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 …

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 …