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 …

02/05/2024-08/05/2024 Mapping campaigns contrapunctus has suggested hosting a mapping party to coincide with DebConf24, which will be held from 28 July to 4 August at Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea. Hwang Dongha said that attracting the local OSM community, Debian user groups, and Ubuntu user groups to …

25/04/2024-01/05/2024 Mapping ivanbranco discussed the mapping of trees on OpenStreetMap, emphasising the importance of using detailed tags for leaf type, leaf cycle, and species to improve the utility and accuracy of the map, and presented resources and tools to assist in the accurate tagging of tree data. Lucas …

18/04/2024-24/04/2024 Mapping Clay_C discussed the process of mapping pipelines using US government data, specifically from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. He outlined a detailed workflow for using JOSM to download and map pipelines within specific US counties, thereby increasing the …