02/10/2025-08/10/2025
[1] capturing street-level imagery | © Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
About us
- Raquel Dezidério Souto, our editor for Brazilian Portuguese, has published the presentation she prepared for State of the Map 2025. The presentation covered a bit of weeklyOSM history and the results of a statistical analysis of the articles published in the past 10 years. Raquel would like to thank her colleagues who took part in the research: TheFive (raw data), Strubbl and MatthiasMatthias (programme classification review) and Manfred Reiter (historical information and final review). Thanks go also to barefootstache for proofreading the English abstract, and to all our weeklyOSM contributors over the years.
- Raquel Dezidério Souto et al. have translated into English a list of the most cited software over a 10 year span of weeklyOSM, from issue #272 (29 September to 5 October 2015) to #768 (3 April to 9 April 2025). This list had also been published in Portuguese (we reported earlier).
Mapping campaigns
- HeiGIT is organising a workshop ‘Experience Karlsruhe in a new way: check the streets, shape mobility!’, to be held in Karlsruhe. Participants can take to the streets with Sketch Maps and map a part of the city on foot or by bike, or take part in the mapping campaign from the workshop hall using the MapSwipe app. Participants will actively collect data on the liveability and bikeability of the city and discover together what could improve the urban infrastructure. The workshop is scheduled for Sunday 19 October at 13:00 UTC+2.
Community
- [1] Bastian Greshake Tzovaras has prepared
a presentation on how to use the Panoramax platform to capture and share street images. - Alan McConchie, of Stamen, has published the final part of a series of articles about Stamen’s history with OpenStreetMap, detailing the twists and turns of Stamen’s close relationship with the OSM project over the years.
- In response to a recent analysis by HeiGIT and the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) comparing land cover data from OSM with the official CORINE Land Cover dataset from BKG, Tobias Jordans argued that just because data is published by an authoritative source does not necessarily make it more accurate than OSM. Tobias emphasised that the publishing authority has no inherent influence on data quality, and that OSM already achieves something many authoritative datasets never will: largely unified global coverage, rapid update capability, and transparent processes.
a presentation on how to use the Panoramax platform to capture and share street images.OpenStreetMap Foundation
- The results of the 2025 OpenStreetMap Awards have been announced. A total of 493 participants took part in the voting process, nominating and selecting winners across seven award categories. Organisers extended their appreciation to all who voted and congratulated the winners and nominees.
- Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board, reported on the State of the Map Latam 2025, held in Medellin, Colombia, where he participated.
Local chapter news
- FOSSGIS Conference 2026 will take ► place from 25 to 28 March next year in Göttingen, Germany. The call for participation is open until Thursday 6 November, with talks, workshops, an OSM BarCamp, and a community code sprint on the agenda.
- Through the OSM US and Mapillary Camera Grant Programme, 21 volunteers have uploaded over 3 million images to improve pedestrian and cycling infrastructure mapping in Seattle, Phoenix, and Honolulu, using 360° cameras and targeted OpenStreetMap updates.
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Events
- The State of the Map Nigeria 2025 will be held at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, from 28 to 30 October.
Education
- Matthias Baran has published ► a guide on creating a digital map with 360° photos using uMap.
Maps
- The official themes for this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge have been announced. This annual event, open to participants worldwide, invites mapmakers to create and share one map each day throughout the month, following 30 different daily themes. Since its launch in 2019, the challenge has generated more than 50,000 maps shared across social media platforms.
OSM in action
- Christian Hugo Rasmussen and Manuel Knepper are conducting a study that uses OpenStreetMap road network data and graph learning techniques to predict and analyse bicycle traffic patterns in Copenhagen.
Software
- CommonsFinder is an iOS app that is currently in the test phase. It is designed to help users discover photos of OSM objects and upload them via Wikimedia Commons.
- gmaps2osm.de and the open-sourced Android app Geo Share make it easy to convert links and map views from Google Maps into OSM-compatible formats, ideal for opening destinations in apps such as OsmAnd or Organic Maps or copying coordinates.
- hankbp has developed skyway.run, a web app that visualises the Minneapolis Skyway System, powered by OpenStreetMap data.
Programming
- The Layercake project provides weekly updated OpenStreetMap datasets on buildings, roads, and settlements in Parquet format, optimised for fast analysis, efficiently usable via DuckDB, and open to community-contributed ETL additions.
Did you know that …
- … uMap now has a feature to print your map?
- … FOSM was created by people who didn’t want OSM to switch from CC BY-SA to ODbL back in 2012?
- … OSM TagFinder is back online after a few months of downtime? This service, similar to TagInfo but simpler, allows users to search for relevant tags to use in OpenStreetMap.
OSM in the media
- In a Terra X History podcast episode titled Die Macht der Karten (‘The Power of Maps’), which explains how maps are created, why they have represented political power throughout history, and how they have been used in different eras, OpenStreetMap is briefly mentioned as the most democratic map of all time.
Other “geo” things
- After last year’s intense fires in Jasper, in the Canadian Rockies, the hiking community is being invited ► to document the regeneration of the forest, by using the GeoReach application and placing their phones on a template to ensure constant position and orientation. This documentation of the evolution of the recovery is a kind of Panoramax that follows the evolution of the landscape.
