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 …

15/12/2020-21/12/2020 Mapping Michel wonders > why there are alpine huts mapped in lowland France. Françoise was more amused > by the discovery of three glaciers in Marseille (natural=glacier). Street-level imagery is available > if you want a closer look at these artisanal glaciers! Voting is open till 4 January for …

08/12/2020-14/12/2020 About us In these COVID-19 times, it is important over the New Year holidays to socially distance, take a good deep breath, walk outside, contact friends and family, and pause from regular activities. At weeklyOSM, after publishing an issue week after week without interruption since issue 219 in …

01/12/2020-07/12/2020 Breaking news The election of OSMF board members at the Annual General Meeting 2020 for the three seats in play this year led to the election of Tobias Knerr (re-elected for another term), Jean-Marc Liotier, and Eugene Alvin Villar (user seav). The resolution to make changes to the Articles of …

24/11/2020-30/11/2020 Breaking news The next public OSMF board meeting will take place on Thursday, 10 December 2020, at 5.00 PM (GMT) with some interesting items – Treasurer’s report, attribution guidelines, conflict of interest policy for Working Groups, and Brexit update. The reworked proposal electricity=* is open …

17/11/2020-23/11/2020 Mapping User mahdi1234 published a quick note on how to show the latest OSM data on-the-fly on umap using a query to link directly to Overpass. In a thread on the talk mailing list about ‘bad’ edits, Andy Townsend outlined some guidelines for good changeset discussions which are well worth a read. …

10/11/2020-16/11/2020 About us This week we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first Weekly OSM Summary. Thanks to Pascal, Jonas, and Dennis, who started the project in November 2010. Alongside number 17 of the German Wochennotiz, Weekly OSM Summary started in the English language, first weekly, later fortnightly …

03/11/2020-09/11/2020 About us Since issue #537 we have been publishing in the Polish language. We are very happy to welcome our new colleagues and hope that this service in Poland will inspire even more people to contribute to OpenStreetMap when they can read our news in their native language. Witamy, polska drużyno. …