---
title: "MapRoulette Monthly Community Meeting"
tags: maproulette
---

This is a public document. Please feel free to contribute! Just hit edit above :smile_cat:

📆 FIRST Tuesday of every month at 1pm US Mountain time, 20:00 UTC. [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/vzz-kfor-tii). See below for the meeting's date. **This document always has the latest meeting info.**

[Kanban board with development planning](https://github.com/orgs/maproulette/projects/4/views/1)

Older notes 📜 [on Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NentVXt906KemxMYP384MuZitIoJ5iHckjJ2_e0r-C4/edit#heading=h.wfs0tl820i09) (no longer updated)

### Github 👩🏽‍💻

* Upcoming [Milestones](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/milestones)
* Issues [tagged for discussion](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Adiscussion)
* Issues [tagged for consideration](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aconsidering)
* [Release Notes](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/releases)

### Meeting Agenda
1. Check in ☎️ *Please add your name and your affiliation. If you're new, please introduce yourself!*
2. Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻 *Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*
3. What's Next 🔮 *New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*
4. The Floor is Yours 🎭 *Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*

## February 6, 2024

No meeting in January.
Only core dev team present for this month meeting

[changelog](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.14.9/CHANGELOG.md#v3149---2023-2-15)

Lot of time spent on documentation. Looking at localization

### dev updates
* we're getting link previews!
* improvements in long dropdowns in review
* leaderboard defaults to past month
* clearing filters in review list, more advanced filter work in progress
* Overpass query cloning is back in the picture

Release next week to keep in step with monthly cadence

release 3.15 - shooting for next month, https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/milestone/22

## December 5, 2023

## check in

Please add your name

* Martijn van Exel
* Collin Beczak

## dev updates

* [release notes](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.14.2/CHANGELOG.md#v3142---2023-12-12)

### Highlights
* Node update! We support up to N20 now. Involved updating react scripts
* Patch for super admin metrics to include role changes (to and from superuser role)

We had a mid-month release to include the new banner. JSON "CMS" broke and needed to be fixed.

## project updates

## round table

## Nov 7, 2023

### check in

### dev updates

> Dev updates:
>
> Upcoming deployment next Tuesday (11/14/23) to v3.14.0, which corresponds to our 3.14 milestone [https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/milestone/21?closed=1](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/milestone/21?closed=1)
>
> Changelog: [https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/880753f8f1a11cc936e869b36126d842c758e8e1/CHANGELOG.md#v3140---2023-11-14](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/880753f8f1a11cc936e869b36126d842c758e8e1/CHANGELOG.md#v3140---2023-11-14)
>
> Looking ahead to v3.15 and beyond...
>
> Community member feedback has been integral in helping us direct our attention to a thematic and valuable next version. The development team has created a "proposed" next milestone to help steer our efforts towards some selected high-priority tickets. You can view this milestone here: [https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/milestone/22](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/milestone/22).
>
> "Proposed" means not done and feedback is welcome. Feel free to recommend tickets and concerns as we shift our focus to the next milestone.
>
> The discussion for v3.15 so far is a couple high-level items:
> -Continue to address Rapid integration bugs and improve the overall implementation
> -Address system instability due to retaining soft-deleted tasks. There are a few ideas amongst the team to clean up large amounts of stale data and actively hard-delete future non-impact tasks (ie test challenges) for a more performant and sustainable database.
>
> In addition we have MR4 still in the horizon and are actively discussing MVP (minimum viable product). We will want to know what the most valuable features of MR3 are to the community and begin highest-priority development work. This is less about trimming features and more about building/sustaining a system around the core functionality.
>

### what's next

### round table

## Oct 3, 2023
Nobody from the wider OSM community joined (sorry, I probably didn't advertise enough...) so we had a regular dev meeting.

We did talk about how to define the upcoming 3.14 and 3.15 milestones:
* Let's take a small number of focus areas / topics for each milestone
* For 3.14 for example we will take "Add polish to Rapid integration" and "Shortlinks with mpr.lt"
* This will help us choose tickets to prioritize, but other bugs and smaller features can always be included
* Milestones correspond to point releases (semantic versioning) and don't need to have a deadline or completion date.

