[HOT] OpenStreetMap Somali translation

Hi everyone, Last year, I started working with translators to support more languages in OpenStreetMap. This year, I'm interested in expanding that project to the Somali language. You can see the first mock-up of this project on https://georeactor.github.io/osm-global/somali/about.html There are

[HOT] OpenStreetMap workshop for the Maldives

Hi everyone, Recently I have been working on right-to-left language support across OpenStreetMap, iD, and related JS libraries. As part of this project, I commissioned a Dhivehi translation of parts of the OSM map viewer, registration and login process, and iD editor. I was lucky to find someone

[HOT] Multilingual names tool for OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is fortunate to have a large, multilingual community. We store a "name" tag for local names (sometimes two scripts are used, as in Morocco) and we use "name:en" and other tags to store names from other languages. In many parts of OpenStreetMap, we have places labeled English-first,

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

Related - I've been adding right-to-left language support for iD OSM editor. It was already translated to Arabic and Persian/Farsi, but typically sites flip their UI, so our main sidebar would appear on the right. We've got most technical parts done, so now we would much appreciate some fluent

Re: [HOT] Issue with Harare project - 1649

> can project owners currently block certain users from using the Tasking Manager? Would it make sense to do so? This feature will be necessary at some point if not already. We all believe in good intentions, and the success of Task Manager means that good intentions is a good starting point. But

[HOT] Map-a-thon getting 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error

Hi, I'm working with The Asia Foundation to run an OpenStreetMap map-a-thon in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. We have 17 teams of 3 people, mostly students and city planners, mapping unplanned areas of the city (ger districts) At 3:30pm local time, we got a 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error on most teams'

[HOT] Adding non-emergency Mongolia tasks to Tasking Manager

Hi HOT mappers: I'm working with the Asia Foundation on an OSM training and mapathon for Mongolia on June 20-21. You can peek at our Facebook event at https://facebook.com/mapforub and read more about the project goals at

Re: [HOT] Date of a mapped feature?

Hi Chris - To answer your question, it IS possible to see edit history of any node (point), way (line or area), or relation (group of features) on OpenStreetMap. This is usually good when imagery and OSM data don't match up - which is older? 1. To see the data, find the number ID. -- On the iD

Re: [HOT] GIS Meetup

Hi Warren, There is a new group of mapping meetups called Maptime, with strong ties to OpenStreetMap and open source development. There have been some Tasking Manager sessions in other cities. You can read more about it at http://maptime.io and contact the Maptime for Los Angeles at

Re: [HOT] Why use OpenStreetMap and not other maps in disaster situations?

A lot of the post-disaster data comes from volunteers tracing or from data donated by universities + NGOs or from satellite photos given to the humanitarian effort. For many of these sources, it would be strange to do free work and give free data to a company like Google or Microsoft, especially