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 …

26/01/2021-01/02/2021 Mapping Voting on the following proposals is currently underway: stone_type=ogham_stone for stones with inscriptions in Ogham script (till Monday 8 February); wait=* for defining which lane(s) stop/give_way/traffic_signals apply to (till Wednesday 10 February); man_made=tailings_pond for a mass of …

19/01/2021-25/01/2021 Mapping Fernando Trebien has proposed a revision to the highway=trunk classification description in Highway Tag Africa. Pierre Béland and others refer to previous discussions and explain the exceptions applicable in Africa for major inter-Africa networks and propose amending the wiki to refer to …

12/01/2021-18/01/2021 Mapping campaigns UN Mappers have opened new humanitarian mapping projects for UN peacekeeping missions: Democratic Republic of Congo Abyei The topographic data will support MONUSCO and UNISFA missions to secure peace in the area. The first UK Quarterly Project of 2021 is Green Spaces – parks, …

05/01/2021-11/01/2021 Mapping campaigns OpenStreetMap Uganda, with support from the OpenStreetMap Foundation, has begun mapping 15 newly created cities in Uganda. Currently three cities (Mbarara, Masaka and Jinja) have been mapped and are being validated. OpenStreetMap Ghana is mapping Accra to increase map coverage in …

29/12/2020-04/01/2021 About us If an important article is missing, then you have forgotten to enter it here! A short instruction explains in four steps how it works. Mapping The French Project of the Month is to add power poles > on the regional distribution network controlled by Enedis > , which comprises about 95% of …

22/12/2020-28/12/2020 About us The entire weeklyOSM team thank you for your interest and wish you a Happy New Year 2021. Mapping Comments are currently being sought on the following proposals: Reservoir: deprecating landuse=reservoir and clarifying the definitions of a number of values for the key water (Tagging list …