Forbes featured Geoff Boeing’s paper (which we reported on in July 2018) analysing street network orientation, connectivity, granularity, and entropy in 100 cities around the world, using OpenStreetMap data. Navanwita Sachdev explains the background of the project. The project aims to become an open and freely downloadable, standardised geospatial database of geo-localised data, fed by Geographic Information Systems including satellite and aerial images. Africapolis, a combined database of 7600 urban settlements throughout Africa, was set up by the OECD and the Sahel and West Africa Club to provide data for urban planners, researchers, and governments, as it is not just Africa’s big cities that continue to grow at a high rate but also small towns or ‘secondary agglomerations’.In an article about the importance of citizen science and open data for today’s world the website Geospatial World names “Open Street Maps” (sic) as an example of the shift which science and technology have to make towards the people involved.A tweet (automatic translation) from Eureka!, a German crossword app, points out that some national borders are very obvious on maps of geocaches.… the magic notebook for exploring data and thinking with code?.Less than two weeks after the release of version 3.10 of its navigation software for iOS, the OsmAnd team followed up with 3.11, which improves the support for languages and GPX trip management, brings a driving style setting for bicycles and fixes some bugs.If you feel interested just drop a note in any language at the end of this forum thread. Following the withdrawal of the developer, the project is being run just enough to keep things “ticking over” until a new maintainer is found. The ace-map has updated the background layer for zoom 8 to 10 for a more suitable appearance of the map.With the expert option you can now disable the start animation if you feel offended by snowflakes. The JOSM team has released the next stable release of their OSM editor (15628), which improves the performance of the “Combine way” and “Parallel ways” map modes.The OsmAnd team published a blog post with the 2020 New Year resolutions of the now extended team of seven software engineers and recaps the achievements of the previous year.Duitama (Colombia), with a population of around 115,000 inhabitants, has launched its public transport app, called BusBoy, based on Trufi and OSM – of course.The switch2osm site has been translated into Russian by Valera Trubin, which was announced in his OSM user diary (automatic translation) and on GitHub.
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