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 …

23/02/2016-29/02/2016 About us Dear reader, this edition is published with only one proofreading. If you find faults or if you think some sentences could be written better, please join the team as a proofreader. Mapping Martin Koppenhoefer wonders on the tagging mailing list, whether the voting rules should be changed: …

16/02/2016-22/02/2016 Mapping Seitebatso from Lesotho blogged about 3-D area mapping for Lesotho. Commodoortje starts a thread on the Dutch forum with links and information to start mapping with JOSM Dreierlei writes a tutorial on editing OpenStreetMap with OsmAnd. Aarthy Chandrasekhar explains in her blog post how to …

09/02/2016-15/02/2016 Mapping Christoph Hormann added more images for mapping in OSM. A video tutorial gives an overview of all elements to map in the 61,000 Townlands in Ireland. Martijn van Exel informs about a (youtube) video tutorial about the online service improve-osm.org. A video about the progress of OSM in …

03/02/2016-08/02/2016 Mapping Ben Spaulding summarises the goals he had set for mapping for the month of January 2016. Though he didn’t fully succeed in mapping for at least 15 minutes, but he still got some mapping done and his experiences are interesting none the less. In the city of Chefchaouen (the chief town of …

26/01/2016-01/02/2016 Mapping David Marchal is wondering how wiki tagging votes have to be interpreted. He asks if they should be treated as MAYs, SHOULDs or MUSTs. In his e-mail concerning the UK 2016 Q1 mapping marathon, Rob Nickerson gives an overview on activities and evaluation tools: OSMschools by Pascal Neis, …

19/01/2016-25/01/2016 Mapping In response to the terrorist attacks in Paris, Christian Quest has created an OpenEvacMap. The Hackathon was reported in “Le Monde”, one of the major French dailies under the title “A hackathon to increase security in Paris.” Additional press: LaTribune, RSLN. Follow the project on Twitter …

12/01/2016-18/01/2016 Mapping [Tagging] Matthijs Melissen proposes to replace shop=jewelry (US-English) with shop=jewellery (GB-English) for consistency reasons. He describes the procedure for the change so all editors and data consumers can be adapted as well. The discussion about name_1 = * continues on the tagging …