30/11/2021-06/12/2021 Breaking news At the OSMF general meeting on 12 December, chair, Allan Mustard announced the results of the election to the board. Guillaume Rischard, Amanda McCann, and Mikel Maron were re-elected. Roland Olbricht joins them as a new member. 742 ballots were cast. The detailed results are …

23/11/2021-29/11/2021 Mapping Enock4seth complained about changeset comments consisting solely of hashtags. These make it difficult to understand exactly what changes people are making in Ghana, so he is now asking new mappers to provide explanations as well. Community LuxuryCoop was interviewed about OpenStreetMap in …

16/11/2021-22/11/2021 About us Kai Michael Poppe has extended his multi-purpose-bot to also inform the D-A-CH Telegram group when a new issue of weeklyOSM is published. Kai invited other Telegram groups that are interested to make use of this service too, using a new bot. We have created a spreadsheet in which we ask …

09/11/2021-15/11/2021 About us Did you notice? Thanks to JackNUMBER we have now a high resolution title header for our website. Mapping campaigns A team effort to map missing residential buildings in Germany was recently concluded. Contributor hfs explained how mappers worked together to add 360,000 buildings all over …

02/11/2021-08/11/2021 Mapping Requests have been made for comments on the following proposals: motorroad=yes > to formalise a definition of motorroad for Japan. amenity=parcel lockers for mapping lockers that are used to store parcels awaiting self-service pick-up. ref:EU:bwid=* to record the unique identifier of a …

26/10/2021-01/11/2021 Mapping campaigns Jinal Foflia invited contributors to participate in some interesting mapping challenges in the Philippines and Malaysia. She suggested that new or experienced mappers put their mapping hats on and join the MapRoulette challenges. The mapping contest to improve OSM road data in …

19/10/2021-25/10/2021 Mapping Pascal Neis tweeted that his ‘Unmapped Places of OSM’ has been updated. A total of 331,000 places have been identified this year, compared with 339,000 by the same time last year. Christian Rogel, who recently bought an electrically assisted tricycle, suggested > that he will be able to …

12/10/2021-18/10/2021 Mapping campaigns The Planning Department of the Ministry of Education in Madagascar, in collaboration with the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) and UN Mappers, is seeking to map the full road network of the Vakinankaratra region to make sure that the journey …

05/10/2021-11/10/2021 Mapping Daniel Capilla told > us in his blog that the reality in Malaga has nothing to do with the old cliché ‘Malaga, city of a thousand bars and only one bookshop’, sharing details related to bookshop and libraries mapped in OSM. Voting is underway for boundary=border_zone, for tagging areas …

28/09/2021-04/10/2021 Mapping campaigns The OrganicMaps team asked users to help fix issues with subway mapping using this validator. Brandon suggested that the makers of the recently released new app for Jungle Bus could perhaps initiate a collaboration? Mapping MapSpot has created several maps detailing the progress …