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 …

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. …