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 …

30/01/2018-05/02/2018 Mapping Dave Swarthout inquired on the Tagging mailing list whether scenic=yes could be an appropriate attribute for rivers in the United States with the status “National Wild and Scenic River”. Esri has made available a new background layer “Esri World Imagery (Clarity)”, which restores some …

23/01/2018-29/01/2018 Mapping Matej Lieskovský started a discussion on the mailing lists about how non-breaking spaces in name tags should be handled. Some languages, in this case, Czech, have rules about how a name can be displayed when split over two lines. The question is whether such rules should be enforced …

16/01/2018-22/01/2018 Mapping Open Data Institute Cardiff have announced a beta-test version Welsh-language map of Wales based on OpenStreetMap. It joins two other Celtic languages Breton and Irish which already have dedicated OSM-based maps. Carl Morris describes his approach to rendering. There are many Welsh names …

09/01/2018-15/01/2018 Mapping Curtis Melvin of 38 North states that he believes their work has been plagiarised by OSM editors in North Korea. Javier Sánchez Portero would like to have a tool to filter out objects that have been added at a certain time, with a certain tag, in a certain area. Overpass API was suggested …