[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 311

2016-07-07 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #311, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7831

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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 310

2016-06-30 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #310, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7765

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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 309

2016-06-27 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #309, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7736

This issue was not published in time because we do not have enough manpower
in our English editing team. Anyone interested in helping with
proof-reading please contact us.

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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 308

2016-06-17 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #308, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7686

*Among others:*


   - Read more about a cool project to visualize OSM data in 3D and split
   vertically by year.
   - State of the Map US 2016, will be held at Seattle University on the
   23rd to the 25th of July and will focus on the importance of free map data
   in humanitarian efforts of organizations, ranging from Microsoft and the
   American Red Cross to the Tacoma Fire Department. More information here.
   - Peter Liu from Mapbox uses the data from USGS (US Geological Survey)
   and created a real-time map of all earthquakes, which are measured by the
   USGS. Read more about it here.
   - Interested in "Creating a Realistic City With OpenStreetMap in
   Blender"? Read in here for more on this.


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 307

2016-06-10 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #307, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7644

*Among others:*


   - Read in here about the start of WeeklyOSM, how we work together and
   the plans for the future!
   - Want to click a 360° picture using Mapillary? Read in here to know
   more about clicking and processing them in JOSM
   - Read more about the three new functions that will make editing in iD
   much more efficient.
   - The OSM Foundation is seeking a (paid) administrative assistant and
   has extended the application deadline by a week to the 10th of June.
   - Until June 10th, one can vote on talks for the State of the Map and
   thus help decide about the program for this conference.
   - Want to play a quiz? The Guardian took maps from Gretchen Peterson’s
   book "City Maps: A Coloring Book for Adults" and produced a pretty hard
   Quiz with the title: "Can you identify the city from the blank street map?"


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 306

2016-06-03 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #306, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7593

*Among others:*


   - Love Mapillary? Read in more for detailed article about using
   Mapillary for mapping in OpenStreetMap with JOSM.
   - Mapbox announces that their map related tools are now free for
   humanitarian response.
   - The State of the Map Working Group (WG SotM) published a paper to the
   topic corporate membership. Source: OSMF-talk
   - Rome based architect and designer Mateo Prati showcases his 3D views
   of Manhattan made with Blender and OpenStreetMap data.
   - Try out the knife-tool for JOSM, which makes splitting ways at an
   arbitrary point a breeze.


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 305

2016-05-28 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #305, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

*http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7559
<http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7559>*

*Among others:*


   - How can new mappers help HOT with the validation process? Read more
   here.
   - Have you had your OpenStreetMap account verified in HDYC? If not, read
   in here to get it verified.
   - The HOT team announced that the 2016 HOT Summit takes place in
   Brussels, just one day before State of the Map. Registration for the summit
   is open.
   - Sri Lanka has been hit hard in the past few days by flooding.
  - see all tasks, please help!
  - pay special attention to task #1915.
   - Mapbox has redesigned their outdoor style of maps


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 304

2016-05-19 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #304, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7523



*Among others:*

   - HOT is *activating* to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri
   Lanka. The first task is already up (http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1913
   ).
   - SotM 2016 Brüssels - Last date to submit proposals/talks and apply for
   scholarship is *21st May*
   - Read more about *DeepOSM *published by TrailBehind which helps in
   detecting features in satellite imagery
   - Geolode is a catalog to collect *open geodata* around the world
   - Read more about the *updates* of the ImproveOSM JOSM plugin


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 302

2016-05-06 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #302, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7426



*Among others:*

   - There will be server maintenance works on 9th and 10th of May. OSM API
   will be read only during this time, therefore you cannot edit OSM. More
   information and updates can be found at the OSM Wiki.
   - OSM for the dyslexic is released, read more about it in here.
   - Registration for State of the Map in Brussels (23rd-25th of September)
   is possible now. Prices for early birds are 75€ for active community
   members and 180€ for everyone else. Additionally it's still possible to
   sponsor the event!
   - Cheap ruler of Mapbox is a collection (JavaScript) on methods for
   length, area and angle calculation. Read in more for why is it called
   "cheap ruler".
   - Read more about new tools like OpenStreetMap Analytics for
   visualization.


