11/07/2024-17/07/2024 Mapping Mirikaaa, from the Mapbox Data Team, posted on the OSM Community forum about their project to improve the representation of Indonesia’s road network in OpenStreetMap, such as adding roads, correcting alignments and missing links, correcting names, ensuring that road classifications are …

04/07/2024-10/07/2024 Mapping campaigns The humanitarian collaborative mapping campaign in response to the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul Floods (Brazil) is ongoing. The effects of the disaster that led to landslides, floods, and a dam collapse persist and 5,000 people are still homeless in the state. Everyone can collaborate …

27/06/2024-03/07/2024 Mapping Marco Antonio mapped El Cardón National Park in Bolivia using official boundary data from PROMETA, an environmental conservation organization of Tarija, Bolivia. Roxystar is currently mapping street lamps in Munich, complete with additional details such as the lamp’s height, to simulate …

20/06/2024-26/06/2024 Mapping Derick Rethans (@derickr@phpc.social) published the ‘Überterracer’ (uberterrace), a JOSM plugin, which allows you to draw a rectangle, and then quickly convert it to a row of terraced houses and at the same time add numbers to the generated buildings. He wrote about it back in 2015 in his …

13/06/2024-19/06/2024 Mapping campaigns The campaign to map the flooded areas in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) continues and mappers from all over the world are invited to collaborate on the open projects in the HOT Tasking Manager. Links to the projects and other information can be found on the campaign’s …

06/06/2024-12/06/2024 Mapping Shinji Enoki recounted ► his experience with on-foot mapping using StreetComplete and EveryDoor. He enjoyed the gamified elements of both apps, but cautions readers about the risks of frequently stopping or looking at the screen while walking, as he has nearly tripped several times. OSM …

30/05/2024-05/06/2024 Mapping [1] Jérôme Limozin, a Singapore-based OpenStreetMap mapper, has managed to cycle through 99% of all the roads in Singapore by using the Wandrer exploration game. Ilya Zverev announced that as of 1 June, his Level0 editor and other services, such as the OSM Imagery Browser and the Offset …

23/05/2024-29/05/2024 Mapping Pete Masters explained how the use of 3D meshes created from drone imagery has significantly improved the accuracy of mapping in the informal settlements of Sierra Leone, allowing the complex structures to be better visualised and understood from different angles. Pedro Tharg has proposed …

16/05/2024-22/05/2024 Mapping Comments were requested on the following: The proposal to deprecate cycleway=opposite tags. The proposal to introduce natural=wadi for broad, flat channel of an ephemeral stream with distinct banks. The proposal to introduce the ordering: prefix for ordering-only phone numbers, SMS-only …

09/05/2024-15/05/2024 Mapping Salim has set up a new challenge on MapRoulette called ‘Portugal – Fix Spiky Buildings’, which aims to correct inaccurately mapped buildings identified on OpenStreetMap, some of which may be correct but many of which are likely errors. The proposal to set the tag shop=tortilla is in the …