12/11/2019-18/11/2019 Mapping SelfishSeahorse’s proposal to tag lanes on roads which are explicitly marked for pedestrians, in open for voting. Clifford Snow opened voting for his proposal footway=access_aisle, intended to tag marked footways to parking lots in parking areas. SelfishSeahorse’s proposal to use …

05/11/2019-11/11/2019 Mapping Steve Coast suggests the creation of a SIG (Special Interest Group) on Addressing in OSM. He points to a prototype address QA tool. In the replies various people point out that OSM already has a rich range of tools to assist with address mapping. Jan Michel suggests we should consider …

29/10/2019-04/11/2019 Mapping SelfishSeahorse proposes the tagging of lanes on roads which are explicitly marked for pedestrians. StreetCred is a company founded by Randy Meech after MapZen folded. They now provide their POI data with an MVT-Tileserver, which can be used in iD as an extra custom layer. Hanikatu asked …

22/10/2019-28/10/2019 Mapping Jean-Louis Zimmerman poses an ontological challenge for OSM tagging. How do you describe a tourism direction sign (fingerpost) with dynamic digital panels which rotate? The tag highway=mini_roundabout has been used nearly 52,000 times and was documented 11 years ago. Florian Lohoff came …

15/10/2019-21/10/2019 Mapping On regio-osm.de there is now a house number evaluator for Kosovo. Florian Lohoff wrote in his blog about the issues arising when access=private is used on service roads. Usually this choice means no routers will use these highways; more nuanced access options should be chosen instead. Adam …

08/10/2019-14/10/2019 Mapping The MapRoulette team tweeted about improvements to documentation. They are also seeking feedback and volunteers to help. Frederik Ramm asked for opinions on various areas mapped as parks (including “micro parks”). The issue arose as part of a dispute in the US which has been referred to …

01/10/2019-07/10/2019 Mapping Richard Fairhust points out, on the talk mailing list, that most EuroVelo routes are very out-of-date. Toy libraries have been mapped in a very limited way on OSM for several years. Now a proposal to formalise the usage has been made. In the discussion on the tagging list a plea is made to …

24/09/2019-30/09/2019 About us Erratum: AndiTabinas was not a scholar at SotM 2019 (as we reported in issue #479 last week). An extensive post/wiki page about this year’s scholarships will probably get published in the upcoming weeks and we will link to a more detailed update on scholars. We are always looking for …

17/09/2019-23/09/2019 SotM 2019 The latest international State of the Map conference came to a close in Heidelberg, a city in Southwest Germany. A tweet shares a group picture of around 600 participants who came from all over the world. Some weeklyOSM editors met (automatic translation) at SotM 2019, in Heidelberg, …

10/09/2019-16/09/2019 Mapping Martijn Van Exel invited us, on Twitter, to view the MapRoulette presentation he gave at at SotM US. Dan Stowell tweeted that OSM-UK’s quarterly project has reached 100,000 solar panels. In his blog he summarises where both rooftop solar panels and larger solar farms have been mapped in …