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 …

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 …