## Sep 5, 2023

1. Check in ☎️ *Please add your name and your affiliation. If you're new, please introduce yourself!*

* Collin Beczak
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger (East Slope)
* Martijn
* David Salmon (TomTom)

2. Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻 *Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*

* [3.13](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/releases/tag/v3.13.0) is out
* Rapid integration!
* Next upcoming (next week)
* some follow up troubleshooting on Rapid
* fix button layout if using integrated editor
* zoom level fix, not matching the task map
* hotkeys behavior
* Add cooperative task bundling
* Add Nearby Tasks Review Widget in task review
* 3.14 scope TBD, talk about next week
* Staging server updates, old one is being blown away soon (PG 10 -> 13 is one of the updates)

3. What's Next 🔮 *New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*

* Charter / Funding update (Martijn)
* Usage stats --
* Direct task generation from Osmose [mastodon](https://en.osm.town/@OsmoseQA/110997165770487197)

4. The Floor is Yours 🎭 *Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*

* Challenges flagged (Martijn)
* backend ticket about not being able to use the same name for a challenge after deleting it, Lucas will make a front end ticket to discuss.

## Aug 1, 2023

### Check in ☎️

* Jimmy Schwarzenberger (MapRoulette)
* Martijn van Exel
* Collin Beczak
* Yunzhi Lin(Meta)
* David Salmon (TomTom)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

* Deployed v3.12.2 in July - Oauth2 migration (prerequisite for Rapid integration)
* Deploying v3.13.0 in August - Rapid integration (BIG one!)
* Kanban board link up top

### What's Next 🔮

* Funding / charter update (Martijn)
* NLNet Zero Entrust grant proposal submitted, [info see here](https://nlnet.nl/entrust/)
* Working together with OSMCha on combined funding strategy for 2024

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

## July 6, 2023

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*

* Martijn van Exel (MapRoulette)
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger
* Collin Beczak
* Martijn van Exel (project lead)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

* [3.12.1 & 3.12.2](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.12.2/CHANGELOG.md#v3122---2023-7-11)
* Backend updates https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette-backend/releases
* [Kanban board](https://github.com/orgs/maproulette/projects/4)

### What's Next 🔮

* Funding / charter update (Martijn)

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

## May 2, 2023

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*

* Martijn van Exel (MapRoulette)
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* Collin Beczak

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

* [3.12.0](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md#v3120---2023-4-11)
* [Kanban board](https://github.com/orgs/maproulette/projects/4)

### What's Next 🔮

* Advisory board met last week
* Ongoing inquiry into the vision for MapRoulette to inform next major version
* Kicking off fundraising efforts to sustain MapRoulette beyond 2023

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

* Kyle - errors building tasks with GeoJSON
*

## April 4, 2023

### Check in ☎️

* Martijn van Exel
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger (MR)
* Ryan Scherler (MR) (_East Slope Studio_)
* Matthew Espinoza (MR)
* Collin Beczak
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻
- RapidComponent + Saved(https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/pull/1995)

#### Releasing [v3.12.0](???) on 2023-4-11

* Improving caching (ongoing effort)
* Cloning other folks' challenges
* See link above for more details
* Rapid integration either this or next release

#### Features
- add caching to multiple endpoints
- ability to clone other users' challenges
- add italian language and sort locale alphabetically
- add Blog tab with associated link to the NavBar
- add Challenge Editor Review Setting
- Add Upload Error Message GeoJSON
- Sent comments page

#### Fixes
- fix "query" param functionality on discoverability page
- Cloning Challenge #maproulette Hashtag Fix

##### Rapid integration (Matthew / Caroline)

* Work progressing at good clip
* Goal is to demo late next week

##### #1013(fix tasks/box api) backend issue in progress

* Collin:
* PR for Node 18
* GeoJSON file upload improvements

### What's Next 🔮

#### MapRoulette V4

* Some technical discovery work around NextJS, Typescript, OAuth2
* Design / UI discovery -- what's working and not? Let's look at the homepage and present to adv board to come to a mission / vision.
* Ryan will design a survey document to kick off
* Show and tell...?!

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

## February 14, 2023

### Check in ☎️

* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* Jonathan Brier (Unaffiliated) @wolfgang8741 - getting oriented to this call.
* Tobias (@tordans), working on various OSM projects like https://parkraum.osm-verkehrswende.org/ and for the company I work at (fixmycity.de) https://radverkehrsatlas.de/.

