05/01/2016-11/01/2016 Mapping Take part in the MapRoulette Challenge which is about checking if there’s a pedestrian street crossing (crosswalk) or not. This verification goes on until it’s all done. This site evaluates the number of POI’s for a given city. Hakuch proposes to remove the tagging of name_1 and alt_name_1 …

29/12/2015-05/01/2016 About us You like OSM? you like working in an international team? You speak English and Spanish? You like investigation? You like the semanarioOSM? You hate typos? THEN we need YOU! We weeklyOSM needs you! We have different tasks for you: Collect Links, write articles, translate articles, review …

22/12/2015-29/12/2015 Mapping Now you can locate old, parked or museum-piece locomotives in the historic places map if they have been tagged and mapped appropriately in OSM. User baditaflorin created a cheat sheet with the most important shortcuts for JOSM that would make editing with JOSM more efficient. Felix …

15/12/2015-21/12/2015 Mapping The Mapbox Data Team did a “tracing sprint”, a fun exercise where twelve people raced to draw the same building the fastest. (The data was not uploaded.) It’s interesting to see the different perception which these twelve people had on the same satellite imagery. Andrey Golovin from Mapbox …

08/12/2015-14/12/2015 Mapping The usage of destination tag has continued to grow and it surpassed the exit_to tag - at least in the US. To increase transparency of logging activities in rainforest, the World Resources Institute and Moabi launched the Logging Roads Initiative to record logging roads in the Democratic …

01/12/2015-07/12/2015 Mapping Scanerial is a JOSM plugin that automatically traces lakes and other features from imagery. It has resulted in a mess as it treats stones as islands and also misinterprets shadows. UPDATE: Vincent recommends in a comment (see below) this link: …

24/11/2015-30/11/2015 About us Michael Reichert has written a review of the candidates of current OSMF board elections. (part 1, part 2) Mapping German only German only Nicolas Chavent, co-founder of HOT, warns at OSMF-Talk mailing list that members of HOT US Inc. may get a majority at OSMF board after current board …

17/11/2015-23/11/2015 Mapping Colin Smale asks on the mailing list whether the coordinate system “What 3 Words” (W3W) should be supported by OpenStreetMap. W3W is a proprietary and patent-pending system which relates every square of 3x3 meters size to three words. You can choose your own three words for a given …

03/11/2015-09/11/2015 Mapping Malenki writes in his diary about a list of the 240 user names newly registered in OSM. This issue was raised on the website here. Mapping female versus male street names: A team from Mapbox has studied the number and distribution of streets named after people according to gender in order …

27/10/2015-02/11/2015 Mapping Mapbox published a map indicating the lack of footpaths parallel to roads. There is also a blog post and two Mapbox Github issues with more information. The source code of the project is public. Martijn van Excel writes a blog about the new JOSM plugin that is used to fix missing and wrong …