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 …

20/02/2018-26/02/2018 Mapping Rory McCann asks on the talk mailing list how to connect rivers that flow through lakes, thus forming a network suitable for routing calculations. Extending the riverways into the lake works fine, but the extra segment in the lake should be excluded for determining the length of the actual …

13/02/2018-19/02/2018 Mapping Joost Schouppe would like to revive the proposal for hollow ways, but some English native speakers have never heard this term and prefer sunken lane. User tyr_asd posts about their Latest changes tool: the new version displays deleted features as light outlines on the map. This …

06/02/2018-12/02/2018 Mapping Contributor Rub21 posts about their new JOSM plugin for visualising changesets. The OSM Argentina community discusses errors made in Argentine territory by new mappers of a project from the National University of Asuncion (Paraguay). (automatic translation) Christopher Beddow from …