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Humanitarian Mapping in Pakistan Could be Soon Illegal

A proposed bill could soon make mapping in Pakistan difficult or illegal for many, reports Murtaza Haider of Ryerson University, Toronto. OpenStreetMap contributors and organizations like HOT could be particularly affected.

Specifically, the bill would force any individual or organization involved in mapping or surveying activities to register with the Pakistani government. Failing to do so could result in up to one-year imprisonment and a fine of up to five million rupees.

The circumstances of the creation of the bill suggest that humanitarian organizations are particularly targeted by it:

[…] the Ministry of Defence (MoD) expressed its concerns about the quality of maps being produced by various departments of the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies i

Mapas Dinámicos Rápidos con OpenStreetMap, MapBox.js y Google Spreadsheets

En Tiempo para Desarrollando América Latina: Una Receta para Desarrollar Rápidamente Aplicaciones Geográficas

En los talleres de mapeo en preparación a Desarrollando América Latina de este fin de semana, pasamos una parte hablando de cómo utilizar Google Spreadsheets y MapBox.js. Es una arquitectura especialmente favorable en el contexto de una hackathon ya que permite rápidamente crear una aplicación para la colección y presentación de datos geográficos. Aquí les mostramos un ejemplo.

Registro de Incidentes Delictivos

Este sitio es un prototipo que desarrollamos con la Sub Gerencia de Seguridad Ciudadana de la Municipalidad Provincial de Huamanga. Permite registrar incidentes delictivos en la ciudad de Ayacucho y mostrar automáticamente los datos de manera dinámica y en tiempo real.

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Ruben Lopez Mendoza

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Ruben Lopez Mendoza

Mapping Hyattsville, Maryland

This weekend about a dozen mappers of the Washington DC area came together to show some OpenStreetMap love to Hyattsville, Maryland.

Steven Johnson kicked it all off with this tweet, and after quick coordination on the Mapping DC mailing list people met up at the local Bus Boys and Poets café where they divvied up the town in four sections, then went out in parties of two to three to do a survey for street addresses and points of interest.

Mappers mostly used GPS trackers, smart phones and pen and paper for capturing survey data. This picture shows them after they came back to the café to enter data.

Spot checking the openstreetmap-carto style

Andy Allan recently ported the OpenStreetMap standard style from pure Mapnik XML to CartoCSS and TileMill. This is exciting as it's a huge step towards making contributing to the style more accessible. The port is nearly perfect and kinks are being worked out right now. I took a minute to spot check and pull together a couple of screenshots showing just how close this awesome piece of work is. I hope to see this go up soon on OpenStreetMap.org. Andy's port wouldn't change anything about how tiles are being rendered on OpenStreetMap, all that changes is how the style for those styles would be created: In the future, we'd use TileMill and generate the Mapnik XML from user friendly Carto CSS.

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Learn How to Use OpenStreetMap US Resources

Join us for a 1 hour virtual workshop on how to use OpenStreetMap US server resources.

OpenStreetMap US provides a series of server resources to the OpenStreetMap community free of charge. You can use these servers for jobs that are too large or too long running for your local machine and for cooperating with other community members.

You can see a full list of our servers on our Wiki, but the most interesting ones are these:

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January 28 Virtual Mappy Hour: Community Server Resources

Are you in need for access to a larger server to process big OpenStreetMap data? Are you looking for a quick way to work with OpenStreetMap data without setting up your own database? Do you have a particular data processing question? Join us for next week's Virtual Mappy Hour where Ian Dees will do an introduction to community server resources provided by the OpenStreetMap US chapter.

OpenStreetMap US provides a series of server resources to the OpenStreetMap community free of charge. You can use these servers for jobs that are too large or too long running for your local machine and for cooperating with other community members.

You can see a full list of our servers on our Wiki. These servers offer the following:

Full, hourly updated copy of the OpenStreetMap rendering database
Latest Mapnik installed and the ability to render and cache arbitrary tile sets

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