Presentations Spotlight Critical Role of Free Map Data in Humanitarian Work
Katherine Maher Interim
OSM
Wanted, Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)
An interesting career opportunity has popped up in our GeoJobsBIZ Career portal as HOT is seeking an executive Director. Recall, HOT applies the principles of open source and open data sharing to improve the welfare of the communities where we work, especially those at risk of natural disaster or other crisis.
The successful candidate will approach HOT with creativity and drive leading us to grow into the future. [Read more…] about Wanted, Executive Director, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)
OSM Plus 2014 Takes Place Following State of the Map DC
A reminder of this event comes my way via Peter Batty, through Steve coast – enter OSM Plus 2014. An event for OpenStreetMap enthusiasts and businesses looking to leverage OSM and OSM-based solutions for their business.
Details about the event, which takes place directly after the DC State of the Map (SOTM) event… This year we will focus on discussion points and panels, bringing together the spectrum of users of OSM data to jointly figure out how to manage quality, fix the holes and efficiently leverage OSM while remaining respectful of the licensing issues that surround the project.
Update on OSM Crisis Mappers in the Philippines
An update from the Heidelberg University describes more than 1.000 OpenStreet Map (OSM) Crisis Mapping Volunteers developing a CrisisMap for the Philippines. The map shows Elements at Risk, population distribution, damaged buildings and Instagram images for Philippines. This update from the team…For supporting the disaster management activities after the typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan a new Crisis Map: http://crisismap.geog.uni- heidelberg.de/ has been set up by GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University that visualizes map layers as the map layers showing population density and “elements at risk” for the Philipines. Credits for this voluntary effort go to Pascal Neis, Andreas Reimer, Maxim Rylow, Bernd Resch, Günter Sagl, Joao Porto and colleagues.
Note: A Mapathon to support crisis mapping with OpenStreetMap has been organized by Andreas Reimer and colleagues at Heidelberg University on Thursday Nov. 14th 2013.
OSM Mappers take to the Streets for October 19-20 Fall #editathon
This week-end OSM mappers , GeoGeeks, and mapping enthusiasts will get together in about 12 cities to take a shot at updating the ever popular OpenStreetMap open data product. Using popular map editing tools, the geeks will add features, make edits and improve upon the OSM map for everyone to enjoy. This from the OSM blog about the event… [Read more…] about OSM Mappers take to the Streets for October 19-20 Fall #editathon
Get More Involved with OSM by Joining MapClub
Map Club is a new effort created by OSM founder Steve Coast (@steveC) and aims to be a friendly and supportive community to help people get more involved and productive with OpenStreetMap. According to Steve in a recent Hangout with James Fee (@cageyjames) challenges are faced with OSM, in particular with addressing and navigation attributes and with getting the community more involved with adding useful information to help with these areas.
The following options for membership are currently available from the MapClub:
- Founding Member. For $4/month, access all map club services, starting with our mailing list of people like you.
- Founding Pro Member. For $9/month, access all map club services, starting with our mailing list of people like you. In addition, Pro members influence the direction of the club by voting on what is to be built and receive a club t-shirt!
- Founding Enterprise members are just like Pro members, for your entire organization.
This from MapClub… “Our long-term goal is to make sure OSM is complete, including address data and routing metadata.” See http://mapclub.com/
Video – Meet Steve Coast, new Head of OSM at Telenav
Here’s a nice video from Steve Coast describing his history with OpenStreetMap and introducing himself in his new role at Telenav… “OpenStreetMap is its own reward…” read more about Steve’s new adventure here
New OSM Map Services from GIScience Uni Heidelberg
An update from Germany as we hear about a couple of new OSM Web map services. These are based on research results in cartography of some researchers
from the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University (http://giscience.uni-hd.de ).
The first one deals with automated high quality map labeling (Text
positioning) and is being introduced here: It presents a new and sophisticated approach for calculating the placement of map labels using a multi-criteria method. See more at http://www.openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/
The second one uses a new method to determine the scale to which the
underling OpenStreetMap data corresonds to and presents the resulting
scale equivalencies for residential areas in OSM.
This is a important new information for the usablity of OSM data, as
previously the scale range of an OSM dataset was unknown. See more info HERE and see the web service HERE
OpenCage Data – OpenStreetMap (OSM) Data in the format you want
OpenCage Data http://www.opencagedata.com/ – a new effort that guarantees to make using OSM data easy for organizations and to help users get OpenStreetMap data in the format they want it! Born out of London-based Lokku (a 15 person team), the team, best known for running Nestoria (see http://www.nestoria.com) has sponsored numerous State of the Map conferences, mapping parties, and made major donations to HOT-OSM and OSMF’s server drives. To kick off this effort OpenCage Data has gathered together a who’s-who in the Geospatial World to head up their board of advisors, these include Andy Allan (OSM developer), Gari Araolaza, Gary Gale (Nokia HERE), Marc Prolieau, Marc Tobias Metten, Sajjad Anwar, Steven Feldman, and Tyler Bell (Factual). – See more
Just in Time for SOTMUS, The 2013 OpenStreetMap (OSM) Report
Just in time for the 2013 SOTMUS event taking place June 8-9 in San Fran, The 2013 OpenStreetMap Data Report – some stunning and interactive data visualizations that show how active the OpenStreetMap community is, how fast it continues to grow, and how competitive the open data community is becoming.
There’s no doubt that the spread of love about OSM is hitting and epidemic scale! At this year’s SOTMUS event, the Mapbox team will be presenting details of the 2013 OSM report, a comprehensive look at the explosive growth of the OpenStreetMap movement.
See More – The 2013 OpenStreetMap (OSM) Report – over 1 million contributors!
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