28/08/2018-03/09/2018 Mapping The city of Stuttgart allows OSM to use its aerial imagery, which has a ground resolution of 20 cm. This step was discussed with the local OSM community during the last local OSM meetup where the city representatives also asked what data could help OSM further. On the tagging mailing list …

21/08/2018-27/08/2018 Mapping Frederik Ramm has published a code snippet on the dev mailing list, which he used to search for the way with the most relation memberships. The most curious and abstruse discoveries are mentioned in the follow-up messages. The question “How to tag an address that has no housenumber?” has …

14/08/2018-20/08/2018 Mapping The JOSM PT_Assistant plugin for public transport mapping gained several new features : A wizard to help set up the JOSM environment for mapping public transport and other route relations The double split map mode Various bug fixes and improvements Routing Helper, which can be invoked from …

07/08/2018-13/08/2018 About us Wikimedia Germany wrote (automatic translation) an article about OSM and weeklyOSM in particular. It covers the history of both, OSM and our Weekly News, and some background information on what it means to operate a blog with 12,000 readers. As reported, weeklyOSM is now translated to …

31/07/2018-06/08/2018 SotM 2018 Writing a report on SotM-18 in Milan was one of the requirements for scholarship winners. To date these have been filed by: arnalielsewhere from the Philippines Austin Zhu from China Kateregga1 from Uganda Reports on the Milan State of the Map conference held at the end of July are …

24/07/2018-30/07/2018 About us weeklyOSM is now published in Korean. Korean is spoken by about 80 million people, mainly in Korea but it is also an official language in two Chinese regions. OSM-related news can now be read in Japanese, Czech, English, Spanish, French, German and Korean. According to a Tweet from …

17/07/2018-23/07/2018 Mapping Ilya Zverev is proposing a lighter tagging scheme for public transport. In an email to the tagging mailing list, he notes a growing discomfort with the current scheme. The concepts behind these suggestions will be covered in his talk What’s up with the public transport at SotM in Milan. …

10/07/2018-16/07/2018 Mapping Warin, who noticed a new mapper trying to map a golf course, complained to the tagging mailing list about the current wiki page describing how to map a golf course. That triggered a lengthy discussion on the mailing list, where we discovered that it makes sense to consider even the grass …

03/07/2018-09/07/2018 Mapping Jeremiah Rose asks, on the tagging mailing list. if it is feasible to provide links to accessible restaurant menus. He suggests two possibilities for the tag syntax: url:menu=* or url:accessible_menu=*. OpenStreetMap announced,via an official blog post, that Bing Streetside imagery is …

26/06/2018-02/07/2018 Mapping With casinos as an example, Carlos Cámara started a discussion on the mailing list about the responsibility of OSM to render content on the map, that might be difficult from an ethical or social point of view. Mateusz Konieczny proposes a mechanical edit to change FIXME=* to fixme=*. Both …