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 …

01/05/2018-07/05/2018 Mapping The proposal for a new key spacing=* receives both positive and negative comments on the tagging mailing list. In Italy getting children to school in accompanied groups (‘walking buses’) is organised to the point there schedules are posted on poles along the route. On the Tagging mailing …

24/04/2018-30/04/2018 Mapping Following a discussion on the forum (automatic translation) Leonhard Lenz suggests (automatic translation) unifying the tagging of (nature) reserves in Germany. Telenav’s OSM team released a portal for viewing a range of 22 different metrics on OSM. The ones available now focus on …

17/04/2018-23/04/2018 Mapping Colin Blackburn tweets applauds the mapper who mapped,in great detail, the “Great Polish Map of Scotland”, a 200 m² model of Scotland. In the near future the Vespucci editor will feature convenient layer management. The blocking of Telegram by Russian authorities affected Amazon Cloud …