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 …

13/06/2023-19/06/2023 Breaking news The next OSMF public Board meeting is scheduled for Thursday 29 June at 15:00 UTC in the video room. The preliminary agenda is on the wiki. Mapping CactiStaccingCrane shared ten more things he has learnt while doing OSM mapping in the Vietnam area. Friendly Ghost conducted an …

06/06/2023-12/06/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel blogged about drinking water refill stations and has published a video tutorial on creating a preset and adding refill options to a shop using OsmAnd. publicerination imported the ‘StreetSmArts Murals’ dataset in San Francisco. Voting on the proposal to deprecate …

30/05/2023-05/06/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel suggested we take a look at our cities to discover and map the urine deflectors built in the 19th century (in Europe) to prevent public urination. She has also created a wikipage and explained the background information on this topic. One of the unexpected risks of …

23/05/2023-29/05/2023 Mapping [1] Andy Townsend explained on his blog that hedges in OpenStreetMap can be lines or polygons and goes into detail concerning the benefits and drawbacks of each mapping approach. The Champs-Libres team wrote about their collaboration with the national railway company of Belgium, NMBS/SNCB, …

16/05/2023-22/05/2023 Mapping Wilmer Osario wrote ► in his diary about re-drawing and improving 90 km of the Caracas-La Guaira Highway, by hand, from scratch, in JOSM. He explained in detail how he did it, adding an impressive number of screenshots to visualise every step. It is like an user manual for mappers who may …

09/05/2023-15/05/2023 Breaking news The next OSMF Board meeting is on Thursday 25 at 13:00 UTC. The meeting will be held in the ‘Boardroom’ Big Blue Button video conference room. The Strategic Plan will be discussed. You can connect 20 minutes before the meeting. Mapping [1] Martijn van Exel analysed the density of …

02/05/2023-08/05/2023 Mapping Following a workshop held by UN Mappers, a group of students from the Erasmus Mundus Masters program in Geospatial Technologies at the University of Jaume I, in Castellón de la Plana Spain, analysed campus safety and identified potential vulnerabilities by mapping street lights in OSM. …