Dear All, The London hack weekend starts in a few hours in London (yay!), England (oh.) One of these days I'll organize a hack weekend in London, Ontario, just for laughs.
Interesting things come out of these hack weekends and sometimes we see the results right away, like squashed bugs or new tools, and other times the changes are rolled out on a schedule. The OSM API change from 0.5 to 0.6 was largely decided at a previous hack weekend, then rolled out as scheduled during server maintenance if I recall correctly. So, I'm looking forward to interesting things coming out of the hack weekend. You might enjoy watching the dev irc channel if you want to follow some of the discussions going on at the hack weekend, but really, you have to be there to get the full benefit. Two new things have appeared on OSM.org in the last two days, before the hack weekend even started. Today, the layer selector (the blue + top right of the map) was changed. The seldom-updated nonames layer was removed, and two new layers were added. The Transport map shows public transportation infrastructure, and the Open MapQuest map is a general purpose map. We want more people to understand you can make special purpose maps from the same OSM data. Yesterday, a new version of Potlatch2 was provided on the site. You'll know that you are using the new version when you realize that you have been using the map zoom buttons on the top left, rather than their previous top right location. I didn't even realize that it was a change when I first saw it. :-) Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
