20/09/2016-26/09/2016 SotM 2016 During State of the Map in Brussels the 2016 funding drive was started, which shall finance the current cost of the OSMF. This is (not only) including the purchase and operation of the OSM servers. The funding goal is 70,000 Euro. The videos from State of the Map 2016 are available …

13/09/2016-19/09/2016 Mapping Jothirnadh explains in his user diary how one can revert changesets in JOSM that would normally trigger a timeout. Christoph Hormann analyzed data quality in the Canadian Arctic and compared it to Greenland in his blog post entitled “OpenStreetMap at its worst”. Michael Tsang suggests a …

06/09/2016-12/09/2016 About us Do you wish to join the diverse weeklyOSM team or start weeklyOSM in your language? Or are you just curious to know how weeklyOSM works? If so, we’d be delighted to see you at our workshop at SotM. If you look at this map of where weeklyosm is currently produced in, you can see that we …

30/08/2016-05/09/2016 About us We were asked after publishing issue 319 why MAPS.ME was marked as non-free software. MAPS.ME is not free software because it contains Code2000 font which is a shareware. We mark a software as free software if all its parts are free software as defined by Debian Free Software Guidelines. …

23/08/2016-29/08/2016 Mapping Sometimes the notes left by the Navmii users (supposedly to help OSM mappers improve the map) are not very helpful. All you OpenStreetMappers storing images in Mapillary? Guess what — HERE Maps is going to use them to update their maps too! A ’totally confused’ mapper starts a lengthy …

16/08/2016-22/08/2016 About us When reporting on OpenStreetView last week we made a mistake. Thank you Jochen for pointing it out. Mapping Voting on the proposed tag healthcare=midwife started on August 22nd and closes on September 5th. More on the ‘MAPS.ME’ - a new application version is rolled out by them which …

09/08/2016-15/08/2016 Mapping On talk-de, Nikhil Prabhakar from Mapbox outlines a proposal to map turn restrictions and exit & destination tags remotely. Some people reply to the thread; the rest of OSM reaches for the popcorn :) The plan is to start in Stuttgart (almost no Mapillary images), Wolfsburg and Berlin (the …

02/08/2016-08/08/2016 Mapping The University of Washington wants to import sidewalks into OSM. They therefore try to discuss a new tagging scheme presented in a proposal that is supposed to expand upon existing tagging schemes. There’s plenty of criticism on the list, and only limited response to that, but there is …

26/07/2016-01/08/2016 Mapping Portable OpenStreetMap (POSM) aims to provide an offline workflow for mapping by integrating with OpenMapKit, FieldPapers, JOSM and others. It enables volunteers to bring OSM data into the field on very small servers that host their own wireless local area network, allowing editing to …

19/07/2016-25/07/2016 Mapping BushmanK feels the need to explain the differences between tag values, value lists and separate keys. HermannstadtGeographer tries to argue for mapping cell towers in OSM. Though not every comment likes his reasoning. Kaxtillo points out (automatic translation) the availability of Strava …