25/04/2023-01/05/2023 Mapping [1] The proposal about arrangement of power lines is now requesting comments (RFC). It aims to describe how line bundles are arranged around their supports or way points. They can be arranged horizontally, vertically or even as a delta shape. The parking_space=collection proposal is in …

18/04/2023-24/04/2023 Mapping SherbetS documented the HIFLD dataset with a walkthrough on how to adjust this kind of file to match OSM tagging guidelines. HIFLD is a large corpus of public domain licensed geospatial information about infrastructure around the United States. Matt Whilden used this and the JOSM …

11/04/2023-17/04/2023 Breaking news The next OSMF public board meeting is scheduled on Thursday 27 April at 13:00 UTC in the osmvideo room (see the preliminary agenda). OpenStreetMap website and related services will be unavailable for short periods between 00:00 CEST (GMT/UTC+2) and 06:00 CEST on Wednesday 26 April. …

04/04/2023-10/04/2023 Mapping Do you want to add improvements to OSM while out in the field? AngocA’s blog post suggests > some apps that make this possible. A thread on the German subforum discussed > how to map paths in boundary=protected_area that should be avoided by visitors in the winter. Community [1] Daniel …

28/03/2023-03/04/2023 Mapping Andres Gomez Casanova reviewed ► the different services and websites that are available to capture and store geo-referenced street-level photos in the world. Some of them, such as Mapillary, KartaView and Mapilio, allow the use of the images for OSM mapping. CactiStaccingCrane has started …

21/03/2023-27/03/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel (b-unicycling) has discovered milk churn stands and mapped quite a few of them. chris_debian blogged his thoughts about assessing road surface quality using a smartphone. He favours automated ratings by applications using smartphone sensors and lists some, for example …

14/03/2023-20/03/2023 Breaking news The public meeting of the OSMFoundation on Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 13:00 UTC was, as usual, only announced last Friday. Severin Menard has already summarised his remarkable thoughts on the agenda in a blog post. There are also already some reactions in the comments. Mapping …

07/03/2023-13/03/2023 Mapping Jake Coppinger shared details on how you can create your own aerial imagery and 3D models of streets with the built-in iPhone LiDAR sensor (iPhone Pro 12 or later, 2020+ iPad Pro) and open source tools in the OpenDroneMap package. All you need to do to capture the model is walk around with …

28/02/2023-06/03/2023 Mapping [1] Martijn van Exel tooted some choropleth maps of the age of POIs on OpenStreetMap in the US. These used the same database, populated with osm2pgsql, as RestoBot (we reported earlier). Martijn van Exel found that his 360° imagery became sharper, and more readable for OSM tagging …

21/02/2023-27/02/2023 Breaking news OSMTech announced, on March 2, that the long-planned import of the content from the old forum into the new OSM Community forum will take place in the coming week. There may be some associated downtime of the Community site. About us [1] Pieter Vander Vennet was interested to know how …