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 …

18/12/2018-24/12/2018 Mapping OSM South Africa are raising funds on GoFundMe to purchase historical topographic maps of Namibia. If funding is successful, the maps will be tiled for use in OSM editors, just like the topo maps of South Africa itself which are already available. Peter Elderson wants to revive the …

11/12/2018-17/12/2018 Mapping OSMyBiz (OpenStreetMap My Business), a website where business owners can add, correct, or update their business details in OSM as easily as possible, has been launched by the Geometa Lab of the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland. As announced on the tagging mailing …

04/12/2018-10/12/2018 Mapping Jean-Louis Zimmerman tweets about the need to consider new approaches to editing OpenStreetMap data, both to help non-mappers and to handle increased data density. He is particularly inspired by Deriviste, a proof-of-concept created by Richard Fairhurst. OSM-DRC continues its mapping in …

27/11/2018-03/12/2018 About us The Swahili version launched with great enthusiasm shortly after the SotM 2018 in Milan, unfortunately, had to be discontinued. Laura Mugeha will continue to inform the Swahili speaking community on her diary. Mapping PoliMappers, the YouthMappers’ chapter at Politecnico di Milano …

20/11/2018-26/11/2018 Mapping John Whelan shares his view about the project Building Canada 2020 and how to proceed with mapping buildings. The release of government data and the expectation that Microsoft will release building footprints as they did for the US makes him conclude that the addition of metadata might be …

13/11/2018-19/11/2018 Mapping Dave Swarthout wrote on the tagging mailing list that he just learnt about the power of multipolygon relations. He was applying his new knowledge by mapping bays in Alaska. However, he discovered the disadvantages of mapping very large structures, in his case the Cook Inlet that stretches …