18/10/2022-24/10/2022 About us This week we mark 4 consecutive years of semanárioOSM, the Portuguese language weeklyOSM! Every week the editors Nuno MAS Azevedo and Elizabete Oliveira translate the several articles proposed in several languages by the OSM users worldwide and prepare the Portuguese version for …

11/10/2022-17/10/2022 Breaking news The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board is inviting the public to its next online Board Meeting, to be held on Thursday 27 October 2022 at 13:00 UTC. The minutes of the 13 October board meeting have been released. Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel is working on a historic=* tag clean up …

04/10/2022-10/10/2022 Breaking news Submission of self-nominations for the OSMF 2022 board election is now open on the AGM2022 Election_to_Board wiki page and the deadline is 22 October 2022, 23:59 UTC. There are four seats available as Amanda McCann just announced that she will be stepping down early from the Board. …

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 …