10/03/2020-16/03/2020 Mapping Joseph Eisenberg noticed that the usage of man_made=goods_conveyor for industrial conveyor belts and systems was proposed but never approved, although the tag has been used over 4,000 times to date. Therefore he suggests adding it to the Wiki pages for ‘Key:man_made’ and ‘Map Features’. …

03/03/2020-09/03/2020 Mapping Stereo and contrapunctus have proposed a simplified approach to mapping public transport routes. This is based on their extensive experience in Luxembourg and Delhi respectively. Feedback was requested on the tagging mailing list. Baloo Uriza has completed a large project of cleaning up …

25/02/2020-02/03/2020 Mapping Markus Peloso created a proposal for locations used to share surplus food with others, and asks the readers of the Tagging mailing list for their opinions. The proposed tag is analogous to give_box and public_bookcase, but for food. Martin Koppenhoefer has revived the 2014 proposal, …

18/02/2020-24/02/2020 About us We would like to thank everyone who sent a message on the occasion of issue 500 of weeklyOSM via blog post, e-mail, comment on the issue, Twitter or even personally. Please help to inform the community about YOUR OSM-activity by using our guest mode. Mapping Joseph Eisenberg is asking for …

11/02/2020-17/02/2020 About us The 500th issue of the weekly newsletter has arrived! It all started with issue 1 of the weekly note on 23 July 2010 having 14 news articles. At this milestone, in our 10th year, the current editorial staff would like to thank all the readers who have supported us over the years. We thank …

04/02/2020-10/02/2020 Mapping Jinal Foflia shared a MapRoulette task to add street names in the regions around Jakarta, as well as a task to add missing sidewalks in Singapore to make the Singapore map more pedestrian-friendly. Mateusz Konieczny suggested using amenity=faculty as he thinks that university faculties …

28/01/2020-03/02/2020 Mapping The team behing the Osmose quality assurance tool announced that an in-line help panel with a description of potential errors is now available. The additions also feature a guide on how to fix them, and other useful information. Marc summarised the current tagging situation of camping …

21/01/2020-27/01/2020 Mapping The European Water Project, a collaboration between Wikimedia Suisse and OpenStreetMap, collects photos of drinking water wells or springs and makes these photos available on Wikimedia Commons and in OpenStreetMap. A wiki page describes how to do it in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, …

14/01/2020-20/01/2020 Mapping Andy Mabbett noticed that JOSM flags building=disused were outdated but no alternative tags can be found in the OSM wiki. Kevin Kenny responded that JOSM uses the life cycle prefixes disused:building=* and abandoned:building=* instead. The European Water Project is still actively …

07/01/2020-13/01/2020 Mapping Andrew Wiseman, from Apple, announced a new MapRoulette challenge for issues with roads and routing in Haiti, which have been identified by the Atlas data analysis tool. Tesla’s plan to build Gigafactory 4 in Germany (Grünheide, Brandenburg), has generated strong interest in the OSM …