27/12/2022-02/01/2023 Mapping TrickyFoxy wrote, on telegra.ph, an article on ‘Why you should try Every Door’. Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals: emergency=fire_water_inlet for mapping an inlet to a building’s firefighting system. place=sea to deprecate the use of a closed way or …

20/12/2022-26/12/2022 About us The weeklyOSM team would like to express our sincere gratitude to the entire OpenStreetMap community and to all of weeklyOSM’s readers. Your dedication and hard work have made a significant impact on the world of map making and have contributed to the growth and success of OpenStreetMap. …

13/12/2022-19/12/2022 Breaking news The first meeting of the new OSMF Board after the 16th Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 20 December. New officers have been selected as Secretary, Personnel Committee Chair, Open Source Initiative OSM Delegate and the Trademark licensing subcommittee representative. New …

06/12/2022-12/12/2022 Breaking news Four major companies, two of whom are corporate members of the OSMF, in conjunction with the Linux Foundation have announced a new open map platform, Overture Maps. Map data will, in part, be based on OSM with other data from other open sources. We will provide more detail on this …

29/11/2022-05/12/2022 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel recounted her experiences of mapping defibrillator locations in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Tiago Lubiana shared a Wikidata query that shows a map of the COVID-19 memorials ► in Brazil. Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals: snow_chains to map …

22/11/2022-28/11/2022 Mapping barefootstache blogged about their personal ‘100 Day Mapping Challenge’. A request for comments has been made for crossing:signals=, a proposal to deprecate crossing= in favour of crossing:signals=* and crossing:markings=*. Voting is open on street parking revision, to deprecate and …

15/11/2022-21/11/2022 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel is still ‘obsessing’ about crannógs. She has published the first two of a planned five-part video series on how to map crannógs. watmildon outlined the technique they use to find and fix instances where addr:housenumber have been incorrectly tagged as name. OSM user …

08/11/2022-14/11/2022 About us Attention Telegram-Group admins: Matthias, from the weeklyOSM team, has created a Telegram-Bot. The bot does nothing more and nothing less than announce the publication of new issues of weeklyOSM – usually on Sundays. If you are interested in using this service for your Telegram group, an …

01/11/2022-07/11/2022 Mapping campaigns At the request of OpenStreetMap Ireland, Włodzimierz Bartczak blogged about the lessons learnt from collecting AED data in Poland. Mapping rtnf shared a tutorial on how to display OSM data as a Wikipedia interactive map by using Kartographer > , a Mediawiki extension to display …

25/10/2022-31/10/2022 Mapping campaigns OSM Cameroon shared their experience of a land cover mapping campaign on the Missing Maps blog. Mapping dcapillae has created two infographics that describe ► how to map street parking spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility and spaces reserved for recharging electric …