author is waiting for your remarks on the talk page
Cost and Price of Things
Someone asked how he can map fees that you must pay on a road or in a parking. Several proposals were made earlier: use amenity=parking together with fee=yes/xx$, but there is also a proposal about Price Tags.
Creative Commons starting work on CC 4
It seems that the timetable for the ODbL change will be altered due to a Creative Commons 4.0 license.
Create Commons has announced they will start working on a version 4.0 that will handle databases. LWG is currently studying this. [13]
Thanks
Big Thanks to : AndiPersti and !i!