03/08/2021-09/08/2021 About us Mariotomo, from Panama, explained some of the problems faced by our readers in countries with poor and/or expensive internet connections. He has a relatively simple solution: using a bash script to pull items from the RSS feed which may be of interest to others. The weeklyOSM team are …

27/07/2021-02/08/2021 Breaking news [1] Quick, get your act together! As we go to press the OSM 17th birthday global mapathon will be underway. The mapathon starts at 03:00 UTC (13:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time) on Sunday 8 August with the OSGeo Oceania community. A different OSM chapter takes the lead each hour …

20/07/2021-26/07/2021 Breaking news Three part-time positions are open with Trufi Association using OSM for public transport solutions. Applications are open until Sunday 8 August for an Administrative Coordinator, a Business Development Manager, and a Marketing and Communications Expert. Mapping campaigns The …

13/07/2021-19/07/2021 Mapping Mappers in the German OSM Forum > and on the Talk-de mailing list > discussed how to deal with the floods in Western Germany. Damaged roads which will stay impassible for a longer time should be tagged as under construction or demolished. Buildings should not be edited/deleted for the time …

06/07/2021-12/07/2021 Breaking news Kai, an active mapper with disaster management expertise, shares his urgent recommendations for mapping the impact of the flooding in western Germany which happened earlier this week on 15th and 16th July. About us - Erratum: The StreetCompleteness web interface that lists the …

29/06/2021-05/07/2021 Mapping The Polish OSM community is proposing > an automated edit to update night-time urban speed limits. The proposal to complement man_made=utility_pole with utility=*, for poles that do not carry power or telecommunication lines, was approved with 16 votes for, 2 votes against, and no …

22/06/2021-28/06/2021 Mapping campaigns CartONG hosted an online bilingual (FR/EN) mapathon on World Refugee Day on 21 June to map refugee locations. This event was organised jointly with MAMAPA, HuMap Trier and OSM Ghana. Mapping Wille Marcel produced some statistics about the usage of different editors in each region …

15/06/2021-21/06/2021 Mapping campaigns The Peruvian Space Agency (CONIDA), in coordination with other institutions, are organising the Mapathon 2021 > : ‘United in observations for the community management of disaster risk’ to be held from 28 June to 2 July, The aim is that participants improve geospatial data related …

08/06/2021-14/06/2021 Mapping campaigns Joachim Eisenberg reported > on the first Mapathon hosted by the Federal German Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). Portalaventura commented > on the increasing participation of corporate mappers in Brazil, and provided some detailed statistics. Mapping AnuAnakTimur wrote …

01/06/2021-07/06/2021 Mapping campaigns Puxan can see > a major problem for map quality in online mapathons, which, according to him, have multiplied during the pandemic. He recommends two measures to help improve the quality of data created during mapathons. Mapping Requests have been made for comments on the …