17/09/2026-23/09/2026 About us Next week we will launch our completely revamped website; an exciting milestone for us! With Hugo as our new framework, a self-hosted commenting system (Remark42), and our own Listmonk server for managing mailing lists, we’ve modernised our publishing workflow and automated key processes. …

10/09/2026-16/09/2026 Mapping v7.2.0 of the iD tagging schema has been released and includes tweaks to labels, new icons, changed fields for various presets, new search terms, better documentation, improved build scripts, and more. Helper presets for some subvariants of aerialway stations, silos, and parking spots were …

03/09/2026-09/09/2026 Mapping Voting has started on the lgbtq=* proposal and is open until and including 19 September. Mapping campaigns In a talk at State of the Map 2026, Enock Seth Nyamador explained how massive mapathon campaigns carried out by paid mappers affiliated with large companies or organisations could …

27/08/2026-02/09/2026 Mapping campaigns Hiki introduced the Deutsche Bahn Metadata Cleanup project, an effort to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data around German railway stations. Denmark’s OpenStreetMap community has made mapping accessible parking spaces its September 2026 project, encouraging contributors to …

20/08/2026-26/08/2026 Mapping In early August, v7.1.0 of the iD tagging schema was released, bringing new features to iD, GoMap!!, EveryDoor, and other editors. It includes multiple new presets (for example, for rooftop solar thermal collectors and building=tent), marks some fields as openinghours-like, new values in …

13/08/2026-19/08/2026 Mapping The proposal for revising lgbtq=* , authored by Spughetti, aims to make tagging of LGBTQ+ features more accurate. It does so by deprecating keys that don’t provide added information over existing keys, changing the formatting of keys, and introducing new sub-keys. The RFC period started on …

06/08/2026-12/08/2026 Mapping SherbetS has proposed craft=meat_processing for small-scale facilities where hunters or animal owners bring a carcass to be cut into meat, as distinct from shop=butcher or industrial=slaughterhouse. RFC voting started on 30 July. The proposal grew out of an earlier discussion on how to tag …

30/07/2026-05/08/2026 Mapping campaigns Uber has proposed, on the OSM Community forum, an organised editing activity to improve pedestrian mapping in 21 countries. Various mappers criticise it due to a lack of details and because Uber has a poor track record in the UK. Community Rphyrin made an Overpass Ultra script …

23/07/2026-29/07/2026 Mapping [1] Les Libres Géographes has shared a methodology called OSM Skeleton, which aims to reduce the heterogeneity of OpenStreetMap data to create a coherent and locally maintainable common dataset of geographic references. The approach systematically identifies, on a national scale, missing, …

16/07/2026-22/07/2026 Mapping campaigns Ranjeet Jadhav, of Mid-Day, reported that Jaipur-based long-distance hiker Manav Singh Shekhawat has mapped more than 2,000 km of trekking trails in the Sahyadri Mountains on OpenStreetMap after walking nearly 3,500 km across the range. Community In the latest OpenCage’s …