11/12/2025-17/12/2025 Mapping campaigns A collaborative mapping campaign is being coordinated by the Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development, IVIDES DATA, and the Social Project Management Centre of the Federal University of São Francisco Valley. The goal is to map the 18 productive rural villages in the …

04/12/2025-10/12/2025 Mapping campaigns confusedbuffalo is proposing to extend their existing automated edit of phone numbers in the USA and UK to include Canada, removing extra punctuation and adding the country code. Mappers are invited to discuss this on the OSM Community forum and to get in touch if they think such …

27/11/2025-03/12/2025 Mapping campaigns Mateusz Konieczny is proposing a mechanical edit to fix conflicting paved=* and surface=* tags. confusedbuffalo is proposing to extend the existing automated edit of phone numbers to include the United Kingdom, removing extra punctuation and adding the country code. Mappers are …

20/11/2025-26/11/2025 Community Adrian Shobrooke shared several insights into the validation process within the context of OSM humanitarian mapping activities. Giopera outlined the process behind the creation of several OSM-related logos for the Italian community, which incorporated visual elements derived from OSM …

13/11/2025-19/11/2025 Mapping campaigns confusedbuffalo is proposing an automated edit of phone numbers in the US to remove extra punctuation and to add the country code. This will standardise numbers and make it easier to identify genuinely invalid phone numbers. Contributors are invited to discuss in the forum thread …

06/11/2025-12/11/2025 Community foxandpotatoes has drafted a document describing several types of banks and ditches that are not yet represented in the current OSM tagging system. The Wikimedistas de Jujuy from northern Argentina were recognised in HOT’s MapEdu 2025 contest for their LichenWikiEcology project, an …

30/10/2025-05/11/2025 Community The 30 Day Map Challenge 2025 has officially begun, featuring 30 distinct mapping themes, one for each day of November. Participants are invited to create maps inspired by the daily themes and share their work on social media using the hashtag #30DayMapChallenge. For the first day’s …

23/10/2025-29/10/2025 Mapping campaigns With the development of the Bliesgau region as a ‘Quality Region for Hiking in Germany’, the hiking trail network has been completely revamped in recent years. Due to the removal and replacement of signs, there is a lot of data in OSM that is no longer up to date. Together with …

16/10/2025-22/10/2025 About us This week we celebrate seven consecutive years of weeklyOSM in Portuguese! That’s right! Users Elizabete and NunoMASAzevedo began this weekly adventure of translating and reviewing the articles that make up the weekly edition of this weekly newspaper with weeklyOSM No. 431. …

09/10/2025-15/10/2025 Community DressyPear4 showed ► how to map solar panels using the plugins Gridify and Scripting for JOSM. Education Raquel Dezidério Souto has published A Guide to the Training Session 2 – Mapping areas in OpenStreetMap with JOSM editor and the Training Session 3 – Validation with JOSM editor and …