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 …

28/06/2022-04/07/2022 About us We found malware on our server and used the cleanup to come back online with a fresh server, an up to date theme and language switcher plugin. Thank you for all of you who have notified, analyzed, helped, tested and migrated with us - thehedgeh0g, firefishy, lonvia, matthiasmatthias, …

21/06/2022-27/06/2022 About us DeepL Pro now offers translations into Bahasa Indonesia. We have taken the liberty of automatically translating and publishing issue #623. We would like to do this better in the future. However, to do this, we need two proofreaders to make the necessary corrections starting Friday each …

14/06/2022-20/06/2022 Breaking news The next OSMF Board meeting will take place on Thursday 30 June 2022, at 13:00 UTC via the OSMF video room (which opens about 20 minutes before the meeting). The draft agenda is available on the wiki. The topics to be covered are: Treasurer’s report Updated membership prerequisites …

07/06/2022-13/06/2022 Mapping Data curator arredond explained how working on map layers for the Felt company was an opportunity to find and correct tagging errors. In the fourth part of a series about the specific challenges of working with map data, Daniel Mescheder wrote about the importance of tracking changes. …