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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. …

31/05/2022-06/06/2022 Mapping campaigns It is with great sadness that we learnt of the sudden death of Innocent Dibloni Soungalo, an OSM contributor from Burkina Faso. A geographer by training and a geomatician by profession, a former volunteer of the Francophonie in Senegal, Innocent had worked hard to strengthen …

24/05/2022-30/05/2022 Mapping campaigns The US OpenStreetMap chapter has launched a new Mapping for Impact campaign. In partnership with the Rising Tide Effect association, they’ll map swimming pools in New York, in order to raise awareness of swimming skills education. Mapping MapComplete has created a Twitter account …

17/05/2022-23/05/2022 Breaking news EOX IT Services has published the 2021 update of their cloudless images version of the ESA’s Sentinel-2 Earth observation satellites programme (10 m resolution) data last week. These images are particularly useful for observing changes in land cover. The EOX cloudless Sentinel-2 …

10/05/2022-16/05/2022 Breaking news The next OSMF board meeting will be on this Monday 23 May 2022, at 13:00 UTC. Information about the video conference and the agenda (including moderation of the talk@ & osmf-talk@ lists and SOTM 2022) are available here.The agenda for the meeting is: Treasurer’s report Decision on …

03/05/2022-09/05/2022 Mapping Pete Masters pointed out that Becky Candy’s feedback to mappers (we reported earlier) has been translated to Japanese and Spanish . Ikuzo is a POI oriented ‘map editor made specially for travel photographers, influencers and other content creators’ for categorising, filtering, sharing POIs …

26/04/2022-02/05/2022 Mapping Ruriyuri wrote > a diary entry about some strange circles on maps, and pointed out that this was because some mappers forget to delete auxiliary lines after drawing a railway. A request for comments has been made for amenity=ticket_validator, a tag for ticket validators, which are often …