

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?.
BUSBOY ORIGIN SOFTWARE
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.

With the expert option you can now disable the start animation if you feel offended by snowflakes.
BUSBOY ORIGIN UPDATE
The Osmose team announced the implementation of updates to their QA database with improved, persistent, identifiers as well as better links, false positive support and an improved update process.The whole weeklyOSM team thanks you for your interest, wishes you a Happy New Year (we reported earlier) and joins the wishes of the new OSMF chairman of the board – happy mapping. BusBoy, YeneGuzo, Trotro, Trufi… many public transport apps, with one origin: Trufi Association 1 | © Trufi Association | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
