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 …

12/07/2016-18/07/2016 Mapping A discussion is ongoing on the German mailing list whether mobile shops (e.g. a mobile takeway) should be mapped on OpenStreetMap or not. If yes, then how can such shops be tagged. (automatic translation) The government of Ecuador has made available a TMS layer of aerial imagery for …

05/07/2016-11/07/2016 Mapping Bryce Nesbitt asks for comments on a proposal to use a mechanical edit to change the tagging of pit latrines. Edits of some employees of Mentz in Düsseldorf cause trouble at the German Forum. User mueschel detected some SEO-trash in OSM and wonders, what to do with it. The garbage he found …

28/06/2016-04/07/2016 Mapping Lars-Erik Wessman would like to add a functionality to their taxi driver app, that would enable taxi drivers to provide missing house numbers along with GPS locations. Zverik created a web frontend for his revert scripts. It allows to revert a maximum of 200 objects. No way/relation …

21/06/2016-27/06/2016 Mapping Mapbox joined last weekend’s Rio mapathon to help map the city where this year’s Olympic Games will be held. In the OSM wiki, the voting for the “extended Kneipp water cure” tagging proposal has started. There’s a large discussion on the tagging mailing list about the different …

14/06/2016-20/06/2016 Mapping Simon Poole has created a JOSM background layer based on Open Data from the Canton of Berne to help with mapping addresses. Martin Koppenhoefer opened a long-lasting discussion on the quirks of the current MAPS.ME edition and the consequent influx of new data into OSM. Fredy Rivera visited …

07/06/2016-13/06/2016 Mapping It looks like the new mapping function of Maps.me creates some false data in OSM (automatic translation from German). Some mappers are collecting questionable edits on a wiki page. User JIDB improved his proposal posted in April about extending the tagging of Kneipp facilities based on …

31/05/2016-06/06/2016 About us We were interviewed about our Wochennotiz and weeklyOSM and took the chance to report at length. Despite the prophets of doom, the project continues and invites new contributors to help. Mapping Carlos Felipe Castillo aka Kaxtillo has released a video in which he demonstrates how to make …