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 …

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 …