24/08/2021-30/08/2021 Mapping The speed limit on most Parisian streets has been lowered to 30 km/h (18 mph). Christian Quest tweeted that this has resulted in a major update to OSM that should propagate through to route planners over the next few days. Kontur tweeted a reminder that in the wake of Hurricane Henri, …

17/08/2021-23/08/2021 Mapping campaigns Congrats to Mapbeks and Youthmappers for their successful mapathon competition for a cause (map for sustainability), where they mapped 41,994 buildings in five days. To celebrate, 280 trees will soon be planted in the #OpenStreetMapPH Forest in Zamboanga del Norte. Mapping Anim …

10/08/2021-16/08/2021 Mapping A long thread on how to tag recreational routes designed for multiple transport modes led Kevin Kenny to suggest that striving for a Platonic ideal of tagging is not necessary. oh8mxl wrote a blog post about ‘how to check cycling mapping mistakes and fixme tags in your area’. Requests have …

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 …