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 …

21/12/2021-27/12/2021 About us The weeklyOSM team thanks you for your interest and we wish you a Happy New Year. Mapping Many people use navigation devices for their hiking trips and many navigation devices are based on OSM data. In OSM, however, official hiking trails are not distinguished from ‘unauthorised routes’. …

14/12/2021-20/12/2021 Mapping PoliMappers tweeted a suggestion to take your mapping skills to another level with JOSM. Bo Percival reported on the results of an experiment carried out by HOT to compare traditional mapping with AI-assisted mapping (we reported earlier). They learnt that AI can assist and amplify the …

07/12/2021-13/12/2021 Mapping TomTom has analysed OSM data in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. They have posted the areas identified for improvement on MapRoulette. indoor= updates their map data every hour. François2 described in his diary entry how map changes with respect to indoor tagging can be …