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 …

19/06/2018-25/06/2018 Mapping Jyri-Petteri Paloposki proposes aeroway=highway_strip for landing strips that are normally used as a highway, but can be closed either for a military exercise or emergency aeroplane landing. Proposal on wiki. Have you always wanted a better way to add a racetrack? This proposal might be …

12/06/2018-18/06/2018 Mapping On the tagging mailing list there was a discussion on whether amenity=shelter implies a building=yes tag. Judging from the answers, the topic is more complex than expected. The OSM US Camera lending program is so popular that the goal needed to keep the camera had to be increased to 1 …

05/06/2018-11/06/2018 Mapping Bryan Housel, developer of iD, explained on the tagging mailing list why he will not support the transit:lanes tag on ways. It may be possible to support the mapping variant based on relations instead. A post about the tagging of grass provoked a huge discussion on the tagging mailing …

29/05/2018-04/06/2018 Mapping Frederik Ramm tells the talk mailing list about a large redaction of names and administrative boundaries in North Korea following a request by the copyright owner, 38north. He also warns not to use Wikipedia or Wikidata as a source for restoring these names, as we don’t know whether their …

22/05/2018-28/05/2018 About us Changes to the GDPR - Due to the changed legal situation, we have changed our data protection declaration (privacy policy). Important for those who receive our blog by email: If would like us to keep sending you the weeklyOSM newsletter, you don’t need to do anything. By taking no action, …

15/05/2018-21/05/2018 Mapping User warin asks for clarification about the water body tags seasonal, ephemeral and intermittent. The answers show how difficult it is to map irregular water flows in various climates, and to agree on unambiguous tags worldwide. User DeBigC shares his experiences with Mapillary in Ireland, …

08/05/2018-14/05/2018 About us ERRATUM: In the last issue of weeklyOSM we used an image from this video and stated that it was Newcastle, but it wasn’t. The picture showed the city of Liverpool. It was an oversight from one of our editors who is a fan of Newcastle United. ;-) Mapping OSM contributor Adam Schneider has …