List of featured images/2012

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See also: List of featured images/2011 and List of featured images/2013

2012

Week 1 (2–8 Jan.)		English A year of OSM - video showing editing activity during 2011
Week 2 (9–15 Jan.)		English OSM Inspector License Change View is a useful tool for Remapping in preparation for the upcoming license change
Week 3 (16–22 Jan.)		English Tokyo [as rendered in red by CloudMade] -- hosts for State Of The Map 2012
Week 4 (23–29 Jan.)		English OpenStreetPad is a MapCSS based OpenStreetMap renderer for iPhone and the iPad.
Week 5 (30 Jan. – 5 Feb.)		English The Forbidden City in Beijing
Week 6 (6–12 Feb.)		English Detail of Vatican City
Week 7 (13–19 Feb.)		English Phoenix Zoo (pictured) and others around the USA are starting to follow Berlin's example of being detailed in the OSM maps.
Week 8 (20–26 Feb.)		English Teams around the world took part in Night of the living maps, adding data from Aerial imagery
Week 9 (27 Feb. – 4 Mar.)		English Travel-time to airports in Ireland: AIRO-ICLRD's Accessibility Map idea chooses OSM as base layer
Week 10 (5–11 Mar.)		English MapQuest Open tiles, showing their improved highway-labels
Week 11 (12–18 Mar.)		English Results from the New Lanark mapping party
Week 12 (19–25 Mar.)		English Clusters of tag usage in Edinburgh, shows types of contributor by the tags they use
Week 13 (26 Mar. – 1 Apr.)		English Kartograph's rendering of Italy, showing just how much can be done in JavaScript.
Week 14 (2–8 Apr.)		English The Pearl-Qatar, being Doha's answer to the Palm Islands
Week 15 (9–15 Apr.)		English Stamen's watercolour-style maps blur the boundary between fine art and map rendering.
Week 16 (16–22 Apr.)		English OSM2world gives the first slippy-map where you can rotate a 3d view.
Week 17 (23–29 Apr.)		English 18 zoom-levels (1:250.000.000 - 1:2.000) of Lübeck City
Week 18 (30 Apr. – 6 May)		English On 28th of March a governor of Chelyabinsk Region, Russia was presented a city traffic management system based on OpenStreetMap. Photo ©gubernator74.ru
Week 19 (7–13 May)		English Out mapping in Brazil - hackers from São Paulo did an "Ônibus Hacker" bus trip to Ribeirão Preto to teach 12-14 year olds how to map
Week 20 (14–20 May)		English Oxford cycle map highlights roads with cycle tracks alongside
Week 21 (21–27 May)		English Map from State Of The Map U.S. 2012's website
Week 22 (28 May – 3 Jun.)		English OpenStreetMap's technology makes it easy to create fictional maps, for example Inspector Lewis' version of Oxford (at minute 55), modified to include plot-specific details
Week 23 (4–10 Jun.)		English Land polygons created with OSMCoastline from coastlines in OSM. The polygons are split into overlapping smaller polygons to make them easier to handle.
Week 24 (11–17 Jun.)		English FlightGear aircraft shown over OpenStreetMap's detail of KSFO airport.
Week 25 (18–24 Jun.)		English Density of GPS data collected by OSM [1]
Week 26 (25 Jun. – 1 Jul.)		English AJ Ashton's Pirate Maps show-off Mapnik's new features
Week 27 (2–8 Jul.)		English Cycle maps of the UK
Week 28 (9–15 Jul.)		English Administrative boundaries in England view by OpenMapSurfer
Week 29 (16–22 Jul.)		English Maps copied onto shoes (by tracing over a projector image) [2]
Week 30 (23–29 Jul.)		English Redaction bot progress map [3] at the start of the week. Yellow squares were in progress on Monday. Green squares are complete. Red squares had errors and will be re-run.
Week 31 (30 Jul. – 5 Aug.)		English The Olympic stadium, in east London, hosting the XXX Olympics games.
Week 32 (6–12 Aug.)		English The Olympic stadium in Athens.
Week 33 (13–19 Aug.)		English Within three days of the Krymsk flood, Russian OSM members mapped buildings and distributed PDF atlases amongst rescue volunteers.
Week 34 (20–26 Aug.)		English OSM user Ikiya has created another delicious map cake to celebrate OSM 8th birthday in Fukushima Japan. This cake recreates the SotM 2012 logo. SotM 2012 will be held in Tokyo Japan, in just a few days!
Week 35 (27 Aug. – 2 Sep.)		English Some of the mappers who attended the OSM 8th Birthday party in Toronto, Canada.
Week 36 (3–9 Sep.)		English http://bikeplanner.org demonstrates combined walking and cycle-hire routing
Week 37 (10–16 Sep.)		English Conference photo from State Of The Map 2012, Tokyo
Week 38 (17–23 Sep.)		English Visualization of the Planet.gpx dump with some commentary.
Week 39 (24–30 Sep.)		English Apple showing possibly OSM on their new map application on iOS 6.
Week 40 (1–7 Oct.)		English A screenshot of the WhoDidIt tool over London.
Week 41 (8–14 Oct.)		English Karlsruhe Hack Weekend October 2012
Week 42 (15–21 Oct.)		English The University of Cambridge's new online map was made live at http://map.cam.ac.uk in late September 2012 (and also linked from the University's home page). This prestigious, year-long project has contributed lots of data to OSM and uses OSM data for its street index and custom renderings. More...