Weekly OSM Summary #100

July 14th, 2014 – July 28, 2014
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

• The OSM Foundation welcoming the first Corporate Members. What is a Coporate Member? Read more about it here.
• Reports from the HOT in person board meeting – Day 1 – Day 2 and Day 3.
• The well-known OSM editor JOSM needs a new logo, be part of it here. Alos, Prime Jyothi published a new “JOSM Preset Builder” available at github.
• Compare OSM of 2007 with the latest contributed data (map): “OSM between 2007 and Now“, neat website by Martijn van Exel.
• Switzerland has its own uMap instance now.
• MapRoulette has a new feature: Select your local area! (by Martijn van Exel). Additionally, a MapRoulette mailing list has been announced.
• Pascal wrote an article about “The Average Age of OpenStreetMap Objects“.
• “Bringing pedestrian maps to Crystal Palace” by Tom Chance.
• OSM contributor ikonor about the “Experimental Overpass attic support in Achavi (augmented change viewer)“.
• Richand Fairhurst: “cycle.travel now has OSM-powered bike routing for Western Europe“.
• Christoph Eckert “Can OsmAnd do bike routing from Achern to Strasbourg?“. A second OSMAnd test can be found here (by Joost Schouppe).
• Brief statistics of OpenStreetbugs in Notes by OSM contributor werner2101.)
• OSM contributor psadk created a Maperitive Paper rule set designed for printed maps.
• An OSM Renderer for ArcGIS has been published on github. A forum post about the tool can be read here.

As previously announced, this 100th instance of the OSM weekly means that the contributions to this project by Pascal and Dennis come to an end. Thank you again to everyone for their support over the past four years. We would also like to announce that we found two new volunteers that will continue the OSM weekly. Good luck to Manfred Reiter and Mandalina Ionescu on their future endeavors!

(thx @ “Wochennotiz”)

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