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 …

19/05/2020-25/05/2020 Mapping Voting for François Lacombe’s line_management=* proposal has started. The key is meant to be used in conjunction with power=line, power=minor_line and power=cable for describing particular topologies at their supports or other important points. Also, Jan Michel’s proposal for the new …

12/05/2020-18/05/2020 Mapping Mapillary images have been used by the Ukrainian community to map over a thousand speed bumps in Kiev. muramoto tweeted screenshots of two tools. Street-level POI Viewer displays POIs from OSM and Wikipedia over Mapillary images. He also pointed to another tool that allows the calculation …

05/05/2020-11/05/2020 Mapping PG published (automatic translation) a list of techniques in his diary and tips for using JOSM that he has learned recently. Some things in the list may be new to even seasoned users of JOSM. Jan Michel proposed improving vehicle tagging by including electric_bicycle= and speed_pedelec= …

28/04/2020-04/05/2020 Mapping muramoto tweeted about a list of Mapillary related tools he has made available. Richard Fairhurst points to a curious reason for sticking with volunteer on-the-ground mapping. A local mapper added a highway=track to OSM, which Richard assumes to be correct. An Amazon Logistic mapper …

21/04/2020-27/04/2020 Mapping alexkemp blogged about his work in OSM on complex multi-site schools, specifically on the Heath Mount School in Hertford, England. In his blog he details the steps he made with JOSM to deal with the complex mapping task. CupIvan, an OSM user from Russia, has created a validator that shows …

14/04/2020-20/04/2020 Actual Category The French service “Ça reste ouvert” has now also been launched in Finland, Ollaan auki was introduced on 17 April and it is supported by Gispo (automatic translation) and the Finnish OSM-community. (Info: OSM-user houtari) The app “Ca reste ouvert” now exists (automatic …

07/04/2020-13/04/2020 Mapping Gareth L announced the mapping of general practice doctors (GP) and other health sites as the UK’s project for Q2 2020, for which a OSM wiki page has been created. Chris Beddow, of Mapillary, shared a webinar on YouTube on how to add hospital data to the map to help curb the spread of …