28/03/2017-03/04/2017 The OSM April fools of 2017 The map editor is now also available in a variant for companies with optimized look and feel. Mapping In an answer to a beginner’s question on the German forum, user Galbinus shows very succinctly, how to create a new roundabout using iD. User Polyglot shows how to get …

21/03/2017-27/03/2017 Mapping At the FOSSGIS conference, data privacy on OSM was discussed. Frederik Ramm summarizes (automatic translation) some relevant aspects in the German forum. There was also a brief discussion on Talk-de mailing list. Personally identifiable data, such as mapping activities, is still visible to …

14/03/2017-20/03/2017 Mapping The Costa Rican community photomapped the trails in the natural forest reserve of Bosque del Niño in Poás volcano. The Mexican OSM community proposes the use of the hashtag #CallesVioletas to visualize and map the public spaces. This is done by using an inclusive methodology that empowers …

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. …