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Weekly OSM Summary #38

February 27th, 2012 – March 12th, 2012

A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world.

Foursquare switched to OSM. Some additional thoughts on that topic in a blog post by Andrew Turner. Also, Apple iPhoto uses some "old" OSM data now too. Read more about it in the OSM Foundation blog.
The new OSM Foundation (OSMF) servers are up and running. Also, say welcome to the two new system admins: Ian Dees and Sarah Hofmann!
Simon’s Cleanmap, which can be used for the remapping process, has a new layer "UNDELETE_IT". You can find some more information here.
The OSM Inspector License View now supports Relations too. Here is the announcement.
An article about the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) in Indonesia.
On OSMstats you can find new statistics for "Edits Per Country".
MapBox.com offers a new mapstyle called “Streets” with global coverage based on OSM data.
The "LightMap" created by the University of Heidelberg is a transparent overlay which highlights streets that include street lights. A second layer shows the type of street light.
The Open Mapquest Map has been updated. For instance, street signs are now included.
A tutorial by Till Nagel about "TileMill for Processing".
"mapbook: a PDF map book creator" which uses the mapnik renderer.
The Overpass API now supports permanent IDs to OSM objects.
A new Open Source framework to create vector maps: Kartograph
A new rule-based OSM renderer called "Smrender" has been officially released.
Jochen Topf released a new tool to extract coastline data from an OSM planet file.

Did we miss something? You can contact us via weekly.osm@googlemail.com

Authors: Pascal & Dennis - (thx @ “Wochennotiz”)

Posted by Pascal Neis

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