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 …

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 …