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 …

31/03/2020-06/04/2020 Mapping [1] Pascal Neis noticed that daily activity in OSM has been declining, but isn’t sure as to whether it should be attributed to: COVID-19 and people having more important things to do; less outside activity; or fewer active paid mappers. In his two Tweets he provided charts of daily active …

24/03/2020-30/03/2020 Mapping Sören Reinecke plans to unify the tagging of playground equipment and has created a proposal for it. User GOwin writes about how the Philippines mapping community, especially in Luzon, are changing to weekly online map events called WeMap, a contraction of Wednesdays MapaTime. Joost …

17/03/2020-23/03/2020 Mapping Baloo Uriza recommended that Amazon switch from paid mapping to contributing GPX only, while discussing burnout. François Lacombe proposes an improvement of pump mapping with man_made=pump in conjunction with additional tags such as pump:output=, pump:type= or pump=powered. The proposal …