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 …

23/02/2021-01/03/2021 About us weeklyOSM contributor Rogehm has published their interview with Lamine Ndiaye, who uploaded changeset 10⁸. Mapping TheSvawu has tweaked “osm-in-realtime” so that it starts at 99,999,800, so that you can look again at the mapping activities near changeset 100,000,000. Interesting to see …

16/02/2021-22/02/2021 Breaking news Congratulations to Lamine Ndiaye for uploading OSM changeset #100,000,000! He has been mapping since 2013 and was nominated ( and ) for the OSM Awards in 2017. Take a look at how our prediction of when the event would occur turned out. If you missed seeing the big event on James …

09/02/2021-15/02/2021 About us We already reported on the imminent approach of changeset 100,000,000 on OpenStreetMap, currently expected to occur on 26 February. You can monitor progress with this tool by James Westman and compare against our projection. We will contact the lucky user who uploads this changeset via …

02/02/2021-08/02/2021 About us In a few days (probably 27 February), the 100,000,000th changeset will be published in OpenStreetMap. This counter tool shows the changeset numbers in real time. In the next issue we will update our current projection. The editors of weeklyOSM would like to start a small challenge: the …