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

*Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*

### What's Next 🔮

*New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

*Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*

## SPECIAL: Roadmap 2023 ideation January 10, 2023

* [October doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gVas97wj5ybXB9V3iZGFAwsLvYA9OBKuub7Rqw-ZlE4/edit#heading=h.ksk37rzcb5w9)
* [github issues tagged v4](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/milestone/16)
* Overall new face
* Is the find / discover topic a good opportunity to do this
* Dev discussion needed as well
* Long-lived / continuous Challenges [github](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/issues/1910)
* Finding and discovering challenges
* Separate list / section / appearance
* Find / Discover
* Homepage / landing page
* "Getting mappers to work on something they are interested in as quickly as possible"
* Challenge Find page
* What does the map do? What do we want it to do?
* Two use cases: 1) Find interesting work to do without regard for location 2) Find tasks in specific area
* Find a way to distinguish between "global" and localized challenges.
* Is "global" the same as "continuous"?
* Inspiration:
* HOT TM
* Kiva.org
* Zillow.com

## January 3, 2023

### Check in ☎️

* Martijn van Exel
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger
* David Salmon (TomTom)
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* Matt Manley (Locana)
* Minh Nguyễn
* Yunzhi Lin (Meta)
* Keith Iverson (Apple)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

* [Release 3.11.4](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/releases/tag/v3.11.4) went out ([release notes](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/c8ab0de1321ebd2488393d9aba5898a16599eedb/CHANGELOG.md#v3114---2022-12-22)) + a couple hotfixes
* Release 3.11.5 ([release notes](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.11.5/CHANGELOG.md#v3115---2023-1-10)) next Tuesday, 1-10-2023

### What's Next 🔮

* Charter updates (Martijn)
* Roadmap 2023
* Martijn will set up a separate meeting to discuss, please monitor the Slack channel
* MapRoulette layer in GoMap!!

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

* Martijn wants to discuss RapiD / iD integration
* We need to ensure the user continues to have the choice of editors
* Consider mobile use case
* Technically no immediate obvious huge blockers
* Do we have a sandbox environment
* staging.maproulette.org ?
* would need some education for users who come to us
* "preview mode"
* "serializing" a challenge
* make challenges undiscoverable by default and then let user know what to do next

### Follow up

* @mvexel look at banner system to announce community meetings
*

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## December 6, 2022

### Check in ☎️

* Martijn van Exel (MapRoulette)
* Keith Iverson (Apple)
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* David Salmon (TomTom)
* Michael Feldman (Stanford)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

* [changelog](https://github.com/maproulette/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.11.3/CHANGELOG.md#v3113---2022-12-13)
* deployment next Tuesday

### What's Next 🔮

* Martijn discusses Charter Project

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

* Report feature -- discuss potential for abuse
* MS has new atlas-check based checks in Australia
* TT still has a lot of atlas checks but winding down
* Focusing more on buildings / suspect building names starting Jan '23
* Also RoadRunner related challenges: missing roads and realignment

### Follow up

* @mvexel look at banner system to announce community meetings

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## November 1, 2022

Skipping in favor of Seattle meeting, see below

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## October 31, 2022 (Seattle meeting)

*Inviting some folks to meet in Seattle while Martijn is in town. Notes will be here.*

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## October 4, 2022

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*
* Keith Iverson (Apple)
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger (MR dev)
* David Salmon (TomTom)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

[Changelog](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-3.10.1/CHANGELOG.md#v3101---2022-10-11)

**Highlights**
* Bulk challenge editing
* Always notify challenge owners when comments are placed
* Linking leaderboard to OSM profiles -- THANKS Jackson
* Unique titles -- THANKS Yan
* Map glicthiness starting to be addressed
* Swagger doc improvements
* System level improvements with caching & other

### What's Next 🔮

* SOTM Asia
* [Mapping USA](https://www.openstreetmap.us/2022/09/mapping_usa_2022)
* Major League Hacking work, project https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/projects/13

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

* Additional task statuses - David to provide input [on ticket](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1791).
*

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## September 6, 2022

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*
* David Salmon (TomTom)
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* Jimmy Schwarzenberger (MR dev)
* Keith Iverson (Apple)
* Michael Feldman (Stanford)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

*Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*

https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.10.0/CHANGELOG.md#v3100---2022-09-13

* 3.10 is feature complete
* main new feature is bulk editing of tags and task updating UI
* uncovered some limitations in the caching system which needs investigation, ongoing
* continuing CI improvements

### What's Next 🔮

* 3.11 tickets [tagged](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A3.11), not finalized.

