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 …

30/09/2014-06/10/2014 Mapping Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak is pondering how to map frontages in OSM when they have different colours at different heights. Community In the OpenCageData blog you can read an interview with a mapper who speaks mainly about mapping in crisis areas. User jgruca suggests to use relations for …

23/09/2014-29/09/2014 Community Roland Olbricht published training material for the Overpass-API. (Obs.: in German) The Swedish startup Mapillary offers two new posistions for developers with knowledge in Computer Vision and App development (iOS, Android). To find old POIs, which should be checked, user Dotevo …