18/08/2020-24/08/2020 Mapping Following on from erroneous tagging on a building in Melbourne (Australia) that then appeared in Microsoft Flight Simulator, here is another example from Portugal: The Statue of Christ the King in Almada, Portugal, was mapped as a modern residential building with many floors! ‘It’s the old …

11/08/2020-17/08/2020 Mapping A green alley proposal from 2013 is revived: alley=official_green_alley. A green alley is a service alley that residents embellish with vegetation, such as trees, vines and flowers. Stefan Tauner wonders > whether seasonal businesses should be mapped with two nodes. This concerns, for …

04/08/2020-10/08/2020 Mapping Matthew Woehlke has written a proposal on parking_space=*. Mike Thompson asked how to solve ‘apparent conflicting/redundant access tags’. Frederik Ramm expressed his amazement at the comment ‘any opposition vote without reason or suggestion will not be counted in the voting process’ made …

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 …