14/08/2025-20/08/2025 About us miurahr presented a talk titled ‘Behind the Scenes of weeklyOSM: How We Share OSM News Every Week’ at COSCUP 2025, Taiwan’s largest open-source conference. The conference featured a dedicated track on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata with two talks: talk 1 and talk 2 . Mapping campaigns Penegal …

07/08/2025-13/08/2025 Mapping Mateusz Konieczny has proposed an automated edit to migrate maxspeed:advised= to maxspeed:advisory=, as the two tags have the same intended meaning. Mapping campaigns Stefan Kaufmann reported ► on a hydrant mapping initiative carried out in collaboration between the Temporärhaus and the …

31/07/2025-06/08/2025 Mapping Penegal has asked about the meaning, for highways, of local max weight signs (do they apply to actual weight or maximum permissible weight), and the corresponding usage of maxweight/maxweightrating tags. You are invited to explain, for your country, the meaning of local max weight signs, …

24/07/2025-30/07/2025 Mapping Requests for comments have been made on these proposals: library:users=* to indicate which groups of people a library is intended for. wikimedia_commons=* to extend the existing tag to also allow Wikimedia PageIDs. Voting on a proposal, to make announcing proposal RFCs and voting on the …

17/07/2025-23/07/2025 About us Raquel Dezidério Souto, our editor for Brazilian Portuguese, Artur Fernandes, Gabrielle Lima, Myllene Lopes, Paloma Caetano and Tatiana Vianna have compiled ► statistics on how often weeklyOSM has mentioned each of the 102 OSM-related software products selected for analysis. The …

10/07/2025-16/07/2025 Mapping The comprehensive proposal for mapping road markings was approved with 21 votes for, 5 votes against, and 1 abstention. Community HazelCyril asked whether OpenStreetMap maintains records of the last time a user posted a diary entry or created map notes. KhubsuratInsaan questioned if …

03/07/2025-09/07/2025 Community Koreller has tooted before-and-after maps of the area around the Association Saint-Benoît Labre in Vertou, France, following some detailed micromapping work. Mapping water slides for OSM can be hard work. But as Marc wrote, maybe a little fun, too. Events At the 2025 AGIT Conference for …

26/06/2025-02/07/2025 Mapping A request for comments has been made for social:=; aiming to separate contact methods from social media in OSM. A request for comments has been made for the proposed tag developer=. This tag aims to complement the existing engineer= and architect=* tags and to identify the company or …

19/06/2025-25/06/2025 Community Pascal Neis recently conducted a GNSS accuracy comparison involving drones, an action camera, and a smartwatch. In the experiment, both the DJI Avata and the NEO drones successfully recorded GNSS tracks, but commonly deviated several metres from the reference route. The GoPro action …

12/06/2025-18/06/2025 Mapping campaigns The OpenStreetMap Russia community has announced the completion of a recent online mapathon focused on the city of Morshansk. Over the course of two weeks, 26 participants contributed by mapping approximately 8,000 buildings, 5,000 addresses, 300 shops, and 150 amenities. …