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 …

16/03/2021-22/03/2021 About us We have received two comments regarding issue #556. Here are some clarifications on these subjects: We reported Bert -Araali- Van Opstal’s complaint about some behaviour on Discord. Mateusz Konieczny, leader of the ‘OSM World’ moderators team on Discord (account needed) noted that the …

09/03/2021-15/03/2021 Mapping campaigns Two schools in Portugal and Romania, both members of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Erasmus+ project, are carrying out a three-day mapathon together with UN Mappers. Starting on Monday 22 March ‘remaining works’ in Terceira are on the programme. On Tuesday and Wednesday, work …

02/03/2021-08/03/2021 Mapping campaigns To celebrate this year’s St Patrick’s Day, the OpenStreetMap community in Ireland will map objects in places related to the saint and his associated legends. The campaign spans the five days from 17 to 21 March. Trufi will create, using a team of Mauritanian locals, the first …