21/03/2024-27/03/2024 Mapping ZekOwney has mapped ► the locations of wastewater treatment plants in the Normandy region of France using data from the French Government’s National Water Data Reference Service. The Delighted Women Development Initiative, together with the Association for the Welfare of Women Liberians, …

14/03/2024-20/03/2024 Mapping Daniel Capilla wrote ► an article discussing the hierarchical classification of the metropolitan road network of Malaga, Spain. Simon asked ► for the best way to map parking infrastructure and if it is okay to split roads for that purpose. In the comments, Tobias Jordans recommends a …

07/03/2024-13/03/2024 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel has written a blog about rag trees mapping (place_of_worship=sacred_tree) in OpenStreetMap. Robhubi asked, in a blog post, whether the wiki page for the key name needs to be restructured. SK53 described the mapping of chapels in crematorium buildings in a very detailed …

29/02/2024-06/03/2024 Mapping [1] Koreller explained how he mapped Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, in 3D. An effort was made to recreate both ordinary buildings and city landmarks in detail. Inspiration for the project came from the popular simulation game ‘Cities: Skylines’. Penegal shared ► his thoughts on …

22/02/2024-28/02/2024 Mapping To fulfill his New Year’s resolution, Włodzimierz Bartczak has made a list of OpenStreetMap project ideas that he plans to update on a regular basis. Voting for the hairdresser=barber tag is open until Monday 11 March. Voting on the community_adopted=* proposal has been extended until …

15/02/2024-21/02/2024 Mapping [1] Benjamin Herfort, from HeiGIT, has updated his analysis of the OSM contributors who would have run into OSM upload limits between January and October 2023 if the limits had existed back then. The updated version takes the (self-)deleted user accounts (usually vandalism related to the …

08/02/2024-14/02/2024 Breaking news The OpenStreetMap Engineering Working Group announced that 2024 will be the year of the OpenStreetMap vector map and that Paul Norman has been hired to work on the project. Vector tiles represent a significant advancement from the traditional raster tiles (static images). It will be …

01/02/2024-07/02/2024 Mapping Inspired by Koreller’s edits to Pyongyang and the recently updated imagery provided by both Mapillary and Esri, CactiStaccingCrane has embarked on mapping the urban areas of Hanoi. L’imaginaire reached one million map change edits and pondered some philosophical questions about …

25/01/2024-31/01/2024 Mapping HeiGIT analysed how many new OSM contributors would have run into the OSM upload limits between January and October 2023 if the limits had existed back then. Request for comments have been made for these proposals: Flood_assets: for mapping natural and man-made assets contributing to flood …

18/01/2024-24/01/2024 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel has researched that historic=pinfold and historic=pound are describing the same thing in different dialects. She thinks that pinfold should be deprecated. The proposal emergency=disaster_response was approved with 45 votes for, 1 vote against, and 2 abstentions. …