25/05/2021-31/05/2021 Breaking news Suddenly StreetComplete is back again in the PlayStore, but earlier … Google removed StreetComplete from the Play Store last week. Google claimed that the app was not compliant with its policy for the background location permission, a permission it apparently does not even request! …

18/05/2021-24/05/2021 Mapping campaigns HOT has published an article on the role of validators in both improving data quality and giving feedback to new mappers. It also advises jow to become a validator. Mapping In a diary entry, Fiftyfour tells us about his experience with OpenStreetMap and suggests how the main …

11/05/2021-17/05/2021 Mapping campaigns As part of a series of mapathons dedicated to flood-prone areas of Nigeria, over 7,500 buildings were added around Ikorodu in Lagos State, Nigeria. The mapathon was organised by a collaboration between the University of Bonn and the Geohazard Risks Mapping Initiative. MapUganda …

04/05/2021-10/05/2021 About us Our Korean contributor and translator, Donga Hwang (OSM contributor LuxuryCoop), will be doing their military service with the Air Force. As a result our Korean issue will have a hiatus of at least two months. Mapping campaigns OpenStreetMap U.S. is organising the ‘Mapping USA Virtual …

27/04/2021-03/05/2021 Mapping campaigns HailHydrant is now an official MapComplete theme and takes advantage of the browser-based, thematic editor, with the goal of making it easy for anyone to contribute to OpenStreetMap – whether on the desktop or on mobile. This theme focuses on mapping hydrants, fire extinguishers, …

20/04/2021-26/04/2021 Mapping campaigns Florian Lainez announced > on the talk-fr list the launch of the May project, whose objective is to map medical analysis laboratories in France. All details are available on the site projetdumois.fr > . OpenStreetMap Ireland has worked on mapping Ireland’s historic boundaries …

13/04/2021-19/04/2021 Mapping Edoardo Neerhut has written a post on the Mapillary blog looking at the quality of pedestrian data in OpenStreetMap. Five cities with distinct characteristics were analysed to see how closely OpenStreetMap matches the reality on the ground. User mahdi1234 has published a short article on …

06/04/2021-12/04/2021 Mapping campaigns In March, EqualStreetNames.Leipzig started to link the streets of Leipzig (Germany) in OSM with their namesakes’ Wikidata entries. The next project day is Sunday 25 April from 8:00 am UTC. If you want to participate in the online meeting and help to complete the tag landscape of …

30/03/2021-05/04/2021 Mapping campaigns ‘The map is power’. For over 50 years, the Waorani of Ecuador have fought the exploitation of their traditional territories. This year, the Waorani won a historic legal victory, in part due to extensive participatory mapping efforts undertaken with partners Amazon Frontlines and …

23/03/2021-29/03/2021 Mapping campaigns Code for Charlottesville is adding pavement (sidewalk), pedestrian crossing, and kerb data to OSM. This is for use in routing projects specifically aimed to make Charlottesville, Virginia more accessible for people with mobility issues by providing, for example, wheelchair …