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01/10/2019-07/10/2019 Mapping Richard Fairhust points out, on the talk mailing list, that most EuroVelo routes are very out-of-date.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 …

03/09/2019-09/09/2019 About us In our last issue we reported on the vacancies on the OSMF Board of Directors. A late update is that four posts will be available for election, not three as we reported. Heather Leson is retiring from the board before the end of her term. Mapping OpenStreetMap Guinea announces in a tweet …

27/08/2019-02/09/2019 Mapping Stolpersteine (literally “stumbling blocks”) are small brass-plated cubes laid, around Europe, in front of the last-known residences or workplaces of those who were driven out or murdered by the Nazis. Reclus asked (automatic translation) if the 8700 Stolpersteine with a Wikidata entry are …

20/08/2019-26/08/2019 Mapping Vespucci now allows the creation of custom presets on-the-fly. Simon Poole tweets a short demonstration showing how it can be done. Thejesh GN put out a call for volunteers to map CCTV cameras in West and South Bangalore. Joseph Eisenberg is asking for comments on the campsite properties …