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 …

12/09/2017-18/09/2017 Mapping Contributor Cascafico has their own instance of OSM Analytic Tracker for Northeast Italy running on an Orange Pi minicomputer. This is a changeset observer with its own graphical visualisation of the changesets (example). Tom Pfeifer asks on the Tagging mailing list if the contact:= tags …

05/09/2017-11/09/2017 About us We are always looking for people to help us improve our newsletter so it can get out faster, have more depth and coverage, and generally improve it for our readers, like you. Please join our team by contacting us now, it’s fun! ;-) Mapping Joost asks in the tagging mailing list about an …

29/08/2017-04/09/2017 About us We are always looking for people to help us improve our newsletter so it can get out faster, have more depth and coverage, and generally improve it for our readers, like you. Please join our team by contacting us now, it’s fun! ;-) Mapping [1] In the tagging view of the OpenStreetMap …

22/08/2017-28/08/2017 About us We are always looking for people to help us improve our newsletter so it can get out faster, have more depth and coverage, and generally improve it for our readers, like you. Please join our team by contacting us now, it’s fun! ;-) Mapping Pierre Béland noted on Twitter that winter roads …