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 …

21/05/2015-27/05/2015 Mapping mmd has added a Mapillary window to the OSM Truck QA Map . This link explains how (English). You can click on the the yellow dots on the Mapillary images, and it is often possible to see the “maxheight” traffic signs and map them. Even the beginner-friendly online POI submitter YAPIS can …

14/04/2015-20/04/2015 Mapping The new version of QAeditor from Adrian Stabiszewski (English) contains more options: Show streets without sidewalk tag, ways without incline tag and ways without surface/smoothness tag The house number evaluation is now available for the whole of the Netherlands. The house number …

31/03/2015-06/04/2015 Mapping John Willis proposes a tagging for separate student and teacher entrances in Japanese schools. He would like to introduce additional values for entrances = *. The second British “quarterly exercise” has started and deals with “all things delivery-related”. Community Thomas Schwotzer …

26/03/2015-01/04/2015 Mapping The iD editor gets new features. The developer asks for reports of issues on Github. Voting about the proposal camp_type = * is ongoing. Currently the yes-no ratio is about 1:1. The OpenSeaMap project has his own Youtube channel. Currently there are three videos covering “starting with …

17/03/2015-23/03/2015 Mapping User jonwit is looking for a way to map minefields. So far, there is no well-established/documented tag. Improve the quality of OSM data by analyzing GraphHopper’s “map matching” results. (choose your language) Community Mapillary give some initial feedback for traffic sign recognition. …

10/03/2015-16/03/2015 Mapping Marc Zoutendijk continued to talk in his blog about “Improving the OSM map. Part 1 was in last week’s edition; Marc has now published parts 2 and 3. The voting for the proposal “Sanitary Dump Station” started. James Derrick thinks he has found a “Copyright Easter Egg” in the Ordnance …