OSM News
October 2014

Maproulette updates

(see maproulette.org)

Ways need smoothing and
Crossing ways done!

New challenge:
TIGER Mismatched Ways

Indoor tagging proposal.
Based on work from SOTM-EU 2014
(see OSM wiki)

Designed to work with
"Simple 3D Buildings" proposal

Example: osmbuildings.org

HOT Mapping areas of west Africa's Ebola Outbreak
mapbox.com/blog/ebola-numbers

photo: Espace OSM Francophone

You can help!

hot.openstreetmap.org/get-involved

Nominatim update: 2.3.0

Try latest Nominatim at:
nominatim.openstreetmap.org

OSM-US Election Results
New board:

About OSM-US:
"We strive to support the OpenStreetMap project in the United States through fostering awareness, ensuring broad availability of data, continuous quality improvement, and an active community."

mvexel: "The coming weeks we will be busy with a few things. Firstly, the transition phase getting the new members up to speed. Secondly, finalizing the State Of The Map US 2015 bid selection process. And finally, working our way through the final administrativia involved with becoming a 501(c)(3) registered charity."

Details here.

flickr / Harry wood

OpenStreetMap-carto v2.22.0

Changelog and source code on Github:
github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

Simon Poole
OSM Contributor Stats after 3 quarters: Already past last year
osm.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/24000

Recent and Upcoming Events

Trail Mapping in the Blue Hills
10/19

Coming up:
US Fall 2014 #mapathon
11/15 (tentatively)

Alex Barth:
Blog post on #mapathons

State of the Map 2014
Buenos Aires, November 7-9
www.stateofthemap.org

Lars Ahlzen
lars@ahlzen.com