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 …

24/05/2016-30/05/2016 About us The English version of weeklyOSM is happy to say, that Alex Sims aka Softgrow from Adelaide joined the team. We welcome our first member from Down Under. Mapping Benutzer Reclus started a discussion (automatic translation) about difficulties with the previously agreed public transport …

17/05/2016-23/05/2016 About us Tomáš Kašpárek our correspondent in Brno, Czech Republic presented weeklyOSM at the SotM CZ+SK. Mapping Adrien from French Guiana mentions how to take advantage of SENTINEL1 satellite images using RADAR and GDAL editing on JOSM How can new mappers help HOT with the validation process? …

10/05/2016-16/05/2016 Mapping The German forum started a large discussion about bi-lingual names in Sorben (Germany) (automatic translation). The planned server outage and the relocation of the OSM servers lead to slow upload speeds and downtimes of the wiki server. As of now, everything is expected to return to …

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 …