06/11/2018-12/11/2018 Mapping Gregory Marler made a Youtube tutorial showing how he is using his own 360 degree images from Mapillary for editing with JOSM. It looks as if the mapping done by Grab (the Uber of South-East Asia) does cause major problems. Quote from Russ McD “…what we are seeing is another major …

30/10/2018-05/11/2018 Mapping According to a tweet, Pascal Neis has updated his Unmapped Places map. It points to settlements away from large traffic routes. However, tagging errors can also be found in well mapped countries. Stefano Maffulli suggests emergency=fire_alarm_box on the tagging mailing list for a “device …

23/10/2018-29/10/2018 Mapping Jochen Topf introduced a new QA tool called Osmoscope. He wants to avoid the drawback of current QA tools, which is that the person who operates the tool decides which layers are shown. With Osmoscope running on a web server, a user can add QA layers by entering the configuration i.e. a …

16/10/2018-22/10/2018 Mapping Dabohamda announced in a tweet the creation of the first bus line in Conakry following a field survey. OpenStreetMap Guinea will complete the bus network in the coming days. (automatic translation) Satoshi Iida (User nyampire) announced last week on Twitter(1, 2) about fresh aerial imagery …

09/10/2018-15/10/2018 Mapping Satoshi IIda (User nyampire) announced on Twitter (1, 2) (automatic translation) (automatic translation) about a new aerial image source in Japan. OSM now has permission to use aerial imagery published as open data from Itoigawa city and Atsugi city. He has published this imagery as map …

02/10/2018-08/10/2018 Mapping The voting for the key assembly_point:purpose= has started. The key is is intended to be used with emergency=assembly_point where there is a need to specify the kind of hazard – fire, tsunami, earthquake, tornado. Warin61 noticed that quite a few public transport route relations are …

25/09/2018-01/10/2018 Mapping OpenStreetMap Guinea tweeted about the start of their mapping campaign to assist the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Jean-Marc Liotier noticed that schools in Senegal were converted from areas to nodes by multiple contributors, thereby losing information. He discovered, …

18/09/2018-24/09/2018 Mapping User 817817 explains in his blog why he’s mapping surveillance cameras, and he encourages others to map them too. 817817 says that mapping surveillance cameras contributes to both privacy and security and that it will trigger people to reconsider their own privacy. (automatic translation) …

11/09/2018-17/09/2018 Mapping While David Earl was surveying a new development in Cambridge for OpenStreetMap, he met a surveyor doing the same for the national mapping agency, the Ordnance Survey, we know which map was updated first. The use of type=watershed without an existing proposal or other guides led to a …

04/09/2018-10/09/2018 Mapping Osmose now allows potential errors to be exported as KML files. You can import these files into apps, such as Maps.me, to assist in checking on the ground. The Osmose QA tool now includes a layer with traffic signs from Mapillary where the equivalent information is missing from OSM. At the …