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 …

03/10/2017-09/10/2017 About us For more than two years now, TheFive has been developing a content management system called OSMBC (OSM Blog Collector) to meet the special requirements of the editors of weeklyOSM. Without this FOS software, which has been continuously developed since then, it would impossible to publish …

26/09/2017-02/10/2017 Mapping A new task on MapRoulette. Help clean up non-existing schools from the GNIS US 2009 import. Florian Lainez announced proudly on the French mailing list, that in Accra, the main city of Ghana 320 minibus lines with stops are now available in OSM thanks to Jungle Bus. A week after he asked …

19/09/2017-25/09/2017 Mapping Pierre Béland tweets his analyses on OSM Contributors profiles vs Contributions (ie objects edited) based on the HDYC changesets classification. Ciarán Staunton wonders why the Bing Imagery in southern Africa has suddenly been re-aligned. A Microsoft employee makes it clear that the new …