08/10/2026-14/10/2026 Mapping Two tagging proposals, related to graffiti, are open for voting until 26 October 2026. Evyy is proposing a dedicated tag, shop=graffiti, for shops specialising in spray cans, markers, stickers, and other street art supplies, which have often been tagged as shop=craft or shop=paint in the …
Read More01/10/2026-07/10/2026 Mapping Mateusz Konieczny proposed a mechanical edit that would move info about material from bollard= to material=. It would include editing bollard=concrete/wood/stone/rock/metal/plastic. Mappers in the United Kingdom are considering removing the brand:wikipedia tag, which was mostly set from …
Read More24/09/2026-30/09/2026 About us We’re excited to announce that weeklyOSM is now accessible via news.osm.org, honouring the voices and contributions of our global community equally. The new domain redirects to weeklyOSM.eu. Mapping campaigns Eugene Alvin Villar announced the #31DayOSMChallenge proposed by the …
Read More17/09/2026-23/09/2026 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. …
Read More10/09/2026-16/09/2026 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 …
Read More03/09/2026-09/09/2026 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 …
Read More27/08/2026-02/09/2026 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 …
Read More20/08/2026-26/08/2026 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 …
Read More13/08/2026-19/08/2026 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 …
Read More06/08/2026-12/08/2026 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 …
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