- Heise reported that 360 participants, representing 120 organisations from more than 20 countries, took part in the 2025 Jammer Test in Bleik, Norway, to study how Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) respond to targeted interference attacks. The remote village of Bleik, located on the island of Andøya about 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, provides ideal conditions for such experiments, with surrounding mountains serving as natural barriers to contain interference signals. During the event, participants tested their GNSS equipment across various platforms, including vehicles, drones, aircraft, helicopters, and ships, allowing for controlled and realistic experimentation with signal jamming.
- In a Radio-Canada photo essay Les rivières oubliées (‘The forgotten rivers’) we discover rivers and streams, now underground, that have disappeared from the landscape and maps and are now being used as sewers. We learn about projects aimed at revitalising these rivers and, in particular, bringing salmon back to Vancouver.
- GNU/Linux.ch provided ► a step-by-step guide on how to integrate official topographic maps (e.g. from LGL BW) into QMapShack, from the tedious tile download process, to extracting and converting the files using the VRT Builder for hiking and printing use.
- OpenStreetMap contributors focused on capturing high-quality 360° imagery, for platforms such as Panoramax and Mapillary, may be interested in the newly released GoPro Max 2. Stéphane Péneau has tooted a comparison of its image quality against the earlier GoPro Max 1 and other models, including the DJI Osmo 360 and V6MPack.
- DC Rainmaker has provided a detailed analysis of Strava’s recent lawsuit against Garmin over two alleged patent infringements, one related to segments and the other to heatmaps. Strava is asking the court to prohibit Garmin from selling any devices that include segment or heatmap features, which would affect almost all of Garmin’s fitness devices.
- Residents of the Dutch seaside town of Zandvoort staged ► a digital protest by submitting fake road-closure reports on Google Maps, in an effort to deter tourists. In response, local authorities have installed signs at the town’s entrances warning of the false closures and urging drivers not to rely on navigation apps.
- Sergey Nikolaev explained ► how Yandex Maps updated its font to make their map labels easier to read.
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►Upcoming Events
| Country | Where | Venue | What | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Online | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup  | 2025-10-09 | |
 | Berlin | Restaurant Split | 208. OSM-Stammtisch Berlin-Brandenburg | 2025-10-10 |
 | Castell’Arquato | Wikigita geologica Su e giù per l’antico Mare Padano | 2025-10-11 | |
| Berlin | Wikimedia e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24,10963 Berlin | OSM Hackweekend Berlin-Brandenburg 10/2025 | 2025-10-11 – 2025-10-12 |
 | Etalle | Cartopartie cyclable | 2025-10-11 | |
 | Bhopal | Bhopal Lakeview Coffee House, Khanugaon, Bhopal | OSM Bhopal Mapping Party 0 | 2025-10-11 |
| Delhi | Dwarka Sector 12 Metro Station | 24th OSM Delhi MapWalk (Dwarka) | 2025-10-12 |
 | København | Cafe Mellemrummet | OSMmapperCPH | 2025-10-12 |
 | Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr] | 2025-10-13 | ||
 | Zürich | Bitwäscherei Zürich | 180. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich | 2025-10-13 |
| Grenoble | La Turbine | Atelier découverte et initiation | 2025-10-13 |
 | 臺北市 | MozSpace Taipei | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #81 | 2025-10-13 |
| Hamburg | Voraussichtlich: “Variable”, Karolinenstraße 23 | Hamburger Mappertreffen | 2025-10-14 |
| München | Echardinger Einkehr | Münchner OSM-Treffen | 2025-10-14 |
 | virtual | [Online] Oficina de validação com editor JOSM | 2025-10-15 | |
| Karlsruhe | Chiang Mai | Stammtisch Karlsruhe | 2025-10-15 |
 | Wien | ÖBB Open Innovation Factory | Open Transport Community Conference | 2025-10-17 – 2025-10-18 |
| Open Transport Community Conference (ÖBB) | 2025-10-17 – 2025-10-18 | |||
| Potsdam | 11-LINE Potsdam | Potsdamer Mappertreffen | 2025-10-17 |
| Orx | LàO : Libre à Orx | 2025-10-18 | |
| Salt Lake City | Sugar House Monument | Sugar House / 21st South Reconstruction Survey | 2025-10-18 |
| Mumbai | Versova Metro Station | OSM Mumbai MapWalk #4 | 2025-10-18 |
| Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | 2025-10-21 | |||
| Lyon | Tubà | Réunion du groupe local de Lyon | 2025-10-21 |
| Bonn | Dotty’s | 193. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | 2025-10-21 |
 | City of Edinburgh | Venue TBC | OSM Edinburgh pub meetup | 2025-10-21 |
| Online | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | 2025-10-21 | |
| Redmond | Studio A Microsoft | Intune Core Services GIVE: Missing Maps Mapathon | 2025-10-22 |
| Fabrique des possibles | Réunion OpenStreetMap | 2025-10-22 | |
| Hannover | Kuriosum | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | 2025-10-22 |
| Wien | Schlupfwinkel (Kleine Neugasse 10, 1040 Wien) | 76. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch | 2025-10-22 |
 | Žilina | Descartes Systems Group (Slovakia) | Missing Maps mapathon Žilina #19 | 2025-10-23 |
| Tours | L’Etape 84 | Rencontre communauté OSM Tours (Fr) | 2025-10-24 |
| Bologna | Liceo Copernico di Bologna | OpenStreetMap al Linux Day di Bologna | 2025-10-25 |
| Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr] | 2025-10-27 |
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This weeklyOSM was produced by MarcoR, MatthiasMatthias, PierZen, Raquel Dezidério Souto, SeverinGeo, Strubbl, Andrew Davidson, barefootstache, mcliquid.
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