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 …

15/08/2017-21/08/2017 SotM 2017, Aizuwakamatsu Japan [1] State of the Map 2017 took place in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan from August 18th-20th. A short summary by Jun Meguro; All talks are online; A lot of photos on Facebook and Flickr; Florian Lainez, Loïc Ortola and Adrien Pavie wrote a summary “sur la contribution …

08/08/2017-14/08/2017 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, its fun! ;-) Mapping Christoph Hormann blogged about social engineering …

01/08/2017-07/08/2017 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, its fun! ;-) Mapping Pascal Neis tweeted a graph showing “Average …