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 …

06/10/2020-12/10/2020 Mapping GIScience Heidelberg and HeiGIT have created a new land use map, initially for all the EU member states, by combining satellite images from Sentinel with OpenStreetMap using machine learning. It is available on OSMlanduse.org. The quality of the new version of OSMlanduse is being validated …

29/09/2020-05/10/2020 Mapping lukas64 proposed the new tag electricity:source=* (renewable, solar, wind, etc.) to define the source of the available electricity as renewable or from other sources. The proposal is open for comments. reDoubleYou proposes the new tag shop=direct_marketing to describe a place where …

22/09/2020-28/09/2020 About us The number of local chapters recognised by the OSM Foundation is increasing. For this reason from issue #533, weeklyOSM will have a new category ‘Local Chapter News’. Here every local chapter will have the opportunity to post articles using our guest mode. The local chapter can also …

15/09/2020-21/09/2020 Mapping Alex started a discussion on what to consider when mapping a street’s width and the different variants currently used. In the discussion, Tobias Zwick, from StreetComplete, referred to a helpful app for measuring with your phone and the help of augmented reality. After the approval of …