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 …

26/03/2019-01/04/2019 Mapping User yumean1119 announced that voting has started for the improved proposal (automatic translation) on the use of highway=cycleway in Japan. The vote ends 14 April. Silent Spike proposed leisure=inflatable_park for playgrounds with inflatable equipment and asks for comments on his …

19/03/2019-25/03/2019 EU Copy right directive The EU Copyright Directive threatens OpenStreetMap Mapping mapmeld made an interesting analysis of language clusters by using Unicode code points. They also detected outliers and odd forms of vandalism. The vote on the proposal “Fashion accessory shop” has begun and runs …

12/03/2019-18/03/2019 [Actual Category] Michael Reichert suggests turning off OSM services or adding banners to protest against the EU plan to implement the new, controversial, Copyright Directive. However, the question remains as to why the protest against EU politics is more important than existing or proposed …

05/03/2019-11/03/2019 Mapping Following the decision to cease rendering leisure=common in OSM’s main map style Carto, a replacement is being discussed on the HOT mailing list. Apparently the requirements for the replacement are not too difficult; as Andrew Buck wrote “I would accept anything the community comes up with …