Community Updates/2011-03-21
Community Update from 21 March 2011 to 27 March 2011 (week 2011-12)
Image Of the Week 2011-12
Tom Carden's Travel Time Tube Map creates isochronic maps of the London Underground |
Project Of The Week : Department Stores
A department store sells a wide variety of durable goods for the home. Large and small appliances, furniture and kitchenware may each have sections or departments of the store. Clothing departments may be further divided by customer and use, such as Infant and Toddler or Outdoor clothing. The departments will continue, perhaps with jewelry and cosmetics or sporting goods.
The Project of the Week is to add local Department Stores to the map.
News
- Call to enhance the Portal:Press and Press images page of OSM.
- CycleStreets 2nd anniversary [1]
- Ideas, Mentors and Students needed for the Google Summer of Code Competition [2]
- China cracks down online mapping (again) : [3]
- Interesting thoughts on Roof modelling
- Wow Google use...errr...no they don't use OSM material [4]
- Licensing Working Group has released the last Meeting minutes [5] (older minutes)
- Dublin RTPI visualises bus routes on top of OSM [6]
- Students in Wageningen (Netherlands) did a remote mapping party for Japan [7]
- Muki Hakley reviewed two OSM books [8]
- OSM seems to become famous as an artwork [9]
- Apple seeks for a method to 'radically improve' their map apps but OSM doesn't seem to come to mind [10]
Events
Nothing this week :)
Software
- OSM-3D [11] globe has an update for Europe. [12]
- New Release of Show Your Journey [13]
- ESRI ArcGIS osm editor updated [14]
- ITO World extended their map to USA, Canada and Caribbean [15]
- OSM2World got a bugfix update
- digiKam 2.0 uses OSM for geotagging photos [16]
- Firefox extension OsmJumper got an update to work with FF 4.0 [17]
- Open Source Routing Machine has been updated to v0.2 [18] ... but still no turn restrictions
- first release of Imposm 2.1.0 ... a parser for OSM data
Lists Talks
RFC : Sidewalk And Draft Sidewalk as separate way
After last week's discussions about sidewalks and footway an earlier proposal was revisited and put to RFC state.
There is also another proposal just created that prefers to handle sidewalks as a separate way.
So if you have comments on either of them, please join the proposal on the talk pages.
State of House number mapping
A mapper asked the mailing list if there are other big cities that have complete house numbering, achieved manually, like in Rostock ( 200 000 inhabitants) .
It's likely no other cities are near this amazing result without using interpolation and import. This topic also includes discussion of the mobile applications that were used like Dedee GpsLogger or KeypadMapper.
Default Mapnik style updated
The default Mapnik style available on the osm main page has been extended. Changes include :
- Support of shop=florist
- Support of tourism=archaeological_site
- Tuning of bridges and levels.
See the stylesheet osm.xml in trac
Thanks
Big Thanks to : PheasantCoucal, Polyglot, Harry Wood, AndiPersti and of course !i! !