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 …