[Talk-us-sfbay] Updates from the South Bay OSM community

[Minh Nguyen]

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since the South Bay OSM community has sent any updates 
to this list. It's been a busy summer, so here's one more. For those who 
need a refresher, I wrote up an introduction to our group on OSM's 
Discourse forum. [1] If you haven't used the forum before, it's a lively 
alternative to the talk-us and talk-us-sfbay mailing lists. You can log 
in using your OSM account.

We're continuing to meet online biweekly on Thursday evenings, but 
instead of Zoom, we're using the OSMF BigBlueButton server, which has no 
time limit and seems to be working pretty well for our needs so far. As 
always, you can find our schedule on OSMCal [2] or Meetup [3][4].

Our longtime host, Code for San Jose [5], is changing its name to Open 
Source San Jose. The new name better reflects their focus on open 
solutions in civic technology. This change is happening because Code for 
America is cutting ties with its local brigades. You'll see references 
to CfSJ gradually go away over the course of this year. However, South 
Bay OSM will continue to partner with them as usual.

The huge San Jose building and address import is complete, but there are 
still some parts of the South Bay that lack comprehensive building and 
address coverage. The Overture Foundation is specifically using that as 
a selling point for their product over OSM. Who doesn't love a friendly 
rivalry?

Some of us have started getting into OpenHistoricalMap [6], an even more 
ambitious project to map everywhere in all of history. The map is quite 
sparse in the South Bay so far, but we have a number of ideas for 
ramping up coverage. [7] Please help!

See you around the map!

[1] https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/101211
[2] https://osmcal.org/?in=United%20States
[3] https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-OpenStreetMappers/
[4] https://www.meetup.com/open-source-san-jose/
[5] https://codeforsanjose.org/
[6] https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/go/TZMjSfwBV-?layers=O
[7] 
<https://github.com/codeforsanjose/OSM-SouthBay/labels/OpenHistoricalMap>

-- 
minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us