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 …

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 …