06/12/2016-12/12/2016 About us Dear reader, you might noticed that this issue was published very late. WeeklyOSM is normally published after being proofread twice. This issue had been proofread only once. If you are not satisfied with the English texts, grammar, wording, or anything else, please feel to join us and …

29/11/2016-05/12/2016 Mapping BushmanK tries to enhance the definition of the tags man_made=mast and man_made=tower. The voting for nesting_site has started on Dec 5th and will be open until the 19th. Markus Schnalke wants to know how to deal with worthwhile suggestions made on a proposal after voting has started. Marc …

22/11/2016-28/11/2016 About us We are in deep grief and we express great sorrow because of the loss of our beloved friend Thomas Bellmann also known as Malenki. Malenki was last week on a piligrimage in Spain, where he breathed his last breath, after an accidental fall off a cliff. Thomas was an avid contributor to …

08/11/2016-14/11/2016 About us The OSM Foundation needs € 70.000 to cover its core operational expenses. Last Friday, Mapbox announced that they would “match the next ‎€10,000 in contributions“ to achieve the target. With €18,028 left to achieve the target, consider donating to keep OSM running. Mapping Adrien Pavie …

01/11/2016-07/11/2016 Mapping The key lockers is seldom used in OSM. Thejesh GN asks, in the talk-in mailing list, whether the singular (locker) or the plural (lockers) should be used. The project “pedestrian crossings in Switzerland” (as we reported earlier) was created by OSMDeepOD. The publication on weeklyOSM shows …

25/10/2016-31/10/2016 About us The OpenStreetMap Foundation is seeking donations to finance the Foundation’s expenditures in 2017. The fundraising drive though, has only raised 42,000 euros of the target 70,000 euros after a few weeks. Mapping User Bharata from Mapbox writes about the usage of the offset database while …

18/10/2016-24/10/2016 Mapping Martijn updated the imagery for his MapRoulette task to map cemeteries in Texas. Martijn van Exel announced on the Talk-Ca mailing list, that colleagues in the Telenav mapping team are mapping turn restrictions in several Canadian cities using OpenStreetView and Mapillary as sources. …

11/10/2016-17/10/2016 About us Procuram-se editores! Se é leitor do weeklyOSM ajude a traduzi-lo para português recolhendo também notícias de Portugal e Brasil relativas ao OSM. Ajude a relançar o idioma neste semanário. Mapping Lorenzo Mastrogiacomi publishes a proposal for adding the racetrack tag for motor vehicles …

04/10/2016-10/10/2016 About us This year’s OSM donation drive is still running. weeklyOSM says thank you to: Peter Karich (Graphhopper) for 1000 Euro, Florian Schenk (500 Euro), Viktar Shcherb (OsmAnd team) for 300 Euro, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Markus Hallermann, Henri Geist and Julian Hollingbery each for 200 Euro and …

27/09/2016-03/10/2016 About us [1] OSM Foundation asks you to donate to help preserve OpenStreetMap’s continued independence as a project. Happy to announce that weeklyOSM now appears in Italian language as well thanks to sabas88 and Martin Koppenhöfer. Both are still looking for collaborators. SotM 2016 Geofabrik has …