12/12/2017-18/12/2017 Mapping Imagico, one of the maintainers of the carto rendering style of the default map on OSM’s website, warns that rendering decisions by the “OSM Carto” map style may push mappers to create giant multipolygon relations in order to see collections of small elements, covering a larger area …

05/12/2017-11/12/2017 Mapping Volker Schmidt starts a discussion on tagging sidewalks which present difficulties for people in wheelchairs. Marco Boeringa noticed that the value college is missing on the wiki page for,building=* and is of the opinion that the tag building=school is not suitable for this purpose. …

28/11/2017-04/12/2017 Mapping Potentiel 3.0, a Haitian digital association, have created a 3-D model of the Zerpelin basin. Daniel Koć has written a blog article on the planned changes and ideas for the rendering of (natural) protected areas. Ilya Zverev writes to the talk mailing list introducing OSM streak: a website …

21/11/2017-27/11/2017 Mapping Martijn van Exel is working on a new version of MapRoulette and asks users to name the feature they miss the most. Selfish Seahorse asks on the mailing list how to tag correctly a street with a barrier but double-sided passage for pedestrians and cyclists. The Telenav Mapping Team is …

14/11/2017-20/11/2017 Mapping Erkin writes in the tagging mailing list about voting related to proposed tag - Education Reform Alternative. There is a proposal on Differentiation for routes of public transport which adds a standardized way to differentiate between route scopes (local, regional, national and …

07/11/2017-13/11/2017 Mapping Yuri Astrakhan re-started the discussion on the Talk mailing list about the tool to do mechanical edits (it is now called Sophox). Yuri is perceived by many as unreasonable as before and tries to ignore all the unwritten rules in OSM. Enrico asks on the Tagging mailing list how to tag a …

31/10/2017-06/11/2017 About us SunCobalt has written a parser in Python for the wiki calendar based on the new hCalendar format. The parser has already been successfully integrated into OSMBC so that the OpenStreetMap calendar will remain a part of WeeklyOSM even after 2017-12-31. Big thanks to Thomas on behalf of our …

24/10/2017-30/10/2017 Mapping [1] Geofabrik announced a revision of the public transport views in OpenStreetMap Inspector on their blog. Now, they show validator issues for Public Transport v2 route relations. Simon Poole suggests (automatic translation) the removal of note=* tags from carsharing provider “Mobility”’s …

17/10/2017-23/10/2017 About us Christoph aka TheFive has announced that he will no longer support the automated conversion of the calendar (OSMCAL) from the OSM Wiki. The event which triggered TheFive’s announcement was the sudden deletion of a comma. Read more about this on Github and the user discussion page …

10/10/2017-16/10/2017 Mapping Michael Reichert aka Nakaner has written a proposal for an “expiration date” of the “Validity of Public Transport Route Relations”. Or at least a date by which the route relation should be looked at again, because changes in the schedules might affect the itineraries or the stops served We …