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 …

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 …