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. …

27/10/2020-02/11/2020 Mapping TheFive reported that weeklyOSM often receives messages alerting us to map errors. In a small blog post he points people > to the map notes system and encourages people to participate. Yuu Hayashi, who published > a draft of a scheme for route mapping of Japanese historical paths, is …

20/10/2020-26/10/2020 Mapping User Darafei updated the Disaster.Ninja tool, which was developed to assist HOT in their activation process, but could also be useful for the general mapping community. Robert Delmenico published a proposal to substitute the existing tags man_made=* with the new tag artificial=* in order …

13/10/2020-19/10/2020 Mapping Robert Delmenico suggested, on the tagging mailing list, replacing man_made=* with human_made=*. Many doubted the value of the proposal. Such suggestions are repeated every few years (February 2012, March 2017). Following a report > by n-tv, which reveals the unexpectedly high number of …