Weekly OSM Summary #60 | OpenStreetMap Blog
December 30th, 2012 – January 13th, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the
OpenStreetMap
(OSM) world.
A new “
Year of Edits
” video showing the contributions to OSM in 2012 can be found
here
. Thank you very much Derick Rethans!
Many of you already know: the OSM project has more than
1 000 000
registered members since last week. You can find some online articles at
TPM
or
futurzone.at
(German) and some additional statistics by
Harry Wood
and
Pascal Neis
(at the end of the article).
The
Humanitarian OSM Team
(HOT) wrote a review of
their year 2012
and an outlook on 2013. Furthermore Mapbox helped to improve
some satellite imagery
that makes tracing data for OSM easier.
New aerial imagery
for South Africa to trace OSM data is available now.
A few weeks ago, Frederik Ramm wrote a blog post about what would happen if every Mapper would contribute
1.000 addresses
to OSM. Now he has created
a list of accounts
that have added addresses. You can find similar information at “
How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?
“.
Dan Stowell wrote an article about “
Data visualisation of pubs in UK & Eire
” based on OSM data.
A new (beta) version of the OSM WatchList by Paweł Paprota is online, read his announcement
here
Pascal Neis created a new webpage where you can see
other contributors in your area
Some statistics showing
the usage
of the OSM Pushpin editor.
Alex Barth created a proposal for an “
OSM contributor mark
“. You can read and of course discuss the entire idea at the OSM talk mailing list.
The MapBox Satellite is available for tracing in JOSM for anybody now. Read the announcement
here
A new Kickstarter project introduces a
GPS watch
with a two inch screen and OSM maps.
There will be a few OSM events in the upcoming weeks:
Open Data Day
: Feb. 23rd, 2013
State of the Map France
: Feb. 23rd-24th, 2013
OSM Hack Weekend London
: Fed. 2nd-3rd, 2013
OSM Hack Weekend Karlsruhe
: Feb. 23rd-24th, 2013
Did we miss something? You can contact us via
weekly.osm@googlemail.com
Authors:
Pascal
Dennis
– (thx @ “
Wochennotiz
”)
One thought on “
Weekly OSM Summary #60
The 1 million milestone has been mentioned in many other online media, but usually just as a small note rather than a full-length article as in the two examples linked in the summary. You can find a list in the wiki at
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