![]() ![]() Note: If you like to see your event here, please put it into the calendar. MapAm❤re #PhotoMapping San Juan, San Juan SOSM Annual General Meeting and mapping party Monthly Missing Maps mapathon at Finnish Red Cross HQ London scientists found (automatic translation) that using navigation aids has a deep effect on brain’s activity.At the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, researchers have pieced together a 17th-century Dutch map that has spent part of its life up a chimney, and part under the floorboards at a Scottish castle.Web developer and artist Hans Hack created a map of London and Berlin with collapsed buildings to compare it to the situation in Aleppo. ![]() Ten bugfixes and some undocumented enhancements. Lukas Martinelli, one of the two guys behind OSM2Vectortiles is now a part of Mapbox.Īllow higher resolution and wider aspect ratio of images.OsmAnd+ offers a 50% discount for the app.The OpenStreetMap location monitoring app OsMo is now using MapZen vector tiles.The design process will be presented at the SotM France in June in Avignon. Local authorities from Digne, France, proudly announced that their new printed tourist map is based on OSM data.Russell Deffner has published a first task in the OSM Tasking Manager to support the elimination of malaria in Zimbabwe.#2709 – Peru Flood Support 5: Cajamarquilla.#2719 – Chosica, Peru: Flood Prone Communities Mapathon 2017.The tasks that need your help – mapping or validation: The flood disaster in Peru is still ongoing.Also several tasks to help MSF fight malaria. They also made a dent in the monster project #1396 in Nigeria, which has been ongoing for more than a year now. A novelty as MapSwipe was used beforehand to find those spots, so mappers could concentrate on them. The more than 300 participants completed the last few gaps in the map of Sierra Leone, which had been mapped in several previous HOT projects. Joost Schouppe is looking for validators after the successful Belgian National Mapathon.Kate Chapman explained the importance of OpenSource software and the need for developers for humanitarian purposes.HOT is currently redeveloping the „Export Tool“ and hosted a community text chat on their Slack #export-tool channel on March 30th at 15:00 UTC.It takes place in June from 2nd to 4th at Avignon. Vincent de Château-Thierry asks (automatic translation) for submissions to SotM France on the talk-fr mailing list.The deadline to submit your session proposal is Sunday, 2nd April. This is a gentle reminder to send in your proposals for talks and/or workshops if you have not already done so. This year’s international State of the Map conference will take place in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.The organizers of the 2018 FOSS4G Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, are looking for a logo and have launched a competition.In Belgium, there is currently an OSM local chapter in formation.According to Spanish OSM, there are many mazes mapped in OpenStreetMap.The group from Popayán will publish their experiences from the past six years on REME to share their knowledge with all the scouts around the world so that every scout can do a good deed every day. The scouts should be enabled to know and apply useful tools in emergency cases and to share data with rescue workers. Castillo aka kaxtillo runs a scout group called ScoutMappers in Popayán, Colombia. Harald Hartmann asks in the German forum, whether there should be more „gamification” at OSM, for example in the form of virtual awards and rewards.Martin Koppenhoefer explained where the center of Berlin is defined, after having recently looked at the history of the city center of Rome.In re-tagging these legacies, the NoFarm map might be a great help. Areas tagged landuse=farm won’t be rendered (automatic translation) any longer in our standard map style. ![]()
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