Our server now supports SSL

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Our new umap service made quite a good start. We had quite positive feedback from several people. But there was also a problem reported by Adfinis: They added a map to their home page using umap. Now when the homepage is was with SSL the browser denied the embedding of umap which was without SSL (known as mixed content blocking). And not only did they make us aware of the problem, they even offered to pay for the necessary SSL certificate. Thank you for sponsoring the certificate!

We now support SSL on our sites, for example https://umap.osm.ch.

High Resolution Aerial Imagery from the City of Zürich

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zh-luftbild-beispiel

A couple of weeks back the city of Zürich expanded the available layers on its public WMS server to include areal imagery of the city from multiple years. Of particular interest to us is the 2011 data which is clearly superior to what has been available up to now and is a lot better georeferenced. This will allow us to address some of the issues we have in central Zürich and is a huge leap forward from the Bing/Yahoo imagery we’ve had until now.

We hope that this sets yet another example for other Swiss cities and cantons, to open up their WMS servers. SOSM will continue to negotiate with other cantons and cities (see http://sosm.ch/projects/cantonal-aerial-imagery/ for progress).

Many thanks to the GIS office of Zürich!

Using the imagery in your editor

For JOSM users the WMS server can be queried with

http://www.gis.stadt-zuerich.ch/maps/services/wms/WMS-ZH-STZH-OGD/MapServer/WMSServer

For P2 and iD users we have added the layer to our mapproxy configuration and it can be accessed (with placeholders) with:

P2: http://mapproxy.sosm.ch:8080/tiles/zh_luftbild2011/EPSG900913/$z/$x/$y.png?origin=nw

iD: http://mapproxy.sosm.ch:8080/tiles/zh_luftbild2011/EPSG900913/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?origin=nw

 

uMap Tips and Tricks – 1 – Hide the “Edit”-Pencil

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This is the start of a likely infrequent and irregular series of posts on stuff that I found out using uMap.

Hide the “Edit”-Pencil

One of the more annoying things about uMap is that there is no obvious way to hide the edit pencil on a full screen map. While only users that you have allowed can actually change  your map configuration, it just isn’t good design to have a control element that just frustrates your users.

The solution: add “allowEdit=0” to the URL as for example below:

http://umap.osm.ch/en/map/hundekot-tuten-spender_2?allowEdit=0#9/46.9709/8.3318

 

uMap Instance for Switzerland

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It has been a long time in the making, but at last, we are happy to announce that a SOSM hosted uMap instance is available: umap.osm.ch .

uMap allows you to create hosted map configurations that contain base maps, data sources and manual annotations.

An example of what can be done with very little effort: the “Swiss style” map with car sharing locations queried from the Overpass API.


See full screen

While the data displayed in the example is static, the same can be done with a direct query of the OverPass API or similar sources. Data that is limited to Switzerland can be retrieved from the SOSM Overpass service, and to make that a bit easier we now have a local Overpass Turbo instance.

To create your own map on umap.osm.ch you simply need an account on www.openstreetmap.org and allow umap.osm.ch access to it.

A special thank you to Sarah for setting up the system for us and to Yohan Boniface for developing uMap.

Schwiizerdütschi Näme / num romontsch / nome italiano / nom français

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[ Deutsch weiter unten ]
[ français en bas ]
[ italiano v.s. ]

—– romontsch ————————————–

Hallo cars mappers

Per il 10avel anniversari digl OSM vuless Sosm presentar ina carta per romontsch (e per tudestg svizzer, talian e franzos). Per far gliez supplichein nus vus da notar las translaziuns egl OSM. La carta che suonda presenta las translaziuns gia notadas (ella vegn actualisada mintg’ura): http://www.osm.ch/lang. El cantun sura dretg ha ei ina funcziun d’eleger il lungatg. Translaziuns saveis vus aschuntar als place nodes sco tags suandonts:

name:gsw per Schweizerdeutsch
name:rm per Rumantsch
name:it per Italiano
name:fr per Français

salids
Michael

—– Deutsch ————————————–

Hallo liebe Mapper

Sosm würde gerne zum 10. Geburtstag von OSM eine schweizerdeutsche (und
romanisch, italienisch und französische) Karte präsentieren. Dafür
möchten wir euch bitten, entsprechende Übersetzungen in OSM einzutragen.

Auf folgender Karte werden die bereits eingetragenen Übersetzungen
dargestellt (stündlich aktualisiert): http://www.osm.ch/lang In der
rechten oberen Ecke hat es Schalter, um die Sprache auszuwählen.

