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[1] WebGIS of Walkability – Healthcare Accessibility | © Sandro Laudares | Map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors.
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before-and-after maps of the area around the Association Saint-Benoît Labre in Vertou, France, following some detailed micromapping work. - Mapping water slides for OSM can be hard work. But as Marc wrote, maybe a little fun, too.
before-and-after maps of the area around the Association Saint-Benoît Labre in Vertou, France, following some detailed micromapping work.Events
- At the 2025 AGIT Conference for Geoinformatics in Salzburg, Pascal Neis presented ► a study titled ‘Opportunities and Potentials of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for the Spatial Analysis of Crime Data’. This study used data from the State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate to identify crime hotspots and analyse offence patterns with the help of retrieval-augmented generation techniques.
- Dr Raquel Dezidério Souto has noted that you can now register for the Workshop MPCS 2025, which will be held 100% online and will include case studies in collaborative mapping with OpenStreetMap and other collective methodologies. The event’s broadcast will be in Portuguese and the free registration can be done at the official website. Raquel would like to thank the participants, partners and sponsors for this opportunity to disseminate great collective practices!
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can be done at the official website. Raquel would like to thank the participants, partners and sponsors for this opportunity to disseminate great collective practices!OSM research
- A recent study published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution used OSM data to support wildlife movement research by enhancing built-up area detection from satellite imagery. OSM building footprints were crucial for training deep learning models in the MoveApps platform, enabling researchers to better understand how urban expansion affects animal migration patterns across diverse environments.
Maps
- [1] Sandro Laudares has created the ‘WebGIS of Walkability – Healthcare Accessibility’, which shows POIs related to health (hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies) that can be found within 5 minutes or 15 minutes of walking.
- Djib-carto has developed a web map of the world’s submarine fibre optic networks using OSM and Leaflet. The code is available on GitHub.
OSM in action
- Sven Geggus reported that smartMOBILITYMAP has developed an interactive OpenStreetMap-based web map for the Durlach Old Town Festival.
- Reclus reported that ARD, a German public service broadcaster, had used a properly attributed OpenStreetMap-based map to illustrate the ‘Shia Crescent’ spanning Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Open Data
- The French department of Doubs has published their cycle node network (a recreational route system consisting of junctions labelled with numbers, codes, or names, connected by node-to-node routes) on OpenStreetMap. It’s one of the first in France, either to build such a network or make the integration with OSM.
- Fun fact 1: The first integration was done in 2022 by local contributor lejun, the department updated it recently with changes that have happen since then.
- Fun fact 2: It appears they have entered into a contract with the company Cirkwi to develop a web app similar to the one used in Belgium. However, there are already well-established open source tools available .
Programming
- Karlos has developed OSM-Building-Inspector, a web tool that displays individual OSM buildings rendered in 3D.
- Osmzoso has developed pbf2sqlite, a command-line tool for importing OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf files into a SQLite database.
Releases
- NorthCrab announces the public launch of OpenStreetMap-NG’s test instance, inviting the community to explore its scalable, optimized mapping platform and contribute feedback through a new bounty program.
Did you know that …
- … osm-api-js is a JavaScript/TypeScript wrapper around the OpenStreetMap API?
- … there is a JOSM plugin named SeaMapEditor that adds a preset to make it easier to map some sea marks in OSM, such as lighthouses and harbours?
- … Matt Whilden has expanded the service of his UnmappedSmallTown Mastodon bot to include Canada?
OSM in the media
- Reto Widmer, of SRF, covered ► the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences ‘Vampire Mode’ navigation system (we reported earlier), a pedestrian routing system that priorities shaded routes by combining OpenStreetMap data for footpaths and obstacles with three-dimensional Swisstopo data on buildings and trees .
Other “geo” things
- Three experimental LiDAR HD data layers are being made available by the French government, which can also be accessed by WMTS. Magalie Lèbre offered ► more details on her LinkedIn profile.
- For the Tour de France that started Saturday 5 July, L’Équipe is showing a 3D course for the five most notable days.
- Detlef Borchers, of Heise, reported on a research study that analysed 158 incidents in which navigation systems were in some way involved in serious accidents, emphasising that the popular term ‘Death by GPS’ is mostly just a catchy oversimplification and it is rather the careless use of a navigation application and ignoring road conditions.
Upcoming Events
| Country | Where | Venue | What | Online | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Online | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup  | ✓ | 2025-07-11 | |
| OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | 2025-07-11 | ||||
 | Berlin | Parzelle III/23b, Kleingartenkolonie Johannisberg, | 205. OSM-Stammtisch Berlin-Brandenburg | 2025-07-11 | |
 | Zürich | Bitwäscherei Zürich | 177. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich | 2025-07-11 | |
 | Gaborone | Online | OSM Africa July 2025 Mapathon | ✓ | 2025-07-12 |
 | København | Cafe Mellemrummet | OSMmapperCPH | 2025-07-13 | |
 | TAK Kadıköy Tasarım Atölyesi | OpenStreetMap Haftasonu Buluşmaları | 2025-07-13 | ||
 | Ghaziabad | Vaishali | 18th OpenStreetMap Delhi Mapping Party | 2025-07-13 | |
 | MZ Centar II | FOSS4G Europe 2025 | 2025-07-14 – 2025-07-20 | ||
 | 臺北市 | MozSpace Taipei | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #78 | 2025-07-14 | |
| Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | 2025-07-15 | ||||
| Salt Lake City | Woodbine Food Hall | OSM Utah Monthly Map Night | 2025-07-16 | |
 | City of Edinburgh | Guildford Arms | OSM Edinburgh Social Meet-up | 2025-07-15 | |
| Online | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | ✓ | 2025-07-15 | |
 | Bogotá | Microsoft Teams (Remote) | Mapping Party Semanal LATAM Weekly LATAM Mapping Party | 2025-07-16 | |
| Karlsruhe | Chiang Mai | Stammtisch Karlsruhe | 2025-07-16 | |
| [Online] OSM Greece – Διαδικτυακή συνάντηση της ελληνικής κοινότητας | 2025-07-16 | ||||
 | Online | Mappy Hour OSM España | ✓ | 2025-07-17 | |
| Heidelberg | Berliner Str. 45, 69120 Heidelberg | Missing Maps Mapathon in Heidelberg MSF | 2025-07-17 | |
| San Jose | Online | South Bay Map Night | ✓ | 2025-07-23 |
| Kiel | Mango’s | Kieler Mapper*innentreffen | 2025-07-22 | |
| Berlin | Online | OSM-Verkehrswende #69 | ✓ | 2025-07-22 |
| Hannover | Kuriosum | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | 2025-07-24 | |
 | Wien | Schlupfwinkel (Kleine Neugasse 10, 1040 Wien) | 75. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch | 2025-07-24 | |
| Jalpaiguri | Beguntary More (Law College Gate) | 5th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party | 2025-07-26 | |
| Siliguri | Guru Nanak Chowk | 6th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party | 2025-07-27 | |
| Stadtgebiet Bremen | Online und im Hackerspace Bremen | Bremer Mappertreffen | 2025-07-28 |
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This weeklyOSM was produced by 115c7a5fac, https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/IVIDES_org, MarcoR, MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, Raquel Dezidério Souto, Strubbl, Andrew Davidson, barefootstache.
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