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 …

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, …