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 …

20/10/2015-26/10/2015 About us If you find faults or would like to read the English version earlier, help to improve weeklyOSM and join the team Mapping The British company PIE Mapping edited in OSM and the Data Working Group had to interfere via twitter since the mapper ignored comments on the changesets, tweets and …

13/10/2015-19/10/2015 Mapping Ruben Lopez Mendoza describes in [his blog] (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Rub21/diary/36118) how to intall and use the JOSM tofix-plugin. Mapbox publishes a starter guide Mapping with OpenStreetMap under CC0. The guide was originally developed to aid Mapbox’ data team. Martijn van …

06/10/2015-12/10/2015 Mapping german only This is a report about “A little update on OpenStreetMap editing in gnome-maps” Mappa Mercia writes about their success to newly map the entire mainline multilevel station in Birmingham. (TODO: Might add link to older Weekly if you reported about their call-for-mappers) german …

29/09/2015-05/10/2015 About us thefive wrote a dedicated content managment system especially designed for the needs of Wochennotiz and weeklyOSM. This ensures that the English version of weeklyOSM may appear immediately after the German Wochennotiz. Mapping german only GPS to be jammed in Scotland during Nato war …

16/06/2015-22/06/2015 Mapping JOSM has a Mapillary-Integration now. (see this Twitter feed) Martin Simon asks how to map " railway expansion devices" (a piece of equipment on railway tracks which compensates for changes in length as a result of temperature variations). A Mapillary-App for Firefox OS is under …

09/06/2015-15/06/2015 Mapping Joost Schouppe reports about power editing with Level0 editor and Overpass turbo. Frederik Ramm launched an escalating discussion on the pros and cons of armchair mapping, particularly in connection with HOT / Missing Maps. Richard Welty suggests the tag README=* should be used to display …

26/05/2015-01/06/2015 Mapping OpenAerialMap now available as beta version. An army of bots innacurately entered thousands of POIs on Thursday evening (May 28). The Data Working Group (DWG) has intervened. Simon Poole provides a “sneak preview” of the next release of Vespucci. Frederik Ramm started a long lasting …