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 …

03/03/2015-09/03/2015 Mapping Historic development of unique keys, on the occasion of the Taginfo-Challenge. Follow the thread. Improving the OSM map – Why don’t we? (Part 1) Community Pierre Parmentier is the mapper of the month in Belgium. OpenCage Data Blog interview: Regional Profile - the State of OpenStreetMap in …

24/02/2015-02/03/2015 Mapping Dave Corley reports on progress at “Mapping Lesotho” Notifications and Emails on blog.mapillary.com You can now read the Summary of results for the Weekly “Pharmacies” Exercise, developed by Ziltoidium Community The Riviera Country Club Golf Course was measured with centimeter accuracy for …

17/02/2015-23/02/2015 Mapping The proposal for waste=* has a new name and has waste_collection=* as a new main key. Attempts have been made to unify various waste disposal and recycling tags. Brad Neuhauser proposes the tag portage=* for portages on the tagging list . Portages are stretches where canoes can bypass …

10/02/2015-16/02/2015 Mapping A pull request from Richard Fairhurst (which has since been merged - hurrah!) should ensure that iD users don’t inadvertently cause problems with relations in the future. This was preceded by the usual complaints about iD on talk (and a response by the iD authors) because of the old bug …