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 …

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 …