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 …

22/03/2022-28/03/2022 Mapping campaigns OSM Ireland’s building mapping campaign reached a significant milestone as reported by Amanda McCann. Mapping FasterTracker ponders > the lack of a clear and immediate definition of the use of the network key in the context of the public transport, taking the example of the AML > …

15/03/2022-21/03/2022 Mapping campaigns UN Mappers are going to map building footprints, supporting UNSMIL to ensure peace in Libya, on Wednesday 30 March from 06:00 UTC until 16:00 UTC. The tasks will be distributed via the tasking manager. Andrés Gómez Casanova announced that the note-a-thon (a group activity solving …

08/03/2022-14/03/2022 Mapping campaigns OSM Ghana tweeted statistics of their #28DaysMappingChallenge. In February OSM Ghana started a campaign to motivate people to make contributions to OSM on each day of the month. They garnered 598,386 edits from 69 contributors. Becky Candy wrote about live validation during a …

01/03/2022-07/03/2022 Mapping campaigns [1] Stefan Keller illustrated the Swiss project of the month > with sophisticated graphics. Raphaelmirc reported > on the results of the Mapathon in City Xexéu, Brazil, and refers > to the website of UMBRAOSM, the organisation that arranges these Mapathons in Brazil. Mapping …

22/02/2022-28/02/2022 Mapping campaigns Andrés Gómez Casanova reported > on the progress of the ‘Note-a-thons’, an initiative of the MaptimeBogota group, which started this year and aims to resolve open notes in OSM in cooperation with other Latin American communities. Mapping The Polish OSM community presented a …

15/02/2022-21/02/2022 Mapping campaigns Polish contributors have mapped over 2000 AEDs. Cristoffs proposed > normalising the access tags applied and is waiting for feedback. On Saturday 26 February the first Latin American Notathon > was held to promote map note resolution in all Latin American countries. Raphaelmirc …