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 …

17/12/2014-23/12/2014 Mapping User rickmastfan67 complains in a github issue, that he has not received a notification e-mail when somebody responds on changesets. On the tagging mailing list Martin Vonwald draws attention to the proposal Dynamic Maxspeed and triggers a discussion. Kevin Kenny asks on the talk-us …

02/12/2014-08/12/2014 Mapping Vienna has renewed the official aerial photographs. On the tagging mailing list, the tagging of tunnel entrances will be discussed. The discussion on “how to map shops in petrol stations” is on the mailinglist. Community User Escada reported that the Belgian community hailed Guy …

25/11/2014-01/12/2014 Mapping [1] The 27 millionth OpenStreetMap changeset contains changes for Guatemala. (via @neogeografen) User Elliott Plack blogs about his experiences with Mapillary. Mappers paid by Mapbox collided once more. SomeoneElse was forced to revert. (Note: SomeoneElse is a member of the Data Working …

11/11/2014-17/11/2014 Mapping [1] Martin Raifer produced a new tool: Last Week in OSM. The tool shows the changes in a region during the previous week. The older the contribution, the darker the colour. (via @JLZIMMERMANN) The data of the US Forest Service is now a tile layer that can be integrated into ID, JOSM and …