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 …

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, …