Übersetzungen könnt ihr an den place nodes anfügen als folgende tags:

name:gsw für Schweizerdeutsch
name:rm für Rumantsch
name:it für Italiano
name:fr für Français

Grüsse
Michael

—– Français ————————————–

Bonjour,

A l’occasion du 10ème anniversaire de l’OSM, SOSM aimerait constituer une carte en français mais aussi en suisse-allemand, romanche et en italien. A cet effet nous avons besoin de votre aide pour completer les traductions dans l’OSM.

Vous trouverez les traductions déjà enregistrées sur le site (actualisé toutes les heures):
http://www.osm.ch/lang A droite, dans le coin supérieur, vous pouvez selectionner la langue.

Pour inscrire vos traductions, ajoutez aux noeuds ‘place’ les tags suivantes:

name:gsw pour Schwiizerdütsch
name:rm pour Rumantsch
name:it pour Italiano
nom: fr pour Français

Cordialement
Michael

—– Italiano ————————————–

Ciao mapper

Per il 10 anniversario del OSM il SOSM vuol presentare una carta italiana (romanica, svizzero tedesca e francese).
Per questo Vi preghiamo di inserire le traduzioni correspondenti in OSM.

Sulla mappa sequente vengono mostrati le traduzioni già inseriti (attualizzati ogni ora): http://www.osm.ch/lang Nell’angolo destro in alto della pagina potete scegliere la lingua.

Le traduzioni potete allegare ai place nodes con i seguenti tags:

name:gsw per Schweizerdeutsch
name:rm per Rumantsch
name:it per Italiano
name:fr per Français

saluti
Michael

SOTM-EU

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sotmbannerFive members of SOSM are currently in Karlsruhe, where this years State of the Map EU takes place. It is at the University of Applied Sciences, located in a very nice green area.

On Friday, rendering was a topic, with alternatives to mapnik, alternative style sheet languages, rendering from vector tiles, and also 3D with OpenGL, WebGL and Blender. There were also a few presentations on quality assurance.

sotmeu-grillIn the evening there was a nice grill at the social event and we all had delicious food and good conversations.

On the second day there were a few talks about data maintenance. The state of the license was topic to another talk, with Mapbox presenting the problems they encountered with the current license.

There was also a group photo taken that day.groupfoto-sotmeu14

Mapping party and SOSM AGM

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Burgdorf Oberdorf

We held our annual general meeting at the restaurant Schützenhaus in Burgdorf this year. The associations activities of the last year were presented,  mainly the new SOSM server and the services provided with it.

After (a good) lunch as announced we held a mapping party. Simon distributed printouts of the surrounding municipalities and their missing roads and off we went. After successfully collecting data many of the mappers met again at the Schützenhaus and added it to OSM after which we had dinner (participating in SOSM events is not good for your waistline :-)).

While we didn’t manage to get everything “green”, the situation around Burgdorf is substantially better now; with only a handful of street names missing in some of the municipalities.namestats_post_mapping

 

Mapping Party Burgdorf April 5th 13:30

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burgdorfAs already announced we will be going out and mapping after the SOSM AGM on Saturday and after we have had lunch (please feel free to join us for that too).

Meeting location: Restaurant Schützenhaus, Wynigenstrasse 13, Burgdorf

Burgdorf itself is fairly well mapped with only a few roads missing and a handful of name spellings that need to be verified http://qa.poole.ch/ch-roads/BE/404.html . However the surroundings, in particular Kirchberg are fairly undermapped. Kirchberg can easily be reached by Bus, the rest of the villages likely will require a bicycle or other means of transport.

Rough schedule:

  • Meetup 13:30
  • Mapping starts 14:00
  • Back at Restaurant 16:00
  • Data entry etc.
  • Dinner roughly 18:00 (for those that choose to stay)

 

Answer to the “Vernehmlassung” for the new Geo-Information Law of the Canton of Berne

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One of the lesser known aspects of the Swiss democratic system is the instrument of the “Vernehmlassung”, a formalized call for comments by interested and affected parties on draft laws before they go in to the parliamentary process and debate. The Canton of Berne is implementing new regulations on geo-information and related sovereign duties to be compatible with the equivalent legislation at a federal level and issued such a call for comments late last year.

The tl;dr gist of our answer is that the law should as a principle allow free access to the cantonal geo-data and do so on terms defined in a suitable well-known licence (CC0, PDDL or similar) reversing what is suggested in the current draft legislation. Further we have suggested that any fees for access to the data be based on marginal costs for the distribution.

Our full answer can be found here Kanton Bern geoinf Vernehmlassung. Opendata.ch, the Swiss OpenData Association, supports our position.