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 …

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 …