02/21/2017-02/27/2017

The weeklyOSM team happily switched from Slack to the open source software Mattermost for internal communication. After tests conducted on framasoft ‘s framateam , a dedicated instance is now up and running thanks to FOSSGIS .

Inspired by the German OSM-Blog Wochennotiz № 343, and a previous discussion in the German forum, Ogmios wrote an article about the quality of recycling stations and how to improve their tagging. Also there is a new QA page for recycling tagging.

Arun writes about broken relations in river banks and wants a good guide to correct such errors. Christoph explains in the comments why there is no easy answer.

Daniel-j-h writes on the two tags, exit_to=* and destination=* and then explains why only the second is used in OSRM. Towards the end, he also shares a tool that allows automatic conversion.

User naveenpf shows the steps to associate Wikidata QIDs to Indian districts in OSM.

Wille Marcel has restarted development on his OSMCHA project. Its main objective is to help to detect potentially harmful OpenStreetMap edits. Wille asks for your feedback and suggestions for improvements.