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 …

25/07/2017-31/07/2017 About us We are always looking for people to help us improve our newsletter in anyway they can. Please join our team ;-) Mapping Pascal Neis tweets about a large number of new buildings around Surabaya, Indonesia, without any kind of highways or paths leading to them. On the discussion, other …

18/07/2017-24/07/2017 Mapping Martijn van Exel writes on the Telenav blog a little bit about MapRoulette. He feels that the page with the most popular and newest challenges is not particularly easy to use. He asks for input to improve the way to find challenges of interest for contributors. Pander proposed some …

11/07/2017-17/07/2017 Mapping Nicolas Toublanc has a nice culinary question on how to map “Oyster farmers: growers, sellers, oyster bar and seafood” and a quick answer by Vincent Bergeot. Svavar Kjarrval wrote about several issues in the development of a router for pedestrians. He seeks solutions, including one to …

04/07/2017-10/07/2017 Mapping Bing updated (automatic translation) its imagery for large parts of Germany on the 11 & 12th of July. It is not known (yet) if this only affects Germany. The new imagery is at a lower resolution and its offset should be checked before using it by comparing it with other permitted imagery …

27/06/2017-03/07/2017 Mapping Mapping public bus transport seems to be the theme of community projects this summer. The French community have announced their project of the month (similar to the UK’s Quarterly Project and Germany’s Wochenaufgaben) for July 2017: Bus Stops. The results are published on the OSM wiki. At …

20/06/2017-26/06/2017 About us In weeklyOSM #361 we said that the proposal “Language information for name” was approved. That was wrong. As chris66 pointed out in the German forum: “A rule of thumb for ’enough support’ is 8 unanimous approval votes or at least 10 votes with more than 74 % approval, but other factors …

13/06/2017-19/06/2017 Mapping User Chetan_Gowda writes a diary about Microsoft’s release of 9.8 million building footprint data of 102 cities, covering 44 US states, to the OpenStreetMap community. He finds the general quality of data being good and encourages the local communities to evaluate the quality for import. …