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Posted by Kai Johnson on 24 September 2021 in English.

I’m no stranger to GIS, so I jumped right in. Filled in BLM routes around Painted Gorge, Mica Gem, and Buck Canyon. Cleaned up some routes at Valley of the Moon and along Grapevine Canyon.

Still need to add a couple routes to Painted Gorge but I want GPS data first. There are discrepancies between BLM maps and aerial photos that can only be resolved by going there in person.

The Yuha Basin is also on my to do list, but I definitely want GPS data for that first. The BLM map isn’t that great and there are a lot of tracks on the ground that differ from the map.

Location: 32.763, -117.107
Posted by landscapemapper on 23 September 2021 in English.

After a summer break here we are. We just got over 5000 Table Tennis Tables in Switzerland. Here is the [TagInfo]{https://taginfo.osm.ch/tags/sport=table_tennis#chronology} We can expect another boost the next days because I have an agreement with my neighbour driving pingpongtische.ch, that we can use his database to find yet unmapped tables in OSM. We would not just import these, but scroll through them and check if we can verify their positions with the Swisstopos SwissIMAGE.

So for the next 1000… :-)

Location: Rohrhuisli, Stans, Nidwalden, 6370, Switzerland
Posted by bo_hot on 23 September 2021 in English.

Hi all,

Many people have been asking me over the last year what technology HOT is working on, what’s on the cards for the future and where we are headed. Given my role, all good questions I want to answer. The good news is, I have some of the answers and would like to share them with everyone for feedback, ideas or inputs as you feel compelled.

Sharing here for community comments hot_tech’s t21 basemap. This document outlines what underpins our future direction, decisions and deliverables.

For those that don’t want to read the whole thing, as the elevator pitch reads, the heart of our mission lies here:
By redirecting resources to augment and amplify the efforts of others, the future of hot_tech will no longer be focused on building technology for open mapping collectives, but instead building technology with them.

While I recognise this doc may not answer all questions and possibly raise even more, we see this as the starting point, our nodes and ways, our building=yes from which we can start to add more depth.

For those that just want the short version, I have summarised all the key changes in our ‘right turn document’, which clearly outlines not only what we plan to do, but also how we plan to do it.

Like it says at the end of the doc ’The closing of this document marks the opening of the conversation’, so I look forward to having this conversation with our entire collective of hot_tech supporters, stakeholders, contributors and users.

Kindness,

Bo

Location: Naz, Esserts-Salève, Monnetier-Mornex, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Upper Savoy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Metropolitan France, 74560, France
Posted by pnorman on 23 September 2021 in English.

Dear all,

Today, v5.4.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto stylesheet (the default stylesheet on the OSM website) has been released. Once changes are deployed on the openstreetmap.org it will take couple of days before all tiles show the new rendering.

Changes include

  • Added a new planet_osm_line_label index (#4381)
  • Updated Docker development setup to use offical PostGIS images (#4294)
  • Fixed endline conversion issues with python setup scripts on Windows (#4330)
  • Added detailed rendering of golf courses (#4381, #4467)
  • De-emphasized street-side parking (#4301)
  • Changed subway stations to start text rendering at z15 (#4392)
  • Updated road shield generation scripts to Python 3 (#4453)
  • Updated external data loading script to support pyscopg2 2.9.1 (#4451)
  • Stopped displaying tourism=information with unknown information values
  • Switched the Natural Earth URL to point at its new location (#4466)
  • Added more logging to the external data loading script (#4472)

Thanks to all the contributors for this release including ZeLonewolf, kolgza, and map-per, new contributors

For a full list of commits, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/compare/v5.3.1…v5.4.0

As always, we welcome any bug reports at https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues