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 …

07/05/2019-13/05/2019 Mapping Osmose now uses the MapCSS validation rules of the OpenRailwayMap project to validate railway infrastructure. Dr Erin Ryan found a number of gaps and errors in OpenStreetMap data around Charlottesville, Virginia when trying to geocode arrest data. Various types of errors were noted: …

30/04/2019-06/05/2019 Mapping The voting for the proposal camp_site=camp_pitch was started, exactly 4 years after it was drafted by user n76. The proposal allows mappers to mark locations of individual sites for tents or caravans within a camp site. User amilopowers suggests surface=whispering_asphalt or …

23/04/2019-29/04/2019 Mapping Winner of the 2018 Greatness in Mapping Award, Tshedy (Mats’eliso Thobei), organised a 24 hr mapathon of Lesotho on Friday 26th April, to bring the map of the next level. On Twitter she thanks all participants for the support and for the encouraging messages. Colin Blackburn reports on his …

16/04/2019-22/04/2019 Mapping Andy Mabbett looked at some high-use wikidata tags and (while also noticing some accidental mistagging) raised the question whether each branch of a company should be tagged with the wikidata= code of the parent or if -with the exception of the headquarters- brand:wikidata= or …

09/04/2019-15/04/2019 Mapping Joseph Eisenberg restarted the proposal process for camp_site=camp_pitch.The tag has already been used over 6800 times to add individual tent or caravan spots within a tourism=camp_site area. Joseph Eisenberg also proposed golf=cartpath for golf cart paths, rather than highway=path or …

02/04/2019-08/04/2019 Mapping In a series of tweets, Tyler Busby updates progress on using machine learning to identify rooftop solar panels in Austin, Texas. The data are used to maintain a MapRoulette challenge for adding the data to OSM. Nuno Caldeira announced with a tweet the work done by OSM’s Portuguese Telegram …