28/07/2020-03/08/2020 Mapping A blog post on The Strava Club reminded users that they can help improve the quality of suggested routes by contributing to OpenStreetMap. The members of OpenStreetMap Italia community have created su.openstreetmap.it, a website where you can add businesses in Italy to OSM without having …

21/07/2020-27/07/2020 Breaking news Dorothea reminds us to celebrate the 16th anniversary of OSM on 8 August. She provides some ideas on how that can be done! About us Happy Birthday OSM-Wochennotiz! It was ten years ago this week that the first issue (automatic translation) of the Wochennotiz was published. Mapping …

14/07/2020-20/07/2020 Mapping Michael Reichert would like to revert a series of surface and tracktype tags added without local knowledge by an armchair mapper. A discussion followed on the feasibility of mapping these tags only from imagery and whether reverting would be justified in all countries affected. Cycling …

07/07/2020-13/07/2020 Mapping Mateusz Konieczny wants to know whether there is a way of tagging to distinguish between company offices the public can walk into and those where if you tried, it would result in being escorted out by security. Michael Montani has requested comments on their proposal to introduce a …

30/06/2020-06/07/2020 About us To strengthen our teams, we are urgently looking for volunteer native speakers to help us with proofreading.Okay, I want in. What do I have to do? Just: visit https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/ - then we already have your OSM nickname and an email address for the invitation to our MatterMost …

23/06/2020-29/06/2020 About us To strengthen our teams, we are urgently looking for volunteer native speakers to help us with proofreading.Okay, I want in. What do I have to do? Just: visit https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/ - then we already have your OSM nickname and an email address for the invitation to our MatterMost …

16/06/2020-22/06/2020 About us Since issue #516 we have been publishing in the Chinese language, more precisely Taiwanese Mandarin and Traditional Chinese as it is spoken and written in Taiwan. We are very happy and hope that by reaching new readers in Asia we can increase the enthusiasm for OpenStreetMap. Mapping …

09/06/2020-15/06/2020 Breaking news Mapillary announced that they have been acquired by Facebook. We await the implications of this deal and, no doubt, will report in more detail over the coming weeks. About us Since issue #512, we have resumed publishing in Italian. Last week the Russian language version was revived. …

02/06/2020-08/06/2020 Mapping The question of whether objects that are not or no longer visible on the ground should be mapped once again arose on the Talk and Tagging mailing lists. Rafael Avila Coya shows three different possibilities of how ‘overlapping naturals’ can be mapped. Would you delete a place mapped as a …

26/05/2020-01/06/2020 Mapping Russ Garrett, of OpenInfraMap, tweeted an overview image of renewable power in Europe mapped on OSM. [1] Pascal Neis has implemented a function similar to Twitter Trends that shows trending countries, cities and topics on his statistics site osmstats.neis-one.org. Zkir shared (automatic …