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 …

27/12/2016-02/01/2017 About us We wish all our readers a peaceful and a happy new year 2017. The Geman team produced a review of the year’s events with the most important links in our category maps. Unfortunately, the team has had no time to translate it into other languages. But the translations links should be fine …

20/12/2016-26/12/2016 Mapping The very old proposal to introduce a validation date for keys is again being discussed. Rory McCann reports on Townlands.ie, which can now display the historical names. The validity date for keys described above is used for this. Philip Hunt presents his work on the automatic recognition …

13/12/2016-19/12/2016 About us FYI: - Why the German team were thinking about reducing their contribution to weeklyOSM. Read here why the German team continues. (automatic translation) Mapping TagaSanPedroAko asks for comments on his power pole extension proposal which will increase the detail of tagging of power poles …

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 …