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 …

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 …