weeklyOSM 684

22/08/2023-28/08/2023

How to map part-time contraflow road? [¹] © marche_ck | map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Mapping

Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals:
- information=public_transport_information_desk for tagging a place where you can get information and help from a public transport company but can’t buy tickets.
- free_period_products=yes to indicate if a toilet has free period products available.

ꞴetaNYC has organised a community project to map public facilities in North Brooklyn, New York, USA.

[1] marche_ck has found a complex crossing on Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur and sketched out how he imagines he would map it in OSM.
iigmir discussed some possible OSM tags for tagging ‘Farmer Community Cooperatives’ that they found in the Taiwan, China, Korea, and Japan region. In Indonesia, this is called a ‘Village Unit Cooperative’.
Jens-Uwe Hagenah blogged ► his thoughts on how to best tag long-distance cycle routes and their signposts.
barefootstache wrote about their intention to follow up ‘365 days of mapping’ with a series of 100 weekly mapping challenges.
Kamil Monicz (NorthCrab) commented about the new donation request banner on the main OSM page and on the OSM 2023 budget.
Contributor OMNIBUS has published a status report on his guidelines for mapping wetlands and flood zones.
Keen Quispe, of OpenStreetMap Peru, published ► an essay proposing the integration of OpenStreetMap into the educational system’s curriculum.
Robhubi asked ► himself why Himmelreich, Raaba-Grambach, Germany, is incorrectly mapped in OSM and did some research on this matter. It seems to be an historical anomaly, so he wants to know if it is possible to update its location.

Anne-Karoline Distel shared her experience of introducing OpenStreetMap to local communities during Ireland’s Heritage Week 2023.

HeiGIT tooted some statistics on the age of OSM objects based on the time of the last edit.

A discussion on ‘map data access through HOTOSM Tasking Manager’ has been opened and is seeking public comments on the topic.

Brian Sperlongano has announced the release of the tile.ourmap.us community vector tile server. This is a full planet OSM vector tile server that updates approximately every 10 hours, primarily intended for personal, non-commercial use.

Josh Carlson tooted that Kendall county, Illinois, is now a corporate support member for OpenStreetMap and celebrates becoming a foundation member.

The AddressForAll Institute, in partnership with Esri, has begun to release open data packages provided by hundreds of municipalities in Brazil and other countries. These are maps of street, plots, buildings, neighbourhood boundaries, address points, and city blocks, which can be loaded onto QGIS or JOSM to improve OpenStreetMap. The data will be available under CC0 and CC-BY licenses. The first city is Cachoeiro do Itapemirim/ES, Brazil. Feedback for future releases is welcome.

MapTiler has released a map style editor to make it easier for users to design their own maps.
Ben Clark announced the release of Rapid version 2.1 that includes two new features that will bring more attention to map data gaps:
- A 3D building renderer in an inset map
- The ability to load and visualise more custom data with protomaps MPTiles support.
Sarabjeet Sodhi blogged about supporting Vespucci preset extensions in JOSM. Vespucci utilises the JOSM preset format but has extended the configuration to work better outside of the narrow realm of JOSM. These extensions include deprecated, regions, exclude_regions, value_type, and alternative.
ybon gave an update on uMap, which has been integrated in a French state incubator, and has received quite a few updates: custom overlays, anonymous edit links sent by email, facet search, dashboards, and profile updates – to name only a few. He also listed what is planned next and how you can contribute by coding, testing, translating, or funding.

darkonus shared a script that can enhance your experience with JOSM on MacOS by enabling a dark mode theme.
miku0 has posted a final update on their Google Summer of Code project enhancing Nominatim’s address search in Japan.

Mapilio street-level images are now integrated into the OpenStreetMap iD Editor.

Yandex is looking ► for a developer to work on their OpenStreetMap content moderation system. The work is in a hybrid format: 3 days in the office, 2 days at home, flexible schedule; main offices are in Moscow and Belgrade.

Where	What	Online	When
Maricá	Mapathon – Maricá City		2023-08-24 – 2023-09-24
Localidad Teusaquillo	Volvamos a cerrar notas de OSM en Colombia – Notathon		2023-09-02
Stadtgebiet Bremen	Mappingparty in Bremen		2023-09-03
	Missing Maps London Mapathon		2023-09-05
Berlin	OSM-Verkehrswende #51	✓	2023-09-05
	OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting		2023-09-06
Stuttgart	Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen		2023-09-06
Stadt Dornbirn	OpenData + OSM Meetup Vorarlberg		2023-09-06
Amsterdam	Maptime Amsterdam 2.0		2023-09-08
Bengaluru	OSM Bengaluru Mapping Party		2023-09-09
København	OSMmapperCPH		2023-09-10
Zürich	OSM-Stammtisch		2023-09-11
臺北市	OpenStreetMap x Wikidata 月聚會 #56		2023-09-11
San Jose	South Bay Map Night	✓	2023-09-13
Middelburg	FOSS4G-NL		2023-09-13 – 2023-09-14
Stainach-Pürgg	10. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online)		2023-09-13
Lorain County	OpenStreetMap Ohio+Michigan Meetup	✓	2023-09-14
Potsdam	183. Berlin-Brandenburg OpenStreetMap Stammtisch		2023-09-14
München	Münchner OSM-Treffen		2023-09-14