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 301

2016-04-29 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #301, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7383



*Among others:*

   - Read more updates about the progress in Ecuador Humanitarian mapping
   - Love taking pictures and travelling? Look in about the photo contest
   initiated by Wikipedia "Wiki Loves Earth", which starts on 1st of May
   - The David Rumsey Map Colletion now offers to 67,000 historic high
   resolution maps for download.
   - You can apply for a scholarship to join the SotM 2016 in Brussels, the
   deadline is Sunday May 21, 2016.
   - Tagesspiegel.de offers an interesting website for visualizing
   differences in aerial photography of Berlin from recent days and those of
   1928.


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 299

2016-04-16 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #299, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7256



*Among others:*

   - Like indoor mapping? iD-indoor, a fork of iD editor which aims in
   addressing this need.
   - Have you come across a vandal on OSM? Read more about possibilities
   for tracking them.
   - Heard about Geopedia.info? It displays georeferenced Wikipedia
   articles on an OpenStreetMap layer.
   - Pete Masters of Médecins Sans Frontières‎ France explains the
   practical benefits of humanitarian mapping.
   - Diana S. Sinton describes in Direction Magazine the overall
   development and the global movement of OpenStreetMap


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 298

2016-04-09 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #298, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

*http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7239
<http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7239>*




*Among others:*

   - Want to have a look at how river change with the passing time for the
   last 30 years?
   - OSM US offers scholarships for the State of the Map US, deadline to
   apply for it is 24th of April. Look in here for more details.
   - Gretchen N. Peterson offers a book for adults to coloring your own map
   - Look in here to learn about using the 'reverter' and 'geochat' plugins
   in JOSM
   - Minimalist raw editor allows you to modify OpenStreetMap XML data
   without using any editor.


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 297

2016-04-02 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #297, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7206

*Among others:*

   - Want to know how Mapbox uses server statistics to decide which parts
   of the world need new satellite imagery most...
   - The US SotM conference will be held in Seattle from the 23rd to the
   25th of July.
   - Look in to know how to use Mapbox GL to generate a vector based and
   interactive map of cycleways in Berlin...
   - Thinking about your next vacation? Here are OSM maps for Crete
   available in Garmin formats
   - Alex Bulankou
   - Mapzen describes their new elevation tilesets, how they were created,
   which data sources were involved,  read more to know more about it...

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Re: [Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 296

2016-03-26 Thread Jinal Foflia
Apologies for the typing mistake it is "Brussels attack" and not "Berlin
attack".


   - Our thoughts and sympathy are with the families and friends of the
   victims of the 'Brussels' attack. SotM organizing committee is safe. SotM
   will happen as planned and are monitoring the situation closely. Safety of
   attendees is paramount!


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Regards,
Jinal.V.Foflia

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Jinal Foflia <fofliaji...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #296, is now available online in
> English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
> OpenStreetMap world:
>
> http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7155
>
> *Among others:*
>
>- Our thoughts and sympathy are with the families and friends of the
>victims of the Berlin attack. SotM organizing committee is safe. SotM will
>happen as planned and are monitoring the situation closely. Safety of
>attendees is paramount!
>- Interested in making a multilingual map? Look in for more
>information...
>- Need a location-based assistant, who will help you find places near
>you? Then 'gisela' is the tool you are looking for...
>- Read about how the cartographers at Mapbox still gets inspired by
>printed paper maps...
>- Want to know how isochrone maps helps in understanding the
>similarities and differences in road design and their effects on travel for
>different cities of the world.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jinal Foflia <https://twitter.com/fofliajinal>
>
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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 296

2016-03-26 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #296, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7155

*Among others:*

   - Our thoughts and sympathy are with the families and friends of the
   victims of the Berlin attack. SotM organizing committee is safe. SotM will
   happen as planned and are monitoring the situation closely. Safety of
   attendees is paramount!
   - Interested in making a multilingual map? Look in for more
   information...
   - Need a location-based assistant, who will help you find places near
   you? Then 'gisela' is the tool you are looking for...
   - Read about how the cartographers at Mapbox still gets inspired by
   printed paper maps...
   - Want to know how isochrone maps helps in understanding the
   similarities and differences in road design and their effects on travel for
   different cities of the world.

