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 …

19/04/2022-25/04/2022 Mapping campaigns At the end of April Mapbox is going to start a mapping project in Romania. The team is planning to review a subset of detections, among others, of ‘crossing highways – roads with no common point’, ‘impossible angle – roads with too narrow angles’, and ‘mixed layer – connected …

12/04/2022-18/04/2022 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 improve it for our readers, like you. You may see in this issue that some articles are not sufficiently described. We are urgently looking for people …

05/04/2022-11/04/2022 Breaking news OSM Ukraine is urging everyone to restrain > from any mapping in Ukraine while the conflict is still occuring as it fuels the information war. Mapping jmapb has published part two of their ‘Using NYC Dept of Buildings Building Information Search’ series. Anne-Karoline Distel’s video …

29/03/2022-04/04/2022 Mapping Anne-Karoline Distel reported on a survey of Callan, Ireland, where address attributes (house numbers and street names) seem kind of curious. Dino Michelini wrote > , in his blog, a well researched piece on the ancient Etruscan-Roman road Via Clodia. He also outlined what still needs to be …