07/03/2017-13/03/2017 Mapping User BushmanK writes about the quality of foreign names submitted under the name:<language_code>=* tag. An in-depth analysis is presented and suggestions on how to mitigate the issue. The Costa Rican community organises a tour (Feb & March event) to map national parks and volcanoes. This …

28/02/2017-06/03/2017 About us Dale Kunce accuses us of selective news coverage about HOT and points out the Validation Fridays. As barely 50% of the added data is validated till date, HOT hopes to have a quality gain and more feedback to the mappers, who are new mappers in many cases, through their initiative. March 8 …

21/02/2017-27/02/2017 About us The weeklyOSM team happily switched from Slack to the open source software Mattermost for internal communication. After tests conducted on framasoft’s framateam, a dedicated instance is now up and running thanks to FOSSGIS. Mapping Inspired by the German OSM-Blog Wochennotiz № 343, and a …

14/02/2017-20/02/2017 Mapping [1] Jochen Topf has started a Maproulette-Challenge to repair invalid areas in OSM and wrote in his blog about it. Let’s begin with self-overlapping closed ways with tag building=*. More Challenges As part of the “fixing broken multipolygons” discussion, Christoph Hormann suggests that …

07/02/2017-13/02/2017 Mapping The German forum points out (automatic translation) that glass recycling containers for bottles and jars should be tagged as recycling:glass_bottles=yes only, since the simpler key recycling:glass=* includes types of glass which are not accepted. [1] The Mennonite community of Colonia …

31/01/2017-06/02/2017 Mapping Transifex is a tool that helps to localize the content and reach thousands of people. If you want to contribute in making learnOSM in your language, start translating using Transifex. Jinal Foflia writes a post about getting started with OpenStreetMap, the importance of open data and why …

24/01/2017-30/01/2017 Mapping Since last few days, an increased activity has been detected by newcomers who are targeting Pokémon Go – unfortunately, the term of “vandalism” is applicable to many of those changes. Michael explains in his blog how to find Pokémon mappers and deal with them. Mic.com reported as well. …

17/01/2017-23/01/2017 Mapping Chethan Gowda from Mapbox writes about this awesome OSMIC JOSM style plugin which enables icons on all POIs when editing OpenStreetMap. A user is asking in the OSM Forum if there is an alternative to Bing for Malaysia as large areas are not covered yet. User Wille from Brasilia, made …

10/01/2017-16/01/2017 Mapping Kartitotp shows in her blogpost that the community together with the Mapbox team in Ayacucho took a great step forward to make the 150,000-inhabitant city in the Peruvian Andes, the best mapped city in Latin America. 20 bus routes from 22 public transport companies are now available in …

03/01/2017-09/01/2017 Mapping Regio OSM, a completeness checker for addresses now checks 1702 communities and many cities in Germany, one of the 11 countries where the tool can be used. An interesting combination of OpenData and OSM to improve the OSM data of schools in the UK. One drawback is that a direct link exists …