![]() 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.User qeef tries to define and offer solutions to problems with the current HOT Tasking Manager.Doctors Without Borders is organising (automatic translation) a Missing Maps mapathon on 16 January 2020 in Berlin.The minutes of the first OSMF board meeting after the recent election have been made available.The newly elected chair of the OSMF board Allan Mustard asked for ideas on how OSM could attract more mappers in under-represented areas, following a proposal from the Diversity Working Group.He argues that this could cause problems in developing countries in terms of sustainability of contributions to OSM and having others tell you what to map, which is already sometimes even called “colonialism”. Frederik Ramm posted an article titled The Diversity Dilemma in which he discusses the possible segregation of OSM contributors into volunteer enthusiasts from wealthy countries and paid local mappers in the “Global South”.Nice to see that Potlatch has not been forgotten. Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski created an OSM hate chart, with the most “hated” objects by size of contribution.It turns out that the history of entrance tag values is complex some, for instance, are influenced by the mapping of Cambridge University done in 2011. ![]()
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