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. …

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 …