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 …

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 …