06/09/2022-12/09/2022 Breaking news The next monthly video-meeting of the OSMF board will take place on Thursday 22 September 2022, at 13:00 UTC. The preliminary agenda is on the OSMF Board wiki and this is also where the draft minutes will be added. Mapping campaigns Sven Geggus created a website that shows ‘campsites …

30/08/2022-05/09/2022 About us We are pleased to be able to offer two more languages from issue #632 onwards: Bahasa Indonesia and Russian. weeklyOSM now informs local OSM communities about the happenings in the OSM world in a total of 15 languages. Mapping Requests have been made for comments on the following …

23/08/2022-29/08/2022 Mapping After comparing different 360° cameras, OSM user 2hu4u came up with a fairly low-budget option for 360° street level imagery that has led to satisfying results for mapping. Ilya Zverev commented on the proposal to change the OSM data model. Community MarcoR is amused about a case of …

16/08/2022-22/08/2022 Mapping campaigns The Swiss project of the month (PotM CH) for August 2022 is mapping benches on OpenStreetMap. A dashboard shows (//) map edits related to this PotM CH made since the beginning of August. A change simply counts as adding or changing any element with the tag amenity=bench, for …

09/08/2022-15/08/2022 Breaking news The next public video-meeting of the OSMF board will take place on Thursday 25 August 2022, at 13:00 UTC on osmvideo. The preliminary agenda is in the OSMF wiki and this is also where the draft minutes will be added.The topics to be discussed are: Treasurer’s report Initial State of …

02/08/2022-08/08/2022 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel shared, in a diary entry, her efforts on nano-mapping the roofs of thatched buildings. Furthermore Anne-Karoline’s new video about creating ( voice / subtitles) a thatch map on uMap is now available, which completes the videos we reported last week. coolmule0 described …

26/07/2022-01/08/2022 Breaking news The OpenStreetMap project will turn 18 on or around Tuesday 9 August 2022. If you have a birthday event to announce or want to post photos from your celebrations you can add them to the wiki page. Mapping campaigns An item, in last week’s weeklyOSM, about classifying data quality in …

19/07/2022-25/07/2022 Mapping Andrea Spinelli wondered how to add a point of interest with iD at a specific coordinate. Officially, this function is not desired. Developers recommend the use of Cmd + Opt + M, or equivalent, to open the measurement panel, which shows the exact location of a selected node. In comments …

12/07/2022-18/07/2022 About us weeklyOSM collects relevant OSM news from all over the world and informs the community every week. We announce each new issue via Twitter, Mastodon, mailing lists, Telegram, and we also want to announce it at community.openstreetmap.org. However, some mailing lists are relatively low …

05/07/2022-11/07/2022 Mapping Île des faisans / Isla de los Faisanes is an islet between Hendaye (France) and Irun (Spain) where negotiations took place for the marriage of Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. It is a condominium shared and jointly run by the two countries. The question of how to map such territories …