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Oldenburg

This is fantastic! Wonderful work!

Please check NH 930 near Bhadravati

Looked like the highway was realigned around some coalfields. Have updated using the imagery in the DigatalGlobe layers.

Towards a dedicated public issue tracking/project management system for OSM

One option is to use phabricator which is the open source project management system used by Wikimedia Foundation and used by the community as well.

Its worth looking into how its used by WMF to get an idea of what could be possible on the platform: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org

Viewing OpenStreetMap tiles in GL

@mmd Updated the code to not use the Mapbox API. One just needs to use the empty style from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/mapbox/mapbox-gl-styles/styles/empty-v8.json

Overlaying different boundaries over OSM's standard map style

Have made an updated demo that shows how to include Crimea as part of Ukraine with the OSM mapnik tiles: https://bl.ocks.org/planemad/b6fe2c725e43c19ba69e32dc51632d37

DWG authority on decisions over territorial disputes

As someone from India where we face similar issues of disputed territories, I can only empathize with the Ukraine community over this decision. The boundaries of a country represent the mental model of the nation we live in and is strongly linked to our national identity. It is inevitable that there will be a deeply emotional response to such a change from the countries concerned and Its important that those from other countries understand how this is not merely a change on an online map.

The decision that the DWG took is not at all surprising - to remain neutral and objective with established principles regarding such disputed boundaries. The result is that Ukraine joins a list of countries where the de facto world map is not aligned to the world view of its people.

There never is going to be a single map of a world view that will satisfy everyone, and affected communities need to figure out how to work with that reality, while OSMF needs to figure out how to technically support such communities better. For India, we have a customized OSM slippy map code which alters the boundary of Kashmir as per official requirements. The boundaries shown on the OSM website are illegal here and often leads to very negative response to the project. The situation in Ukraine will be very similar now.

If the OSM website automatically switched disputed borders based on viewers country and various data tooling supported working with disputed boundaries easily, this would be much less of an issue than it is.

GSoC'18 Final Report

Congratulations, these are some fantastic new features that will make it much easier to contribute transit data.

KeepRight - The start of Q/A in iD

This is brilliant, so good to see all that various amazing map tools are slowly coming together in a singe interface

How to find the changeset details of any OSM map feature

Thanks mmd, updated!

RoboSat ❤️ Tanzania

Can’t believe its so simple, thank you for the tutorial!

Vector Tiles for iD Editor : Playing with mvt and pbf files.

This is an amazing extension! Thank you for the work.

Rendering non-default language in OSM-Carto standard map

Wonderful to see maps in Tamil! Even the city and local government don’t have maps in the local languages, and they would be really excited to see this.

Maps Update: April 17 → May 13

Thank you for the data bulletin!

When OpenStreetMap met Mapbox-GL : 🍚IDLY-GL

This is so cool, Kushan! This makes it so much easier to browse the OSM data compared to using the default ‘data’ mode in the website or any editor.

The OSM project has always maintained that this is a data project and not a visual map project. Idly actually realizes this for the first time, making it easy for anyone to touch and feel what OSM is about.

Maps Update: 17th of April

Its crazy to know what happens in just a day on OSM. More frequent bulletins please?

Peru’s response to redaction

Fantastic and inspiring how the Peru community got together to repair the broken map!

A few new firsts

Amazing work! Sorry about your phone though :/

The effect of the new iD release on restrictions

Nice analysis. Goes to show the impact any feature on osm.org has on the data quality of the project.

Been following the development of this feature on iD, its an amazing effort by Bryan to get this out. Thank you from everyone!

OSMCha News - February/2018

Wonderful, the bbox is one of my most used filters and searching makes it so much more convenient. Thank you Wille, Amisha and Tridip!

Changeset viewer plugin for JOSM

This is so cool, just installed it via the plugins list! The OSM QA tools are getting better and better, thank you for this work!