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 …

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 …