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 …

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 …