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 …

03/02/2015-09/02/2015 Mapping Toby Murray has integrated OSM Notes in JOSM. There are details in his blogpost. DougPeterson describes his workflow for generating GPS Tracks on a separate map with a GPS logger, Locus Map Pro, Osmosis and Mapsforge. The voting for the proposed feature “Traffic Signals” is ongoing. …

27/01/2015-02/02/2015 About us We welcome Andy Townsend at Wochennotiz as an English-language reviewer at weeklyOSM. Mapping Traffic sign mappers - you’re in luck! There is now a traffic sign layer at Mapillary. Click on the bottom left filters on the map, and then on “Traffic Signs”. Not all traffic signs are found …

13/01/2015-19/01/2015 About us A Czech version of our sister project weeklyOSM has now been online since the 14th of January, the Wochennotiz says. We are also now providing reports from French speaking communities, thanks to the French weeklyOSM edition. Mapping [1] Battlegrid US is back again. User EdLoach (an Uber …

06/01/2015-12/01/2015 About us Our co-partner weeklyOSM has now been online, along with a French version, since the 10th of January. (via: Twitter). … says the German Wochennotiz ;-) Mapping User jgpacker draws attention to emergency routes for trucks. The creator of changesets is now automatically a subscriber in …

02/01/2015-08/01/2015 Mapping [1] The road network of Styria (Austria) is available in official shapefiles. User Spice determines which roads are still missing in OSM and Thomas Konrad created a shapefile with these missing roads. User SK53 blogs about ideas of how to map trees. User Skippern asks how tracks are …

23/12/2014-29/12/2014 About us On Geohipster.com some people make predictions for 2015 with respect to geographic information. We’ll see whether Tim Waters’ prediction is true that 2015 will be the year of the “specialized personalized OSM maps everywhere” (meaning all platforms). If you have news for the OSM-community …