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 …

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, …