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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 295

2016-03-18 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #295, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7128

*Among others:*

   - Remember the first few days of mapping OSM? User SM@Edit shares his
   first time experience with OpenStreetMap...
   - Wondering if there is a tool that can compare the standard OSM layer
   and Satellite imagery? Look in to try the tool...
   - A script by user baditaflorin that can help find duplicated nodes...
   - Read more about the humanitarian mapathon where two-hundred and twelve
   10 year old children from elementary school mapped to eradicate
malaria [image:
   :clap:]
   - Want to build your own offline OSMAND map? Look in to read more about
   it...

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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 294

2016-03-11 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #294, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7084

*Among others:*

   - Mapillary closed a further financing round, getting access to 8
   million US Dollars for further expansion.
   - Having issues with JOSM authorization? Look in for a solution
   - The call for venues for SotM 2017 is now open!
   - Want to know more about how to use OSMLint to detect errors in
   OpenStreetMap based on vector data tiles?
   - FIONA is a satellite based personal navigation assistant for indoor
   and outdoor use

Enjoy!

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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 293

2016-03-03 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 293, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7038
*Among others:*


   - Going to SotM Brussels? Look in here for the discount the visitors can
   get at a specific hotel ...
   - Games based on OSM, read more about the new release of a game using
   OSM data...
   - A very interesting interactive map about "every disputed territory" in
   the world...
   - Maps that could guide the visually impaired people? Yes it is
   possible, look in for the service provided by the Touch Mapper...
   - Deborah Farmer Kris explains why in this GPS era, children should
   learn how to read and draw maps...

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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 292

2016-02-25 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 292, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:



*http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6959
<http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6959>*
Among others:



   - What plans for weekend? You might want to get out and know the world
   around you through field mapping, read more about how to map with field
   papers...
   - Do roads have a smell? Have a look at the smelly maps and find how
   each road smells in your city...
   - Interested in being a part of the Open Data Day, look in here for the
   events taking place in your city...
   - New to JOSM? There is a guide to help you with your first steps with
   JOSM...
   - Cities based on where people take photos, a brilliant collection of
   maps by Eric Fischer...
   - Have an interesting map to share, North American Cartographic
   Information Society invites submissions for the Atlas of Design...


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[Talk-GB] WeeklyOSM 291

2016-02-19 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 291, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6924
Among others:

   - Know more about the volunteer- provided local information in OSM helps
   individuals ...
   - Know more about the WMS offering leafless aerial imagery...
   - Know more about the solution for a strange GUI error in JOSM when used
   in Debian/Ubuntu ...
   - There is a video tutorial about how to use ImproveOSM ...
   - Know more about the plans of Arun Maharajan to map and help small and
   lesser known businesses in slums of Mumbai, India ...


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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 290

2016-02-11 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 290, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
openstreetmap world:
Among others:

   - In the city of Chefchaouen (the chief town of the province of the same
   name) in Morocco, a collaboration between young enthusiasts  resulted in
   something remarkable...
   - The website of OpenStreetMap Mali has gone live recently. ...
   - See which roads are exciting or boring in Martin Raifer published
   tortuOSMity ...
   - OpenMeatMap? The idea was born by the journalist Miguel Graziano and
   realized by mapache look in for more information on it...
   - Do you know the CERN app? It is absolutely useless for “common man” (
   Joe <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Joe.html> Public
   <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Public.html> / John
   <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/John.html> Q.
   <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Q..html> Public
   <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/Public.html>), but excellent for
   staff and visitors at CERN. ...

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6864
<http://www.weeklyosm.eu/es/archives/6864>
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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 289

2016-02-04 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #289 is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

  http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6789
Highlights of the weekly

   - Wikimedia Italia is now official Chapter of OpenStreetMap ...
   - Interested in Crowdsourcing Data and Quality Control, lookin for
   information related to this webinar ...
   - Do you want hear a map talk to you? ...
   - Worried about the privacy related to the location you are sharing?
   Lookin for the App Location Privacy ...
   - HOT is searching for a web-developer to build and OSM Data Quality
   Analysis Tool, look in for more information ...

