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 …

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 …