Community Updates/2011-05-30
Community Update from 30 May 2011 to 05 June 2011 (week 2011-22)
Image Of the Week 2011-22
Olympic sites starting to appear on the map as the buildings are completed |
Project Of The Week : Primary and secondary schools continued
A school may be included in OpenStreetMap as either a node 
or areas 
, but should not be included as both.
Either way, add the following tags to the school element.
To add more detail consider using mapping other features of the schoolyard and school.
Quick News
- The ODbL wordpress site of the
OSMFOpen Knowledge Foundation has had viagra spam injected. [1] - Geofabrik now offers extracts of all U.S. states
- Oliver Kühn (Skobbler maintainer) wonders whether OSM data consumers belong to our community?
Events
- "Public" OSMF Board Meeting in London
Software
Other News
Complex versioning of objects
Sometimes you import data from another place to OSM. Some users edit and enhance those objects afterwards. But what do you do if the original source offers a new version of those objects? How to update OSM?
Complex versioning is not really well handled in OSM. We only have a single version number. Discussions started on how to deal with these situations.
Draft : Monastery and Convents
Want to tag a monastery and distinct the different functions of the buildings? This proposal is for you...
As usual, your comments are very welcome on the talk page
Scholarship to SOTM
The State of the Map committee is excited to announce a program to cover full travel and accommodations costs for mappers to attend State of the Map 2011. They are seeking for people from places where costs would prohibit attendance, developing countries, and places that are “interesting” geopolitically.
If you want to apply or know someone that fit the conditions, read more at [2].
Thanks
Big thanks to AndiPersti, Newnoise and !i! !