16/07/2019-22/07/2019 Mapping Marc Zoutendijk thinks landuse=village_green is being misused as a tag for all grass covered areas in villages. His post to the mailing list provides the detailed background to his view. The mapping, by Amazon Logistics relying on their own GPS data, of service roads to buildings provoked …

09/07/2019-15/07/2019 Mapping François Lacombe announced the start of the voting for line_attachment=* proposal, which is supposed to add information how lines such as power or telecom lines are attached to their supports. Contributions of poor quality by Amazon Logistics (up to adding roads in former villages in a …

02/07/2019-08/07/2019 About us ERRATUM: In weeklyOSM #467 we wrote “The Japan Times reported that Benin is now proud to have a modern digital map to replace the last map from 1957”. Actually the link to OSM was wrong, as it directed to a city in Nigeria and not to Benin the country. Besides this, the geodata produced …

25/06/2019-01/07/2019 Mapping A new iD feature, which adds Wikidata and Wikipedia tags for brands of retail chains, caused issues when restaurants with very similar names were tagged mistakenly, according to a GitHub bug report. One proposed solution is to use the tag not:brand:wikidata= to avoid the tag being added …

18/06/2019-24/06/2019 Mapping In the Austrian province of Tyrol, there is often an increase in traffic on long weekends during the summer holiday period. This often results in long-distance traffic, coming to or from Italy and Germany, clogging up local roads when seeking a diversion from main routes. Politicians have …

11/06/2019-17/06/2019 Mapping Mateusz Konieczny plans to remove duplicates tags such as sustenance=fast_food together with amenity=fast_food and atm=yes with amenity=atm. Like all mechanical edit plans, this one has caused some discussion on the tagging mailing list. Joseph Eisenberg revived his idea to tag individual …

04/06/2019-10/06/2019 Mapping Jean-Louis Zimmerman tweets a few unusual curiosities which may challenge OSM mapping and tagging. (automatic translation) Joseph Eisenberg has posted his proposal for the tag waterway=tidal channel to the tagging mailing list for discussion. It is based on a discussion that took place in …

28/05/2019-03/06/2019 Mapping The latest version of “How Did You Contribute” by Pascal Neis now uses osmose to display information about the quality of the user’s edits. Facebook’s Maps Team announced the RapiD Editor based on iD, which enables mappers to convert data they extracted using machine learning into OSM …

21/05/2019-27/05/2019 Mapping Christopher Beddow, from Mapillary, has written a blog post about two different ways contributors can use Mapillary data to edit OpenStreetMap. Joseph Eisenberg drafted a proposal for golf=cartpath, which is intended for paths within golf courses that are designated for golf carts. Leif …

14/05/2019-20/05/2019 Mapping The police=* proposal was accepted with 30 votes. Community For several weeks now the desirable contributions in the OSM user blogs have sunk under a deluge of spam. There are people who are calling for countermeasures, such as forced moderation for all new user accounts. alexkemp, who has …