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 …

12/12/2023-18/12/2023 About us Dear weeklyOSM readers, We are delighted to present you with the 700th issue of weeklyOSM. For over 13 years we have been reporting on the latest developments, projects, events, and data related to the free world map. We are proud to be part of this great community dedicated to open …

05/12/2023-11/12/2023 Breaking news The 2023 Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation took place on 16 December at 16:00 UTC. The election of the Board of Directors has been completed and Roland Olbricht, Guillaume Rischard, and Daniela (Dani) Waltersdorfer Jimenez are elected. A total of 913 members …

28/11/2023-04/12/2023 Breaking news The voting period for the OSMF Board elections has been extended by one week. The reason was an error in the management software used by the OSMF, which resulted in around 60 members entitled to vote not receiving an email to cast their vote. The extension of the election period was …

21/11/2023-27/11/2023 Mapping The proposal highway=cyclist_waiting_aid, to map street furniture and devices for cyclists that are intended to make waiting more comfortable, was approved with 26 votes for, 0 votes against, and 0 abstentions. Community Karlos argued the importance of separating OpenStreetMap for …

14/11/2023-20/11/2023 Mapping Thelone1986 has released ► several videos about OpenStreetMap mapping in the city of Seraing, Belgium. The amenity=bicycle_wash (bicycle washing service) tag proposal is currently under discussion. Community Andy Allan gave an update on the development of the OpenStreetMap website: the …

07/11/2023-13/11/2023 Mapping barefootstache explained the methodology of addition and division mapping with the example of natural and landuse areas. The research team from HeiGIT have compared the completeness of road data in OpenStreetMap with the road data in the Microsoft RoadDetections dataset. Requests for …