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14/01/2020-20/01/2020 Mapping Andy Mabbett noticed that JOSM flags building=disused were outdated but no alternative tags can be found in the OSM wiki.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

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 …