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 …

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 …