28/11/2024-04/12/2024 Community Ciarán Staunton has reflected on the progress of the #osmIRL_buildings campaign, an initiative to map all buildings in Ireland accurately on OpenStreetMap, addressing data gaps for planning and housing projects. While initial enthusiasm mapped several counties, challenges including …

21/11/2024-27/11/2024 Breaking news ResultMaps will be going under maintenance on December 3, 2024. Community Enock4seth urged mappers in Accra, Ghana, to stop relying solely on outdated Bing imagery for OpenStreetMap updates, highlighting Esri World Imagery as more recent and better aligned. The data quality of the …

14/11/2024-20/11/2024 Mapping Detroit has become the most comprehensively mapped city on Mapillary, achieving 99.8% street coverage through a pioneering street-level imagery (SLI) programme launched in 2018 to address asset management challenges, improving city planning and even addressing census undercounts, …

07/11/2024-13/11/2024 Mapping Requests for comments have been made on these proposals: amenity=travellers_lounge for mapping public seating areas in transport facilities, such as airport lounges or railway station waiting areas. virtual_tour=* to tag virtual 3D tours of places such as museums, hotels, or shops. …

31/10/2024-06/11/2024 Mapping Requests for comments have been made on these proposals: virtual_tour=* to link to 3D virtual tours of locations such as museums, hotels, or stores. rental:powerbank=yes for mapping stations that allow users to rent portable power banks for charging mobile devices on the go. Voting is …

24/10/2024-30/10/2024 Mapping Requests for comments have been made on the amenity=travelers_lounge proposal for mapping public seating areas within transit facilities, such as airport lounges or waiting areas at railway stations. Community [1] Strubbl’s OSM profile page features a comic inspired by xkcd #386 titled …

17/10/2024-23/10/2024 Mapping Andy Mabbett has raised a concern about a remote mapper repeatedly closing an unresolved OpenStreetMap note regarding a cemetery. The mapping was done using aerial imagery, which does not capture the full extent of the cemetery, and Andy questioned how to properly escalate this issue. He …

10/10/2024-16/10/2024 Breaking news Guillaume Rischard shared the OpenStreetMap Foundation 2024 chairperson’s report. Craig Allan, Laura Mugeha, Maurizio Napolitano, and Héctor Ochoa Ortiz have been elected as new OpenStreetMap Foundation board members. A total of 740 ballots were cast out of 1,971 eligible voters in …

03/10/2024-09/10/2024 About us The editorial board of weeklyOSM is celebrating ten years of sharing weekly news from the OpenStreetMap world in multiple languages. On October 2014, the first multilingual edition was published. Mapping Okainov has made a request for comments on their new proposal to standardise the …

26/09/2024-02/10/2024 Mapping Kai Michael Poppe has submitted an automated edit proposal to fix the fixme=name inconsistencies of OSM objects. Community Alan Grant discussed various factors that complicate point of interest (POI) mapping, including the instability of POIs due to the accelerated turnover of retail …