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 …

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 …