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 …

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 …