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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 288

2016-01-28 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 288 is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

  http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6731
<http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580>

*Highlights of the weeklyOSM edition 288*

   - Want to know what's in store with the next Vespucci release? ...
   - Pascal Neis writes an interesting blog on how to find suspicious
   changesets ...
   - Mapbox created two OpenSource and free tools for better maps: OSMLint
   (For quality analysis of OSM data) and OSM Comments (To track conversations
   in OpenStreetMap) ...
   - 10 interesting things you need to know about OpenStreetMap ...
   - New to OSM? There is a training module for you ...
   - Do you want to know more about the rare optical phenomenon (streets in
   Sky), read in here for more information ..

   Enjoy!

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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 285

2016-01-08 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 285 is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

  http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580

*Highlights of the weeklyOSM edition 285*

   - The Nicaraguan OSM community is asking for your support ...
   <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580> (weeklyOSM strongly recommends
   your support!)
   - In Columboia, want to attend a mapathon on 20th of January? Look in
   for more info ... <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580>
   - SMOG or fresh air? See if your city falls into either of the
   categories and know about the quality of air you are breathing...
   <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580>
   - New York Pubic Library puts 20,000 high resolution maps online, read
   more about it's terms of usage ...
   <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580>
   - Know the current statistics of the OSM country wise, changeset wise,
   for a particular date. Read more ...
   <http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/6580>

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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 282

2015-12-17 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 282, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
you by ... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM

Highlights of the weekly

   - "Roads to Rome <http://roadstorome.moovellab.com/countries>" by
   Benedikt Groß, Philipp Schmitt and moovel Lab is a data viz project
   exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility
   <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_roads_lead_to_Rome>: Do all roads
   really lead to Rome? :) More details on how he redefined the territorial
   extents of the EU and US based on travel times are on the project page. The
   routing was done on the basis of OSM data
   <http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html> and GraphHopper.
   <https://graphhopper.com/>
   - To increase transparency of logging activities in rainforest, the
   World Resources Institute and Moabi launched the Logging Roads
   <http://loggingroads.org/> Initiative to record logging roads in the
   Democratic Republic of Congo.
   - Marc Ducobu explains
   <http://blog.champs-libres.coop/carto/2015/12/01/comparaison-urbis-osm.html>
how
   the data of OSM and Urbis
   
<http://bric.brussels/en/our-solutions/urbis-solutions/urbis-data?set_language=en>
(Brussels)
   can be compared.
   - Rob Nickerson is leading the organisation of “the UK/GB OpenStreetMap
   group
   
<https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2015-December/018075.html>”
   meeting, which is to be held on the 17th of December.
   - Since the 80s the Association of "Friends of the Gardens of La Oliva"
   has planted more than 300 trees (species from all over the world) in the
   common areas of the District of La Oliva in Sevilla. On Saturday, 19th
   December OSM mappers will help to map the unique species of this "public
   garden" of La Oliva. The aim is to create an online botanical atlas.
   <http://geoinquietos.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/atlasbotanicolaoliva.html?m=1>
   - Victor Olaya <http://volaya.es/> the main developer of QGIS processing
   framework
   <http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing/index.html>
describes
   in the latest developments
   <http://boundlessgeo.com/2015/12/latest-developments-in-qgis-processing/2/>in
   processing in a boundlessgeo
   <http://boundlessgeo.com/about/boundless-overview/> blog.


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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 281

2015-12-12 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 281, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 280

2015-12-05 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 280, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 279

2015-11-27 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 279, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 278

2015-11-20 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 278, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
you by ... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM


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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 277

2015-11-13 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 277, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
you by ... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM


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[Talk-GB] weeklyOSM 276

2015-11-06 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 276, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to
you by ... https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM


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[Talk-GB] osmweekly issue 274

2015-10-23 Thread Jinal Foflia
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue 274, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
openstreetmap world:
http://www.weeklyosm.eu

Enjoy!

weeklyOSM is brought to you by
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