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. …

09/01/2024-17/01/2024 Mapping Requests for comments have been made on these proposals: hitchhiking=true to add a tagging system for hitchhiking spots, aiming to identify common and successful hitchhiking locations. toilets:menstrual_products for adding information about whether a toilet has menstrual products available …

02/01/2024-08/01/2024 Mapping Using Pascal Neis’ website OSM-notes, Vitor George has created the application ‘Oldest OSM Notes by Country’ to find the oldest notes per country and to help fix them in a meaningful way. Brian Sperlongano, aka ZeLonewolf, presented his Wikidata data quality assurance script, which detects …

26/12/2023-01/01/2024 Mapping Pascal Neis has been updating his data on the areas that remain unmapped on OpenStreetMap. Voting on the emergency=disaster_response proposal has started and will run until Thursday 18 January. Community Anne-Karoline Distel celebrated the 4th anniversary of the #osmIRL_buildings project …

19/12/2023-25/12/2023 Community A number of OpenStreetMap enthusiasts in Asia have participated in the first public Map-py Wednesday activity intended to build ties among OSM contributors, foster opportunities for sharing local happenings, and promote learning from each other. ‘Map-py Wednesday’ is a nickname coined by …