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

* Martijn: blue sky idea: "ask a local mapper" status. In addition to 'too hard' / 'can't fix'. This could connect with OSM notes / StreetComplete
* David Salmon: Generating reports from MapRoulette.
* across all challenges, comprehensive analysis
* Follow up David and Martijn to talk offline about supplying an anonymized db dump for analysis purposes
* David Salmon: Any experiences to share on optimum challenge size? Does participation drop-off if there are too many or not enough tasks?
* Keith - Export to .osm format useful? Kyle will inquire within MS
* Michael -- possible to use MapRoulette with IoT devices? See example purple air with raspberry pi
* follow up Michael to get in touch with Martijn to explain this idea more.
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## August 2, 2022

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*

* Jimmy (MR dev)
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* Keith Iverson (Apple)
* David Salmon (TomTom)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

*Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*

https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-v3.9.2/CHANGELOG.md#v392---2022-08-09

* Last month focus on system health
* Caching of leaderboards - expensive queries
* Increasing thread pool per user
* No health check triggers since, good reliability improvements
* Focus also on test coverage
* Related to that, upgrading some node packages
* Upcoming, css library updates (`bulma`, `node-sass`) to mitigate library deprecations
* Features
* Mass manipulations of tasks in admin interface / API

Deployment of 3.9.2 next Tues

### What's Next 🔮

*New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*

#### New issues (selection)

* https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1778 - Adjust the displayed map size, when more tasks are loaded (dialog after opting to select nearby tasks)

* https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1777 - "dynamic" task prioritization - setting task priority based on status?

* 'skipped' after 'created' makes sense
* (filters should persist when manually prioritizing)
* Martijn to TWEET about this inviting more feedback on this

* https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1779 Split too hard & can't see

* "Can't complete" is favored in the meeting crowd as well (as it is on the Github ticket)
* ? Add other options for specific challenges ?
* Change of resolution states or add additional custom resolution states to challenges
* ? Perhaps limit these options to 'experienced mapper' projects only

### Community

* SOTM presentation is coming! With Stickers!

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

*Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*

* Kyle --> bring too hard / can't see + skipped + already fixed to the end of the pack, see issue 1779 but not not the same thing.
* Needs a broader discussion, let's collect the relevant github issues related to this topic of task status flow and start that broader discussion for 4.0

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## July 5, 2022

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*
* Martijn van Exel (MapRoulette)
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)
* Keith Iverson (Apple)
* Jimmy

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

*Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*
* [3.10 milestone](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/milestone/17)
* On schedule to release next week
* Layout template behavior improvements
* Leaderboard performance improvements
* API performance issue related to DB query
* Separate effort to significantly improve CI / test coverage reports
* Package upgrades

### What's Next 🔮

*New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*
* 3.11 release to be finalized
* External integrations -- perhaps a blog post. Continue to enagge with OSMAND

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

*Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*
* Martijn --> MapRoulette presentation at SOTM global

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## June 7, 2022

### Check in ☎️

* Martijn van Exel (Maproulette)
* Matt Manley (Locana)
* Keith Iverson (Apple)
* Yunzhi Lin (Meta)
* Michael Feldman (Stanford)
* Kyle Fremd (Microsoft)

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

*Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*

* [Change log](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/blob/bump-to-3.9/CHANGELOG.md#v390---2022-06-14)
* Scheduled deployment next week, June 14

### What's Next 🔮

*New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*

* Matt and Martijn worked on a [script to create photo based challenges](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1759). See an example [here](https://staging.maproulette.org/browse/challenges/23749)
* More nudging of challenge owners to be responsible, see the enhanced 'challenge finished' note in this month's release ⬆ but also this [issue](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1756) to consider making changeset comments mandatory
* Ongoing improvements in documentation, please leave your feedback and ideas on the separate [docs repo](https://github.com/maproulette/docs/issues)
* New-ish [ticket](https://github.com/osmlab/maproulette3/issues/1737) to collect all efforts related to integrating MapRoulette into other OSM tools. Ongoing discussion with Vespucci maintainers. Please contribute!

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

*Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*

* Perhaps another release of the MR python client? (Matt) Please reach out with feedback or offers to collaborate
* Integrate photo idea with Mapillary (Yunzhi). Yeses all around!
* Need documentation on how to integrate photos / images in instructions UPDATE now [an issue](https://github.com/maproulette/docs/issues/22) in the docs repo

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## Meeting Template (do not edit)

### Check in ☎️

*Please add your name and (if you want / have one) affiliation*

### Development Updates 👩🏽‍💻

*Any recent and upcoming releases, bugs squashed, features added*

### What's Next 🔮

*New issues opened, ongoing discussions, upcoming milestones*

### The Floor is Yours 🎭

*Questions, feedback, ideas, anything!*