26/02/2019-04/03/2019 About us We have good news! weeklyOSM will have a version in Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br), aimed mainly at the Brazilian community. Collaborators are welcome! Please contact us if you want to help. Mapping Yuu Hayashi postponed the start of voting for the proposal of Japan Tagging/Road Type. As …

19/02/2019-25/02/2019 About us Are you reading something that belongs in weeklyOSM? Copy the link and write your message! Simply login into https://osmbc.openstreetmap.de/login using your OSM user account, use the guest account to submit the link and then write your contribution. This way you can help to make WeeklyOSM …

12/02/2019-18/02/2019 [Actual Category] On March 23, 2019, an Action Day called Save Your Internet against the EU Copyright Directive is planned with demonstrations in many cities. On Saturday, February 16, the first, spontaneously organised demonstration, with about 1000 participants, took place in Cologne, as Heise …

05/02/2019-11/02/2019 Mapping MSF (Doctors Without Borders) invites everyone to a Missing Maps Mapathon in Berlin on 26 February 2019 from 19:00 to 21:45. Since high-quality maps are essential to help people in crisis areas, experienced mappers are invited to participate, and to train and monitor newbies. In his user …

29/01/2019-04/02/2019 Mapping After his first proposal to add stores which sell top-ups for prepaid services such as phones or public transport failed, Danysan has reworked the proposal and is giving it another try. An isthmus is a narrow strip of land, bordered by water on both sides and connecting two larger land …

22/01/2019-28/01/2019 Mapping The proposal for crossing:island=, which is intended to indicate the existence of a pedestrian island at a road crossing, has been approved. The new attribute embedded_rails=, which can be used if there is a railway on a highway and this space is shared with vehicles, has also been …

15/01/2019-21/01/2019 Breaking News The OSMF Membership Working Group investigated the unusual signups in advance of the recent OSMF board elections. The MWG concluded that the signup of 100 employees of the Indian subsidiary of GlobalLogic, an outsourcing firm providing OSM/mapping services to clients like Apple and …

08/01/2019-14/01/2019 Mapping The tagging mailing list has been very busy recently. The voting for four proposals has been started. The key crossing:island=* is intended to indicate the existence of a pedestrian island at a road crossing. The keys prepaid_top_up=, prepaid_top_up:brand= and prepaid_top_up:network=* …

01/01/2019-07/01/2019 Mapping “A fool with a tool…” (… is still a fool) is probably not the right subject line if you want to address an issue on an international mailing list, even if you encounter an OSM element where name spacing is taken to an extreme level: service:vehicle:Transmission_Repair=yes, …

25/12/2018-31/12/2018 Mapping Happy New Year from OpenStreetMap! OpenStreetMap Ireland suggested a mapping task for the holiday period: adding all the buildings for a single townland. A few mappers (including Ciaran, Earl and Tshedy), had a go, but this may be another multi-year project for Irish mappers as there are …