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14/01/2020-20/01/2020 Mapping Andy Mabbett noticed that JOSM flags building=disused were outdated but no alternative tags can be found in the OSM wiki.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 …

31/12/2019-06/01/2020 About us We are currently looking for people to help with the French language edition of weeklyOSM. If you are willing to help then please contact us. Mapping Christine Karch, of Geofabrik, tweets about a new service developed by the company: regional instances of taginfo. The urls follow the same …

24/12/2019-30/12/2019 [Actual Category] The whole weeklyOSM team thanks you for your interest, wishes you a Happy New Year (we reported earlier) and joins the wishes of the new OSMF chairman of the board – happy mapping. Do it here! Mapping The Osmose team announced the implementation of updates to their QA database …

17/12/2019-23/12/2019 Mapping Jan Michel asked for comments on his proposed tagging of new types of electric mobility devices such as scooters, pedelecs or electrical bicycles as the usage is regulated in many countries. Francesco Ansanelli has updated the roundtrip page and created a (so far empty) closed loop …

10/12/2019-16/12/2019 [Actual Category] We would like to thank all our readers, across the nine different language versions of the newsletter, who show their appreciation of our work through their interest and feedback. This gives the editors confirmation that we are doing many things right, providing the OSM community …

03/12/2019-09/12/2019 Mapping Michael Behrens has made a request for comments on a proposal for specifying the function of different parts of a hiking trail. Examples include: approaches from public transport stops; and excursions to viewpoints or peaks near the main trail. A request for comments on a proposal to adopt …

26/11/2019-02/12/2019 About us Trying to identify @anonymaps? You can exclude the weeklyOSM proofreaders from your list of suspects. As they rightly pointed out, OpenRailWayMap development isn’t discussed in the rails_dev list. Rails is a web framework that powers, amongst others, the OpenStreetMap.org website. If …

19/11/2019-25/11/2019 Mapping kreuzschnabel suspects (automatic translation) that the OSM wiki for the key bridge=yes/no is recommending tagging for the renderer, as it suggests adding the bridge name as name= rather than the name of the road on the bridge. However, it appears this usage was documented in 2012 and …