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 …

04/11/2014-10/11/2014 Community [1] Tom Hughes developed the new function “What’s that?” See the question mark on the right side on openstreetmap.org. The new function uses the Overpass-API. (via Twitter) The Open-Access-Publication Areal Delineation of Home Regions from Contribution and Editing Patterns in …

21/10/2014-27/10/2014 Community OSM can apparently be used as a dating portal. At least there is one user who does. If it worked and is fixed, we recommend the way to the registry office. The OpenCage Data blog published interviews with Maggie Cawley von Boomerang Geospatial, with the Basque mapper Gari Araolaza and …

07/10/2014-13/10/2014 Mapping User Dakon has tried to correct abnormal values ​​in emergency = fire_hydrant. In fire_hydrant:position there is still much to do. The Voting for the Relations-Proposal type=person is open. Tom Lee tweets about some remarkable tags he could find in the OSM database. Community The German …