05/06/2025-11/06/2025 About us A weeklyOSM reader recently suggested an improvement to the event listings in the OpenStreetMap calendar, noting that only the city name was displayed instead of the full event location. In response to this feedback, we have implemented a new feature, and as of issue #776, the calendar …

29/05/2025-04/06/2025 Mapping historic=ceremonial_gate, a tag proposed to represent traditional symbolic gates in East Asian cultural regions (such as Chinese Paifang/Pailou, Japanese Torii, Korean Hongsalmun/Iljumun, and Vietnamese Tam Quan), is currently under discussion. Mapping campaigns Mapillary and HERE …

22/05/2025-28/05/2025 Mapping campaigns Séverin Ménard shared a new blog post ► about the ongoing building damage mapping in Mayotte, with statistics for each of the territory’s 17 communes, including hourly updated pie charts showing mapping progress and the damage classes. The preliminary results reveal the …

15/05/2025-21/05/2025 About us Erratum: Last week we reported on the Panoramax activities of Arretche. Contrary to what was mistakenly linked, the river in question is not the L’Ardour, but the L’Adour. This section was documented by Arretche. Mapping LordGarySugar has proposed removing the railway=site tag that is …

08/05/2025-14/05/2025 Mapping campaigns Vicksun reported that Unique Mappers Network in Nigeria recently launched the Unique Mappers IT Cohort 1 for 2025 and organised the Nigeria Monthly Mapathon in collaboration with TomTom. Community Unique Mappers Network has unveiled the shortlisted logo submissions for State of …

01/05/2025-07/05/2025 Community asciipip has detailed a method for naming trails in the Catoctin Mountain Park, by combining on-the-ground observations, such as coloured blazes marked on trees, with official trail information from the park’s website. BingoBongo has been testing its in-house game engine, for realistic …

24/04/2025-30/04/2025 About us Raquel Dezidério Souto’s statistical analysis of weeklyOSM’s profile over the past ten years will be submitted to the State of the Map 2025, which will be held in Manila, Philippines, from 3 to 5 October. Tabular and graphical results are already available and have been updated recently. …

17/04/2025-23/04/2025 Mapping campaigns Séverin Ménard shared ► a new Les Libres Géographes’ blog post about the ongoing damage assessment mapping of Mayotte in OpenStreetMap after Cyclone Chido. The post explains the choices of methodology, early tests, interactions with Copernicus Rapid Mapping data, ongoing mapping …

10/04/2025-16/04/2025 About us Raquel Dezidério Souto, one of the editors of weeklyOSM’s Brazilian Portuguese edition, is carrying out a statistical survey of the content published in weeklyOSM over the last 10 years, since it became a multilingual publication (with 15 languages covered today). The research will serve …

03/04/2025-09/04/2025 Mapping Please cast your vote in the proposal to map grab rails in (wheelchair accessible) toilets. Comments are being requested for these proposals: A tagging scheme proposal for windmills and watermills that aims to clarify the distinction between building=windmill and man_made=windmill. It also …