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 …

10/04/2018-16/04/2018 Mapping ENT8R has developed a website called Notes Review. It enables you to perform a full text search of OSM Notes and view them quickly. Following up his earlier message about mapping underrepresented features (reported earlier) Rory McCann has launched a survey via the Diversity mailing list …

03/04/2018-09/04/2018 About us Last week we reported about the revert of invented names for runways. Contrary to our report, the revert itself and the noname=yes was not performed by Frederik Ramm. Mapping John Willis looks for the most appropriate tagging for flower fields specifically cultivated as a tourist …

27/03/2018-02/04/2018 [Actual Category] People reading this announcement of collaboration between Niantic and OSM on April 1st, might have been tempted to believe it. Alas, maybe next year. :-) No new legendary monsters for you. Mapping Ilya Zverev reminds us of his RFC on the tagging list. It concerns dropping …

20/03/2018-26/03/2018 Mapping Stéphane Péneau wishes to crowdfund the conception and production of a GNSS receiver that would be particularly suited for OSM contributions. The ongoing discussion should help to refine the specifications. In his diary, Martijn van Exel details the beta of Maproulette 3.0. Ilya Zverev …

13/03/2018-19/03/2018 Mapping Russell Deffner starts a second RFC for the proposed shop=cannabis tag. The voting phase on the proposal about aviation obstacle lights is currently open. This proposal involves the precise tagging of lights on tall obstacles (towers, buildings), that work as collision avoidance for …

06/03/2018-12/03/2018 About us The Czech weeklyOSM team decided to move (automatic translation) all content out of the OSM wiki, due to continued editing conflicts. Mapping At FOSS4GUK, the British bird protection society, RSPB, presented their work on using drones to monitor bird reserves (abstract). Some of the …

27/02/2018-05/03/2018 About us We invite anyone with an OSM account to propose topics for weeklyOSM and/or to write a summary for them. The regular members from the weeklyOSM team will translate them to the other languages. Mapping François Lacombe invites mappers to vote on his improved proposal about hydropower water …