31/10/2023-06/11/2023 Mapping AgusQui shared ► his experience of trying to map railway signalling on the Sarmiento line (Once Station - Moreno Station) in Buenos Aires City, Argentina. Andres Gomez Casanova described the various alternatives for integrating OpenStreetMap data with data from Wikimedia projects. At the …

24/10/2023-30/10/2023 Breaking news Over 30,000 people have been displaced by floods in the North Tongu district of Ghana. Stephen Mawutor Donkor is asking for help, on the mailing list, in mapping the affected region. About us Five years of weeklyOSM in Portuguese! That’s right, it was five years ago that we started …

17/10/2023-23/10/2023 Mapping aaei924 has proposed an improvement to the OpenStreetMap road classification system used in the Korean region. MapAmore reported that Microsoft MapBuilder is now enforcing a validation system by a team of validation specialists to improve the quality of data they add to OpenStreetMap. Rtnf …

10/10/2023-16/10/2023 Mapping Spencer Alves attended the dedication of a new park, with a LiDAR-equipped phone, and micromapped the park in OSM. His toot on Mastodon showed that other map providers look pretty outdated in comparison. Klenje blogged on the basics of mapping playgrounds. In the comments, Sven Geggus …

03/10/2023-09/10/2023 Mapping [1] Stfmani has created a JOSM map style to display the direction of traffic sign placement. Anne-Karoline Distel has started mapping boot scrapers. She described them in detail with behind the scenes thoughts and even has a video. barefootstache shared his experience of exploring the …

26/09/2023-02/10/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel blogged about mapping Martello towers. KlausG reported ► on how he had to deal with the direction of validity and the direction of view when tagging road signs and using the direction tag. When indicating a cardinal direction, e.g. with direction=E (for east), the …

19/09/2023-25/09/2023 Mapping barefootstache outlined his experience of mapping the coastal towns of Croatia. CharliePlett shared his experience of mapping all the landcover in Belize. Denrazir recounted his experience when mapping the distribution of tree species at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. …

12/09/2023-18/09/2023 Mapping Citrula wrote about how to use OSMCha’s RSS feed and filter features to review changesets for which a review has been requested. Anne-Karoline Distel is seeking comments on a proposal to add vandalised to lifecycle prefixes. Community OpenStreetMap mapper Jasper wanted an OSM shirt and …

05/09/2023-11/09/2023 Mapping Black Diamond shared his experience of using USGS 3D Elevation data, which is available as a background layer in iD and JOSM for most US territories, to more easily map geographic features. Community Deus Figendi called on friends and acquaintances to motivate them to map their houses in …

29/08/2023-04/09/2023 Mapping The YouTube channel ‘OSM for History Buffs’ has released a video explaining how to do hedgerow mapping using Field Papers paper maps. Włodzimierz Bartczak (Cristoffs) blogged ► about an AI revolution in mapping OSM. He described the tool created by Kamil Monicz (NorthCrab) that uses AI to …