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weeklyOSM 822

16/04/2026-22/04/2026

[1] We congratulate the instance at print.get-map.org on their 500,000+ generated maps | map data © by OpenStreetMap
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Mapping

  • * The proposal `Civil Protection Areas` was approved with 24 votes for and 7 votes against. The approved tag `emergency:*=yes` was
    

proposed by AndreaDp271, who maintains a interactive map which shows the infrastructure for…

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Perspective: High demand or high reward? The debate over high religious expectations

BYU professors David Dollahite and Loren Marks began their academic work on religion and family life in the mid-1990s, around the time one leading scholar called religion “the anti-tenure topic.” A respected colleague who found their initial research interesting predicted, nevertheless, that Dollahite’s and Marks’ work would never see the light of day.

Almost 30 years, 170 scholarly…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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Thermonuclear Slop and the Return of the Bomb

We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.


A new book on nuclear winter makes clear the scale of our present danger. It calls for pushing past our collective burnout and rebuilding the movement to abolish nuclear weapons to…

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weeklyOSM 814

19/02/2026-25/02/2026

1] VORTAC (VHF Omnidirectional Range / Tactical Air Navigation) (beacon:type=VORTAC) | Colling-architektur, via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 3.0

Mapping

  • Simgaymer has asked for comments on a tagging proposal to extend the existing building:flats=* tag, allowing mappers to record the number of flats with 0 bedrooms (studio), 1 bedroom, 2 bedrooms, and so on.…
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Ribbital: Democracy As Something We Do, Not Just Have

Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a populace "defying the lie that we are powerless." Bigly upstaging a goalie's Medal of Freedom was "a marathon of truth-telling," from a cogent Dem response to the Portland Frogs leading a restive, joyful, shaggy defense of "this thing we call…

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weeklyOSM 813

12/02/2026-18/02/2026

1] | DER SPIEGEL has built its own open-source mapping stack based on MapLibre and Protomaps | © MapLibre – Protomaps – map data © [OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Mapping

  • Comments are requested on the proposal bicycle_parking=absent. This tag aims to document that no bicycle parking is available around a feature, for example a shop or station, making such gaps in…
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