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 …

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. …