27/09/2022-03/10/2022 Mapping Albert Guillaumes Marcer published digitalised sketches of different metro station layouts around the world. Of interest to indoor mappers and transport nerds. A request has been made for comments on the following proposal: gender=*, a gender designation of the facility. Voting on the …

20/09/2022-26/09/2022 About us The Ukrainian version Тижневик OSM, as part of the weeklyOSM family, once again demonstrates the international nature of OpenStreetMap. Mapping campaigns Włodzimierz Bartczak reported ► that OpenStreetMap Poland and the Pedagogical University of Kraków are organising ‘Peljesac …

13/09/2022-19/09/2022 About us We are always looking for people to help us improve our newsletter so it can get out faster, have more depth and coverage, and generally benefit our readers, like you! Please join our team now. Mapping The French city of Rennes, announced ► that it is hosting three mapping parties, during …

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 …