A new minor release of MAPS.ME is coming, and just now I’ve got the new data for it — with numbers on size and features difference with the old data. First, sizes:

• Indonesia_Central.mwm: 107 up to 127 MB
• Tanzania.mwm: 212 up to 225 MB
• US_Indiana_North.mwm: 19 up to 25 MB

Basically the same as the last time, except Portugal was replaced by Indiana state. And there was some prominent activity in all of Peru.

• Somebody has traced a few thousand highway=track around Buenos Aires.
• In Patagonia, Argentina, ~300 hamlets (50%) were demoted to isolated_dwellings.
• Austria_Carinthia: import of ~3000 address points, +50%.
• Brazil_Bahia: somebody mapped ~7000 power towers, +73%.
• Brazil_Rio Grande do Norte: from 5 salt ponds to 238.
• Canada_British Columbia_Islands: from 14 natural=cape to 635.
• Canada_Newfoundland_West: somebody almost doubled the number of mapped buildings: 487 → 806.
• Chile_North: 81% of place=hamlets disappeared.
• Congo-Kinshasa_Kivu: traced ~7000 segments of residential roads, +54%.
• The same in Gabon: +6000 segments, +160%.
• Ecuador_West: seems like many supermarkets were imported, 845→1923 (+128%).
• France_Pays de la Loire_Sarthe: somebody likes tracing fences, 350→3350.
• In French Alpes, especially in Ardeche, ~9000 intermittent streams were added.
• In Iceland, somebody retagged ~100 footways to cycleways, and added lit=yes tag to ~700 highway segments.
• India_Assam: +11500 buildings (+90%).
• India_Uttar Pradesh: 65 → 247 toilets.
• Indonesia: so many new roads mapped, most prominent +40k residential in Jawa Tengah and +32k tracks in central Indonesia.
• Ireland_Leinster: +250 wheelchair=limited tags (+54%).
• Japan_Chubu Region_Gifu: somebody had a great survey walk there, adding ~50 each shops, temples, information boards, graveyards, company offices etc.
• Mauritania: from 7 to 87 castles.
• Morocco: at least 12k new surface=* tags on roads.
• Namibia: all highway=road and highway=living_street tags were replaced.
• New Zealand: there’s an ongoing address points import, at least ~87k new (+65%).
• In Nothern Norway somebody imported (or mapped?) ~13k power towers.
• In Peru, schools and kindergartens were imported: +30k / +186% and +24k / +262%.
• In Poland, somebody is drawing area:highway=footway, at least 6k new objects.
• Russia_Arkhangelsk Oblast_North: almost all landuse=garages were removed, 135→18.
• Russia_Moscow: imported 2700 address points.
• Russia_Smolensk Oblast: somebody has a good mapping night, adding, among other stuff, 870 barrier=fences.
• Singapore: 158 → 84 landuse=military. Demilitarization or concealing?
• In South Africa many rural features were mapped, including farmlands, tracks and especially 2750 waterway=ditch lines.
• Spain_Catalonia_Provincia de Girona: 388 → 670 admin_level=4 boundaries.
• Spain_Andalusia_Sevilla and Spain_Cantabria: ~4000 new building:part objects, somebody making everything 3D?
• The same in Tanzania: +2000 building:part (+78%).
• UK_England_Greater London: from 78 down to 4 castles.
• UK_England_South West England_Bristol: deleted all but 99 riverbanks (-97%).
• US_California_Sacramento_Stockton: imported ~70k buildings, +56%.
• US_Colorado: removed 2/3 of address points, ~10k.
• US_Indiana_North: imported 150k address points, +600%.
• US_Texas: at least 16k new surface=* tags, doubling their count.
• Vietnam: 73 → 343 jewelry shops.

This list has taken more than a hour to write — but I imagine it took a million human-hours to map all that. Great work!