List of featured images/2015

These are featured images, which have been identified as the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations of the OpenStreetMap project.

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See also: List of featured images/2014 and List of featured images/2016

2015

Week 1
(29 Dec. – 4 Jan.)

English	WikiMedia Italia produced a 7 minute long OpenStreetMap video guide, which was recently presented by Simone Cortesi at the wikimedia Italia conference

Week 2
(5–11 Jan.)

English	On Alaska Airlines, passengers can visualize the progress of their flight on their devices via Gogo WiFi inflight internet service

Week 3
(12–18 Jan.)

English	Animation showing the 2014 activity taking Lesotho from a blank spot on the map (approx 50k nodes) towards a full and rich set of map data. This work was completed in a large part by locals and government planners looking to utilise OpenStreetMap data as part of their workflow

Week 4
(19–25 Jan.)

English	Come rain or shine: Mappers in Staffordshire, UK, having a new years mapping meet-up, heading out in search of missing footpaths. Read more on this blog post

Week 5
(26 Jan. – 1 Feb.)

English	The website of the Italian gendarmerie (Carabinieri) now features as the only map, an OpenStreetMap map with a prominent copyright link. This is the first recorded use of a military force using OSM.

Week 6
(2–8 Feb.)

English	German and Ecuadorian teachers of Geography, History and IT proudly present the results of a mapping training session with JOSM. These teachers will pass on this training to other colleagues, and integrate some aspects of it into the curriculum to help Ecuadorean students improve their skills further.

Week 7
(9–15 Feb.)

English	Local citizens from Bajrabarahi, Makwanpur, Nepal mapping their towns and villages. Kathmandu Living Labs, pioneer of OpenStreetMap in Nepal, was involved in training them. The training mostly focused on mapping agriculture and food security data

Week 8
(16–22 Feb.)

English	Christian Quest experimented with creating a map as an Anaglyph 3D image. Available as a slippy map and a CartoCSS stylesheet. Now all we need is a pair of those special glasses!

Week 9
(23 Feb. – 1 Mar.)

English	The main station in Berlin now has detailed OpenStreetMap maps of the city.

Week 10
(2–8 Mar.)

English	OpenStreetMap Lesotho members on Lesotho National TV show talking about #MapLesotho

Week 11
(9–15 Mar.)

English	Spectacular 3D-rendering of the Roman Theatre in Orange in France (map) made only from OpenStreetMap data mapped by Marcel Herault

Week 12
(16–22 Mar.)

English	Mappers in action with ICMS and Kathmandu Living Labs in Nepal

Week 13
(23–29 Mar.)

English	The "tronish" style showing Chigaco. View the animated dynamic 3D map here. One of several striking maps created by Mapzen using their "Tangram" system

Week 14
(30 Mar. – 5 Apr.)

English	Using QGIS to create a map of supermarkets near bus stops. Data from Overpass API, presented as icons and a heatmap, and using Transport Map as the basemap. This is from a tutorial by cityplanner.it (italian)

Week 15
(6–12 Apr.)

English	Sorry, there was no image this week.

Week 16
(13–19 Apr.)

English	Mapping by simply taking notes on a Field Papers printout. These OpenStreetMap activities took place as part of the Almería Creative Commons Film Festival

Week 17
(20–26 Apr.)

English	The Scottish police use our maps to display different policing regions on their website, such as this Edinburgh region

Week 18
(27 Apr. – 3 May)

English	Map appearing on this website about vegan restaurants in Bern, which recently won the Swiss Press Award. The map is created using the simple uMap tool, with an OSM swiss style base-map

Week 19
(4–10 May)

English	Kathmandu Living Labs have mapped their city in detail over the past few years, which is now putting OpenStreetMap in a great position to provide maps for aid agencies responding to the Nepal earthquake. Here we see them working outdoors in case of aftershocks, as they coordinate with HOT on further mapping, and providing outputs for aid responders

Week 20
(11–17 May)

English	German and Spanish students from a Comenius project mapping in A Guarda, Spain The school The city The project Santa Trega Some results

Week 21
(18–24 May)

English	A signpost designed with maps from OpenStreetMap, showing the location of recycling bins in Werdohl, Germany

Week 22
(25–31 May)

English	Another Mapzen 'Tangram' style, this time emulating a sketchy drawing effect. Browse the map (uses WebGL)

Week 23
(1–7 Jun.)

