22/08/2023-28/08/2023 Mapping Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals: information=public_transport_information_desk for tagging a place where you can get information and help from a public transport company but can’t buy tickets. free_period_products=yes to indicate if a toilet has free period …

15/08/2023-21/08/2023 Mapping Riiga’s proposal to extend the opening_hours tag, to include workdays and any workday before a day of rest or a public holiday, can be commented on. Community User 38446 described how they use OpenStreetMap for the organisation of orientation trainings using OOMapper. Anne-Karoline Distel …

08/08/2023-14/08/2023 Mapping The ‘adoption’ of roads, paths, or squares is a common practice in the USA and Canada. Partytax has written a proposal on this and has requested comments. Voting on the proposal ‘Wheelchair lifts and ramps on platforms’, proposed by wielandb, ends on Monday 28 August. The proposal …

01/08/2023-07/08/2023 Mapping Константин Гам did a talk , in a YouTube video, about OpenStreetMap and recommended OSM editors that he likes. A proposal awaits your comments: Solar Panel Trackers. Community dónal reported on their recent mapping activities in Ireland. The UN Mapper of the month is Nnadozie Uzoma …

25/07/2023-31/07/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel has added name:etymology:wikidata tags to holy wells in Ireland and analysed the occurrences of different saints in their names. HDYC is now equipped with a feature to identify which of your OpenStreetMap edits were undone by others. Check your HDYC profile, then click …

18/07/2023-24/07/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel has been mapping sewer gas vents and wrote a blog post about it. Kamil Monicz (NorthCrab) described a new tool for importing building data into OSM from Polish official sources with the verification performed by automatic pattern matching on orthorectified imagery. His …

11/07/2023-17/07/2023 Mapping deptho wonders why one would map sidewalks/pavements separately from the associated road and not use the sidewalk tag on the road object. Commenters say that it can improve pedestrian routing and mapping kerb drops can help people with limited mobility, but that just mapping sidewalks …

04/07/2023-10/07/2023 Mapping adreamy wondered about how to map an intersection that is completely covered with pedestrian crossings overlapping in all directions. They proposed using area:highway=pedestrian. pluton_od blogged about high-occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV) and how they updated around 8,000 road segments in …

27/06/2023-03/07/2023 About us As Chris correctly pointed out, in a comment to our issue #675, we do not link to platforms that are not publicly accessible. Therefore, in future we will no longer link to messages on Twitter. If you want to distribute information coming from Twitter that is relevant to our readers, and …

20/06/2023-26/06/2023 Mapping EnumMapper has posted a diary with links to two videos that show tracing the process of highway and mountain woods with a drawing tablet. Mateusz Konieczny has documented, on the OSM Wiki, the shop=eggs tag, for a shop selling only or primarily this specific type of food. The …