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 …

08/02/2022-14/02/2022 Breaking news You are welcome to join the next video-meeting of the OSMF board on Thursday 24 February, at 13:00 UTC.The topics covered will be: Treasurer’s report Engineering Working Group’s funding request for work towards data model changes Software Dispute Resolution Panel April General …

01/02/2022-07/02/2022 Mapping campaigns Cristoffs showed > some statistics on the progress of mapping defibrillators (AED) in Poland. Mapping Marjan, from TomTom, has initiated a MapRoulette challenge to add missing roads in the Caribbean. Florian Lohoff is puzzled about a strange behaviour of the OSRM routing engine …

25/01/2022-31/01/2022 About us Pete Masters, Head of the Community Team at HOT, promoted weeklyOSM on Twitter and colleagues from OpenStreetMap Spain joined in. Actions recommended for imitation ;-) Mapping campaigns In response to the recent enormous explosion at Apiatse near Bogoso, which leveled the entire town, OSM …

18/01/2022-24/01/2022 Mapping campaigns Organic Maps presented the results of their Subway Validator. This is a regularly updated status overview of all known networks. Networks with errors might be fixed directly in OSM with the help of the metro mapping guide. Mapping roptat described > the different methods and apps …

11/01/2022-17/01/2022 Breaking news Dorothea Kazazi has announced that the next OSMF board meeting will be on Thursday 27 January, at 13:00 UTC. The email contains a lot of useful information, including the agenda. About us [1] This is number 600 of weeklyOSM! For the cover image, inspired by Yousuke Ozawa’s …

04/01/2022-10/01/2022 About us The over 10-year success story of weeklyOSM, as well as our editorial team, continue to develop but are also subject to change. With new support, weeklyOSM will therefore be available from issue 595 not only in ZH-TW (Chinese Traditional) but also in ZH-CN (Chinese Simplified). However, …

28/12/2021-03/01/2022 Mapping campaigns Marjan, from TomTom, informed us of the project they have planned in the Dominican Republic (similar to those they have carried out in many other countries). They compared their data with the data in OSM and opened a MapRoulette Challenge to check the missing roads. Mapping A …