SeverinGeoMar 30
As a translator for @weeklyOSM for about ten years, I’m starting this series to comment on the latest #osm #openstreetmap news from the past seven days, from my entirely subjective perspective. In French, English, and Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to Free version for the latter two languages).
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19/03/2026-25/03/2026 [1] OSM on an eInk display | © Héctor Satrústegui | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors. Mapping Two proposals are waiting for your comments: The cable_landing_station=* …

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*Governance*
A @panoramax foundation is set to be created, a sign of the project’s maturity and the shaping of its future with reduced IGN funding and the creation of other instances.
Furthermore, mobileGEO points out the lack of clarity in decision-making within the #osmf Operations WG. This governance is effectively reduced to a few individuals: in fact, this is true of all #osmf WGs, run by small, co-opted groups, sometimes for many years. Curiously, this is rarely discussed in #osm
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*Resources*
EO Glossary: a goldmine for geomaticians, featuring a classification of terms and a dependency graph linking them all.
The @fposm’s guide _OpenStreetMap and Territories_ provides an interesting overview of #openstreetmap uses in local governments in France, particularly in niche areas. It will need to be adapted to different contexts in the Global South, where institutional data is much less available.
Simple Routing: a free or low-cost service that fills a gap for web projects.
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*Tutorials*
@pascal_n shares his tests using four (powerful!) different machines to generate Planet vector tiles with Osmosis, Osmium, and Tilemaker. So far, this isn’t really my area of expertise, but I’d love to see a state-of-the-art comparison on the subject someday (Maplibre vs. Tilemaker vs. Tippecanoee, Shortbread…).
Héctor Satrústegui shares the details of a feed for creating OSM maps on an e-reader. In the photos, the maps don’t seem super legible (?)