A department store sells a wide variety of durable goods for the home.
Large and small appliances, furniture and kitchenware may each have
large sections or departments of the store. Clothing
departments may be further divided by customer and use, such as Infant
and Toddler or Outdoor clothing. The departments will continue,
perhaps with jewelry and cosmetics or sporting goods.

The Project of the Week is to add local Department Stores to the map.

This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap interests by contributing a Project of the Week.

Department store exterior photo by Aaron is
licensed CC-By.

Tom Carden’s Travel Time Tube Map creates isochronic maps of the London Underground.

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What I really need, right now, is an ukulele. I could order one,
overnight from the on-line ukulele store, but I need it now, and
prefer to shop locally. Let’s just have a quick look at the map.

What’s that you say? Steve’s Ukulele Kwikee Mart, is right round the
corner? How convenient.

The Project of the Week is to add your local musical instrument shop.

This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap interests by contributing a Project of the Week.

Guitar Lineup photo by Orin Zebest is
licensed CC-By

OpenStreetMap contributor osmisto has
organized the first Russian online mapping party: it’s still cold
outside, so almost everyone attended. Find out more and see a larger animation from the Саранск (Saransk) mapping party.

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Featured image proposals.

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They aren’t as common as they used to be, or perhaps they have merely
changed form. Some of us have a music store on our phones. Others
might have to travel to the next town to find a Bricks and
Mortar music shop. The used to be called Record Stores;
ask your grand-parents about them.

The Project of the Week is to add your local music shop to the map.

This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap interests by contributing a Project of the Week.

Photo of phonograph cylinder player by Jalal Gerald Aro
is licensed CC-By-SA

Would you pass me the quill and inkpot please?

A stationery shop may seem outdated in a paperless, electronically
connected world. There is something more formal about getting a card
or letter in the mail, something joyful in the anticipation of opening
an envelope, thick with greetings and dreams, from an old friend.
Let’s put the local stationery shop on the map.

What goes into a well-mapped stationery shop? Find out on the Project of the Week: Stationery shop page.

This is your Project of the Week. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap
interests by suggesting a Project of the Week.

The current Project of the Month: Bridge and Tunnel continues until the end of March.

Stationery photo by Simon Pearson is
licensed CC-By-ND.

Scientific American has just published an article Amateur Cartographers Map Local ‘Food Desert’ by Francie Diep on urban
food quality.

A volunteer effort to map all the food stores in Brooklyn,
New York, is an example of two rising trends: citizen mapping and
increasing scrutiny of urban Americans’ access to healthy
food

Brooklyn Food Coalition are using OpenStreetMap to present their data
on the web.

Deli photo by Catherine is licensed
CC-By.

OpenSeaMap showing weather information for a storm in the North
Atlantic ocean on 14 February 2011

OpenSeaMap web site

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Bridges and tunnels assist travel. They span barriers that otherwise
impede travel such as mountains and ravines. They also reduce the
interaction between travelers in cases such as grade-separated railway
crossings, and motorway interchanges.

The Project of the Month is to add local bridges and tunnels to the map.

See the bridge and tunnel project page for more details and results.

This is the a Project of the Month. Project of the Week returns
next week, while PotM will continue until the end of March. These projects
inspire mappers to contribute data they might not have considered
previously, and allow us to be inspired by the projects of other
mappers.

This is your Project of the Month. Make suggestions. Inspire other
mappers. What is it about contributing to OpenStreetMap that
interests you? Postboxes? Bowing alleys? Share your OpenStreetMap
interests with other mappers by contributing a Project of the Month.

Photo of Millau viaduct by Philiip Capper is
licensed CC-By.