09/07/2026-15/07/2026 Mapping Voting is open for the following: A proposal to add area-based wall mapping. This proposal focuses on enabling the mapping of walls as areas tagged with indoor=wall + area=yes (indoor mapping). The data centre technical attributes proposal, until Wednesday 22 July. This proposal has its …

02/07/2026-08/07/2026 Mapping campaigns The UseOSM community has announced Map<>kathon 2026, an online data sprint that shifts the focus from creating OpenStreetMap data to demonstrating its use in real-world applications. Community [1] Jonas has written a guide to help newcomers get started with indoor mapping in …

25/06/2026-01/07/2026 Mapping The proposal for railway=balise, fixed transponders placed on or between rails that communicate with trains to provide positioning data and transmit operational information, is open for voting from 27 June 2026 to 10 July 2026. Mapping campaigns After the two strong earthquakes that struck …

18/06/2026-24/06/2026 About us [1] Please don’t be alarmed if you’ve seen your browser being tested – even if only briefly. Our website was under enormous strain from AI scrapers. To defend against these scrapers, we’ve installed Anubis. Community Within the framework of the UN Mappers Chapters Initiative, Modo Levo …

11/06/2026-17/06/2026 Community Alex Spritze has realised that Wikimedia Commons is probably a good source of geographical objects that are still missing from OpenStreetMap and has developed a workflow to find geospatial data on Commons using the PetScan tool. Rtnf has developed a prototype interactive map that allows …

04/06/2026-10/06/2026 Community Anne-Karoline Distel announced that a new video on mapping historic lifting stones is now available on YouTube. Historically, lifting stones were used to test the physical strength of men. The MapLibre May 2026 newsletter has been published, authored by Bart Louwers, Frank Elsinga, Harel …

28/05/2026-03/06/2026 Community Innocent Maholi, from OpenMap Development Tanzania, published a tribute to his friend, Iddy Rashid Chazua, remembering his impact and the legacy he leaves. Raquel Dezidério Souto wrote, in her OSM User Diary, about the second meeting of the 2026 OpenStreetMap Workshop Series. The meeting …

21/05/2026-27/05/2026 Community Ari Alvarez explained how to find speed limit data for highways, trunk roads, and primary roads in the USA. Raquel Dezidério Souto published on her OSM User Diary, an article entitled “About us”: two years of experience as editor for Brazilian Portuguese at weeklyOSM, some highlights …

14/05/2026-20/05/2026 Mapping A proposal for the surface=laterite tag, intended to describe roads, tracks, or paths surfaced with lateritic soil has been open for a request for comments since 19 May. Lateritic soil is a cohesive iron oxide-rich tropical and subtropical material that hardens when dry but can become …

07/05/2026-13/05/2026 Mapping Comments are requested on this proposal: data_center:tier, data_center:total_power, data_center:IT_power, data_center:IT_area, proposed by LunaLune, to extend telecom=data_center features with standardised technical attributes such as redundancy tier, total power capacity, IT load (or the …