03/05/2016-09/05/2016 Mapping User bdiscoe was curious to know about the “urban mappers” in India where there a number of accounts which all edit in the same places, the very largest cities in India (New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, etc.). He then discovered that there is a team of 60+ mappers …

26/04/2016-02/05/2016 Mapping Article on the disaster response (automatic translation) for the Ecuador earthquake from the Spanish language School of Data (Escuela De Datos), highlights how the response can be visualised in new tools like OpenStreetMap Analytics featured above. Pascal Neis gibt in seinem Blog bekannt, …

19/04/2016-25/04/2016 Mapping Martin Weilandt asks at Talk-Transit mailing-list about how to handle bus stops that have no name. Marek Kleciak worked along with user Cetus on the JOSM plugin CAD Tools. This plugin will be soon available again with advanced features. User Sibo Dolem asks in the German Forum about …

12/04/2016-18/04/2016 Mapping Tom Pfeifer points to his “mini vote” about adding new subvalues to the service tag. Chethan Gowda explains how to solve edit conflicts with JOSM. Aarthy Chandrasekhar explains how the two JOSM plugins that she wrote (The task configuration and the changesetID plugin) help her greatly in …

05/04/2016-11/04/2016 Mapping Joost Schouppe asks whether airports need a relation. BushmanK blogs about the current natural=water scheme inconsistency. Panier Avide presents (automatic translation) iD-indoor, a fork of the iD editor, which is aimed at addressing the needs of indoor mapping. Ilya (Zverik) blogs about …

29/03/2016-04/04/2016 Mapping User Markus writes about the Bing and Google ariel photos in China and highlights the importance of verifying the data that is added locally. This can be done by contacting travelers who would like to learn more about OSM and start contributing. Nikhil writes about how to up your skills on …

22/03/2016-28/03/2016 Mapping Lindsey Jacks writes about her work on the new field papers interface (we reported on earlier this month) done during her internship at Stamen Design. Jonathan blogs about the road network of Rwanda and its bad, strange and western based classification. Rodrigo Rega explains how he uses …

15/03/2016-21/03/2016 Mapping User TobWen is very unhappy on the German OSM forum about users who (legally) automatically trace buildings from North Rhine-Westphalia’s WMS without cross-checking using aerial imagery - they have been copying old, already razed buildings from the official dataset. The discussion in the …

08/03/2016-14/03/2016 About us Our Upcoming Events are parsed automatically from the Wiki Calendar by OSMBC. You can support the team by verifying your event entry in the public preview and check your entry with the regex tester. Mapping Bernhard W. has obtained oblique (or slant) aerial photographs of the city of …

01/03/2016-07/03/2016 About us We are sad to inform everyone about the loss of our very dedicated member of the weeklyOSM team, Dr. Bogus Zaba aka bogzab. He passed away this week after a short illness. He will always remain in thoughts and we’ll always remember him for his contribution and dedication towards weeklyOSM …