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 …

14/02/2023-20/02/2023 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel has spent a very interesting, challenging and turbulent four weeks mapping the National Monuments of Ireland. Bob Cameron has talked himself hoarse, having spent the past two months ‘intensely’ making observations around the lesser populated areas of southwest Western …

07/02/2023-13/02/2023 Mapping Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals: amenity=showground to describe open areas (typically grassy or gravel) which are maintained to be used for outdoor events. landcover=* version 2 to formalise the usage of the key landcover=* and deprecate the tags …

31/01/2023-06/02/2023 Mapping Pieter Vander Vennet expressed his concerns about the MapBuilder program that allows Bing users to indirectly edit OSM. António Madeira presented ► a proposal to the OSM Portugal Telegram community to standardise the mapping of school estates in Portugal. The proposal will be discussed …

24/01/2023-30/01/2023 Mapping As part of a series on how to generalise OSM data, Jochen Topf shared his insights about the generalisation of river networks. In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the Trufi Association is encouraging users of their app to contribute informal transport routes using a simplified mapping feature. …

17/01/2023-23/01/2023 Mapping User bradrh consulted the US Forest Service Motor Use Maps to update motor vehicle access restrictions on forest roads and trails in several national forests. Bryce Cogswell (bryceco) listed every OpenStreetMapper that has managed to map for more than a thousand days without a break. Lejun …

10/01/2023-16/01/2023 Breaking news The next public OSMF Board meeting will be held in the online boardroom on Thursday 26 January at 13:30 UTC. The preliminary agenda is on the Board/Minutes/2023-01 wiki page and this is also where the draft minutes will be added.The topics to be covered are: Treasurer’s report …

03/01/2023-09/01/2023 Breaking news Paul Norman announced the release of version 5.7.0 of the OpenStreetMap Carto Stylesheet, the default map stylesheet for the OSM website, on the mailing list and in his blog. All changes can be found there. The most obvious change, as the OSM Ops team tweeted, is the representation …