English	OpenStreetMap France held their national conference, State of the Map France 2015, this weekend

Week 24
(8–14 Jun.)

English	A packed auditorium for State Of The Map U.S. 2015 this weekend in New York

Week 25
(15–21 Jun.)

English	On 30th of May Maps.Me organized a "Mapping School" event in Moscow, where people were taught to survey a city block and map it in JOSM. Before and after image

Week 26
(22–28 Jun.)

English	Students from four countries came together for a Comenius school project MychOSM preparing field research on historical and geographical sites. This A0 print of OpenStreetMap was made using Mapwebbing

Week 27
(29 Jun. – 5 Jul.)

English	User:SK53 has been investigating retail POI data, looking at the stats by country, and plotting this in a variety of ways. Read more on his blog post. This "Marimekko" diagram shows different retail types (shop tags) in different European countries.

Week 28
(6–12 Jul.)

English	Rory McCann analysed OpenStreetMap data to create this visualisation which answers the question "Where in the world has the straightest roads?

Week 29
(13–19 Jul.)

English	Disneyland in California is celebrating its 60th anniversary this week. Kiosks, gardens and the routes of the roller-coasters, have all been mapped in glorious detail here on OpenStreetMap

Week 30
(20–26 Jul.)

English	This OpenStreetMap decorated wallet, manufactured by gerdkoch.de, was spotted on sale at the airport souvenirs shop in Bremen

Week 31
(27 Jul. – 2 Aug.)

English	Participants of the first West African State Of The Map (SOTM)! Organized at the Campus Numérique Francophone (CNF) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso last week. 20 mappers from 7 sub-region countries joined (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Togo), within the context of a capacity-building mission from the Projet Espace OpenStreetMap Francophone (Projet EOF). See the SOTMBF conference program

Week 32
(3–9 Aug.)

English	Air France have an interactive 3D globe map view on their seatback displays, with maps from OpenStreetMap!

Week 33
(10–16 Aug.)

English	The London Hack Weekend took place last weekend, with developers coming together to work on a wide variety of technical projects, as well as celebrating the OpenStreetMap birthday!

Week 34
(17–23 Aug.)

English	Danny Goodayle experimented with OpenStreetMap data fed into the unity engine to create these and many more interesting city images

Week 35
(24–30 Aug.)

English	A mapping party in Parque del Retiro in Madrid, adding details of historical monuments and botanical targets to the map

Week 36
(31 Aug. – 6 Sep.)

English	OpenStreetMap building data in New York, New York. This was initially imported from NYC government datasets and has since been refined manually, to give more detailed shapes to many skyscrapers (ongoing). Viewed here with OSG-Maps the 3D data also looks great on osmbuildings.org, on F4 Map, and other 3D#Viewing software

Week 37
(7–13 Sep.)

English	State of the Map Latin America took place this weekend in Santiago, Chile

Week 38
(14–20 Sep.)

English	Transport campaigning website howcongestedismyroad.org.uk shows traffic modelling data from Transport For London, snapped onto OpenStreetMap road network data and overlaid over Stamen's black & white toner style base-map

Week 39
(21–27 Sep.)

English	Volunteers verifying their position. The American Red Cross recently ran a community mapping exercise in Khayelitsha, a large township in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more on this diary entry including ways you can help with the ongoing mapping work

Week 40
(28 Sep. – 4 Oct.)

English	State Of The Map Taiwan took place in Taipei this month. Crisis response and urgency mapping is the main topic of the conference.

Week 41
(5–11 Oct.)

English	SOTM Catalonia conference took place in Barcelona last week, with talks such as this one on public transport mapping

Week 42
(12–18 Oct.)

English	State of the Map Scotland 2015 took place over five days in Edinburgh recently

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See also: List of featured images/2014 and List of featured images/2016

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